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A letter, 25 March 1651, from Morgan Llwyd, from Wrexham, to Mr. John Whittell, Chester, 'to bee comunicated to them that are taught of God in Chester' (testifying a word concerning the being and life of Jesus Christ). Only the last paragraph is in the hand of Morgan Llwyd.

Miscellaneous papers, including fragments of printed Acts of Parliament [17 cent.]-[18 cent.]; franks of letters addressed to Thomas Knight, attorney at law, Whitchurch, William Challnor, Keelhendre, Mrs. Frances Edwards, Keleheendre, Mrs. Bridgeman, Castle Bromwich, etc.; annotations on labels attached by C[yrus] J. M[orrall] to bundles of Plas Yolyn correspondence; etc.

A fragment of an account of an adventure at sea, dated 1727. It is probably the work of a child.

A volume of exercises in verse.

Transcripts of deeds and legal instruments relating to persons and properties mainly in the counties of Chester and Flint.

Transcripts of warrants and deeds, partly made by Tho. Edwardes (1624), and English translations from Horace in an eighteenth century hand.

An incomplete volume containing extracts from the Scriptures and from early Christian writers, and notes on theological and religious subjects. Also included in the volume (ff. 253-254) are accounts of disbursements on behalf of Mr. Trevor, 1718.

Accounts, 1655-1660, entitled 'A noth of all such monis as I have disburss since the third of november 1655'. The identity of the writer is not known. Several entries relate to Whitchurch, Hanmer, and Bettisfield.

An account of proceedings against [ ] Wrainham for presenting to the King a book called 'Revewe and Revivor of the Report of the Mr. of Rolls Phillips and the decree of my lord Chancellor', c. 1610; veterinary and medical recipes; and a tract entitled 'Shorte Articles by way of Instruccon concerninge the Dutye Office and Jurisdiction of the High Admirall of England collected out of the Lettres Pattents of that Office'.

A contemporary copy [c. December, 1718] of 'The Genuine Speech of the Ld. L--ne [George Granville, baron Lansdowne] against repealing the Occasional and Schism Bills' (8 pp.); and a news letter, 6 June, 1719, containing an account of Mr. [Gilbert] Burnet, incumbent of East Barnet, the imprisonment of the late Earl of Mar [John Erskine, 6th or 11th earl] at Geneva, twelve porpoises at Greenwich, and the case of the heir of Sir John Trevor, Master of the Rolls (mutilated).

Miscellaneous documents including instructions, 1666/7, by Richard Wynn for the payment of money to him; meditations on sufferings, 1667/8; a form of warrant, 1678, to levy the forfeiture of £5 imposed by the Act for burying in woollen upon persons who neglected to produce the required cerificate; particulars of rents received by Sir Hugh Williams for Penrallt [Conway] lands, 1683 (mutilated); an acknowledgement, 1720, by Jno. Bee and Eliz. Bee of the receipt of their annuity of £50 and of the sale of lottery annuities, together with a statement of account by James Harrison [of Red Lion Square, Middlesex]; holograph letters from Bart. Jones, Greenwich, to his grandfather, 1736/7 (Mr. Podmore's note for £20), from G. Wentnor to Mr. Prichard, [17]66 (the draft of a mortgage), from Ann Carkman, Sackville Street [London], to her uncle Mr. Prichard at Shrewsbury, 1766 (the writer's marriage), from C. Leigh (aft. Cooke), Balliol [College, Oxford], etc., to Mrs. Bee, Shrewsbury, 1767-1774 (5) (the writer's financial affairs, Sir Edwd. Turner's legacies, the writer's proposed marriage, news from Oxford, impressions of Bookham in Surrey, etc.), and from M. L., Oxford, to Mrs. Bee, Shrewsbury, 1772 (personal); a statement of account, 1782, for cockspurs and other items bought of Richard Singleton at the Fighting Cocks on Corkhill, Dublin; case, with the opinion of John Leach, 1816, concerning an application by John Smith for a fellowship founded in Brasenose College, Oxford, by John Williamson, clerk, parson of St. George's, Canterbury, in 1521; a fragment of a lease [late seventeenth century] from Samuell Burrowes to Samuell Smith; two sheets containing accounts of miracles and of Catholic persecution, and an unsigned poem; a poem, c. 1680, in the form of a dialogue between Britannia and Raleigh on the state of England under King Charles II; and undated [eighteenth century] poem in Russian and an English-Russian vocabulary.

Miscellaneous documents including three holograph letters to Thomas Jenyns (Jennings), Dodleston, from Edward ap Ellis, 1630 (sureties), T. Vaughan, Hengwrt, 1631/2 (the apprehension of a barker for a debt of £200), and Rich. Vaughan, Corsygedol, 1632/3 (the release of a poor prisoner); two holograph letters from J[ohn] Pardoe, London, to Madam [ ], 1762 (the receipt of letters), and to Mrs. Anne Bee, Salop, 1773 (the payment of a dividend); a holograph letter from Edw. Lewis, Dolgelley, to Richard Whittacres, Cottone, 1634 (Edward ap Ellis's writ); a holograph letter from [ ] Lucking?, London, to [ ], 1703 (the affairs of the family of Mr. Abbott); a holograph letter from Sinah Mathews, C[astle] B[romwich], to her nephew John Williams, Chester, 1734 (begging the acceptance of two cheeses); a holograph letter from [ ] to the Commissioners of Ecclesiastical Affairs [1688?] (the writers' determination not to sit upon a case) (transcript; mutilated); a receipt, 1710, by Mary Hieron to Mrs. Susannah Hulton, Dudliston, for a guinea; a receipt, 1762, by B. Hatchett to the Reverend George Hodges and William Prichard, trustees in the will of William Morrall, deceased, for £62.6s. received upon a bond; an undated [eighteenth century] poem entitled 'The Ghost'; a memorandum, 1633, concerning the apprehending of Edd. ap Elice otherwise Edd. Wynne; a copy of an inscription upon a memorial tablet to Ellis Lloyd of Penylan [Ruabon], who died in 1712; an abstract of the will [13 September, 1663] of Sir Griffith Williams [of Pen'rallt, Conway] (mutilated); an account (1 page) of Dudliston, said to have been written by W. Challner, senior; a draft of a letter [nineteenth century] relating to a road to be constructed in order to avoid the Oswestry Trust; and a pen drawing of an ecclesiastical dignitary.

Accounts of the receipts and disbursements of Allen Sherrot on behalf of his master, 1654-1655/6. The receipts include rents for properties in Iscoyd, Bronnington, Hanmer, Halthton, Willington, Tybroughton, Bangor, Whixall, Crickett, Estweek, Whitechurch, Moorton, and Fenns demesnes, in Flintshire and Salop.

Notes 'taken in short hand of the Earle of Shaft[e]sbury['s] Speech in the house of Lord[s] upon the Debate of appointing a day for the heareing of Doctor Sherlies Cause', 20 October, 1675.

Particulars and rough plans by Edward Pryce of Kynvel, Merioneth, of parels of land held by lease of Owen Vaughan of Llwydiarth, Montgomeryshire, deceased, in Gweinion and Malloyd in the lordship of Mowthwey, and a parcel called y kae hen in Creinion veghan in the lordship of Powys, 14 February, 1621/2.

Lists of books purchased by Thomas Hanmer at Florence, and of medals bought at Man[n]heim.