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Copies of the following cases (c.1660-1665) with arguments thereon: Manby v. Scott (indebitatus assumpsit); Berry v. White (ejectment); Poole v. Haskey (trespass and ejectment), case only; and Mayor of Colchester v. Goodwin (debt).

This appears to be one of the college notebooks of William Williams (Speaker Williams), and is inscribed 'Sum liber Guil: Williams, Anno 1651'. It contains notes on Moral Philosophy and Ethics, extracts from Aristotle's works and questions on Logic, Ethics, Grammar, Geometry, etc.

One of the college notebooks of William Williams containing extracts and notes on Metaphysics and Law. 'Sum ex libris Guil: Williams Coll: Iesu Comensal: Anno 1652'.

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 list of books on Grammar, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, Geography, Astronomy, Philosophy, Politics, Husbandry, Poetry, History, Law, Medicine, etc. The list was compiled after 1656.

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.

Reports of cases heard in the Kings Bench 1660-1666, by William Williams. On an unnumbered folio following f. 106, William Williams has entered a few notes on recorders and mayors of Chester, of which city he was Recorder from 1667 to 1684. On the following folio is the note: 'I was elected Speaker of the House of Comons by the unanimous consent of the House upon Thursday 21th day of Octr. 1680: 32 Car. 2 and continued Speaker to the end of that Parliament which was dissolved by Proclamacon ye 18th of January 1680.' Particulars of his seat in the Rolls, Grays Inn and Chancery follow.

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 the instructions given by Charles II to Richard Lord Vaughan, Earl of Carbery, as President of the Council in Wales and the Marches, 9 September 1661.

A copy of the instructions given by Charles II to Richard Lord Vaughan, earl of Carbery, as President of the Council in Wales and the Marches.

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'.

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.

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

A composite manuscript, the first portion of which contains an interlude, [1788], by Ellis Roberts (Elis y Cowper). The characters in this interlude are - Mr Rheswm Penrhudd, Yr Aniwiol, Yr Ysbrydol, Natur Ddrwg mam Aniwiol, Cristion agos, and Ffwl. The greater part of the interlude is written in a very broken hand, most probably that of Ellis y Cowper himself, but the prologue and the last five pages are in another hand. The latter part of the manuscript was written about 1673-1675 by several Denbighshire scribes. It contains poems, carolau, englynion and cywyddau, by H[uw] M[orus], Edward Moris (c. 1607-1689) (probably in his own hand), Rhys Cain, Mr Hugh Owens Nantglin, Hugh Cadwaladr and Lewis Cynllwyd; anonymous poems including Ymddiddan rhwng dyn a'r ceiliog, Carol marwnad am Sir John Owens, Cowydd marwnad am Sir Owain ap Gwilim William o waith Lleyn, Carol ynghylch y drudaniaeth diweddar, 1674; an incomplete copy (about two-thirds) of the Welsh verse version of the travels of Sir John Maundeville; and a few miscellaneous English verses; triads; medical recipes; extracts from hunting laws; the method of assessing the five hundreds of Denbighshire; and a bond (dated 1 Feb. 1673/4) from John Myddelton of Gwaynynog, esq., to Roger Myddelton, dyer.

A portion of a collection of precedents made, apparently, late in the seventeenth century, and in continuation of MS 72. A few references in the very scanty index prefixed to the volume show that the work did not end with this volume, as pages which number above 2000 are recorded.

A collection of legal precedents arranged from 2-14 Hen. VII, with references to several authors and compilers of reports. It appears to have been compiled towards the end of the seventeenth century.

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.