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Thomas and David Pennant manuscripts
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Letters,

Letters, 1763-1837, most of them addressed to David Pennant, and mainly dealing with local affairs (Board of Guardians, Flint Enclosure Bill, etc.).

Flintshire papers,

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.

Miscellaneous pamphlets,

Pamphlets and papers on miscellaneous subjects, including An Account of the Visit of ... The Prince Regent ... The Emperor of Russia and The King of Prussia to the University of Oxford in June 1814 (Oxford. 1815); A Letter to ... The Earl of Sandwich from George Forster ... (London,1778) with an engraving entitled 'The German Doctor with his Family on his Travels ...', and an autograph letter, February 28, 1778, from the Earl of Sandwich to Daines Barrington; The Depositions ... in the Cause of the Church-Wardens of Trefdraeth ... Anglesea, against Dr. Bowles; ... to which is prefixed An Address ... . by the Society of Cymmrodorion (London, 1773); A Charge given at the Visitations of the Archdeaconry of Salop ... by Joseph Plymley ... (Shrewsbury, 1796); Thomas Lloyd: An Essay on the Literary Beauties of the Scriptures (Chester, 1784); Peter Williams: A Sermon (Oxford, 1791); Samuel [Horsley], bishop of St. Asaph: A Sermon (London, 1806); Catalogue of the Third Exhibition of Pictures ... illustrative of the British Poets and the Bible (London, 1790); Henry Fuseli: A Catalogue of the First Series of Pictures and Sketches from the Poetic Works of John Milton (London, c. 1800); A Description of ... Paintings ... at Cowdray in Sussex ...; Treadway Nash: Observations on ... the Death and ... Burial of Queen Katharine Parr (1787); Resolutions at a meeting ... holden at Ruthin ... for ... promoting a Subscription for the internal Defence of the Country (1794), with a list of subscriptions and minutes of five further committee meetings; William Boys: An Account of the loss of the Luxborough Galley by fire ... in the year 1727 (London, 1787); Richard Gough: A Catalogue of the Coins of Canute, King of Denmark and England (London, 1777); J. B. Droubille: On the Formation of British Lancers ... (London, 1813); Anna Laetitia Barbauld: Eighteen hundred and eleven. A Poem (London, 1812); and William Pitt: A Comparative Statement of the food production from arable and grass land ... (London, 1812).

The Trial of Dean Shipley,

A collection made by Thomas Pennant of printed material, press cuttings, etc., relating to the trial, 1783-1784, of William Davies Shipley, dean of St. Asaph, for seditious libel. It includes Sir William Jones: The Principles of Government in a Dialogue between a Gentleman and a Farmer ...; A Sequel to Sir William Jones's Pamphlet on the Principles of Government, in a Dialogue between a Freeholder in the County of Denbigh, and the Dean of Glocester ... (Gloucester,1784); The Proceedings in the Cause of the King against the Dean of St. Asaph, ... for a Libel, at the Great Session held at Wrexham ... on Monday, September the First, 1783 ... (Printed ... by the Society for Constitutional Information), with notes by Thomas Pennant; The Whole of the Proceedings at the Issues at Shrewsbury ... against the Dean of St. Asaph, 1784; and a copy of a print- 'The Triumph of Turbulence or Mother Cambria possessed' - satirizing the rejoicing in Wales on Shipley's return after his acquittal.

The diocese of St Asaph,

Particulars relating to parishes and churches in the diocese of St Asaph transcribed by William Wynne (1671?-1704), who became canon of St Asaph in 1735 and was chaplain to bishop Thomas Tanner (1674-1735). At the end of the manuscript is a transcript of part of a letter from Browne Willis (1682-1760), 1758.

William Wynne.

Letters to Thomas Pennant,

Ten holograph and autograph (1) letters to Thomas Pennant at Downing and Hanover Square [London], from J[ohn] Aikin [physician and author], Yarmouth, [17]87 (personal, the writer's perusal of the journals of four ? local ships, including the Norfolk, Tartar, and Yarmouth, which had been on a ? whaling expedition to Greenland, a reported case of a three year pregnancy, a query by recipient concerning Sir Cha[rle]s Scarborough (Scarburgh), physician to Charles II, the writer's pleasure in reading recipient's appendix to the Arctic Zoology, his expectation of Mr. [John] Howard [philanthropist], several of whose papers relating to the plague he had been translating or abridging, the presence of Dutch fishermen 'to the number of 60 sail' at Yarmouth), [Sir] C[harles] Blagden, secretary of the Royal Society, Strand [London], 1792 (acknowledging receipt, on behalf of the Society, of a copy of recipient's Indian Zoology, 2nd ed. [(London, 1790)]), Henry Headley, undated (? a minor criticism by the writer relating to one of recipient's works), [Sir] W[illiam] Jones [judge and Orientalist], Calcutta, 1793 (personal, thanks for a gift of recipient's work Indian Zoology, a promise to send books, appreciation of 'Mr. Egerton's acquaintance'), John Latham [ornithologist], Dartford, 1794 (the death of Mr. [John Charles] Brook [Somerset Herald], who, with Mr. [Benjamin] P[ingo, York Herald], and many others, had been suffocated [in a crush at the Haymarket Theatre, February 1794], the writer's expectation of the new edition of recipient's Arctic Zoology, his pleasure on reading the introduction, which was already in print, an intended visit by recipient to the writer's home, literary matters), Gamaliel Lloyd, Bury St. Edmunds, 1796 (detailed genealogical data relating to the descendants of Richard, ? one of the three sons of [the Reverend] William Mostyn, archdeacon of Bangor, the writer being one of the said descendants), [the Reverend] John Lloyd [then rector of Nannerch, later rector of Caerwys], Caerwys, 1777 ( the building of Overton bridge, the connection between the second element in the names Powys Vadoc and Overton Madoc and Prince Madoc ap Meredydd), E. R. Owen, Bangor, 1782 (a sketch, and an account of, the traces remaining of a castle near Bangor), G[eorge] Paton [Scottish bibliographer and antiquary], Custom ho[use], Edinburgh, 1794 (personal, a reply to a query relating to Mey [estate], parish of Canesbay), and Pastor Daniel Sprunglin, Stettlen [Switzerland], 1773 (enclosing a list of all the birds of Switzerland, native and migratory, known to the writer) (in third person, letter in French, list in Latin).

Miscellaneous correspondence,

Seven miscellaneous holograph letters from the Rev. J[ohn] B[rickdale] Blakeway, Shrewsbury, to [David Pennant], 1823 (an enquiry concerning the seal of Thomas Mynde, abbot of Shrewsbury, which had been in [Thomas] Pennant's possession, the writer's desire to publish an engraving of the seal in his work on the history of Shrewsbury [J. B. Blakeway and Hugh Owen: A History of Shrewsbury (London, 1825)]); Rob[er]t Faulder, London, to [ ], 1795 (his inability to exchange the Indian Zoology, as he had 'none coloured' by him); Alex[ande]r Garden [botanist], Strand [London], to [Thomas Pennant], 1783 (information relating to the Gulf Stream and American ornithological matters); J[oh]n Maughan, Mostyn, to Mrs. Sheldon, Rhewl, 1827 (a request to recipient to surrender a seat in 'Sir Thomas Mostyn's part of the church' [of ], which was required for the tenant of Pentreffynnon farm); C[atherine] Pennant [London], to her brother [Thomas Pennant] [? circa 1795] (personal and family news, news of acquaintances); J. Plymley, Longnor, to [Thomas Pennant], 1794 (personal, a sketch of the arms of 'Gwin Lloyd of Gwersilt, last male heir, ob. s. p., 19 March 1774', acknowledging the receipt of prints); and Ch[arles] Williams Wynn, Salop, to [ ], 1804 (the identity of the subject of a portrait at Chester [possibly Sir William Williams, speaker of the House of Commons]).

Miscellanea,

Miscellaneous loose press cuttings and manuscript notes (some in the hand of Thomas and David Pennant), extracted from NLW MSS 12706-12714. The cuttings contain notes on the 'History of the sugar cane' (1832), and 'Northern herring fishing' (1827); news of an explosion at 'Mr. Eyton's Flint colliery' (1828), a meeting at Holywell in connection with a proposed petition against Catholic emancipation (1829), a suit, Sillitoe v Thomas, at Denbigh Great Sessions (1828), and the sale of an extra- illustrated copy (the Chiswell copy, consisting of eleven volumes quarto and one folio) of Thomas Pennant: A Tour in Wales, by Mr. Thorp, bookseller, of St. Martin's Lane [London], to an American buyer; obituary notices of the Reverend Thomas Maurice, assistant keeper of MSS at the British Museum (1824), and of Sir Thomas Mostyn [6th bart., of Mostyn, co. Flint] (1831); and a copy of a poem entitled 'Verses to Mr. Pennant on the writer's being apprized of his intention to make a visit into Cornwall'. The manuscript notes include 'A List of rare Plants observ'd in N. Wales nearly in the Order they were discover'd'; an 'Index to Walpole's Catalogue of Portraits at Woburn'; a list of ? portraits in various residences in England and Scotland, with a note at the top, in Thomas Pennant's hand, 'such as I have are marked thus X'; an 'Account of the Money mortified by George Heriot, Jeweller, to K. James VI, for founding his Hospital in Edinburgh'; copies of memorial inscriptions to Sion Trevor, Trevalyn, Dame Catherin, wife of Sir Richard Trevor of Trevalyn, Nicholas Pennant, Robert Pennant, Simon Yorke of Erthig, and his wife Dorothy, Elizabeth Yorke of Erthig, Sir John Williams, bart., of Bodelwyddan, and his wife, Dame Margaret, and Thomas Mostyn Edwards of Kilken Hall; notes on the Yarmouth herring fishery (1786); a rough pedigree of the Pennant family (sixteenth-eighteenth century); a list of the children of Mr. Lloyd [? the Reverend John Lloyd] of Caerwis (1794), with dates of birth; comments on [E.] Olafsen: Reise durch Island, 2 vols., 4°(Copenhagen and Leipsic, 1774); a copy of the inscription on Whitford school house; data relating to the births and deaths of various members of the Pennant family, 1637-1699; consolidated census statistics (houses and population), relating to the six counties of North Wales, with more detailed figures relating to specific parishes in co. Flint (1800), etc.

Thomas Pennant, David Pennant and others.

Tours

Notes by Thomas Pennant on a tour in Lancashire, 1772, a list of drawings made by Moses Griffith, his Welsh artist, during their tour to Scotland, 1772, and of others presented to Pennant on that journey, and notes made by David Pennant, junior, grandson of Thomas Pennant, during a tour through parts of North Wales.

Pennant, David, 1796-1837

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