Egerton MS 2585

PEDIGREES Of Welsh families in the counties of Carmai-then, Pembroke and Cardigan, by Lewis Dwnn, Deputy Herald-at-Arms; 1586-1613. Welsh and English. Autograph. The title, in Welsh, which is written on f. 8, states that the volume is " the 'book of Lewis Dwnn the poet of Montgomeryshire, of Bettws in Cydhewain, which he collected as Deputy Herald-at-Arms over the three principalities of Wales and the Marches of Wales, under a patent sealed by Clarenceux and Norroy, Kings of Arms." In the first part of the MS. are interspersed some biblical, historical, and mythical genealogies. The pedigrees of families are not arranged in any order; but many of them are attested with the signatures of the heads of the several families. At the end is an index of names, made in 1748. The pedigrees were edited, together with those in the following volume, by Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, for the Welsh MSS. Society, in 1846, both volumes being then in possession of Mrs. Madocks of Glanywern, co. Denbigh. Paper;. ff. 388. On the cover is stamped the name " John Madocks Esq., Fron Iw, 1825." Folio.