Plas Power Manuscripts

A collection, accumulated by the Lloyd family of Plas Power, comprising an unpublished sixteenth-century treatise; annotated copies of works by Moses Williams (1685-1742) and John Worrall (d. 1771); an English-Welsh dictionary and material for a Welsh dictionary; transcripts of Welsh poetry, of an essay by Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt (1592?-1666), and of George Ripley's (d. c. 1490) 'The compound of alchymy', 1471; treatises, vocabularies and other texts in Latin and Greek; genealogies of Welsh families; sixteenth-century rental accounts relating to North Wales; an account of proceedings in Parliament for the year 1620; a translation of Christopher Sutton's (c. 1565-1629) Disce mori ...; a version of Piers Plowman; and other items.

Plas Power, most of which was situated in the parish of Wrexham, was probably established by Sir Henry Power. The Lloyd family were also associated with Dulasau in Caernarvonshire and Esclusham in Denbighshire.

Arranged according to NLW MSS reference numbers: NLW MSS 716-736.

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Transferred from Plas Power, Denbighshire, 1913.

Plas Power, most of which was situated in the parish of Wrexham, was probably established by Sir Henry Power. The Lloyd family were also associated with Dulasau in Caernarvonshire and Esclusham in Denbighshire.

The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume I (Aberystwyth, 1943)

Labels on some of the manuscripts were written by Richard Lloyd ('Bard of Snowdon'; 1752-1835), who wrote similar labels on some of the Hengwrt manuscripts.

Title based on contents.

The descriptions are also available in the Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume I (Aberystwyth, 1943).

June 2005.

This description was compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS.

Usual copyright laws apply.

See also NLW, Plas Power Estate Records and NLW MS 22097E.

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