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- [1664x1829] / (Creation)
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Bound in full leather with blind tooling.
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The title-page bears the signatures 'Moses Wiliams 1717' and 'Gwil. Owain. Ion. 1. 1803' [=William Owen-Pughe].
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A copy of Llyfr Gweddi Gyffredin . . . (Llundain: S. Dover, tros Edward Ffowks a Phetr Bodvel, 1664). A fly-leaf carries the following notes which are in the hand of Moses Williams: 'Chweugain'; 'Memorandum that Peter Bodvel the Undertaker of this Book was a Presbyterian Book- seller at Chester & often bragg'd of comparing the King to an Owl the Royal Family to Cranes & the Clergy & their Followers to Apes, by the Capitals in the Morning & Evening service at the Beginning of those Prayers. And that Llwyd Bodvell of Carnarvonshire is his Grandson'. Within the volume is an autograph letter from W[illiam] Hone, dated at Newington Green, Islington, 22 April 1829, to Dr. [William] Owen Pughe, returning the volume.
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Welsh, English.
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Finding aids
The description is also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IV (Aberystwyth, 1971).
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Formerly known as Mysevin 33.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 13254D.
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- Bodvel, Peter (Subject)
- Bodvel, Llwyd (Subject)
- Williams, Moses, 1685-1742 (Subject)
- Hone, William, 1780-1842. (Subject)