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A copy of the genealogy of the Mostyn family by Randle Holme of Chester (1663) in the hand of Robert Vaughan.

A letter, in English, from Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt to James Ussher, archbishop of Armagh, concerning the dating of various historical events (pp. 1-44); and cywyddau and awdlau of Tudur Penllyn, Ieuan Tudur Penllyn and Dafydd Nanmor in the hand of Robert Vaughan (pp. 45-171).

John Davies, Antiquae Linguae Britannicae .... et Linguae Latinae Dictionarium Duplex (London, 1632), with marginal insertions and with additional texts at the beginning and the end partly in the hand of Robert Vaughan (1592?-1666), Hengwrt, Merionethshire. The additions include '15 qual[i]ties of a good horse', 'Pymth[eg] cynneddf march da', 'Am yr Attaliadau. A'u Gwir Ddeunydd' ('Y mae chwe mâth o attaliadau mewn Llyfrau printiedig ac mewn Yscrifen ... '), two 'englynion' by John Davies in a copy of his dictionary presented to Rolant Vychan of Caergai, 'An admonition for the reading of the British words', 'Geiriau or Un Swn ac nid o'r un Feddwl', and 'The Numbers, Names, qualities, Royalties, Footings, Degrees of Age etc. of Beasts of the Forests according as they are termed of skillfull Forresters and Woodmen' (the latter from John Guillim, A Display of Heraldrie). On the inside lower cover is a paste-down of the certificate of subscription, 20 March 1767, by Thomas Owen of Jesus College, Oxford [rector of Upton Scudamore, Wiltshire, from 1779 until his death in 1812.].

A miscellaneous gathering of papers, some of which have been endorsed by Bishop Humphreys: (a) papers relating to Denbighshire, including extracts from the Survey of 1334 (ff. 3-7); (b) copies of papers relating to the petition (1619) of Thomas Canon, Surveyor of Crown lands in South Wales, concerning the supplanting of the mountain thieves of Wales, and disposing habitations in convenient places (see Calendar of State Papers. Domestic 1619-1623, p. 55) (ff. 8-9); (c) copy of a list of the inhabitants of Anglesey who were amerced for being in arms and rebellion with Owen Glyndyfrdwy, 1406, with a table of the fines, copies of the jury panels, and a list of outlaws (a portion, the lists for the commote of Llivon from a fragment found among Edward Lhuyd's papers, was published in Archaeologia Cambrensis, 3rd ser., 5 (1859), pp. 177-180; Browne Willis, in A Survey of the Cathedral Church of Bangor... (London, 1721), pp. 84-85, quotes from a copy of this record, which he saw in the collection of the then Dean of Bangor) (ff. 61-90); (d) a seventeenth century Welsh calendar (ff. 10-16); (e) 'Catalogus Alphabeticus s[anc]torum Cambrobritannicae', by Bishop Humphreys (ff. 17-22); (f) copies of papers on British Chronology sent by Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt to Archbishop [James] Us[s]her (c.f. NLW MS 3044B) (ff. 23-51).

An incomplete transcript by Robert Vaughan of the Peniarth 20 version of Brut y Tywysogion with interpolations in the same hand from Brenhinedd y Saeson, followed by brief Latin annals: the death of Llewelyn, 1282, the rising of Owain Glyndwr, 1401, the death of Walter Barlee, master of Halston, 1442, the battle of Shrewsbury, 1403, the death of Owain Glyndwr on the feast of St. Matthew, 1415, the death of the Duke of York, the battle of St. Albans, the accession of Edward IV, the death of Alson Gwyn, 1429, the death of Robert Trevor, 1452, an eclipse of the sun, 1433, the death of Henry V, 1422, the famine of 1439, with price of corn at Shrewsbury, the death of Thomas Earl of Arundel, 1415, the death of Robert, bishop of St. Asaph, 1433, the death of Edward ap Dd., 1448, and the death of Ieuan ap Adda ap Ierwerth, 1448, [1612x1667] (pp. 1-16); together with a list of the barons of Dinmael in the hand of Robert Lloyd, surveyor, [17 cent., ?second ¼] (pp. 17-22); and extracts from the pedigrees of Gwynedd families copied out of the collections of Lewis Dwnn, [1699] (pp. 1-24).

A catalogue, in the autograph of Robert Vaughan, of the books and manuscripts in the Hengwrt library, [c. 1659].

Rough notes by Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt, on early British history; a list of Cumbrian Kings; British and Saxon chronology; the rivers of Britain; a list of Gwentian kings; notes on Welsh saints and kings; genealogies; a writ issued by Robert Vaughan, 7 May 1658, for the binding over of Richard Griffith ap Rees and Owen Morris of Llanddwywe, yeomen, to keep the peace towards Margret Evan of Llanddwywe. Many of the notes are written on mutilated letters addressed to Robert Vaughan. On the original covers, bound in at the end of the volume, is the incomplete text of a grant of an annuity issuing out of Y Towr Maen in Trawsvynyth from Richard Nanney of Llanylltyd to Cadwaladr ap Humfrey (ff. 95-96).

A transcript of pp. 1029-1035 of Robert Vaughan's Book of Pedigrees (Peniarth MS 287).

A volume in the hand of Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) containing pedigrees taken from the manuscripts of Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt (pp. 1-95); together with copies of the marginalia from the Book of St Chad in Lichfield Cathedral, being some of the earliest known examples of written Welsh (pp. 113-126); etc.

A volume in the hand of Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) consisting mostly of commentary, by Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt, on Welsh triads, in particular the 'Keyreu'. The views of William Camden on various subjects and places are rebutted, and there are numerous references to, and quotations from, early geographers and historians. The text is apparently left unfinished.

Extracts in the autograph of Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd), including the notes of Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt, on the History of the Welsh princes, copied from Sir John Price, A Description of Wales (Oxford, 1663) (ff. 1-53 verso, 120-122); material relating to Sir Thomas Wiliems and to his Dictionary (ff. 53c); and extracts from Antony à Wood's Athenæ Oxoniensis (ff. 55-66). The manuscript also contains poetry, the poets cited including Iolo Goch, Tudur Aled and Dafydd ab Edmwnd (ff. 97-119); etc.

A volume in the autograph of Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) containing transcripts 'From a MS. of Mr. Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt' (p. 1) and from Jesus College MS 2, including lists of rivers in England, Wales and Scotland (pp. 6-27); brief entries and extracts in Latin, Welsh and English referring chiefly to Welsh princes, bishops and saints, in some instances giving dates and pedigrees which were apparently gleaned from the Book of Llandâf (pp. 29-135); a transcript of 'Teir drut aerfa Ynys Prydain', with a translation and commentary in English (pp. 137-141); etc.

A collection of pedigrees compiled by and in the hand of Robert Vaughan, with marginal notes and references.
Also included are additions in various hands and fifteen loose folios belonging to another manuscript by Robert Vaughan. Some of the text has been restored by W. W. E. Wynne.

Three incomplete manuscripts in the autograph of Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt: (a) An alphabetical list of Welsh personal names and place-names, A-C, with some identifications. Opposite the entry 'Asser mab Efrog cadarn brenhin ynys Brydain', Iolo Morganwg has written 'Wonderful ignorance, in Mr Vaughan of Hengwrt' (22 ff., mutilated); (b) A Chronology of British History from Vortigern to Cadwaladr, followed by what Robert Vaughan terms a 'digression' repairing some errors and explaining some obscure points in the same. In it he refers to a copy of Gildas' Epistle De excidio Britanniae seen by his 'cousin Jon. Jones an antiquary of our countrey' with Sir Robert Cotton, kt and bart. There are also references to 'Coch Asaph'. This essay appears to be a draft and there is a break at p. [18], (17 ff., of which the last two are blank; unnumbered except after the break referred to); (c) A chronicle of Welsh history from 972 to 993 (incomplete). This also appears to be a draft (8 ff., of which the last three are blank).

A volume, [early 17 cent.], containing a concordance of the Welsh Bible in the hand of Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt. This manuscript was discovered by the Rev. Evan Evans (Ieuan Brydydd Hir, 1731-1788) at Bala in 1765 (see Gweithiau Ieuan Brydydd Hir, p. 199); he intended to print the manuscript at Carmarthen (ibid, p. 205). As a concordance, it is vastly inferior to that of Abel Morgan which was printed at Philadelphia in 1730, and also to that of Peter Williams, published at Carmarthen in 1773.

A commonplace book compiled by Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt, which was later in the possession of Griffith Roberts, surgeon, Dolgelley. It contains poems by Taliesin and others, pedigrees, copies of charters, extracts from historical records and annals, a list of the bishops of Bangor (compiled between 1598 and 1616), lists of owners of Welsh manuscripts and books, recipes, archaeological notes, and miscellaneous memoranda.

A draft tract entitled 'Proofes drawne from authorities and other reasons why Cadelh prince of Southwales was the eldest sonne of Roderic the greate (kinge of Wales) and that he and his issue after him had a superioritie over the rest of Wales and his two bretheren and the descendantes from them' by, and in the autograph of, Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt. The substance of this tract was subsequently incorporated in Vaughan's British Antiquities Revived (Oxford, 1662). The volume contains both the arguments and answers set forth by Vaughan and therefore differs considerably from Peniarth MS 277 which contains only the arguments.
Pasted inside the front cover is a short description of the volume in the form of a cutting from Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge’s Sale Catalogue of the Mostyn Library (1919), p. 22.

A printed book: Robert Vaughan, British Antiquities revived: or A friendly Contest touching the soveraignty of the three Princes of VVales in ancient times ... (Oxford, 1662).
A letter from Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt to Mr John Kain [Siôn Cain] at Oswestry, dated October 1635, is pasted inside the front cover.

An incomplete holograph manuscript of an exposition by Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt, of the triads called 'Trioedd Ynys Prydain'. The text begins with the breadth of the island according to the second triad, and ends abruptly in the middle of an exposition of the seventh triad in the series.

A survey of Merioneth by and in the autograph of Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt.