File NLW MS 24206E. - Richard Llwyd (Bard of Snowdon) letters

Three letters, April-May 1806, from Richard Llwyd (The Bard of Snowdon), Beaumaris, to Sir Robert Williames Vaughan, 2nd baronet, of Nannau, concerning Vaughan's pedigree which Llwyd was then compiling, together with drafts of the pedigree and other related notes (ff. 1-13).
The papers comprise: (i) a letter, [?mid-April 1806], discussing Vaughan's descent from the Williams family of Ystum Colwyn and enclosing a draft of the pedigree (ff. 1-4); (ii) a letter, dated 22 April 1806, enquiring as to the whereabouts of a letter sent by Llwyd a week earlier (whose contents match ff. 1-4) (f. 5); (iii) a letter, dated 14 May 1806, enclosing a revised draft of the pedigree and a list of outstanding issues to be addressed (ff. 6-8); (iv) an undated document detailing Vaughan’s descent from Bleddyn ap Cynfyn (ff. 9-12); and (v) a description of six inscribed Elizebethan stone tablets at Nannau (f. 13). Also included is (vi) one letter, 27 November 1818, from Llwyd, Chester, to Vaughan's brother Colonel G[riffith] H[owel] Vaughan of Rûg, Corwen, containing a transcript of a document detailing revenue from ancient escheat (or King's Rent) in Edeirnion in 1509-1510 (ff. 14-15).