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Endorsed: Order from John ap Humffrey, high constable, to distrain goods of any person who refuse to pay the Prince's mise, 27 Aug. 1618.

Assessments and taxation records including a deputy bailiff 's account of rents and farms in Nanhwynan and Nancall, 1583; new compositions on Caernarfonshire lands, 1584; accounts of mises, subsidies and official authorisations for their collection, 1595, 1621, 1663; a possible military mise for Llanarmon [late 16-early 17 cent.]; subsidy rolls for the commote of Eifionydd [1603x1666]; commissions to Sir William Maurice, Sir John Wynn and other county officials to levy royal aids, 1609, 1612, and a list resulting from a meeting in Caernarfon for the same purpose, naming commissioners and their deputies in the commotes and hundreds of Caernarfonshire 1664; an apparent assessment on lands in Uwch Gwyrfai; and lists of hundreds, townships and parishes in Caernarfonshire, presumably for assessment purposes, [17-18 cent.].

Bill of complaint submitted by William Owen to the Court of Great Sessions for North Wales and consequent court order, 1735, compelling Catherine Wynne of Eleirnion and other defts to accept an assignment of charitable trusts to benefit the poor of Penmorfa, Ffestiniog, Criccieth and Llanaelhaearn, bequeathed to plt. by the will of Anne Jones of Clenennau and a copy of the will and codicil dated 1703 and 1704 respectively.

Cases and opinions concerning payments by Mr [Robert Godolphin] Owen of chief rent and a heriot on lands in Twyford to the lord of the manor of Aston, 1768-1769.

They are required immediately to draw into the town of Conwy the following forces arrayed with the best fire-arms and with victuals for four days under pain of death to all who shall refuse their commands. From Roger Mostyn's parishes 40 men; from Captain Williams's 50; from Llandegai and Llanllechid 40; from Bangor, Aber, Dwygyfylchi, and Llanfairfechan - which Mr Receiver is likewise required to take care of in case Sir William Thomas do neglect it - 50 men. Sir William Thomas is required to lend as many arms as he can. 'Your very loveing friends.'. No signature, Conwy.

John Williams, Archbishop of York, at Penrhyn, to Sir John Owen, his much honoured friend and cousin, Governor of the town and castle of Conwy. Very hearty commendations and best wishes. Hears from Lord Byron that the enemies are at Llanrwst and that Owen has intelligence thereof. Because he has heard nothing from Owen or from Gwydir - from which place the Archbishop is distant not above 8 miles - he hopes that either it is not true or that it is a party that will return again. But prays Owen to call for the writer's nephew, Griffith Williams, and let him know that it is the Archbishop's pleasure that Owen should freely make use of any provision and arms of his in that place. He has provided some victuals for them both from the mountains and from Anglesey. The former, he hopes, will be with Owen sometime tomorrow. The other is stayed from coming because of the peevishness of the great men of the island, and that after he had provided a boat for it. He hopes that he will be able to release it; and that he will be with Owen very soon when he has finished a little business about the house wherein he is detained by reason of the jealousy those people at Bangor have put him, Sir William Williams, and all the country into. 'Sir John, I pray you, be confident that I love and honour you, and if you please to believe it, with the best understanding that God hath given me will be readye to runne the same fortunes with you in this dangerous tyme and business.' His affectionate and hearty friend and cousin.

Conveyance of the town and lands of Aughery in the Barony of Mohill and Co. Leitrim by The Commissioners of Incumbered Estates in Ireland to Charles Thomas Warde, esq. Aug. 1852; copy Probate of the will of Charles Thomas Warde, 15 July 1865; copy marriage settlement of Henry T. Hodgson to Miss L. P. L. Warde, 23 Aug. 1865; copy marriage settlement of Rev. Edmund Hawley with Miss Ada Lloyd Warde, 3 Jan. 1866; copy administration to Henry Charles Lloyd Warde, 6 April 1871; copy statutory declaration of Marianna Warde, 3 Jan. 1872; Ward v. Thane office copy order on further consideration, 3 June 1872; copy agreement between. H. C. Lloyd Warde with Samuel Eakins, 24June 1869; conveyance in fee of the town and lands in the Barony of Mohill in Co. Leitrim, Ireland, sent to H. T. Dix & Son, by the devisees of the late C. T. Warde to the trustees of the will of the late Mrs M.J. Ormsby- Gore, [1 Nov. 1872]; copy memorial filed in Irish registry and three authorities to the trustees of the will of the late Mrs M. J. Ormsby- Gore to invest trust funds, [1 Nov. 1872]; six negative searches, 3 Dec. 1872; and abstracts of title and other papers [c. 1872].

Acknowledges the receipt of Owen's reply to a letter written by 'my' brethren, the agents, and himself, directed to Owen and five other gentlemen by command of the Lords of the Treasury. Assures Owen on behalf of his brethren that nothing has been before them or is known to them which misrepresented Owen in any kind, but on the contrary he is very highly esteemed by all the great men they have had to do with particularly by the Lords of the Treasury, in whose names the writer went himself to Lord Newport to name six persons in the county of Salop near to Oswestry who might execute the Act for settling the tax of 4/- in the pound. His Lordship gave a high character of Owen and the other five ... Some information was given to the Lords of the Treasury by persons unknown to them. The writer is sure that no commissioners were appointed to act in Oswestry except the Mayor - and that he was a man not qualified to be one. Begs Owen not to allow the mean consideration of such private persons to bear any value with him, for it is not worth his while.

Thought it necessary to let him know something she has heard touching the estate of Kemmes Bychan to which Owen may have a right. She had once a discourse, when two or three besides herself were employed, including a person who belonged in former times to Owen's great grandfather, Mr William Lewis Annwyl, and was at Park a servant to the old gentleman when Owen's grandfather, Mr Lewis Anwyl, died. This man, Rowland Owen by name, told her that he was present when William Lewis Annwyl, after the death of his son Lewis, opened a trunk belonging to Owen's grandfather and took out a deed of settlement on Kemmes Bychan and put it in the fire, and at the burning thereof uttered some words of gladness that he had found the deed to cancel. The man who spoke of this affair is a tenant of Mr Owen of Peniarth, pays 60/- a year rent, and lives at a place called Morben within a mile of Machynlleth in Montgomeryshire - a very honest and sufficient tenant. Her service to cousin William Owen, and wishes happiness to the rest of Owen's family with whom she is unacquainted. Kinswoman.

Bond giving peaceful possession to William ap Robert ap Madog of lands in Seswick, 1574, which later appear as part of the properties devised by the will of John Hanmer, 1582; an agreement to relieve large debts combined with a trust settlement to secure an annuity for Mary Jeffreys out of the estate of Robert Jeffreys in Royton, Seswick, Acton, Bersham and Broughton in the parishes of Bangor Is-coed, Wrexham and Gresford, 1714; and a schedule of papers belonging to Mary Clayton, including leases on lands in those places, 1725.

Settlement by Elizabeth Evans and others, 29 Dec. 1729; probate of the will of Evan Evans, 8 March 1756; will of Thomas Evans, 4 Oct. 1775; Thomas Evans to Robert Griffiths, deed to make a tenant to the precipe to suffer a recovery, 21 March 1787; extract from the said recovery, 22 March 1787; Evans to Poole, lease and release of m. and lands at Broniarth, 26-7 Aug. 1787;; mortgage by William Evans and others to John Whitmore, 3 - 4 May 1819; assignment of mortgage by William Evans and John Whitmore to William Potter, 19 - 20 March 1833; transfer of mortgage by John and Stephen Dickin and another to Mrs Jane Davies, 22 - 23 Jan. 1840; further mortgage by Mrs Lewis Pugh to Miss Jane Davies, 24 Jan. 1840; conveyance by Lewis Pugh to Joseph Jones,10 March 1840; reconveyance by T. J. Griffiths and another to John Buckley, 18 Sept. 1862; conveyance by Mrs Martha Anne Jones and others to trustees of the will of Mrs M. J. Ormsby- Gore, 12 May 1870; abstracts of title and other papers, [c. 1870].

Draft deeds by William Richard Lord Harlech and the Brogyntyn trustees, comprising an appointment to Edward Ricketts of lands at Barmouth in the county of Merioneth, 1889, and a conveyance to Rev. David Davies of land at Hen Efail in the parish of Llandanwg with three cottages thereon, for the site of a future Baptist chapel at Harlech, 1896, with plans.

Lease of lands called Brookhill, part of the land of Barrowmount, Co. Kilkenny, William Gore, 4 March 1799; probate of the will of William Gore, 19 May 1815; release of a sum of money charged on lands at Barrowmount, Co. Kilkenny by Thomas M. Rachel Jacques to Mrs M. J. Ormsby-Gore, 23 April 1863.

Title deeds, dated between 1296 and 1695, relating to properties in Wycherley in the parish of Baschurch and to the manor of Stanwardine, including the gift of ancestral lands by Roger of Stanwardine to his son, Lewelin, 1296; purchases, leases and family settlements of Richard and John Hord, 1309-1397 and of the Kynaston family, 1495-1549. By 1562 the lands were in the possession of Robert Corbett and they descended to Thomas Corbett after the death of his father, Robert, in 1594. Subsequent documents include final concords levied between father and son, 1605, 1634, a conveyance of Stanwardine manor by Robert Corbett, 1663, and the sale and lease of the manor and vicarage tithes respectively to Thomas Corbett in 1666 and 1695.

Leases in Beddgelert, 1573, 1618, and notice of tenant to quit in Pwllheli [parish of Deneio], 1749.

Licences granted by William Ormsby Gore, Mary Jane his wife and John Ralph Ormsby Gore for the mining of slate and stone, sulphur, copper, lead, tin, iron, gold, silver, manganese, calamine and other minerals, mainly in Caernarfonshire, 1849-1872. The locations include Oer Dwr Ucha in the parish of Beddgelert, Plas yn Pennant, Braich y Ddinas and Bwlch y Fedwen in Penmorfa, Tyddyn Madyn and Ymwlch Bach in Llanystumdwy and Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, Hendre Ddu, Sgyborgerrig and Tyddyn Mawr in the parish of Dolbenmaen, Mynyddednyfed and Braich y Sant in the parish of Cricieth, all in Caernarfonshire, and Bwlch y Plwm and Pant y Maesydd in Lanfrothen, Merioneth. The lessees include John Hall Holdsworth and W. Attenborough of London, 1849, Henry Hodgson, 1851, Samuel Holland of Plas yn Penrhyn, 1852, 1855, William Williams of Beddgelert and Robert Williams of Llanllyfni, 1852, Hugh Evans of Cricieth, 1856, Morris Roberts of Mynyddednyfed, Cricieth, 1856, Hugh Jones of Alltyfedw and John Morris of Garn Dolbenmaen, 1860, 1862, John Brewer of Bryn Helen, 1861, Robert Jones, Thomas Williams, Henry Owen and John Jackson, 1861, Thomas Swift of Salford, Manchester, 1864, Owen Humphrey Davies of Llanfihangel-y-Pennant 1864, 1866, Joseph Kellow and Joseph Day (assigneee), 1872. The file also contains letters of Robert Barker, 1851, and Longueville and Co., 1871; and a statement of royalties payable under Mrs Ormsby Gore’s mining leases, 1866.