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Cwrtmawr manuscripts Payne, Henry Thomas, 1759 or 60-1832
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Composite volume of Henry Thomas Payne,

A composite volume which belonged to Archdeacon Henry Thomas Payne (1759-1832) containing the following printed works: (1) interleaved copy (title-page and preface wanting) of [A History of the island of Anglesey, ... to which are also added, memoirs of Owen Glendowr (London, 1775)], with some manuscript additions by Payne including 'Account of Parys Mountain, & the Copper Works in 1796'; (2) Evan Evans, Some specimens of the poetry of the antient Welsh bards, translated into English, with explanatory notes on the historical passages (London, [1764]), with the following manuscript note by Payne: 'This Copy was given to the Rev. Thomas Payne, late Rector of Llangattock in Brecknockshire, & Canon Residentiary of the Cathedral Church of Wells, by the author, who was then Curate of Llanvihangel Cilcornel [sic], in Monmouthshire - The Corrections are in the Authors own hand writing,' and also a printed list of '[Ad]denda et corrigenda' (insert); (3) George Richards, fellow of Oriel College, The Aboriginal Britons, a prize poem, ... second edition (Oxford, 1791); (4) [Alexander Geddes], Epistola macaronica ad fratrem ... (Londini: apud J. Johnson, 1790); (5) [Thomas Warton] Specimen of a history of Oxfordshire, second edition, corrected and enlarged (London, J. Nichols, etc., 1783); and (6) Robert [Clayton], bishop of Clogher, A Journal from Grand Cairo to Mount Sinai and back again. Translated from a manuscript ... (London, 1753). There is a brief list of contents in the autograph of Henry Thomas Payne.

Tour from Aberystwyth to Llanbeder,

A transcript of a journal of a tour from Aberystwith to Llanbeder, Brecknockshire, with occasional later annotations and corrections partly in the hand of Henry Thomas Payne (1759-1832) archdeacon of Carmarthen. The itinerary comprised Devil's Bridge, Hafod, Cwm Ystwith, Pentrebrwynant, Rhaiadrgwy, Buallt, Erwood, Llyswen, Brynllys, Talgarth, Trevecca, Llangors, Cathedine, and Crickhowel. The paper of the volume is watermarked 1824, but the tour must have been undertaken before the death in 1816 of Thomas Johnes of Hafod.