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Letters and papers collected by Edward Laws, including some relating to Tenby; a receipt, 1597, from Thomas Wilcocks of London, 'minister of gods word', to Lady Deborah Waterhouse; a letter, 1796, from John Campbell, afterwards Lord Cawdor, to Major Ackland; a schedule of some Pentyparc letters; etc.

A transcript of a part of 'The Description of Wales' by George Owen and of a charter granted to Brecon by Philip and Mary, 1554/5; Brecknockshire pedigrees; an account of the princes of Brecon; notes on the parish of St. John the Evangelist and the borough of Brecon; an account of the parish of Llanfyrnach; and 'Collections for Devon and Cornwall copies from the Manuscripts of Sir John St. Aubyn'.

A transcript of the well-known work by George Owen of Henllys- 'A Treatise of Lordshipps Marchers in Wales'.

A transcript by Francis B. Bickley from British Museum Harleian MS. 141 of 'A Treatise of Lordshipps Marchers in Wales', by George Owen.

Letters and accounts relating to the transcription of manuscripts and documents for Henry Owen and to the cost of printing some of his publications.

Transcripts of Owen of Orielton family letters, 1776-1806; letters to Henry Owen mainly returning thanks for copies of Gerald the Welshman and The Description of Pembrokeshire, Parts I-II; correspondence with government departments relating to the regulations governing the inspection and copying at the Public Record Office of documents of Welsh interest, etc.

Transcripts of two volumes of private memoranda of John Griffiths, Llandysilio, Pembrokeshire, 1759-1778 and 1786-1798, a biography of him, and extracts from the parish register of Llandysilio, 1765-1779, all in the autograph of Edward Laws; and correspondence, 1901-1908 and undated.

A transcript, 1903, by E.A. Lewis of an inquisition, September 23, 1651, relating to the charities bequeathed by James Haward, formerly of Gray's Inn, to the poor of Rudbaxton and to the Hospital of Haverfordwest.

A selection of manuscripts, [16 cent.]-[?1919], of the late Dr Henry Owen, from the Library at Poyston. They include the manuscript note-books of Dr Owen, and of Edward Laws, his friend and fellow worker on Pembrokeshire history. The older manuscripts include two in the hand of George Owen of Henllys; holograph letters of General Sir Thomas Picton (born at Poyston); and a rent roll of the rents belonging to the Bishop of St Davids, 1685.

A volume compiled by Henry Mathias, Haverfordwest, and containing press cuttings, articles dealing with archaeology, etc.

A copy, made from Phillipps MS. 15453, of a sketch of the Old Town Hall, Haverfordwest, which was pulled down in 183[-], and a short note.

Transcripts by E.A. Lewis of documents, mainly in the Public Record Office, illustrating the manorial, administrative, and judicial history of Haverfordwest (see Cymmrodorion Record Series, 7, Vol. I) and copies by E.A. Lewis and D. Lleufer Thomas of two deeds, 1579-1612, relating to Haverfordwest now at the Cardiff Public Library (see West Wales Historical Records, II, pp. 137-148).

A draft index by Henry Owen to his book, Gerald the Welshman (London, 1904), with miscellaneous notes and letters.

'Fragmentes of Wales Contayneinge Resolutions and reasons of diverse men touching certaine questions and matters as well the aunciente as moderne state of Wales', by, and in the autograph of, George Owen, Henllys.

Extracts by E.A. Lewis from 'The Vairdre Book' by George Owen.

Extracts made by Edward Arthur Lewis and John Hobson Matthews from 'The Taylors Cussion' by George Owen, with an index by Egerton Allen to the facsimile edition published in 1906.

Copies of epitaphs in certain Pembrokeshire and Cornwall churches and churchyards, with a few extracts from parish registers.

Typescript copies of Henry Owen : The Administration of English Law in Wales and the Marches (London, privately printed, 1909, and, with an appendix, in Y Cymmrodor, XIV, 1901).

Transcripts of documents relating to the family of de la Roch of Roch Castle and Langum, Pembrokeshire.

A biography of Colonel John Poyer by Edward Laws.