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Peniarth Manuscripts Collection
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A pedigree roll,

A genealogical chart showing the descent of Rhys ap Dafydd ab Ithel from Idnerth Benfras and others, with heraldic shields.

A pedigree roll,

A genealogical chart, 1622, showing the descent of John Salusbury, 'one of the poore Knights of Windesore' from Adam Salusbury and others.

William Segar Garter.

A pedigree roll,

A genealogical chart by John [Siôn] Cain showing the descent of John Cole from Bleddyn ap Cynfyn and others, with heraldic shields.

Siôn Cain, approximately 1575-approximately 1650

A pedigree roll,

The concluding section of Peniarth MS 474, being a pedigree roll of the descent of John Salusbury, with heraldic shields.

[William Segar Garter].

A pedigree roll,

A genealogical chart showing the descent of Thomas ap Rys ap David ap Ithel from Idnerth Benfras and others, with heraldic shields.

A petition,

A petition in the autograph of Ellis Wynne of Lasynys, Merionethshire to Richard Vaughan, MP, relating to an Act of Parliament for the embanking of the estuaries of Traeth Mawr and Traeth Bychan.
Signed by William Wynn, Maes y Neuadd, Maurice Williams, William Wynne of Wern, 'Willm. Anwill, cler.', David Evans, Will: Williams, Bron Danw, John Morgan, Penrhyn, John Phillip, and Ellis Wynne.

Ellis Wynne and others.

A prayer book,

A printed book: The Book of Common Prayer ... and The Whole Book of Psalmes: collected into English Meeter ... London : 1638, and the title page of Articles to be enquired upon VVithin the Diocesse of Bangor ... London : 166-.

A schedule of deeds,

A schedule of deeds relating to the Vaughan estates; abstracts from deeds at Hengwrt; and an imperfect copy of answers in a suit in Chancery by Elizabeth Lloyd and Blanch Lloyd, 1713.
The first part of the manuscript is mainly fragmentary.

A sermon,

A transcript of a sermon 'preached in the anniversarie ecequies of the L[ady] V[enetia] Digbye, the 2d of Maye 1634'.

A sketch of the history of Wales, etc. (in three parts),

Notes on Welsh history to the 15th century; a copy of the speech of Baron Pryce in Parliament for the repeal of the grant of Welsh manors to the Earl of Portland; and Welsh poetry by Lewis Morris and Griffith Parry. 18th century.

A copy by Richard Roberts of a description of Harlech Castle by Robert Roberts of Hendrecoed. 18th century.

A list of peers, royal officers, fees in the courts at Westminster, officers and fees of the royal household, constables, etc.

Richard Roberts and others.

A Welsh grammar,

Dosparth Byrr ar y rhan gyntaf i ramadeg cymraeg ... 1567 (two copies), and Dosparth ar yr ail rann i ramadeg a elwir cyfiachydiaeth (undated) by Gruffydd Robert; with letters, manuscript notes and press cuttings relating to the same, 1874-1879.

Gruffydd Robert and others.

Abbey of Burton-on-Trent,

A classified collection of ecclesiastical letters, including compilations by Master Bernard; a version of the treatise De legibus et consuetudinibus Anglie which was long attributed to Ranulf de Glanville, chief justiciar of England (the treatise is here called liber curialis - 'Incipit prologus in librum qui uocatur Curial, in qua continentur leges Anglie'); collections of writs and precedents of legal instruments; a collection of writs under the rubric 'Incipiunt brevia que emanant a curia domini regis'; royal letters, including letters relating to the Mise of Lewes, 1264, letters of Otto, Emperor of the Romans to King John, documents relating to the election of John de Stafford as abbot of Burton, 1260, etc.; transcripts of documents relating to Burton Abbey; and transcripts of charters of Anglo-Saxon kings, 800-1048, including a copy of the will of Wulfric, founder of Burton Abbey.

Achau &c.

Pedigrees, mainly south Welsh or of Welsh historic figures, in the hand of Thomas Gruffydd, with a few short prose texts, also in his hand, including 'Enwau y milwyr' (p. 38), 'Marchogion y vort gron' [see National Library of Wales Journal, 14 (1965-6), 242-5] (p. 39) and 'Arfau y kwnkwerwyr a vyant ymorganwc' [the earliest known text, printed from here in M.P. Siddons, The Development of Welsh Heraldry, 4 vols. (Aberystwyth, 1991-2006), I, pp. 376-9] (p. 46).

Achau a herodraeth,

Pedigrees and heraldry mostly in the hand of William Llŷn, with entries also by Gruffudd Hiraethog (pp. 75-88, 219-32), Rhys Cain (pp. 154, 177-90, 210-2, 263-4, 284, 411-17) and Simwnt Fychan (pp. 191-2) and at least three unidentified scribes. There is also a table in the hand of Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt (p. 418).

Achau De Cymru,

A collection of pedigrees mainly of South Wales families, mostly in the hand of Gruffudd Hiraethog, with an index by William Llŷn.

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