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'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.

A discussion of Aristotle's Logic, etc.; and transcripts of letters and prescriptions.

Medical prescriptions and directions, a list of herbs, 'epistola Ypocratis de longa vita ad Antigonum'; religious reflections; etc.

Miscellaneous medical prescriptions, extracts from a 'Magazin of physick, 1600' and from 'Liber Empiricus', 1700, and a tract entitled 'Of Herbs'.

A copy of 'The Psalms of David done into English Vers ...' by Sir Phillip Sidney.

'A Breef discourse of the ordenary charge gyven to the juries at quarter sessions', 16th century.

Genealogy of the family of Williams of Cochwillan transcribed from a pedigree compiled by John Salusbury of Erbistock, and continued to the year 1722 ,18th century.

An 18th century transcript of Evelyn's Kalendarium Hortense, 1664.

'A booke of remembraunce', namely a fragment of a memoranda book of a Merioneth magistrate or attorney, with entries of law-suits, 1615.

A translation into English, with notes, of the Historia Britonum of Nennius by Robert Roberts of Hendrecoed, near Llanaber, 1782.

Miscellaneous English poetry transcribed by Mrs Elizabeth Baker.

Notes on Welsh history to the 15th century; a copy of the speech of Baron Pryce in Parliament for the repeal of the grant of Welsh manors to the Earl of Portland; and Welsh poetry by Lewis Morris and Griffith Parry. 18th century.

A copy by Richard Roberts of a description of Harlech Castle by Robert Roberts of Hendrecoed. 18th century.

A list of peers, royal officers, fees in the courts at Westminster, officers and fees of the royal household, constables, etc.

Notes on a treatise on logic.

Itinerarium Cambriae and Topographia Cambriae [sic] by Giraldus Cambrensis.

Historia Anglorum of Henry of Huntingdon with 'Epistola missa henrico regi secundo anglorum super lamentatione David regis', 'Historia de vita et moribus et morte regis David', and 'De genealogia Henrici regis'.

'Descriptio Britannie & insularum adiacentium ex antiquis auctoribus'.

'Res gestae Rom. Imperatorum in Britannia a Jul. Caesaris usque ad finem Imp. Theodosii Junioris ... collectae ex antiquis auctoribus.'

'De Rebus in Cambria & Regibus Cambr. praecipue a Maylgwyn Gwyneth', from Camber to 1457.

Miscellaneous chronologies and historical notes.

Notes in English on David [Dafydd] Gam, David ap Ievan ap Eingan, the Fifteen Tribes of Gwynedd, and the pedigree of the family of Meredith ap Ievan ap Robert, 1661.

A fragment of a Book of Hours, containing the Office of the Dead (imperfect), 'commemoratio animarum', and a rubric and prayer before the Psalter of St Jerome.

A register of fees due to the Crown for leases and patents out of the Court of Augmentations.
A note concerning a lease held by Johannes Cheke [?Sir John Cheke] is on p. 7.

A transcript made in 1738 of the charter granted by Charles II to the borough of Oswestry, 1674.

An incomplete Welsh translation by Richard Owen [? 1552] of Joannes Ludovicus Vives: De institutione faeminae Christiana; 'proffwydoliaeth sibli ddoeth'; a Welsh vocabulary - 'henwau arglwydd', etc.; pedigrees - mythological and biblical, Welsh princes, 'Bonedd y Saint', etc.; accounts for corn and straw, 1589; an incomplete copy of the Welsh version of the Earl of Arundel's charter to the inhabitants of Chirk and Chirkland, 1334; a fragment of a transcript of Brut y Brenhinedd; a letter by John Ley; directions concerning preachers by James I; the assize of arms and tables of precedence; medical recipes; and a fragment of an English play (published in Malone Soc. Collections, vol IX (1977) pp. 24-9) in which the sexton of St Denys Church is a character.
The first eight pages are fragmentary.

Transcripts, mainly by Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt, of the extent of the lordship of Denbigh, 8 Edward III; an exemplification of letters patent granted to John Weston, prior of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, 7 Henry VII; an undated extent of Merioneth; accounts of the escheator of Merioneth, 1615; and the extent of Caernarvon, 26 Edward III. Ff. 131-134 are very fragmentary.