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A poem [?by William Arundel] dedicated to the Countess Dowager of Peterborough and entitled 'Heaven and Earth or God and Vertusia'.

William of Nassyngton's Speculum Vite, here called 'liber sapientiae'; a translation of the Speculum Ecclesiae of Edmund Rich, Archbishop of Canterbury ('this is ye tretyce of Seynt Edmond of Pountenay translated out of Frenche in to Englysche'); two religious poems, one beginning 'who so kon suffre & hald hym still', and the other being on the earthquake of 1382 - 'zhit is god a curteys lord'; and medical recipes.

An English-Welsh dictionary (A-H), including English idioms.

An early 15th century elucidation of the Law of Hywel Dda, in various orthographies.

A manuscript comprising Ex Camdeni Britannia in the hand of Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt.

The manuscript is in two parts. The first part is an exercise book containing Latin and Greek exercises by Robert Wynne of Maesyneuadd, Merioneth, some financial memoranda, 1667-1675, and an unfinished letter to Robert Wynne from his father, Maurice Wynne. The second part is a transcript by John Jones, Gellilyfdy of a printed copy of the Mundialis Sphere Opusculum of Johannes de Sacro Busto.

Transcripts of extents, surveys of customs and administration, extracts from court rolls, and other records of the lordship of Bromfield and Yale, 1315- temp. Edward IV.

Transcripts, mainly by Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt, of the extent of the lordship of Denbigh, 8 Edward III; an exemplification of letters patent granted to John Weston, prior of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, 7 Henry VII; an undated extent of Merioneth; accounts of the escheator of Merioneth, 1615; and the extent of Caernarvon, 26 Edward III. Ff. 131-134 are very fragmentary.

A collection of transcripts, mainly by Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt, of records relating to North Wales, including the extent of North Wales by John de Delves, 26 Edward III; a record of a view of frankpledge for the commote of Menai, 28 Henry VIII; ministers' accounts for Flintshire, 30-31 Henry VIII; extracts from miscellaneous inquisitions, rentals, court rolls, and correspondence; receipts of Lewis Owen, deputy receiver of North Wales, 1 & 2 Philip and Mary; notes of leases under the exchequer seal, 1579; notes on the form of administration of justice in Wales by Auditor Hill; 'The State of the Dominion of Wales' by Sir Thomas Canon; accounts of John Lloyd of Ragad, escheator of Merioneth; instructions to the Earl of Bridgewater, President of the Council in Wales and the Marches, 1633; a roll of the coroner for Merioneth, 10-11 Edward III; estreats of fines in North Wales, 22-30 Edward III; lists of persons indicted in Merioneth, 6- 19 Richard II; records of pleas before the justice of North Wales, 4 Edward II; a list of recognisances in the exchequer at Caernarvon, 18 Edward II; lists of persons in Anglesey fined for being in arms with Owen Glyndyfrdwy, with lists of outlaws and jurors; and a breviate of an account between Sir John Salesbury, chamberlain of North Wales, and Lewis Owen, his deputy, 1555.

A register of fees due to the Crown for leases and patents out of the Court of Augmentations.
A note concerning a lease held by Johannes Cheke [?Sir John Cheke] is on p. 7.

The manuscript is in two sections: The first section is dated c. 1720 and comprises poetry relating to Garth Maelan; medical recipes; and English verses. The second section is dated c. 1753, is titled 'The Book of Gruffudd Roberts of Llan Fihangel, Carnarvonshire', and comprises 'Cywydd y Cacwn'; carols; and poetry.

The manuscript is in two parts and comprises a Welsh dictionary, including words glossed in Latin or Welsh, and a vocabulary in which words are arranged by their roots, in the hand of John Jones, Gellilyfdy, written between December 1623 and April 1624.

A Welsh dictionary, including quotations mainly from poets explaining the use and meaning of words, mostly in the hand of Gruffudd Hiraethog, but with quotations added by others as well.
Two leaves of the vellum covers include Latin texts.

A Welsh-Latin-English dictionary, incorporating words used in his earlier vocabularies, in the hand of John Jones, Gellilyfdy, completed while he was in the Fleet Prison, London, 1640.