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A transcript by Emily Hewlett Edwards of a manuscript compiled, [c. 1859], by Sir Thomas Phillips, Bart., Middle Hill, containing 'A List of names and dates of Pembrokeshire men transribed from documents preserved in Picton Castle', with letters, 1908, to Edward Laws from Francis Green and Alan Stepney-Gulston.

A copy of Robert Recorde, The Castle of Knowledge (London, 1556), with a manuscript treatise on astrology and its application to the recovery of goods lost or stolen, accounts, etc.

A transcript of a part of 'The Description of Wales' by George Owen and of a charter granted to Brecon by Philip and Mary, 1554/5; Brecknockshire pedigrees; an account of the princes of Brecon; notes on the parish of St. John the Evangelist and the borough of Brecon; an account of the parish of Llanfyrnach; and 'Collections for Devon and Cornwall copies from the Manuscripts of Sir John St. Aubyn'.

Letters and papers by or relating to Sir Thomas Picton, many of them printed in H.B. Robinson : Memoirs of Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton, G.C.B... (London, 1835). They include letters from Picton to Colonel Pleydel, his brother Edward Picton, and others, 1799-1815; letters from the Duke of Wellington to H.B. Robinson, 1835-1836; a receipt, April, 1813, from Picton for his pay as Lieutenant General in the Peninsular War; etc.

A transcript of The first booke of the preseruation of King Henry the vij, when he was but Earle of Richmond, Grandfather to the Queenes majesty : compiled in english rythmicall Hexameters ... (London, 1599).

Awdlau and cywyddau to George Owen, transcribed partly by J. Gwenogvryn Evans from Llanstephan MS 38, with English summaries of them by J.H. Davies.

A list, copied from British Museum Harleian MSS. 1933, of the justices of the peace for Pembrokeshire, 1620, and a copy of the charter granted to Haverfordwest by James I.

Transcripts by Edward Laws of documents relating to the town of Tenby, 1467-1588, including surveys of crown lands and chantries and particulars of burgage and other rent, tolls, etc.

Sermons, 1711-1736, preached at Haverfordwest, Prendergast, Manordeifi, Capel Colman, and Whitchurch, Pembrokeshire.

The diary, 1813, of Captain T. M. Jones (Cilgerran), Royal Marines.

Transcripts of two volumes of private memoranda of John Griffiths, Llandysilio, Pembrokeshire, 1759-1778 and 1786-1798, a biography of him, and extracts from the parish register of Llandysilio, 1765-1779, all in the autograph of Edward Laws; and correspondence, 1901-1908 and undated.

A scrap-book relating mainly to Pembrokeshire, and particularly to Tenby, containing newspaper cuttings; leaflets relating to parliamentary and local elections; pedigrees; illustrations; letters from Connop Thirlwall (bishop of St Davids) (1797-1875), William Basil Jones (bishop of St Davids) (1822-1897), Charles Francis Egerton Allen (1847-1927), James Allen (1802-1897), Henry Mathias (Haverfordwest), James Edmund Vincent (1857-1909) and others; a list of sheriffs of Pembrokeshire, 1540-1864, and of mayors and sheriffs of Haverfordwest, 1563-1864; etc.

Cuttings, 1886-1910, mainly from Pembrokeshire newspapers, collected by Henry Owen.

A copy, with a few manuscript notes, of George Owen Harry : The Genealogy of ... James ... King of Great Brittayne, &c. with his lineall descent from Noah, by divers direct lynes to Brutus, first Inhabiter of this Ile of Brittayne; and from him to Cadwalader, the last King of the Brittish bloud ... Where also is handled the worthy descent of his Maiesties ancestor Owen Tudyr ... (London, 1604).

Press cuttings, etc., collected probably by George Leader Owen (d. 1905), Withybush, Pembrokeshire, brother of Henry Owen and author of Notes on the History and Text of Our Early English Bible, and of its Translation into Welsh (London, 1901).

A transcript of a collection of pedigrees of Carmarthenshire, Cardiganshire, and Pembrokeshire families.

Manuscript and printed pedigrees of several Pembrokeshire families, etc.

A transcript, 1903, by E.A. Lewis of an inquisition, September 23, 1651, relating to the charities bequeathed by James Haward, formerly of Gray's Inn, to the poor of Rudbaxton and to the Hospital of Haverfordwest.

Transcripts of documents relating to the family of de la Roch of Roch Castle and Langum, Pembrokeshire.

Miscellaneous papers collected by Henry Owen, most of them of Pembrokeshire interest.