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A transcript of 'A short account of the Rebellion in North & South Wales in Oliver Cromwel's Time'.

Transcripts of poems and epitaphs, including 'A letter from Doctor Corbitt to a freind'; poems by H[ugh] Holand, Sir Henry Wotton, the Earl of Pembroke [?William Herbert, third earl of the second creation], and J. Grange 'to the Prince at his returne from Spaine'; and 'An Elegie on the death of Thomas Washington who dyed in Spaine'.

A miscellaneous collection of medicinal and culinary recipes.

The orders of Lieutenant-General Keppel at Coxheath camp, 1779, written by Major Watkin Williams of the Shropshire Regiment of Militia.

A record of the daily menu at Nannau, 1811-1815.

A collection of cookery recipes with some medical prescriptions owned at one time by Catherine Nanney.

Eighteen diaries and notebooks containing memoranda and accounts by Howell Vaughan, 1663, Katherine, widow of Griffith Wynn of Bodfean, and later wife of Colonel Hugh Nanney, 1692, Hugh Evans, agent to the said Katherine, 1682-1690, Lumley Williams of Ystumcolwyn, 1696, Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt, 1745 , and others.
Several of the diaries, which include almanacks by Trigge, Gallen, and Rider and the Daily Journal, contain entries relating to the Nannau estate. Rider's British Merlin for 1698 contains a few englynion in manuscript, and in one notebook there are inventories of linen and utensils at Nannau, 1692.

A printed book: P. Luckombe, The History and Art of Printing in two parts ... (London, 1771).

A printed book: Robert Vaughan, British Antiquities revived: or A friendly Contest touching the soveraignty of the three Princes of VVales in ancient times ... (Oxford, 1662).
A letter from Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt to Mr John Kain [Siôn Cain] at Oswestry, dated October 1635, is pasted inside the front cover.

A Catalogue of the entire Library ... and Philosophical Apparatus ... of John Lloyd, Esq., L.L.D. Deceased. Parts I and II. Denbigh: [1816].
With prices realised entered in manuscript in the margins.

Dosparth Byrr ar y rhan gyntaf i ramadeg cymraeg ... 1567 (two copies), and Dosparth ar yr ail rann i ramadeg a elwir cyfiachydiaeth (undated) by Gruffydd Robert; with letters, manuscript notes and press cuttings relating to the same, 1874-1879.

The newe Testament in Englyshe and in Latin of Erasmus Translation. Novvm Testamentvm Anglice et Latine. Anno dni, 1549. Black letter; headings and Latin text in roman. Printed.
Also included is a cutting from a catalogue of Quaritch, 1874, in which a copy of thie edition, with title-page in facsimile, is priced at £28.

Fragments of manuscripts found with MS 540B, possibly once part of Peniarth MS 326 (see D. Huws, 'A Welsh manuscript of Bede's De natura rerum', Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, XXVII, p. 492). They comprise a leaf from Gerard of Cremona's Latin translation of Aristotle, De Caelo et terra, XIII cent. (f. l); a leaf of the Middle English Dives and Pauper, XV cent. (see NLWJ, xxii, p. 347) (f. 2); a fragment of a petition in Chancery of [ ] of 'Kellilyfday' [Gellilyfdy] concerning a book borrowed in 1643 by Thomas Jones of Kirchynan [Flintshire] and not returned, the petitioner no doubt being John Jones, Gellilyfdy (f. 3); a flyleaf of a book with Latin tags, an englyn and the name Richard Mores, XVII cent. (f. 4); a bon mot of Dr John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, XVIII cent. (f. 5); a theological treatise entitled Circa generaliores regulas moralis Christianae sententiae aliquot quibus passim se opponit Schola Theologica Louanensis, XVII cent. (ff. 6-11); and an inventory of the goods of Thomas Wilkins, papermaker, of the parish of West Drayton, Middlesex, 1729, including the stock of a paper-mill (f. 12).

A roll containing 'A true and perfect Inventary of all and singular the household goods and plate of Mr Michael Rolles late deceased which are now remaining in his late dwelling house in Threadneedle Street in the Parish of Saint Martin Outwich London taken and appraised this twelfth day of March one thousand and seven hundred and eleven by John Wattson and John Scott'.
'An inventory of the goods &c: of Michael Rolls of London, Merchant, father of Mary, the first wife of Charles Lloyd of Drenewydd, Esqr' on dorse.

'A Discourse of the Pedigree of Percys and Stanley' (ff. 1-21); notes by W. W. E. Wynne on Welsh manuscripts in the Catalogue of Additional MSS in the British Museum (ff. 22-8 verso); and a letter, dated 5 November 1859, from Joseph Morris, Shrewsbury to W. W. E. Wynne concerning the date of Owain Glyndwr's death (f. 29).
The following note occurs on f. 21 verso: 'Copies of Manucsripts &c at Penbedw in Denbighshire concerning the Families of Percy and Stanley'.

A volume containing copies of letters, 1820-1830, from Athelstan Corbet, Ynysymaengwyn, Merionethshire to various recipients, including Jonathan Anwyl, Llwgwy; T. E. Cartwright, Liverpool; John Davies, Kington, Herefordshire; Lord Eldon; George Jeffreys, Glandyfi; Hu. Owen; Edward Scott; Captain Thurston, RN; Thomas Wilmot, Coundon near Coventry; and Sir Watkin Williams Wynn.
Tipped in is a letter, 2 April 1831, from Corbet to Lord John Russell concerning the Reform Bill (f. 2).

Printed pedigrees of the family of Eure of Easby, Ingleby, Witton and Malton; the descent of Robert Aglionby Slaney, esq., from King Edward III, and of his daughter, Mary Slaney, who married W. W. E. Wynne, together with a proof copy with corrections in the hand of W. W. E. W.; a manuscript pedigree of the Foley family; and verses entitled 'The Shropshire Bouquet'.

A volume containing 'Extracts so far as concerns Wales from the "Index & Preface to the Harleyan Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum".'
Tipped in is a letter from J. P. Earwaker, Withington, Manchester, 24 April 1880, to W. W. E. Wynne (f. 1).

Transcripts of treatises on Latin grammar (one of which is subscribed 'explicit donatus'); notes on figures of speech; Latin poems; an englyn; proverbs; and prayers, including an invocation to St David.
The greater part of the volume is in the autograph of one Thomas Pennant.