File NLW MS 12689C. - Pedigrees of South Wales families,

A volume of pedigrees of South Wales families, with notes on their arms [in the hand of Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, antiquary]. The volume is described on the title-page as 'The British Geneologist, or A Collection of the Pedigrees and Arms of the families inhabiting the Counties called Monmouthshire, Glamorganshire, Caermarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, and Cardiganshire. To which is added Fragmenta Geneologica. The whole compiled From the best authorities, and assistance of the best Heralds, by Edward Llwyd, Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, 1693. Copied from the original, and augmented from later manuscripts and information, by Sam[ue]l Rush Meyrick, A.B., of Queen's College, Oxford, 1807'. The contents include pp. [i-x], preface (blank); 1-24, 'Book I. Of the gentry of Monmouth'; 25-36, 'Book II. Of the Gentry of Glamorganshire'; 37-40 (blank); 41-171, 'Book 3d. Gentry of Caermarthen'; 172 (blank); 161a- 172a (duplication of pagination), 173-264 (some 8 pp. blank), 'Book IIII. Of the Gentry of Pembrokeshire'; 235b-264b (duplication of pagination), 265-313 (266 omitted), 'Book V. Of the gentry of Cardiganshire'; 314-5 (blank); 316-54 (330 twice), 'Fragmenta Geneologica'; [355-63], Index of 'Houses'. Inset is a letter from Joseph Morris, from Shrewsbury, to Sir S. R. Meyrick, 1834 (returning recipient's manuscript, offering help).