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Miscellaneous papers mainly in the hand of Dr Robert Morgan, rector of Ross, relating to the diocese of Hereford, including lists of documents belonging to the Cathedral Chapter; copies of acts and orders; an account of procedure at every chapter; a table of fees claimed by the sextons, etc. (f. 50); a table of fees taken for causes ecclesiastical within the diocese; proposals for reducing the ecclesiastical courts at Hereford and Ludlow to certain terms with rules that the Proctor may not use delays, etc., whereby the clamours of the people may be silenced; a copy of Bishop Croft's Notitia of the diocese of Hereford; etc.

Extracts made, [c. 1718], by [?Robert Morgan] out of the Register Books of the Bishops of Hereford (ff. 1-223).
An additional bundle of papers, mainly in the hand of Edward Wynne, is now bound in at the end of the volume (ff. 224-266); these include drafts of lists of the bishops of Hereford; drafts of accounts of the register books of the bishops, with special reference to the papers of Bishop Humphrey Humphreys; a printed copy of Articles of Enquiry Concerning Matters Ecclesiastical ..., 1728 (ff. 244-247); etc.

Some historical notes relating to the diocese of Hereford, in the autograph of Dr Robert Morgan.