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A copy of the genealogy of the Mostyn family by Randle Holme of Chester (1663) in the hand of Robert Vaughan.

Oak boards and their tanned leather covers, the boards possibly medieval in date, removed from the Hengwrt Chaucer (Peniarth MS 392) before the manuscript was rebound in 1956.

A printed book: P. Luckombe, The History and Art of Printing in two parts ... (London, 1771).

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.

The journal of Sir Kenelm Digby from 22 December 1627 to 3 February 1628/9.

A transcript of proceedings in Parliament concerning the liberty of the subject, 1628, including speeches and arguments by Sir Dudley Diggs, Mr Littleton, Mr Seldine and Sir Edward Cooke, and 'the obiections by the King's Councell'.

The newe Testament in Englyshe and in Latin of Erasmus Translation. Novvm Testamentvm Anglice et Latine. Anno dni, 1549. Black letter; headings and Latin text in roman. Printed.
Also included is a cutting from a catalogue of Quaritch, 1874, in which a copy of thie edition, with title-page in facsimile, is priced at £28.

'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'.

A dialogue concerning the philosophers' stone.

A volume of collections of poems by Lewys Dwnn probably made up after his death. Lewys Dwnn customarily made retrospective copies of his own poems and usually gave their dates; he is explicit in his subscription on p. 402, dated 1607. The apparent constituent parts are six. Many leaves are damaged at their edges.
(i) pp. 1-72. Poems by Lewys Dwnn, mostly cywyddau, for the most part dated 1600-7, one as early as 1590, all probably written about 1607, together with copies of a few other cywyddau of [15 cent.], all in the hand of Lewys Dwnn.
(ii) pp. 73-432. Poems by Lewys Dwnn dated 1599-1603, a few dated 1577-83, all probably copied c. 1603, with a few cywyddau by others, of [14-16 cent.], and on pp. 231-40 ‘Ymddiddan Tristan ac Esyllt’ [printed in Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, 5 (1929-31), 115-29]. Written by Lewys Dwnn (pp. 80-6, 91-9, etc.) with the help of perhaps five amanuenses: A, probably the young James Dwnn (pp. 73-80); B, the main helper (pp. 87-91, 100-6, 115-26, etc.); C (pp. 136-40, 187-94); D (pp. 195-7). Many poems copied by the amanuenses are signed by Lewys Dwnn himself.
(iii) pp. 433-46. Poems by Lewys Dwnn dated 1614-16, all autograph, his hand tremulous.
(iv) pp. 447-506. Poems by Lewys Dwnn dated 1601-4, with two earlier, 1590 and 1592, all probably written c. 1604, autograph except for pp. 491-5 (by Dwnn’s amanuensis, apparently James Dwnn).
(v) pp. 507-616. Poems by Lewys Dwnn dated 1568-84, in his early hand, all probably written c. 1584, headings in red.
(vi) pp. 617-90. Poems by Lewys Dwnn dated 1604-5, all autograph except for pp. 649-58, which are written by a good collaborating secretary hand; one poem dated 1607 (pp. 689-90).

A transcript in the hand of Robert Vaughan of the Red Book of Caures Castle, comprising a journal of transactions relating to the estates of Humphrey, Earl of Stafford and later Duke of Buckingham between 30 August 1434 and 1454/6 [the 33rd year of Henry VI's reign].

A collection of secular and religious prose in two hands from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
The manuscript includes the romances of Peredur and Charlemagne; Ystoria Adda; Ystoria Pilatus; and Ystoria Judas Iscariot; and an account of the Crucifixion and the finding of the Cross.

A treatise on the use of the globes, in the same hand as the treatise in Peniarth MS 421C.

'A Discourse, concerning the Vegetation of Plants, made by Sir Kenelme Digby, in the Assembly att Gressham College, ... 1660' with autograph corrections by the Author. The work was first published in 1661.