Leases of rotten stone from Afon Giedd at Twyn Melin in the manor of Palleg (1775 and 1777), coal and stone on the Palleg estate (1798 and 1820), and a lease of Nant Stallwm and the coal and stone under the common and mountain of Drim (1823).
Papers relating to a lease by W. Gilbertson of the Pontardawe Steel, Tinplate & Galvanizing Works, for the right to take silica stone from the bed of the Afon Giedd and also from the beds of the Twrch and the Gwys, the latter rights having been surrendered by the Brynhenllys Colliery of Upper Cwm-twrch.
Leases, 1878-1895, and related papers, including relating to coal and ironstone at Brynhenllys, Waunllwyd, Penywern and Tredeg, including to the Gilwen Iron & Tin Plate Co. Ltd and the Colbren Coal Co. Ltd.
Letters and related papers relating to the 1892 transfer of George Simpson's 1892 lease of the seams of coal comprising the Aber-craf colliery to the International Water & Sewerage Purification Co. Ltd. In 1893 the lease was sub-let to La Campagne Francaise des Anthracites du Pays de Galles. Papers relating to the 1898 sale by Henry Farnham Burke of his 1892 lease of the adjoining Aber-craf collieries to Messrs Francois Felix Depeaux of Rouen, France, merchant, the grant in 1899 of a new lease, and a dispute relating to the drainage of water between the two collieries. Papers relating to Drym colliery, let to Messrs Andrews, Davies & Dupont, who went into liquidation on 9 May 1904, after which the colliery was re-let to the Dulais Anthracite Collieries Co. (established 1905).
At the end of the volume is a series of medicinal recipes entitled "Herbarium Meddygion [sic] Myddfai", followed by a list of plants and their medicinal uses entitled "Materia Medica Alphabetica".
Leases and other papers, including relating to Bethania CM chapel, formerly part of Penshingrug Farm, 1894, an assignment of Ebenezer Congregational chapel, formerly part of the garden of the Tredegar Arms, 1896, Pontfaen CM chapel, 1899, and land at Gwys railway station, 1899-1900.
Leases and other papers, including relating to Cwm-twrch temperance hall, 1910-1911, Upper Cwm-twrch Church of England mission room, 1911, and a chapel at Lower Cwm-twrch, 1912.