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Welsh vocabularies, with Latin and English equivalents and translations, notes on grammar and construction, lists of rhyming words, englynion, a diagram giving the Welsh terms for the divisions of the day, etc., mainly in the hand of John Edwards, Chirk.

Welsh vocabularies, with Latin and English equivalents and translations, and notes on grammar in the autographs of Thomas ap Wiliam, Trefriw and John Edwards, Chirk.

A draft of a letter, [?1683], from John [Pearson], bishop of Chester, and Thomas Lloyd, Bangor [Isycoed], Flintshire relating to the 'Parish of Bangor wth the Parochial Chappels or Churches of Overton & Worthenbury ...'; letters from John Mathew to William Edwards, constable of Chirk; letters from John Wyn ap [?Meredydd] to John Edwards; letters from Thomas Gwyllym, Bellaconnell, 1677, and Edward Harrison, 1677, to John Parry, bishop of Ossory; letters from John Parry, 1671, afterwards bishop of Ossory, to Joseph Williamson at Whitehall.

A transcript of Geoffrey Chaucer's treatise on the astrolabe, an instrument used for the taking of altitudes of heavenly bodies, from which time and latitude are deducible, entitled 'The dyscrypcion or knowelege of the astrolop ...' . On the cover is a verse by John Edwards, Chirk (see note under 'Tarddiad'), and who was probably the grandson of John ab Edward Hen, who owned NLW MS 423 (see under 'Associated Material' in the FONDS description).