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Large scrapbook of historical and literary material comprising notes and transcripts relating to the history of France, 1748-1772, and to Prince Charles, Kevenhuller and Prince Esterhazy, 1743; a list of European rulers and wars fought by Britain between 1739 and 1780; notes and copies of documents relating to the activities and executions of prominent Jacobites, 1745-1752; copies of letters from and to Lord Bath concerning the Shrewsbury election [post-1741]; a poem entitled Arma Virumque Cano on General Hawley 's defeat in Scotland; a list of those who voted against the bill for suspending the Habeas Corpus Act, 1746; notes on the history of Italy; Denbigh election results; and an account in French of Willem Bentinck 's part in the appointment of William IV of Orange as Stadtholder of Holland, 1747.

Twenty-four holograph or autograph letters to and from Hugh Howard [brother of Robert Howard of Conway, the recipient of the letters contained in the previous manuscript, NLW MS 12426E]. (a) Six holograph letters, 1732-1737, bearing no addresses, from Hugh Howard in Tellicherry [India], 1. to his 'Dear Brother' [? Robert Howard of Conway], 1732 (family affairs, the writer's troubles with his superior officers in India, the possibility of his buying Griffith Williams's estate), 2. to [? Mrs. Gifford], 1733/4 (congratulations ? on her marriage, a gift of a set of china ware), 3. to his 'Dear Brother' [? Robert Howard as previously], 1733/4 (gifts sent to recipient and other persons named), 4. to his brother Rob[ert] Howard, 1737 (news of writer's acquaintances in India, recipient's intended purchase of land), 5. to Mrs. Gifford, 1737 (personal), 6. to Mrs. Howard [? his brother's wife], 1737 (personal). (b) Eighteen holograph or autograph letters to Hugh Howard, 1736-1746, most of them addressed to him in Bombay, from Ynyr Burges, East India House [London], 1746 (goods and a cask of arrack sent to England by Howard, news of events in Europe and in Britain including the crushing of the [Stuart] rebellion and the flight of the pretender's son to France, news of changes and rumoured changes affecting the personnel of the [East India] Company), Francesco Dias, Callicutt [India], 1743 (2) (personal, commercial transactions), Thomas Dorrill, Buss[orah, in the Persian Gulf], 1745 (1 + dup.) (commercial and financial), Rog[er] Kinsey, Surat [India], 1745/6 ( financial and commercial), Stephen Law, London, 1745/6 (financial), Tho[mas] Phillips, London, 1743 (military activity in Europe and the West Indies, the desertion of some two hundred soldiers of a Scotch regiment brought to London, news of friends and acquaintances), ?Domingos Rodrigues, Tellicherry [India], 1743-1746 (6 + 1 dup.) (financial and commercial [two of these letters are endorsed with English translations of the Portuguese originals]), Edward Ward, London, 1745 (personal, comments on the [Stuart] rebellion of 1745 a threatened invasion of England being prepared at Dunkirk), and M. Wynne, Bodysgallan, 1736-1737 (2) (family news, thanks for presents).

Notebook, 1749-1777, of Samuel Deykin of Carmarthen, including a journal of his travels to London and Barnsley, March-June 1950; an imaginary journal for 1746, had Charles Edward Stuart acceded to the throne (ff. 11-16); topical verse, miscellaneous notes and memoranda, and religious meditations.