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Notes and references relating to the Arthurian legend, Welsh history and literature, and the Welsh laws.

Notes on the legend of the Holy Grail, the Triads, the Bruts, etc.

Notes and extracts collected by F. W. Bourdillon and dealing with various aspects of the Arthurian Legend.

The file comprises notes relating to Arthurian legend, including the Holy Grail, Culhwch ac Olwain, and Peredur and Perceval. Also included is a transcript of Ystoryaeu Seint Greal. Rhan 1, Y Keis, the text of which is from Peniarth 11, NLW 3063E and Peniarth 15. Thomas Jones died before completing the editing of this work, and it was published after his death by The University of Wales Press in 1992.

A volume containing early nineteenth century abstracts of, and extracts from, the Middle English romance of 'Torreine of Portyngale; and contemporary extracts, but in a different hand, from 'Le Roman de Brut' of Robert Wace, entitled 'Maitre Wace's description of K. Arthur's coronation at Caerleon in Glamorganshire. Harl. MS. 6508'.

Holograph and/or typescript copies of addresses by George Arbour Stephens, M.D., Swansea, including 'Was Dozmare Pool a Celtic lake of the Underworld?', published in Folk Lore, March, 1935, 'A Green Cross Service for the Celtic Fringe', delivered at the Celtic Congress, Isle of Man, 4 July, 1935, 'The Topographical Importance of Kidwelly and the Burry Estuary in connection with the Arthurian Romances. Caerwen as the old name for Kidwelly', published in The Carmarthen Journal, 25 November, 1938, and 'Radnorshire as a Centre of Celtic Mythology', delivered to the Radnorshire Antiquarian Society at Llandrindod, 2 December, 1938; together with some miscellaneous papers of G. Arbour Stephens, including army certificates, 1897-1918, notices of the leet court with view of frank-pledge of the borough and manor of Swansea, 1919-31, etc.

A dissertation on 'The Character of Percival in the Arthurian Legend' by Samuel Morris Powell, Tregaron. The copy ends imperfectly at page 150.