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A manuscript armorial of English and Welsh families entitled The nomenclature or Heralds Alphabett of Surnames, L-Z (vol. II), with additional notes by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King at Arms. Painted coats-of-arms have been affixed to the manuscript at relevant points throughout the work.

An unpublished historical and topographical account of Wales by John Gwynne of Llanidloes, co. Montgomery, Surveyor of North Wales and servant to Sir William Herbert, first Earl of Pembroke, the author's presentation copy to Sir William Cecil (later Lord Burghley), with a correction in Cecil's hand on f. 8 verso. The text, in English apart from Latin sub-headings, with marginal notes, is written in alternating Secretary and Italic scripts and is preceded by a dedicatory letter (f. 3 recto-verso). Folios 8-11 verso carry thirty-four coats of arms; and f. 20 verso carries a plan of the Welsh royal court similar to the illustrations found in BL Add. MS 22356 and NLW Llanstephan MS 116. A transcript of the same text, contained in Cardiff MS 3.11 (RMWL MS 50), pp. 27-94, has been published in Archaeologia Cambrensis 1915.

A transcript of 'The Names and Arms of the Ancient Nobility and Gentry of North [and South] Wales', and of 'Englishmen and others ... possessed of Estates in Wales...', from a sixteenth century manuscript. The arms are blazoned and there is an index.

A transcript of Hugh Thomas's collection of pedigrees of Welsh families contained in British Museum Harleian MS 2288, with reproductions in colour of the coats of arms, an index to the pedigrees and an index to the coats of arms.

A manuscript containing a history of Britain, 1688, by Thomas Sebastian Price (d. 1704), with notes by William Maurice (d. 1680); material relating to Welsh and English armorials; a criticism of John Guillim: A Display of Heraldrie; miscellaneous transcripts of deeds, essays, charters, legal material, etc.; a Welsh vocabulary; memoranda relating to the suppression of monasteries; miscellaneous pedigrees; letter, 1675, of William Maurice; etc.