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Receipts for payments by Eliza ap Moris, Moris ap Eliza and Sir William Maurice, 1560-1615, which include instalments of the marriage portion of Gaynor, daughter of Moris ap Eliza, paid to her father-in-law, John Sonlley of Sonlley, 1568-1572, a legacy to Robert Sonlley the younger from Elen Moris, 1586, and an annuity received by Herbert, brother of Sir Henry Johnes of Abermarlais; the file also contains bills for legal costs incurred by Sir William Maurice, 1593-1620.

Letters exchanged between members of the Maurice and Owen families of Clenennau and Brogyntyn, and other correspondence from friends or associates in Wales and England, together with a number of important official documents deriving from county administration in Caernarfonshire during the Tudor and Stuart periods, 1485, 1573-1698. Many of the early letters and papers, 1580-1622, relate to the joint deputy lieutenancy in Caernarfonshire of Sir William Maurice and Sir John Wynn, showing their preoccupation with the raising and organisation of militia troops for the defence of Caernarfonshire and for despatch to Ireland. Other topics include Sir William Maurice's position as deputy vice-admiral of North Wales and the protracted civil lawsuits in which he was engaged. The collection also constitutes an important historical source for the conduct of the Civil War in North Wales. Items from that period primarily concern Sir John Owen and his brother, Col. William Owen, Royalist commanders at Conwy and Harlech respectively, and their subsequent treatment under the Commonwealth and Restoration, 1643-1666. Many of the letters from 1678 to 1698 reveal the life of Sir Robert Owen, his debts, estate business, cultural interests and attachment to the Jacobite cause, together with contemporary political news. Apart from individuals already mentioned, prominent correspondents include the Privy Council of Elizabeth I, mostly through Henry Herbert, President of the Council in the Marches of Wales, 1587-1600; Sir Henry Johnes of Abermarlais, 1605-1616; Ralph, Lord Eure, 1607-1617; members of the Brynker family, 1603-1681; the Wynn family of Glyn and Sylfaen, 1625-1697; the Anwyl family of Park, 1636-1693; Charles I, Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice, 1642-1647; Lord Byron, 1644-1648; John Williams, Archbishop of York, 1645-1646; George Twisleton, 1649-1660; the Godolphin family of Abertanat, 1658-1698; John Gadbury, 1679-1688; and Edward Lhuyd, 1696-1697.

Marriage settlements and associated documents of William Maurice of Clenennau and Margaret Lacon of Porkington, 1556, and John Maurice and Gwen vch Cadwallader, 1576-1585; a deed of entail of Plas yn Llanddyn, Llangollen, 1565; and a final concord of lands in Pennant, Trefan, etc. involving William Maurice the elder and younger and William Lewis of Chwaen, among others, 1587; a bond, 1609, and a lease of several rectories and fishing rights in Cardiganshire, 1619, intended by Sir William Maurice to ensure the payment of debts and a life annuity to his wife, Dame Jane Maurice, by the son of her previous marriage, Sir Henry Johnes of Abermarlais.

Legal papers, 1410-1834, which include writs, bills of complaint, defendants' answers, breviates, court orders, cases with opinions of counsel, affidavits, interrogatories and depositions of witnesses, jury lists, copies and abstracts of deeds, lawyers' accounts, pedigrees to prove title and notes on legal procedure.
A large part of the records comprises disputes over title to land, inheritance or debt in North Wales and Shropshire, which took place in the High Court of Chancery, the Court of the Exchequer, the Court of King 's Bench or the Council in the Marches of Wales, or which were treated as equity cases in the Court of Great Sessions. The most substantial of them concern Sir William Maurice 's quarrels with the Ellis family of Ystumllyn over the title to lands in Gest, [c.1597]-1620; his financial disputes with his step-son, Sir Henry Johnes of Abermarlais, 1611-1620; and Sir Robert Owen 's disputes with Col. William Price of Rhiwlas over the title to lands in Rhedynogfelen and Gest, 1679-1694. A number of the cases provide information about the distribution of both freehold properties and leasehold crown lands in Eifionydd, Caernarfonshire, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Several other files contain papers relating to the Flintshire estates of the Conway family of Nant, dated from around 1540 to 1633; boundary disputes and trespasses in Merionethshire, 1587-1749; property of the Wynn family of Glyn, 1587-1686; the indebted estate of Sir Robert Owen, 1698-1705; and the illicit activities of William Owen 's agents on the Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire estates, 1733-1754.

Will and copy probate of Sir William Maurice of Clenennau, 1622; copy probate of the will of his grand-daughter, Dame Ellen Eure, 1626, devising six small houses in Willow Street, Oswestry, to the bailiffs and burgesses of Oswestry for housing the poor; probate of the nuncupative will of the latter 's second husband, Sir Francis Eure, who predeceased her in 1621; and papers relating to administration of the estate of John Owen of Fernhill, 1626-1627.