One of three volumes containing genealogical notes, mainly on South Wales families.

One of three volumes containing genealogical notes, mainly on South Wales families.

Pedigrees, mainly of South Wales families, including 'Thomas of Pantygôf Llanllawddog in the County and of the County of the Borough of Carmarthen Merchants', extracts from Lewys Dwnn's [c. 1550-c. 1616] visitation pedigrees, etc.

A composite manuscript, containing englynion, carolau and pedigrees, written for the most part (ff. 1-52 verso, 75 verso-101 verso) by Wiliam Dafydd Llywelyn of Llangynidr (c. 1520-1606) (cf. NLW MS 15542B). Another hand is responsible for ff. 53- 75, but Wiliam Dafydd Llywelyn appears to have annotated this middle section. Folio 6 verso carries an eighteenth century list of payments, and folio 7 verso is blank. The contents are: ff. 1-2 verso, part of the story of 'Trystan ac Esyllt' (cf. englynion 9-28 in Ifor Williams, 'Trystan ac Esyllt', BBCS, 5, pp. 118-121); ff. 3-5 verso, a religious carol beginning 'hanpych well y gaua[...] ...', with each stanza ending 'ora tu pro nobys'; f. 6 recto-verso, englynion: one by Huw Arwestl beginning 'medru tewi weithie yes medria[d] [sic] gydwedd ...', as well as three written in praise of the song-thrush by Dauydd llwyd Mathe, 1581, Dafudd Benwyn, and Wm Mydleton; f. 8 recto-verso, a short extract of religious prose beginning 'Jessv grist yn keidwad y godoedd o feirw y fyw ...'; f. 8 verso, an englyn 'pen ddarffo rifo y ryfic, ymgais ...'; ff. 9-46, 'Dyma englyn[ion] ...', a series of 226 englynion based on proverbs and epigrams, the first beginning '[D]auparth gwaith ganwaith rag wynebdychryn ...', 'per Tho[mas] ap Hughe de Ewyas', the epigram or proverb is rubricated oftener than not; ff. 46 verso-48, '[ ] englynion y datts', beginning 'dau .cc. a v. mil digwyn / ont dayfis ...'; f. 48 recto-verso, five englynion beginning 'Un sir ar bymtheg medd sain / lliwgalch ...'; ff. 49-51, a series of nineteen englynion recording the accession dates of the kings and queens of England between Henry II and Elizabeth I, beginning 'pymp deg pedwar teg myn tain / ywch ka[nt] ...'; ff. 51 verso-52, eight stanzas beginning 'hawdd o beth y[w] nabod cwilsen ...'; f. 52, two englynion beginning 'mi a gaf y geisaf fal negeswr / dof ...'; f. 52, a hir a thoddaid beginning 'Rag Kythrel anfwin ...'; f. 53, the six last lines of a carol ending 'am y fordd [sic] y gorfydd myned'; ff- 53-73, a long carol based on biblical and historical events, entitled 'Iacob 4 Glanhewch ych dwylaw bechadurieit a phurwch ych calonaw [sic] dauddyblug feddwl', beginning ' fal iroeddwn i n effrv ...'; f. 73 verso, five stanzas beginning 'Dues wyn diwad ...', with the following note accompanying the text 'ymofynnrvch am ddiwedd hyn yma yn well o rhyw goppi arall oscat vidd nid oedd ef yn cesio oddli ne ni fedrei Amendiwch y dywaetha fal hyn i odli os mwnwch'; f. 74 recto-verso, lines in the cywydd metre beginning 'Rhown moliant gan tant bob didd ...'; f. 74 verso, an englyn based on Mat. [xxiv, 35], beginning 'Nef a daear wfir o wall / a dderfydd ...'; f. 75, an englyn by Simwnt Vychan beginning 'Pumptheccant gwyddant y gost / a decwyth ...'; f 75, two englynion by Da[vid] Johns beginning 'Mil a hanner noder yn wiwdec cynnwys ...'; f. 75 verso, three englynion beginning 'pwy ywr mares garw a gyrydd myrain ...'; ff. 76-80, a description of arms of Welsh nobles entitled 'Dysgrifiad arfey y bryttan[ied] o vryttys hyd heddiw'; ff. 80 verso- 82, 'Disgliriad [sic] pob gwlad yn neilltyedic o waith Einion ap gwawdrydd mewn englynion', beginning 'Gnawd yngwynedd fokyssedd eirey ...', [usually attributed to Aneurin Gwawdrydd]; f. 82 recto-verso, seven englynion of a prophetic nature beginning 'pan welych yr ych mawr ychod / antyrys ...'; f. 83, a short English prophecy beginning 'Take hyd of Seuen ...'; f. 83, a list of characteristics attributed to twelve areas of Wales and the Marches in which they surpass others, beginning 'Pen Bonedd Gwynedd'; and ff. 83 verso-101 verso, a list of pedigrees of noble Welsh families entitled 'llyma Betigriw y bryttanied' beginning 'llywelyn ab Gryffydd ap ll ap lorwerth drwyndwn ap Owain gwynedd ...', continuing f. 84 'llyma Iach bryttys', f. 85 'Rodri Mawr ap merfyn frych ...', f. 85 verso 'Plant Owein Gwynedd', f. 93 'llyma Wahelyth Deheybarth', f. 94 'kedewen', f. 99 'Dyma arfav Rys ab Morys goch ...', f. 100 verso 'llyma Iach bleddyn ab kynfyn', f. 101 'llyma bedwar post prydain', f. 101 'llyma Iach yr arglwydd Rys', and f. 101 verso 'llyma Iach Gryffydd ab kynan' (incomplete).

Manuscripts, [1850]-[1915], of Alcwyn C. Evans, mainly comprising antiquarian and historical material relating to Carmarthenshire and other places in Wales and including transcripts from parish registers, public records and other sources, and Welsh pedigrees and genealogical records compiled by Alcwyn C. Evans.

Transcripts by J. Hobson Matthews. They include copies of wills, pedigrees, legal and other records, Catholic and Jacobite poetry, etc., mainly of South Wales interest.

A volume compiled by J. H. Davies labelled 'South Wales' and containing press cuttings, notices, copies of photographs and engravings, etc. relating to South Wales and South Wales families.

'Calendar of all The High-Sheriffs for The County of Carmarthen and of all the Mayors, Bailiffs and Sheriffs of the Corporation of Carmarthen from the year of Our Lord 1400 to 1818 ...'; genealogical notes and tables largely of South Wales families, with numerous notes and annotations by Stedman Thomas; etc.

Miscellaneous genealogical collections, mainly relating to South Wales.

A transcript by Edward Stanton Roberts of N.L.W. MS. 1917E. The volume contains pedigrees originally compiled, and completed on 26 November 1830, by D. Jones Lewis, Gilfach, Llanwrda, co. Carmarthen. The scribe has added one page of notes, dated 22 October 1910, on uncertain readings and other textual features.

An imperfect, ? early seventeenth century manuscript with, bound in at the end, a ? previous, brown-paper cover inscribed in a later hand 'Llyfr Achau Llangannau 1740'. The contents consist largely of miscellaneous genealogical data much of which relates to Glamorgan and South Wales. Ff. 51-2 contain a transcript, in a later seventeenth century hand, of a Welsh strict-metre poem not attributed to any poet. There are some marginal annotations possibly in the hand of Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg').

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).

A manuscript containing pedigrees, mainly of South Wales families, as well as Norman and English families, with transcripts of further pedigrees by Angharad Llwyd (1780-1866). Also contained is an index by Lewis Morris.