File Wynnstay MS 10 [RESTRICTED ACCESS] - Fragmenta Brit.

A miscellaneous collection of texts made for William Maurice of Llansilin, who has written some notes and marginalia with his own hand. Much of the contents of this manuscript has been copied from the manuscripts of John Jones of Gellilyvdy, e.g. Peniarth MSS 111, 264, and particularly 267, and the scribe has imitated the writing of his originals. This volume contains copies of:. Hanes Taliessin; Awgrim mud ar gorff; The Returne of a Commission sent into Walles by King Hennry 7 to Serche out the Petegrees of his grand father Owen Tuder (ex cod' Poueliano); Dares Phrygius; prophecies, Welsh and Latin; cantrevs, commotes and parishes of wales; chronology; an account of Dafydd ap Edmwnt and Gruffudd ap Nicholas at the Caermarthen Eisteddfod; notes on taxes and impositions in South Wales; triads; Breuddwyd Maxen Wledig; Brud y Saeson; Vita Elgari; Simwnt Vychan's certificate as pencerdd copied from a Plasyward MS; Vita Griffini filij Conani R. Vendotiae; Buchedd Gruffudd ab Kynan; Buced' Collenn; Interdictio Papae adversus Leolinum fil' Ieruerthi Principem Northwalliae; Literae Lewelini Principis Walliae ad clerum [sic] Angliae ... from a copy made by Edward Theloal in 1574; Instructions to the earl of Carbery as President of the Council in Wales and the Marches, 13 Sept. 1662; Y modd yr aeth Croes Oswallt i law Saeson; De Antiques Legibus; De Presenti statv totius Walliae; catalogue of the Hengwrt Library by William Maurice, 1658; an agreement for an assessment upon North Wales for the use of the committee for Irish affairs, 1646/7; Siarter swydd y wayn. There are also some minor items copied from Peniarth MS 267.