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A volume of transcripts containing a collection of speeches by Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, delivered in Parliament, the Guildhall, the Privy Council, and the Courts of Star Chamber and Exchequer, 1557/8-1571 and undated; a prayer by Sir Nicholas Bacon; a collection of poems entitled 'The Recreatyons of his Age'; letters from Sir Nicholas Bacon to Queen Elizabeth, William Cecil, baron Burleigh, Robert Dudley, 1st earl of Leicester, the Privy Council, and Sir Francis Walsingham, 1564-1578 and undated; and an undated letter from Queen Elizabeth to Sir Amyas Powlett. At the end of the volume is a free-metre verse in Welsh in an eighteenth century hand.

A volume containing two dance tunes ('Tom Jones' and 'The Alcove') in a late eighteenth century hand. Written on the fly-leaf, in a late seventeenth century hand, is a stanza ('O greatness couldst thou not thy self contayne ...').

Cyfrol, 1829-[1830au], o bosib yn llaw un Richard Prichard, yn cynnwys copïau o farddoniaeth Gymraeg (ff. 1-6 verso) a Saesneg (ff. 18 verso-22 verso). = A volume, 1829-[1830s], possibly in the hand of one Richard Prichard, containing copies of poetry in Welsh (ff. 1-6 verso) and English (ff. 18 verso-22 verso).
Mae'r farddoniaeth Gymraeg yn cynnwys tua phedwar deg tri o benillion telyn, ynghyd ag un englyn (f. 1) a hwiangerdd (f. 6 recto-verso); maent yn hysbys o ffynnonellau llawysgrif a phrintiedig eraill heblaw am dri, y rhai sy'n cychwyn 'Gwyn y fyd na fai gyn [?hawsed]' (f. 5), 'Mae gan i gariad yn y Werddon' (f. 5 verso) a 'Dacw dy a dacw dalcen' (f. 6), sydd heb eu canfod. Mae'r farddoniaeth Saesneg yn cynnwys penillion a dernynnau eraill o gerddi gan nifer o feirdd, gan fwyaf o'r unfed ganrif ar bymtheg a'r ail ganrif ar bymtheg, gan gynnwys Sir Charles Sedley (f. 22 verso), George Gascoigne (ff. 20 verso-21), Samuel Daniel (ff. 19 verso-20), Henry Willoughby (ff. 19 recto-verso) a Michael Drayton (f. 18 verso). = The Welsh poetry consists of some forty-three 'penillion telyn', along with a single englyn (f. 1) and a lullaby (ff. 6 recto-verso). These are known from other manuscript or printed sources with the exception of three, those beginning 'Gwyn y fyd na fai gyn [?hawsed]' (f. 5), 'Mae gan i gariad yn y Werddon' (f. 5 verso) and 'Dacw dy a dacw dalcen' (f. 6), which have not been traced. The English poetry consists of verses and fragments from the works of various poets, mostly of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including Sir Charles Sedley (f. 22 verso), George Gascoigne (ff. 20 verso-21), Samuel Daniel (ff. 19 verso-20), Henry Willoughby (ff. 19 recto-verso) and Michael Drayton (f. 18 verso).

The first of two manuscripts (see also NLW MS 756B) containing poems, 1650-1658, by Katherine Philips, including some not printed in Poems By the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs Katherine Philips The Matchless Orinda ... (London, 1667, ESTC R19299), together with biographical notes, mainly in the hand of William Hall, antiquary and bookseller of King's Lynn, Norfolk. NLW MS 775B is in the hand of Katherine Phillips, whilst NLW MS 776B is in a contemporary scibal hand (information supplied by Elizabeth H. Hageman, June 2015).
The volume contains corrected fair copies of fifty-five poems, with the titles only of two others. See Index of English Literary Manuscripts, 4 vols (London, 1980-1997), II, part 2, compiled by Peter Beal (1993), pp. 128-129, and The Collected Works of Katherine Philips, ed. by Patrick Thomas, 3 vols (Stump Cross, Essex, 1990-1993), I: The Poems (1990).

The second of two manuscripts (see also NLW MS 755B) containing poems, 1650-1658, by Katherine Philips, including some not printed in Poems By the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs Katherine Philips The Matchless Orinda ... (London, 1667, ESTC R19299), together with biographical notes, mainly in the hand of William Hall. NLW MS 776B is in a contemporary scibal hand whilst NLW MS 775B is in the hand of Katherine Phillips (information supplied by Elizabeth H. Hageman, June 2015).