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A volume lettered on the upper cover 'The Mayors, Sheriffs, &c. of the Borough, and the High Sheriffs of the County of Caermarthen'. It contains the names, and facsimiles of the autographs of, the mayors of the county borough of Carmarthen [see also N.L.W. MS. 12377D] and of the Kings and Queens of England, temp. Henry IV-1911, with biographical notes; a transcript of a statement of the pedigree of William Herbert, 1st earl of Pembroke, compiled in 1460 by Ievan ap Rytherch ap Ievan Lloyd, esq., Howell ap David ap Ievan ap Rys, gent., and Howell Surdwall, Ievan Deulwyn, and Ievan Brechva, bards, by commission of King Edward IV; the names of the high sheriffs of the county of Caermarthen, 1537-1901; and the names of the bailiffs, afterwards called sheriffs, of the county of the borough of Caermarthen, 1400-1905. The entries after 1901 are in another hand.

A manuscript, mainly in the hand of Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd), with some parts apparently in other hands, containing an elegy to 'W. Vn o G. y Gedol ... a fy farw ... yn y flwyddyn 1775' by Evans (pp. 1-8), and other poetry by him (pp. 275-308), Thomas Jones (Twm Siôn Cati), Siôn Cent, Edmwnd Prys and others (pp. 1-12, 33-114, 205-218, 247-258, 275-310); extracts from the manuscripts of Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt (pp. 13-32, 119-126, 142-158) and John David Rhys (Siôn Dafydd Rhys) (pp. 139-141); notes relating to Lewis Morris (pp. 115-118); a copy of the charter of Clynnog Fawr (pp. 127-130) (see Monasticon Anglicanum, vol. V (London, 1825), p. 631); a description of the tombs in St David's Cathedral (pp. 131-138); a list of men who defended Harlech Castle against Edward IV (pp. 153-154); quotations illustrative of the use of the terms 'Brytwn', 'Brython', etc. (p. 155); the Officium B[eatæ] Mariæ 'wedi ei dynnu or Lladin yn Ghymraeg y gan Ddafydd Ddu o Hiraddug hyd y mae pawb yn tybied' (pp. 159-204), with notes originally by Dr John Davies, Mallwyd, whose copy Ieuan Fardd transcribed; a poem (1635) to Rolant Fychan, Caergai (pp. 205-206); an index to the Red Book of Hergest by Dr John Davies (1634) (pp. 220-238); copies of inscriptions in Llanfihangel-y-Traethau and Dymeirchion (Tremeirchion) (pp. 266, 274); copies of letters, with poems enclosed, from Ieuan Fardd to John Griffith of Cefn Amwlch (pp. 275-298) and to William Vaughan of Corsygedol (pp. 299-308); an anonymous letter to Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt (p. 309); etc.
There are notes signed 'J[ohn] Williams Plas y Brain' on pp. 94, 116, with the date '1793' added in pencil on p. 118.

A history of Wales transcribed from George Owen's treatise of lordships marcher in Wales; copies of a statement made March 10, 1685/6, at New York by Morgan Jones, 'the son of John Jones of Basleg near Newport in Monmouthshire', attesting that he had conversed with American Indians in the Welsh language (see The Gentleman's Magazine, 1740), of a letter, August 14, 1734, on a similar subject sent by Charles Lloyd, Dolobran, Montgomeryshire, to a cousin, and of 'Dr. [Robert] Plott's Account [to the Royal Society] of an Antient Discovery of America from Wales'; a list, in the hand of John Lloyd, Caerwys, of 'The names of the Principal men that kept Hardelech castle against Edwd the 4th;' lists of the sheriffs of Flintshire, Denbighshire, Montgomeryshire, and Merioneth; transcripts of epitaphs in Mold church; and notes taken from Thomas Carte : A General History of England (London, 1747-1755).

An incomplete transcript by Robert Vaughan of the Peniarth 20 version of Brut y Tywysogion with interpolations in the same hand from Brenhinedd y Saeson, followed by brief Latin annals: the death of Llewelyn, 1282, the rising of Owain Glyndwr, 1401, the death of Walter Barlee, master of Halston, 1442, the battle of Shrewsbury, 1403, the death of Owain Glyndwr on the feast of St. Matthew, 1415, the death of the Duke of York, the battle of St. Albans, the accession of Edward IV, the death of Alson Gwyn, 1429, the death of Robert Trevor, 1452, an eclipse of the sun, 1433, the death of Henry V, 1422, the famine of 1439, with price of corn at Shrewsbury, the death of Thomas Earl of Arundel, 1415, the death of Robert, bishop of St. Asaph, 1433, the death of Edward ap Dd., 1448, and the death of Ieuan ap Adda ap Ierwerth, 1448, [1612x1667] (pp. 1-16); together with a list of the barons of Dinmael in the hand of Robert Lloyd, surveyor, [17 cent., ?second ¼] (pp. 17-22); and extracts from the pedigrees of Gwynedd families copied out of the collections of Lewis Dwnn, [1699] (pp. 1-24).

Transcripts of extents, surveys of customs and administration, extracts from court rolls, and other records of the lordship of Bromfield and Yale, 1315- temp. Edward IV.