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iawn o gerddi gan John Jones, ysgolfeistr Llanddeiniolen, Caemarfon. Coplau cyntaf (draft copies) Uawer o gerddi Thomas Edwards sydd yn y llawysgrifau hyn, ac y mae yn eu mysg gryn dipyn o'i farddoniaeth na chyhoeddwyd erioed. Daeth y llawysgrifau hyn i feddiant gor-wyres i Dwm o'r Nant,' a chanddi hi y prynodd Syr John Williams hwynt. DAVID JENKINS. EDWARD JONES Bardd y Brenin' AND WILLIAM JONES OF LLAN- GADFAN. Among the Additional MSS. of Sir John Williams are several manuscripts which deserve to be studied by those who are interested in the life and work of Edward Jones, Bardd y Brenin (1752-1824; D.N.B. Vol. xxx, 98). They are N.L.W. MSS. 37, 38, 39, 40,60,61, 108, 109, in, 112, 124, 125, 127, 148, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 225, 262, 322, 323, 34o-all of them formerly Phillipps of Middle Hill MSS.1 It appears that Sir Thomas bought all the manuscripts of Edward Jones (1752-1824) known as Bardd y Brenin, collected the scattered papers which he found amongst them and bound them in volumes in the well-known brown board covers."2 In many of these Edward Jones MSS. the hand of William Jones of Llangadfan3 is seen, e.g. in N.L.W. MSS. 37, 38, 168, 170, 171, 3234, in the form of letters or notes on Welsh music and dances. In connection with the association of William Jones with Edward Jones the following extracts from a letter5 written from Meifod to Owen Jones, Owain Myvyr,' in London, by the Reverend Walter Davies, Gwallter Mechain,' on May 1, 1796, are of interest: A friend & correspondent of Mr. W. Owen [-Pughe] Gwilym Cadvan [i.e. William Jones, Llangadfan, co. Mont.], I found to have gone to the shades before my last return from Oxford. I called at his Daughters House lately, & saw there sevl Letters from Mr Edwd Jones (Bardd y Tywysog) enquiring for some MSS. he had left with Wm Jones to copy for him, which he now says, have not been returned him. They assert the contrary, & desired me to write to Mr. E. Jones in their behalf. I have looked over all the books & papers there, & can take my oath there is nothing belonging to Mr. Jones save one, that is a folio copy of Bryt y Brenhinoedd with Richard Davies' s name written in it. I wish Mr. E. Jones would consider more of the business, & I hope he will find he has received them-the people are plain & honest, incapable, in my opinion, of any duplicity. And 1 137 of the 446 Sir John Williams' Additional' Manuscripts catalogued and described by Principal J. H. Davies in 1921 in The National Library of Wales: Catalogue of Manu- scripts, Vol. I, were bought by Sir John at the Sir Thomas Phillipps sale in March, 1895. 2 J. H. Davies, op. cit., p. viii. 3 For a portrait, together with a biographical account of W. Jones by Walter Davies, Gwallter Mechain,' see The Cambrian Register, II (London, 1799), pp. 237-51. For Jones's interest in the question of the colonization of parts of North America by Welsh people see N.L.W. MS. 13221. (Walter Davies refers to this matter in his Cambrian Register sketch.) In the same MS. and in N.L.W. MSS. 13222 and 13224 are eleven letters sent by Jones to W. Owen-Pughe. 4 For W. Jones see also N.L.W. MS. 22. 3The original is in British Museum Add. MS. 15031. There is a facsimile in N.L.W. MS. 12864.