File Wynnstay MS 4 [RESTRICTED ACCESS] - Interlude & poetry.

A composite manuscript, the first portion of which contains an interlude, [1788], by Ellis Roberts (Elis y Cowper). The characters in this interlude are - Mr Rheswm Penrhudd, Yr Aniwiol, Yr Ysbrydol, Natur Ddrwg mam Aniwiol, Cristion agos, and Ffwl. The greater part of the interlude is written in a very broken hand, most probably that of Ellis y Cowper himself, but the prologue and the last five pages are in another hand. The latter part of the manuscript was written about 1673-1675 by several Denbighshire scribes. It contains poems, carolau, englynion and cywyddau, by H[uw] M[orus], Edward Moris (c. 1607-1689) (probably in his own hand), Rhys Cain, Mr Hugh Owens Nantglin, Hugh Cadwaladr and Lewis Cynllwyd; anonymous poems including Ymddiddan rhwng dyn a'r ceiliog, Carol marwnad am Sir John Owens, Cowydd marwnad am Sir Owain ap Gwilim William o waith Lleyn, Carol ynghylch y drudaniaeth diweddar, 1674; an incomplete copy (about two-thirds) of the Welsh verse version of the travels of Sir John Maundeville; and a few miscellaneous English verses; triads; medical recipes; extracts from hunting laws; the method of assessing the five hundreds of Denbighshire; and a bond (dated 1 Feb. 1673/4) from John Myddelton of Gwaynynog, esq., to Roger Myddelton, dyer.