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County administration papers mainly from Caernarfonshire and occasionally elsewhere in North Wales, comprising county officials' papers, [c. 1576]-1820, assessments and taxation records, 1583-1664, [18 cent.], militia papers, [1588x1595]-1683, and election papers, 1620-1831. Documents which concerned Sir William Maurice and Sir John Owen as Deputy Lieutenant and Vice-Admiral of North Wales have been included here since the main sphere of their duties lay within the county of Caernarfon.

Letters to Sir William Maurice and a number of drafts or copies of outgoing correspondence, 1587-1619, and a single letter to Lady Elen Eure, 1624. Items of interest include a water bailiff 's report on shipwreck timber found along the shores of Anglesey and Caernarfon; an application by the burgesses of Harlech to obtain an act of parliament for holding the Merionethshire [Great] Sessions and Quarter Sessions there, and to get royal confirmation of the town charter and fee farm, 1604, with letters from Griffith Vaughan on the technical difficulties of implementing the same, 1611; Sir Henry Lee on a dispute over lands held by William Maurice from the Corporation of Harlech, 1591; William Thomas on the subsidy roll accounts, with a summary of deputy lieutenants in other counties of Wales and England, 1602; John Wynn of Gwydir and others, with copies of William Maurice 's outgoing letters to county and government officials, emphasising the difficulties encountered by the deputy lieutenants in mustering troops and collecting mises in Caernarfonshire against a possible Spanish invasion, and for the suppression of rebellions in Ireland, 1587-1602; and a draft request to Anne, Countess of Warwick, to use her influence in obtaining a position for William Maurice 's son [pre-1588].