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A volume containing an English translation, [18 cent., second ½], of the letters patent of Charles II, 13 January 1673/4, granting a charter to the town and borough of Oswestry, Shropshire, together with an index to its contents (p. 77).

A pedigree roll in a hand similar to that of Morris Evans of Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire, antiquary, showing the descent of some principal North Wales families, including the Owen family of Brogyntyn and Clenennau, from Owain Gwynedd, king of Wales, and the fifteen tribes of Gwynedd.

A pedigree chronicle of biblical and British history from Adam to Edward IV, written not before 1461 and probably not after 1466 (none of Edward IV's children are shown), evidently in the same London or Westminster workshop as that postulated by Albinia de la Mare, Catalogue of the Collection of Medieval Manuscripts Bequeathed to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, by James P. R. Lyell (Oxford, 1971), p. 82, as the place of production of a number of closely related pedigree-chronicles in roll or roll-codex form, some in Latin and some in English. The hand looks the same as that of Lyell MS 33 (see ibid., plate VI), while the layout, decoration and miniature of the Fall are very similar. Near the miniature of the Fall is a note in English, [17 cent.].
The preface and biblical history derive from the Compendium Historiæ in Genealogia Christi (otherwise known as the Promptuarium Bibliæ) of Peter of Poitiers; see H. Vollmer, Deutsche Bibelauszüge des Mittelalters sum Stammbaum Christi mit ihren lateinischen Vorbildern und Vorlagen (Potsdam, 1931) and Thomas Jones, Y Bibyl Ynghymraec (Cardiff, 1940), where thirty-three manuscripts are listed on pp. xvii-xx. The text as a whole belongs to category B identified by de la Mare, op. cit., p. 83, a group of manuscripts compiled in the reign of Edward IV with which ours has features other than the text in common. For the work of a closely related illuminator see R. M. Thomson, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College Oxford (Cambridge, 2011), p. 101.

A copy of Siôn Dafydd Rhys, Cambrobrytannicæ Cymraecæve Lingvae Institvtiones et Rvdimenta... (London: Thomas Orwin, 1592, ESTC S115912), with manuscript additions in a number of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century hands throughout the volume and on the back fly-leaves, including Welsh verse in strict and free metre on pp. 98, 151, 196, 200 and 308-309, and 'pedwar mesir arhigain Cerdd Dant', 'y pedwar mesir arhugain Cerdd dafod' and 'y saith fesur ar hugain, ne'r saith fesurau [Cerdd Dant]' on pp. 305-307, together with a drawing of a Welsh triple harp and a diagram illustrating the tuning of its three sets of strings on p. 308.
The Welsh verses on p. 98 are probably in the hand of Robert Lloyd, whose name occurs on pp. 95, 98 and 157, and those on pp. 196 and 200 in the hand of Ffoulk Edwardes, whose name occurs on p. 156. The eighteenth-century hand which added the dates to poems on pp. 45, 164, 181, 183, 184, 190 and 248 probably also copied the verses on pp. 151, 248 and the texts on pp. 305-309.

A volume containing memoranda, 1627-1639, in the hand of Lewis Anwyl of Parc, Merionethshire, and Cemais, Montgomeryshire, with additions, 1648-1656, in the hands of his daughter Catherine Owen (née Anwyl) (f. 12) and her husband William Owen of Brogyntyn, Shropshire, and Clenennau, Caernarvonshire (ff. 11 verso-12, 13), recording family births, marriages and deaths, and other events, and including an account by Lewis Anwyl of the death, 14 May 1637, of his first wife Frances, daughter of Sir William Jones, Castellmarch, Caernarvonshire, with a description of her virtues (ff. 7-11).
Notes in the hand of W. W. E. Wynne of Peniarth, identifying the writers of the additional memoranda, occur in pencil on ff. 11 verso-12, 13; a note in ink by him questioning the age given on f. 158 verso of Edward Herbert, Cemais, is tipped in as f. 159a. A transcript of the manuscript was published by Wynne in 'The Anwill Manuscript', Montgomeryshire Collections, 9 (1876), 357-364.

A transcript of Lord Byron's English Bards and Scotch Reviewers: A Satire (London, 1809) in the hand of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore whose signature, dated 10 March 1816, appears on f. i verso (ff. 1-58, rectos only); together with a further transcript, of Byron's 'The Lament of Tasso', in the hand of Mrs Frances Morres Gore, whose initials, dated 23 July 1823, appear on f. 63 verso (ff. 59-63 verso).
A Civil War letter, 9 July 1645, from John Byron, 1st Baron Byron of Rochdale, to Col. Sir John Owen of Clenennau has been tipped in on f. iii, probably because its author, like the poet, was a Byron.

Autograph drafts of poems in Latin and Greek, 1571-1611, by Charles Bill, MA (c. 1551-post 1611) of Eton and King's College, Cambridge, later secretary to William Brooke, 10th baron Cobham, and finally schoolmaster at Bagshot, Surrey (see Charles Henry Cooper and Thompson Cooper, Athenae Cantabrigienses, 3 vols (Cambridge, 1858-1913) ii, 527-528).

A volume, compiled in the first half of the eighteenth century by a single, unidentified hand, containing poems of a satirical, political, occasional and erotic nature, some of them connected with members of the Brogyntyn and related families. The poems also include English versions of Welsh penillion and englynion, with many gaps left for the Welsh texts.

Poetry and prose compiled at Brogyntyn for an album (cf. Brogyntyn MS I.29), but left unbound. The items, in various hands, are mainly in English but with a few in Latin, Welsh and French, and consist of political, satirical and occasional verse, both published and apparently unpublished (ff. 1-212 verso), together with a few letters (ff. 214-228), miscellaneous prose and commonplace entries (ff. 229-306), and printed material including song-sheets, pamphlets and newspaper cuttings (ff. 307-390). A number of items relate to Brogyntyn or Wynnstay or are addressed to family members.

A volume, compiled 1806-1829, by [Mrs] F[rances] Morres Gore, the mother of William [Ormsby-]Gore, containing poetry and light verse by various contemporary authors.
The poetry includes 'Psyche or The Legend of Love' by Mary Tighe (ff. 17-127) and several poems by William [Ormsby-]Gore (pp. 12-14, 156-162, 184, 188). An index to most of the items is provided on p. 248. Items found loose within the volume have been tipped in (pp. 179-190 passim, 216).

A volume, [c. 1630], containing various English political tracts, mostly concerning relations between England and Spain and the Spanish war against the Netherlands, together with extracts in Latin from works on ecclesiastical and royal power.
Written by three unidentified hands: hand I, pp. 1-2, 176-189 (possibly hand IV of MS II.13); hand II, pp. 7-124, 165-175; hand III, pp. 125-163. Marginal notes are by the same hand as those in Brogyntyn MS II.13.

A volume, [c. 1631]-[c. 1637], containing an account of the trial of Sir Walter Raleigh (pp. 1-29) and transcripts of related letters from Raleigh (pp. 31-44), together with various political tracts (pp. 45-113) and historical tracts (pp. 119-242).
Written by five unidentified hands: hand I (pp. 1-49), hand II (pp. 53-68), hand III (pp. 73-205), hand IV (pp. 217-229) and hand V (pp. 241-242). There are also marginal notes, perhaps by hand V (see also Brogyntyn MS II.14).

Two political tracts, written in the same hand, arguing the merits of the Tories over those of the Whigs at the time of the parliamentary election of 1722. In the first tract (a) the Tories and the Whigs are referred to as the Country and Court parties respectively (ff. 1-71, rectos only), and in the second tract (b) the Tories are referred to as the Church Party (ff. 73-136, rectos only). Also included is a transcript (c) in another contemporary hand of the first 28 folios of the second tract (ff. 137-140 verso).

A notebook, [late 17 cent. x early 18 cent.], containing prayers and devotions.
Later additions in a different hand are on ff. 18 verso and 24 verso.

A volume of prayers and devotions, written in 1708, arranged in two parts with indexes to each part on ff. 1-2 and f. 37 respectively.
The first part, which lacks a title page owing to the excision of a leaf between ff. i and 1, relates to religious duties and comprises an analysis of each topic with a table of Biblical texts and proofs on facing pages (ff. 1-35); the second part comprises a series of devotions and prayers entitled 'Devotions for Morning and Evening together with severall other prayers upon particular Occasions' (ff. 36-71 verso).

Parchment roll bearing the order of the funeral procession of Queen Anne of Denmark, wife of King James I, 'from Denmarke Howse in the Stronde to Westminster Abbay the 27 Daie of May 1619'. Interspersed with the names and titles of individuals are nine polychrome illustrations of emblazoned banners, each held by a cuffed hand, and representing the arms of the queen as carried during the funeral procession.

A volume containing a copy, written in a late fourteenth- or early fifteenth-century hand, of the Polychronicon of Ranulf Higden to 1342 (ff. 1-307).
The text is written by one hand, except for notes on f. 1 verso, in anglicana, with variation in degree of currency and in ink; headings in fere-textura. There has been overwriting of the text in places, where letters were indistinct, notably on ff. 1-20. Correction of the text, despite first appearances, is all probably by the scribe, writing compactly (e.g. on ff. 52 and 62), as also is the inserted leaf containing omitted text (f. 279). There are six- to nine-line parti-coloured red/blue initials for the beginnings of chapters, infilled with good red and purple pen-work which includes beasts and foliage, with red/blue nerfs and flourished borders (f. 210 is a page where the pen-work was not completed); there are three-line blue initials for the index and two-line for chapters, all with red pen-work. The rubricator has mistaken many initials, including three of those which should form Higden's acrostic. On f. 52 are diagrams of Noah's ark. Headings, underlining, dates in the margin, paragraph marks and touching of initials in the text are all in red. An index to the Polychronicon is on ff. iii-xii.

A composite volume comprising several incomplete manuscripts and fragments written in a number of mid-sixteenth century hands, and containing mainly pseudo-Aristotelian and religious prose texts and strict-metre poetry in Welsh, several of the poems addressed to members of the Lloyd family of Hafod-wen (Marrington), Chirbury, Shropshire. The Lloyd family were owners of portions, if not the whole, of the volume during the mid and second half of the sixteenth century, as contemporary notes and marginalia testify.
The volume comprises (a) ff. 1-43 verso, 133-191 in the hand of Harri ap Llywelyn ap John ap Gruffudd ap Siencyn of Welshpool ('Hari ffab llwelin a biav y llifer h[wn]' (f. 190), 'Hari fab llwelin ap Iohn ap grvfvdd ap cangkin or Trallwng a byav y llyffyr hwn ac ai ysgrifenodd ...' (f. 191)); (b) ff. 44-51 verso, consisting of fragments in several unidentified hands; (c) ff. 52-71 verso, 102-103 verso, 104 verso, 111-115 verso in an unidentified hand; (d) ff. 72-75, 76-78 verso, 100-102, 109-110, 118-132 verso, possibly in the hand of Cadwaladr ap Rhys Trefnant (the same hand occurs in Peniarth MS 79, pp. 41-44, 101-103, and Peniarth MS 82, pp. 285-287); (e) ff. 75, 89-99 verso in the hand of Llywelyn ap Rhys ab Ieuan ('lln ap Rys ap Ieuan ai ysgrifenodd pan oedd oed Krist yn M ccccc liii' (f. 94), 'lln ap Rys ap Ieuan ai ysgrifenodd pan oedd oed krist /1500/40/15' (f. 95)); (f) ff. 81-84, 85-88 verso, 96 verso, 105-107 in the hand of Huw Arwystl; (g) ff. 107-108 verso in an unidentified hand; and (h) ff. 116 verso-117 verso, an holograph cywydd by Owain Gwynedd. Englynion and verses have been added on several pages, mostly in unidentified hands of the mid sixteenth to late seventeenth centuries, but including some in the hands of Oliver Lloyd (f. 59), Huw Arwystl (f. 96 verso), Owain ap Syr Ieuan (probably) (f. 96 verso) and Wiliam Dyfi (f. 104).

A volume containing a transcript, written in the same mid-nineteenth century hand as compiled Brogyntyn MS II.40, of a 1786 copy of 'Antiquities and Memoirs of the Parish of Middle in the County of Salop', begun in 1700 by Richard Gough of Newton, Myddle, Shropshire, illustrated with additional pedigrees, coats of arms, sketches, including one of Myddle parish church in 1810 (f. 8), and maps and plans, including a plan of the arrangements of pews in Myddle parish church in 1807 (f. 6 verso) which is placed before the plans of the pews in 1701 given by Richard Gough (f. 7 recto-verso); together with a list of illustrations (f. iii) and an alphabetical index of subjects and personal names (ff. 286-288 verso).
The original manuscript, 1700-[c. 1702], is now Shrewsbury, Shropshire Archives MS 1525/1. The work was first published from an imperfect copy by Sir Thomas Phillipps under the title Human Nature Displayed in the History of Middle, by Richard Gough (Broadway: Middle Hill Press, 1834); the first faithful edition was Antiquities & Memoirs of the Parish of Myddle, County of Salop, Written by Richard Gough, A.D. 1700 (Shrewsbury, 1875). Later editions include The History of Myddle, ed. by David Hey (Penguin Books, 1981).

A volume containing accounts of payments, 1786-1792, to labourers working for Robert Godolphin Owen, Brogyntyn, naming individual workers, the number of days worked, their rates of pay and the nature of their employment.