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Genealogies, mainly of North Wales families, in the hand of Thomas Evans, Hendre Forfydd (fl. 1596-1633); a poem in free metre by Rowland Vaughan (c. 1590-1667), Caergai, with a copy of a letter from him to Owen Salusbury (d. c. 1600/1601), Rhug, and a short English poem Upon a woman hanged at Oxford ... 1650 ...; two indexes.

A miscellany mainly in the hands of Roger Morris (fl. 1590), Coed-y-talwrn and Thomas Evans (fl. 1596-1633), Hendre Forfydd comprising Cyssegredig Historia Severws Swlpiciws (see The Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, VIII, 107-20; Ymddiddan a fv rhwng yr holwr ar gigfran (a Welsh metrical version of the travels of Sir John Mandeville attributed to Richard ap John of Scorlegan (ibid., V. 287-327); Hanes Taliesin; poems, including englynion by Taliesin, Rhys Brydydd and many others (see Cardiff MS 7 for Bikar Ocking); The Song of the Caps and The Gipsies prophesy; etc.

An extremely interesting manuscript - probably the smallest Welsh manuscript in existence, though it is 1.5 inches thick - which was written by Thomas Evans, Hendreforfudd, 1618-1622, and consists mostly of prayers and englynion.
Bound up between pp. 12 and 13 is a copy of an early edition of the Llyfr Plygain or Primer, dated 1618 and containing 42 pp. but imperfect as it contains none of the prayers, litany or psalms. This is probably the volume referred to by Gweirydd ap Rhys in Hanes Llenyddiaeth Gymreig, pp. 402-3; it is not mentioned in Angharad Llwyd's Catalogue of the Pengwern MSS (Transactions Cymmrodorion, 1828, p. 50).