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A volume containing an alphabetical index of personal and place names in Peniarth MS 456 (Ancient Peniarth MS 58), vol. 2 (not in NLW).
'Index to Peniarth MS 58. vols 2 ... WWEW. Peniarth Nov'r 1st 1871' on f. 1 verso.

Transcripts of wills and other documents (with a few original records) and pedigrees of Welsh families by W. W. E. Wynne, Peniarth. The volume contains an index.

Pedigrees of the families of Williams of Llandegwning, Jones of Wern, Caernarvonshire, and Herbert of Montgomery and elsewhere in the hand of W. W. E. Wynne.
Tipped in are a number of original documents, including a receipt, 18 November 1653, of Owen John Owen for the sale of property in Llanegryn, Merionethshire (p. 14). 'Peniarth MS No. 70' on front cover and p. i.

A volume containing an account of the descent of the Owen family of Dolgellau and Peniarth, Merionethshire in the hand of W. W. E. Wynne. 'Peniarth MS No. 64' inside front cover.

Extracts from published sources, lists, notes, etc., relating to various historical and antiquarian subjects, [1656], 1693, [1761], [late 19 cent.]. Original material includes a description, dated 1795, of how the predecessors of the Tanat family were awarded the Broniarth charter in return for the capture of Lord Cobham in 1417; and substantial annotations by W.W.E. Wynne to a list of Caernarfonshire sheriffs, with a covering letter and genealogical enquiry to William Ormsby-Gore, 1832. Also of interest is a roll of casualties in Major Bringhurst 's troop at Waterloo, 1815.

Lists of the high sheriffs of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire and Montgomeryshire taken from Y Gwyliedydd, with other manuscript lists and notes by W. W. E. Wynne, and a list of Denbighshire sheriffs written in 1595 and continued to 1601. Also included are a form of sheriff's patent for Rhys Milton, Merionethshire, drawn at Westminster, 29 January 1547; a licence, 20 May 1530, granted to 'Mredd. ap Hulkin Loid' to build a water mill at Dinlle; and a copy of letters patent drawn at Westminster appointing Rhys Vaughan Sheriff of Merionethshire, 27 November 1547.

An interleaved copy of The History of the Gwydir Family by Sir John Wynn ... Ruthin: 1827, with manuscript notes by W. W. E. Wynne, a press cutting and offprints, transcripts of letters and poems, original documents, and a grant of spiritual privileges by Robert, abbot of Enlly (Bardsey), 1464.

Letters to W. W. E. Wynne from Joseph Morris, Shrewsbury, 1829-1839, and the Rev. John Jones, Llanllyfni, 1834-1840; a poem entitled 'Egrin's Lamentations'; a transcript of Gruffith ap Madoc's charter to the monastery of Valle Crucis, 1254; and a treatise on the use of the globes.

A volume in the hand of W. W. E. Wynne comprising pedigrees of the families of Anwyl of Park and Lloyd of Aberllevenny, Merionethshire; and copies of documents from the 'painted' Salusbury Manuscript at Wynnstay relating to the Puleston family.
Tipped in are a number of original documents and correspondence, including the marriage certificate, dated 31 December 1618, of Richard Anwill and Margaret Lloyd of Chester (f. 34).

A volume entitled 'Collections for Merionethshire' containing transcripts by W. W. E. Wynne of records relating to the history of Merionethshire. Labelled 'Peniarth MS 65' (inside front cover).
Tipped in are a number of original documents, including 16th century jury lists for Merionethshire (pp. 12-13).

A volume entitled 'Collections relative to the History of Merionethshire' containing notes and transcripts of documents by W. W. E. Wynne relating to the history and antiquities of Merioneth. Labelled 'Peniarth MS No. 48' on p. ii.
Tipped in are a number of original documents, including a petition, late 16th century, of Thomas Humfreys of Nanney concerning the murder of Edward ap David at Dolgellau (pp. 371-4).

Three notebooks containing pedigrees and genealogical notes and extracts relating to Welsh families by W. W. E. Wynne; together with a letter to him from Angharad Llwyd, Caerwys, 18 April, n.y., concerning genealogy (Part iii, pp. 8-9).

A notebook containing genealogical notes and pedigrees mainly of North Wales families in the hand of W. W. E. Wynne. On p. iii 'Peniarth M.S. No. 47' has been corrected to '18'.

'A Discourse of the Pedigree of Percys and Stanley' (ff. 1-21); notes by W. W. E. Wynne on Welsh manuscripts in the Catalogue of Additional MSS in the British Museum (ff. 22-8 verso); and a letter, dated 5 November 1859, from Joseph Morris, Shrewsbury to W. W. E. Wynne concerning the date of Owain Glyndwr's death (f. 29).
The following note occurs on f. 21 verso: 'Copies of Manucsripts &c at Penbedw in Denbighshire concerning the Families of Percy and Stanley'.

Printed pedigrees of the family of Eure of Easby, Ingleby, Witton and Malton; the descent of Robert Aglionby Slaney, esq., from King Edward III, and of his daughter, Mary Slaney, who married W. W. E. Wynne, together with a proof copy with corrections in the hand of W. W. E. W.; a manuscript pedigree of the Foley family; and verses entitled 'The Shropshire Bouquet'.

A volume containing 'Extracts so far as concerns Wales from the "Index & Preface to the Harleyan Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum".'
Tipped in is a letter from J. P. Earwaker, Withington, Manchester, 24 April 1880, to W. W. E. Wynne (f. 1).