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Observations, rules, and orders transcribed from the Journals of the House of Commons, 1547-1678, together with an index; a transcript of 'A Treatise Concerning Registers' by William Pierrepoint (? 1607-1678) [See BL Harleian MS. 1243 and Harleian Miscellany, Vol. III, pp. 320 et seq.]; a transcript of 'An Act to restraine the Number of Officers sitting in the House of Commons' [temp, William III]; and a transcript of a treatise in defence of the attitude of the House of Lords to the claims made by the House of Commons over 'the bill for an addicionall Imposicion on fforaigne Commodities1 [? temp. William III]. This volume was presented by Lord Sidmouth to Henry Hobhouse in February, 1840, and was in the possession of J. Harland in 1851. On the spine is lettered the name of I. Brydges. Paper; pp. [1-4], 1-204 (p.2 omitted), [1-12], 1-132; 302 X 195; full calf with gilt and blind tooling.

Account of the proceedings of Parliament from 2 Maroh 1627/8 to 26 June 1628. Paper; ff. 1-285; 320 x 204; full rough calf with gilt ornamentation and blind tooling.

Llangibby Castle estate records, including court rolls of manors in Monmouthshire, 1262-1911, Glamorgan, 1675-1739, Gloucestershire, 1427-1595, and Somerset, 1609-1691; title deeds, mainly Monmouthshire, 1217-1930, and correspondence, mainly 18-19 cent.; important letters and papers relating to the civil war in Monmouthshire; and manuscripts aquired by the family, including drafts and copies of Modus Tenendi Parliamentarum and Observata Parliamentaria by Henry Elsynge, junior (1598-1654), clerk to the House of Commons, together with minutes of the House of Commons, 1624-1626, calendar of the Journal of the House of Lords, 1647-1768, copies of the Journals of the House of Commons, 1547-1701, index to parliamentary proceedings, temp. Edward III-Edward IV, and, 1724-1743, civil war tracts, the journal of the missionary Dr Joseph Wolff, 1832, 'Prif Achae holh Gymru Benbaladr' in the autograph of Sir Thomas Wiliams, Trefriw, 1578-1609, a seventeenth-century collection of Welsh poetry by the principal 'cywyddwyr'; a memoir of Richard Robert Jones ('Dic Aberdaron', 1780-1843) in his own autograph; English sermons and miscellaneous notes by Rev. Edmund Jones, Pontypool, a sermon notebook of Rev. Philip Henry (1631-1696), the eminent Nonconformist divine, a survey of the lands of Henry, earl of Pembroke, in Glamorgan and Monmouthshire, 1570, and a survey of lands in the lordship of Usk, 1619; pedigree rolls of Sir Roger Williams of Penrhos, Monmouthshire, compiled by Thomas Jones ('Twm Siôn Catti'), 1591, and of the Williams family of Llangibby Castle, probably compiled by Sylvanus Morgan.