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'Welsh Satyr on Fox the Exciseman in allusion to his name.',
Beginning: Exciseman llydan fel llo. Wr anwir a enwir yn ganddo. ['Llanisawel' for 'Llan Sawel' was one of the conceits of Bussy Mansel's Price ancestors of Ynys-y-maerdy, Briton Ferry. D.R.P.].
Welsh Poetry', incomplete. Stanza 4 begins 'Chwi wedsoch ar ych wheddel',
'Welsh Poem', to Philip Williams, sheriff of Glamorgan,
Beginning: Yr yos hedfan drosso. Fel Cywur gennad gryno. Bron quarter milldir yn y blan. Hud Llanddefan gywirdro. -. Yn ol discin yno oth hedfan. Cay weled perle digamran. Mr Williams barchus bur. Call sheriff shir gwlad forgan.
'Welsh poem to the sheriffe's Representative.',
References to 'Mr Williams' and 'Madam Williams'. Beginning: Brenin pirion yr holl hedied. [This Williams of Dyffryn was High Sheriff of Morgannwg, and his wife was one of the Bulkeleys of Gwynedd; they had been sheriffs also (in North Wales): 'Llawer un oi Linag gweddedd / Y fu yn Shirif gwych ynghweynedd ... / Duw ymddiffynno y wraig foneddig / ddewisol raddol ddifalch ddiddig'. The title should be, apparently, 'A Welsh poem to the High Sheriff of Glamorgan (Williams of Dyffryn)'. D.R.P.].
Beginning: Merch Wallter fe wedyr o dad y dad oll.
'Welsh englyn to my father', i.e., to Philip Williams,
Written March 24, 1694, by E. T. Beginning: Gwr traws iw'r gwr o'r Dyffrin.
Welsh Englyn to 'Fox ye Exciseman', beginning 'Exciseman Llydan fel Llo - cur anwir',
'Welsh Englyn.' Refers to 'y gwr o'r dyffrun',
Beginning: Gwr crueidd glan synhwyrol.
Welsh Englyn beginning 'Dyma siwrne galed fymod i yn gorfod myned',
'Welsh Englyn' [? to Iestyn and his wife] 'by Philip Williams of Glyn yr Esgair',
Beginning: Howell Bevan Landdun. Dywedwch ar ych englyn. Gair ne ddai y glywais i. Er mwun bodloni Iestyn. [For 'Howell Bevan' mentioned in the first line of this little screed, see D. Rhys Phillips: History of the Vale of Neath. He lived at Rheola before the farm was rebuilt as a mansion at the end of the eighteenth century. D.R.P.].
'Welsh Englins on Sr Nicolas Williams & Sr Henry Jones,
Creso Rees ith Lis ath wlad i dario. I dirodd dy hen daid. Hidd gwrol haidde gariad. A bidd fel davidd dy dad. -. Beth y dal sylw mewn sen a digio. Wrth wan wr mewn angen. Er tecked fo'r wheddel hen felen. Fe wyr pawb pwy yw'r pen. -. 'The first of this was made to Rees. David William ancestor to Sir Nicolas. Williams of Rhidodin and the other to. Sir Harry Jones of Abermarlais'. [On the back is 'For Mr Phillip Williams at Dyfferine near Neath ... Cardiff Bagg. Frank G. Rice'. See also A88. Another reference to the 'Cardiff Bagg' (an acrostic sent to Philip Williams in 1681) is in History of the Vale of Neath, p. 732. The lines were probably written somewhere around Llandeilo. D.R.P.].
'Welsh Englin on Mr Price's [? of Hendy] standing for Carmarthenshire.',
Beginning: dygwyddir os gwir ar sir. Dro fawr pobol ar heol Landilo. [The candidate was Rice (not Price); viz. Edward Rice, MP, son of the Griffith Rice of Dynevor Castle who was high sheriff of co. Carm., 1694, MP for that county in five parliaments. The election date was probably 1729. D.R.P.].
Welsh elegy on the death of Mr Morg[an] Jones of Tre Gibb, by Dafydd Evan, beginning 'Dysgedigion Doithion hunt Rinwedd wir gynt Apollo'.
Welsh Elegy on Mr Dan[ie]l Morris by William Prees, beginning 'Dewch yn nes gyfeillon mwyn / gwrandewch fy nghwyn dolyrys / Cyd alarwch a mi nawr newn tristyd mawr hiraythys / am bendefig gweddaidd diddig ...'.
Huc ades lodes lwydwen. Dic quaeso cay cissan ar fargen. Give me leave to put my latin. Into yr welsh winch wen. -. Da da o dath iddi shiwrney. Nid os arnof hirath. Felly'r el i farolath. Yn gynta holl gant or fath. -. God bless the Royal Army. The Nations and ye Navy. The defenders of the faith. King William & Queen Mary. ['Winch Wen', in the fourth quoted line, is possibly an allusion to the area of Winch Wen in Llansamlet, and colour is given to this by the legal entry above these lines. It is interesting to find something new about the family of Kilvey (Cilvae) to whom Lewis Glyn Cothi, poet of the Wars of the Roses, addressed a series of six laudatory poems. D.R.P.].
Apparently an exercise book.
Apparently an exercise book.
Warrants to high and petty constables of p's in Newcastle Hundred, Swansea Hundred, Langevelach Hundred, etc., to make returns of the names of freeholders, copyholders, etc., eligible for jury service with returns and lists made in compliance with the warrants.
Warrants by the lieutenants of co. Glam. to the sheriff to bring up the chief constables of Newcastle before the same at Cardiff on 24 May next to answer for default of duty in not collecting an assessment for warlike stores. Signed by John Awbrey, Thomas Lewis and Herbert Evans.
Warrant, signed by Sir Humphrey Mackworth, to the petty constables of the town and p. Neath, to arrest William John and John George and bring them before the Justices of the Peace for co. Glam. at the suit of John Bembow. Signature and seal.