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Copies, in the hand of Joseph Morris (Shrewsbury), of pedigrees, mainly of South Wales families.

Transcripts by Walter Davies of Lewis Morris's 'Bonedd y Saint', of pedigrees of some of the saints and some Welsh chieftain families, of a long letter from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick to Angharad Llwyd dealing with hereditary insignia, and of pedigrees from 'Llyfr Cae Cyriog' (now MS. 7008).

Pedigrees, mostly copied 1828, in the hand of John Jenkins, of the families of Herbert of Dolforgan, Kerry, Jones of Great Hemm, Forden, and Pryce of Gunley, and of Hugh Owen, archdeacon of Salop (ff. 7-17 verso); with coloured drawings of the arms of the founders of Welsh families, etc. (ff. 199-208, 215 verso-217, 221 verso).

Notes by Walter Davies on the pedigree of various branches of the Herbert family, and on Welsh grammar and philology; extracts from poems; a letter from Humphrey Foulkes [? to Edward Lhuyd]; etc.

Archaeological and genealogical notes transcribed by Walter Davies from various manuscripts, and including Memoranda ... copied from Mr. [John] Lloyd of Caerwys's copy which he transcribed from loose scraps of paper which he found in the 3 vols. of Mr. [Edward] Lhuyd's Itinerary &c. which is at Hallstone.

Transcripts of a letter from 'Mr Kinaston o Bant y Byrsley', a letter from Robert Vaughan (Hengwrt) to 'Mr Kinaston' a table of tolls payable by the inhabitants of the townships of Measbury, Sweeney, Llanforda, Treflech, Trefychlawdd, Weston, Cotton, and Soughton, and by 'forrinors' at Oswestry fairs [1608], Trioedd Taliesin, fragments of early British history and genealogy, and englynion by Huw Morus, Richard Abraham, Syr Lewis, etc.