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Thomas and David Pennant manuscripts
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Letters,

Letters, 1763-1837, most of them addressed to David Pennant, and mainly dealing with local affairs (Board of Guardians, Flint Enclosure Bill, etc.).

Letters,

Letters, mainly to Thomas and David Pennant, the correspondents including Lewis Bagot, (bishop of St. Asaph), J. Drinkwater (Gibraltar), G. P. Harding, Samuel Hearne, Edward Jones (agent to the Downing estate), Richard Jones (printer, Dolgelley), John Latham, John Lightfoot, Thomas Maurice (London), Robert Norris (Richmond), Henry Parry (Llanasa), George Shaw (British Museum), Richard Sillitoe (Bodfari), Joseph Strutt (London), Joseph Cooper Walker (Dublin), and Benjamin White (London).

Lists of portraits,

Lists of portraits in a large number of English county country houses and two letters, 1811 and 1820, to David Pennant from G. P. Harding, portrait painter and copyist, enclosing similar lists.

Miscellanea,

Miscellaneous loose press cuttings and manuscript notes (some in the hand of Thomas and David Pennant), extracted from NLW MSS 12706-12714. The cuttings contain notes on the 'History of the sugar cane' (1832), and 'Northern herring fishing' (1827); news of an explosion at 'Mr. Eyton's Flint colliery' (1828), a meeting at Holywell in connection with a proposed petition against Catholic emancipation (1829), a suit, Sillitoe v Thomas, at Denbigh Great Sessions (1828), and the sale of an extra- illustrated copy (the Chiswell copy, consisting of eleven volumes quarto and one folio) of Thomas Pennant: A Tour in Wales, by Mr. Thorp, bookseller, of St. Martin's Lane [London], to an American buyer; obituary notices of the Reverend Thomas Maurice, assistant keeper of MSS at the British Museum (1824), and of Sir Thomas Mostyn [6th bart., of Mostyn, co. Flint] (1831); and a copy of a poem entitled 'Verses to Mr. Pennant on the writer's being apprized of his intention to make a visit into Cornwall'. The manuscript notes include 'A List of rare Plants observ'd in N. Wales nearly in the Order they were discover'd'; an 'Index to Walpole's Catalogue of Portraits at Woburn'; a list of ? portraits in various residences in England and Scotland, with a note at the top, in Thomas Pennant's hand, 'such as I have are marked thus X'; an 'Account of the Money mortified by George Heriot, Jeweller, to K. James VI, for founding his Hospital in Edinburgh'; copies of memorial inscriptions to Sion Trevor, Trevalyn, Dame Catherin, wife of Sir Richard Trevor of Trevalyn, Nicholas Pennant, Robert Pennant, Simon Yorke of Erthig, and his wife Dorothy, Elizabeth Yorke of Erthig, Sir John Williams, bart., of Bodelwyddan, and his wife, Dame Margaret, and Thomas Mostyn Edwards of Kilken Hall; notes on the Yarmouth herring fishery (1786); a rough pedigree of the Pennant family (sixteenth-eighteenth century); a list of the children of Mr. Lloyd [? the Reverend John Lloyd] of Caerwis (1794), with dates of birth; comments on [E.] Olafsen: Reise durch Island, 2 vols., 4°(Copenhagen and Leipsic, 1774); a copy of the inscription on Whitford school house; data relating to the births and deaths of various members of the Pennant family, 1637-1699; consolidated census statistics (houses and population), relating to the six counties of North Wales, with more detailed figures relating to specific parishes in co. Flint (1800), etc.

Thomas Pennant, David Pennant and others.

Miscellanea,

Miscellaneous papers of Thomas Pennant, David Pennant, and David Pennant, junior. They include personalia, estate and parochial papers, 'The Account of David Pennant with the Poor of Whitford', 1798-1834, a note on Owen Glyn Dŵr, a priced list of illustrations for A Tour in Wales, a circular letter relating to the Talacre Coal and Iron Company, a poem written on the coming of age of David Pennant, junior, January 22, 1817, etc.

Thomas Pennant, David Pennant and David Pennant, junior.

Miscellanea,

Sixteen miscellaneous manuscript items extracted from NLW MS 12706E, including three separate sheets each containing an English poem (the third entitled 'Gun Powder Treason'), and each one endorsed, in the same hand, '(verses) wrote by my son', 1740, 1741, and 1742 respectively; an English verse translation of Horace: Odes, Book 1, Ode XXII, endorsed 'June 1743'; a draft copy of a loyal address by the gentlemen, freeholders, and mine adventurers of the county of Flint, to [George III] on his accession to the throne [1760]; a certificate of election of Thomas Pennant as a member of the American Philosophical Society, 9 May 1791, signed by Dav[i]d Rittenhouse, president, and John Ewing, William Smith, and Th[omas] Jefferson, vice-presidents; an elegy by W[illia]m Henry Groves entitled ' Lines wrote on the lamented death of Thomas Pennant, Esqr'. [1798]; an eight-line stanza, ? in the hand of David Pennant, headed 'Verses written by the late Mrs. Piozzi, on the report of my Father's death in 1797 or 1798'; a holograph letter from Th[omas] Mostyn, from Bodysgallan, to ? David Pennant, undated (the death of Mrs. Pennant, ? Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th bart., of Mostyn, 2nd wife of Thomas Pennant); a note from Sir Edw[ard] Mostyn, Will[iam] Stanley, Hen[ry] Blundell, and Phil[ip] Jones, from Talacre, to Tho[ma]s Penant [sic], at Downing, 14 June [ ] (informing recipient that the three first named would 'attend him to Dublin', and desiring the favour of his company at Talacre the day prior to setting out); copies (undated) of 'A Prologue Spoke by one of the Scholars att Wrexham, at ye Acting of ye Siege of Damascus', and of an epilogue spoken on the same, or a similar, occasion; and copies or drafts of four items already noted as part of the manuscript content of NLW MS 12706E, viz., the memorial inscription to John Norman, in Newmarket church, the oration delivered by Sam[uel] Forster, when presenting Thomas Pennant for the honorary degree of LL.D., at Oxford, 11 May 1771, the letter by 'Laicus' referring to the state of the clergy (the present copy is dated April 15th, 1785), and the note of the death at Bychton, ? 13 November 1796, of Mr. Williams, tide waiter.

Miscellanea,

Miscellaneous papers of Thomas Pennant and David Pennant. They include extracts from Thomas Dineley's manuscript of the Duke of Beaufort's 'Progress' through Wales, 1684; copies of epitaphs; lists of prints; a 'cywydd' to Lewis Morris by W. Wynne, and other poems; papers dealing with Flintshire turnpike roads, paupers, etc.; notes on minerals; papers and receipts relating to David Pennant's tour in Spain; receipts of innkeepers; a notification to Thomas Pennant of his election as Fellow of the Royal Society and of the receipt by the Society of presentation copies of some of his works; an appeal sent to Thomas Pennant, October 29, 1792, by the 'Liverpool Cymrydorion Society' for a subscription to enable Welsh services to be conducted in one of the episcopal churches of Liverpool; etc.

Thomas Pennant, David Pennant and others.

Miscellanea,

Miscellanea, including notes on the history of Cheshire, and a copy of Canterbury Notes. Information concerning the ... Settlement of Canterbury, New Zealand (London, 1850) with a letter, April 2, 1850, from James Edward Fitzgerald.

Miscellaneous correspondence,

Seven miscellaneous holograph letters from the Rev. J[ohn] B[rickdale] Blakeway, Shrewsbury, to [David Pennant], 1823 (an enquiry concerning the seal of Thomas Mynde, abbot of Shrewsbury, which had been in [Thomas] Pennant's possession, the writer's desire to publish an engraving of the seal in his work on the history of Shrewsbury [J. B. Blakeway and Hugh Owen: A History of Shrewsbury (London, 1825)]); Rob[er]t Faulder, London, to [ ], 1795 (his inability to exchange the Indian Zoology, as he had 'none coloured' by him); Alex[ande]r Garden [botanist], Strand [London], to [Thomas Pennant], 1783 (information relating to the Gulf Stream and American ornithological matters); J[oh]n Maughan, Mostyn, to Mrs. Sheldon, Rhewl, 1827 (a request to recipient to surrender a seat in 'Sir Thomas Mostyn's part of the church' [of ], which was required for the tenant of Pentreffynnon farm); C[atherine] Pennant [London], to her brother [Thomas Pennant] [? circa 1795] (personal and family news, news of acquaintances); J. Plymley, Longnor, to [Thomas Pennant], 1794 (personal, a sketch of the arms of 'Gwin Lloyd of Gwersilt, last male heir, ob. s. p., 19 March 1774', acknowledging the receipt of prints); and Ch[arles] Williams Wynn, Salop, to [ ], 1804 (the identity of the subject of a portrait at Chester [possibly Sir William Williams, speaker of the House of Commons]).

Miscellaneous pamphlets,

Pamphlets and papers on miscellaneous subjects, including An Account of the Visit of ... The Prince Regent ... The Emperor of Russia and The King of Prussia to the University of Oxford in June 1814 (Oxford. 1815); A Letter to ... The Earl of Sandwich from George Forster ... (London,1778) with an engraving entitled 'The German Doctor with his Family on his Travels ...', and an autograph letter, February 28, 1778, from the Earl of Sandwich to Daines Barrington; The Depositions ... in the Cause of the Church-Wardens of Trefdraeth ... Anglesea, against Dr. Bowles; ... to which is prefixed An Address ... . by the Society of Cymmrodorion (London, 1773); A Charge given at the Visitations of the Archdeaconry of Salop ... by Joseph Plymley ... (Shrewsbury, 1796); Thomas Lloyd: An Essay on the Literary Beauties of the Scriptures (Chester, 1784); Peter Williams: A Sermon (Oxford, 1791); Samuel [Horsley], bishop of St. Asaph: A Sermon (London, 1806); Catalogue of the Third Exhibition of Pictures ... illustrative of the British Poets and the Bible (London, 1790); Henry Fuseli: A Catalogue of the First Series of Pictures and Sketches from the Poetic Works of John Milton (London, c. 1800); A Description of ... Paintings ... at Cowdray in Sussex ...; Treadway Nash: Observations on ... the Death and ... Burial of Queen Katharine Parr (1787); Resolutions at a meeting ... holden at Ruthin ... for ... promoting a Subscription for the internal Defence of the Country (1794), with a list of subscriptions and minutes of five further committee meetings; William Boys: An Account of the loss of the Luxborough Galley by fire ... in the year 1727 (London, 1787); Richard Gough: A Catalogue of the Coins of Canute, King of Denmark and England (London, 1777); J. B. Droubille: On the Formation of British Lancers ... (London, 1813); Anna Laetitia Barbauld: Eighteen hundred and eleven. A Poem (London, 1812); and William Pitt: A Comparative Statement of the food production from arable and grass land ... (London, 1812).

North Wales and Shropshire

Topographical, historical, and genealogical material relating mainly to the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, Denbigh, Merioneth, Montgomery, and Shropshire, accumulated by Thomas Pennant and including letters or other contributions from Paul Panton, Hugh Davies (botanist), E. R. Owen (Bangor), John Thomas (Llandegai and Beaumaris), John Lloyd (Caerwys), Sir John Cullum (Hardwick), Richard Thomas (Llanegryn), Thomas Bownall (London), Thomas Jones (Caernarvon), George Ashby (Cambridge), John Price (Oxford), Thomas Ford Hill (London), Foote Gower (Chelmsford), Francis Leighton (Shrewsbury), J. Plymley (junior), J. Worthington (Llanrhaiadr ym Mochnant), Thomas Addenbrooke (Buildwas), David Pennant, and Richard Gough (Enfield).

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