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Hymns and secular poems, including some 'englynion'.

Original hymns and poems and some translations.

A collection of traditions, anecdotes, and poems made circa 1870, by John Castell Evans, entitled 'Yr Hen Amser gynt, ei Veirdd, ei Varddoniaeth, ei Bobl a'i Chwedlau, sev Casgliad o hen Draddodiadau, Darnau Barddonol a Bywgraffiadau &c. yn dal cysylltiad yn benav a Gogledd Cymru yn enwedig Sir Merionydd ... Casglwyd, yn benav, oddiar lavar gwlad gan John Castell Evans, Pine Cottage, Millbrook, gynt o Gastell-y-Waen, Llanuwchllyn, Merion.'

Letters, 1859-1896, from poets, musicians, historians, and politicians, including Richard Bennett, Richard Davies (Mynyddog), O.M. Edwards, Tom Ellis, 'Ceiriog', John Jones ('Idris Vychan'), Robert Jones (Rotherhithe), J. T. F. Lloyd, John Owen ('Owain Alaw'), William Roos, John Thomas ('Pencerdd Gwalia'); and adjudication by Richard Davies ('Mynyddog'); and poems by Evan Ellis ('Afaon'), Evan Jones ('Ieuan Ionawr'), 'Ceiriog', Wmffre Dafydd ab Ifan, D. T. Williams ('Tydfylyn'), etc.

A photostat facsimile of MS 183 in the library of Christ Church, Oxford. The original manuscript is a volume written, for the most part, at Lleweni, Denbighshire, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and containing, among other things, autograph poems by a number of bards to members of the Salusbury family of Lleweni, these poems having been entered in the volume by the bards themselves on their periodical 'clera' visits.
Among the poems are 'cywyddau' and 'awdlau', some of them written to 'Sion Salusburi Escwiair wŷr ac aer Sr. Shion Salusburi Marchog vrddol o Leweni a Siamberlen Gwynedd' and dated 1593, 1607, and 1608, by Simwnt Fychan, Sion Mawddwy, Sion Tudur, Huw Machno, Wiliam Cynwal, Sion Phylip, Robert Ifan, Gruffudd Hafren, Edward Urien, Gruffudd Phylip, Sion Cain, Sion Evans, R[oger] Kyffin, Tomos Penllyn, Robert Llyn, Rhisiart Phylip, Huw Pennant, Rhys Cain, Rees ap John, and William Mathe. Among the prose contents are the following: '... note of weights taken out of the Method of Phisicke'; 'Certaine [medicinal] receites for my Honorable good friende Sr John Salusbury Knight', followed by miscellaneous culinary, household, and medicinal recipes; copies of letters from Sir Henry Sidney, Lord President of Wales, and his wife to their son, (Sir) Philip Sidney, of 'A Letter of the Lord Keapers to the Earle of Essex, Earle Marshall of Englande', of 'The Earle Marshall his answere to the Lorde Keaper', of a letter of Sir Walter Raleigh, and of a letter of King Charles I (from Ludlow Castle, September 4, 1625); and a copy of the general pardon granted by James I, July 24, 1603.

'Cywyddau', 'englynion' and 'cerddi' by Rhys Cain, Edwart Urien, Dafydd Manuel, Sion Tudur, Richard Davies, Lewis Glyn Cothi, Sion ap Hywel ap Llywelyn Fychan, Sion Mowddwy, Richard Phylip, Mathew Brwmffild, Rhys Goch Eryri, Thomas Brywnllys, William Pugh, Kleient, Rhys ab Ednyfed, Robert Dyfi, Deio ab Ieuan Du, Dafydd Nanmor, Robin Clidro, Thomas Prys, Wiliam ap Sion ap Dafydd, Ieuan Dew Brydydd, Mastr Harri, Gwerful Mechain, Griffith Owen, Rowland Vaughan, John Owen, John Thomas, Richard Owen, and Guto'r Glyn.

A miscellaneous collection of records mainly relating to Wales compiled towards the middle of the seventeenth century. -- The manuscript begins on page 53 with extracts from 'Llyfr Coch Asaph', with the additions from the hand of William Bullocke, as in Peniarth MS 231 - a manuscript written by Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt, and most probably the immediate source of the Nefydd version; the 'summa' of 'Llyfr Coch Asaph' compiled in 1602, which is also contained in Peniarth MS 231, as well as the list of contents of another St. Asaph record - the 'liber pergamenus' which is now deposited with the Church in Wales records at the National Library; a transcript of a record of proceedings on a writ of quare impedit brought by the Prince of Wales against Howel Gymen and a hundred and seventeen others, touching the advowson of a prebend in the collegiate church of Holyhead ('prebenda de Castro Keby') supplied by 'Mr. Ellice the Councellor'; a collection of historical records relating to Wales taken directly from the hand of Robert Vaughan in Peniarth MS 236; a transcript of the 'Historia Britonum' of Nennius, copied out of a book given to John Selden by William Camden, compared with a version in 'Oxford Library' under the name of 'Gilda Minor', and ending with an extract from a Cottonian manuscript (pp. 245-88); a copy of the statutes of Chester Cathedral, temp. Henry VIII (pp. 289-310); 'Ymrafaelion henwau Ynys Brydain', etc. - seventeen chapters of pseudo-history and description of the Isle of Britain (cf. slightly different versions in Peniarth MSS 163 and 215), with a supplement containing accounts of place-names not included in the main text, a reference to the earthquake of 1574/5, the wonders of Scotland and Ireland, the conversion of the various British nations to Christianity, and 'y naw helwriaeth', 'mesurau cerdd dant', and 'trioedd mab y krinwas' (pp. 312-49). -- At the end of the volume are a number of documents relating to Cheshire and Flintshire - a note of entail of Flintshire lordships, Flintshire rents of assize, the customs of Dee mills and other records taken from a book of Edward Whitby, recorder of Chester, and a transcript of Robert Vaughan's copy of the fealty roll of the Prince of Wales, 29 Edward I .

'Cywyddau' by Huw Morus, Edmwnd Prys, Sion Tudur, Edward Morus, and Wiliam Cynwal; englynion, short stanzas, and extracts from 'cywyddau'.

Great Exhibition Almanack .... 1851, used by Thomas Owens, mariner, of Bryngwallter, Penbryn, Cardiganshire, to record entries concerning his voyages; extracts from the log of the SS Great Britain on voyages from Melbourne to Liverpool (inverted text ff. 29 verso-31, 54 verso-6); transcripts of carols and other verse, including 'Hanes ail fordaith y Brig Albion i'r America' (ff. 2-16; see also NLW MSS 9383A, 21965A); and miscellaneous notes and accounts.

Microfilm copy of BL Add MS 14996 comprising Welsh biblical and religious poems, seventeenth-mid eighteenth century

Transcripts by Walter Davies of pedigrees of North Wales and Shropshire families, geographical notes, lists of technical words, and poems by Gwylim ap Sefnyn, Lewis Mon, Rhys Goch Glyndyfrdwy, Tudur Aled, Hywel Swrdwal, Dafydd Cilan, and Lewis Morganwg.

Miscellanea, including Awdl Marwnad Charlotte Tywysoges Cymru and another poem by Peter Jones (Pedr Fardd), a poem by William Augustus Miles eulogising Walter Davies, Cerdd Newydd i Annerch Walter Davies by John Jones (Jac Glanygors), a list of poems sent for competition at the Carmarthen eisteddfod, 1823, and various transcripts by Walter Davies and John Jenkins.

A miscellany containing press cuttings, poems, including some by Gwrtheyrn, etc.

Miscellaneous papers in Welsh and English, 1822-[c.1950], mainly of Merthyr Tudful interest, accumulated by Elias Thomas, comprising poems and essays by his great-grandfather Rowland Thomas ('Idris Ddu'), his grandfather, William R. Thomas, and others, including an essay on the origin of the Cyfarthfa Ironworks by Rowland Thomas, with a translation of the same by Thomas Stephens (1821-75) of Merthyr; draft letters, articles and notes by Thomas Stephens; printed rules, 1846, of 'Cymdeithas Cadarn Graig y Cymry', Merthyr; and miscellaneous notes and press cuttings.

An account by Robert John Griffith, Y Fron, Nant Peris, co. Caernarfon, of his voyage to Melbourne, 26 September - 3 November 1913, together with a few accounts, 1911 (ff. 1 verso-2, 69 verso) and transcripts of poetry.

Original poems and translations.

Transcripts of poems by Jonathan Hughes, Dafydd Cadwaladr (Dinas Mawddwy), Thomas Williams (Llanfihangel y Gwynt), Henry Humphreys (Llanfechain), Evan Williams ('clochudd Llanfihangel y Gwynt'), Dafydd Gruffydd ('Maswn', Meivod), Robert Evans (Meifod), Griffith Griffiths (Clawdd Llesc, Guilsfield), Dafydd Manuel, John Rhys (Llanrhaiadr ym Mochnant), George Humphreys (Llanrhaiadr ym Mochnant), James Jones (Llanrhaiadr ym Mochnant), Rees Ellis, Roland Davies (Llangyniw), Huw Jones (Llangwm), Thomas Edwards ('Twm o'r Nant'), John Cain Jones, and John Wesley. The collection, which bears the title 'Sain yr Utgorn', appears to have been intended for publication by Robert Jones at Welshpool. The second part of the volume is described as being 'o Gascliad William Jones'.

Miscllaneous poems, some of them by Edwin Jones.

'The Poetical work of Will Tifu commonly called Wm. Morris the son of the late Llewelin ddu o Fôn (alias) Lewis Morris Esq'. Most of the matter is of North Cardiganshire interest.

Awdlau and cywyddau to George Owen, transcribed partly by J. Gwenogvryn Evans from Llanstephan MS 38, with English summaries of them by J.H. Davies.