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Legal papers, 1410-1834, which include writs, bills of complaint, defendants' answers, breviates, court orders, cases with opinions of counsel, affidavits, interrogatories and depositions of witnesses, jury lists, copies and abstracts of deeds, lawyers' accounts, pedigrees to prove title and notes on legal procedure.
A large part of the records comprises disputes over title to land, inheritance or debt in North Wales and Shropshire, which took place in the High Court of Chancery, the Court of the Exchequer, the Court of King 's Bench or the Council in the Marches of Wales, or which were treated as equity cases in the Court of Great Sessions. The most substantial of them concern Sir William Maurice 's quarrels with the Ellis family of Ystumllyn over the title to lands in Gest, [c.1597]-1620; his financial disputes with his step-son, Sir Henry Johnes of Abermarlais, 1611-1620; and Sir Robert Owen 's disputes with Col. William Price of Rhiwlas over the title to lands in Rhedynogfelen and Gest, 1679-1694. A number of the cases provide information about the distribution of both freehold properties and leasehold crown lands in Eifionydd, Caernarfonshire, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Several other files contain papers relating to the Flintshire estates of the Conway family of Nant, dated from around 1540 to 1633; boundary disputes and trespasses in Merionethshire, 1587-1749; property of the Wynn family of Glyn, 1587-1686; the indebted estate of Sir Robert Owen, 1698-1705; and the illicit activities of William Owen 's agents on the Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire estates, 1733-1754.

Title deeds of properties acquired through purchase, lease, mortgage, marriage and inheritance by members of the Conway and Mostyn families of Nant, [mid-14 cent.], 1367-[c. 1686], mainly in the parishes of Cwm, Llanasa, Meliden and Rhiwlyfnwyd, but also in Bodfari, Gwaunysgor, Cilcain, Rhuddlan and Whitford. The earliest title deeds include a small number of fourteenth century documents involving the de Crevecoeur family, lords of Prestatyn. Further items of significance are conveyances of lands in Cwm and Diserth from 1533 to 1625 by the Lloyds of Hiraddug, who had established a marital connection to the Mostyn family. Other deeds show the acquisition of land by the Conway family, mainly in Llanasa and Meliden, between 1539 and 1624. Family settlements and associated documents of the Mostyn family, dating from 1625 to 1659, relate to lands mainly in Meliden, but also in Llanasa, Cilcain, Cwm and Whitford. Other families represented in the deeds include Holland of Prestatyn, and Prestland of Prestatyn and Wardle, Cheshire.