Dangos 12839 canlyniad

Various alphabets in the autograph of Iolo Morganwg. On the reverse side (crossed out) are some lines of English verse by Iorwerth Gwilym beginning 'Bleak winter comes the tempest roars'.

Address (draft) of E. W. 'To his Royal Highness G[eorge] P[rince] of W[ales]'. He humbly asks permission to prefix to his poems such a Dedication as His Royal Highness will find here enclosed.

A note by C., Virginia Coffee House, Cornhill, March 20 1792, quoting an extract from a book in his possession published in (?) Virginia concerning the existence near the sources of the Missouri of a people generally supposed to be the descendants of Welshmen (not in the autograph of E.W.).

A note concerning the desire of a gentleman from America, in possession of very ample and authentic documents respecting the Paduccas, to confer with Mr Griff. Wms, whose very interesting letter was inserted in Mr. Woodfall's Diary of Monday last.

Observations on the Bible, etc., beginning, 'God should doubtless be chiefly studied in the Creation externally and in the Conscience internally ...'.

Particulars of the Ancient British Constitution (written on the back of a page (numbered 1095) from a printed list of Acts, 11o Junii, ...-).

Observations beginning, 'The Great desideratum of Government is to secure the Rights and en[force] The Duties of Man ...'.

Extracts from Ezekiel 20th. followed by observations beginning, 'The tittle of his Grace of Canterbury is as much more blasphemous than that of his Holiness of Rome as the heavens are above the Earth, as God is greater than man ...'.

Observations beginning 'He is thus under no necessity of applying for instruction either to Priest, Philosopher, or magistrate for the knowledge of those truths that are indispensably necessary for him to know in order to be happy in himself and a good member of society, his Bible in conjunction with his own Conscience, being, to him, a sufficient rule of faith'.

Observations beginning 'If God's General providence has secured the being and occurrence of all things, he has unavoidably secured the causes and effects of Christianity...'.

The doctrine of divine revelation. On the reverse side are 'Englynion Duad', eighteen in number, 'o lyfr Gm. Owain', beginning 'Bid coch crib ceiliog, bid anianawl Ei lef'...'.

An 'Advertisement' beginning, 'The Rights of Man, have engaged, lately, the serious attention of two or three (a very few), the malice of some, and the Galloping tongues of incredible numbers of what we call the brainless breed, who never suffer themselves to dream, for a single moment, of the Duties of Man ...'. On the reverse side are two stanzas of verse (cf. Poems Lyric and Pastoral, Vol. II, pp. 18-19).

Agreement (copy) made by Robert Thomas and Evan Thomas, both of the parish of Lantrisant, co. Glamorgan, farmers, and David Thomas of the town of Cowbridge in the same county, labourer, to join in any expense that may occur in recovering the property they are in expectation of receiving after the death of a relation of theirs (the late William Rees of Court Coleman, Esqr.) and to divide equally amongst them such property as they or any one of them may receive. (In the autograph of Iolo Morganwg).

Verses beginning 'What Joys Can Come pair to the Hunting of the [?Hare]', endorsed 'Hunting the hare' (Not in the autograph of Iolo Morganwg except for the endorsement). Mutilated.

Lines beginning 'Rouse! arouse from this slumber thou child of oppression ...', written by J. H. Tooke and sung by Mr Ruskin, Nov. 5 1796 (In the autograph of Iolo Morganwg).