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Warrants and notices to bailiffs and petty constables relating to the collection of mises, actions in the manorial court and distraints for arrears of chief rent, 1684, 1743-1813.

Warrant to the constables of the town against John Pacifield of Cardiff, mariner, to keep the peace towards John Bird, water bailiff.

Warrant to the constables of the bor. against Captain Lewis, captain of a ship in the port of Cardiff, for refusal to pay quayage.

Warrant from William Herbert to the bailiff of man. Brecon, by virtue of a commission from Phillipp, earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, lord of the man., to summon a court of survey.

Vouchers of Robert Beaumont, mainly relating to stones, iron ore and coal raised from Castell Coch and Craig Allt quarries and Caerphilly colliery, including receipts for sinking a trial pit in search of coal on Tyr Esquiry, near Gwain Visken (M1/133) and opening a pit on the Forch coal vein on Caerphilly hill, (M1/139).

Volume, containing copies of Henry [?Vii or VIII]'s inspeximus of King John's charter of 1204 to the town of King's Lynn, Norfolk, 1486x1487 or 1510x1511, and Henry VIII's inspeximus of King John's charter of 1199 to the town of Oxford, Oxfordshire, 1510x1546.

Volume relating to the court leet of the bor. containing extracts from presentments to the court, 1743-1817, copies of the proclamations at the opening, adjournment and closing of the court, 1806, copies of oaths to be administered to aldermen, freemen, constables, foremen and jurors, [1760x1820], transcript of a survey and perambulation of the bor. boundaries, 1794, and copies of resolutions of meetings, 1769 and 1792.

Volume containing copy compotuses of Jankyn Bird, bailiff of Newton Nottage, George Mathewe, farmer of Radyr, Rhys John, bailiff of Clun, including a recital of letters patent to William Kendall of Launceston, Cornwall, of the iron mines and ores in Clun Park, 1540, Philip Adam, bailiff of Pen-tyrch, and John Gwyn, farmer of Griffithmore.

Volume containing copies of papers relating to the bor., comprising the names of the jury and the persons presented by them to be burgesses, but refused by Richard Fowler Rickards, constable, Dec. 1817, the petition of the aldermen and burgess to the Marquis of Bute, presented to Lord James Stuart 'when at Lantrissent on his Canvas[s], at the time of Mr Dillwyn's movement in the bor's', requesting the appointment of a town clerk, and recommending William Vaughan, esq., [c.1818], and a statement by the burgesses, entitled Gofidiau Gwyr Llantrisaint together with translation, The Griefs of the Men of Lantrissent, setting forth their grievances, including the establishment of a market at Pontypridd, the refusal of the constable to swear in new burgesses, and the retention by officers of the profits of their office, Nov. 1818.

Volume containing copies of cases and counsels' opinions, including cases relating to man. Muddlescomb, co. Carm., 1709; to keelage, quayage, and other tolls of bor. Swansea (recites that Swansea, part of lp Gower, was held by Jura Regalia before the Statute of Wales; that the burgesses of Swansea and Loughor, the two bor's in lp Gower, are each, by some ancient agreement, free in the other; that anciently there were no burgesses other than the inhabitants of burgages, but lately they have elected strangers, and Loughor (which is much reduced) made nearly 2,000 burgesses for one election, who all claim to be free of Swansea; reciting that the inhabitants and tenants of several neighbouring lp's, parcels of the duchy of Lancaster (which post-dates lp Gower), claim to be free of Swansea for their own produce and that bought elsewhere, and others with royal charters, who claim to be free per totam Terram Anglie, and others who avoid paying quayage by loading and unloading their goods into barges in the river), 1721; and to the will of John Davies of Penmayne, and the descent of his estate in Loughor and Pennard for life, with remainder to his right heirs male, but dying without issue, 1693-94.

Volume containing a list of burgesses together with some comments as to tenancies and known influences, possibly compiled as a canvass book.