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An imperfect rental for lands in the parish of Cenarth, Carmarthenshire, being part of the Golden Grove estate, the property of the Duke and Duchess of Bolton. Entries on f. 5v correspond to those on ff. 5v-6 of NLW MS 21798A. Later additions include an entry for rent received, 1775 (inverted text f. 33) and pencil notes of 'Wood Sold', May-October 1773 (inverted text, ff. 1-2v, 12v, 20v-1v).

Religious verse in Welsh, mostly anonymous, including a poem of farewell to Henry Rees of Shrewsbury by 'A.O.' (ff. 40v-41), a poem entitled 'Galarnad Dafydd am ei fab Absalom' (ff. 44-45), verses entitled 'Coffadwriaeth o Gymdeithasiad y Bala Mehefin 1821' by 'W.W.' ?Dolwyddelan (ff. 45v-47v) and similar verses commemorating the Calvinistic Methodist Association at Cardigan, 1796, by John Evan of Argoed, parish of Cenarth (ff. 48-50), together with hymn-tunes and rough jottings.

Papers, 1720-[19 cent, first ½], connected with the parishes of Newcastle Emlyn and Cenarth, Carmarthenshire, comprising an eighteenth century rent book and rental for properties in Cenarth; a notebook containing hymn-tunes, arithmetical problems, etc.; and nineteenth century religious verse.

Notebook containing arithmetical problems (ff. 1-35), sketches of local views (ff. 71v, 74v, 75v, 104v), hymns in English and Welsh (ff. 112v-24, inverted text) and hymn-tunes (ff. 125v-50v, inverted text), together with an index to the tunes (ff. 151-62v, inverted text).

Rent book for Tyddyn Pendre and Tir y Dre, parish of Cenarth, Carmarthenshire, being part of the estate of the Vaughan family of Golden Grove, containing details of rent paid by the successive tenants, William Melcher and Griffith Thomas, to Charles [Powlett], 3rd duke of Bolton, to John Vaughan of Shenfield, Essex, who inherited the estate in 1752, and to his son Richard Vaughan.