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Verses 'On the Death of the Revd Thomas Spencer of Liverpool who was drowned while bathing in the Tide in August 1811 ...', beginning, 'I will not sing in mortal's praise ...', by [James] Montgomery.

Lines (8) from Dryden beginning 'Resistless Force and immortality ...'. On the reverse side are lines by Iorwerth Morganwg, 1788, beginning 'mae rhai'n cael y Byd heb na phenyd na phone ...' (crossed out).

'The Crusaders return (From Ivanhoe by the author of Waverley)' beginning, 'High deeds achieved of knightly fame ...'.

Extracts from Cowper's Task, Book V. No. 14 contains also some prose observations beginning, 'The influence produced by Christianity is that humility which is of all other things, favourable to the universal equality of man ...'.

Lines 'On Gelligron Glamorganshire (From S. Farly's Bristol Journal June 19 1790)' by W. D. beginning, 'What various rural Beauties here are seen ...'. Endorsed: 'Gelli gronn Inscription'.

'Dirge on the Death of the Princess Charlotte of Wales by J. T. M. Doreston', beginning, 'Toll, Britain, toll, thy knell the deepest ...'.

'Sonnet on his Infant Daughter Maria By the Revd Mr Polwhele', beginning, 'Ah! my dear babe! thou smilest on the tear ...'. Torn.

'Lilliburlero. Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry'. Vol. 2d. p. 359, beginning, 'Ho! broder Teague, dost hear de decree?'. Endorsed: 'Lilibullero 2. Copies'.

A paragraph concerning 'Huw Llwyd Cynfel' and an 'englyn'. On the reverse side is the address of Mr Edwd. Jones - No. 122 Mount Street, Grosvenor Square, London. Welsh. Repaired.

A translation by E. W., [?1793], of part of a letter similar to No. 7, written on the back of a printed advertisement (undated), announcing the publication in November next, by subscription, of Heroic Odes and Elegies, by Llywarch Hen, ... with a literal translation, by William Owen. Damaged.

A translation into Welsh by Iolo Morganwg [?1792] of a letter addressed to the Quarterly and Monthly Meetings of the 'Carodorion' [= Friends] in Great Britain and Ireland, etc., and signed by Thomas Huntley on behalf of the Annual Assembly held in London, 21-29 ?July 1792.

A letter (incomplete), 18 July 1792, from [Edward Williams], Flimston, to ..., concerning a remarkable method retained in Wales of writing, engraving, or inscribing on slender billets of wood. Coelbren y Beirdd, Coelbren y Meneich, etc. Damaged.

Extracts from the letters of Pope Clement XIV (Ganganelli) and from 'Julia de Roubigné' by Henry Mackenzie, in the autograph of E. W.

A sheet containing a continuation of the poem contained in 1(c) above and also other verses (crossed out) beginning, 'Y Rhobin Rhydogog siriol serchog' attributed to 'Thos. Wilkins Ffeirad Llanvair' with the further note 'Nage, yr Hen Dyle Garw ai cant'. There is also part of a draft of a letter to an unnamed person addressed as 'My Lord'.