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A composite volume containing extracts, in the hand of [Anne Owen of Penrhos], from devotional works including John Ollyffe, A Practical Exposition of the Church-Catechism, 2 vols (London, 1710, ESTC T87853) (ff. 5-9).
Two receipts inserted into the volume are dated 1741 and 1747 (ff. 37-38).

Extracts from devotional works, etc., [in the hand of Anne Owen, Penrhos].

Appointments or deputations of Thomas Meares of Haverfordwest, 1736, James Lewis of Gellidowill, 1738; and Francis James of Carmarthen, 1747, as stewards and gamekeeper of the manors of East and West Pembroke, and other manors in Pembrokeshire and Cardiganshire.

Bills, receipts and accounts relating to David Cadwalader, the Gogerddan estate carpenter, 1725-1747. They include bills to Thomas Pryse for work done by David Cawalader on the mills at Aberystwyth, Glaspwll, Tal-y-bont, Lodge [?Park] and Parson’s Mill, stripping and harvesting bark at Ynis Idol and Tynohir, repairing the pumps at Llangynfelyn mines, work at Esgair Hir and Alltycrib mines, 1725-1744. The file also contains a stated account, 1744; and an inventory of the goods of David Cadwalader, deceased, distrained and sold to recover rent and arrears due to the executors of the late Thomas Pryse, 1747.

Subject: Date of Bishop's Visitation.

Subject: Success for Ffrome Deanery.

Subject: Treacherous conduct of Mr Lewis and Mr Meyricke.

An imperfect manuscript consisting of thirty folios of uniform size and two smaller leaves, with the two halves of ? the lower cover of an early nineteenth century periodical or part publication, which at one time seems to have served as a protective covering, bound in at the beginning. A considerable part of the original manuscript appears to have been lost as the volume was described by the Reverend John Williams ('Ab Ithel'), circa 1856, as containing 'about 100 pages' (see L. James: Hopkiniaid Morganwg . . . (Bangor, 1909), p. 91). The former protective cover bears the inscription 'Llyfr Llanfihangel Iorwerth. Cywyddau amrafaelion. Siôn Cent hyd Dafydd Hopcin o'r Coetty. Englynion Eiry Mynydd, &c.', in the hand of Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg'), and the contents consist of transcripts of Welsh verse mainly in strict metre. Dafydd Hopkin of Coety, co. Glamorgan is sometimes named as the copyist (see L. James: op. cit., p. 91; TLLM, tt. 229, 267; and IMCY, t. 139). The poems include 'cywyddau' and 'englynion' by Thomas Prys, Ieuan Tew Brydydd, Dafydd Hopkin (1734), Ieuan Brechfa, Lewis Morganwg, Iorwerth Fynglwyd, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Rys Dynfwal (sic), Rhys ab Morys, ?Mredydd ap Rees, Swrdwal Hen, Huw Dafydd Probert, Siôn Tudur, Owain Gwynedd, Gwilim ap Ieuan Hen, Dafydd ap Edmwnt, Daio Lliwiell, Ieuan Tew Brydydd Ifangc, Huw Lewis, Gruffydd ab Ifan ab Llewelyn Fychan, Wiliam Cynwal, Morus ab Hywel ab Tudur, Siôn Cent, Hywel ab D'd ab Ieuan ab Rhys, Llywelyn Goch, Gruffydd Dafydd Fychan, Ieuan ab Hywel Swrdwal, Bleddyn Fardd, and Dafydd Llwyd Fach, a series of pseudo- gnomic poems with each stanza commencing with the words 'Eira mynydd' some of which are attributed to Llywarch Hen and Mabclaf ab Llywarch, and poems attributed to Taliesin and Aneurin. There are marginal notes by Edward Williams and his son Taliesin Williams.

Subject: Various.

Subject: Appointment of Surrogate.

Subject: Ecclesiastical matters.

Draft of a deed poll, being a grant from Chancellor Edward Wynne, LL.D, of £100 to the Trustees of the Charity School at Hereford, the interest to be used as follows: 20s. for a sermon yearly on the 24 November (the birthday of Bishop Humphreys) in St Peter's Church, Hereford; 5s. for ringing the sermon bell; and the remainder towards the maintenance of the school.

A manuscript volume, [1747x1748], written by an unidentified scribe, entitled 'A Catalogue of the Representatives in Parliament for the Counties & Boroughs In Wales From the first returns of them A[nn]o 1542 to this present Parliament Conven[e]d A[nn]o 1747' (f. 4), listing the Members of Parliament of all county and borough seats in Wales, with the exception of Monmouthshire and Monmouth (ff. 5-62).
The seats are listed alphabetically by county with MPs then listed chronologically by monarch and regnal year; the Parliaments of the Commonwealth and Protectorate periods are omitted.

One hundred and sixty-three Estreats Rolls (being particulars of all the fines, amercements, and other financial issues abstracted from the Court Rolls by the Steward for the time being, and which were subsequently levied and collected by the manorial bailiffs; the extracts for the reign of Elizabeth and James I are exceedingly full, and are in excellent condition): scheduled on detail below and distributed among the several manors, thus:. Kemes Infra (1474-1622) 55 Rolls. Kemes Supra (1573-1621) [with Addenda-Barony of Kemes (1695-1748)-9 documents] 52 Rolls. Eglwyswrw (1574-1613) 29 Rolls. Moylgrove (1577-1600) 13 Rolls. Town of Newport (1574-1631) 11 Rolls. Newcastle (1618-1621) 1 Roll. Court of Rhys ab Thomas: 'Angle' (1513) 1 Roll.

Miscellaneous letters and documents of Thomas Pryse of Gogerddan which include papers of Roger Salusbury of Rug and [John] Pughe of Mathafarn, 1701-1748. The letters to Roger Salusbury are from Kenerick Eyton of Plas Isa, R. Green, and John Williams of Chester, 1711-1718. The correspondents of Thomas Pryse include Moses Owen of London and C[harles] Ll[oyd, William Powell [of Nanteos], John Humffreys of Llanfyllin and Llangedwyn, Will. Vaughan, John Jones of Tyglyn, Lord Lisburne, Rev.Vaughan Jones of Cemais, J. Davies of Gogerddan, Robert Smyth of Machynlleth, Wythen Jones of Cefen Pennarth, George Jones of Rhoscellan, Edward Jones at Worcester, Thomas Lloyd of Bronwydd, R. Jones of Llanwrin, George Parry of Ruthin, and David Lewes, 1719-1740. The main subjects are described at series level. Other topics of interest include the plight of Lord Lisburne’s sister, 1739, and the Pembrokeshire election, 1739. The letters to [John Pughe] of Mathafarn are from the Bishop of Bath and Wells, Bar. Jones in London reporting the death of Col. Sidney Godolphin, and John Humphreys, together with some outgoing and third-party letters of the Pughe family, 1732-1733. The file also contains various bills and and receipts of the Rug and Mathafarn estates, 1701-1736.; a rental for Voty [Gwyddelwern] and Berthddu, 1711; Ruthin arrears, 1715; accounts of Thomas Pryse and his trustee, 1725, 1748; legal papers involving Lewis Lewis of Dolyclettwr, Rice Llwyd, and the Salusbury family, 1728-1737; evidence concerning the toll of Pentre’rallt in Machynlleth; and queries on the descent of lands purchased by Thomas Pryse of Dole after making his will in 1729.

Subject: Personal.