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Papers relating to church buildings and churchyards, comprising official directions for the collection of contributions to the maintenance of St Paul 's Cathedral, 1633, 1635, and the parish churches of Llandysilio, 1755, Selatyn, 1761, and Cemmaes, 1858; the thirtieth annual report of Bangor Diocesan Church Building Society, 1868; and points to be attended to in creating a new burial ground at Selatyn [1876x1904].

Table of benefices in the deaneries of Rhos, Mold and Tegeingl, showing incumbents, valuations and payments due [1670x1690]; list of preferments to English bishoprics and other important ecclesiastical positions, [1691]; and the opinion of the Bishop of St Asaph on the augmentation of a preferment, 1829.

Papers concerning Penrhos Chapel, also called Trinity or New Chapel, situated in Llandrinio, Montgomeryshire, dated between 1695 and 1844. They include a petition to the bishops of Coventry, Lichfield and St Asaph by the inhabitants of Llandrinio and adjacent parishes for augmentation of the minister 's salary, 1696; receipts for ministers' salaries, 1704-1757, 1819; notes by John Owen on the history of the chapel; letters from the Bishop of St Asaph and a circular concerning administration of the chapel and Deuddwr School, William Ormsby-Gore 's patronage and alterations to the chapel building, 1825-1828, 1842; certificates of declaration of conformity and subscription to the articles of faith of the new perpetual curate, 1825; and an agreement between William Ormsby-Gore, the Bishop and other clergymen, dated 1844, for demolishing and rebuilding Penrhos Chapel and for annexing portions of adjoining parishes to form a consolidated chapelry, with conditions precluding the master of Deuddwr School from holding the curacy and vice versa.

Certificates of entitlement to poor relief in Llanaber, 1711, and of settlement at Meifod, 1744; a list of people in the townships of Abertanat and Llynclys to be removed out the parish [Llanyblodwel]; and apprenticeship indentures of individuals from Tredderwen and Selatyn, 1749.

Press cutting of a letter to Sir Robert Peel by Welsh clergymen, requesting the appointment of Welsh-speaking bishops, 1835; a printed pamphlet examining the motives of dissenters in demanding the abolition of church rates [c. 1868]; and a table showing comparative numbers of non-conformists, Catholics and non-religious in Wales.

Papers relating to Oswestry charities and school, 1635-1772, charities in North Wales and Shropshire, 1644-1855, charitable donations by John Owen of Penrhos, 1814-1823, and schools, 1841-1863.

Volume containing: papers concerning a charity in the will of Sir Nathaniel Lloyd of Aston to benefit the poor of Oswestry and Whittington, of which William Owen was a trustee, 1740-1753; a certificate granting a blind woman admission to the almshouses at Oswestry, 1690; observations on the history of Oswestry by the town recorder, 1635; documents relating to the administration of Oswestry Free Grammar School, especially malpractices by the trustees, [c. 1707]-1772; abstract from a deed of Thomas, Lord Arundell, 1424, and an agreement on behalf of Dame Margaret Owen, 1700, showing rents issuing from properties in and around Oswestry; abridged copies of the borough charter granted by Charles II in 1673; and names of Shropshire tenants in an ejection suit, [mid-17 cent]. Separate from the volume is a copy of a letter from the Bishop of St Asaph concerning Nathaniel Lloyd 's charity, 1757.

Papers relating to various charities in North Wales and Shropshire, dated between 1644 and 1855, including those in Caernarfonshire which benefited from the wills of Henry Roberts of Caernarfon, 1644, and Jane Owen of Wrexham, 1736-1748; printed accounts of a charity for the relief of widows and orphans of clergymen in the diocese of St Asaph, 1764, 1797; a printed report and regulations of Shropshire Infirmary, 1798, 1835-1855; extracts copied from church benefaction tables and the wills of Penelope and William Owen (both made 1670), concerning Oswestry almshouses; information on Margaret Godolphin 's charity to set up apprenticeships; and 'legacies and benefactions' for the poor of Selatyn, 1802-(Watermark 1824).

Lists of poor persons relieved by the charitable donations of John Owen of Penrhos in Broniarth, Cemais, Darowen, Guilsfield, Llandrinio, Llandysilio, Llansanffraid Deuddwr and Meifod, together with receipts and letters of acknowledgement, 1814-1823.

Affidavit confirming respectability of persons named as trustees of Deuddwr Grammar School, 1841; rules of the same school 1863; and balance sheet of the Barmouth national schools, 1851.