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Crosswood (Mont.) Manuscripts

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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.

Scrap books

Three volumes of miscellanea, including prospectuses of published or projected works, press cuttings, poems, scrap books, and drafts of letters and articles for publication including 'A Statistical Account of the Parish of Llanymynaich. By Walter Davies, A.B. 1793'.
Included in NLW MS 1731C is a copy of Dafydd Ddu Feddyg's [i.e. David Samwell] Ode for St. David's Day, 1791. Inscribed to the Gwyneddigion Society ([?London], [1791], ESTC T231565).

Samwell, David, 1751-1798

Marwnadau Richard Morris

A statement, 1793, submitted by Robert Hughes (Robin Ddu o Fôn) and Owen Jones (Owain Myvyr) to Cymdeithas y Cymmrodorion vindicating their adjudication upon elegies written on the death of Richard Morris (1779), with transcripts of the elegies submitted for competition by Guttun Gwrecsam [i.e. John Edwards, Siôn Ceiriog] and Richard Jones (o Drefdraeth ym Môn).

Robin Ddu o Fôn, 1744-1785

Miscellanies

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.

Evans, Evan, 1731-1788

Reliquiae Llwydianae

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.

Lhuyd, Edward, 1660-1709

Llyfr Cedwyn

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

Jenkins, John, 1770-1829

Edward Lhuyd letters

Transcripts by Walter Davies, from manuscripts in the Ashmolean Museum, of letters to Edward Lhuyd from William Nicolson, William Price, Nic. Roberts, W. Rowlands, Jo. Maddocks, Edward Thomas, T. Davies, Thomas Hamorne, Maurice Jones, William Gambold, Erasmus Saunders, J[ohn] Ll[oyd], Robert Humphreys, and Humphrey Foulkes.

Llyfr Silin

Pedigrees of Welsh families, with additions in the hands of John Davies, Rhiwlas, Llansilin, and Walter Davies; memoranda relating to members of the family of Foulkes, Penygraig, Llansilin; englynion and other poems by Elin Foulkes, Richard Foulkes, Huw Morus, Elis Cadwaladr, Sion Morus, Mathew Owen, Morys Dafydd, Sion Cadwaladr Owen, Richard Parry (Athraw ysgol yn Roe Newbrough yn Sir Fon), Huw Llwyd Cynfal, Ellis Roberts (Elis y Cowper), Hari Howel, and Robert Humphreys (Robin Rhagad); and Pymtheg Llwyth Gwynedd.

Y Gwyliedydd

Letters and papers relating to Y Gwyliedydd, the first number of which appeared in September, 1822, including translations by W. J. Rees, Cascob, of letters relating to the church service which appeared in the volumes for 1824 and 1825.

The Crosswood Library

A catalogue of the books in the library at Crosswood, made by John Jenkins, 1824, with earlier catalogues, also possibly of the Crosswood library, made in 1784 and 1788.

Jenkins, John, 1770-1829

North Wales Notes

Three volumes of miscellaneous notes by Walter Davies, most of them relating to his survey of North Wales undertaken on behalf of the Board of Agriculture; poems; sermon notes.

Miscellanea

Miscellanea, including extracts by Walter Davies from Joshua Thomas : Hanes y Bedyddwyr ... (Carmarthen, 1778).

Celtic Remains

A transcript of the introduction by Lewis Morris to his 'Celtic Remains'. The transcript was begun in 1775 by his grandson [? nephew] Lewis Morris.

Morris, Lewis, 1701-1765

Welsh Orthography

'A Protestation made on behalf of the Welsh Language and the Church of England against Such orthographical innovations proposed to be made in a new Edition of the Welsh Bible by a Sub-Committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society as are not warranted by established authorities and the laws of the Welsh Language ... faithfully transcribed from Mr. Roberts's Manuscript by H.&.A. Lloyd'.

Roberts, John, 1775-1829

Miscellanea

Transcripts by Walter Davies of pedigrees of North Wales and Shropshire families, geographical notes, lists of technical words, and poems by Gwylim ap Sefnyn, Lewis Mon, Rhys Goch Glyndyfrdwy, Tudur Aled, Hywel Swrdwal, Dafydd Cilan, and Lewis Morganwg.

Lewis Morris on William Burton

'Remarks on the unfair manner Mr Burton in his Commentary on Antoninus's Itinerary has quoted and treated the British history which goes under the Name of Galfridus Monemuthensis. By Lewis Morris'.

Morris, Lewis, 1701-1765

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