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A volume containing accounts, 1744-1758, relating to the administration of the estate of Roger Mostyn (c. 1678-1744), Aberhirieth [Aberhiriarth], Cemais, Montgomeryshire, deceased, comprising an inventory of his goods and chattels taken and appraised, 5 November 1744, by David Rees and Humphrey Pierce (pp. 1-4); rentals, 1744-1758, of his real estate in Llanwrin and Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire, in the collections of David Vaughan, 1744-1748, Robert Richard, 1748-1754, and Robert Evans, clerk, 1754-1758, with accounts and payments received and disbursed (pp. 5-81); together with rentals, 1753-1756, of the real estate purchased in trust for William Pugh in Llanelidan, Denbighshire, and Llandrillo and Llandderfel, Merionethshire, in the collection of Robert Evans, clerk (pp. 82-87), with accounts and payments received and disbursed, 1754-1764 (pp. 89-103).

A volume containing a schedule compiled, [early 1820s] (Watermark 1820), with additions and notes, [c. 1844]-[c. 1869], in the hand of W. W. E. Wynne, Peniarth, of the title deeds, 1283-1842, of the Brogyntyn estate, relating to properties in Merionethshire (ff. 1-34 verso), Caernarvonshire (ff. 39 verso-64 verso), Shropshire (ff. 70 verso-101 verso), Denbighshire (ff. 107-112 verso), Montgomeryshire (ff. 119-122 verso) and Cornwall (f. 123 verso), and of wills, 1540-1774, relating to Merionethshire, Caernarvonshire, Shropshire, Denbighshire and Flintshire (ff. 130-138).
Papers found loose in the volume have been tipped in on ff. 139-144.

A volume containing Churchwardens' accounts, 1712-1767, of the parish of Selatyn, Shropshire, comprising a series of lewns (or lists of church rates), 1712-1744, assessed upon the landholders towards the repair of the parish church and other parochial expenses, including, between 1727 and 1728, a house of correction (ff. 2-67); together with a list of the names of the Churchwardens, 1712-1747 (ff. 67 verso-68 verso inverted text).
Tipped into the volume are a memorandum relating to the poor lewn, assessed 21 December 1767 (f. 69a), and an account of land tax assessed on the inhabitants of the township of Llanforda in the parish of Oswestry, 1746 (f. 70a). Pasted in are two receipts, 1724 and 1762, of money paid by William Owen, esq. (f. i), a short account, [mid-18 cent.], of work done by Richard Griffith and his son at 'ye Eagle' (f. i), and a note of work done by Simon Hughs at Porkington, 1715 (f. 48 verso).

A composite volume in two sections, the first, [15 cent., first ¼ (after 1401)] (ff. 1-18), containing the Anglo-Norman treatise on Seneschaucy (ff. 4-7), Walter of Henley's treatise on husbandry in Anglo-Norman (ff. 7-10), and various legal texts (ff. 1-4, 10-18 verso); the second, [14 cent, first ½], a defective copy of an unidentified Latin text on vaticination (ff. 19-24). The two sections were probably not bound together until after 1837.
Section i is written by a single hand, in anglicana, in uniform script in pale ink, apart from f. 18 verso, which was evidently filled later by the same hand. Section ii is written in anglicana by a single hand of the first half of the fourteenth century, in brown ink. There is no rubrication. The scribe exaggerates ascenders in top lines and decorates them with profile heads. There are six stabmarks in the inner margin.

A volume containing a transcript of a sermon preached on 5 November 1712 by the Rev. John Price, vicar of Wrexham from 1687 until 1716, when he was ejected as a non-juror and anti-Hanoverian following riots in the town in 1715 (see Alumni Oxoniensis and Alfred Neobard Palmer, The History of the Parish Church of Wrexham (Wrexham, [1886]), pp. 66-67).

A volume of sermons written in a cramped italic hand of the early seventeenth century on the following texts: 'O Lord we come nigh vnto thee wth our lipps let not o let not our harts be farre from thee' (ff. 1-2 verso); I Timothy iii. 9, 'Holding ye mystery of ye faith in a pure conscience' (ff. 5-12 verso); I Timothy iii. 9 (ff. 13-22 verso); Acts vii. 6, 'And when he dead sayd this, he fell asleepe' (ff. 23-29 verso); Luke xxii. 37, 'Woman I know him not' (ff. 38-44 verso); 'A notable lesson for those proud & peremptory enthusiastes of our dayes ...' (f. 45); Luke i. 46-7, 'My soule doth magnifie ye Lord' (ff. 47-55 verso); 'On[e] good turne calles for another' (ff. 56-61); John xii. 27, 'Ye holy child seemes to be in a quandary' (ff. 61 verso-64 verso); Acts xix. 38, 'The law is open & there are deputies' (ff. 65-71 verso); Acts xix. 38, 'The law is open & there are deputies let them implead on an other' (ff. 72-78 verso); and Romans ii. 23, 'For Circumcision verily profiteth if thou keepe ye law' (ff. 80-85 verso).
On f. iii verso is a list in the same hand of the following royal and other eminent patrons of learning: Henry VII and Elizabeth his wife, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Queen Mary I, Queen Elizabeth I, James I, Margaret Beaufort, countess of Richmond, Sir Thomas Bodley, William Camden, Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, Cardinal John Kemp, archbishop of Canterbury, Sir Nicholas Kemp, Thomas Kemp, bishop of London, Richard Lichfield, archdeacon of Middlesex, Sir Henry Savile, Sir William Sidney, Walter Stapleton, Dr White and Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, archbishop of York.

A volume containing sermons and miscellaneous religious memoranda written in a small regular secretary hand of the early seventeenth century (ff. 1 verso-37, 53-59, 128-143, 144 verso-148), with additional sermons and memoranda written in shorthand, probably in a system personal to the scribe (ff. 1, 5 recto-verso, 37 verso-52, 60 verso-121, 143; '1625' occurs on ff. 72 verso, 78, 82 verso, 89, 100 and 120 verso, and may be part of a date).
The texts and preachers of the sermons written in secretary are: Genesis xlix.3-4 by 'Mr Maine Petri' (ff. 2-5); Esay l.4 by 'Mr [William] Perkins' (ff. 6-32), together with other sermons on the same text (ff. 33-35, 36-37 verso, 53-59 verso); Luke ii.16 by 'Mr Crowder of St Johns' (ff. 129 verso-131 verso, inverted text); Psalm cxix.1 by 'Mr [George] Estye of Cayes' (ff. 132-139 verso, inverted text); Job xiv.14 by 'Mr Burne' (ff. 140 verso-142 verso, inverted text); and 2 Timothy iii.15 by 'Mr Newton of St Johns' (ff. 144 verso-147 verso, inverted text). Most, if not all, of the preachers seem to have belonged to Cambridge colleges; those that can be identified with any certainty are the puritan divine William Perkins (1558-1602) of Christ College and the divine George Estye (1566-1601) of Caius College. The memoranda include 'Mr Chattertons argum[en]t' relating to the casting of lots and playing cards and dice, probably a reference to the puritan divine Laurence Chaderton (?1536-1640), master of Emanuel College (inside front cover); the views of 'Mr Fisher of Caius' on the qualities of a minister of the gospel (f. 148); and notes on witchcraft and the identification of witches (f. 1 verso, continued f. 128 verso, inverted text), on various sins and virtues (ff. 128-132), and on conscience (f. 143).

A transcript in an unidentified hand of the early seventeenth century, of a political tract by the antiquary Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, on the repression of recusants: 'Considerations for the repressinge of the Encrease of Preests, Jesuites and Recusants without drawinge of Blood written by Sir Robert Cotten Knight and Barronett' (First line: 'I am not ignorant that this latter age hath brought [for]th a swarme of busie heades ...'; last line: '... least manie be animated to aduise rashelye, and others dishartned to Counsell grauelie') (ff. 1-25 verso).
The tract was first published in 1641 in two editions, A Treatise Against Recusants (London, 1641, Wing C6502) and Seriovs Considerations for Repressing of the Increase of Iesvites, Priests and Papists (London, 1641, Wing C6497). It was later included in Cottoni Posthuma: Divers Choice Pieces of ... Sir Robert Cotton, ed. by James Howell (London, 1651, Wing C6458), pp. 109-159, where it is entitled 'Twenty four arguments ... to suppress popish practices', and dated 11 August 1613, as is the text in London, British Library, MS Harleian 354. (See also Kevin Sharpe, Sir Robert Cotton 1586-1631: History and Politics in Early Modern England (Oxford, 1979), pp. 128, 230-231).

A volume containing a late-eighteenth century copy of 'A Short Account of the Rebellion in North & South Wales in Oliver Cromwell's Time copy'd from a Manuscript', recording events in Wales during the English Civil War from its commencement in 1642 to the execution of Charles I in 1649 and through the Commonwealth Period until 1656 (ff. 1-13 verso, 22-30; ff. 12 verso-13 verso and f. 28 are in Welsh).
The author gives a non-partisan account of the conflict, although sometimes referring to the excesses of the Parliamentary forces; his statement on f. 1 verso that he was a resident of Llanfachreth and Dolgellau, Merionethshire, suggests an identification with Robert Vaughan (1592?-1666) of Hengwrt. The volume also includes a short chronology of events in England, Scotland, Ireland, and abroad, 1600-1653 (ff. 14-19); the names of the principal officers and the numbers from other ranks taken and killed at the Battle of Nantwich, 25 January 1643 (f. 19 verso); 'The Humble Petition of many Thousands in ye Counties of Northwales', concerning the ejection of ministers from their churches and the sequestering of tithes by the Act made 22 February 1649 for propagating the gospel in Wales (f. 20); memoranda and copies of documents relating to the parliamentary elections for Merionethshire, 1654 and 1658, including a letter, 30 September 1654, from Simon Thelwall, Plas-y-Ward, and Humphrey Jones, Plas-yn-ddôl, to the friends of John Vaughan, Cefnbodig, Penllyn, one of the candidates, and a letter, 23 December 1658, from Howel Vaughan, Glan-y-llyn, and others to Lewis Owen, Peniarth, expressing their opinion that the latter would be a fit person to serve as member for the county at the next Parliament (ff. 20 verso-21 verso); and an account of an apparition of a battle seen in 1656 by eight eyewitnesses at Tre'r-go between Newborough and Aberffraw, Anglesey (ff. 29 verso-30).

A few items kept separate from the remainder of Brogyntyn MS II.38 on account of their format. They comprise a copy of J[ohn] R[alph] O[rmsby] G[ore], The Knights of St. John of Jerusalem... (London, 1838) (the autograph draft of which is in MS II.38i, ff. 22-42); two leaves from a reprinted copy of The Times, 3 October 1798 (see MS II.38i, ff. 20-21, for photocopies); and a wallet containing a few blank leaves.

A volume containing three Middle English texts: The Pricke of Conscience (ff. 1-94 verso), followed by the Trentalle sancti Gregorii (ff. 94 verso-96) and the seven penitential Psalms (ff. 96-106 verso). Lewis and McIntosh (1982), p. 33, place the dialect of our text of the Pricke in Monmouthshire, west Gloucestershire or possibly south Wales. There is comment on Book iv of the Pricke, on Purgatory, Protestant in standpoint, written in an italic hand, [16 cent., second ½] (ff. 28 verso-35 passim), but no other marginalia.
Written in anglicana formata by a single, inelegant scribe. Punctuated by point at verse ends and, in Latin text, by point and punctus elevatus. Ink brown, with greenish appearance through the parchment. The following, despite some appearances to the contrary, are probably by the scribe: (i) corrections, (ii) sidenotes in Latin, (iii) a substantial number of additional and variant verses, presumably deriving from a MS other than the exemplar, and (iv) headings, mostly in English, some long and explanatory, marked for insertion in the text and followed by the letter r (for rubric), derived perhaps from the same source as the additional and variant verses. All but (i) occur only in the text of the Pricke; (iii) and (iv) were added after (ii). The marking for rubrication suggests that our manuscript, with its additions, may have been intended to serve as the exemplar of another.

The Tretyse of þe Seven Poyntes of Trewe Love and Everlastynge Wisdame, translated from the Latin Horologium Sapientiae; see the edition of K. Horstmann, 'Orologium Sapientiae or the Seven Poyntes of Trewe Wisdom aus MS. Douce 114', Anglia, 10 (1888), 323-389, from Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 114 (announced variant readings from Caxton never published). W. Wichgraf, 'Susos Horologium Sapientiae in England nach Handschriften des 15. Jahrhunderts', Anglia, 53 (1929), 123-,33, 269-287, 345-373, and ibid. 54 (1930), 351-352, identifies the Latin origin of the text in Henry Suso's Horologium Sapientiae, comments on Horstmann's edition and lists five manuscripts of the complete English text, excluding ours, together with manuscripts in which chapters 4 and 5 each appear on their own; see also W. Wichgraf, 'Susos Horologium Sapientiae in England nach Mss des 15. Jahrhunderts', Archiv für neueren Sprachen und literaturen, 169 (1936), 176-181, which includes discussion of MS Cambrai 255.
The Latin colophon on f. 90, referring to Mount Grace, is probably derivative; it appears at the end of the same text in MS Cambrai 255 (see Catalogue générale des manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France, vol. 17 (Paris, 1891), p. 88; cf. N. R. Ker, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain (London, 1964) and Andrew G. Watson, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: Supplement to the Second Edition (London, 1987), Mount Grace). Written by a single hand, in good anglicana formata. Brown ink. Parti-coloured red/blue 7-line initials on ff. 1 verso and 8, accompanied by red and purple penwork and by red/blue nerfs and flourished borders; on f. 1 and elsewhere for chapter-openings, 3-line blue initials with red penwork (4-line for 'I' on f. 41 verso); headings and sidenotes in red, alternate red and blue paragraph marks.

Notes headed 'Passive Obedience', being extracts taken from Thomas Bilson, The True Difference Betweene Christian Subjection and Unchristian Rebellion (Oxford, 1585, STC 3071).

A volume containing scriptural and theological notes, written in an early-seventeenth century italic hand.

A transcript, [1620s], in an unidentified hand, of the letter, [early 1620s], from Thomas Alured, Remembrancer of the Court of the Marches and later MP for Hedon, to George Villiers, fifth duke of Buckingham, opposing the proposed marriage of the Prince of Wales, later Charles I, to Donna Maria, Infanta of Spain (cf. Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James I, 1619-23, p. 150): 'To my Lord Marquess of Buckingham' (First line, 'Though to aduise may seem presumptuous, yet what is well intended ...'; last line, '... By him, that is not ambitious, because not worthy, nor affraied, because not ashamed to be known vnto your Lordshipp in this busines Thomas Alured') (ff. 1-10).
On Thomas Alured see William Wheatley, Edward Latymer and his Foundations (Beccles, 1953), pp. 97-104. Several other contemporary manuscript copies are preserved in the British Library and Bodleian Library; for the printed text see Thomas Alured, Coppie of a Letter Written to the Duke of Buckingham Concerning the Match with Spaine (London, 1642, Wing 2940) and The Humble Advice of Thomas Aldred [recte Alured] to the Marquesse of Buckingham Concerning the Marriage of our Sovereigne Lord King Charles (London, 1643, Wing 2940A), the present text being closer to the 1643 edition, but with some variants; see also John Rushworth, Historical Collections, 7 vols (London, 1659-1701), i, 91.

A volume containing the first part of a transcript (continued in Brogyntyn I.10) by John Edwards, Plas Newydd, Chirk, of part of Thesaurus Linguæ Latinæ et Cambrobritannicæ... by 'Syr' Thomas Wiliems, Trefriw (now NLW Peniarth MS 228).
The volume contains the title page, dated 1608, the list of authorities cited, 'Prif Gaerae Ynys Brydain gynt', 'Tri dyfal gyfangan', and the dictionary from A to D. The contents correspond to Peniarth MS 228, vol. i, except that Thomas Wiliems's preface is wanting, probably as a result of six leaves being excised at the beginning of the volume between ff. iv and v. The text is written in a neat italic hand, two columns on each page; the Latin words are written in red ink, the Welsh definitions in black, quotations from Welsh literature in green, and the names of authors and titles of the works quoted in purple. According to a note on f. iv John Edwards paid nine shillings for paper for his transcript in 1607; he probably commenced transcribing soon afterwards in 1608, which is the date written on Thomas Wiliems's title-page, although Wiliems completed his dictionary on 2 October 1607. The monograms 'IHS' and 'MRA' on ff. v and 1 and 'Emanuell IHS' on f. iv indicate that John Edwards, like Thomas Wiliems, was a Roman Catholic. Because of his refusal to take the Oath of Allegiance in 1613 two-thirds of Edwards's estate was confiscated, which resulted in his being involved in litigation until the end of his life, a situation which probably explains why he abandoned transcribing the dictionary.

A volume containing the second part of a transcript (begun in Brogyntyn MS I.9) by John Edwards, Plas Newydd, Chirk, of part of Thesaurus Linguæ Latinæ et Cambrobritannicæ... by 'Syr' Thomas Wiliems, Trefriw (now NLW Peniarth MS 228).
The contents continue the dictionary from E to Indeclinabilis and corresponds to Peniarth MS 228, vol. ii, ff. 2-113. The text is written in a neat italic hand, two columns on each page; the Latin words are written in red ink, the Welsh definitions in black, quotations from Welsh literature in green, and the names of authors and titles of the works quoted in purple. Spaces are sometimes left for the later addition of the Welsh quotations.

A volume containing copies, [c. 1765], probably in the hand of Mrs Egerton of Sundorne, Shropshire (see f. i), of meditations and family prayers by Thomas Wilson (1663-1755), bishop of Sodor and Man.
The volume contains the following: Morning Prayer, 'The Lord hath brought us safe to the Beginning of this Day' (ff. 2-7); Evening Prayer, 'By the Favour of God, we are come to the Evening of this Day' (ff. 8-13 verso); A short and necessary Instruction for Sunday Morning, 'The Lord who hath blessed one Day in seven' (ff. 15-22 verso); A Prayer For Sunday Morning, 'O Lord, who hast consecrated that good Day to thy service' (ff. 23-26); A plain and useful Instruction For Sunday Evening, 'That God is great, and to be greatly feared' (ff. 27-35 verso); Short and Plain Directions for the worthy Receiving of the Lords Supper, 'When Notice is given, that the Lord's Supper is to be administer'd' (ff. 37-46 verso); A Prayer, 'O Lord and Heavenly Father, we are not worthy of the least of all the Mercies' (ff. 47-48 verso); Plain and short Instructions for such as have been Confirm'd, and such as have been at the Lords Supper, 'Having given up yourself to God and his Service' (ff. 51-59); A Prayer for Divine Grace, 'Blessed Spirit of Grace' (ff. 59-60 verso); Plain and short Directions for such as are Sick, or under any other Affliction, 'When you are visited with Sickness, or any other Affliction' (ff. 63-75 verso); A Prayer in Time of Affliction, 'Almighty God, the Author of Life and Death' (ff. 76-77 verso); A Prayer in the time of any Publick Calamity By another Hand In the year 1750, 'O God in the midst of Wrath remember Mercy!' (ff. 80-82 verso).

A volume containing a holograph copy, finished 16 January 1649/50, of an incomplete translation into Welsh by Rowland Vaughan (c. 1590-1667), Caer Gai, Llanuwchllyn, Merionethshire, of Eikon Basilike, a work attributed to King Charles I and first published a few hours after the king's execution on 30 January 1648/9.
Preceding the translation is a dedicatory epistle to Col. Sir John Owen of Clenennau, Caernarvonshire, under whom Vaughan served during the Civil War (f. 1 recto-verso), three verses on the death of Charles I and four regarding the translation (f. 2). The surviving part of the translation begins towards the end of chapter 23 (the original pagination indicates the loss of 140 pages at the beginning) and continues to the end of the work (ff. 3 23 verso); it is followed by a table of contents (ff. 23 verso-24). Vaughan translated the text at Cilgellan, Merionethshire, since his own home, Caer Gai, had been destroyed by the Parliamentarian troops. The text of the dedicatory epistle is printed in Megan Ellis, 'Pethau nas Cyhoeddwyd, 2. Cyflwyniad Rowland Vaughan, Caergai, i'w gyfieithiad o Eikon Basilike', National Library of Wales Journal, 1 (1939-40), 141-144 (pp. 143-144). See also Eikon Basilike, or the King's Book, ed. by Edward Almack (London, 1904). A negative photostat copy of the manuscript was made, [?mid-20 cent.], prior to its repairing and binding at NLW and prior to its being foliated; this copy is now Brogyntyn MS II.56a.

An untitled and apparently unpublished English treatise on predestination by an anonymous author, discussing the views of various theologians of the late sixteenth and early seventeeth centuries: 'The principall End of the labour which brought this worke was by was by [sic] the helpe of God ... the spiryt of Ch[rist] to whom all these Euils do betide of despayre and securely go to bee spurned' (ff. 1-69).
Written by two hands, a main one (ff. 1-56 verso, 62-69 verso) and a second (ff. 56 verso-60, last line of f. 69 verso).