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- [c. 1780]-[c. 1789]. (Creation)
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Two memorandum-books, sewn together, containing entries by Iolo Morganwg, [c. 1780]-[c. 1789]. The contents include pedigrees, a draft petition concerning the living of Cheriton, vacant by the death of Mr Williams, on behalf of an unnamed person with a wife and five children who recommends himself 'only as a poor prisoner that has been long detained in the comfortless walls of a Jail by a merciless creditor', accounts, a 'Cynghor Brithodl' attributed to Llywelyn ab Hywel beginning 'Clyw fy nghyngor a gwna doraeth', lines beginning, 'Porthwr moch clywch bawb ei ochain' attributed to Charls ? Daf .... Maredydd, two stanzas beginning 'Clywch bawb ar alarnad a chaniad achwynion' (all crossed out), agricultural queries, some Gwent and Glamorganshire words with their meanings, and a copy of the inscription contained in MS 128/5 [NLW MS 21418E].
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Welsh, English.
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Formerly Iolo A. Williams MS 81.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 21372A.