THE dissolution of the religious houses in Wales in the reign of
Henry the Eighth, and the dispersion of their libraries, led to
many Welsh MSS., which had been preserved in them, passing into the
hands of private individuals; and collections of Welsh MSS. soon
began to be formed by persons who took an interest in the history
and literature of their country. The principal collectors in North
Wales were Mr. Jones of Gelly Lyvdy, whose collection was formed
between the years 1590 and 1630, and Mr. Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt,
author of a work termed British Antiquities Revived, published in
1662, who died at Hengwrt four years after, in 1666; and in South
Wales, William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, who formed a collection
at Raglan Castle in 1590; and Sir Edward Mansel, whose father had
received a gift of the priory of Margam in Glamorgan, in 1591. The
collections of Mr. Jones and Mr. Vaughan became united at Hengwrt,
in arrangement having been made between them that the MSS.
collected by each should become the property of the survivor. Mr.
Jones having predeceased Mr. Vaughan, the united collection,
consisting of upwards of 400 MSS., remained at Hengwrt till within
the last few years, when it was bequeathed by Sir Robert Vaughan of
Hengwrt to W. W. E. Wynne, Esq. of Peniarth, in whose possession it
now is.
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