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Vol. V consists of Edward Lloyd's letter book for 1681 with letters to him from Robert Owen and Jo: Gadbury.

Vol. III contains Edward Lloyd's letter books for 1674-1675, together with miscellaneuos papers which include: "Articles against ye phanaticall corporation of Oswestry"; "A short narrative of designs in the fishing trade"; "A short narrative how Wm. Plymley imployed and wholly entrusted by Mr Llod of Llanvorda behaved himself in respect of the trust reposed on ye coasts of Cardiganshire, especially at the Lodge". Several letters in this volume refer to the fishing trade.

Papers mounted, interleaved, and bound in five white vellum volumes; gilt lettering; folio. It appears that the papers were acquired by Mr Stanley Leighton in one volume. Note. Some of the documents relating to Oswestry in theses volumes have been printed in Byegones and offprints have been pasted on the interleave opposite the text.

Vol. I. Two letters to Mr Leighton are pasted at the beginning of the volume, one from John Bennett, the bookseller who had sold the manuscript to him, and one from Stephen Donne, nephew of the John Donne from whom the bookseller had acquired the manuscript. These are followed by a sheet, written towards the beginning of the eighteenth century, giving a brief description of the contents of the original volume with some remarks on the character of the scribe - Edward Lloyd of Llanvorda, near Oswestry. This volume consists of a letter book of Edward Lloyd from 1676 to 1678, containing copies of letters addressed by him to several persons, with copes of a few other letters. Many of the letters signed E. Ll. refer to his interests in the herring trade. The last letter, which is incomplete, gives an account of the treatment which he received in the districts around the river Dyfi.

Vol. II contains a dialogue upon the history and nature of the English Parliament, and upon the political and religious disputes of the Stuart period; letters and copies of letters to and from Edward Lloyd, between 1662 and 1676; "The true narrative of Capt. Edward Lloyd's actions & sufferings in & for his majesties service with ye just state off his arrears"; prayers; a list of all the Lloyds that have been burgesses of Shrewsbury since 36 Henry VI; a list of Oswestry malignants; a list of Capt. Lloyd's troops, etc.

1. Pryce Tarbuck and Samuel Waring, esquires, bailiffs for the borough of Ludlow, co. Salop;. 2. JoBCharlton, sheriff of the said county. Election of Henry Bridgeman, esq., a burgess of the said borough, to serve in Parliament.

Exemplification (copy) of the recovery suffered between Michaell Chamber and Richard Owen, gentlemen, demandants, and Edward Owen, gent., tenant, of one messuage, one garden, and 236 acres of land in Swinney, co. Salop.

Exemplification of a recovery suffered between Daniel Browne, Nathaniel Browne, Edward Lloyd, gent., and Richard Atcherley, gent., demandants, and Edward Baldwyn and James Wood, tenants, of nine messuages and 430 acres of land in Sweeney, Maesbury, Weston Cotton, and Oswestrey, co. Salop.

Exemplification of a recovery suffered between John Cotes and Francis Hayes, gentlemen, demandants, and Robie Sherwin and Henry Morrice, gentlemen, tenants, of seven messuages, four gardens, and 170 acres of land in Oswestry, Ifton, Swinney otherwise Sweeny, Llanvorda, and the parish of Oswestry.

Exemplification of a recovery suffered between John Wilkinson, demandant, and Henry Wilmot, esq., tenant, of one messuage, two gardens, and 145 acres of land, with minerals therein, in Swinney otherwise Sweeny in the parish of Oswestry, co. Salop.

Exemplification of a recovery suffered between Robert Morris, gent., demandant, and Samuel Wilkinson, gent., tenant, of one messuage, two gardens, 102 acres of land, with minerals therein, in Swinney otherwise Sweeny in the parish of Oswestry, co. Salop.

Exemplification of a recovery suffered between William Clive, esq., demandant, and Thomas Mainwaring, gent., tenant, of one messuage and 110 acres of land in Swinney and Kunutlas (sic), parish of Oswestry, co. Salop, being the property specified in Nos. 278-279.

Exemplification of judgement in the plea of Thomas Baker, tithe-farmer of the town of Sweney in the parish of Oswestry, and rector of the said parish, against John ap Edward of the same, for the recovery of a tithe debt.

Exemplification of the final concord in a fine levied between Thomas Baker, plaintiff, and Arthur Chambre the elder, esq., and Katherine, his wife, Arthur Chambre the younger, gent., and Thomas Owen, esq., and Proscilla, his wife, deforciants, when the deforciants acknowledged four messuages and 380 acres of land in Sweney, Weston, and Cotton, co. Salop, to be the right of the plaintiff.

Exemplification of the final concord in a fine levied between Thomas Hanmer, esq., and Thomas Hunt, gent., plaintiffs, and JoBCharlton, kt., one of the Justices of the King;s Bench, and Lettice, his wife, and Francis Charlton, esq., deforciants, when the deforciants acknowledged the manors of Whitton and Calbach, and 45 messuages and 2220 acres of land in Whitton, Wootton, Nashe, Hathall otherwise Hartall, Nurton, Weston, Greete, Burford, Bower, Overton, Ricketts Castle, Bishopps Castle, Ledam, Broughton, Colbache, Olde Church more, Wydbach y Coed, Wydbach, Nayth, gaveriell, Wydbach, Bryn and Hebland, co. Salop, together with the manor of Ludford, five messuages, and 580 acres of land in Ludford, co. hereford, to bet the right of the plaintiffs.

Exemplification of the recovery suffered between Edward Owen and Peirce Lloyd, esquires, demandants and Peirce Reignelde and John Oliver, gentlemen, tenants of one messuage, one garden, and 110 acres of land in Swiney and Llyncklys, co. Salop.