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A volume containing copies of letters, 1820-1830, from Athelstan Corbet, Ynysymaengwyn, Merionethshire to various recipients, including Jonathan Anwyl, Llwgwy; T. E. Cartwright, Liverpool; John Davies, Kington, Herefordshire; Lord Eldon; George Jeffreys, Glandyfi; Hu. Owen; Edward Scott; Captain Thurston, RN; Thomas Wilmot, Coundon near Coventry; and Sir Watkin Williams Wynn.
Tipped in is a letter, 2 April 1831, from Corbet to Lord John Russell concerning the Reform Bill (f. 2).

An album containing correspondence mainly addressed to Sir Richard Puleston, bart, and his wife, Lady Emma Puleston. The correspondents are the duke of Clarence (Nos 1-4), Sir Benjamin Bloomfield and Colonel McMahon, both in attendance on the Prince Regent (Nos 5-28), Edmund Currey, aide de camp to the duke of Gloucester (Nos 29-31), the dukes of Beaufort (No. 32), Dorset (No. 33), Cleveland (Nos 34-5), and Buccleugh (No. 36), the duchess of Buccleugh (No. 37), the dowager duchess of Rutland (Nos 38-41, 44-5), Lord Forester (No. 42), Lady Katherine Forester (No. 43), the duke and duchess of Argyll (Nos 44-50), Elizabeth, marchioness of Westminster (Nos 51-9), Lady Elizabeth Belgrave (Nos 60-3), the dowager countess of Warwick (Nos 64-5), the countess of Clonmel (No. 66), the countess of Uxbridge (Nos 67, 69-71), Sophia Paget (No. 68), J. Sanderson, Plasnewydd (No. 72), the earl of Kilmorey (No. 73), Lady Georgina Needham (Nos 74-5), Lord Mulgrave (No. 76), J. Lloyd, Portsmouth (No. 77), Lord Adam Gordon, commander-in-chief of the forces in Ireland (No. 78), Viscount and Viscountess Dungannon (Nos 79-92, 94-5, 97-105), the Honourable Charles Trevor (Nos 93, 96), Lord Berwick (Nos 106-8), General the Lord Viscount Hill (No. 109-12), Lord Kenyon (No. 113), Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Sarah Ponsonby, Llangollen (Nos 114-19), Viscount Fielding (Nos 120-1), the Honourable Mrs West (Nos 122-3), Sir Robert Leighton, bart (No. 124), Lady Bromley (No. 125), Sir Robert Peel, bart (No. 126), Sir John Kynsaton Powel, bart (No. 127), Sir George Nayler, York Herald (Nos 128-9), Sir Herbert Taylor (No. 130), Mrs Isabella Pigot (Nos 131-4), W. A. Madocks of Tremadog (No. 135), T. J. Pettigrew (No. 136), and Messrs Willoughby and Eustace, Piccadilly (No. 137); together with a printed pedigree of the descendants of Sir Robert Maude, bart (No. 138).
A letter from Sir Joseph Banks, dated 22 November 1814, has been removed from the volume (between items 130 and 131): this was sold separately (lot 312) at Sotheby's, 23-4 March 1981, but was not purchased by NLW.

Transcripts by Robert Vaughan of tracts and documents relating to the Council in the Marches of Wales, including 'The Inconveniences of exemptinge English sheires [Gloucester, Worcester, Monmouth, and Salop], shewed to Queen Elizabeth'; propositions concerning the jurisdiction of the King's Bench in the Marches; precedents for installing plaintiffs in possession; 'The effecte of the King's speech ... 3 November 1608'; 'A Treatise of Wales and the Marches thereof'; an abstract of records in the Tower concerning the Marches; 'A discourse or relation of the ancient and moderne estate of the Principalitie ... by Serieant Dodderidge'; instructions to the Council of the North, 1595/6; a survey of lands in Tal y Bont, Merioneth; a note on the lordship of Glasbury; and 'A description of the Councell and Court established in the Principality and Marches of Wales', and 'An exemplification touching proceedings in Chancery at the request of ye right honorable Ralphe Lo: Eure'.

Lists of grants, leases, etc., passed from the crown, of the revenues of North Wales, 1631-1702.

A 17th century collection of medical recipes similar to those found in the Meddygon Myddfai material.

The Laws of Hywel Dda, and pleadings, including a transcription from Peniarth MS 29, in the hand of Robert Vaughan.

A version of the Laws of Hywel Dda by a single scribe dating from the first half of the 14th century.
The manuscript has an ornamental bordering enclosing the writing on the first page, which is unusual in Welsh manuscripts.

Extracts from the Laws of Hywel Dda; pleadings; and a list of the hundreds and commotes of Wales.
The manuscript is in several hands of the late 15th to the early 16th centuries, two of the hands being distinct.

A manuscript, c. 1654, in several hands, including that of Robert Vaughan, comprising an indenture made near Pont Gamarch; the Gwentian Code; a Welsh grammar; and a text titled 'Y Bibyl'.

The original text of the manuscript was a subject index to Genesis and Exodus of the Vulgate version of the Bible (ff. 1-123). However, this text has been inverted and further texts have been added, beginning at the back and including the Laws of Hywel Dda (ff. 184b-118b); a list of the sheriffs of Montgomery to 1644; a list of names of monks, with Latin lines underneath; and a list of the members of both Houses of Parliament in 1641. The manuscript is in several hands.

A Welsh version of the Laws of Hywel Dda, in two or more hands.
On pp. 113 and 160 there are notes in the hand of W. Wotton; a letter from Thomas Lewis transcribed onto p. 267 is only partially legible but contains the words 'Morgan', 'Tredegar', 'Radyr', 'Sainghenydd', and two englynion.

The manuscript is in two parts and comprises two versions of the Laws of Hywel Dda. The first is the Befol version in a hand of the last quarter of the 15th century. The second part is in two hands of the first half of the 16th century.
There are also two indentures included at the beginning and end of the manuscript.

A manuscript in the hand of John Jones, Gellilyfdy comprising the Laws of Hywel Dda taken from MS Titus D II and Peniarth MS 163; the Statue of Rhuddlan; and explanations of legal terms taken from a manuscript by Rhisiart Langford.
Included is a loose note by John Gwenogvryn Evans, dated 14 November 1895.