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Peniarth ms 118, foo., 829=837. INTRODUCTION, TRANSCRIPT AND TRANSLATION, By HUGH OWEN, M.A., Exhibitioner at Liverpool University Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Jntroduction, THE accompanying extract from the Peniarth MS. 118 (foolscap folio) was written by John David Rhys'­-better known as Sion Dafydd Rhys-about the year 1600. In addition to writing parts of Peniarth MSS, 118, 252, 270, 316; Cardiff MS. 18, and Llanstephan MSS. 41, 55, 56, 79,2 he published a Welsh Grammar in 1592 he died in 1617, aged 80 years.' Sion Dafydd Rhys's handwriting is fairly legible and needs little comment: in the following transcript the symbols 6 and ii are written w and nn respectively. An examination of the photographic reproduction of fo. 835 (facing p. 142), which is one quarter of the actual size, 1 Verified by Mr. T. Gwynn Jones, who is familiar with John David Rhys' handwriting. 2 Dr. Gwenogvryn Evans' Report on MSS. in the Welsh Language. Peniarth MS. 118, fo. 297 contains an autograph letter of W. Mydleton from Wilton, dated 1st Feb., 1582, to Dr. Davies, i.e., Dr. John Dd. Rhys. On fo. 300 of the same MS. are Two para- graphs in Latin enjoining Wm: ap Howell, Dd ap Dd: ap Morgan, and Tho: Vaughan to hold their agreement with John David, Doctor of Medicine, concerning a dwelling house, a barn and two gardens in burgo Brecon 3 Rowlands, Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry, p. 63, but Rowlands does not give his sources for the date of J. D. R's death.