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'A Survey of the Ancient and Present State of the County of Caernarvon by a Land surveyor [i.e. William Williams, Llandegai (1738-1817)], 1806', together with a list of the sheriffs of Caernarvonshire, 1540-1796.

British Remains ... to which are added Memoirs of Edward Llwyd ... By the Rev. N[icholas] Owen Jun A.M. (London, 1777), with nineteen pages giving the arms, drawn and coloured by hand, of the families mentioned in that portion of the manuscript called The Names and Arms of the Ancient Nobility of North Wales ..., followed by a pedigree of the Ruthven family.

An alphabetical index to North Wales pedigrees in British Museum Harleian MSS 1974, 1936 and 1969, together with a list of British Museum manuscripts containing Welsh pedigrees.

A transcript by Benjamin Jones, Caernarfon of 'Llyfr Achau ac Arfbeisiau y 5 Llwyth Breninol a 15 Llwyth Pendefigol Gwynedd ...' by Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd').

A transcript made by Evan Williams, Caernarfon for Owen of a collection of pedigrees and coats of arms compiled by Edward Jones, brother of John Jones, Llanllyfni.

'Llyfr Gwyn Mechell, sef Casgliad o Ganiadau ... wedi ei ysgrifenu gan William Bulkeley, Yswain o'r Brynddu, Llanfechell yn Mon ...', containing 'cywyddau', etc. by Sion ap Hywel ap Llywelyn Fychan, Morys Dwyfech (Morus ap Dafydd ab Ifan ab Einion), Lewis Glyn Cothi, Syr Dafydd Trefor, Gruffudd Hiraethog, Hywel [ap] Rheinallt, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Sion Tudur, Tudur Aled, Ieuan Dew Brydydd, Dafydd ab Edmwnd, Rhydderch ap Richard, Huw ap Rhys Wyn, Ieuan ap Rhydderch ab Ieuan Llwyd, Lew[y]s Môn, Sypyn Cyfeiliog, Ieuan Deulwyn, Wiliam Llŷn, Sion Phylip, Maredudd ap Rhys, Huw Pennant, Gruffudd ap Dafydd ap Hywel, Rhisiart ap Hywel, Huw Arwystli, Dafydd Manuel, Gruffudd ab Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan, Edward Samuel, Wiliam Cynwal, Roger Cyffin, Huw Mor[y]s, Robert Wynn ('Ficcar Gwyddelwern'), John Roger, John Davies ('Sion Dafydd Las'), Rhisiart Brydydd Brith, Simwnt Fychan, Huw Llwyd ('o Gynfal'), Iorwerth Fynglwyd, Iolo Goch, Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Guto'r Glyn, Bedo Phylip Bach, Deio ab Ieuan Du, Rhydderch ap Sion, Edwart ap Rhys, Syr Dafydd Llwyd, John Griffith (Llanddyfnan), Elen G[oo]dman, Rhisart Gray, Huw Humphreys ('Person Trefdraeth'), Rhisiart [Richard] Bulkeley, Owen Prichard Lewis, Dafydd ap Huw'r Gô ('o Fodedern'), Rhys Gray, Edward Morus, Sion Prys, John Williams ('o Bontygwyddel'), Dafydd Llwyd (Sybylltir), Lewis Meurig ('y Cyfreithiwr'), Peter Lewis, Roger Williams, Wiliam Peilyn, Richard Abram [Abraham], Huw [Hugh] Bulkeley ('o Lanfechell') and Ifan Jones ('o'r Berthddu'); together with extracts relating to State affairs in the reign of Charles I.

A miscellany compiled, 1718-1742, by David Williams, Bodeulwyn, Anglesey, containing englynion, ballads and other poems in Welsh and English, some of the English ballads being printed; a few Latin poems; genealogical and historical notes, including extracts from wills, mainly relating to Anglesey; medical and household recipes; Anglesey rentals, and notes on estates and farming; a copy of a terrier of the glebe lands of Llanfechell, 1599; extracts from parish registers; etc.

Pedigrees of North Wales families, together with historical material relating to North Wales, including names of members of Parliament, lords lieutenant, constables of castles, etc.

A pedigree and short history of the family of Ellis of Ystumlyn and Bronyfoel, Caernarvonshire, with rough drafts of the pedigrees of the Llanelian, Twrcelyn, Bodafon and Llandyfrydog families.

A literary scrapbook written by Robert Jones, Llanerchymedd, a soldier who served during the French wars, with some pages in the hands of Hugh Hughes ('Y Bardd Coch') and Jacob Jones, containing poems and songs in Welsh and English, prose extracts and miscellanea.

Copies of the wills of William Bodvel of Madryn, 1756, Gwen Bodvel of Bodfan, 1579, and Morris Owen of Tygwyn, proved 1713, all of Caernarvonshire.

Copies of Anglesey and Caernarvonshire wills and letters of administration preserved at the District Probate Registry, Bangor.

Pedigrees of Caernarvonshire families copied, 1888, by Edward Humphrey Owen from manuscripts of Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd'), with some notes from the pedigree collections of Owen Gruffydd and John Reynolds.

A nineteenth century manuscript containing pedigrees of North Wales families, mainly of Caernarvonshire and Anglesey, with letters and additional notes.

A transcript, 1725, by 'G. M.' [William Morgan] of 'Antiquitatum Parochialium Libellus, ad Calcem perductus, circa annum 1710' by Henry Rowlands, author of Mona Antiqua Restaurata ... (Dublin, 1723).

The libretto of a comic opera, A Wedding in Wales, written [c. 1790].

North Wales pedigrees copied from 'Llyfr Melyn Tyfrydog', which is said to be a transcript, made [c. 1766], by Hugh Hughes ('Y Bardd Coch') of a manuscript owned by Lewis Morris; papers relating to persons and places in North Wales and to the diocese of Bangor; 'englynion'; correspondence between W[illiam] Wynn Williams, Jonathan Jones and Lady Chandos Reade; etc.

North Wales and border county pedigrees and genealogical data mainly in the hand of Jonathan Jones, Caernarfon; poems; a copy of the will of Henry Rowlands (1551-1616), bishop of Bangor.

An eighteenth century manuscript entitled 'Enterlude neu Chwaryddiaeth Ar Destyn Odiaethol, yn dangos Pa Drigolion a fu'n Preswylio yn y Deyrnas hon cyn dyfod Cymru na Saeson erioed iw meddiannu', by R[ ] P[ ], probably Rhisiart Parry, Dyserth, Flintshire (1666-1749)

A seventeenth century manuscript containing cywyddau and awdlau, possibly in the hand of a scribe of the Dr John Davies (Mallwyd) school, by Sion Tudur, Tudur Aled, Gruffudd ab Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan and many others.