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A draft of Thomas Pennant's 'Literary Life', which was published in 1793.

Pedigrees, mainly of English families, and miscellanea.

Letters, 1763-1837, most of them addressed to David Pennant, and mainly dealing with local affairs (Board of Guardians, Flint Enclosure Bill, etc.).

A transcript of the 'Chorographical Description or Survey of Devon' compiled between 1605 and 1630 by Tristram Risdon (1580?-1640).

Miscellaneous papers of Thomas Pennant, David Pennant, and David Pennant, junior. They include personalia, estate and parochial papers, 'The Account of David Pennant with the Poor of Whitford', 1798-1834, a note on Owen Glyn Dŵr, a priced list of illustrations for A Tour in Wales, a circular letter relating to the Talacre Coal and Iron Company, a poem written on the coming of age of David Pennant, junior, January 22, 1817, etc.

A list of topographical prints of English counties, and a list of gentlemen's houses in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.

References to documents of Welsh interest included in Thomas Rymer : Foedera ... (London, 1704-1732).

Transcripts of two letters from Lord Lyttleton to his brother Charles, dean of Exeter (and afterwards bishop of Carlisle), written from Brynkir, Caernarvonshire, July 6, and Shrewsbury, July 14, 1755, giving an account of a tour in North Wales, of notes by Dr. William Wynne, Tower near Mold, on ancient religious customs in North Wales, and of observations made during a tour to Snowdon by [Anthony] Champion; and notes by Thomas Pennant.

A history of Wales transcribed from George Owen's treatise of lordships marcher in Wales; copies of a statement made March 10, 1685/6, at New York by Morgan Jones, 'the son of John Jones of Basleg near Newport in Monmouthshire', attesting that he had conversed with American Indians in the Welsh language (see The Gentleman's Magazine, 1740), of a letter, August 14, 1734, on a similar subject sent by Charles Lloyd, Dolobran, Montgomeryshire, to a cousin, and of 'Dr. [Robert] Plott's Account [to the Royal Society] of an Antient Discovery of America from Wales'; a list, in the hand of John Lloyd, Caerwys, of 'The names of the Principal men that kept Hardelech castle against Edwd the 4th;' lists of the sheriffs of Flintshire, Denbighshire, Montgomeryshire, and Merioneth; transcripts of epitaphs in Mold church; and notes taken from Thomas Carte : A General History of England (London, 1747-1755).

Transcripts of notes on Druidism and Scotland, including the Hebrides, sent to Thomas Pennant by _____ Macqueen.

A transcript of 'The number of the Hundreds, Castles, Parish Churches, and Fairs, ... the Names of the chief Lordships, Market Towns, Forests and great woods, Deer Parks, Havens, chief Mountains, and Hills, Notable Rivers, Monasteries, Priories, Frieries, and Nunneries in all the Shires of Wales And also the Names of the divers of the chief gentlemen ... and ... of their Wives and Dwelling places. With brief notes of the nature of the soil, quality of the people ... First collected by George Owen of Henllys in Pembrockshire Esquire Anno domini 1602'.

Notes on the siege of Chester in 1645, etc.

A list of patients, mainly children, inoculated at Downing against small-pox, 1800, 1802, and 1819.

An account book of receipts and disbursements kept by David Pennant, 1782-1785, when he was at Oxford.

An account book, 1803-1807, kept by David Pennant.

A list of subscribers towards the relief of the poor in the parish of Erbistock, 1795, names of persons relieved, and details of expenditure.

A classified index of birds and lists of some northern animals, prepared by Thomas Pennant.

An interleaved copy of Henry P. Wyndham : A Gentleman's Tour through Monmouthshire and Wales ... 1774 (London, 1775), with comments and notes by another traveller.

Papers and plans relating to the building of a church and a school at Holywell, with many letters to David Pennant from Morris Williams ('Nicander'), Sir Stephen R. Glynne, Edward Jones (agent to the Downing estate), Henry Parry (Llanasa), and others; drawings and estimates for a stained-glass window and a monument in Whitford church, 1829, and papers relating to re-flagging and re-pewing the church; Holywell Poor Law Union papers, including lists of persons to whom free issues of broth, coal, etc., were made; etc.

Letters, mainly to Thomas and David Pennant, the correspondents including Lewis Bagot, (bishop of St. Asaph), J. Drinkwater (Gibraltar), G. P. Harding, Samuel Hearne, Edward Jones (agent to the Downing estate), Richard Jones (printer, Dolgelley), John Latham, John Lightfoot, Thomas Maurice (London), Robert Norris (Richmond), Henry Parry (Llanasa), George Shaw (British Museum), Richard Sillitoe (Bodfari), Joseph Strutt (London), Joseph Cooper Walker (Dublin), and Benjamin White (London).