Dangos 12839 canlyniad

Copies of various letters, etc.: (a) Part of a letter, April 16 1761, from Tho. Scott, Wakefield, to his father-in-law, relating to the apparition of Mr Savile of Thornhill, who was drowned. (b) An account by John Williams, Cler', Aug. 14 1699, describing apparitions of Col. John Birch seen before the Colonel's death. (c) A prophecy related by Mr John Sadler of Warmwell, Dorset, in the year after the return of King Charles II, 1661. Sent by Mr Clavering, an honest worthy clergyman of Dorsetshire, about 1704 to D. W. Fd. (d) A letter, June 22, 1710, from Geo: Lluelyn, Condover, to the Honble Robert Davies Esq. '... we are in a mighty ferment in these parts & little likelyhood of it's abatement'.

'Rheolau i'w cadw gan Wasanaethyddion, Crefftwyr, Gweithwyr a Menywod yn Lanelay, Sir Forganwg' &c. Endorsed by Wm. Vaughan: 'Former Welsh Translation'. Mutilated.

'Lilliburlero. Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry'. Vol. 2d. p. 359, beginning, 'Ho! broder Teague, dost hear de decree?'. Endorsed: 'Lilibullero 2. Copies'.

'Dirge on the Death of the Princess Charlotte of Wales by J. T. M. Doreston', beginning, 'Toll, Britain, toll, thy knell the deepest ...'.

Lines 'on a revd. Sportsman, who died last month in the field by a fall from his horse, and at his own desire was buried on Keven Hirgoed hill in Glamorganshire' ('Ex Gent. Magn. Jan. 1743').

Lines 'From [Thomas] Campbell's Pleasures of Hope, p. 24', beginning, 'Now mark the wretch whose wonderings never knew ...'.

'An Epigram by Dr Doddridge, pronounced by Dr Johnson to be the finest in the English Language, on his family Motto - Dum vivimus. Vivamus', ('Live, while you live, the epicure would say') 'from Boswel'.

'Ex Johnson's Edit of Milton, Ad Christinam Suecorum Reginam nomine Cromwelli, Bellipotens virgo, &c. Thus translated in Toland's Life of Milton, 'Bright martial maid, queen of the frozen zone ...''. On the reverse side are verses (4) beginning, 'When in your language I, unskill'd, address', described as 'A fragment, from the Addressed to a young Lady at Florence who did not understand English'.

Miscellaneous notes including a few lines of verse described as 'English Cywydd' ('Birds meet hark how sweet they sing ...'), and instances of 'English cacophonous rhymes'.

Observations on the Saxon Language, with Trioedd y Beirdd and lines of verse attributed to Hopcin Twm Ffilib (crossed out) on the reverse side.

Part of an account of 'Brenhinoedd Glywysyg' (crossed out). On the reverse side are miscellaneous notes including instances of 'Corrupt Dialects of the Welsh'.

Lines attributed to Twm ab Ifan ab Rhys beginning 'Pan ddaw'r pedwerydd o'r un enw bedydd', with an English translation (In the autograph of Iolo Morganwg). Torn.

Mr Adderley to Mr Taliesin Williams. A note in which the writer begs to say that he will be going to Merthyr at 7 o'clock tomorrow morning and if Mr W. will take a seat in his gig it is very much at his service.