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- 1683 (Creation)
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ii, 208 ff. (paginated 1-406 with insertions; pp. 344-406 blank) ; 300 x 170 mm.
Bound in brown leather with triple fillets.
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Archival history
Bookplate of 'Tho. Mostyn 1744 No. 39'.
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Transcripts, begun in 1683, of Sir John Wynn, History of the Gwydir Family taken from 'a Coppy belonging to Sr Morris Parry of Llan Elian Clerk, in the year 1674 and afterwards compar'd with & corrected by two Coppys, the one Belonging to the Reverend Dr Humphreys Dean of Bangor, the other found among the Evidences att Gwedir, which last was in many places corrected & interlin'd, & much of it writt with the hand of Sr John Wynn himselfe the author'; 'Ystoria Gruffudd ap Cynan ...' copied for Thomas Mostyn, Gloddaeth, 1683, from 'Llyfr Plas-y-ward'; 'a chronicle supos'd to be collected by Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt ...'; charters, indentures, petitions, etc.
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Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only. Readers are directed to use surrogate copies.
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English, Welsh, Latin.
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Finding aids
The description is also available in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, I (Aberystwyth, 1940), p. 263.
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Available on microfilm at the Library.
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Formerly Mostyn MS 145.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 3075D [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
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- Gwydir Estate (Wales) -- History. (Subject)
- Mostyn, Thomas, Sir, 1651-1700? (Subject)
- Wynn family, of Gwydir. (Subject)
- Gruffydd ab Cynan, King of Gwynedd, 1055?-1137 (Subject)
- Vaughan, Robert, 1592-1667 (Subject)
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- English