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(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.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

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.

A composite leather-bound volume containing:(a) The Breuiary of Britayne ... writen in Latin by Humfrey Lhuyd of Denbigh ... and lately Englished by Thomas Twyne, Gentleman. 1573; (b) Mundus alter et idem ... by Mercurius Britannicus [i.e. Joseph Hall (1574-1656), Bishop of Exeter and Norwich], Frankfurt, ? 1605. There are a few marginal annotations in the former.

A copy of Thomas Falconer, The Charity of Thomas Howell: Established for the Benefit of his Monmouthshire Kinsfolk and Others. AD 1540. (Second Edition, London, 1860), with an autograph letter, Sept. 16 1907, from A. G. [Edwards], Bishop of St Asaph, returning same to Col Wynne Edwards.

A copy of The Principality : or the Wants of Wales Considered. In a letter to The Rt Hon. Lord John Russell. By "A Montgomeryshire Man". (1851).

A hand-bill announcing that a full report of the West Denbighshire Political Libel Action when Capt. [T. A.] Wynne Edwards was awarded £100 damages and costs against Messrs Gee & Son, Denbigh, would appear in the week's Free Press.

A broadside containing two clauses 'An Act for Relief of Debtors, with respect to the Imprisonment of their Persons', 32 George II.

Genealogical material concerning the Plas Nantglyn family, the Copners of Llanfynydd, &c., including a Pedigree of Wynne of Nantglyn in the autograph of Angharad Lhwyd, and letters from Thomas Nicholas, A. Foulkes-Roberts, Alyn A Guest-Williams, Charles S. Mainwaring, C. F. Roberts and M. C. A. Wynne-Edwards.

An autograph letter, June 23 1860, from Angharad Lhwyd, Ty yn y Rhyl, to Thomas Wynne Edwards. With the letter is a photograph of the writer, taken about 1852.