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Copies made between 1661 and 1663 by William Maurice of Llansilin of the Historia Britonum of Nennius, including Eulogium Britanniae Insulae Capitula, etc., with collations from several manuscripts; the Latin version of the Laws of Hywel Dda apparently copied from Peniarth MS 28; George Carleton's letter to William Camden; the prologue of Robert of Torigni; the letter of Henry of Huntingdon to Guerin le Breton; and Alfred of Beverly's Historia de gestis regalibus regum brittanie apparently copied from Peniarth MS 384. The following note in the autograph of William Maurice occurs at the end of the text in Peniarth MS 384: 'Totum transcripsi fideliter Ego Guil. Mauricius Lansilinensis. Anno Dni 1663. Laus Deo'.

To John Wynne. Subject: John Wynn's bond for payment of £32.8.0.

To John Wynne. Subject: Bond entered into with his sister-in-law.

To John Owen. Subject: Tre-yr-gol. London full for the Coronation; prices high.

1. David Thomas of Bodederne;
2. William Mostyn, archdeacon of Bangor.
   Agreement in respect of the thirds of Ales, wife of David Thomas, in the messuages conveyed to William Mostyn.

A volume of pedigrees in Welsh and English, evidently compiled in Carmarthenshire about 1663 (see f. 193). The collection is poorly organised. Carmarthenshire families predominate; Cardiganshire and Pembrokeshire are well represented; some pedigrees for other parts of Wales. Mostly based on earlier sources, many on the pattern of achau'r mamau and in Welsh, many coming down to the years 1625-1628. Sources named are 'John Moythe's book' (ff. 117-124 passim) and 'Thomas Johnes of Fountaine Gate' (f. 120 verso). Folios 1-22 contain world chronology, biblical and royal lines, down to Charles II. Additions, mostly of Carmarthenshire interest, by several hands of XVII and XVIII cent., notably by an annotator active in 1706 and, it appears, by John Jones of Pant-glas (fl. 1706-1744) (see ff. 26 verso, 45 versoi, 184, 193).

Papers deriving from a case brought before the High Court of Chancery in 1683 by Edward Pryse and Dame Dorothy Pryse, executors of Sir Thomas Pryse, plaintiffs, against Sir Hugh Middleton, Sir Carbery Pryse, infant (per John Herbert his guardian) and William Wogan, defendants, concerning the refusal of Sir Hugh Middleton to pay a sum due upon a recognizance for the payment of £2100 acknowledged in 1639 by Sir William Middleton to Sir Richard Pryse (d. 1651), which recognizance descended to Sir Richard Pryse the younger and thence to Sir Thomas Pryse, and the refusal of William Wogan to honour a former agreement by Sir Hugh Middelton for payment to Sir Thomas Pryse, claiming that £2000 was due to Sir Carbery Pryse as nephew and heir of Sir Thoms Pryse. The file contains the bill of complaint, a copy bill and breviat, 1683, together with the renunciation by Dame Elizabeth Pryse of the administration of the goods of her late husband, Sir Richard Pryse, 1675, breviat of a bill by Edward and Dame Dorothy Pryse against John Herbert and Dame Elizabeth Pryse, his now wife, defendants, 1682, and other papers relevamt to the case, 1661-1682.

An account book of rents received and paid for leases granted and taken by Evan Vaughan, money borrowed and lent, allowances to his wife and son, and sundry payments, 1662-1687. It is probable that this Evan Vaughan is the same person as he who was nominated capital bailiff of Llanfyllin in the new charter granted by Charles II in 1673. From this account book it appears that he died in 1685, when new hands appear, and Elin Vaughan is described as a widow.

1. John Wynne of Bodewrid, Anglesey.
2. Hugh Lewis of Ponturwydd, Caernarvonshire.
   Bond for the payment of £23.6.0.

1. Maurice Wynne of Crogen, co. Merioneth;
2. Wm Mostyn, archdeacon of Bangor.
   Receipt for £100 appointed by the administrators of Dame Mary Mostyn, deceased, to the use of the poor of the parish of Llanrwst, co. Denbigh.

An interleaved copy of Christoph Helwig, Theatrum historicum et chronologicum . . ., Ed. sexta (Oxoniae, 1662), with some manuscript additions (the solar cycle, lunar cycle, Dominical letter, the date of Easter, and the corresponding year in the Hegira or Mohammedan era, etc.). Written on some of the blank leaves at the beginning and end of the volume are genealogical memoranda concerning the family of Humphrey Humphreys, bishop of Bangor and afterwards of Hereford (see also the note facing p. 178), and facing one of the pages of the Index there is a list of dates concerning William Lloyd, bishop of St. Asaph.

Includes the marriage settlement of James Lewis of Glasgrige, Cardiganshire, son of Lowry (widow of John Lewis) now wife of John Pughe, and Mary Lloyd of Crynvryn, comprising Llwydiarth Issa in Tal-y-llyn, 1677; a deed associated with settlements by Thomas Pryse of Gogerddan and Maria Charlotta [nee Pughe], of the manor of Cyfeiliog and other properties of the Mathafarn estate in Machynlleth, Llanbryn-mair, Llanwrin, Penegoes, Cemais, Darowen, Mallwyd and Trefeglwys, 1742, and a rental of the Mathafarn estate of Thomas Pryse, showing the jointure of Mrs Elizabeth Pughe; a bond for the reconveyance to John Pughe of Lloydiarth Ycha and Tythyn Y Glynrhod in Ceiswyn and Cwmcadian, mortgaged in 1640 to secure payment of the marriage portion of Mary Pughe, 1662; the grant of an annuity by John Pughe of Mathafarn to Evan Pughe of Bryn Melin, ‘practisioner in phisick’, 1671; a demise by Anne Pughe of Mathafarn to William Pughe, of the capital messuage of Mathafarn and other (named) properties, delivered to her following an action of dower in the Court of Great Sessions, 1674; an assignment by Thomas Ingram of Llangurig to Richard Owen of Peniarth, of tithes held from the Stedmans of Strata Florida and mortgages on properties in Llanfihangel Genau’r-glyn, as additional security for lands in Llangurig, comprised in his marriage settlement with Anne Pughe of Aberffrydlan, 1705; part of a draft conveyance from ‘Mr Lewis’ to William and John Pughe, of the manor of Cyfeiliog, probably relating to the marriage settlement of John Pughe and Elizabeth Scudamore, [c.1708]; and parts of family conveyances of properties in Machynlleth, naming Jane, Anne and Margaret Pughe, 1716, 1727.

Double pre-nuptial settlement of John Parry of Cwm, Flintshire, and Margaret Jones of Ddole, Merioneth, and of Richard Parry, son of John Parry, and Jane Jones, one of the daughters of Margaret Jones, comprising properties (named) in the parishes and townships of Ruthin, Llanfwrog, Llanynys, Efenechtyd, Erbistock, Is-coed, Holt, Bangor Is-coed, Marchwiail and Llanrhaeadr in Denbighshire, and Cwm, Brynpolyn, and St Asaph, Flintshire, naming Owen Thelwall of Blaen Ial as one of the trustees, 1662.

Exemplification of a recovery suffered in 1661 by James Lewis to Nicholas Lewis on lands in Tenby, St Issells, Hodgeston, Monkton, Pembroke (St Michael), East Pembroke, West Pembroke, etc., 1662

Paper from a case heard in the Great Sessions for Montgomeryshire concerning the non-payment by Richard Morgan of £9 tithe to John Blayney, proprietor of the rectory, and Henry Parry, vicar of Betws [Cedewain], due out of fields in Dolforwyn [post-1662]

Receipts mainly to Sir Richard Pryse of Gogerddan and Morgan Herbert of Hafod for payment to Roger Earl of Castlemayne for the impropriate tithes of the rectory of Llnbadarn Fawr, 1662-1666; a bill for ironmongery and silk, 1671; and an acquittance of Henry Rumsey of Dolen Eglwys, 1672/3.