Ffeil TH1/1. - County officials' papers,

Papers deriving from the appointments and duties of county officials, comprising an account of 'rescues' (recovery of distrained goods) from the constable [c. 1576]; information from witnesses concerning a captured merchant ship from St Malo, Brittany, stranded by a storm at Pwllheli, 1589, a shipwreck in Anglesey, 1603, and a vessel from Constantinople [c. 1660]; an enquiry to identify sons of Caernarfonshire gentlemen sent to be educated overseas, suspected of being papists [c. 1593]; petition to William Maurice from a soldier confined in Caernarfon Castle [post-1595]; exemplification of previous documents from 1506-1507, releasing the inhabitants of Merionethshire, Anglesey and Caernarfonshire from specified ancient customs and exactions, 1604; regulations concerning recusants, tipplers and alehouses, 1605; a warrant to the sheriff to prepare for the Petty Sessions for Eifionydd at Dolbenmaen, 1617; appointments by Sir John Owen of his deputy vice-admirals, 1660; letters patent appointing Owen Wynne of Ystumcegid sheriff of Caernarfonshire, 1675; and a bond of indemnity to William Ormsby-Gore, county sheriff, by his deputies, 1820.