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A transcript of Geoffrey Chaucer's treatise on the astrolabe, an instrument used for the taking of altitudes of heavenly bodies, from which time and latitude are deducible, entitled 'The dyscrypcion or knowelege of the astrolop ...' . On the cover is a verse by John Edwards, Chirk (see note under 'Tarddiad'), and who was probably the grandson of John ab Edward Hen, who owned NLW MS 423 (see under 'Associated Material' in the FONDS description).

A collection which includes Welsh, Latin and English vocabularies, miscellaneous notes and extracts, a diary of 1811, Latin and other school exercises and a fairly substantial amount of correspondence. Also forming part of this collection are manuscripts and documents connected with the family of Edwards of Chirk.

Exercises in English and Latin verse written by pupils at Rugby School.

Notes on Marcus Tullius Cicero: De Officiis.

Notes on Marcus Tullius Cicero: De Officiis.

Notes and extracts relating to history, religion and cosmography.

Latin exercises, recipes, etc. and a copy of A few words to Churchwardens on Churches and Church Ornaments ... (Cambridge, 1841).

Miscellaneous poetry, culinary recipes, etc.

A draft of a letter, [?1683], from John [Pearson], bishop of Chester, and Thomas Lloyd, Bangor [Isycoed], Flintshire relating to the 'Parish of Bangor wth the Parochial Chappels or Churches of Overton & Worthenbury ...'; letters from John Mathew to William Edwards, constable of Chirk; letters from John Wyn ap [?Meredydd] to John Edwards; letters from Thomas Gwyllym, Bellaconnell, 1677, and Edward Harrison, 1677, to John Parry, bishop of Ossory; letters from John Parry, 1671, afterwards bishop of Ossory, to Joseph Williamson at Whitehall.

Letters, mainly to Francis Price of Brynypys and Gwernhaylod, the correspondents including John Buchan, Liverpool, Robert Bulkeley, Gronant, Robert Davies, Broughton, J. Fletcher, Hawarden, Thomas Hanmer, William Hanmer, Iscoyd, John Robinson Lytton, Lloyd Kenyon (afterwards 1st Baron Kenyon), Richard Puleston and Sir Thomas Mostyn.

Letters from William Pearde, Castle Lyons, Ireland to Francis Price, etc.

Letters, 1736-1767, to Francis Price and others, the correspondents including Anthony Bacon, Dublin, John Buchan, Brynypys, John Coddington, Old Bridge, John Cusack, J. Hawkshaw, Dublin, Percival Hunt, Boyle Spencer, Dublin, John Symes, Dublin, George Taylor, Paris, Henry Wallis, Dublin, and Francis Wardle, and a letter from J. Puleston, Gibraltar, to his brother Thomas Puleston, Emral.

Letters, most of them from Edmund Spencer, great-grandson of Edmund Spenser, Renny, near Castle Lyons, Ireland to Francis, Alice and Richard Parry Price, Brynypys and Gwernhaylod, etc. They include references to Spencer's intention to publish an edition of Edmund Spenser's works, c. 1744, and references to the taking of the Old Noll by a French privateer, etc.

Letters, 1737-1777, from Thomas Hayman, attorney-at-law, Wrexham to Francis Price and William Travers, and from William Chambre, Francis Lloyd and William Travers to Thomas Hayman, etc., and letters and papers, 1811-1822, relating to Anne Parry Price, Chester.

Letters, most of them written to members of the Price (Brynypys) and Puleston (Emral) families, the correspondents including Thomas Brereton, Pickhill, P. Lloyd Fletcher, Gwernhaylod, David Freeman, Castle Townsend, Bandon, John Hill, Prees, R. Kenyon, Cefn, Thomas Kingsbury, Daniel Lawrence, Dublin, Constantine John Phipps (2nd Baron Mulgrave), John Madocks, Lincoln's Inn, Thomas Percy (bishop of Dromore), C. Plume, Tatton, Philip Puleston, 1785, Richard Puleston, 1793, and Richard Hill Waring.

Letters, mainly to Francis Price of Brynypys and Gwernhaylod, the correspondents including Arthur Barry and Richard Barry (?sons of James, 4th Earl of Barrymore, Castle Lyons, Co. Cork), Richard Edwards, Dublin, John Ellice, Peter Ellice, Robert Ellice, John Evans, Shrewbury, William Chambre and Edward Moreton.

Letters, 1738-1749, to Francis Price, Brynypys and Gwernhaylod, from George Dickens, Liverpool, J. Apperley, Wrexham, Francis Hanmer, London and Richard Graham, Rotterdam and Chester.

Letters, most of them to Francis Price and Mrs Parry Price, Brynypys and Birkenhead Abbey, the correspondents including Constantine John Phipps (2nd Baron Mulgrave), Eliza Ravenscroft, Luke Spencer, J. Tillotson, Francis Wardle, J. Watson and George Woods.

Letters, some of them to Francis Price of Brynypys and Gwernhaylod, Flintshire, the correspondents including William Brodhurst, John Cusack, A. Gouldsmith, Sir Thomas Hanmer, bart, John Hawkshaw, Benjamin Lloyd (Killaloe), Jane Oldfield, William Pearde, Thomas Percy, bishop of Dromore, J. Radcliffe, J. Scrope, Edmund Spencer, Robert Tench, William Travers, Robert Williams (London) and John Wilson.

Letters, 1731-1747, from James, 4th Earl of Barrymore, to Francis Price.