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A volume (watermark 1801) written probably in the same hand as Cwrtmawr MS 531C containing descriptive notes on British plants based on [William] Withering, An arrangement of British plants. The writer has subsequently marked those which are included by W. Bingley in 'A Catalogue of the more uncommon Welsh plants, with their places of growth' (see W. Bingley, A Tour round North Wales, performed during the summer of 1798 (London, 1800), Vol II, p. 371), and sometimes the habitat given by Bingley is inserted. On p. 42 is a list of 'Plants mentioned in Mr Arthur Aikin's Tour thro' North Wales in ye Summer 1796.' There is an index at the beginning of the volume but this is rather confusing as the pages are numbered in two consecutive series, pp. 1-44 and 1-31.

A herbal entitled 'Llys-lyfran 1805', compiled by Richd. Roberts, Melin y Coed, for his son David Roberts 'when he was Aprentice Doctor at the Dispensary or Frirmary [sic] Denbigh'. The author in most instances includes the Welsh equivalent forms of plant names (although in his introductory letter he deplores the lack of standard forms - 'am nad oedd un Llyfr fel Ystandart iw gael am yr Enwau Cymraeg'), and he occasionally records the places in North Wales where the plants have been observed (e.g ., by the sheep fold above Llandudno, Gwaen Tyn Twll, Y Tybrith isa Llanrwst, 'Castell Dymbych', 'tu hwnt i lyn Chwythlyn', 'Abby Conway', Rhyddlan, Llandrillo, 'ty yma i sarn Bettws', etc.). There are references in the text to 'D.P.', i.e., David Pierce, Esqre., Vron, near Llanrwst, ‘'one of the First Botanists in Wales', and among the printed sources quoted by the author are the works of N[icholas] Culpepper [sic], [William] Withering, and T[homas] Wheeler. There are some additions and annotations by David Roberts to the year 1812, and later interpolations include the names of David Owen, nailer, Llanrwst, and of Mary Owen, 1838. The volume contains an 'Index of the Generic names'.

The series comprises letters to John Wynne Griffith of Garn, 1784-1833, many of them from creditors, lawyers and the family of Robert Watkin Wynne concerning legal and financial problems of the Plasnewydd estate trust, 1805-1822. Other, numerous correspondents include: [Sir] John Bayley, 1830, Robert and Charlotte Myddelton Biddulph, 1802-1811, 1820, William Cleaver, Bishop of Bangor, 1806, John Heaton, 1809-1822, Dr David Hughes of Jesus College, Oxford, 1806-1815, Lord Kirkwall, 1805-1813, John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1791, Robert Myddleton, 1815, Lord Orkney, 1810, on the following recurrent topics: business of the Denbigh burgesses; commons and enclosures; the Western Denbighshire Local Militia, especially the court martial of Captain John Davies in 1813, and non-payment of the Denbigh Foresters Yeoman Cavalry; presentation of an inscribed silver vase to Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, 1815-1816; military career of Thomas Griffith in India and the East Indies, and recovery of Java prize money after his death; careers of J.W.G.'s other sons; Denbigh borough and parliamentary elections; estate business and land conveyances; the contemporary political and social scene. Further correspondents are: Charlotte and Beriah Botfield, 1819-1822, on natural history, high society gossip and schooldays at Harrow; Lord Dinorben, 1832-1833, arranging a civic dinner and ceremony to enter the Duke of Sussex's name in the Denbigh Corporation books; John Lloyd of Glyn Nannau, 1808-1815, regarding the Garthmeilio estate; William Davies Shipley, Dean of St Asaph, 1803-1820, concerning application of the Poor Law in St Asaph and Rhuddlan, rights of common and enclosures on Rhuddlan Marsh, death of Conway Shipley; S. Thompson, 1822, reporting on Mrs Botfield's health; John Wilkin, 1822-1828, on crown rents; John Copner Williams, regarding elections and alterations to the jurisdiction of the Court of Great Sessions, 1806-1829; Sir Watkin and Charles Williams Wynn, 1815-1833, mainly on property tax and shooting rights. -- The series also contains several letters of significant botanical and horticultural importance from [Heneage Finch], Earl of Aylesford, 1799, [Sir] Joseph Banks, 1794, William Bingley, 1798, Hugh Davies, 1801, James Dickson, 1796, John Fenton, 1830, Edward Hasell, 1794, James Hunter, 1797-1820, Jonathan Stokes, 1788, Robert Teesdale, 1798, Dawson Turner, 1802-c. 1824, James Watt, 1807, and William Withering, senior and junior, 1796-1821.