A scribbling tablet in the hand of J. H. Davies containing extracts of Cardiganshire interest from patent rolls and other public records, fourteenth to sixteenth centuries; copious printed titles and bibliographical notes; extracts from NLW MSS 77-8 (hymns of William Williams, Pantycelyn), Cwrtmawr MS 99 (manuscripts of Taliesin Williams ('Ab Iolo'), and Cwrtmawr MSS 385-6 (letters addressed to Howel Harris, Trevecca), etc.

A volume in the hand of J. H. Davies containing extracts from manuscript and printed sources and from public records largely relating to Cardiganshire (e.g. family pedigrees, with references to the life and work of Dafydd ap Gwilym; ministers' accounts, with lists of officers of commotes; rentals and surveys, court rolls, inquisitions post mortem, etc.).

A notebook in the hand of J. H. Davies, c. 1900-02, containing extracts from public records largely of Cardiganshire interest, e.g. 'Indices and notes to .... Fines' (temp Geo. I-Geo. II) and other legal records, ministers' accounts temp Ed.III-Ric.II; hearth tax returns for the parishes of Llangeitho, Llanbadarn Od[w]yn and Gwnvill (Gwynfil) and Llanio, 1672; etc.

A roughly-bound composite volume of notebooks in the hand of J. H. Davies containing extracts and transcripts from seventeenth and eighteenth century public records relating mainly to Cardiganshire and taken especially from Gaol Files, 1732-69 (among them 'Quotations sent to Welsh Gazette' with captions in the hand of George Eyre Evans); and copious extracts and transcripts of seventeenth century Welsh Puritan and Quaker interest, including material from Merioneth Gaol Files, temp. Charles II, notes and extracts on 'Personalia' (with similar material relating to Dafydd ap Gwilym etc.); an extensive list of titles of, with extracts from, printed books and Acts of Parliament, a list of Members of Parliament for Welsh constituencies, 1640-60 (Cardiganshire from 1624), transcripts from Thomas Shankland, '"Diwygwyr Cymru" Beriah Gwynfe Evans', Seren Gomer 1901, passim, etc. There is a classified index at the end of the volume.

A notebook in the hand of J. H. Davies containing extracts of Welsh interest from public records, e.g. rolls and fines (15th to 19th centuries) relating to Cardiganshire; a list of distinguished Welshmen (16th to 19th century), in alphabetical order of surnames, who were buried in London; lists of, and extracts from, Lloyd (surname) and other probate records (17th to 18th centuries) in the Principal Probate Registry, Somerset House; a bibliography of John Penry; extracts from printed books and from Welsh manuscripts in the British Museum, etc.