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Collectively called the Crosswood Manuscripts after their Montgomeryshire home, this collection consists of three groups of manuscripts known as the Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain) Manuscripts, the John Jenkins (Ifor Ceri) Manuscripts, and the Frances Althea Trevor Manuscripts.

The manuscripts of Walter Davies, forming part of a collection of manuscripts called the Crosswood Manuscripts.

Two volumes of miscellaneous transcripts mainly in the hand of Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain, 1761-1849), relating to the antiquities, history, topography, language, and literature of Wales. They include catalogues of Welsh manuscripts; transcripts of manuscripts of Evan Evans (Ieuan Brydydd Hir), of letters of Edward Lhuyd, Lewis Morris, Goronwy Owen, etc., of Strata Marcella abbey charters, of monumental inscriptions, of Evan Evans's transcripts of Richard Farrington's archaeological notes, etc.; notes on Llanerfyl, Llangadfan, and Garthbeibio, written by William Jones, Llangadfan, and sent by him, with letters, to Walter Davies; a letter, 1792, from Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg) to Walter Davies; an extract, by Lewis Morris, from his Celtic Remains; Marwnad Lewis Morys ... by Goronwy Owen, in the autograph of Evan Evans; etc. Both volumes are indexed.

Transcripts of letters dealing with Welsh orthography, the correspondents including Walter Davies, John Jones, ('Tegid'), Rowland Williams, William Carey (bishop of St. Asaph), Thomas Charles, David Hughes, and Joseph Tarn, with a copy of a letter to Walter Davies from Peter Bayley Willliams.

'Helps towards a more copious Cambrian Biography' containing 'A List [the surnames alphabetically arranged] of Welshmen who attained the Episcopal Dignity, from the year 1558 ... to 1714'. At the beginning is an extract from a letter, dated October 7, 1825, from John Jenkins ('Ifor Ceri', 1770-1829) to Thomas Beynon, archdeacon of Cardigan.

A commonplace book containing notes on sources of early British history and a few Welsh proverbs with translations, a commentary, and etymological notes in Latin.

Transcripts by Walter Davies, with notes and observations, of Edward Lhuyd's summary of answers to his 'Parochial Queries ...', and of Lhuyd's Itinerary throug [sic] Wales extracted out of Mr Lloyd of Caerwys's Copy of the Hallstone MS; and abstracts, also by Walter Davies, from some of Edward Lhuyd's correspondence.

A book of legal precedents compiled by Philip Holland, Neath.

Notes by Walter Davies on inscriptions, etc.; extracts by him from John Pinkerton: An Inquiry into the History of Scotland ... (London, 1789); a letter, 1864, from William Rowlands (Gwilym Lleyn); etc.

Transcripts by Walter Davies of 'Y Gododdin' and other Welsh poems, and extracts from T. R. Malthus : An Essay on the Principle of Population.

An index, prepared by Walter Davies, of proper names, mainly Welsh personal and place-names; englynion and other poems; and miscellaneous notes.

Miscellaneous notes by Walter Davies.

'The Mabus Manuscript containing the Pedigrees of the Gentry of Carmarthenshire, Cardiganshire and Pembrokeshire .... carefully transcribed from the Copy of David Rowlands Esqr. of Chatham by J[ohn] J[enkins] Kerry, 1829'. The transcript was completed in 1830 by D. Davies, junior.

'Llyfr Silin yn cynnwys Achau amryw Deuluoedd yn Ngwynedd, Powys, &c.', being a transcript by John Jenkins of the pedigrees contained in MS. 1666.

A transcript made in 1828 by John Jenkins of 'The Manafon Manuscript of [Welsh] Pedigrees ... belonging to ... Walter Davies ...'.

Pedigrees, mostly copied 1828, in the hand of John Jenkins, of the families of Herbert of Dolforgan, Kerry, Jones of Great Hemm, Forden, and Pryce of Gunley, and of Hugh Owen, archdeacon of Salop (ff. 7-17 verso); with coloured drawings of the arms of the founders of Welsh families, etc. (ff. 199-208, 215 verso-217, 221 verso).

Copies, in the hand of Joseph Morris (Shrewsbury), of pedigrees, mainly of South Wales families.

Transcripts by Walter Davies of Lewis Morris's 'Bonedd y Saint', of pedigrees of some of the saints and some Welsh chieftain families, of a long letter from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick to Angharad Llwyd dealing with hereditary insignia, and of pedigrees from 'Llyfr Cae Cyriog' (now MS. 7008).

Transcripts by Walter Davies of part of a text of Brut y Brenhinoedd, of cywyddau from Llyfr Ystrad Alun (now MS. 7191), and of portions of William Boutcher: A Treatise on Forest Trees ... (Edinburgh, 1775).