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One hundred and twenty-one letters addressed to Humphrey Humphreys, DD (1648-1712), bishop of Bangor (1689-1701) and afterwards of Hereford (1701-1712).

Extracts in the autograph of Humphrey Humphreys, afterwards Bishop of Bangor, from a philosophical work by Baron (pp. 1-13, 17); the names of the churchwardens of Llandegai in 1678 (p. 15); extracts from a work in defence of the Church of England (pp. 19-29, 35-47 rectos only).

A genealogical account of the descendants of Meredith Wynn ap Evan ap Robert of Gwyder, and other families, roughly written in a hand which resembles that of Dr Humphrey Humphreys.

Rough drafts of genealogical tables of the following families: Stanley, Griffith, Bulkeley, Coetmor, Williams and others. Several of the papers are in the autograph of Bishop Humphreys.

A bundle of papers containing drafts and fragments of pedigrees of Anglesey and Caernarvonshire families. Some of the papers are in the autographs of Dr Humphrey Humphreys and Dr Edward Wynne.
There are also letters from Peers Mauduit, 1693 (item 39), and Giles Campion, 1695 (item 38), to Bishop Humphreys; a copy by the Bishop of a curious Welsh inscription in memory of Tomas Palmer of Holt (item 31); and a short biography of Bishop Humphreys by Chancellor Wynne (item 1).

Some ten booklets, containing sermons and drafts and fragments of sermons in English (ff. 1-18, 32-235, 252-283) and Welsh (ff. 19-31), all undated, now bound as one volume. Some are in the hand of Robert Wynne, MA. Also included is an imperfect printed copy of Humphrey, Lord Bishop of Bangor, A Sermon Preach'd before the House of Lords, at the Abbey-Church of St. Peter's Westminster, on Thursday, the 30th of January, 1695/6, Being the Martyrdom of K. Charles I (London: John Everingham, 1696, Wing H3721) (ff. 236-251).

A miscellaneous gathering of papers, some of which have been endorsed by Bishop Humphreys: (a) papers relating to Denbighshire, including extracts from the Survey of 1334 (ff. 3-7); (b) copies of papers relating to the petition (1619) of Thomas Canon, Surveyor of Crown lands in South Wales, concerning the supplanting of the mountain thieves of Wales, and disposing habitations in convenient places (see Calendar of State Papers. Domestic 1619-1623, p. 55) (ff. 8-9); (c) copy of a list of the inhabitants of Anglesey who were amerced for being in arms and rebellion with Owen Glyndyfrdwy, 1406, with a table of the fines, copies of the jury panels, and a list of outlaws (a portion, the lists for the commote of Llivon from a fragment found among Edward Lhuyd's papers, was published in Archaeologia Cambrensis, 3rd ser., 5 (1859), pp. 177-180; Browne Willis, in A Survey of the Cathedral Church of Bangor... (London, 1721), pp. 84-85, quotes from a copy of this record, which he saw in the collection of the then Dean of Bangor) (ff. 61-90); (d) a seventeenth century Welsh calendar (ff. 10-16); (e) 'Catalogus Alphabeticus s[anc]torum Cambrobritannicae', by Bishop Humphreys (ff. 17-22); (f) copies of papers on British Chronology sent by Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt to Archbishop [James] Us[s]her (c.f. NLW MS 3044B) (ff. 23-51).