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Notes on the history of Hereford Cathedral and extracts from records relating thereto. The writing resembles the hand of Dr Robert Morgan, [rector of Ross].

Extracts made, [c. 1718], by [?Robert Morgan] out of the Register Books of the Bishops of Hereford (ff. 1-223).
An additional bundle of papers, mainly in the hand of Edward Wynne, is now bound in at the end of the volume (ff. 224-266); these include drafts of lists of the bishops of Hereford; drafts of accounts of the register books of the bishops, with special reference to the papers of Bishop Humphrey Humphreys; a printed copy of Articles of Enquiry Concerning Matters Ecclesiastical ..., 1728 (ff. 244-247); etc.

Miscellaneous papers mainly in the hand of Dr Robert Morgan, rector of Ross, relating to the diocese of Hereford, including lists of documents belonging to the Cathedral Chapter; copies of acts and orders; an account of procedure at every chapter; a table of fees claimed by the sextons, etc. (f. 50); a table of fees taken for causes ecclesiastical within the diocese; proposals for reducing the ecclesiastical courts at Hereford and Ludlow to certain terms with rules that the Proctor may not use delays, etc., whereby the clamours of the people may be silenced; a copy of Bishop Croft's Notitia of the diocese of Hereford; etc.

Some historical notes relating to the diocese of Hereford, in the autograph of Dr Robert Morgan.

Notes on geometry, mathematics, etc.; and a list, with a brief note of their subjects, of letters written to the author's father between 1665 and 1672 (ff. 14 verso-18) and to himself between 1680 and 1709 (ff. 18 verso-60).
There is reason to believe that the writer was Robert Morgan, D.D., head master of Ruthin Grammar School from 1695 to 1705. He was the son of Robert Morgan, D.D., bishop of Bangor from 1667 to 1673. Robert Morgan the younger was afterwards rector of Ross and a canon of Hereford, and his sister Margaret was the mother of Chancellor Wynne.

Notes on Greek philosophy, etc. (ff. 85 verso-110 verso, inverted text); notes on a course of anatomy in 1692 (ff. 70-84, inverted text); notes of sermons preached at Llanddyfnan and Pentraeth about 1711, with texts and verses quoted in Welsh and the notes in English (ff. 1 verso-63 verso). This notebook seems to be the work of Robert Morgan, D.D.

Notes of sermons and notes on moral and religious topics by Robert Morgan, D.D., 1693-1722.

Notes on scripture, sermon notes (ff. 23-266 verso) and miscellaneous notes, mainly in the hand of Dr Robert Morgan.

A fragment of a manuscript containing notes and extracts from several books in the autograph of Dr Robert Morgan.

Notes and skeletons of sermons, presumably by Dr Robert Morgan, rector of Ross, written between 1731 and 1737, with an alphabetical list of sermons.

Notes of sermons preached in 1722-1723 by Dr Robert Morgan.