Welsh Journals

1 For pedigrees and information about the family see Theophilus Jones, A History of the County of Brecknock (Glanusk edn.), 1909-30, vol. IV, pp. 2-3, NLW MS. 1598, ff. 89, 91, 100, 2i4v-2i6 and Harl. MS. 5058, ff. 4, 4v, 16v, 32. 2 References in Acts of the Privy Council and Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1585-1600, and C. A. Bradford, Blanche Parry, Queen Elizabeth's Gentle-woman, [1935], pp. 24-25. 3 Acts of the Privy Council, 1586, pp. 88-89. 4 Inquisition post mortem 45 Eliz. 5 Inquisition post mortem 16 James I, will proved 1618, P.C.C. 6 Harl. MS. 5058, f. 32. 7 Games, John, Gilbert and George, Joan, Elizabeth, Margaret and Catherine, of whom Gilbert, Joan and Elizabeth died young. See NLW MS. 1598, f.91, and Harl. MS. 5058, ff. 4, 4V, 26. 7a Theophilus Jones, op. cit., vol. IV, p. 190. I am much obliged to my colleague D. Emrys Williams for drawing my attention to this note of the tomb-stone inscription. 8 op. cit., vol. IV, p. 155. 9 A Catalogue of the manuscripts relating to Wales in the British Museum, 1900-22, pp. 432-7. 10 Other authorities cited apparently first-hand (not via Lewys Dwnn) are 'llyfr Dafydd Goch Brydydd' and pedigrees drawn by D. Powell (perhaps the historian). 11 Griffith Davies was a Customs officer at Harwich. There are references to him in the Morris letters. Two other genealogical manuscripts once owned by him are B.M. Egerton 2585 (Lewys Dwnn's great South West Wales collection) and NLW 1602, at the end of which he added his own pedigree. 12 Apart from other authorities cited via Lewys Dwnn there are references to 'llyfr parsmt Teilo escob Llandafe' (f. 16), 'Tho. Johnes' (f. 28v), 'Hopk. booke' (f. 61v, perhaps one of the Breck- nock painters of arms, Hopcyn ab Einion or Walter Hopkins) and 'Morgan Prees ap Wm his collections' (f. 109v); Richard Parry also refers to 'my Herefsh boke' (f. 19) 'my litle boke of Heref' (f. 44v), 'my white boke' (f. 77), 'my litle boke' (ff. 62v, 78v) and 'my other brode boke, the notes gathered there out of the old boke of the Abbey of Lantarnam' (f. 107v). 13 Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1948, pp. 378-386. 14 Llyfr Baglan, ed. J. A. Bradney, 1910, p. 122. 15 George Owen Harry, The Genealogy of the High and Mighty James 1604, clearly the pattern for Richard Parry's work. 16 Neither manuscript is among those for which Wanley left clues to their source, cf. The Diary of Humfrey Wanley, 171 5-1726 (ed. C. E. & Ruth C. Wright), 1966, 'Numerical Table'. 17 Newton, the home of Edward Games, see below. 18 N. R. Ker, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain, 2nd edn., 1964, lists two surviving Llantamam manuscripts. Possibly Edward Games's manuscript survives and awaits identification. 19 Cf. similar material by Sion Dafydd Rhys in Peniarth MS. 118, including lines of the Scottish royal house. John Davies of Mallwyd showed little interest in genealogy. 20 The use of these is not an argument that can be pressed: Richard Parry at times used Siôn Dafydd Rhys's orthography in his own writing. 21 If this identification is correct we have proof that Siôn Dafydd Rhys was still alive in 1619: on f. 27 Richard Parry writes 'I will insert here an altercation of Dr. Davies (not without his permission and consent I assure the Reader)