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A transcript, with additions, by Sir Edward Walker, herald and secretary at war, of 'Morganiae Archaiographia' or 'A Booke of the Antiquityes of Glamorganshire ... 1578' by Rice Merrick (Rhys Amheurug) of Cottrell, St. Nicholas, Glamorgan. The work was privately printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Middle Hill, in 1825, and reproduced, with notes by James Andrew Corbett, in 1887. The transcriber's additions, completed on 3 April 1675, consist largely of 'A Briefe History of the Originall Descent of ye most Noble Famly of ye Grandvilles, or de Grana Villa, vulgarly called Grenviles, or Greenfeilds, descended from ye Dukes of Normandy, faithfully collected out of seuerall ancient writings in the Tower, & elsewhere. Anno D'ni. 1639', illustrated with one hundred and one coats-of-arms painted in colour.

An imperfect, ? early seventeenth century manuscript with, bound in at the end, a ? previous, brown-paper cover inscribed in a later hand 'Llyfr Achau Llangannau 1740'. The contents consist largely of miscellaneous genealogical data much of which relates to Glamorgan and South Wales. Ff. 51-2 contain a transcript, in a later seventeenth century hand, of a Welsh strict-metre poem not attributed to any poet. There are some marginal annotations possibly in the hand of Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg').

Notebooks used by John Montgomery Traherne to record notes and 'collectanea' mainly relating to the history and topography of Glamorgan, Glamorgan families and pedigrees, and miscellanea. NLW MS 6534A contains notes relating to the Scudamore family.

A notebook purchased at the sale of the library of Theophilus Jones , historian of Brecknockshire, being a miscellany containing, among other things, 'Catalogus libror. meor. An[n]o 1643 ...', extracts from works on religion, a copy of 'The man[n]er of the winning of Glamorgan out of the Welsh mens hands by Sr Robert fitz Hamon and his followers ...', pedigrees mainly of Glamorgan families, 'An alphabet of some coates of armes in Wales and the borders of the same', details of some Glamorgan fee-farm rents, etc.

Pedigree collections of John Montgomery Traherne, mainly relating to Glamorgan families, including some from the papers of William Davies of Cringell.

Pedigree collections of John Montgomery Traherne relating to some Glamorgan and Monmouthshire families.

Miscellanea in the hands of John Montgomery Traherne and William Floyd relating mainly to pedigrees of Glamorgan families, together with a letter, 1850, to Traherne from Thomas Jones, Chetham Library, Manchester.

Material collected by John Montgomery Traherne in connection with the preparation of his monograph on Sir Matthew Cradock. It includes pedigrees and notes, a transcript and English translation by Taliesin Williams ('Ab Iolo') of 'Dyma Ganu a wnaeth Rhys Brydydd i Syr Mathias Caradog am y Cwrdd Prydyddion a wnaeth efe yn y Merthyr Mawr', sketches, coats of arms, a letter, 1840, to Traherne from George Grant Francis, etc.

A genealogical account of several ancient families from which William Davies, Cringell was descended and which were allied to him and his ancestors through the marriage of David ap William, Davies's grandfather, to Claudia, the daughter of Thomas ap Richard, Esq. of Baglan Hall.

'The Glamorganshire Pedigrees copied from old Manuscripts, and compiled from various other Sources, by David Jenkin, Swansea, August, 1838'.