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Journal kept by Philip Davies Cooke of a tour through parts of Italy in 1818.

Journal kept by Philip Davies Cooke of a tour through parts of Italy and Sicily, March-June 1817.

Journal kept by Philip Davies Cooke of a tour through parts of France and Italy, February-May 1824.

Journal, 1815-1821, written in equal parts French and English, by Philip Davies Cooke of Gwysaney, Flintshire, of tours through North Wales and France in the company of David Pennant of Downing, Flintshire.
The entries comprise a tour of North Wales from Downing to Chirk, Denbighshire, July-[August] 1815 (English, pp. 341-368); a tour through France via Orleans, the Loire Valley, Brittany, Aunis and Saintonge, Aquitaine, Pyrenees, Languedoc, Provence, Dauphine and Lyon, May-July 1818 (English, pp.1-156); from Sheffield to Holywell, October 1819 (English, pp. 335-340); and from Paris to Champagne, Piedmont, Genoa, Provence and Nice, Monaco and Burgundy, travelling mainly by boat, October 1820-January 1821 (French, pp. 158-335). The entries emphasise the history, antiquities and culture of the places visited. The main entries are written on the versos with addenda on the rectos opposite.

A volume entitled 'Welsh Pedigree' but containing Latin homilies and Welsh material relating to heraldry, poetry and music.

Letters, legal papers, receipts and accounts concerning the Puleston family, 1542-1800; documents touching the genealogy and arms of the Puleston family and the growth of their estates, [17 cent.].

Copies of around one hundred and sixty letters, 1785-1792, written in the main by Mrs Mary Puleston of [Hafod-y-Wern, near] Wrexham, in connection with the Gwysaney estate.
Some of the letters throw light on the problems attendant upon the division of the Llannerch and Gwysaney estates in 1785.

Letters, 1798-1842, mainly from William, Earl Fitzwilliam, from Milton, Northamptonshire, to Bryan Cooke at Owston, Yorkshire. The letters deal, inter alia, with local and national current political affairs.

Letters, 1830-1834, of O[badiah] Rich, London, to Edward King, Viscount Kingsborough, Mitchelstown Castle, County Cork, concerning the acquisition of Spanish books and manuscripts dealing mainly with the early history of Mexico.
[Kingsborough was the brother-in-law of Philip Davies Cooke (1793-1853).]

Letters, July 1831-December 1836, to Viscount Kingsborough, mainly at Mitchelstown, co. Cork, from various correspondents, together with a few written by Kingsborough, concerning inter alia the antiquities of Mexico.

Letters, documents and papers, 1624-[c. 1703], relating to the family of Davies of Gwysaney, including: five letters (including one from Henry Salusburye of Lleweny) to Robert Davies [II] of Gwysaney, 1624-1629; a copy of a deed of sale of the manor and lordship of Ewloe, Flintshire, dated 10 May 1632; papers re. the protest made to the bishop of St Asaph by the parishioners of Nerquis and Treythin, near Mold, in 1640 concerning the lack of divine service in their churches; a warrant from Prince Rupert to Robert Davies [III] of Gwysaney as High Sheriff of Flint to deliver monies collected for the King's service, 1644; appointment by Charles I of Thomas Davies as Colonel of a regiment of Foot and Dragoons in Denbighshire and Flintshire, 1643; a letter from John Owen, bishop of St Asaph, to Robert Davies; memorandum touching the conveyance of the advowson of Owston, Yorkshire, to Henry Cooke, 1702; copy of a conveyance of properties in Brynford, Flintshire (original dated 1363), etc.

Rent rolls of the Llannerch and Gwysaney estates for the years 1760-1766 and 1775; disbursements paid by Hugh Jones to the use of Robert Davies and John Davies in the years 1761-1767 and 1776.

Memoranda of letters written by John Davies of Llannerch to various correspondents, 14 July 1769-19 March 1771.

Ministers' accounts of the Chamberlain of Chester for the counties of Cheshire, Flintshire and Denbighshire.

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1760-[c. 1850], of the Cooke and Davies-Cooke families of Owston and Gwysaney, including correspondence between Bryan Cooke and Lord Fitzwilliam, 1799-1804, letters from Lord Melville to Lord Kingston, 1813-1825, and letters from Sir Foster Cunliffe to Bryan Cooke, 1802, 1819, 1821. The letters touch upon domestic matters, the administration of the estate and local and national politics