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1. Hoell ap Gruff' ap Dd. free tenant of the lord the King of the township of Erreannell;
2. Ll' ap Ior' ap Res and Eva verch Hoell.
   Grant of land in Erryannell.

1. Maurice [...] parish church of Dynerth, in the diocese of St. Asaph;
2. ...hwell ap Gruff' ap David, of Anglesey.
   Letter of attorney.

Writ by Humphrey Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester, Great Chamberlain of England, Warden of the Lordship of Gower during the minority of John, son and heir of John Momrey [Mowbray], late Lord, directed to the Coroner of the Englishry of Gower, ordering him to take an inquest after the death of Richard Mauncell, of Niclaston. [Latin]. Dated: Swansea, 20th Aug., 13 Hen. VI [1435]. This is followed, on the same sheet of parchment, by the Inquest taken at Swansea, before Hopkyn ap David ap Hopkyn, Coroner of the Englishry, 15th Sept., 14 Henry VI [1435], whereby the jury who are summoned and sworn to make the enquiry find that the said Richard was seized, at his death, of the manor of Niclaston, and land called Màuncelles-lond, and Scorlaces-castell, held in knight’s service; and of tenures and a watermill in Burry held of the lord of Porteynon; that he died on the Tuesday after the Feast of St. Peter ad vincula; and that his next heir is Philip, son and heir of John, son and heir of the said Richard, who is of the age of 15 years. [Latin]. Seal wanting.

1. Hugh de Audelym, and Richard Coke, Clerks;
2. John Kylbury and John Dymmesdale.
   Power of attorney to deliver seisin of the premises granted in 24 (a).

1. Davit ap Meur', rector of the Church of St. Hilary in Llanhelyen;
2. Kwnna ap Ieuan y mab.
   Mortgage of lands in the hamlet of Barroch, in the township of Llanhelyen, called Tyddyn y garyth, dryll y garrek loyd, two virgates of Tyddyn y Bryn duy, yr [...] Oldok and dryll yrysgubor.

Lydgate's Life of our Lady, 'O thoughtful! herte plunged indistresse ...' (ff. 2-102 verso). The text includes 'The white lillie of the chosen vale' (f. 3 verso), 'That al maydens myzte ensample take' (f. 4), 'The beutee causith to be of more delyte' (f. 25 verso), and 'Amydeys this welle from fylthe of synne cold ...' (f. 26). The text is defective at two points due to the loss of leaves. It breaks off in ch. I (after f. 3) and resumes near the end of ch. 2; it breaks off again in ch. 19 and resumes in ch. 20. The tags follow the text in the hand of the scribe. It has not yet been possible to compare the text with the edition of J. A. Lauritis, R. A. Klinefelter and V. F. Gallagher.
Written in one hand, an Anglicana formata with Secretary influence, professional-looking. On f. 2 is a 10-line historiated initial O (birth of the Virgin, the picture somewhat rubbed) with a full page frame and border of foliage, flowers and sprays (gold, maroon, blue, white, green, orange), reproduced in the Christie's catalogue (see below). Blue initials for chapters, with red penwork, mostly 2-line, a few 3 or 4-line. Alternating red and blue paragraphs marks with contrasting penwork. Chapter numbers in red at the head of each page, with blue paragraph mark and red penwork. Sidenotes in red with blue paragraph marks.

The Tretyse of þe Seven Poyntes of Trewe Love and Everlastynge Wisdame, translated from the Latin Horologium Sapientiae; see the edition of K. Horstmann, 'Orologium Sapientiae or the Seven Poyntes of Trewe Wisdom aus MS. Douce 114', Anglia, 10 (1888), 323-389, from Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 114 (announced variant readings from Caxton never published). W. Wichgraf, 'Susos Horologium Sapientiae in England nach Handschriften des 15. Jahrhunderts', Anglia, 53 (1929), 123-,33, 269-287, 345-373, and ibid. 54 (1930), 351-352, identifies the Latin origin of the text in Henry Suso's Horologium Sapientiae, comments on Horstmann's edition and lists five manuscripts of the complete English text, excluding ours, together with manuscripts in which chapters 4 and 5 each appear on their own; see also W. Wichgraf, 'Susos Horologium Sapientiae in England nach Mss des 15. Jahrhunderts', Archiv für neueren Sprachen und literaturen, 169 (1936), 176-181, which includes discussion of MS Cambrai 255.
The Latin colophon on f. 90, referring to Mount Grace, is probably derivative; it appears at the end of the same text in MS Cambrai 255 (see Catalogue générale des manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France, vol. 17 (Paris, 1891), p. 88; cf. N. R. Ker, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (London, 1964) and Andrew G. Watson, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: Supplement to the Second Edition (London, 1987), Mount Grace). Written by a single hand, in good anglicana formata. Brown ink. Parti-coloured red/blue 7-line initials on ff. 1 verso and 8, accompanied by red and purple penwork and by red/blue nerfs and flourished borders; on f. 1 and elsewhere for chapter-openings, 3-line blue initials with red penwork (4-line for 'I' on f. 41 verso); headings and sidenotes in red, alternate red and blue paragraph marks.

Title deeds of burgages and gardens in Pentrehedyn Street or Stryd Gwyr Deheubarth in the town of Machynlleth, 1440-1697. Boundaries include a street called Y Groes Hewle and a field called Y Garsion. The earliest deed is a grant in fee farm by Gr' Derwas and Mabli vch Ieuan Lloyt his wife to Ll'i ap Ieuan ap Ho'l Goch of Machynlleth, 1440. Two deeds record acquisitions by Lewis or Ll’n ap Ho'll ap Davit [Hugh] and Maud vch Owen ap Res, his wife, from his brothers and others, 1516-1532. There is also a bond by Lewis Ramon' of the city of London, merchant, to accompany a deed (missing) to John Owen for a messuage in Stryd Deheubarth and Y Kaie Yn Y Fron in Isygarreg, 1591/2; and a mortgage by Griffith Swayne, corvisor, followed by a deed of sale by him and his mortgagee to William Pughe of Mathafarn, of a messuage and a building adjoining a bakehouse belonging to William Pugh, with an account of the purchase, 1696/7.

An illuminated and noted missal of the mid-fifteenth century, probably copied in a London workshop, and apparently of Sarum use. The Rev. W.H. Maskell's theory that it was the sole survivor of the 'use of Bangor' is not substantiated by subsequent authorities on liturgical studies. Originally produced for the church of Great Easton, Essex, for the Calendar includes its dedication, at 4 August ('Dedicacio ecclesie sancti Egidii de Eyston. ad montem'); a note by a later hand at 20 August of the death of William Jaye ('Obitus Willelmi Jaye') and an erased inscription in the bottom margin, show that the manuscript was still at Great Easton in 1508.
References to the pope (e.g. f. 261), to purgatory (f. 256 verso) and to St Thomas of Canterbury (e.g. f. 24) are, as usually, erased or cancelled, particularly so in the calendar. Responses for the marriage service are given in English (f. 240), with English forms of the priest's address to couples added in a late-15th or early-16th cent. hand on f. 239 verso.

Arbitration awards and bonds deriving from disputes involving miscellaneous individuals in Cardiganshire, 1441-1690, (Watermark 1817), 1882. They include a dispute between Jankyn ap John ap Gwelym Vachan, Gruffith ap Meredith and Maude, the daughter of Gruffith ap Meredith, late wife of David Vighan ap Gruffith Prothero, and David ap Meredith Glays, John Robert, Meredith Glays and Thomas Glays, over the deaths of Gruffith Prothero and David ap Gruffith Prothero, settled by financial compensation, an oath called a ‘sache’ and other atonements, 1441. The remainder concern disputes over the property of Sir John Jeffraye, 1540, lands in Aberystwyth, Llanbadarn Fawr, Cynnull Mawr, Llangynfelyn and Elerch, 1550-1690; and damage done by the Court Grange Lead Mining company to the land of Evan Hughes, 1882.. Parties include Phillip Williams, son of William John Voya [of Aberystwyth], 1540; Watkin Ieuan Lloyde David ap Ho’ll of Genau'r-glyn, 1546, Res Vaughan ap Rudderch of St. Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire, Henry ap Gruff' of Aberystwyth, and Res ap Moris Taylor of Llanbadarn Fawr, 1550; Moris ap Thomas ap Moris Vaughan and Margaret his wife, and William ap Ll'n ap Rees, 1553; John Lloid ap Thomas of Llanbadarn Fawr and John ap Jankyn ap Rees of Llangynfelyn, 1560, Moris Ieuan ap Howell and David Lloid ap Res of Llanbadarn Fawr, 1576/7; David Lewes of Gernos and Gwenllian his wife, 1609; George Jones of Llanbadarn Fawr and Meredith David Lloyd, 1689/90.

1. Hoell ap Ior. Vychan and Tud' ap William ap Ieuan ap Howell, ringilds of the commote of Turkell';
2. Morvud verch Hoell ap Dd. Loyd Wyn.
   Receipt for the relief and gobr of Tud' ap Dd. Loyd Wyn, free tenant of the township of Amlogh who died without heirs of his body.

1. Ieuan ap Dicus ap Eign' and Gweirvill vergh Ier' ap Ronkyn, free tenants of the King and the Bishop of Bangor, of the townships of Treffvadoc and Cowrnwy llan, commote of Tal.;
2. John Aleyn.
   Grant of Tay Iddon in the township of Cowrnwyllann and hamlet of Kerrickamo.

Grant by Philip Maunsell, son and heir of John Maunsell of Oxynwych, to D. William Cressy, vicar of Langenyth, John Maunsell, his son and heir, Roger Strangwych, and Henry Crompp, of lands, etc., in the vills and demesnes of Gower and Kidwelly, which descended to him after the death of his father. [Latin]. Witnesses: D. Thomas Talyer, David ap Gwyllym ap Ryse, William Bemond, Philip More, Stephen Benet. Dated at Oxynwych, 14th May, 22 Hen. VI [1444]. Seal wanting.

Two tracts - (a) a description of England, in fifteen chapters, compiled in 1445, beginning 'tractatus iste compendiose extractus de diversorum historiographorum diversis ... describit Angliam ... '; (b) a genealogical chronicle in the same hand projected from Adam to Brutus and from Brutus to Henry VI, but in execution brought only to Edward I, with a continuation in a sixteenth century hand to Henry VIII (1518). The pattern of this genealogical chronicle is that of the Promptuarium Bibliae attributed to Petrus Pictaviensis. The text begins 'Adam in agro damasceno ...' (cf. Thomas Jones, Y Bibyl Ynghymraeg (Cardiff, 1940), p. xiii) and has lines added for the Saxons, kings of Britain, princes of Wales, the different divisions of Saxon England, kings of England, princes of Demetia, princes of Venedotia, &c.

1. Dd. ap Tud. ap [...];
2. Mered' ap Gruff [...].
   Lease of land in [?Llanvechyll].

1. Grono ap Ll' ap Tvnna, free tenant of the lord the Prince of the township of Llysdelas, commote of Turkelyn;
2. Nicholas ap Elys, Chaplain, rector of the church of St. Hilary the Bishop.
   Mortgage for four years of Tethyn y Kirryok in the township of Llanelyan. Witnesses: Ieuan ap Matto; Ieuan ap Grono, Ith' ap Dieus.

1. Mad' ap Hoell ap Hovaf, free tenant of the Bishop of Bangor, of the township of Cowrnoy lan, commote of Talb.;
2. John Aleyn, free tenant of the King, of the township of Treffvadok.
   Mortgage of land in Kowrnoy lan and Kerrykkammo.

1. Eign' ap Dd. ap Eign' and Mad' ap Tudur ap Dd. ap Tudur, free tenants of the King, of the township of Roscolvn, commote of Meney;
2. Ior' ap Eign' duy.
   Mortgage of an acre of land in a place called Y brandail.