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1. William Hampton, senior, of Beaumaris;
2. Gabriel Beane of the same, chandl[e]r.
   Release of y Ty Newydd in the ward of Castle street, Beaumaris.

Mortgage by Rowland Pughe of Mathafarn to Dame Anne Myddelton of London, widow, and Sir John Wittewronge her son [-in-law], for £550 of a capital messuage, other messuages, gardens, a tanhouse, tucking mill, etc. and the properties purchased from Oliver Herbert (q.v.), all in Machynlleth and the townships of Isygarreg and Uwchygarreg, 1635; and a reconveyance to John Pughe of the above properties and also of the capital messuage of Mathafarn, the mills, Bryn Melyn, Keven y Gader, Rhyd y Gwiell, Maes y Capell, etc. in Llanwrin, land at Yr Erwy Mon and Y Lleinie, Tall yr Henbont, Machynlleth, Tythyn Pant Gwyn, Tythin Llaincoryn, Gwern y Stabley, Maes yr Yd, Bryn y Garreg, etc. in Glynceirig [Llanwrin], and meadows (named) in Isygarreg, 1653/4. There is also a re-demise of the Mathafarn estate by Walter Graham of the Inner Temple and Mary, his wife, to John Pughe, 1660.

A small group of documents, 1636-1637, concerning the regulation of the manufacture and sale of copperas (ferrous sulphate), and silver mining in Cardiganshire.
They comprise: (i) a signed warrant of King Charles I to the Attorney General Sir John Bankes, received 17 July 1636, to conclude a contract between the king and English copperas makers to purchase copperas at an improved rate (f. 13); (ii) a petition to the king from Thomas Bushell, the mining entrepreneur, granted at Lindhurst, [Hampshire], 19 August 1637, asking to be granted the right to purchase copperas at a favourable price (f. 14); (iii) a further warrant from the king to Bankes, received 24 October 1637, mainly granting modifications to regulations relating to copperas to give Elizabeth, Dowager Viscountess Savage, a monopoly, but also requiring the removal of the provision for Bushell 'to have Copperis for our Mine in Wales at the former rate' (f. 15). Bushell intended to use copperas in a new process to extract silver from ore, however this process was to prove ineffective (see J. W. Gough, The Superlative Prodigall: A Life of Thomas Bushell (Bristol, 1932), p. 49). Bushell subsequently successfully petitioned the king to establish a branch of the royal mint at Aberystwyth to coin his silver, with himself as warden.

Agreement by Katherin Vaughan of St Issells, Pembrokeshire, for the lease of the manors of St Issells and Treberth, Hencastle, etc., to Nicholas Lewis, 1635/6.

A volume of reports of cases in the King's Bench from the beginning of Michaelmas Term, 20 James I, to the end of Hilary, 22 James I (1622-1625), copied in 1636.

Bond by William Carne of the City of London, Esqre, to Sir Louis Mansell of Morgan, co. Glam., kt and Bart, in the sum of £900. [Latin]. Dated: 19th May, AD 1636. Signed: Wm. Carne. Small signet seal, red wax(14 x 12mm). A shield of arms; a pelican in her piety, for CARNE. The condition is, that the above Wm. Carne shall pay £312 on the 21st Nov. next to Francis Kemp of the City of London, gentleman, and to Henry Kemp, gentleman, his son, for the payment of which the said Sir L. Mansell, at the request and for the only debt of the said Wm. Carne, together with the said Wm Carne, Sir Thomas Morgan, kt, and Sir Edward Stradling, kt, stands bound in the sum of £600. [English].

1. Edward Wynne of Bodewryd, gent.;
2. Owen Humphrey of Llanvayr Mathavarn Eitha.
   Lease of y Kay dan y Tuy mawr and other parcels of land in Llanvayr aforesaid. Annual rent 10s.

A 'booke of Commonplaces gathered out of sundry writers', 1636-1638, by David Rowlands, rector of Llangybi, the first part containing extracts from Peter Heylyn, Cosmographie ...

A notebook mainly in the autograph of Robert Wynne of Nantglyn, with additions in other hands. Robert Wynne was apparently deputy-lieutenant of the county of Denbigh in 1636 - see pedigree in the autograph of Angharad Lhwyd, No. 91.