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A volume in the hand of J. H. Davies containing extracts from manuscript and printed sources and from public records largely relating to Cardiganshire (e.g. family pedigrees, with references to the life and work of Dafydd ap Gwilym; ministers' accounts, with lists of officers of commotes; rentals and surveys, court rolls, inquisitions post mortem, etc.).

A business letter book, slightly mutilated, of D[avid] M[organ], Glanvread [parish of Llanfihangel Genau'r-glyn, Cardiganshire], 28 February 1781-10 January 1786, almost entirely relating to the operation of the writer's iron forge [known in modern times as 'Ffatri Forge'], with copious references to the purchase of pig iron, of castings and of timber, to the remittance of bills, and to the sale and shipment of iron bars and bark. There are also references to the repair of the forge, the detention in Dublin of the master of the sloop Royal George of Aberystwyth belonging to Edward Humphreys and the writer, to the payment of rents, and to the Cardigan county and boroughs parliamentary election of 1784. The recipients include J. Mirehouse, D. Williams, Raiadr, Ed. and Robt Whiteside, Lancaster, Messrs Ogle & Maxwell, Dundalk, Jno. Hazledine, carp[ente]r at Withyford Forge near Wem, [Thomas] Makeig [III, d. 1794], Penlan [parish of Llandygwydd], W. Jones, Eurglawdd [parish of Llangynfelyn], John Rees, New Inn, near Lampeter, J. Lloyd, Machynlleth, Messrs Glenny, Newry, Messrs Pritchard & Barlow, merchants, Bristol, Chas Probert, Rugeley, O. Jones, Machynlleth, Jona. Kendall, Lea Forge, near Stone, the Reverend Morgan, Kemsey, near Tewksbury, Philip Stephens, Admiralty, W[illia]m Latham, Duddon Furnace, Samuel Routh, junior, Lancaster, Matt[he]w Harrison, Conistone, near Kendall (Newland Furn[ace]), My. Postlethwayte, Backburrrow Furn[ace], near Ulverstone, Sylvanus Nugent, Penygored, John Rigby, Hawarden, Tho[ma]s Sunderland, Ulverstone, Messrs Atkinson & Co., Sirhowy Furnace, near Abergavenny, Jno. Hayton [?or Heaton], Gwersyllt W[ire] Mills, near Wrexham, Samuel Routh, Lancaster, John Fayle, Dovey Furnace [parish of Eglwys-fach], J. Walker, Seaton Iron Works, near Workington, Messrs Spedding, Hicks & Co., Seaton, James Gibbons, Lightmoor, Jno. Nailor, Old Dock, L[iver]pool, [ ] Lloyd, grocer, near the Boot, Carnarvon, [ ] Williams, blacksmith, Bethgele[r]t, Rich[ar]d Griffith, Boot, Carnarvon, W. Bancks, Benthall, Humph[re]y Lloyd, Carnarvon, D[avi]d Williams, Porthamel, Anglesey, [ ] Davies, Wileirog [Llanfihangel Genau'r-glyn], Joseph Vaughan, Llanelly Ir[on] W[or]ks, Abergaveny, Geo[rge] Knott, Coniston, near Kendall, Sam[ue]l Parry, ironmonger, Chester, Tho[mas] Golightly, L[iver]pool, Capt. W. Julian [?of Aberystwyth], W. Edwards, Bangor, J. Parry, Aberystw[yth], Benj. Clubb, ironmonger, Chester, Rob[er]t Ow. Owens, Carnarvon, Jno. Morris, Carnarvon, the Clerk of Netherhall Furn[ace], near Cockermouth, Ed. Kendall, Beauf[or]t Furnace, Abergavenny, O. Thomson, Chester, [ ] Young, Crosswood, William Powell, Pwllhely, Richd Parsons, Cadoxton near Neath, W[illia]m Wood, Hirwain Furnace, near Brecon, Rob. Inman, Lancaster, E. Anwyl, John Franklen, Llanmihangel, near Cowbridge, W. Rees, Tregaron, Messrs Cox & Merle, London, Capt. Ch. Griffith at Penpompren (parish of Llanfihangel Genau'r-glyn), W. Hallen, B[ridge]north, J. Lloyd, Rayader, Ed. Hughes, grocer, Salop, Rich[ar]d Howell, Carmarthen, etc., etc. At the end of the volume are nine pages of an inventory of household furniture, implements of husbandry and other stock at Ynys Eidol [parish of Eglwys-fach], May 1766, and disbursements on account of the farm, 1767-9.

A nineteenth century translation of a rental, 1577, of the lands of the dissolved monastery of Strata Florida, Cardiganshire, the original document being Crosswood I, 75. The rental contains details of leases, 1485- , giving tenants, rents, heriots, services, etc. for the granges of Pennarth, Cwmustoith, Henhynock and Morva Mawr, Blaynayron, Meveneth and Havodwen. There are also a few later memoranda, 1581-91.

A notebook containing extracts transcribed by J. H. Davies (a) 'from a Translation of Rent Roll for the Manors &c of the monastery of Strata Florida' [see Cwrtmawr MS 873D] and (b) from a copy of the defendant's answer, 14 May 1743, in a lawsuit between Dorothy, Lady Lisburne, and Wilmot (Vaughan), Viscount Lisburne, containing lists of rents and tenants' names. The original of (b) is inserted loose in the notebook (pp. 1-2 wanting) and there is also a letter to J. H. Davies from Herbert M. Vaughan, Llangoedmore, Cardigan, who was the owner, it seems, of the document. Also within the notebook are observations by S. M. P[owell] headed 'Pant. Tregaron' and beginning 'Some things struck Mr Lloyd and myself in reading your notes.'.