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A volume of Welsh poetry, with some prose items, written in the seventeenth and late eighteenth centuries in several distinct hands. The following are among the previous owners: John Jones of Tu yn y graig, Cerrig y druidion, Edward Jones, 1723, and David Morris.

A small notebook into which leaves from a printed London Almanack for 1742 have been pasted, with diary entries for 1741-1747 by [?John Parry] who was apparently an alderman of Denbigh in 1742. These are references to 'my Brother Evan', and to the death of 'my unckle Gabriel Morgan' on 17 April 1747.

A notebook, c. 1718-27, containing Latin hexameters, a Greek-Latin vocabulary, a list of 'Books recomended in the education of a daughter', a scathing epitaph on a bishop, various accounts by M. Wynn and particulars of tithe hay, etc. The signature of Thomas Wynne occurs both at the beginning and at the end.

A miscellany of poetry and prose written in the last quarter of the seventeenth century partly by Foulke Wynne of Nantglyn and partly by Robert Lloyd of Segroyd Uchaf, millwright. The following note is written at the reverse end: 'Y llyfur yma A Rhoddodd Evan Lloys or rhyd Goch ei Robt lloyd Saer ... ganol mis Mai yn y flwyddyn 1676'. The volume also bears the names of Margaret Williams, 1761, and Robert Jones, 1787. A short index to the contents, 1832, is in the hand of Robert Davies, Nantglyn.

A volume consisting mainly of prayers in the autograph of Foulke Wynne. Most of the prayers are grouped under the title 'Gweddiau Gerard gwedi eu dosparthu am bob dydd or wythnos', and are a Welsh translation of the 'Prayers' of Johann Gerhard, originally written in Latin as Meditationes sacrae (1606), but were afterwards translated into English by Ralph Winterton as Gerards prayers: or, a daily practise of pietie (1st ed., 1631). At the beginning of the volume are prophecies and verses by 'Brenin Jerusalem' and 'englynion' by Gabriel Wynn, and at the end are Collects taken from the Welsh Book of Common Prayer - 'Collectiau allan or llyfr Gweddiau Cyffredin'.

A notebook containing: Latin exercises by Ithel Jones; particulars of sums payable to a smith, 1683-1684; an English poem on the coronation of James II; Welsh verses beginning 'ysurus fel anadl folianus ...'; and accounts for barley, malt and wheat, 1691-1693, with a reference to Hopeowen tithe.

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.

A notebook containing: part of a treatise on phlebotomy (pp. 1-[21]); 'An estimate of every particular persons land within the p[ar]ish of Nantglyn liable to pay mize as it is now 1667' (pp. 22-[24]); the heraldic achievement of King Charles II (pp. 25-[27]); 'The pedigrees of some gentlemen of North-wales' [1668] (pp. 28-[94]); ['A division of the decayes of Ruthin'] (pp. 95-[116]); 'A cattalogue of [English] books that I had in custody with their seu[er]all prices' (pp. 117-[126]); a list of Welsh books with their prices (p. 127); the number of hearths in Isaled (pp. 128-[137]); and assessments of mises in the hundred of Isaled (pp. 138-[162]).

(a) The pedigree and achievement of Edward Almor of Pant Yokym, co. Denb., esq., and the achievement and a part of the pedigree of Gilbard Gerrarde, esq., who married Jane, Daughter and heir of William Almor, esq., drawn by Rhys Cain of the town of Oswestry and finished 9 Dec. 1602; (b) The pedigree and achievement of Lady Elizabeth Salesbury, one of the daughters of Walter Vaughan of Goulden grove, esq., and wife of Sir Henry Salesbury of Llyweny, bart, drawn by John Cain of the town of Oswestry, Shropshire, and finished 31 July 1623.

The diary or journal of Robert Parry (b. 1564) of Eriviatt, Denbighshire, son of Harry ap Robert of Twysog, recording events which occurred during the period 1559-1613. The diary as it is now stands is incomplete: the first page extant has been mutilated, and there are no entries at all for the years between 1571 and 1581. Interspersed among records of greater length such as 'A true disclosure of the travell & Journey of Robert Parry gent. vnto Italie', 1600, copies of speeches made by King James I, the terms of the peace concluded between England, Spain, and the Archdukes, 1604, and Letters which passed between the Sultan of Turkey and Sigismund III, king of Poland and Sweden, 1612-13, are brief notes of events at Court, births, marriages and deaths (largely in Denbighshire families), accidents, outbreaks of the plague, executions, strange happenings, &c. With the manuscript is a letter (post 1900) from Charles S. Mainwaring.

1 Fowlk ap Robert of Meriadock. co. Denb., and Piers Fowlk, his son and heir apparent, gent's;. 2 John Salesbury, kt, David Holland, esq., Thomas ap John Wyn and Owen Holland, gent's. Grant (pre-nuptial settlement of the aforesaid Piers Fowlk and Anne, daughter of Meredith ap Tuder, gent.) of properties in Meriadock and in the several p's of Llanyvyth, Llanvair, Llansannan and Abergeley, co. Denb. Latin. Seal.

1 Robert Wynne of Nantglyn, co. Denb., gent., and Foulke Wynne, his son and heir apparent;. 2 Richard Lloyd of Segroit, esq., and David Davies of Llaethwryd, gent. Covenant to levy a fine of two messuages in Cader, two messuages in Nantglyn called Tan y Gyrt and Havod Caradog, a messuage in llangwm called yr Henblas, a parcel of land in Eriviat called Cellie y Cro, parcels of land in Nantglyn aforesaid called kae/r/ Pistill and Tan y Cappel, a capital m. called Plas yn Nantglyn, a water corn mill thereunto belonging called melin Nantglyn and sometime Melin y Plas yn Nantglyn and other messuages and lands in Nantglyn, Henllan, Llanrhaiader, Cader, Eriviat, Llangwm, Maes yr odyn, Llysan, Garthmeilio and Disgarth, co. Denb.

Probate of the will of Robert Wynne of Nant in p. Nantglyn, co. Denb., gent., dec. Will dated April 26 1698.

Answers of Meredith Wynne, gent., and Anne Wynne, spinster, defendants, to the Bill of Complaint of Robert Wynne, esq., and Elizabeth his wife, complainants, touching a m. and lands formerly in the possession of Peirce Foulkes, dec.

Receipt from Jane Wynne to her brother Thos Wynne for £5, viz. one half year's payment of the annuity bequeathed to her by her father.

1 Mary Wynne of Plâs yn Nantglyn, co. Denb., widow;. 2 John Jones of Denbigh, dyer,. Bond for the payment of the sum of £100.

1 Mary Wynne of Plas yn Nantglyn, co. Denb., widow;. 2 Robert Wynne of Plas Newydd, esq. Bond for the performance of covenants.

1 John Jones of Denbigh, co. Denb., dyer;. 2 Hugh Edwards of Plâs Nantglyn, gent.;. 3 Robert Wynne of Plâs Newydd, esq. Assignment of a bond for the paymen of £100.

1 John Mostyn of Segroit, co. Denb., esq;. 2 Hugh Edwards of plas yn Nantglyn, gent. Declaration of trust in respect of a lease and release (28-9 May 1755) of a m. in t. Meriadog in p. St Asaph, co. Denb. called Coed y brain, then in the holding of Samuel Saise. Mutilated.