Wales: large original bundle containing letters and notes, many of them in connection...

Letters found loose within the bundle:

CR 2017/TP20/1 Hugh Davies at Aber to Thomas Pennant, 5th Dec. 1794, about the flora round Holywell and a dreadful storm and gales on Anglesey.

CR 2017/TP20/2 Am. Lloyd at Pengwern Place to Thomas Pennant at Downing, 18th Mar. 1795: on Sir Edward's illness, the lack of grain seeds, the trees planted by Sir Edward [v. Whiteford (printed 1796) p.172].

CR 2017/TP20/3 P[?Paul] Panton [?(1731-1797) the Welsh antiquary or his son] at Plasgwyn to the same, 11th Sept. 1795, about the smelting works at Nantymoch [v. Holywell (printed 1796) p.276] and Thomas ap Rhys ap Howell of Stokyn's volume of Welsh poems and prophecies.

CR 2017/TP20/4-5 Henry parry in Holywell to thesame, 29th April - and undated, on the descent of Tudor Trevor, etc. [cf. Whiteford p.26], local information on a coat of arms, the silver rake and the river bank works (v. Holywell, pp.240,273-274].

CR 2017/TP20/6 W. Smedley to the same at Downing, undated, about the collection of calx [v. Holywell, p.274].

CR 2017/TP20/7 Thomas Thoresby at Holywell to [the same], 7th Aug. 1795: on diseases in this parish including the Bellon suffered by lead miners [c.f.Whiteford, p.128].

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CR 2017/TP20/8 ?R[ichard]M[uilman] Trench Chiswell [(1735?-1797) antiquary] at Debden Hall [Essex] to [the same] 12th Oct. 1794, about the publication of the Welsh Tour [?Pennant's publisher].

CR 2017/TP20/9 Thomas Edwards at Saithailwyd to the same at Downing, 6th July 1795: on the weight of picks and wedges.

CR 2017/TP20/10 [John] Jones at Holywell Vitriol Works to the same at Downing, 4th Sept. 1795, answering Henry Parry's queries as to the uses made of vitriol, sugar of lead and other articles made at the Vitriol Works [v. Holywell, p.266].

CR 2017/TP20/11 P[?aul] Panton [see No CR2017/3.] at Plasgwyn to the same, 21st Aug. 1795, sending him the account he wished for, ?that of the 1648 attempt to restore the King in Anglesey in this bundle.

CR 2017/TP20/12 S. S[mall] to the Rev. Mr. Parry, 3rd Aug. 1795: about the attempt by the River Dee Co. to render its property extra-parochial between the common on the marsh below Holywell parish and the Channel [v. Holywell, pp.189-190].

CR 2017/TP20/13 Christopher Smalley in Holywell to [Thomas Pennant], 11th Aug. 1795, sending particulars about the buildings, employees and workings of the mill of the Cotton Twist Co., including information on the boarding and lodging of the 300 apprentices.[v. Holywell,pp.215-217)

CR 2017/TP20/14 Pennant's "Running Index" to [Whitford ]with corrections and additions in his own hand.

CR 2017/TP20/15-20 Notes [not in Pennant's hand] about the mills and their water supplies at Holywell, about burials in the Griffiths' family of Trelau in 1743 [v. Holywell, p.280], the Pennants of Kilken, pedigrees of the Mostyns of Caulcot [Calcot] in the 17thc and the Myttons of Halston (17c.) Part of an index in connection with Pennant's work on India in his own hand.

Folder containing the following letters and documents:

CR 2017/TP20/21 Hugh Davis at Aber to Thomas Pennant at Downing, 10th Aug. 1795, about the local flora.

CR 2017/TP20/22-24 S. Small at Holywell to the same at Downing, 11th Aug. 1795, about a mining lease, with Mr. Small's notes sent to Pennant via H. Parry about the local mill, the coal adventurers and local industries.

CR 2017/TP20/25-29 Notes about local (Holywell) industry, the water falls from Holywell stream, etc.

CR 2017/TP20/30 Rough draft in Pennant's handwriting of part of Whiteford, basically the version published in 1796 on pp.98-121; proof of pp.121-128; copy of the section on earthquakes, damps in collieries, etc. being pp.127-142 of the same, part of which is printed; a few notes (some by Pennant) and a letter from J. Jones at the Vitriol Works [Holywell] to the Rev. Mr. Parry not found to relate directly to Whiteford and Holywell, but placed between pp.98-121.

CR 2017/TP20/31-40 Notes relating to information recorded in Whiteford: on Welsh genealogy (p.27); W. Taylor of Norwich, 15th Dec. 1794, on the origin of brandy (p.42); note of Mary Bradshaw alias Williams' legacy to the charity school (pp.100-101); epitaphs (p.111, pp.117-8); plan showing boundaries (cf. p. 121); notes about the collieries of Mostyn and Bychton (p.133); plants (pp. 153,155); minerals (pp.132-3).

CR 2017/TP20/41-46 Notes relating to information recorded in Holywell: Pennant's ?draft index to Holywell; information probably sent by Joseph Thomas, superintendent, about the New Rolling Mill including a statement that the employees of copper manufactories remain healthy because of their careful habits (pp.208-211), the corroding quality of the Holywell stream and local mining, smelting works etc., the Bagillt turnpike, Aug 1795, (pp. 233-4, 261-4, 274-6, 281-2) an epitaph (p.239); the calcining works (p.277); other industrial queries and answers used in Holywell.

CR 2017/TP20/47 Proof sheets (pp.43-48) for the section on Flint in Tours in Wales, vol.1 part 1 of the 1810 edition.

CR 2017/TP20/48-59 Miscellaneous notes etc., some in Pennant's hand, perhaps relating to the work done for Tours in Wales and Whiteford and Holywell, including notes on the attempt by the islanders of Anglesey to restore the monarchy in 1648 in the hand of P. Panton; extracts from Plutarch's Life of Pompey; an unsigned letter from Downing, 1st Feb. 1795, about food prices and the wretchedness of the poor; notes on the difference between transom and quarry windows.