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Rh on Wales (Notes and Queries, 5th ser. xi. 154;, Biog. Dict. ed. 1815, xx. 235). Lhuyd also wrote an ode in Cornish on the death of William III, ‘Carmen Britannicum Dialecto Cornubiensi,’ &c. He also contributed a great number of papers to the ‘Philosophical Transactions’ (Nos. 166, 200, 208, 213, 229, 243, 252, 269, 292, 295, 314, 316, 334, 335, 336, the last seven being published after his death).

Lhuyd's manuscript collections relating to Celtic antiquities consisted of above forty volumes in folio, ten in quarto, and above a hundred of a smaller size. About four years after his death they were offered for sale both to the university and to Jesus College, but owing to a quarrel which Lhuyd had with Dr. Wynne, then fellow of Jesus, and afterwards bishop of St. Asaph, the purchase was declined, and they were sold to Sir Thomas Sebright of Beechwood in Hertfordshire (, Eminent Welshmen, p. 290). The Irish portion of these were given in 1786 by Sir John Sebright to Trinity College, Dublin, where they are still preserved (Notes and Queries, 5th ser. iv. 89, 90). Another portion of Lhuyd's collection, including four volumes of parchment Welsh manuscripts, known as the ‘Didrefn Gasgliad,’ now form MSS. 113 C. 18–21 in the collection of the Earl of Macclesfield at Shirburn Castle, being probably a part of a bequest of books made to the second earl by William Jones (1675–1749) [q. v.] The rest were sold at Sotheby's in London in April 1807, when most of them were bought by Sir Watkin Williams Wynn of Wynnstay, Denbighshire (sale catalogue of the Sebright library; an account of the sale is given in Gent. Mag. 1807, i. 419); but the best part of these were destroyed a few years later by a fire that broke out in the establishment of a binder in London, whither they had been sent (Eminent Welshmen, l.c.) Rawlinson MSS. B. 464–9 in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, which relate to Wales, probably belonged to Lhuyd, No. 464 being one of two existing autograph copies of his so-called ‘Itinerary’ (, Pembrokeshire, ed. 1892, p. xx, note).

A great number of Lhuyd's letters to different correspondents have been preserved and published: sixty-four are among the Peniarth MSS., of which twenty were printed in the ‘Cambrian Quarterly Magazine,’ and the remainder in the ‘Archæologia Cambrensis’ (see General Index to Arch. Cambr. 1892, sub ‘Lhuyd’). Besides these there have been printed from other sources four in the ‘Cambrian Register’ and four in the ‘Cambro-Briton.’ Twelve letters written by him to T. Tonkin with reference to Cornish antiquities are appended to Pryce's ‘Archæologia Cornu-Britannica,’ Sherborne, 1790, 4to. His correspondence with Henry Rowland is printed in that author's ‘Mona Antiqua,’ pp. 301–18; his letters to Dr. Richard Richardson are given in Nichols's ‘Literary Illustrations,’ i. 316–21, while his letters to Aubrey between 1686 and 1694 are still preserved at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It appears that William Huddesford [q. v.] had collected materials for a memoir of Lhuyd, but died before publishing it (, op. cit. i. 586, vi. 474); it is very probable that his materials were utilised by Nicholas Owen, who in 1777 published in his ‘British Remains,’ London, 8vo, a memoir of Lhuyd, ‘transcribed from a manuscript in the Ashmolean Museum,’ with valuable notes by the editor himself.

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LIARDET, FRANCIS (1798–1863), captain in the navy, second son of John Liardet by the Lady Perpetue Catherine de Paul de Lamanon d'Albe, was born at Chelsea on 14 June 1798. He entered the navy in 1809, on board the Mercury frigate, with Captain the Hon. Henry Duncan, in the Mediterranean. In March 1810 he was transferred to the Belvidera frigate, with Captain Richard Byron, on the coast of Africa, and afterwards on the North American station, and was slightly wounded in her running fight with and escape from the United States' squadron under Commodore Rodgers on 23 June 1812 (, Naval Hist. 1860, v. 357;, Naval War of 1812, p. 74). After an active commission the Belvidera was paid off in October 1814, and for the next two years he served in the West Indies on board the Warrior and Forester sloop. After the peace he devoted himself for some time to the study of mathematics and navigation, and in 1819 went a voyage to the East Indies as mate of a merchant ship. In May 1821 Liardet was appointed to the