A volume containing a transcript by Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) of 'Brut y Brenhinedd', completed 11 May 1776 (f. 304 verso).

An incomplete transcript by Robert Vaughan of the Peniarth 20 version of Brut y Tywysogion with interpolations in the same hand from Brenhinedd y Saeson, followed by brief Latin annals: the death of Llewelyn, 1282, the rising of Owain Glyndwr, 1401, the death of Walter Barlee, master of Halston, 1442, the battle of Shrewsbury, 1403, the death of Owain Glyndwr on the feast of St. Matthew, 1415, the death of the Duke of York, the battle of St. Albans, the accession of Edward IV, the death of Alson Gwyn, 1429, the death of Robert Trevor, 1452, an eclipse of the sun, 1433, the death of Henry V, 1422, the famine of 1439, with price of corn at Shrewsbury, the death of Thomas Earl of Arundel, 1415, the death of Robert, bishop of St. Asaph, 1433, the death of Edward ap Dd., 1448, and the death of Ieuan ap Adda ap Ierwerth, 1448, [1612x1667] (pp. 1-16); together with a list of the barons of Dinmael in the hand of Robert Lloyd, surveyor, [17 cent., ?second ¼] (pp. 17-22); and extracts from the pedigrees of Gwynedd families copied out of the collections of Lewis Dwnn, [1699] (pp. 1-24).

A transcript, 1774 (2043iB, f. 131 verso), by Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) of a copy of 'Brut y Tywysogion' which had been made for William Maurice, Llansilin in 1672.

A manuscript containing a chronology, mainly of kings and rulers of Wales (pp. 1, 33-37, 43-48, 49-60, 100, 111-113); arms, mainly of kings and rulers of Wales (pp. 2-8, 9, 99); pedigrees, mainly of kings and rulers of Wales and England (pp. 9b-88, 89-98, 224-152, 155-158, 164-186, 188); and poetry, which includes triads (pp. 38-42, 100-110, 159-163, 187, 190).
The folios of different manuscripts, or of one manuscript written by different hands at different times, have been mixed together in binding.

A late eighteenth century manuscript in the hand of John Morris containing couplets from Dr John Davies (Mallwyd): Flores Poetarum Britannicorum (Y Mwythig, 1710); 'englynion' by Jonathan Hughes, J. Morris, Dafydd Benwyn, H. Jones (Llangwm), Arthur Jones, Gronwy Owen, Morus ap Robert (Bala), Richd Sion Siengyn, Michael Prichard, Lewis Morus ('o Sir Fôn), Dafydd Jones ('Dewi Fardd') ('o Drefriw'), John Edwards ('Clochydd Manafon'), Rhys Morgan (Pencraig Neath), William Ruffe ('o Mochdref'), Robert Wynn ('Vicar Gwyddelwern'), John Edwards ('o Lyn Ceiriog'), Thos Edwards (Nant), Hugh Hughes ['Y Bardd Coch o Fôn'], Robert o Ragad, Hugh Morris, Daniel Jones, Edward Barnes, Thos Powel, Lewis Glyn Cothi, William Phylip, William Cynwal, Edward Parry, Dafydd Marpole, Edward Morus, Clydro, Robert Evans ('y Jeinier') (Meifod), W. Davies ['Gwallter Mechain'], D. Thomas ('Dafydd Ddu Eryri'), D[avid] Ellis (Amlwch), E. Morris (Plas'n pentre), John Rees (Llanrhaiadr), ?R. Lloyd, John Cadwaladr, Harri Parri, John Lloyd (Haflen, Llanfihangel) (1782), John Rhydderch, Ioan Prichard (1670), Dafydd Nanmor, Harri Conwy, Dafydd Maelienydd, Edmwnt Prys, ?Richd Parry, Thomas Jones ('Cyllidydd, Exciseman, Llanrhaidr') and 'Cadfan' (1792), and anonymous 'englynion'; 'carolau' and 'cerddi' by Thomas Edwards ['Twm o'r Nant'], David Ellis ('Person Cricieth'), Henry Humphreys, Ellis Roberts and Morus ap Robert ('o'r Bala'); English verses by 'Rhaiadr'; an 'awdl' by Jonathan Hughes; a chronology of Welsh kings and princes entitled 'Tabl yn dangos yr amser y Dechreuodd ar Blynyddoedd y Teyrnasoedd, holl Frenhinoedd, a Thywysogion Cymru, er dyfodid [sic] Brutus ir Deyrnas hon'; a list of European rulers, entitled 'Pen-llywodraethwyr Ewrop, 1793'; 'Cas bethau Gwyr Rhufain'; 'Y Wandering Jew. Sef y crydd Crwdredig o Gaersalem. Rhyfeddfawr Newydd oddiwrth America gan y Captain enwog William rheolwr y Llong, a elwir Dolphin ... Wedi ei Cysylltu gan Dewi Fardd', etc. The spine is lettered 'Llyfr J. Morris III'.

A volume largely of poetry in strict and free metres transcribed by John Morris during the period circa 1784-8. It contains 'Ychydig o Reolau Gramadegawl a gasglwyd gan y Parchedig Mr. [David] Ellis o Amlwch ... yr hwn sy'n wr deallus iawn ac yn perchen awen ragorol. Ac yn hoffi'n fawr yr Iaith Gymraeg ...' ('John Morris ai scrifennodd Rhagfyr, 12, 1786'); 'carolau' and 'cerddi' by Robt. Evans ('o Feifod'), Daniel Jones, Hugh Morris, John Hughes, Jonathan Hughes, Ellis Roberts, H[ugh] Jones ('o Langwm'), David Thomas, Arthur Jones, and Rhisiart Parry ('athraw ysgol gynt yn Sir Fôn'); 'cywyddau' and 'englynion' by Owen Evan alias Owen Gwynedd, John Edwards, Hugh Morris, Arthur Jones ('Clochydd Llangydw[alad]r'), Hugh Gryffydd, Jonathan Hughes, Da. Lloyd, [David Jones] ('Dewi fardd, o Drefriw'), John Edwards ('Clochydd Manafon'), Rhys Morgan ('pencraig Neath'), Wm. Raffe ('o Mochdref Sir Drefald[wy]n'), John Rhees (Llanrhaiadr), Daniel Jones, Tho. Edwards, Ed. Morris, Dafydd Benwyn, Lewis Glyn Cothi, William Cynwal and William Phillip, and anonymous poems; 'Cof-restr dewisedig yn dangos rhifedi'r blynyddoedd Aethant heibio, er pan fu amryw bethau hynod Hyd y flwyddyn 1788'; 'Parhad o Gronicl y Brenhinoedd a Thwysogion Cymru er yn amser Cydwaladr ...'; 'Rhestr o Enwau'r Marchogion, a Seneddwyr yr uchel Lys Barliament, Arglwyddi Lifftenants, Custos Retulorum [sic], Penswyddogion y Militia, a'r Siryfau Pob Sir drwy Gymru; a'r Swm yr ydys yn i dalu o Dreth Brenin, a elwir yn gyffredin y Dreth fawr yn ol pedwar Swllt y Bunt, gida rhifedi y Militia yr ydys yn i godi ymhob Sir'; 'Rhestr o Enwau'r ardderchog Ustisiaid ar Barnwyr Sy'n gwrando, a dibennu pob Matterion Cyfraith yn Lloegr a Chymru'; 'Rhestr o Enwau yr Esgobion, Deaniaid, Arch-Diaconiaid, Canghellwyr, a'r Blaenoriaid sydd yn trefni Swyddau Eglwysaidd yn Ardalaith Cymru gyda'r Swm a gyfrifir ar bob Esgobaeth yn Llyfrau'r Brenin'; 'Byr hanes maintioli Sirioedd [sic] Cymru, a rhifedi'r Plwyfydd; Ac enwau'r Seneddwyr ...'; 'Barnwyr neu brif Ustusiaid Cymru'; 'Henwau y Deuddeg Patrieirch ...'; 'Rhestr o Enwau'r Proffwydi ...'; 'Rhestr o Enwau Ein Iachawdwr Iesu Grist ...'; 'Henwau'r Deuddeg Apostolion'; 'Rhestr o Enwau ychydig o'r Seintiau, Merthyron, a Dynion Rhinweddol erill, yr ydys yn Cadw Coffadwriaeth o honynt ...'; 'Henwau'r Naw Miwsic' [?Miwsis]; 'Henwau'r Naw Gorchfygwyr'; 'Saith Ryfeddod y byd'; 'Y Saith Gysgadur'; 'Pumtheg arwydd (medd Dafydd Nanmor) a welir cyn y Jubil Sabbathaidd'; 'Y pum synwyr a roes Duw i Ddyn'; 'Henwau Siroedd Lloegr, a Rhifedi y Dinasoedd, Trefydd marchnadol, Plwyfydd, a Chwmpas, a hefyd y Cyferi [sic] sydd ymhob Sir'; 'Siroedd Cymru, a Rhifedi y Trefydd Marchnadol, Plwyfydd, y Cwmpas, a'r Cyferi sydd ymhob Sir'; a riddle ('Dychymmyg') in verse; 'Llythyrennau am Raddau Dysgeidiaeth, a byrhad geiriau yn ôl yr Iaith Lladin ...'; medical recipes; 'Hoff benill M. Luther'; 'Henwau y Pedwar archugain Marchog, oedd yn Llys y Bre[nin]'; 'Yr wyth fyd, neu Uchelderau, y mae'r Astronomyddion yn crybwyll am danynt'; and 'Ychydig o waith rhai or hên Brydyddion ...' (quotations from the poetry of Edm[wnd] Prys, Huw Arwystl, Ieuan Tew, Dr Ioan Gwent, Owen Gwynedd, Gruffudd Gru[g], Moris ap Ifan ap Einion, Lewis Môn, Sion Brwynog, Gruffudd Hiraethog, Rhys Nanmor and Ioan Prichard (1670)). Preceding the text is a progressive list ('Tabl') of the 'carolau', 'cerddi', and 'cywyddau' contained in the volume. That the entire volume is based on a variety of sources is shown by the last entry inserted by the scribe: 'Yr ychydig o hen bethau hyn, a godais I allan o hen Lyfrau pan oeddwn mewn oriau Segur, rhag I Colli hwynt ...'. Inside the lower cover are printed 'Englynion Croesawiad Sior IV. 'Trwy Gymru' by [Hugh Jones] ('H. Erfyl'). There are a few minor entries in the hand of Mary Richards.

A volume in the hand of Mary Richards, Darowen containing '[C]ronicl y Tywysogion Cymry' (cf. Thomas Jones: Brut y Tywysogion (Cardiff, 1955), pp. 2-24); Welsh and other pedigrees, e.g. of Queen Victoria, King George IV, Gr. ap Kynan, Rhys ap Tewdwr, Lewis ap Owen (Dolgelley), Edmund Meyrick (Ucheldre), Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, Grono Fychan, William Pughe (Mathafarn), the family of Hendre Mur (Maentwrog), Robert Mostyn, the family of Salisbury, Sir Lewis Trelawny, the family of Breubwyll (Llanbedr, Merioneth), Cathrine Lloyd (Abercydill, Cemmes, Montgomeryshire), Oliver Cromwell, etc., and pedigrees from printed sources; a table of British kings entitled 'Tabl o holl Frenhinoedd Brydain, or Penaithiaid cyntaf hyd at ein Brenin George III ... a breintiwyd yn Almanac Mr Thomas Jones am y flwyddyn 1709 ... '; a table of the princes of South Wales entitled 'Cofrestr o Dywysogion Deheubarth y rhai oedd yn Cadw eu Llys yn Nhastell [sic] Dinevwr... '; poetry in strict metres ('awdlau' 'cywyddau', and especially 'englynion') by Gutto'r Glyn, Gruffyth Philip, William Llyn, Tudur Aled, Owen Gryffyth, Wiliam Philip, Owen Gwynedd, Robert Parry ('Robyn Ddu Eryri'), Robert Llwydd [sic], Huw Wiliams, Lewis Mon, Dafydd Llwyd ap Llewelyn ap Gruffydd, Dafydd Richards ('Dewi Silin'), Sion Cain, Morys Thomas ap Hywel, Huw Arwystl, Sir Owen ap Gwilym, Hugh Llwyd, Sion Philip, Sion Tudur, [John Jones] ('Myllin'), [Moris Jones] ('Meurig Idris'), Robert Davies ('Bardd Nantglyn'), Ieuan Gethin ap Ie'n ap Ll'in, William Miltwn, Richard Humphreys (Llanfair [Caereinion]), Gr[uffudd] ab Gr[uffudd], Llywelyn Goch Ameiric hen, Edmund Prys (Archddiagon Meirionydd), 'Sion Gwnfa', Iolo Goch, Raff ab Robert, [William Williams] ('Gwilym ab Ierwerth'), [Thomas Edwards] ('Twm o'r Nant'), Sr Ifan Llwyd Offeiriad, Walter Davies ('Gwallter Mechain'), [David Humphreys] ('Dewi Bardd Einion'), (J. W. Hughes] ('Edeyrn o Fôn'), Llywelyn ap Gutto, Hugh Moris, Taliesin, Ifan Jones ('Ieuan Gwynedd'), John Blackwell ['Alun'], [Robert Jones] ('Bardd Mawddach'), [William Edwards] ('Gwilym Padarn'), [Benjamin iones] ('P. A. Môn'), Cadwaladr Dafydd, Evan Evans ('[Ieuan] Glan Geirionydd'), [Rowland Parry] ('Ieuan Carn Dochan'), [William Ellis Jones] ('G[wilym] Cawrdaf'), [John Athelstan Owen] ('Bardd Meirion'), Robert Parry (Eglwysfach), James Dwnyd, Aneurin Owain, [William Williams] ('G[wilym] Cyfeiliog'), (David Richards] ('Dafydd Ionawr') John Parry, John Llwyd ('o Halfen'), etc., and anonymous poems; poetry in free metres by Dafydd Jones ('y Tailiwr hir'), Edmund Prys (Archddiacon Meirionydd), William Phylip, Elis Edward, John Hughes (Llanbadarn Fawr) ('Ioan Glaslwyn', 'Ioan Min Mochno', 'Bardd Ystwyth'), Thomas Ellis ('Bardd Caerwys'), Sion Tudur, John Edward, Evan Evans ('[Ieuan] Glan Geirionydd'), Dafydd Rees ('Saer Coed', Llanbryn Mair), Dafidd Cadwal[a]dr (Llan y Mowddwy), Sion Prys ('o Fowddwy'), [David Jones] 'Ieuan Cadfan', D. Davies (curate Llan y Blodwell), [Benjamin Jones] ('P. A. Môn'), [John Jones] ('Ioan Tegid'), D. Humphreys ('Dewi Einion'), Thomas Jones (Creaton), etc., and anonymous poems; ' ... henwau pymtheg llwyth Gwynedd'; extracts from John Reynolds: 'A true statement of all the Decendant[s] of the late David Llwyd Boneddwr of Cymmerau in the Parish of Llanbadarn fawr in the County of Cardigan' [grandfather of Mary Richards]; accounts of 'plygain' services at Darowen, Llangynyw and Llan Erful during the period 1842-70; 'Constitua seu Edicta antiquitus in usum Bardorum & Musicorum praescripta. Braint arr wyr gerdd drwy waith Tywyssogion Cymry ...'; ' ... Compownd Manwel' by Dafydd Nanmor; an account of trilobites, seals, etc. in the possession of Mary Richards, 1863-5: personal memoranda by Mary Richards; letters from Thomas Richards, Darowen to his children at the Wrexham eisteddfod, 1823 (personal), [ ] to M[ary] Richards, undated (enclosing nuts, the felling of the largest sycamore tree in the country in the churchyard at Llan y Mowddwy), [Griffith Jones] ('Gruffydd Glan Gwynion') [Dolgellau] to Mair Richards, Darowen, undated (a gift of two books to the recipient, London Eisteddfod) (two copies), W[illiam] Edwards ('Gwilym Padarn'), Llanberis to [Mary] Richards, Llangynyw, 1829 (the proposed publication of Eos Padarn), J. Blackwell ['Alun'], Rhydychain to M[ary] Richards, Darowain, 1824 (an enclosed stanza by 'Tegid'), [Daniel Evans]) 'Daniel Ddu [o Geredigion']) to Mair Richards, Darowain, 1830 (the proposed publication of Gwinllan y Bardd), John Evan[s], secretary, Cymmrodorion or Metropolitan Cambrian Institution to [Mary Richards], 1821 (the election of addressee to honorary membership of the Society), and Elizabeth Richards, Darowen, to Miss [ ] Gardner, 1824 (the antiquarian and other interests of the writer's sister [Mary], an old seal given to [Mary] by the addressee); a portion of a bardic grammar entitled 'Dosparth y llyfr Cynta or Pump llyfr Cerddwriaeth Cerdd dafod'; 'Enwau y Gwyr Ieuang a ddysgodd i ganu'r Bibell neu y Flute Germanaidd Gan Mair Richard Ofyddes Darowen, hithau a ddysgasai ei deall gan ei Brawd Dewi Sillin ... '; accounts of the tithe corn of Darowen, 1591-2; armorial bearings (Gwent, Carmarthenshire, etc.); a list of twenty-two books of pedigree ('Llyfrau Ach') of King Edward VI; a list of twenty-four 'cromlechi' [in Anglesey] ('Cofrestr or Cromlechau neu allorau Derwyddion'); 'Hyd a lled a chwmpas y Ddaear ai Thewdwr'; etc. Among the sources quoted by the scribe are a manuscript of Angharad Llwyd (p. 316) and 'Llyfyr Moelyrch Llansilin' (p. 368).