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Title deeds of houses, tenements and lands in the town and parish of Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire, 1440-1697, and in the townships of Isygarreg, 1560-1683, and Uwchygarreg, 1567-1694. The early deeds provide information about the layout of the town in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, together with the names and occupations of some of the inhabitants, notably in the textile and glove-making trades. Some files record streets which still exist and their earlier alternative names. The deeds record acquisitions mainly by the Pughe family of Mathafarn during the seventeenth century. Other prominent names include Oliver Herbert, the families of Owen, Vaughan and ap Richard/Prichard of Machynlleth, Ll'n ap Res ap Ieuan ap Gwilkoc and his descendants, and occasionally, Owen of Peniarth. Witnesses include bailiffs of the town.

Title deeds of burgages, tenements and land in the town and parish of Machynlleth, 1440-1697. Some files refer to specific streets, namely Pentrehedyn Street or Stryd gwyr Deheubarth, 1440-1697, Pentremaengwyn Street or Stryd Gwyr Cyfeiliog, 1550-1643, and Pentre’rallt Street or Stryd Gwyr Gwynedd, 1575-1641.

Title deeds of burgages and gardens in Pentrehedyn Street or Stryd Gwyr Deheubarth in the town of Machynlleth, 1440-1697. Boundaries include a street called Y Groes Hewle and a field called Y Garsion. The earliest deed is a grant in fee farm by Gr' Derwas and Mabli vch Ieuan Lloyt his wife to Ll'i ap Ieuan ap Ho'l Goch of Machynlleth, 1440. Two deeds record acquisitions by Lewis or Ll’n ap Ho'll ap Davit [Hugh] and Maud vch Owen ap Res, his wife, from his brothers and others, 1516-1532. There is also a bond by Lewis Ramon' of the city of London, merchant, to accompany a deed (missing) to John Owen for a messuage in Stryd Deheubarth and Y Kaie Yn Y Fron in Isygarreg, 1591/2; and a mortgage by Griffith Swayne, corvisor, followed by a deed of sale by him and his mortgagee to William Pughe of Mathafarn, of a messuage and a building adjoining a bakehouse belonging to William Pugh, with an account of the purchase, 1696/7.

Original bundle of bonds to John Edmond for peaceful possession in Llan-gors, 1566; to Thomas Lewis of Llan-gors for performance of covenants, 1666; to Owen ap Res Lloyd for peaceful possession of Ffosse Lloyne and Rose Llynne, Llangoedmor, 1569; and to John Lewis of Coedmor for payment, 1697.

To John Owen. Subject: Business matters.

To John Owen. Subject: His intention to stand as candidate for Anglesey at the next election.

1. Owen Roberts of Cayrey;
2. John Owen of Penrhos.
   Release of the properties specified in Bodewryd deeds 257.

Five manuscripts formerly in the Duke of Newcastle's library at Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire, comprising genealogies of North Wales families; texts from the Alexander cycle and the Historia Regum Britanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth; a transcript of Rice Merrick's 'Morganiae Archaiographia'; and volumes in the hands of John Prise of Brecon and Hereford, grandson of Sir John Prise (1502?-1555), and of Thomas Prise, Wistaston, Herefordshire, probably grandson of the former.

A volume, 1692-1698, in the hand of Thomas Prise, Wistaston, Herefordshire, containing medical and other recipes, some acquired from relations and acquaintances (ff. 1-23 verso), together with personal memoranda (ff. 51-55 verso).

Title deeds found with the Gogerddan estate records, relating to a plantation in the parish of St Anthony, Montserrat, in the West Indies, 1694/5-1698. The location would suggest a link with Carbery Pryse, who went to Barbados in 1666, although the documents post-date his death. The deeds record a mortgage by John Scott and William Frye, on behalf of Joseph Collins of St Davids, Jamaica,, 1695, a reconveyance by the mortgagee, Edward Parson, 1697, and the sale of the plantation by Joseph Collins,and Johana his wife to William Frye of Montserrat, 1698. The tenant was Major Thomas Lee.

A notebook of Edward Lhuyd, written 1698 (see pp. 10, 52), containing details of monumental inscriptions in Llanboidy (p. 6), Defynnog (p. 7), Llanfihangel (Mongomeryshire) (p. 17), Trawsfynydd (p. 31), Llangadog (p. 53), Herefordshire (pp. 58, 72), Llanllywenfel (p. 75), Llanafan Fawr (p. 77) and Llandanwg (p. 89); sketches of stone crosses (pp. 59-61, 73), stone circles (pp. 27, 44, 94, 99, 100) and further stones (pp. 2, 9, 42-3, 56), lime pit fossils (pp. 14, 44, 54, 62, 84-5, 145), a window (p. 3), Llangorse lake (p. 36), and the shore by Barry Island (pp. 37-8); and details of tombstones and their epitaphs (pp. 4, 11, 13, 39, 47, 63, 69, 81). The volume also includes notes relating to manuscripts and their owners (pp. 65-74), etc. An autograph note on p. 120 states: 'Mr. Edward Lhwyd was born at Lappiton parish, his nurse is now [?1698] living at Krew green (where he was nurs'd) 9 yre of her at Mrs. Judith Cowfield at Lappiton / his nurse says he is 41 years old 3 days before Michaelmas last according to Catherine Bowen his nurse to ye best of her memory'.

1. Owen Roberts of Cayrey, co. Anglisey;
2. John Owen of Penrhos.
   Lease for a year of quillets of land in the occupation of Owen Marks, fisherman, the moiety of Ynis Savall, p. Llanvoorog.

Letters exchanged between members of the Maurice and Owen families of Clenennau and Brogyntyn, and other correspondence from friends or associates in Wales and England, together with a number of important official documents deriving from county administration in Caernarfonshire during the Tudor and Stuart periods, 1485, 1573-1698. Many of the early letters and papers, 1580-1622, relate to the joint deputy lieutenancy in Caernarfonshire of Sir William Maurice and Sir John Wynn, showing their preoccupation with the raising and organisation of militia troops for the defence of Caernarfonshire and for despatch to Ireland. Other topics include Sir William Maurice's position as deputy vice-admiral of North Wales and the protracted civil lawsuits in which he was engaged. The collection also constitutes an important historical source for the conduct of the Civil War in North Wales. Items from that period primarily concern Sir John Owen and his brother, Col. William Owen, Royalist commanders at Conwy and Harlech respectively, and their subsequent treatment under the Commonwealth and Restoration, 1643-1666. Many of the letters from 1678 to 1698 reveal the life of Sir Robert Owen, his debts, estate business, cultural interests and attachment to the Jacobite cause, together with contemporary political news. Apart from individuals already mentioned, prominent correspondents include the Privy Council of Elizabeth I, mostly through Henry Herbert, President of the Council in the Marches of Wales, 1587-1600; Sir Henry Johnes of Abermarlais, 1605-1616; Ralph, Lord Eure, 1607-1617; members of the Brynker family, 1603-1681; the Wynn family of Glyn and Sylfaen, 1625-1697; the Anwyl family of Park, 1636-1693; Charles I, Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice, 1642-1647; Lord Byron, 1644-1648; John Williams, Archbishop of York, 1645-1646; George Twisleton, 1649-1660; the Godolphin family of Abertanat, 1658-1698; John Gadbury, 1679-1688; and Edward Lhuyd, 1696-1697.

Assignment by Francis Gell of London to Edward Thompson of York and Charles Middelton of London, of lead mines in the commons of Uwch y Coed, Penegoes, in the lordship of Cyfeiliog, Montgomeryshire, 1697/8. Recites that William Pughe of Mathafarn granted the lease to Franci Gell on 20 Nov. 1693.

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.