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A printed sale catalogue 'of the library of the late Francis Smith, esq., to which is added another valuable collection ... which will be sold by auction, by Mr Evans, at his house, No. 93 Pall Mall ... 1829'. The catalogue contains the books sent by W. W. E. Wynne (see Peniarth MS 549).

Exercise books in arithmetic and Latin, together with transcripts of arithmetic books, by John Jones, Gellilyfdy, 1597-1599. Also included are letters to Thomas Jones, 1581, and letters to John Jones from his father, William Jones, 1598.
The arithmetic and Latin books are composed of used paper from an attorney's office, some of it belonging to Thomas Jones, attorney, of Shrewsbury. There are six volumes in all. One booklet was transcribed by John Jones in 1654.

A printed copy of John Reynolds of Oswestry’s 'The Scripture Genealogy, beginning at Noah and his three sons, to the time of Job the Son of Issachar ... Also a display of herauldry Of the particular Coat Armours now in Use in the Six Counties of North-Wales, and several others Elsewhere; with the Names of the Families ...' (Chester: printed by Roger Adams, for the author, 1739).

'Select prayers compos'd by some Fathers ... of the Church; As they are found in the late R. R. Archbishop of Canterbury his Oficium Quotidianum: Translated out of Latin ... [by P. Lorrain]'.

Sermon notes or titles of sermons.

A volume of sermons in an 18th century hand.

Lists of the high sheriffs of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire and Montgomeryshire taken from Y Gwyliedydd, with other manuscript lists and notes by W. W. E. Wynne, and a list of Denbighshire sheriffs written in 1595 and continued to 1601. Also included are a form of sheriff's patent for Rhys Milton, Merionethshire, drawn at Westminster, 29 January 1547; a licence, 20 May 1530, granted to 'Mredd. ap Hulkin Loid' to build a water mill at Dinlle; and a copy of letters patent drawn at Westminster appointing Rhys Vaughan Sheriff of Merionethshire, 27 November 1547.

Wills, pedigrees and a list of sheriffs and under-sheriffs of Montgomeryshire.
Eleven leaves of pedigrees in earlier hands, including that of Humphrey Humphreys, Bishop of Bangor and then Hereford, and loose memoranda have been kept with the manuscript; the pedigrees in the manuscript are copies of these eleven sheets.

Pedigrees for the three south-west Welsh counties derived from the early version of The British Geneologist of David Edwardes of Rhyd-y-gors. ‘The Pedigree of the Gentry in Cardigan shire’ (ff. 1-21 verso, original pagination 1-40, f. 16 is an insertion); Carmarthenshire (ff. 22-52 verso, original pagination 1-62); Pembrokeshire (ff. 53-73, original pagination 1-40, ff. 53-4 are misbound). The immediate source appears to be NLW MS 14214, including the earliest additions to that manuscript but not those by the second hand; and placing Cardiganshire before Carmarthenshire.
The pedigrees are printed from this manuscript in West Wales Historical Records, vols 1-2, where it is asserted (in vol. 1, p. [2]) that the scribe is ‘the same person’ as the one who wrote the Golden Grove Book. The hand is indeed similar to that of the amanuensis of Evan Evans of Carmarthen [died 1773], compiler of the Golden Grove Book, but some features of the script consistently differ.

A manuscript of the Speculum Mathematicum sive de numerorum figuratorum resolutione of James Dowson of Chester (printed 1614), with astrological notes; and 'Shorte astrologicall judgments of the 12 howses of the heavens, first written by Gerrardus and after by Cornelius Agrippa augmented'.

Extracts taken by Hugh Nanney and others from the Bible, Jeremy Taylor's Holy Living, White's Directory to Christian Perfection, and Gibb's The Soules Conflict.

Statements concerning money difficulties; petitions and remonstrances to the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal; and musings on human and divine law by John Jones, Gellilyfdy, 1637-1658.
The manuscript was originally partially used to record Biblical and other history.

A copy of John Ray, Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Britannicarum, 2nd ed. (London, 1696) and of De Methodo Plantarum Viri Clarissimi D. Augusti Quirini Rivini..., both interleaved and annotated by Edward Lhuyd with notes relating to fossils, inscriptions, antiquities and various place names, river and mountain names, etc. in Wales, with further notes in another contemporary hand.
The topographical notes include all the Merionethshire parishes of the diocese of St Asaph, and a few parishes in Denbighshire; there are also some drawings of monuments. An envelope in the box contains dried plants originally kept in the manuscript itself. Also included in the volume are examples of the poetry of Llawdden (fl. 1450).