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- 1739-1758, 1794 / (Creation)
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i, 141 ff. (old pagination 1-275 with errors) : Folios i, 1-6, 136-41 parchment ; 170 x 120 mm. Re-bound at NLW.
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'William Boldwin Inkeeper att The Boog [?Buck's] head in Holly Well July 7th 1757' on f. 79; 'Owen Morris his book ... 1794' on f. i.
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A cycle of three interludes on the history of the world, and miscellaneous poems, mainly englynion and poetry in carol metres, autograph, 1739-1758, by Thomas Williams, 'Merchant Taylor' (ca. 1690-1763), Tal-y-bont, Llandygai, Caernarfonshire, all of which appear in his published work Mynegiad yr hen oesoedd ... (London, 1761). Folios i (the original front cover), 1-6, 136-41 are palimpsests. The underwriting, partly legible under ultra-violet light, is from fifteenth and sixteenth century court records relating to Caernarfonshire, consisting mainly of lists of names.
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Welsh.
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The description is also available, together with a detailed list of contents, in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume VIII (Aberystwyth, 1999).
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 21941B.
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- Williams, Thomas, ca. 1690-1763 (Subject)