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Particulars and rough plans by Edward Pryce of Kynvel, Merioneth, of parels of land held by lease of Owen Vaughan of Llwydiarth, Montgomeryshire, deceased, in Gweinion and Malloyd in the lordship of Mowthwey, and a parcel called y kae hen in Creinion veghan in the lordship of Powys, 14 February, 1621/2.

An account of proceedings against [ ] Wrainham for presenting to the King a book called 'Revewe and Revivor of the Report of the Mr. of Rolls Phillips and the decree of my lord Chancellor', c. 1610; veterinary and medical recipes; and a tract entitled 'Shorte Articles by way of Instruccon concerninge the Dutye Office and Jurisdiction of the High Admirall of England collected out of the Lettres Pattents of that Office'.

A closely written tract vindicating 'The late action of the Army vpon seuerall members of Parliament' and 'The Parliaments prosecutions to the beheadinge of the late Kinge', followed by a copy, in the same hand, of Morgan Llwyd's poem 'The law was euer aboue kings' (Gweithiau, vol. I, p. 55). The tract and the poem express similar sentiments and the former may also be the work of Morgan Llwyd.

A letter, 25 March 1651, from Morgan Llwyd, from Wrexham, to Mr. John Whittell, Chester, 'to bee comunicated to them that are taught of God in Chester' (testifying a word concerning the being and life of Jesus Christ). Only the last paragraph is in the hand of Morgan Llwyd.

Papers of Colonel John Jones relating to Ireland:- a breviate of the invoice of the provision shipped in the 'Jonas' of London (Captain Richard Willsheere, commander) and assigned to the Hon. Sir Charles Coote, kt., Lord President of Connaught, 15 February, 1649/50, and an account of the delivery of the same by Peregrine Greene to Wm. Oxford at Youghall, 20 April, 1650 (countersigned by Wm. Dobbins, commissioner, 19 August, 1650); two invoices of ammunition put on board the ship 'Peregine' by William Dobbins, commissary of ammuniation, for the armies in Ireland, 14-22 April, 1650; an invoice of medicaments provided by Thomas Saxton, apothecary, by directions from Doctor Waideson for the use of the garrison of Kilkenney, 6 August, 1650 (countersigned by Rob. Waideson, and by Wm. Dobbins, 14 August, 1650); and a transcript of a letter from Edm. Ludlowe, Dublin, to Sir Rich. Blake, 19 March, 1651/2 (the application from the Earl of Clanricard for the settlement of this nation).

The plea and demurrer [1655] of Sir Mauris Williams, kt., one of the defendants to the petition of Collonell John Jones; and brief, undated, for the defendant in the case of Sir Maurice Williams by Tho. Caprett, his lessee, plaintiff, against Coll. John Jones, by Will. Jones, ejector, defendant, touching the title to properties of Dr. William Lewis in Llandiwe and Llanendoyni [sic], Merioneth.

The original manuscript of Gwaedd ynghymru yn wyneb pob Cydwybod, a tract by Morgan Llwyd which he published in Dublin, probably in 1655. There are instructions to the printer in another hand on the fly-leaf.

Articles Concluded & Agreed on for the Surrender of Oxford & Farrington To His Excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax, Upon Wednesday the 24th of this instant June: And Read in the Honourable House of Commons, June 23. 1646 (London: Printed for Edward Husband ... June 24, 1646); the petition, 29 April, 1651, of Willm. Lewis of Bryn y Voyle, Merioneth, to the Commissioners for Compounding, that the sequestration of Bryn y Voyle and his other messuages and tenements in Merioneth be discharged, as he had paid his proportion of the general fine imposed upon North Wales (copy, attested by T. Bayly, 24 March [16]54/5; the oder, 29 April, 1651, of the Committee for Compounding to refer the petition of Willm. Lewis to the Committee of North Wales (copy, attested by T. Bayly, 24 March, [16]54/5; the report, 19 December, 1651, of Tho. Ball, sheriff [of Denbighshire], John Peck, and Daniell Loyd, from Wrexham, upon the case of Willm. Lewis (Colonel John Jones, M.P., had informed them that Lewis was a delinquent beyond the seas and therefore excepted from any benefit of the Act) (copy, attested by T. Bayly, 24 March, [16]54/5); the report, 20 September, 1653, of Jo. Reading upon the case of William Lewis, D.D. (copy, attested by T. Bayly, register at Haberdashers' Hall, 30 January, [16]54/5; the affidavit, 8 February, 1654/5, of Joseph Collier, sworn before Henry Pytt, that on 25 March, 1654, he received an annexed certificate of the discharge of the sequestration of the estate of William Lewis, D.D., upon the payment of £56.3s. (copy, examined by Edw. North) (according to an endorsement the document refers to the case of Col. Jones and Sir Maurice Williams); the plea, 14 February, 1654/5, of Humfrey Jones, plaintiff, before the Commissioners of Obstructions, in an action against Sir Maurice Williams, defendant, for the justification of his title to the lands of Dr. William Lewis (mutilated); the certificate, 24 March, 1654/5, of Tho. Browne, auditor, of an entry relating to the estate of Dr. William Lewis of Landony [sic], sequestered for delinquency, and to the payment of £40, being rent for the years 1650 and 1651, by Mr. Humfrie Jones, together with a certificate, 28 December, 1653, by T. Bayly that the did not find any confirmation of the contract made for the estate (according to an endorsement the document relates to the case of Jones and Williams) (mutilated); the petition [27 May, 1655] of Coll. John Jones to the Commissioners for Relief upon Articles of War (Dr. William Lewis declined the clemency of Parliament under the Articles of Oxford and did not compound for his lands in Llanethoyn and Llanddwywe within the time prefixed, but went to France; the trustees for forfeited lands sold these properties to Humfrey Jones, petitioner's brother; in 1653, Dr. Lewis, combining with Sir Maurice Williams, was admitted to compound upon the pretence that the properties descended to him from his mother in 1647; he petitions for the reversal of the order of 17 August, 1653), together with a draft of the same; the case, 2 November, 1655, of Dorety Lloyd, widow of Hunffrey John ap Ruddergh late of Bron y foel, parish of Llanenthoyn, deceased, concerning rent for Bronyfoel paid in 1649 by the said Humffrey by the hand of Caddr. ap Rees Gruff., drover, to Mr. Goslinge, steward of Dr. William Lewis of Bronyfoel (sequestrators demanded payment of rent for the same year, and Hunffrey John was ejected; soon after he died of consumption, the complainant being left helpless and forced to scatter her children among friends) (signed by Richard Jones, clerk, and Dorety Lloyd alias Jones, complainants); and an undated and imperfect account of the case between Humfrey Joens, plaintiff, and Sir Maurice Williams, defendant, before the Committee for Removing Obstructions in the Sale of Delinquents' Lands, touching the lands of Dr. William Lewis, a delinquent, in Llanthwywe and Llanenthoyn, Merioneth.

Accounts of the receipts and disbursements of Allen Sherrot on behalf of his master, 1654-1655/6. The receipts include rents for properties in Iscoyd, Bronnington, Hanmer, Halthton, Willington, Tybroughton, Bangor, Whixall, Crickett, Estweek, Whitechurch, Moorton, and Fenns demesnes, in Flintshire and Salop.

Drafts, written during March-April 1656, of the beginnings of two tracts by Morgan Llwyd. The first, consisting of three pages and a sheet of rough notes, is entitled 'Y llyfr Bychan' (cf. Revelations, 10). Of the ten paragraphs written, the last three are mutilated. The other draft, consisting of one page and a slip of paper, is entitled 'Dim iw henw y llyfr. Neu ymddadleu rhwng dim a rhywbeth. Neu yn hytrach, y dim yn gorchfygu y rhywb. ag yn mynd drwy bob peth'.

A letter from John Browne, Hugh Prich., Vau. Powell, Rich. Robts., Jn. Meredith, and Jn. Rbts., to their 'ancient honourd & beloued friend' [Walter Cradock] [1656], commenting on the matter and style of a late paper called 'an addresse &c.', that is, The Humble Representation and Address to His Highnesse of several Churches and Christians in South Wales and Monmouthshire, 1656, being a reply by Cradock and others to A Word for God published in the previous year by Vavasor Powell and his followers. Also included in the volume, being originally pinned to the letter, are three sheets in the hand of Morgan Llwyd, one containing 'Marginall Notes on the preface of the Word of God. so called to my deare V.P.', written '11m. 11d. 55 or 56', and the others containing a rough draft, partly cancelled, of a statement of the writer's attitude towards Cromwell's government, written '12m. 15d. 55'.

A draft by Morgan Llwyd, 17 April, 1657, of a statement on the Fifth Monarchy Men. Also included in the volume, being originally attached to the statement, is a leaf containing an exhortation not to forerun the steps of Jehovah.

The petition [1656] of John Jones, Esquire, M.P., for such a proportion of lands in Ireland as may give him satisfaction for former services, which he had lost due to his absence on service in Ireland from 1650 (read 17 February, 1656/7); a list, 17 October (emended to February), 1656, of the members of the Committee appointed to consider the petition (mutilated); and the report, 18 March, 1656/7, of the Committee to whom the consideration of Coll. John Jones's petition was referred (mutilated), together with a copy of the same.

A holograph copy of a letter from Mor[gan] Llwyd to H[enry] Jessey, 1656 (lessons and observations from Jac[ob] Behmen, John Goodwin's answer, converse with Mr. Hartlib); holograph copies and one draft of letters (3) from [Morgan Llwyd] to unknown correspondents, 1658/1659, and undated (the recipient's change of doctrine, kindness to David Hughes's son, the recipient's action in Tho. Tillams and the writer's in breaking bread at Chester, the writer's wish to reside in the country); a holograph letter from Hen[ry] Jones, from Dublin, to [?Morgan Llwyd], 1655 (the writer's former course in writing, references to Robin, dear Daniell Lloyd, Capt. Prichard, Sontley, Kathrin, Lowrey Williams, and Eliz. Powell) (together with a draft reply in the hand of Morgan Llwyd); a sheet marked 'fourth' in the hand of Morgan Llwyd, concerning the diversity of thoughts in the human heart, together with notes, dated 1655/1656-1656/1657, on apparitions; and 'The heads of the bill for Gouernment' in the hand of Morgan Llwyd, 1656.

Three fragments mainly containing material in the hand of Morgan Llwyd: a) Sheets out of a notebook containing notes of sermons, one of which is said to have been delivered by 'Mr. Lloyd' [?Morgan Llwyd]. b) A copy (2 pp.) of the verses of lamentation and resolution by the Welsh saints, 1643, comprising ten out of the twenty verses printed by T. E. Ellis in Gweithiau Morgan Llwyd (Bangor, 1899), vol. I, pp. 3-6, in the following order - 1, 2, 5, 6, 3, 9, 8, 7, 14, 18; a version, in the hand of Morgan Llwyd, of the first nine stanzas of a 'Thanksgiving song for Wrexham delivered from pest' (Gweithiau, vol. I, pp. 12-13); notes by Morgan Llwyd, including drafts of sermons, and a list of names (Ens. Roberts, Howell Thom., Ben. Rich., Walt. Thimble., Hugh Prich.) headed by a cancelled sentence - 'who should have the booke of my verse'; twenty-two stanzas beginning 'The lord is kind and merciful ...' in the hand of Morgan Llwyd, being apparently a draft of a poem or of a series of poems by him; thirteen stanzas based on Canticles, in the hand of Morgan Llwyd, ten roughly corresponding to those printed in E. Lewis Evans: Morgan Llwyd (Lerpwl, 1930), pp. 176-8, stanzas 11 and 12 corresponding respectively to 4 and 5 in Ellis: Gweithiau, vol. I, p. 10, and stanza 5 being possibly the basis of stanza 3 in Gweithiau; a transcript of the Canticle verses in another hand; a draft, in the hand of Morgan Llwyd, of the poem 'Hanes rhyw Gymro' (Gweithiau, vol. I, pp. 57-60); and a copy of verse xxviii in Gweithiau, p. 61. c) Draft translations of psalms by Morgan Llwyd. The translations are incomplete, and many stanzas have been cancelled. There are verses translated from Psalms 19, 37, 44-46, 121-122, and 126.

Accounts, 1655-1660, entitled 'A noth of all such monis as I have disburss since the third of november 1655'. The identity of the writer is not known. Several entries relate to Whitchurch, Hanmer, and Bettisfield.

Notes 'taken in short hand of the Earle of Shaft[e]sbury['s] Speech in the house of Lord[s] upon the Debate of appointing a day for the heareing of Doctor Sherlies Cause', 20 October, 1675.

Papers of Humphrey Jones, brother of John Jones of Maesygarnedd, including the deputation, 22 March, 1653/4, by Rice Vaughan of Graies Inne, co. Middlesex, esquire, and Humfrey Jones of London, gentleman, of the stewardship of the manor and lordship of Bromfeild and Yale, co. Denbigh, to Colonel John Carter of Kinwell [Kinmell], co. Denbigh, esq., together with an undertaking by John Carter to give a just account (mutilated); an account of receipts and disbursements on behalf of [?John Jones] since 6 August, 1683; a holograph letter from Hugh Williams, Marle, to Humphrey Jones, Alderman Bury, London, 1686 (legal, with reference to the Voylas estate); an account of money resting in Mr. [Charles] Price's hands, 23 August, 1687, and of money due at Michaelmas; and the answer, undated, of Humphrey Jones, one of the defendants to the bill of complaint of William Lloyd concerning properties said to be mortgaged by John Jones ('the regicide') (mutilated).

Holograph letters, etc., of the family of John Jones, Junior, of Wrexham, etc. The writers include Humphrey Jones to his [step-]daughter Mary Jones, Bryn y ffynnon house in Wrexham, 1684-1686 (3), and to John Jones, 1685-1686/7 (2) (the management of the writer's affairs in Merioneth, etc.; money matters, the execution of Alderman [Henry] Cornish and others, the hearing of the writer's case before the Lord Chancellor, a purchaser for Penamnen); Jo. Jones, Wrexham, to Humphrey Jones, Aldermanbury, 1685 (the Penamnen tenants, claims upon estate owners in the lordship of Mr. Pugh of Mathavern, etc.); John Lloyd, Wrexham, to John Jones, Cheapside, London, 1689/90 (the plight of the widow of the heir of Collonell Michael Jones); and Ann Leven to her uncle John Jones, undated (personal, news of uncle Payne). Also bound in the volume is a true copy, in the hand of Humphrey Jones, of a rental and particulars of arrears sent by Mr. [Charles] Price, 1689.