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A seventeenth century transcript, with some omissions, of a volume of the works of George Owen Harry, rector of Whitchurch in Cemais, co. Pembroke, who died circa 1614, including 'The Wellspringe of True Nobility yeeldinge forth an ocean of Heroicall descents and Royall Genealogies of the renowned Kinges, Princes, great states, nobilitie, and gentry of the famous Ile of Brittain descended of the blood Royall of the ancient Brittaines but principally the Genealogie of the most highe & mighty Monarche our dread Soveraigne James by the Grace of God Kinge of Greate Brittaine, France, and Ireland ... with many other matters worthy of note gathered by George Owen Harrye Rector of Whitchuch in Kemes ...' (which was published under the title The Genealogy of the High and Mighty Monarch, James ... King of Great Brittayne ... London, 1604); 'a genealogie shewinge how the princes of this land living at this day are particularly descended from Rodri the Greate, Prince of all Wales, lineally descendinge from Cadwallader the last King of the Brittish blood ...'; 'a discourse how and by what meanes and with what greate care the Genealogies of the Brittaines have been from time to time described by the learned Bardes, of their learninge, skill, and knowledge, and of the manner of their commencements and proceedings into theire degrees of learning ...'; 'The Chiefest grounds or stemms of the British Genealogies and how they descend from the kinges of Brittaine'; traditional arms of the princes and chieftains of Wales emblazoned; and eighteenth century notes on the arms of the princes, lords, and gentry of Wales arranged alphabetically.

An imperfect copy of David Powel, The historie of Cambria, now called Wales ... (London, 1584), containing many notes and comments on the text, including collation with other chronicles (Roger de Hoveden, Stow, Matthew Paris, Giraldus Cambrensis and Brut y Tywysogion, e.g. p. 333). Most of the notes are probably in the hand of George Owen Harry (c. 1553-c. 1614), rector of Whitechurch and Llanfihangel Penbedw, co. Pembroke (see signature on pp. 1 and 15 (first sequence) and notes on pp. xvi, 115, 193); included are a brief pedigree of Llywelyn ab Iorwerth (p. 63) and coats of arms, mostly in trick (pp. 28, 103, 115, 131-7, 193, 246, 392). An englyn on the death in 1569 of William Herbert, 1st earl of Pembroke, is written, probably by the same scribe, on p. viii. According to a note on p. 402, the scribe read the volume in 1584 and 1592. Several leaves are missing and the deficiency in the printed text is supplied on inserted leaves in a mid or late XVIII cent. hand.