Ichthyographical notes and lists of British animals and birds by Thomas and David Pennant and 'An Account of such Fish as are either Natives or that frequent The River Wye Herefordshire' by 'Doctr. Roberts'.
Thomas Pennant and David Pennant.
George Owen's History of Wales,
A transcript of 'The number of the Hundreds, Castles, Parish Churches, and Fairs, ... the Names of the chief Lordships, Market Towns, Forests and great woods, Deer Parks, Havens, chief Mountains, and Hills, Notable Rivers, Monasteries, Priories, Frieries, and Nunneries in all the Shires of Wales And also the Names of the divers of the chief gentlemen ... and ... of their Wives and Dwelling places. With brief notes of the nature of the soil, quality of the people ... First collected by George Owen of Henllys in Pembrockshire Esquire Anno domini 1602'.
Historical and topographical notes on parts of France and Spain, mainly transcribed from printed sources by David Pennant, and a receipt, 14 April 1788, relating to his journey from Seville to Madrid.
David Pennant.
A classified and illustrated list by Thomas Pennant of fossils and fossil shells, with lists and notes sent to him by British and continental correspondents.
Thomas Pennant.
Papers of David Pennant relating to turnpike and other roads in Flintshire and including details of an assessment on the inhabitants of townships in the parishes of Whitford, Caerwys, and Tremeirchion towards repairing the high road in those townships.
Papers and plans relating to the building of a church and a school at Holywell, with many letters to David Pennant from Morris Williams ('Nicander'), Sir Stephen R. Glynne, Edward Jones (agent to the Downing estate), Henry Parry (Llanasa), and others; drawings and estimates for a stained-glass window and a monument in Whitford church, 1829, and papers relating to re-flagging and re-pewing the church; Holywell Poor Law Union papers, including lists of persons to whom free issues of broth, coal, etc., were made; etc.
Flintshire naval and military volunteers,
Letters and papers relating to the formation of a Flintshire association against republicans, etc., 1792, the raising of volunteers in Flintshire for the naval and land forces, 1793, the Holywell Volunteers, etc.
Evan Evans ('Ieuan Brydydd Hir'),
Copies of Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards translated into English ... (London,1764) and The Love of Our Country, A Poem ... (Carmarthen, 1772), both of them by Evan Evans ('Ieuan Brydydd Hir'), and four letters, 1768-1787, from him to Thomas Pennant; a letter from Robert Williams (Rhydycroesau) to David Pennant; and prospectuses of printed publications by Evan Evans, Robert Williams, Thomas Lloyd Jones ('Gwenffrwd'), etc.
Evans, Evan, 1731-1788
A list of subscribers towards the relief of the poor in the parish of Erbistock, 1795, names of persons relieved, and details of expenditure.
A list of topographical prints of English counties, and a list of gentlemen's houses in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.
Transcripts of notes on Druidism and Scotland, including the Hebrides, sent to Thomas Pennant by _____ Macqueen.
An account of rents received by Thomas Pennant and David Pennant, and papers, including letters from Edward Jones, agent to the Downing estate.
Notes on crystallography and fossils.
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).
A copy of Cary's New Itinerary; Or, An Accurate Delineation of the Great Roads ... throughout England and Wales ... (London, 1798), with details by David Pennant of journeys and tours made by him in various years between 1799 and 1839, including his bills at inns and posting houses.
David Pennant.
Miscellaneous notes on botany, zoology, topography, etc., mainly by Thomas Pennant.
Thomas Pennant and others.
An imperfect copy of Thomas Pennant: Arctic Zoology. Vol. I. Introduction. Class 1. Quadrupeds (London, 1784), wanting pp. xxi-xxii, xxv-xxxii, lxxvii-lxxx, and xciii-xciv. Corrections and additional notes, in the hand of David and Thomas Pennant, appear in the margins, on fly-leaves, and on pages or pieces of paper, inset or added at the beginning and end of the volume. An undated letter from Captain Macbride to Mr. [Thomas] Pennant (in third person), enclosing notes on turbot fishing, has also been inset.
Thomas Pennant, David Pennant and others.
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
An index to prints and illustrations
An index by David Pennant to the plates included in some of his father's publications and a rough index showing the arrangement of some classes of books in the library [?at Downing].
David Pennant.
An account book of receipts and disbursements kept by David Pennant, 1782-1785, when he was at Oxford.
David Pennant.