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Thomas and David Pennant manuscripts
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Tours in England

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.

David Pennant.

Antiquitates Parochiales

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

Rowlands, Henry, 1655-1723

Collections relating to Wales,

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).

Swedish Mines, &c.,

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'.

David Pennant.

Welsh Topography,

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

Zoology and ornithology,

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.

Thomas Pennant.

Plants at Downing,

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

Thomas Pennant, David Pennant and David Pennant, junior.

Plants of Africa,

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

Thomas Pennant.

Lists of portraits,

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.

Miscellanea,

Miscellaneous papers of Thomas Pennant, David Pennant, and David Pennant, junior. They include personalia, estate and parochial papers, 'The Account of David Pennant with the Poor of Whitford', 1798-1834, a note on Owen Glyn Dŵr, a priced list of illustrations for A Tour in Wales, a circular letter relating to the Talacre Coal and Iron Company, a poem written on the coming of age of David Pennant, junior, January 22, 1817, etc.

Thomas Pennant, David Pennant and David Pennant, junior.

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