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A volume, [1690s], of biographies, painted armorials and pedigrees of various branches of the Croy family.
It begins with Stephen, third son of king Bela III of Hungary (c. 1148-1196) and father of Mark of Hungary the alleged founder of the Croy family, and ends with Philip Emmanuel de Croy, count of Solre (1611-1670).

A transcript, [?1699] (p. 1), of the extent of Anglesey made before John de Delves, locumtenens of Richard Earl of Arundel, justiciar of North Wales, 26 Edward III (1352) (pp. 1-88); a list of freeholders of Anglesey, 1606 (pp. 1-30); an account of the gentry of Anglesey, arranged by commotes, and a list of sheriffs to 1676, both in the hand of William Williams, Beaumaris, but with earlier pedigrees incorporated (pp. 1-94); 'a note taken of the demeanes nowe heald and belonginge to the Heanllis' (pp. 95-96); and a note of a survey of the lands of Arthur Bagnall in Tyndaethwy and Menai (pp. 99-102).

A book of precedents and indictments mainly taken from Anglesey court records, (temp. Eliz. I-Chas I).

Topographical, historical, and genealogical material relating mainly to the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, Denbigh, Merioneth, Montgomery, and Shropshire, accumulated by Thomas Pennant and including letters or other contributions from Paul Panton, Hugh Davies (botanist), E. R. Owen (Bangor), John Thomas (Llandegai and Beaumaris), John Lloyd (Caerwys), Sir John Cullum (Hardwick), Richard Thomas (Llanegryn), Thomas Bownall (London), Thomas Jones (Caernarvon), George Ashby (Cambridge), John Price (Oxford), Thomas Ford Hill (London), Foote Gower (Chelmsford), Francis Leighton (Shrewsbury), J. Plymley (junior), J. Worthington (Llanrhaiadr ym Mochnant), Thomas Addenbrooke (Buildwas), David Pennant, and Richard Gough (Enfield).

A volume, [1690s], of heraldry and pedigrees of the kings of France and their queens, from the semi-legendary Pharamond to Louis XIV, including painted armorials, brief biographies and, when known, pedigrees for their queens.
It lists the Merovingian, Carolingian, Capetian, Valois, Orleans and Angoulême kings (pp. 1-122), followed by the Bourbon family from its medieval origins to king Louis XIV (pp. 127-209). This is followed by entries for French princes and cadet branches connected with the Bourbons (Condé, Montpensier and others) (pp. 212-349).

A volume, [17 cent., second ½] (watermark similar to Churchill 401), containing Scriptural genealogies (ff. 2-68) and the 'Onomasticon', a dictionary of individuals and peoples mentioned in the Bible (ff. 70-316 verso), both compiled by a certain William Spenser, gent.
The genealogies show the descent of Jesus Christ from Adam and Eve but also include pedigrees for the Twelve Tribes of Israel (ff. 8-31 verso); other peoples and empires appearing in the Old and New Testaments are represented by genealogies or by lists of individuals as appropriate (ff. 33-68); the section on the Roman Empire lists other figures appearing in the New Testament (ff. 57-68). As well as the Bible the compiler has made use of other sources including Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews (see ff. 138 verso, 161 verso, 187 verso, 195, 245); there are also extracts from Thomas Godwyn [Goodwin], Moses and Aaron: Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites Used by the Ancient Hebrewes (London: printed by Iohn Haviland, 1625, STC 11951), pp. 58-60 (f. 261 verso), 61-66 (f. 127 verso). The preface (ff. 2 recto-verso) consists mainly of excerpts from Works of the Great Albionean Divine Mr Hugh Broughton, ed. by John Lightfoot (London: printed for Nath. Ekins, 1662, Wing B4997), pp. 376 (2nd Tome), 689 (3rd tome). Many names and headings are picked out in red ink, with names of prophets in green ink. Various additions and marginal notes have been added to the Onomasticon in the same hand.

Coats of arms, coloured, of the founders of Welsh and Border Counties families, comprising 'The Aancient descent of diuers noble and worthie howsen and gentlemen of great worshipp springring from them' and 'The names of such other gentlemen as came into wales and ther, or in the marches therof have lande and possessions where they inhabite, by certen descent of inheritance Ther first Auncestors being eyther Englishmen, Danes, Normans or Irishe men, and at this present growen to be great howses of worshipp in walles'.

The text of that part of Leland's Itinerary which concerns Wales, beginning 'All the way yt I rode between Hales and Pershore ...' (see L. Toulmin Smith, The Itinerary in Wales of John Leland in or about the years 1536-1539, London, 1906, p. 40) (ff. 1-42). Part of the first paragraph of the text on f. 1 is also to be found on f. vii, which appears to be an abortive beginning to this copy of the Itinerary. The text of the Itinerary in our MS follows Toulmin Smith's edition fairly closely (op. cit. pp. 40-126), and the fact that the section on 'Castles in Montgomerikeshire', etc. (Toulmin Smith, pp. 53-57) which Toulmin Smith supplied from Stow's copy of Leland's original MS, but which is now missing from Leland's MS, is not included in our MS (see f. 6), suggests strongly that the writer of our MS was either copying Leland's MS in the Bodleian library (MS Gen. Top. e12) or a copy of it made after Stow's time. Two other items in our MS (ff. 47, 49) are said to have been copied from Leland's MSS, in the Bodleian. There are however minor differences between our text of the Itinerary and Leland's as printed.
The volume also includes a brief note on Worcestershire (f. vii); extracts from Latin text: 'Ex libro Roberti Prioris Salapesbiriae de vita S: + Wenefredae Virginis ad Guarinum Priorem Vigorniae' (marginal note 'E codice M-S: Jo: Leylandi in Bibliotheca Bodleiana Oxonii existente') (ff. 47-48 verso); Latin notes on the early history of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge: 'Ex Collectionibus Johannis Rowse de Antiquitate Oxonii et Academiae' (marginal note, as above f. 47) (ff 49-51 verso); and Latin notes on the (legendary) early history of the university of Cambridge: 'Ex veteri sed fabuloso Libro incerti Authoris de antiquitate Ca[n] tabrigiensi' (ff. 51 verso-52 verso).

Pedigrees, mainly of North Wales families; a list of uncommon Welsh words taken from John Davies, Mallwyd: Dictionarium ... (London, 1632); a vocabulary of some 'hard' Latin words; 'cywyddau' and other poems by Rowland Williams, Rhys Meigen, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Rowland Vaughan, Siôn Cent, Dafydd ab Edmwnd, Wiliam Phylip, Owen Gruffydd, Edmwnd Prys, Robin Ddu, Siôn Phylip, Sion Tudur, Gruffudd Phylip, Maredudd ap Rhys, Gutun Owain, Iolo Goch, Morus Berwyn, Ffowc Prys, Owain Gwynedd, Roger [C]yffin, Siôn Brwynog, Syr Owain ap Gwilym, Wiliam Llŷn, Huw Arwystli, Richard Phylip, Dafydd Nanmor, [If]an Llwyd ('o wain Eingian'), Hywel Cilan, Edwart Urien, Lewis Glyn Cothi, Rhys Cain, Lewis Trefnant, Matthew Brwmffild, James Dwnn, Ieuan Dew Brydydd, Heilyn Fardd, Huw Machno, Guto'r Glyn, etc. ; a description of Britain based on the early chronicles; the triads of Dyfnwal Moelmud; etc.

An incomplete transcript by Robert Vaughan of the Peniarth 20 version of Brut y Tywysogion with interpolations in the same hand from Brenhinedd y Saeson, followed by brief Latin annals: the death of Llewelyn, 1282, the rising of Owain Glyndwr, 1401, the death of Walter Barlee, master of Halston, 1442, the battle of Shrewsbury, 1403, the death of Owain Glyndwr on the feast of St. Matthew, 1415, the death of the Duke of York, the battle of St. Albans, the accession of Edward IV, the death of Alson Gwyn, 1429, the death of Robert Trevor, 1452, an eclipse of the sun, 1433, the death of Henry V, 1422, the famine of 1439, with price of corn at Shrewsbury, the death of Thomas Earl of Arundel, 1415, the death of Robert, bishop of St. Asaph, 1433, the death of Edward ap Dd., 1448, and the death of Ieuan ap Adda ap Ierwerth, 1448, [1612x1667] (pp. 1-16); together with a list of the barons of Dinmael in the hand of Robert Lloyd, surveyor, [17 cent., ?second ¼] (pp. 17-22); and extracts from the pedigrees of Gwynedd families copied out of the collections of Lewis Dwnn, [1699] (pp. 1-24).

Field notebook in the hand of Edward Lhuyd, probably compiled during a tour in preparation for his proposed work on the topography and natural history of Wales, 1698-1699. The contents form an itinerary, starting at Kidwelly [sic] and recording the orientation and distance between each of the places visited, from Carmarthenshire through Cardiganshire, Brecknockshire, Radnorshire, Montgomeryshire, Merioneth, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, back to Conwy and then Anglesey. There are occasional brief remarks on the landscape, weather, and Welsh names for the last three days of March and the first of April. On the penultimate page is a sketch of a starfish found near Harlech.

This is a composite volume containing: an index by William Maurice to the Laws of Hywel Dda; Adversaria Historico Britannica, extracts from a large manuscript of the Bruts by John Jones, apparently Peniarth MS 264, the books of Plasyward and other old manuscripts which are not named, from Brutus to the time of Ifor and Ynyr; a fifteenth century copy of an extent of the lordship of Chirkeslond made in the 15th year of Richard II (This extent is said to be of the lordship of Oswestry and appears as such in the catalogue in spite of the thickness of eight inches which is there given. It is here broken up into two parts by the insertion of a copy of a grant of customs, 2 April 1571, but it appears to be quite complete. The error of regarding it as a survey of Oswestry may have arisen from a note which appears at the end of the text recording its transfer by Dd Edmunds, receiver, to Thomas Edwards, surveyor, of the lordship of Oswestry); chronological extracts from Welsh chronicles; a copy with translation into English by William Maurice in 1672 of Gutto'r Glyn's cywydd to Sir Roger Kynaston, and copies of the following cywyddau: Tudur Aled to Sir Thomas Kynaston, Gutto'r Glyn to the Earl of Pembroke, and Sion Ceri to Humphrey Kynaston; William Maurice's letter on Brennus addressed to Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt; 'Cambropapismus Enervatus & Triumphatus per Tyronem quendam Succenturiatum Evangelicae Militise, Cambrobritanum, AD 1653' - criticisms by William Maurice of a work concerning the due time and place for worship which appears to have been written by Dr Griffiths and translated into Welsh by Ric: Jervis [These were presumably Dr George Griffith, rector of Llanymynech, the antagonist of Vavasor Powell, and bishop of St Asaph after the Restoration, and Richard Jervis, vicar of Llansilin, that is, William Maurice's own parish. It purports to be a draft of a work which he intended to publish, and has the following 'imprint':- 'Lansilin. Printed by Martin Mar=temple & Haly Mock=holydayes for Oliver Cancellor=criticus & Erasmus Altarmastix & are to be sould at their Anti=missall Shop at ye signe of the Holy Misselltoe in ye geniculation=Crosse=Street, over against ye Clero=druid's Consecrated Oake in Pater=noster=lane']; 'Tystiolaethau Tadau ac Athrawon iawn=grediawl hen a Newydd am Demlau a Dyddiau gwylion dan y Testament Newydd', an appendix or a sequel by William Maurice to the preceding work; copy of a chronicle in English from the Flood to Edward the Confessor; excerpts from Thomas Philpott's Villare Cantianum; notes on Speed's Chronicle; criticisms of Camden; the heraldic arms of a large number of Welsh families; and extracts from the New Testament arranged under the titles of Law and Gospel.

Notes on some of the attributes of God, alphabetically arranged, taken from the fourth book of Zanchius, presumably one of the eight tomes of the Operum Theologicorum of Hieronymus Zanchius, which were published in Heidelberg in 1613; and a few notes in English on Life, Prayer, Salvation, etc.

A book of notes and questions on Physics and Meteorology. The following names have been written on the outside leaves: John Hughes, John Lhoyd and Maurice Jones.

Cywyddau and awdlau written in a seventeenth-century hand, comprising mainly poems by Thomas Prys (derived from NLW MS 3031B) (pp.19-141), Dafydd ap Gwilym (derived from NLW 3066E) (pp.195-295), Wiliam Cynwal (some derived from NLW 3030B) (pp.307-498), Guto'r Glyn (pp. 559-606), Siôn Tudur (pp. 685-751) and Tudur Aled (pp. 799-826).

A copy of 'Thomas Woolsie his Lieffe and death written by George Cauendish, his gentleman vsher'. George Cavendish (1494-c. 1562) compiled the life about 1559 but it was not published until 1815.

A number of quotations taken from the Scriptures, the writings of classical authors, the Christian Fathers and some medieval authors, and arranged under subjects from Abstinentia to Lachryma. The name of Richard Lewys is written on the inside of the cover.

An alphabetically arranged commentary on a number of scriptural themes, with references to a number printed works of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, e.g. Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, De origine Sacrae Scripturae ...; John Weemes, Works; Phillippe de Mornay, Seigneur du Plessis Marly, A Woorke concerning the trewnesse of the Christian Religion which Sir Philip Sidney began to translate; Johan Reuchlin, De Arte Cabalistica; Petrus Columa, Galatinus, De arcanis Catholicae veritatis; and Jacobus Bolducius, De Ecclesia ante legem. The work seems to have been begun in 1649, and its general appearance suggests the methods of William Maurice of Llansilin, but there are no names, nor any other clues to the authorship.

Extracts, translated into English, of some of the writings attributed to Archimedes: (1) Of ye Equilibriums, or centers of gravity in plaines, with 15 propositions; (2) Of the quadrature of the parabola, with 24 propositions; (3) The 2d. booke of equiponderants, with ten propositions and lemmas; and (4) Two books containing 9 and 10 propositions and lemmas. This appears to be the work On Floating Bodies.