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A notebook, 1809-1825, of the Rev. Peter Bailey Williams, Llanrug, containing a transcript, 1809, of Henry Rowlands's 'Antiquitates Parochiales' (pp. 1-107). The volume also contains a note (in Latin and English) concerning Mathew de Englefield, Bishop of Bangor's response to a writ of quo warranto (pp. 108-112); transcripts (in Latin and English) concerning the Merioneth Commission of the Peace for 1649 (pp. 113-119); part of a translation into English of the Statute of Rhuddlan of 1284 (pp. 121-122); 'A short account of Holyhead Church by L[ewis] Morris' (pp. 123-131); and a variety of transcripts and notes mostly concerning impropriations and other aspects of Church finances in the Dioceses of St Asaph and Bangor (pp. 132-182).
The 'Antiquitates Parochiales' was transcribed from a manuscript, apparently in the hand of Henry Rowlands, then in the possession of the Rev. J[ohn] Williams of Treffos, Anglesey (see p. 1); an additional section concerning Beaumaris, found in some manuscripts (see for instance NLW MS 115B), is not present. 'Antiquitates Parochiales' remained unpublished on Rowlands' death in 1723. The initial portions were first published in The Cambro-Briton, 2 (1820-21), 52-55 and 151-154, in an English translation by Peter Bailey Williams, possibly based on the present transcript (see the marks and marginal note on pp. 5 and 9, coinciding with the end points of the two articles), although the preamble (p. 1) differs significantly. The work was published in its entirety, in parallel Latin and English versions, in Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1 (1846), 126-135, 305-317, 389-396; 2 (1847), 6-13, 135-140, 215-222, 292-298; 3 (1848), 55-60, 164-169, 240-243, 291-301; 4 (1849), 36-44, 101-114, 176-193, 261-291. The names entered by Williams inside the covers and on pp. i-ii provide an informal, partial, index to the 'Antiquitates Parochiales'.

An incomplete autograph letter, ?1753, from Goronwy Owen (1723-1769) to Lewis Morris (1701-1765), enclosing Cywydd y Calan.

A collection of manuscripts which belonged to Lewis Morris, including a large collection of correspondence of the four brothers known as 'Morrisiaid Môn'.

A volume comprising Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion, Part 1 (London, 1622, STC 7228, ESTC S121639), and Part 2 (London, 1622, STC 7229 or 7230, ESTC S121637 or S121634), extensively annotated, 1755, by the Welsh polymath Lewis Morris.
Part 1 appears to be the 1622 edition, omitting however that version's letterpress title page and binding the index after Part 2 (now pp. 169-176); the title page of Part 2 is also missing. Morris's annotations consist of marginal notes and occasional footnotes glossing the printed text, together with underlining of text and manicules. The annotations are mostly confined to the introduction by John Selden and the notes (or 'Illustrations') supplied by him to each song in Part 1 (pp. xi-xvi, 15-21, 34-36, 50-52, 54, 66-74, 83-85, 95-99, 108-110, 122-132, 143-156, 164-169, 182-189, 191, 193-194, 209-210, 224-225, 234-235, 244, 253-256, 267-272, 274-279, 281, 300-303). There are further annotations by Morris to Drayton's songs and elsewhere (Part 1, pp. i-iii, v, vii, ix-x, 1, 4, 29, 83, 87-89, 91, 95, 102-103, 158, 213, 250, 283, 295-297; Part 2, pp. i, iii-iv, 171). Morris's notes, partly in Welsh, mainly concern the Welsh language and Welsh and Ancient British history; he has also emended the text in line with the corrections listed in the errata (Part 1, p. xx).

Transcripts by David Samwell (1751-1798) of poetry and of letters from Goronwy Owen (1723-1769) to Lewis Morris (1701-1765) and William Elias (1708-1787), Plas y Glyn, Anglesey; also included in the volume is a stipple-engraved portrait of Robert Hughes (Robin Ddu o Fôn) (fl. 1793).

Copi anghyflawn o gyfrol William Middelton, 'Psalmae y brenhinol brophwyd Dafydh' (Llunden, 1603) [Libri Walliae 466-9, ESTC S90848], gyda'r chwe dalen gyntaf, a dalennau 1-30, 229-30, 233-87 ar goll (awgryma nodyn ar f. 118 verso iddynt gael eu colli cyn y ddeunawfed ganrif). Ceir yn y gyfrol nifer o fân nodiadau mewn inc yn dyddio o'r ail ganrif ar bymtheg (y mwyafrif wedi gwisgo neu wedi eu tocio), gan gynnwys enwau Richard Jones (ff. 45, 65 passim), Kadwalad[r] Wynn (f. 55), Hugh Jones (ff. 88 verso, 89 passim), ac Owen Parry, 1690 (f. 63). = Incomplete copy of William Middelton's 'Psalmae y brenhinol brophwyd Dafydh' (Llunden, 1603) [Libri Walliae 466-9, ESTC S90848], lacking the six preliminary leaves and ff. 1-30, 229-30, 233-87 (the note on f. 118 verso suggests that they were lost before the eighteenth century). The volume bears a number of minor annotations in ink of the seventeenth century (most faded or cropped), including the names of Richard Jones (ff. 45, 65 passim), Kadwalad[r] Wynn (f. 55), Hugh Jones (ff. 88 verso, 89 passim), and Owen Parry, 1690 (f. 63).
Yn gynnar yn y ddeunawfed ganrif, roedd y gyfrol yng ngogledd Môn, fel y tystia enwau Richard Owen, Llanfihangel-yn-Nhywyn, 1711 (ff. 81, 85 verso) a John Hughes o Lanfair-yn-neubwll (ff. 26, 36, a ddarlunnir efallai ar f. 112 verso). Bu wedyn ym Mhentreiriannell, Môn, lle'r ysgrifennwyd arno enwau Lewis Morris, 1721 (f. 62), Siôn Morris, 1721/2 (f. 49) a Rhisiart Morris, 1725 (f. 17), ac ychwanegodd Lewis Morris nifer o ddarnau o farddoniaeth, yn Gymraeg a Saesneg, ar ff. 90, 91, 111 verso, 114, 115 verso, a 116 verso. Wedi ei chludo i Benbryn, Ceredigion, cyflwynodd Lewis y gyfrol ym Medi 1759 i Siôn Bradford o Fetws Tir Iarll, Morgannwg (f. 17 verso). = Early in the eighteenth century, the volume was in the north of Anglesey, as witness the names of Richard Owen, Llanfihangel-yn-Nhywyn, 1711 (ff. 81, 85 verso) and John Hughes of Llanfair-yn-neubwll (ff. 26, 36, and possibly pictured on f. 112 verso). Subsequently at Pentreiriannell, Anglesey, it was inscribed with the names of Lewis Morris, 1721 (f. 62), John Morris, 1721/2 (f. 49) and Richard Morris, 1725 (f. 17), and Lewis Morris added numerous fragments of verse, in both Welsh and English, on ff. 90, 91, 111 verso, 114, 115 verso, and 116 verso. Having been transported to Penbryn, Cardiganshire, the volume was in September 1759 presented by Lewis to John Bradford, of Betws Tir Iarll, Glamorgan (f. 17 verso).