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Transcripts of 'awdlau', 'cywyddau' and 'englynion' by Aneirin, Bedo Phylip Bach, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Ieuan Ddu, Dafydd Benwyn, Dafydd Emlyn, Dafydd Llwyd, Dafydd Mathew, Dafydd Nanmor, Edwart Huw, Griffith Thomas, Gruffudd Hiraethog, Guto'r Glyn, Gwilym ap Ifan Hen, Harri ap Hywel, Harri ap Rhys, Karry Lewys, Huw Dafydd Robert, Huw Llyn, Huw Pwnnal, Hyds Grydd, Hywel Dafydd, Hywel Swrdwal, Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal, Ieuan Brydydd Hir, Ieuan Ddu ap Dafydd ap Owen, Ieuan Deulwyn, Ifan Tew Brydydd, Iolo Goch, Iorwerth Fynglwyd, Lewis Glyn Cothi, Lewis Môn, Lewis Morgannwg, Llywelyn ap Gutyn, Llywelyn ap Hoel ap Ifan ap Gronwy, Llywelyn Goch ap Meurig Hen, Maredudd ap Rhys, Matho Brwmphidi[sic], Morys Llwyd William o Fôn, Syr Owen ap Gwilym, Rhisiart Fynglwyd, Rhys ap Harri, Rhys Deganwy, Rhys Goch Eryri, Rhys Syr Rhys o Garna, Sion Cent, Sion Mawddwy, Sion Phylip, Syr Sion Teg, Sion Tudur, Tomas Brwynllys, Tomas Edward, Tomas llawdden, Tomas Vychan, Tudur Aled, Wiliam Cynwal, Wiliam Dyfi, Wiliam Egwad and Wiliam Llyn. On ff. 15a-16a is a transcript of 'Ymddiddan Arthur a'r Eryr'. Six of the seven unnumbered folios at the beginning contain a list of contents by, and in the autograph of Lewis Morris, who has also supplied or augmented the titles of some of the poems and added copious marginal notes to explain the text and correct some errors of transcription. Sections both at the beginning and at the end of the volume were lost before it was bound in its present form. The volume also includes translation into English, made by J. K[yrle] F[letcher] of the list of contents compiled by Lewis Morris. The original pagination indicates that 48 folios are wanting at the beginning. The revised pagination is in the autograph of Lewis Morris. Most of the folios were at one time mutilated at the edges, but many have been repaired and the missing text supplied by Lewis Morris. This volume was formerly in the possession of Sir Bernard Bosanquet, Justice of the Common Pleas (died 1848), and was one of sixteen Welsh manuscripts from the Dingestow Court Library offered for sale by Messrs Sotheby in July 1916. It was purchased by J. Kyrle Fletcher, Newport, on behalf of Albert Addams-Williams, Llangibby Castle. Inserted in the volume are a short description of the Welsh manuscripts at Dingestow Court, in the form of a cutting from Messrs Sotheby's sale catalogue and a letter, 18 July 1916, from J. Kyrle Fletcher to Captain Albert [Addams]-Williams, giving an account of the sale. It appears from this letter and from the notes he has written in the margin of the cutting that Mr Kyrle Fletcher was under the mistaken impression that this volume was in the autograph of Llywelyn Sion of Llangewydd. Paper 7 un-numbered folios, ff.1-177; 191x128; full Russia with blind tooling, damaged at the spine.

A composite manuscript by, and in the autograph of, Richard Robert Jones (Dic Aberdaron) containing: (1) a composite memoir of Dic Aberdaron; (2) a metaphrasis of Psalm 58 to be sung with harp accompaniment in Welsh with an English translation; (3) a transcript of the Hebrew text of the Song of Songs of Shelomah, together with an interlinear translation into English and a transcript of the preface of Rashi; (4) two copies of the arrangement of the 'cithara' in Greek according to the ancients, together with an illustration; (5) transcripts and translations into English of odes by Anacreon 'To a silver cup' (Teubner text, No. IV), 'To the same' (Ibid V), 'To a maiden' (ibid XXII), 'To a portrait painter'(Ibid XVI), 'To his own loves' and 'To a disc' (ibid LVII) and of an ode by Sappho 'To a loved woman'; (6) the names of the days of the week in English, Greek and Hebrew; (7) a transcript of 'The Sabbath day', published by the Religious Tract Society (No. 2), together with a Welsh translation made on 24 August 1840; (8) transcripts and interlinear translations into English of miscellaneous passages from Homer; (9) transcripts and interlinear translations of odes by Anacreon 'To a Harp' (Teubner text No. XXIII) and 'To Love' (ibid XXXIII). Inserted is a letter, dated 13 February [19]11, from J. Kyrle Fletcher, 82 High Street, Newport, to A. Addams-Williams [at Llangibby Castle] relating to this volume. Paper; ff. 42 unnumbered, 1-18, and 18 unnumbered; 213 x 127; half green morocco with blind and gilt tooling.

A draft tract entitled 'Proofes drawne from authorities and other reasons why Cadelh prince of Southwales was the eldest sonne of Roderic the greate (kinge of Wales) and that he and his issue after him had a superioritie over the rest of Wales and his two bretheren and the descendantes from them' by, and in the autograph of, Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt. The substance of this tract was subsequently incorporated in Vaughan's British Antiquities Revived (Oxford, 1662). The volume contains both the arguments and answers set forth by Vaughan and therefore differs considerably from Peniarth MS 277 which contains only the arguments.
Pasted inside the front cover is a short description of the volume in the form of a cutting from Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge’s Sale Catalogue of the Mostyn Library (1919), p. 22.

A collection of twenty-one sermons by, and in the autograph of, the Rev. Micah Thomas, first Principal of the Abergavenny Baptist Academy. These sermons were written in 1817-1819 and were delivered by him at Abergavenny during that period and also in 1842-1851. Loosely inserted in the volume is another autograph sermon which he delivered at Abergavenny on Sept 26, 1819. Paper; 178 ff., unnumbered; 164x103; diced sheepskin.

Volume of sermons and sermon notes apparently by, and in the autograph of, Morgan Lewis, Coesforgan, Sirhowy, Monmouthshire, whose name appears on the fly-leaf. Pasted on the inside of the front cover is the inscription: 'W. Thomas Islwyn Feby. 1858 Ynysddu'. Paper; 27 pp., incorrectly numbered 25, and 115 unnumbered pages, many of which are blank; 182 x 115; morocco, with blind tooling.

Transcript, made in 1766, of Sir John Wynne's History of the Gwydir Family. It appears to be copied from a transcript, made on 18 Oct. 1706, of a manuscript which in 1700 belonged to Humphrey Humphreys, bishop of Bangor.[? Wynnstay MS]. NLW MS 27 is a transcript of the same original. The History is followed by transcripts of a land tax assessment for co. Denbigh at 2s. 4d. per £,.n.d.; resolutions of the Commissioners for co. Denbigh for levying an aid to the King, 3 May 1700; a note of the division of any general mise in the hundred of Isalet, and the 'Decays of Ruthin', co. Denbigh, n.d.; another division of the hundred of Isalet, n.d.,. assessment of a quarter tax in the parish of Llanddoget, 1 May 1674; and the Rules and Orders for the government of an Almshouse for six poor men in the village of Kerrigy-druidion, co. Denbigh, to be erected and endowed by the Hon. Robert Price of Geeler, esq., one of the Barons of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer, 9 Feb. 1716/7. Paper; 164 pp., of which 70 are numbered; 200 x 160;quarter calf.

The Book of Common Prayer (Oxford, 1686). Many of the leaves are mutilated, but some have been repaired and the lost text supplied in manuscript. Nine pages at the beginning contain manuscript extracts (1730-1782) from parish registers, recording the marriage of Thomas Phillips, cleric, rector of Grossmount and Llanfoyst, co. Monmouth, and Joyce Bristow, spinster, of Hillstone, St. Maughans, and also the births, deaths, and marriage of members of their family. Paper; 16 pp., unnumbered, of which 7 are blank, 416 pp., unnumbered, and 12 pp. unnumbered and blank; 169 x 103. full sheepskin with gilt tooling, damaged at the spine.

Commonplace book mainly containing proverbs and original and transcribed sermons in English, Latin and Greek. The following inscription appears on the fly-leaf:-'M ... Edwardi Warreni de Wormington in Comit Gloucestrio Anno Doni 1664 Anno Etatis 23'. A short description of the volume, in the form of a cutting from a sale catalogue, is loosely inserted. According to this description, the author appears to have been a Puritan of the Cromwellian period. A note, however, in the margin of this cutting [by Albert Addams-Williams] refutes this suggestion on the ground that the volume contains a sermon based on the martyrdom of Charles I. Paper; 252 pp., unnumbered; 142 x 89;; tooled calf.

A volume of sermons and sermon notes. Some of these were delivered at Preston, Kingswood, and Lapw[orth] between 1662 and 1665. A note in pencil on the fly-leaf states that the volume is in the autograph of the Reverend Matthew Henry. Howeer, a short description of the volume by 'D.R.T.' in the form of a newspaper cutting pasted on the inside of the front cover states that, in view of the dates of some of the sermons, the volume must be in the autograph, not of Matthew, but of his father, Philip Henry, the eminent Nonconformist divine. Paper; 502 pp., unnumbered; 163 x 118; full calf, damaged at the spine, and with remnants of two clasps.

Volume of seven sermons on the sixth chapter of Isaiah preached in Banbury by Thomas Bradbury. At the beginning of the volume is a dedicatory letter addressed to Richard Bancroft, archbishop of Canterbury. Paper; 1 unnumbered folio, 1-82; 193 x 150; full parchment.

Transcript of a journal of the tour of Dr. Joseph Wolff, the eminent missionary, from Bakhara to Simian in search of the lost ten tribes of Israel, March - July 1832. The Journal is in the form of a letter to 'Lovely Georgiana', i.e, his first wife Georgiana Mary, sixth daughter of Horatio Walpole, second earl of Oxford. Pinned to one of the fly-leaves is an obituary notice and biography of Dr. Wolff in the form of a cutting from The Times, 7 May 1862. Paper; 80 pp., unnumbered; 172 x 105; full marbled calf with blind tooling.

A small notebook containing transcripts [made by Major Albert-Addams Williams of Llangibby Castle in 1902] of verses entitled 'The Collier's Wedding' and 'Crawshay Bailey's Engine'; and English poems by Oliver Goldsmith, David Garrick, Courtney Melmoth, and W[illiam] Woty, and a copy and English translation of Dr. Samuel Johnson's well-known Latin epitaph to Goldsmith, which is inscribed on his monument in Westminster Abbey. The unnumbered folio at the beginning contains the title of the volume and an index to its contents. Paper; 2 pp. unnumbered; 180x120: unnumbered, pp. 1-44; 152 x 92; marbled paper.

Volume entitled Preparatory Thoughts by J[ohn] Gauden, bishop of Exeter, being a tract intended to 'prepare [the mind's] affections so oft as it receives the holy Sacrament, and great mistery of the Lords Supper'. The six unnumbered pages at the beginning contain a title-page which reads 'Preparatory Thoughts. June 1. 1641' and a dedicatory letter addressed to Lady Rice, which, however, is dated 'Apr: 10. 1638'. Inside the front cover is pasted the bookplate of 'W.H.Corfield'.The spine of the cloth container is lettered: 'Gauden's Preparatory Thoughts MS. 1641 English Binding'. 6 pp., unnumbered, Paper; pp. 1-76; 151x 97; bound in full morocco, with gilt ornamentation, and contained in a cloth case.

Volume containing abstracts of army and navy estimates, public debts, deficiencies of parliamentary funds, etc., 1684-1699, and a copy of the report of the Commissioners appointed to value forfeited estates in Ireland. Paper; 89 pp., unnumbered, of which 37 are blank; 196 x 160; full parchment.

A composite volume containing transcripts of patents and warrants for the appointment of officers of customs and excise, lists of excise officers, and methods observed in the management of the excise, 1690-1703; patent of the appointment of Sir Robert Cotton and Thomas Frankland to the office of Postmaster General, 5 March 1690/1; indenture of appointment of Thomas Neale to the office of Master of the Mint, 2 April 1689, and deeds and documents relating thereto, 1700-1703. Paper; 179 ff., unnumbered, of which about 61 are blank; 190 x 150 and 179 x 145; full rough calf, with blind tooling.

A composite volume containing transcripts of patents, warrants, and indentures of appointment to offices in the royal household, to the offices of Receiver General of South Wales, of North Wales and the County Palatine of Chester, and of the Duchy of Cornwall, to the offices of Surveyor of Woods on the South of the Trent and on the North of the Trent, etc., 1660/1 - 1702. Inserted in the volume is a loose sheet containing a list of contents. Paper; 167 ff., of which 46 are blank; 198 x 152 and 186 x 143.

Volume entitled 'Right of Electors Determined By the house to 15 May 1730'. It consists of resolutions, 1604-1729, defining the right of election for various constituencies in England, Wales and Scotland. Among the constituencies represented are Beaumaris, Cardigan, Carmarthen, town, Flint town, Monmouth, Montgomery and New Radnor. 8 unnumbered pages at the end contain an index to the volume. The volume was formerly Phillipps MS 24612. Paper; 12 unnumbered pp; 210 pp.; 200x148; full mottled calf with gilt tooling.

Volume entitled 'Elenchus Parliamentorum', being an index to parliamentary proceedings from the reign of Edward III to that of Edward IV, compiled by W Younge. Paper; 87 ff., unnumbered, and affected by damp; 190 x 142; full mottled calf, with blind tooling.

Transcripts of the report of Commissioners appointed to investigate the state of the public revenue between Michaelmas, 1702, and Michaelmas, 1703; the state of the accounts of the Earl of Ranelagh, Paymaster of the Army, 1687-1699, and of the Earl of Orford, Treasurer of the Navy, 1689-1690; abstract of the report presented by the Commissioners to the House of Commons, 22 January 1703/4; the answers of the Earl of Ranelagh, the Earl of Orford and others to the report and the counter-replies of the commissioners, February, 1703/4. Paper; 282 ff., unnumbered; 200 x 156; full rough calf, with blind tooling.

Composite volume containing incomplete collections of early Latin homilies. It is stated on the inside of the front cover that this volume contains some early Welsh words and phrases. Pasted on the flyleaf is the bookplate of George, Lord Abergavenny, 1750. This volume was formerly Phillipps MS. 12313. Paper; 87 ff. 120-158; 200 x 149; half calf.