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A proof sheet (Vol. II, pp. 41-2, 47-8), of Theophilus Jones: The History of Brecknockshire, with the author's manuscript corrections.

A transcript by George Owen of a short work entitled The History of Brecknock. The work contains a short chronicle of events in British history up to the Norman invasion and the conquests of Bernard Newmarch. The manuscript is in English apart from ff. 14v-15v, which is a text in Welsh entitled '[Llyma tai]r def[od ar] dd[eg] a haner [y gafas hoe]ll ap trehaearn gan Reinall [Debre]rois arglwydd Brecheinog o gyfyndeb gwlad ag arglwydd'.

Notes on the antiquities and history of Anglesey, Brecknockshire, Glamorgan, etc.

Notes and press cuttings relating to Board and Voluntary schools in England and Wales, the disestablishment of the church in Wales, and the history of Brecknockshire, including transcripts of documents relating to Builth.

Notes on the prehistory and early history of Brecknockshire, etc.

A volume containing a transcript by William Hall, Brecon, made in 1793 when he was aged 16 (see p. 135), of 'An Esay towards the History of Brecknockshire' written in 1698 by Hugh Thomas, herald and antiquary. Two letters, 1930, from Gwenllian E[lizabeth] F[anny] Morgan to the Venerable Henry James Church Jones regarding the provenance of the original manuscript and copies of it have been tipped in between pp. 137 and 143.