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The fly leaf has this note: 'Liber Gruffini Kyffin / emptus Oxon. November. / 1654 / Liber Grufini Kyffin / emptus Oxon. / pr: 6d'. The first part of the manuscripts contain a list of books 'which might be fit to furnish a library for young but academcall schollars', with some interesting remarks on the books selected. Reversing the volume and reading from the other and we have extracts from legal treatises.

A book of legal precedents compiled by William Williams in 1658.

A second volume of transcripts of the laws of Hywel Dda made for William Maurice, and partly by him. This volume begins with Trioedd Cyfraith; excerpts from Lib. Frag. i.e. from Peniarth MS 36; Llyfr B. or Lib. Beta, which appears to be based largely upon Peniarth MS 33; and the following transcripts of texts under the names given to them by William Maurice. The names have also been written on the original manuscripts by William Maurice.
Llyfr As, which is now Peniarth MS 175. Lap which is now Peniarth MS 256. Morgeneu which is now Peniarth MS 37. Cyn., which is now Peniarth MS 35. Teg., which is now Peniarth MS 32. Pomf. which is now Peniarth MS 259b. Lew. which is now Peniarth MS 39. Befol which is now Peniarth MS 259a. With an incomplete transcript of Peniarth MS 28 and a few pleadings from other sources.
These manuscripts of the laws of Hywel Dda are mentioned in the catalogue of Welsh Manuscripts at Wynnstay (See Wynnstay MS 21. Also Transactions of the Cymmrodorion, vol. 2 (1828), no. 3, which appears to refer to the first volume).
These two volumes (MSS 37-38), together with MS 36, and the other manuscripts in this schedule which are known to have been in the possession of William Maurice of Cefnybraich, were undoubtedly out of the Wynnstay Library when the disastrous fire of 6 March 1858 destroyed its contents. Aneurin Owen returned two parcels of manuscripts in 1851, according to a copy of a receipt placed in the above MS. There is a rough list of the manuscripts with the receipt, and three items are marked as borrowed by Mr Petrie, late keeper of the records in the Tower. The manuscripts covered by this receipt can safely be identified with MSS 11, 12, 35, 36, 37, 38, in this schedule, and there remains one entry of a volume of the Law of Hywel the Good, which may be in error for No. 10, which is otherwise not represented in the list. It is significant that these seven manuscripts were kept together in Box 47 in the muniment room at Wynnstay, and the conclusion is that they were not returned to their place in the library. Aneurin Owen was associated with Petrie in the latter's project for the publication of a corpus of materials for the early history of Britain, a task which was partly accomplished by the publication of the first volume of the 'Monumenta Historica Britannica' under the direction of Sir T. Duffus Hardy in 1848. Aneurin Owen's 'Ancient Laws & Institutes of Wales', published in 1841, was but a part of this larger scheme.

The first of two volumes of transcripts made about 1660-1662 for William Maurice of Llansilin. This volume contains copies, by a scribe who has endeavoured to imitate the handwriting of John Jones of Gellilyfdy, of the versions of the laws of Hywel Dda which are now contained in Peniarth MSS 224, 40, and 34. These are designated by William Maurice as Alpha, Kalan, and Bod respectively. William Maurice has also entered variant readings from other sources on the interleaves.

Copies made between 1661 and 1663 by William Maurice of Llansilin of the Historia Britonum of Nennius, including Eulogium Britanniae Insulae Capitula, etc., with collations from several manuscripts; the Latin version of the Laws of Hywel Dda apparently copied from Peniarth MS 28; George Carleton's letter to William Camden; the prologue of Robert of Torigni; the letter of Henry of Huntingdon to Guerin le Breton; and Alfred of Beverly's Historia de gestis regalibus regum brittanie apparently copied from Peniarth MS 384. The following note in the autograph of William Maurice occurs at the end of the text in Peniarth MS 384: 'Totum transcripsi fideliter Ego Guil. Mauricius Lansilinensis. Anno Dni 1663. Laus Deo'.

Treatises on infectious diseases and studies of the epidemical constitution of the years 1661-1666, and of part of the year 1669 and the following years, 1670, 1671 and 1672 at London, particularly relating to the cholera epidemic.

A copy of Ware's De Scriptoribus Hiberniae (Dublin, 1639) with manuscript notes by William Maurice of Llansilin (d. 1680).

According to a note on the fly leaf this manuscript is a transcript of the Reports of John Allen delivered to (?)William Williams by Mr Leightbene 'who hath the originals', 1681. The reports are of cases heard during the years 1645-1647.

An account book of rents received and paid for leases granted and taken by Evan Vaughan, money borrowed and lent, allowances to his wife and son, and sundry payments, 1662-1687. It is probable that this Evan Vaughan is the same person as he who was nominated capital bailiff of Llanfyllin in the new charter granted by Charles II in 1673. From this account book it appears that he died in 1685, when new hands appear, and Elin Vaughan is described as a widow.

Rentals of the estates of Sir William Williams (Speaker Williams) from 1672 to 1690.

Title deeds for Pentrego in Dyffryn Meifod and Main, Montgomeryshire, 1665-1692. They include the following marriage settlements: Ambrose Phillips and Margaret his wife, daughter of Thomas Brookes of Dyffryn, 1665; Robert Parry of Main and Alice his wife, daughter of William Lloyd of Main, settling property in Main, Dyffryn and Dolgronn, 1667; and Robert Phillips of Shrewsbury and Elizabeth Scott, daughter of Richard Scott, naming Pentre yr Goe, the Bull in the township of Peniarth and other messuages in Dyffryn, Meifod, Main and Peniarth, preceded by a deed to lead uses of a fine involving Margaret Davies, wife of Richard Davies of Altfawr, to whom Robert Phillips was nephew, 1691, and followed by the final concord, 1692. The file also contains an assignment by Thomas Brookes, Margaret his wife and trustees to Ambrose Phillips of an annuity, 1667/8; and the will of Ambrose Phillips of Shrewsbury, 1677.

Rentals of the estate of William Williams, esquire, from 1685 to 1692. Accounts of Owen Hughes, 14 Sept. 1676-15 Sept. 1677, are on f. 352.

Accounts of disbursements on behalf of Edward Vaughan of Llwydiarth from April 1683 to 1693, and rent rolls of his estates in Llanfihangel, Llanfyllin, Meifod and Llanothing, with accounts relating thereto, 1685-1691.

Manuscript containing the end of Sion Kent's cywydd i'r Drindod; Kowydd i'r byd by Sr Owen ab Gwilim; Cowydd ir Iesv by Huw Lewis; englynion "in comendation of a booke called Perl mewn adfyd" by Huw Lewis; three stanzas of a poem by Mr Richard Hughes ("yn amser y Powder treason"); an englyn to Gryffydd Byner by Sion Klewedog; an incomplete copy of Prognostication Sion Tvdvr; and anonymous englynion. The name of William Elias "shooe maker Aperentis in bettws bach" is written on the last page.

'Gervasij Tilberiensis de Scaccarij necessarijs observantijs dialogus tempore Henrici Secundi scriptus', a copy of the dialogue which was formerly ascribed to Gervase of Tilbury, but attributed to Richard Fitzneale, bishop of London, 1189-1198, by Thomas Madox in his History & antiquities of the Exchequer... together with... the ancient dialogue concerning the Exchequer (London, 1711). The manuscript is in the same hand as MS 48 and part of MS 44.

A copy of 'A treatise of the High Cort of Starchamber devided into three generall parts and every parte devided into certaine severall consideracons', by William Hudson (d. 1635) who practised in that court. The text was published by Hargrave in 1792 in Collectanea Juridica from a copy in Harleian MS 1226. This manuscript is a copy as shown by the omission of a line on f. 10a.

There is no indication of the authorship of the treatises, but the manuscript came into the hands of Henry Wynn. The first treatise is concerning the nobility according to the laws of England. This is followed by extracts entitled Regula pro Liberatione Terrarum hors de Gill's Black Book in Chancery; and arguments for the nullification of the marriage of Queen Maria Francisca Isabella to King Alphonse the sixth [of Portugal].

Another copy of the Argument of Sir John Davies (1569-1626), written in two hands, one of which is similar to that of Nos. 40 and 48. This copy differs from MS 43 in that it has a table of contents at the beginning.

'Certes conceipts et bon cases escries et composes per Edmund Plowden vn apprentice de la commen ley in le Middle Temple London'. A short note to the reader is signed 'I.A.'. Towards the end of the manuscript there are later copies of precedents and legal notes in English.