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A / Narrative; / Or, The / Ordinary of Newgate's Account / Of what passed between Him and / James Sheppard; / Who was Try'd and Convicted, and receiv'd Sentence of Death, for High-Treason, at Justice-Hall / in the Old Baily, on Thursday the 6th, and Executed at / Tyburn on Monday last, being the 17th instant. Incomplete.

A / True Copy of the Paper / Delivered to the Sheriffs of London, / By Richard Gascoigne, / Who was Drawn Hang'd and Quarter'd at / Tyburn, for High Treason against His Ma- / jesty King George / On Friday the 25th Day of May, 1716. (No imprint.).

A / Vindication / Of / The Arch-Bishop / And Several Other Bishops, / From The / Imputations and Calumnies / Cast upon them / By The Author of the Modest Enquiry. (London, Printed for James Adamson, and Sold by Randal Taylor.).

A Defence of the K[ing] in Answer to what is commonly call'd, His / M[ajest]y's most gracious Speech, &c. [No imprint.].

Act Of Parliament (4 Henry VIII, c. 8) declaring that all suits brought against MPs for their speeches or actions in Parliament should be void. The act was passed following the imprisonment of Richard Stroud, a burgess for Plumpton, Devon, by the Stannary courts who disliked a bill he introduced about tin works. Copy (which Williams had made so as to prepare his defence against an information filed against him for licensing, as Speaker in 1680, the publication of Thomas Dangerfield's libellous Narrative. His main defence was that of parliamentary privilege. In the event Williams allowed judgement to go against him by default. For the Narrative see no. 58 and cf. no. 56, ff. 253-75].

He wonders much at recipient's insolence in troubling him to oppose the General Excise scheme. He bought you [i.e. the borough] and paid much more than 'you' were worth and he knows, what recipient imagines he did not know, that recipient is at this time engaged in an underhand treaty of bringing in another gentleman for the borough and he knows, what he is sure recipient does not know, that he has already purchased another borough. 'So God's curse light on you & your borough & may your houses be as open & common to Excisemen as your wifes & daughters were to me at the time I stood a candidate to represent your borough'. [Partly published in Notes & queries, 2nd series, vol. 12 (1862), p. 107.]. Copy.

Argument / Upon The / Jurisdiction / Of The / House of Commons / To Commit / In Cases / Of / Breach of Priveledge by Sir Charles Watkin Williams Wynn (London, 3rd ed. corrected with an appendix).

1. Edward Williams of Castell, co. Caern., esq., and Henry Williams of Penmon, co. Ang., gent. 2. Hugh ap Robert ap William of Penvero, co. Caern., gent. Award to 1 and 2 by Maurice Wynn of Gwydir of the estate of Robert ap William ap Gruff' ap Robin, dec., lying in [t's] Llanbedr, [p. Llanbedrycennin], Penvero and Gronant, [p. Caerhun], Castell, [p's Caerhun and Llanbedrycennin], and Glyn [p's Caerhun/llanbedrycennin], co. Caern.

Brief for the prosecution against the Seven Bishops for seditious libel [for the trial see T. B. Howell, State Trials, xii, cols 183-434].

Damaged.

Papers of Sir William Williams, mainly legal papers, 1685-1693; political papers, 1680-1698; and papers relating to, or collected by his ancestors or descendants, 1567-1812. The legal papers include papers relating to the trials of the Earl of Shaftesbury, 1677, Algernon Sidney, 1683, his own trials for a scandalum magnatum brought by James II and the Earl of Peterborough, 1685-1686, and the trial of the Seven Bishops, 1688.

Copy Arguments of Mr Wallop and Mr Smith, counsel for the Earl of Shaftesbury. [For this and no's 8-11 cf. T. B. Howell, State Trials, vi, cols 1270-1310].

Copy Court Proceedings in a motion to arrest judgement in the case against Sir Samuel Barnardistone (whom Sir William Williams defended) for libel as 'being of factious, seditious and disaffected temper' and having caused 'several letters to be written and published' reflecting on the King and officers of state and declaring that the Rye House plot was but 'a sham Protestant plot'. [Cf. NLW Wynnstay MS C41.].