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Poetry, in Welsh and English, on loose sheets which were guarded and bound in 1980. Much of the Welsh poetry is in praise of members of the Griffith family, some of the poems are autograph. There are later copies of some poems. The English poetry is largely topical. First lines are given below:. Ff. 1-2. Cywydd. 'Moliant Mr. William Gryffydd o Carnarfon Esgwiair.'. Son am wr su/n/ ymowredd. J[ohn] Phylips. [17C]. Ff. 3-4. Cywydd. [I dref Caernarfon]. Karnarfon Koron wirfawr. Watkin Klywedog. ?Autograph. [17C.]. F. 5. 'Englynion i Robert Gruffyth mab ag aer Mr. Richard Gruffyth o Llanvair.'. Rhobart Gruffydd bydd i'r byd yn lanaf. Gr[uffydd] Phillip ai Kant. Anno domini 1649. ?Autograph. F. 6. Copy of the englynion on f. 5 with some changes, here attributed to John Phillip. [18C.]. Ff. 7-10. Cywydd. 'Marwnad Mrs. Marged Gruffydd'. Oer gwyn a bery ganoes. Huw Machno. Autograph. [17C.]. F. 11. Englynion. Croeso sydd beunydd bob ennyd i'w ffriw. Gr[uffydd] Ph[illip]. [17C.]. F. 12. Copy of the englynion on f. 11. [18C.]. Ff. 13v-14. 'Carol Capten Pilin'. [First lines missing Gwelwn Eden ywch fymhen [17C.]. Ff. 15-16. Copy of ff. 13v-14. Watermark 1796. F. 17. Englynion. 'Mawl Priodas Mr. William Wynne a Mrs. Jane Parry'. [1718.]. Rhown fawl mwyneiddiawl mae'n addax, I Dduw. Owen Gruffydd. ?Autograph. Ff. 18-19. Copy of the englynion on f. 17. [Watermark 1796.]. F. 20. 'Cywydd Marwnad er Coffadwriaeth am Hugh Griffith Esqr o Garnarfon yr hwn a madawodd ar byd pechadurus hwn yn y flwyddyn 1716'. O dduw Gwyn a ddug einioes. Richard E[dwards] ai C[ant]. ?Autograph. Ff. 21-2. Copy of f. 20. [18C]. F. 23. Dida it hedith fore goddiat. [6 Pennill o gams serch. 17C.]. Ff. 24-5. ['Rhai penhillion o Glod y Ddwy ferch fonheddig o Blwyf y Bettws Gwenrhiw yn Sir Carnarvon.']. Pob prydydd da dyscedig sy'n taring yn y fro. Thomas Prees ai kant. [17C.]. Added at the bottom. 'Richard Williams o harlech'. Ff. 26-7. Copy of ff. 24-5. [18C.]. F. 28r. Penillion. Pan oedd y mor yn rhuo ar gwynt yn byffiol mawr. [Incomplete. F. 28v. 3 englyn. Mae Eglwysydd i'r ffydd hoff hon - yn aml. Thomas Jones. February 19th 1782. ?Autograph.'. F. 29. Penillion. 'Loath to depart.'. Anwyl ferch o gavel annerchion. John Richard ai Cant. (18/19C.). F. 30. 2 englyn. Trafeiliais trwy orfoledd - yr India on the dorse of a voucher for lime carried from Towyn, dated 1780. F. 31. 'By Dr. John Brown, Author of the 'Estimate of the manners of the Time.'. What though no glittering turrets rise [18/19C]. F. 32r. The rites deriv'd from ancient days [18/19C]. F. 32v. 'Bis dat qui ei dat'. Gifts too much our pride alarm [18/19C.]. Ff. 33-4. ['The Poplar field.'. The poplar's are fell'd and adieu to the shade. [William Cowper.] [1785.]. Ff. 35-6. 'Killnidry Hunt.'. List list Jolly Sportsmen a while to my tale [18C.]. Ff. 37-8. 'Xbr. 1726. Advice to a Daughter going to Bath.'. Since you, my Daughter, soon for Bath intend. F. 39. Bumpers lull all Cares to rest [18/19C.]. Ff. 40-1. While Peggy shines at Masquerades [18C.]. F. 42. 'A new song maid of Lady Harvey ye Tune of ye old wom[an ] gray by my Lord Chesterfield.'. The muse is quite gaded with riming [18C.]. F. 43. 'The Bowl.'. Oh! come there [ ] of wine [18/19C]. F. 44. Thou Nymph of sacred springs and fountains. Endorsed: 'Mrs. Mary Quellyn.' (18C.3. F. 45. 'The praise of Merionethshire from the Welsh of an old British Bard. [Lewis Morris.]. Whate'er I've seen beneath the stars [18C.]. Ff. 46-7. ['A Ballad written at Sea in the first Dutch war the Night before the Engagement'.], to all ye Ladies now at hand. [Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset.] [17/18C]. Ff. 48-9. Here rests his head upon a bed of clay. [Lines to be cut on the tombstone of G. Lewis in Mold Churchyard.] [18C.]. Ff. 50-1. 'A thought over a child's grave by the father.'. Here - here she lies - O, could I once more veiw [17/18C.]. F. 52. 'Epitaph on an old favourite Dog.'. Here lies a pattern for the human race. March 17, 1746-7. Duns Scotus. Ff. 53-4. 'The Vicar and Moses.'. At the sign of the horse, old spintext of course [18C.]. Ff. 55-6. 'The old Bachelor's Complaint'. Ah'. me opprest with many an ail. [Watermark 1810.]. F. 57. And art thou dead, (deere soule) and can it be finis per Jg [17C]. F. 58. Hianthe ye lovely ye joy of her swayn [18C.]. F. 59. 'A prophisie found in the abbie of S. Benedicts in Norfolk 1560'. If 88 be past then thrive [17C.].

166 Ff., paginated in [8], 1-20, 33-294, 3433521, [35], suggesting that some sections are missing. 230 x 170 mm. Bound in a re-used leather cover, blind-tooled, 220 x 160 mm., formerly one cover of a folio volume; D 1 is inscribed on the back and front covers of the present work. Three leather bands on the inside and outside of the spine support the sewing. Written in black ink, with many blank pages. On William Bodwrda of Bodwrda, near Aberdaron (1593-1660) and his manuscripts, see Dafydd Ifans, Bywyd a gwaith William Bodwrda (1593-1660) o Aberdaron, M.A. (Wales), 1974 (in which the present manuscript is described on pp. 550-6), and 'William Bodwrda', Nlwj, xix(1975-6), 88-102 and 300-10. All items except where otherwise indicated are in Bodwrda's hand. Ff. 2-11. 'Out of a little Vocabulary Treatise; by Jo. Bullokar, dedicated to Jane Viscountesse Mountague. from my house in Chicester in Suxxes. Oct. 17. 1616. in 8vo.'. Extracts from John Bullokar, An English Expositor: Teaching the Interpretation of the hardest words used in our Language. With Sundry Explications, Descriptions, and Discourses. (London, 1616). Ff. 12-13r. 'Y llyfr cyntaf o Retoryddiaeth o waith Marcus Tullius Cicero at Herennius, yr hwn lyfr a cyfieithodd Sion ap Howel ap Owen.'. For a transcript and discussion of the text see Bedwyr Lewis Jones, 'Sign ap Hywel ab Owain a'r 'Rhetorica ad Herrennium' yn Gymraeg', Llên Cymru, vi(1961), 208-18. Ff. 20-52. Indexes to cywyddau in William Bodwrda's folio collection of manuscripts, arranged according to subject, one page being generally devoted to each subject. Ff. 53-65. Blank, but recto sides lined as for the index to cywydebu. Ff. 67-99. [The History of the Gwydir Family]. 'Gruffydd ap Cynan Prince of wales had by his wife Angharad, the daughter of Owen ap Edwyn Lord of Englefield, Owen Gwynedd, Cadwaladr and Cadwallon . . . [f. 99v] It is to be noted also, yt certaine gentlemen and freehoulders dwelt in the countrey, but not many, who were to answere the cry and to come also upon the like distresse.'. Corresponds to pp. 1-60 of the version published by Sir John Ballinger (Cardiff, 1927. Ff. 134-138r. 'Araith Wgan o Gaer Einion ym Mhowys'. Ff. 143-144r. 'darn o ryw araith, heb ddech: heb ddiwedd.'. 'Yna hedeus yn bybyr, hyd yn gwlad y Groegwyr' . . . [f. 144r] y pum divas hefyd, a suddodel yn ddienbyd: fal na ellid moi perchenogi, na mynd ir un or rheini. Added above the text on f. 67r, in a contemporary seventeenth-century hand, is the note: 'John Williams of Brymore Maried Gaynor Griffith Daughter to Jon. Griffith Porth yr our of Carnarvon in Carnarvonshire.' On f. 147r is a receipt, dated 11 April, 1750, for 16s. 3d. received of Mr. George Hicks in payment of his light tax for Porth yr Aur, signed by Robert Thomas and David Jones, collectors. Within the back cover is the armorial bookplate of Hugh Griffith of Brynodel.

Volume Of Pedigrees of the family of Hugh Griffith of Carnarvon, co. Caern., esq., upon whose order the volume was written by John Richard Prees, following Griffith Hiraethog, William Llyn and Lewis Dunn, and continuing therefrom; the pedigrees centre on Rhys ap Tewdwr fawr, Prince of South Wales. Among the inclusions, loose and pasted in are epitaphs, genealogical notes, a letter and a list of sheriffs of co. Caern., 1540-1805. Two printed items included are a memorial against Lord Bulkeley and 'an historical legi-graphical chart of landed property in England.'.

Poll-book of the parliamentary election for co. Caern., when Thomas Wynn of Glynllifon, esq., defeated William Wynn of Wem, esq., by 250 votes to 130. Enclosed is a list, undated, of hundreds, townships and parishes in co. Caern.

Volume containing a scurrilous account of the lives of Owen Hughes, Clerk of the Peace for co. Aug. and Recorder of Beaumaris, and Margaret, his wife, together with an account of legal proceedings at Beaumaris in 1664 and 1672-3 concerning a murder there in 1664.

Decree (copy) of Henry Herbert], Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, Visitor of Jesus College, Oxford, dismissing the appeal of John Jones of Jesus College against the election of John Williams of the same to a fellowship at the College belonging to the counties of North Wales, endowed by the late Right. Rev. Henry Rowlands, bishop of Bangor, to be applied preferably by former pupils of the schools of Beaumaris, Botwnnog and Bangor.

Account of fees claimed by Edward Lloyd, esq., Prothonotary and clerk of the Crown for counties Chester and Flint, with details of the nature of the offices; also Accounts of the fees on writs issued out of the court of Exchequer at Chester, and of fees relating to the Baron's office.

Transcripts Correspondence, dated 1818 and undated, to the Chester Chronicle, and of an Article in the Salopian Journal, dated 1818, on the institution of English clergymen in Welsh benefices and sees.

Volume containing details of procedure relating to courts leet (sections 1-146), justices of the peace (147-164), clerks of the peace (165-206), the quarter sessions (207-17), commissions (218-23) and the undersheriff (224-). The last section includes also forms of oaths and documents, some bearing references to Caernarvon. The outer covers consist of 2ff. of Ratson Maur's commentary on the Pauline epistles (Rom. xii, 3-8), written in a twelfth century hand.

Commonplace Book of [Hugh Griffith of Brynodol], containing cookery and medical recipes, verses, biographical notes and financial & other memoranda, including an assessment of the rates of land tax in p. Llandudwen and a valuation of the rectory of Llaniestyn, both dated 1772. Enclosed in the volume are loose papers including a rental of Lord Newborough's estate for 1777 and two pages entitled 'Directions for makeinge Settinge Doggs'.

Volume Of Legal Queries and doubtful cases, dated 1630-1712 and undated, in several hands. On the title page is written 't' Libris Hugonis Griffith, Oct. 20th 1743'.

[See also D1-184, C1-235 passim, P1-3a, 723-98 X1-24 passim.].

Receipt of 16s. 8d. as one year's rent for a meadow called werglodd yr aber from Richard Gryffyth of Llanvair, gent., by Owen Smyth for Sir Richard Wynne, kt. & bart.

Rental of the lands of Roland Gruffith, and heir of Robert Gruffith of Porthamyl in the 'villae' of Dinorwig, Llanfair [Isaf] & Botandreg [p. Llanfair-is-gaer ], Rug & [Llanfair] Prysgol [p. Llanrug ] and Talyllyn, co. Caern.

Accounts of Richard Gruffyth of Llanvaire Isgaire, co. Caern., esq., for the receipt of the rent of Taltreuddyn, and of other sums of money with an account of his disbursements thereof to the use of his nephew Evan Wynne, the heir of the said lands. Some accounts are subscribed with a note of examination and a note of money owed to Richard Gruffith, signed by Evan Wynne. Other lands referred to: 'r' hen Evel, [p. Llanenddwyn, co. Mer.].