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Notes on a short tour in North Wales.

An account by David Pennant of tours to the Lake District, 1789, and from London to Chester, 1792, with a list of pictures at Burleigh, a seat of the Marquis of Exeter.

A note book by Thomas Pennant labelled 'Western Tour 1787. Wells. Longleate ...'

Papers, [16 cent.]-[early 20 cent.], mainly of Thomas Pennant and his son, David, and comprising accounts of tours in Britain and Europe; geographical, topographical and historical notes and transcripts, as well as notes on natural history; accounts of David Pennant; correspondence of Thomas and David Pennant; annotated printed works of Thomas Pennant, including copies, with manuscript and other additions and related papers, of Outlines of the Globe, a work in four volumes by Thomas Pennant published between 1798 and 1800; and papers relating to the Downing estate and to Flintshire.

An incomplete transcript of 'Antiquitates Parochiales ... De Paraeciis et Villulis Maene' by Henry Rowlands, author of Mona Antiqua Restaurata ... (Dublin, 1723).

A history of Wales transcribed from George Owen's treatise of lordships marcher in Wales; copies of a statement made March 10, 1685/6, at New York by Morgan Jones, 'the son of John Jones of Basleg near Newport in Monmouthshire', attesting that he had conversed with American Indians in the Welsh language (see The Gentleman's Magazine, 1740), of a letter, August 14, 1734, on a similar subject sent by Charles Lloyd, Dolobran, Montgomeryshire, to a cousin, and of 'Dr. [Robert] Plott's Account [to the Royal Society] of an Antient Discovery of America from Wales'; a list, in the hand of John Lloyd, Caerwys, of 'The names of the Principal men that kept Hardelech castle against Edwd the 4th;' lists of the sheriffs of Flintshire, Denbighshire, Montgomeryshire, and Merioneth; transcripts of epitaphs in Mold church; and notes taken from Thomas Carte : A General History of England (London, 1747-1755).

Notes by David Pennant on parts of Dorset, Devon, and Cornwall.

Notes by David Pennant on Swedish mines, with an outline of a proposed tour to Denmark, Germany, and Sweden, 1793, and particulars of lead, lead ore, copper, and brass 'sent from the Port of Chester both Foreign and Coastwise in the year ending January 5, 1792'.

Notes by David Pennant on Germany, France, and Hungary, and tables of mineral products.

An index by Thomas Pennant to his account of Africa and notes by him on European reptiles not found in Great Britain.

Notes on Clynnog Fawr and Raglan Castle and extracts from Thomas Dineley's manuscript of the Duke of Beaufort's 'Progress' through Wales, 1684.

Notes on poetics and ethics.

Notes by Thomas Pennant on British zoology and ornithology, accounts and lists of subscribers to his British Zoology, and details of zoological specimens received by him.

Notes by Thomas Pennant on zoology, ornithology, etc., and an account of expenses incurred in connection with his study of natural history.

Lists of plants, shrubs, and trees planted at Downing by Thomas Pennant, David Pennant, and David Pennant, junior.

Lists, in the hand of Thomas Pennant, of the flora of Barbary, Senegal, Guinea, Ethiopia, the Canary Islands, Madeira, and the Azores.

Notes by David Pennant on Spain and Spanish painters, coins, flora, and grammar, with a few notes on the population of France.

A play entitled 'Micio's House', 'Played when I was at School in Fulham. T[homas] P[ennant].'

Lists of portraits in a large number of English county country houses and two letters, 1811 and 1820, to David Pennant from G. P. Harding, portrait painter and copyist, enclosing similar lists.

A transcript of the 'Chorographical Description or Survey of Devon' compiled between 1605 and 1630 by Tristram Risdon (1580?-1640).