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A register of the overseers and parish constables of the hundreds of Kemes, Dewsland, Roose, and Dungleddy, 1864-1879.

A heraldic manuscript probably compiled by, and in the hand of, George Owen, in which he blazons the arms of over sixty members of eminent Pembrokeshire families. The work contains some gaps and later additions and corrections have been added by George Owen.

A volume originally containing seventeen numbered manuscript maps, with acreages, of the Trewern estate in the parishes of Llanddewi Felffre and Narberth, Pembrokeshire, Llangynin, Llanboidy and Llanwinio, Carmarthenshire, and Blaen-porth and Llangoedmor, Cardiganshire, by Alfred Thomas, land surveyor, 1826. The original foliation was disturbed, probably during rebacking, so that the index and map and acreages no. 1 are now ff. 36-40, and three maps (nos 9, 10, 12) have been lost. Two other maps, 1880s, of farms in the parish of Llanddewi Felffre have been tipped in (ff. 29, 34) and details of acreages added on the blank leaves of the original volume. Other later additions, 1873-1893, include plans and details of acreages of farms in the parish of Meidrim, Carmarthenshire (ff. 31 verso-3, 42 verso-3).

'Short Pedegrees of Divers, Noble-Men, Knights, Esquires, Gentlemen and Women of Pembrook-shire; containing All, or most of the Eight Ancestors from whom they are Descended. Together With the Armes of most of them', being a transcript, made by John Tinkler in 1888, of Chetham Library (Manchester) MS. 6715.

A pocket-book, 1829-55, of John Davies (b. c. 1804), Quarry, parish of Clydau, co. Pembroke, shoemaker, mainly recording names of preachers, with texts of sermons, at Pontgarreg, Cenarth, and other Calvinistic Methodist chapels, as well as at Association and other CM meetings, in counties Carmarthen and Pembroke, together with occasional references to family and local events. The volume also includes transcripts of hymns and other verse, and other miscellaneous memoranda.

One of four Pembrokeshire parliamentary election polling books. NLW MS 6421E is for the hundred of Castlemartin, the election held October 1812.

One of four Pembrokeshire parliamentary election polling books. NLW MS 6420E is for the hundred of Narberth, the election held October 1812.

One of four Pembrokeshire parliamentary election polling books. NLW MS 6419E is for the hundred of Roose (Rhos), the election held October 1812.

One of four Pembrokeshire parliamentary election polling books. NLW MS 6418 is for the hundred of Roose (Rhos), the election held May-June 1807.

Copies of memorial inscriptions, etc., mainly in Pembrokeshire.

Lists of sheriffs of Pembrokeshire from 1540 to 1864, together with additions to 1878, and of mayors and sheriffs of the town and county of Haverfordwest from 1563 to 1864.

A memorandum book containing notes of land and financial transactions, together with surveys of land in Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire, recorded by several owners in connection with those counties, etc.

The so-called Llwynwormwood MS, containing legal precedents, many of them of Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire interest, medical and culinary recipes, etc.

Notebook, c. 1865-80, containing culinary recipes compiled by William Edward Davies or his wife Mary Evered Davies (née Poole); Davies was a grocer and provision merchant at Haverfordwest and Pembroke Dock until the late 1870s and thereafter baker and confectioner at Pier Street, Aberystwyth.

A collection of inscriptions and notes by John Rowland (Giraldus), 19 cent., in pencil, from churches in Pembrokeshire.

Holograph sermon notes by the Reverend Simon Evans, minister of the Congregational churches of Pen-y-groes, parish of Whitchurch-in-Cemais, co. Pembroke, and of Hebron, parish of Llanglydwen, and Nebo, parish of Cilymaenllwyd, both in co. Carmarthen. NLW MS 11689A ('9fed Bregeth Lyfr Cymreig') was compiled at Tyddyn, parish of Whitchurch-in-Cemais, during the period 1852-1854, and NLW MS 11690A ('18 Bregeth Lyfr Cymreig') at Caeraeron, parish of Llanfyrnach, co. Pembroke, during 1873-1876.

A volume in the hand of Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) containing pedigrees of Cardiganshire gentry families (pp. 1-136), together with a few from Carmarthenshire (pp. 137-163) and Pembrokeshire (pp. 164-179).

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