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Papers of the Wynn family of Gwydir, mostly accounts (in the first volume) and correspondence (in the second volume). The letters are calendared in 'Calendar of Wynn Papers'.

Letters, accounts, vouchers, legal papers of the Wynns of Gwydir, about 40 documents in all, loose in box, many in poor condition, XVII cent., not included in 'Calendar of Wynn Papers'; also, note in Welsh on the translation of the Bible into Welsh, XVIII cent., and note on Richard Sadleir, c. 1800 (cf. MS 4.45).

Papers relating to the Wynn family of Gwydir. They are included in the 'Calendar of the Wynn (of Gwydir) Papers 1515-1690' (Aberystwyth, 1926). A few later notes of Fenton's.

List with short biographical notices of worthies of cos. Glam., Carm., Pembs., Brecon, Radnor, compiled by T C Evans ('Cadrawd').

Unbound address by J W Bradley on the works of Edmund Spencer.

Particulars and conditions of sale, printed and manuscript, some with maps, for estates in cos Worcester and Gloucester, but beginning with the Beguildy estate, co. Radnor.

Miscellaneous items, unbound in envelope, relating to D L Wooding and his family.

Transcripts of Wills of the Earls of Pembroke 1567-1732 from the Probate Registry, Somerset House, together with a copy of the Inquisition Post Mortem of Sir William Herbert of St Julians, taken at Newport, 20 June 1590.

Office copies and other transcripts of wills, largely Phillips wills, from P.C.C. and other courts; pedigrees by Sir Thomas Phillipps; some Middle Hill press work.

Fragment containing thirteen verses in Welsh in the hand of William Williams, Pantycelyn.

Two notebooks entitled 'Occasional Notes taken in Reading', being notes and extracts made by William Thomas, Parcglas, Carmarthen, from printed sources. Volume I includes memorial inscriptions in Welsh in Ffaldybrenin, Elim, Carmarthen, Bwlchnewydd, Llannewydd, Llanstephan, and Hermon Cynwil cemeteries, co. Carm. Volume II contains extracts from printed 17th-century sermons by Walter Craddock and Thomas Goodwin.

Transcripts and abstracts by William Thomas of medieval Welsh prose and early poetry. His sources are MSS of Moses Williams (now Llst 2 and 27 and his transcripts of the poetry of the Black Book of Carmarthen and Book of Taliesin) and of Jesus College (the Red Book of Hergest and Llyfr Ancr); also extracts from the Harleian MS of the Record of Caernarvon.

Essay entitled 'Amdden ar fy hoff Fardd sef William Thomas Islwyn', together with a typescript copy.

Three notebooks containing 'Occasional notes taken in reading' by William Thomas, Parkglas, 1892-1894.

Essay by William Stukeley entitled 'Explication of the Table of Isis to the Right Honorable the Countess of Pomfret', holograph.

Essay, (in two volumes), by William Stukeley entitled 'On Brittish Coins', holograph.

Transcript of a letter sent by William Stukeley to the Princess of Wales and read to her 5 Oct. 1754, relating to the druids.

Series of essays on the druids by William Stukeley, holograph.

Volume entitled 'Chyndonax of Mount Hoemus, Druid, to the most excellent Princess Augusta, Archdruidess of Kew; with a branch of mistletoe presented at the commencement of the year; wisheth all felicity, immortality & joy, 1756' by William Stukeley, holograph.

Volume in the hand of William Stukeley entitled 'The History of the Temples and Religion of the Antient Celts Par II.'. Edited by A. Burl and N. Mortimer, 'Stukeley's Stonehenge' (2005).