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1 William le Hor' of Clauhurst;. 2 Robert de Say of Morton. Mortgage of two parcells of land in Le Lonefeld near the lane leading to Mulnefeld and ale Stoking, for 16 years, with power of redemption by payment of half a mark of silver. Witnesses: Dominus Hugh de Wlonkeslowe; Tha' Stuche; Hugh de Hulle; Richard de le Heeth; William son of Henry.

Original bundle of deeds relating to, among others, m's and lands called Chapel or Chapel House farm (57a.) and Kyah otherwise Caia (70a.), both t. Dudleston, p. Ellesmere, and the Rock otherwise Coed-yr-allt (28a.), p. St Martins, all co. Shrop., 1837-1838 and 1870-1871, and particulars of Chapel House and Kyah farms, part of the Plas Yolyn estate, considered by Cyrus Morrall as security for an advance of £2,200 and 4% in 1910. The original packet (discarded) was inscribed 'Stewart Landeman's trustees' and 'C. Morrall's £2,200 mortgage Plas Yolyn estate, Salop (paid off)'.

Loose papers relating to mortgages, principally relating a mortgage by Rev. Cyrus Morrall to Edward Birch, esq, to secure £3,000 and interest, 1862, with a further charge of £200 in 1875, and a mortgage by Robert Morrall, esq., to Rev. George E. C. Casey to secure £2,200 and interest, 1871.

Volume of food, household and medicinal recipes. Title page inscribed ' Mrs Lingard's recipe book, Heaton Lodge, June 1840'. Includes a few inserted recipes, including one dated Nov. 1892.

1 Grace Basnett;. 2 Edward Morrall of Dudlistone, cousin of the above Grace. Note Of Hand, whereby Grace acknowledges herself to be in the debt of Edward, to the extent of £1.2.6.

Notice to Joseph Buckmaster, and to the executors of the Rev. John Ward dec., and to Sir William Henry Dillon, and Miss Anne Firmin, of an assignment and conveyance to Mr Patrick Nolan, dated 14 July 1859.

Oath of Amy Nevett of Bettesfield, p. Hanmer, single woman, that she is with child of a bastard child and that one Edward Covax, a wandering fellow, 'one that practiceth phisick' is the only father of her child. Before Thomas Hanmer, J. P., of co. Flint.

Oath of Griffith ap Iorwerth ap Grono Veghan, taken before John Waren, clerk, notary public, in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, that having granted certain lands in Tybroghton and Yescoit, co. Flint, to Morris ap Thona, he was deceived by his daughter, Lleike, wife of William Gwyn, into making another grant of the same property.

Papers of Humphrey Jones, brother of John Jones of Maesygarnedd, including the deputation, 22 March, 1653/4, by Rice Vaughan of Graies Inne, co. Middlesex, esquire, and Humfrey Jones of London, gentleman, of the stewardship of the manor and lordship of Bromfeild and Yale, co. Denbigh, to Colonel John Carter of Kinwell [Kinmell], co. Denbigh, esq., together with an undertaking by John Carter to give a just account (mutilated); an account of receipts and disbursements on behalf of [?John Jones] since 6 August, 1683; a holograph letter from Hugh Williams, Marle, to Humphrey Jones, Alderman Bury, London, 1686 (legal, with reference to the Voylas estate); an account of money resting in Mr. [Charles] Price's hands, 23 August, 1687, and of money due at Michaelmas; and the answer, undated, of Humphrey Jones, one of the defendants to the bill of complaint of William Lloyd concerning properties said to be mortgaged by John Jones ('the regicide') (mutilated).

Papers of Colonel John Jones relating to Ireland:- a breviate of the invoice of the provision shipped in the 'Jonas' of London (Captain Richard Willsheere, commander) and assigned to the Hon. Sir Charles Coote, kt., Lord President of Connaught, 15 February, 1649/50, and an account of the delivery of the same by Peregrine Greene to Wm. Oxford at Youghall, 20 April, 1650 (countersigned by Wm. Dobbins, commissioner, 19 August, 1650); two invoices of ammunition put on board the ship 'Peregine' by William Dobbins, commissary of ammuniation, for the armies in Ireland, 14-22 April, 1650; an invoice of medicaments provided by Thomas Saxton, apothecary, by directions from Doctor Waideson for the use of the garrison of Kilkenney, 6 August, 1650 (countersigned by Rob. Waideson, and by Wm. Dobbins, 14 August, 1650); and a transcript of a letter from Edm. Ludlowe, Dublin, to Sir Rich. Blake, 19 March, 1651/2 (the application from the Earl of Clanricard for the settlement of this nation).

Particulars and rough plans by Edward Pryce of Kynvel, Merioneth, of parels of land held by lease of Owen Vaughan of Llwydiarth, Montgomeryshire, deceased, in Gweinion and Malloyd in the lordship of Mowthwey, and a parcel called y kae hen in Creinion veghan in the lordship of Powys, 14 February, 1621/2.

Pedigrees, genealogical notes, biographical details, and coats of arms of the kindred families of Jones Maesygarnedd, Edwards of Cilhendre, Morrall of Plas Yolyn and Cilhendre, Challnor of Iscoed, Bee of Wendlebury, Oxfordshire, etc.

The petition [1656] of John Jones, Esquire, M.P., for such a proportion of lands in Ireland as may give him satisfaction for former services, which he had lost due to his absence on service in Ireland from 1650 (read 17 February, 1656/7); a list, 17 October (emended to February), 1656, of the members of the Committee appointed to consider the petition (mutilated); and the report, 18 March, 1656/7, of the Committee to whom the consideration of Coll. John Jones's petition was referred (mutilated), together with a copy of the same.

Articles Concluded & Agreed on for the Surrender of Oxford & Farrington To His Excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax, Upon Wednesday the 24th of this instant June: And Read in the Honourable House of Commons, June 23. 1646 (London: Printed for Edward Husband ... June 24, 1646); the petition, 29 April, 1651, of Willm. Lewis of Bryn y Voyle, Merioneth, to the Commissioners for Compounding, that the sequestration of Bryn y Voyle and his other messuages and tenements in Merioneth be discharged, as he had paid his proportion of the general fine imposed upon North Wales (copy, attested by T. Bayly, 24 March [16]54/5; the oder, 29 April, 1651, of the Committee for Compounding to refer the petition of Willm. Lewis to the Committee of North Wales (copy, attested by T. Bayly, 24 March, [16]54/5; the report, 19 December, 1651, of Tho. Ball, sheriff [of Denbighshire], John Peck, and Daniell Loyd, from Wrexham, upon the case of Willm. Lewis (Colonel John Jones, M.P., had informed them that Lewis was a delinquent beyond the seas and therefore excepted from any benefit of the Act) (copy, attested by T. Bayly, 24 March, [16]54/5); the report, 20 September, 1653, of Jo. Reading upon the case of William Lewis, D.D. (copy, attested by T. Bayly, register at Haberdashers' Hall, 30 January, [16]54/5; the affidavit, 8 February, 1654/5, of Joseph Collier, sworn before Henry Pytt, that on 25 March, 1654, he received an annexed certificate of the discharge of the sequestration of the estate of William Lewis, D.D., upon the payment of £56.3s. (copy, examined by Edw. North) (according to an endorsement the document refers to the case of Col. Jones and Sir Maurice Williams); the plea, 14 February, 1654/5, of Humfrey Jones, plaintiff, before the Commissioners of Obstructions, in an action against Sir Maurice Williams, defendant, for the justification of his title to the lands of Dr. William Lewis (mutilated); the certificate, 24 March, 1654/5, of Tho. Browne, auditor, of an entry relating to the estate of Dr. William Lewis of Landony [sic], sequestered for delinquency, and to the payment of £40, being rent for the years 1650 and 1651, by Mr. Humfrie Jones, together with a certificate, 28 December, 1653, by T. Bayly that the did not find any confirmation of the contract made for the estate (according to an endorsement the document relates to the case of Jones and Williams) (mutilated); the petition [27 May, 1655] of Coll. John Jones to the Commissioners for Relief upon Articles of War (Dr. William Lewis declined the clemency of Parliament under the Articles of Oxford and did not compound for his lands in Llanethoyn and Llanddwywe within the time prefixed, but went to France; the trustees for forfeited lands sold these properties to Humfrey Jones, petitioner's brother; in 1653, Dr. Lewis, combining with Sir Maurice Williams, was admitted to compound upon the pretence that the properties descended to him from his mother in 1647; he petitions for the reversal of the order of 17 August, 1653), together with a draft of the same; the case, 2 November, 1655, of Dorety Lloyd, widow of Hunffrey John ap Ruddergh late of Bron y foel, parish of Llanenthoyn, deceased, concerning rent for Bronyfoel paid in 1649 by the said Humffrey by the hand of Caddr. ap Rees Gruff., drover, to Mr. Goslinge, steward of Dr. William Lewis of Bronyfoel (sequestrators demanded payment of rent for the same year, and Hunffrey John was ejected; soon after he died of consumption, the complainant being left helpless and forced to scatter her children among friends) (signed by Richard Jones, clerk, and Dorety Lloyd alias Jones, complainants); and an undated and imperfect account of the case between Humfrey Joens, plaintiff, and Sir Maurice Williams, defendant, before the Committee for Removing Obstructions in the Sale of Delinquents' Lands, touching the lands of Dr. William Lewis, a delinquent, in Llanthwywe and Llanenthoyn, Merioneth.

Plas Yolyn household, tax, tithe, succession and rent accounts, 1887-1908. Inserted items include an undated memorandum from J. Wilson, gamekeeper, to C. Morrall, esq., that he had given a warning to James Rice, labourer, Edward Jones, wheelwright, and George Richards and Thomas Morris of Ifton Heath, colliers, their dogs having chased a rabbit on Plas Warren land; and a poem, the 1909 defeat of England against Australia at cricket having been attributed to their senility, the team having had an average of thirty-four.

Manuscripts, estate records and family papers of the Edwards and Morrall families of Cilhendre and Plas Yolyn in Dudleston, Shropshire, including the manuscripts and papers of Morgan Llwyd (1619-1659); Colonel John Jones 'the regicide' of Maesgarnedd (?1597-1660); correspondence of the Edwards and Morrall families; papers of the Jones family of Cilhendre, descendants of Colonel John Jones; a small group of papers relating to the Hanmer family (including documents relating to the part played by William Hanmer of Fennes in the Civil War and a travel journal of Thomas Hanmer, 1728); and deeds, 1282-1869 relating to properties mainly in Denbighshire, Flint, Merionethshire and Shropshire, but also in London, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire.

Volume listing game (partridge, teal, rabbit, hare, landrail, waterhen, pheasant, grouse, wood pigeon, wood cock, snipe etc.) killed, Sept. 1890-Feb. 1912. From the other end of the volume, fishing book, April 1890-June 1911, fox hunting book, Nov. 1894-Dec. 1900, and Bangor races, April 1901-1911.