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Coats of arms, coloured, of the founders of Welsh and Border Counties families, comprising 'The Aancient descent of diuers noble and worthie howsen and gentlemen of great worshipp springring from them' and 'The names of such other gentlemen as came into wales and ther, or in the marches therof have lande and possessions where they inhabite, by certen descent of inheritance Ther first Auncestors being eyther Englishmen, Danes, Normans or Irishe men, and at this present growen to be great howses of worshipp in walles'.

The text of that part of Leland's Itinerary which concerns Wales, beginning 'All the way yt I rode between Hales and Pershore ...' (see L. Toulmin Smith, The Itinerary in Wales of John Leland in or about the years 1536-1539, London, 1906, p. 40) (ff. 1-42). Part of the first paragraph of the text on f. 1 is also to be found on f. vii, which appears to be an abortive beginning to this copy of the Itinerary. The text of the Itinerary in our MS follows Toulmin Smith's edition fairly closely (op. cit. pp. 40-126), and the fact that the section on 'Castles in Montgomerikeshire', etc. (Toulmin Smith, pp. 53-57) which Toulmin Smith supplied from Stow's copy of Leland's original MS, but which is now missing from Leland's MS, is not included in our MS (see f. 6), suggests strongly that the writer of our MS was either copying Leland's MS in the Bodleian library (MS Gen. Top. e12) or a copy of it made after Stow's time. Two other items in our MS (ff. 47, 49) are said to have been copied from Leland's MSS, in the Bodleian. There are however minor differences between our text of the Itinerary and Leland's as printed.
The volume also includes a brief note on Worcestershire (f. vii); extracts from Latin text: 'Ex libro Roberti Prioris Salapesbiriae de vita S: + Wenefredae Virginis ad Guarinum Priorem Vigorniae' (marginal note 'E codice M-S: Jo: Leylandi in Bibliotheca Bodleiana Oxonii existente') (ff. 47-48 verso); Latin notes on the early history of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge: 'Ex Collectionibus Johannis Rowse de Antiquitate Oxonii et Academiae' (marginal note, as above f. 47) (ff 49-51 verso); and Latin notes on the (legendary) early history of the university of Cambridge: 'Ex veteri sed fabuloso Libro incerti Authoris de antiquitate Ca[n] tabrigiensi' (ff. 51 verso-52 verso).

Cywyddau and awdlau written in a seventeenth-century hand, comprising mainly poems by Thomas Prys (derived from NLW MS 3031B) (pp.19-141), Dafydd ap Gwilym (derived from NLW 3066E) (pp.195-295), Wiliam Cynwal (some derived from NLW 3030B) (pp.307-498), Guto'r Glyn (pp. 559-606), Siôn Tudur (pp. 685-751) and Tudur Aled (pp. 799-826).

A collection of Welsh tracts on astrology, palmistry and the wheel of fortune, written in a seventeenth-century hand.

The Welsh texts of Dares Phrygius and of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, written in a seventeenth-century hand.

Legal precedents and transcripts of official letters and orders, largely of Denbighshire and Flintshire interest; a calendar; proportions of mise payable by the different townships of Isdulas, Denbighshire; etc.

Transcripts of Geoffrey's Historia, Brenhined y Saeson, Nennius, Gildas, Chronicles and Laws, possibly in the hand of John David Laes (John Davies).

A photostat copy, [early 20 cent.], of part of a manuscript of 1674-1686, containing cywyddau and awdlau addressing Sir Thomas Mostyn and other members of his family.
The facsimile reproduces 3 prefatory leaves and pp. 25-92, 295-340 of the original only, the remainder of the manuscript being blank.

Transcripts, begun in 1683, of Sir John Wynn, History of the Gwydir Family taken from 'a Coppy belonging to Sr Morris Parry of Llan Elian Clerk, in the year 1674 and afterwards compar'd with & corrected by two Coppys, the one Belonging to the Reverend Dr Humphreys Dean of Bangor, the other found among the Evidences att Gwedir, which last was in many places corrected & interlin'd, & much of it writt with the hand of Sr John Wynn himselfe the author'; 'Ystoria Gruffudd ap Cynan ...' copied for Thomas Mostyn, Gloddaeth, 1683, from 'Llyfr Plas-y-ward'; 'a chronicle supos'd to be collected by Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt ...'; charters, indentures, petitions, etc.

A volume containing a treatise on arms, copied in 1678 'allan or Llifr a fenthyciais i gan Sion Mathews o Ruabon'. It includes the arms of Arthur and other figures from Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia from Brutus onward, arranged alphabetically and mixed up with historical personages; there are 178 entries in all (pp. 3-25). This is followed by tracts including 'Bonedd y Gwyr Gore' (pp. 25-28), and a letter from Thomas Maurice to Dr John Davies of Mallwyd (pp. 345-354).

A letter, in English, from Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt to James Ussher, archbishop of Armagh, concerning the dating of various historical events (pp. 1-44); and cywyddau and awdlau of Tudur Penllyn, Ieuan Tudur Penllyn and Dafydd Nanmor in the hand of Robert Vaughan (pp. 45-171).

Official letters and other papers mainly relating to Caernarvonshire, 1660-1661, comprising communications received from the Privy Council by Richard, 2nd earl of Carbery, Lord Lieutenant of Wales and Lord President of the Council in the Marches of Wales, and transmitted by him to the deputy lieutenants, etc., of Caernarvonshire, with reports of the meetings of the latter, letters sent by them to the high constables, and communications sent by them to each other. Among the correspondents are Sir Richard Wynne of Gwydir and Henry Maurice. Many of the documents relate to the militia in Caernarvonshire and include records of men subject to be called to the militia, lists of horses, arms, and ammunition available in the county, etc.

A manuscript in three parts. The first part, possibly in the autograph of Thomas Jones (alias Twm Siôn Cati), comprises heraldry, with coloured illustrations of the coats of arms of the Britons and of the princes of North and South Wales, together with a number of their pedigrees (pp. 1-136). The second part comprises the pedigrees of the mothers of some of the principal families in Wales, together with a description of their coats of arms (pp. 137-178). The third part comprises poetry, a large portion of which is in the autograph of John Jones, Gellilyfdy (pp. 179-202).

'A sermon preached at the interment of Owen Holland of Berow in the County of Anglesey Esqr the second day of December, 1656. By Robert Morgan Bachelour in Divinitye & Rr of Llanddiffnan', 1656.

A collection of awdlau and cywyddau written during the second quarter of the seventeenth century by William Phylip. The contents are almost entirely poetical, but the volume also includes transcripts of a treatise on poetical composition by William Middleton (pp. 274-302) and on Welsh metres by John Phillipp [Siôn Phylip] (pp. 303-313). The title page, table of contents and an index of poets are in the hand of Lewis Morris (pp. 1, 3-11, 13-14, 40).

A volume of cywyddau, awdlau and a few englynion, including sections devoted to the works of Guto'r Glyn, Tudur Aled and Sion Cent. The contents of this MS are listed in Mostyn 112, pp. 631-654; there the MS is described as 'llyfyr kowydde sydd a chayad gantho o barsmant gwyn'. The works of Guto'r Glyn and Tudur Aled appear in roughly the same order as in (Bangor) Gwyneddon MS 4, which suggests that those sections were drawn from a similar source. The works of Guto'r Glyn, ff. 78 verso-109, 122-141, 195 recto-verso, and 199-201, have apparently been transcribed by the compiler of Mostyn 1 [NLW MS 3021F], pp. 559-606 and the works of Tudur Aled, ff. 153 verso-156 verso, 44-45 verso, 156 verso-177, 147-151, and 151 verso-153 verso, have been transcribed in the same way to Mostyn 1, pp. 799-826.
The MS is in five main hands: ff. 6-38 verso, 41-69, and ?221-223 verso, a hand also found in Mostyn MS 161 [NLW MS 3057D], pp. 670-674, 677-683, and possibly that of the poet Richard Cynwal (ob. 1634) [this hand is not dissimilar to that of Wmffre Dafis]; ff. 38 verso-40 verso and 226-231 verso, also found in Mostyn 161, pp. 529-654; ff. 69 verso-78, 90-114, 203 verso-204 verso, ?220 verso-221 verso, 231 verso-238, and 239 verso-243 verso; ff. 1-5, 78 verso-90, 114-203, and 245 verso-253 verso; it is the same hand as Mostyn 161, pp. 987-994 and Mostyn 112, part II, [NLW MS 3031B], pp. 632-654. This hand adds many marginal notes; and ff. 205-220, 224-225, 238 verso-239, 243 verso-245 verso, and 253 verso-257, with f. 258 probably in the autograph of the poet Sion Dafydd Las [John Davies, dec. 1694].

Transcripts made in 1647 by John Richardson, Llewenie Grene, Denbighshire, of 'A Declaration of Mr: David Jenkins now prisoner in the To[wer] one of his Maiesties judges in wales, for Tryalls, Murth[ers] & all other Capitall crimes that they ought only to be by Jurie[s] not otherwise vnless it be by acte of Parliamente', [17] March 1647; 'Judge Jenkins' Treatise or Discourse made & [ ] To the honourable Societies of Gray's Inne & of the rest of the Innes of Cort ...', [2]8 April 1647; 'An Apologie for the Army, Touchinge the eight quaeres upon the later declaration ... By David Jenkins Prisoner in the Tower of London', 1647; and 'A discourse touchinge the inconveniences of a long continued Parliament'.

A volume containing Welsh poetry by various poets, etc.