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Early charters and deeds comprising important mediaeval charters and a small number of later Tudor documents relating to the abbey of Ystrad Marchell, 1183-1529; deeds from Wick, Carswell and Wroxhale [Wraxall] in Somerset, [late 12 x early 13 cent.], 1307; deeds for land in Wrockwardine, Shropshire, [1289x1324]-1336; various Montgomeryshire deeds, 1302/3, 1537-1675/6; charters issued by members of the de Charleton family and other lords of Powys, 1340-1549; two deeds concerning Bala Lake, 1570-1572; and a file of antiquarian notes on the Ystrad Marchell charters and the Wrockwardine deeds, 1795-1871, [1945x1980].

The 1952 Deposit comprises the estate and family papers of the Williams Wynn family of Wynnstay and of other families to whom they were related by descent or marriage, such as Wynn of Gwydir, Kyffin of Glascoed, Purcell of Nantcriba; Vaughan of Llwydiarth and Thelwall of Plas y Ward, comprising rentals and account books, 1300-1925; title deeds, [pre-1290]-[c. 1910]; estate and household administration papers, mainly 1573-1946; family and personal papers, 1571-1913; financial papers, 1592-1914; county administration papers, mainly 1523-1851; crown and central government papers, 1608-1880; administration papers of charities, schools and the church, 1547-1908; legal and arbitration papers, 1449-1819; lordship and manorial records 1364-1849; papers relating to roads and railways, 1770-1910; family settlements, probate records and trusts, 1499-1906; Much Wenlock estate records, mainly 1534-1860; Nantcriba estate records, 1381-1680; and maps.

"A confession of the true improved value of all the manors, messuages, lands and tenements late of Owen Vaughan, esq., deceased, whereof he died seised, and mentioned in an inquisition found in the county of Montgomery, 20th of April last made & valued by me". Cos Denbigh, Merioneth and Montgomery.

A transcript of 'a discourse of witchcraft as it was enacted in the family of Mr Edward Fairfax of Fuystone, comu Ebor. 1621'. The author was Edward Fairfax of Fuystone.

Memoranda of cases heard in London, 1637-1641, and memoranda and accounts of legal services largely rendered to members of the Wynn family and their relations: William Wynn, Owen Wynn, Maurice Wynn, Sir Richard Wynn, William Mostyn, Mr Bodvell etc. The notebook may have been that of one of Henry Wynn's clerks.

A note of all writings, deeds, rent rolls, etc., relating to the lordship of Cyfeiliog which Richard Herbert, esq., was to deliver to John Pugh, esq.

A rental of all the rents due and payable to His Majesty within the towns of Leons otherwise Holt aforesaid in the collection of the bailiff there, made out in pursuance of a precept from the Commissioners of Revenue.

A Rental or Book of the receipt of the lords chief rent within the lordship of Kyveiliog as the same was paid in the year 1610.

An alphabetically arranged commentary on a number of scriptural themes, with references to a number printed works of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, e.g. Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, De origine Sacrae Scripturae ...; John Weemes, Works; Phillippe de Mornay, Seigneur du Plessis Marly, A Woorke concerning the trewnesse of the Christian Religion which Sir Philip Sidney began to translate; Johan Reuchlin, De Arte Cabalistica; Petrus Columa, Galatinus, De arcanis Catholicae veritatis; and Jacobus Bolducius, De Ecclesia ante legem. The work seems to have been begun in 1649, and its general appearance suggests the methods of William Maurice of Llansilin, but there are no names, nor any other clues to the authorship.

A Speech lately made by a noble peer of the Realm in the debate concerning the King's Speech. London: printed for F. S. at the Elephant and Castle near the Royal Exchange in Cornhil, 1681.

A Survey of the Lordships of Arwystli and Cyfeiliog, taken in July 1609 by Robert Fludde, gent., by commission out of the Exchequer dated 24 April 1609.

Title deeds for a tenement outside the walls of Conwy, described as being near the postern gate when acquired by Ralph Mellers from John Sherroke in 1493. Subsequent deeds describe a tenement outside the High Gate and an orchard outside the Myll Gate and include: a bond for redemption of a mortgage to Nicholas Mellers, 1556; a settlement on Margaret Eyton, wife of Nicholas Mellers, 1556; deeds of sale to Edward Williams, 1556-1557; subsequent quitclaims to Edward Williams and a bond for peaceful possession by Margaret Eyton, and by William and Hugh Mellars, 1565, 1585.

There is no indication of the authorship of the treatises, but the manuscript came into the hands of Henry Wynn. The first treatise is concerning the nobility according to the laws of England. This is followed by extracts entitled Regula pro Liberatione Terrarum hors de Gill's Black Book in Chancery; and arguments for the nullification of the marriage of Queen Maria Francisca Isabella to King Alphonse the sixth [of Portugal].

The volume contains 1: A / Letter / to a Proselyte of the Church of / Rome / Touching the Danger of living in that Com-/munion. / To which is added, / A few Hints propos'd to a Dissenting Teacher, / of the Presbyterian Persuation, lately settled in / the Town of Denbigh, on the occasion of the Erecting of a Meeting House in that Town. / ... London: Printed for the Author, And / Sold by most Booksellers in London & West-/minster, 1731. [The letters are signed Gr. Jones.]. 2: A / Sermon / preach'd before the / House of Lords, / at the / Abbey-Church of St Peter's Westminster / on / Thursday, the 30th of January 1698 / Being / The martyrdom of K. Charles I /. By the Right Reverend Father in God, / Humphrey Lord Bishop of Bangor. / London: / Printed for John Everingham, at the Star in Ludgate / Street, neer the West End of St Pauls 1696. 30 pp. 3: Broadside:- Petition of the Gentry, Clergy and Inhabitants of cos Flint, Denbigh, Montgomery, Carnarvon, Anglesey, and Merioneth to Parliament, March 5 1641. 4:. Unity and Peace the support / of Church and State./ A / Sermon / Preach'd before the Honourable / House of Commons, / on / Munday Jan. 31th 1703/4. / Being / The Anniversary of the Martyrdom / of King Charles I. / by Rob. Wynne, DD, Chancellor / of St Asaph. / London, Printed by Tw for Thomas Bennet, at the Half-/ Moon in St Paull's Church-Yard, 1704. 28 pp 5: A / Sermon / Preach'd at the / Visitation / of the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of St Asaph / Held at / Wrexham / on the 23d Day of August, 1742. By William Powell, DD / Dean of St Asaph / ... / London: / Printed for Edward Wicksteed, at the Black- / Swan in Newgate-Street; and Thomas Payne, / Bookseller, in Wrexham, 1742. 26 pp. 6: Englands / Teared, / for the Present Wars, / Which for the Natvre / of the Quarrell, the quality of Strength, the / diversity of Battailes, Skirmiges, Encounters, and / Sieges (happened in so short a compasse of / time, ) cannot be parallelld by any / precedent Age. / ... / Printed at London, according to order, by Richard Heron, 1664./ [James Howell] 17 pp. 7: Reynolds, John. A Display of Herauldry, 1739. 8: Statutes 3-4 Car. I. London: Printed by Bonham Norton and John Bill, A.D. 1628. The collection includes an Act for the establishing of the Estates of the Tenants of Bromfield and Yale.

The volume contains 1: The/ Welchmans / Protestation, / concerning the corruptions / of these times./ With her last Will and Testament, writ and / pupplished with her own hand fifteen / tayes after her own teath. With a Song her was never apide in awle her / life, pecause her was Sheare / her Country./ Printed, 1641. pp. 6. 2: The / Welch-Mans / Warning-Piece. / As it was delivered in a sermon in Shropshire at / the Assembly when the Resolution was agreed upon./ And / now published for the cood of all her Country-/men in these parts / by Shon ap Morgan /. In the Anti-Prelatian Yeer. 1642. wherein her / gives Kot thanks, that her was no Beshit. / London:/ Printed for Robert Wood, and Henry Marsh./ 1642. 8 pp. unnumbered. 3: [Woodcut, King on throne, with petitioners at the bar.] A Perfect / Tiurnal: / or /Vvelch Post./ With her creat packet of Letter, for her to carry / into her countrey of Vvhales, touching her pretren / proceeding, and war in England./ From Saturday the 4 of Feb. to Saturday the 11 / London, Printed for the Welch Post to carry to her Countrymen in Whales, 1643. 8 unnumbered pp. 4: A / Declaration / and / Resolution / of the / Sheriffes, Justices of the Peace, / and other of His Majesties well affected / Subjects, in the Counties of Flint and Denbigh, / at a generall meeting in Wrexham, the 9. of this / instant May, 1648. / Wherein, / They declare their Resolution, touching the / solemn League and Covenant, and to impose all forces whatsoever, that shall enter the said Counties, for the / disturbance of the publicke peace of England and Wales. London, Printed for Rw 1648. 8 pp. 5: The VVelchman's last Petition / and Protestation: desiring that speedy aide / might be sent her against her home-bred / enemies, as her shall declare and shew to be in her / following Petition. Whereunto is added the Pro-/testation of Thomas ap Shinkin, ap Morgan &c. [Woodcut - man with a staff.] Printed at London for F. Couls, T. Bates, I. Wright, T. Bank, 1642. 8 Unnumbered pp. 6: A Great / Fight / in / Wales /. Sixteen Colours taken, Armes and Ammunition / with the prisoners, and men slain. The Parliaments re-/calling their former Votes, for making no futher / Addresses to the King, and the new adresse to / be made unto Him./ The Letters on Munday last from Scotland, in answer to the Demands and / Proposals. Also the proceedings of Sir Marmaduke Langdale, and the raising of forces in the North. And Letters from / the Prince, and the Duke of York. London, Printed by BA. 1648. 6 pp. 7: The / Welch-/ Mans / Prave / Resolution:/ in Defence of Her King, Her Pritish Par-/liament, and Her Country, against / te malignant party./ Subscribed by Shon, ap William, ap Richard, ap Thomas, ap Meredith, ap E-/vans, ap Lloyd, ap Price, ap Hugh, ap / Rowland, ap Powel, ap Shin-/kin ap Shones./ London./ Printed for J. Harrison, June 8, 1642, 6 pp. 8: His / Majesties / Speech / to / The Inhabitants of Denbigh and Flint-shire. 27 Septemb. 1642. London, Printed for Rl 1642. 8 pp. 9: A / Petition / From His Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax / And the / General Councel of Officers of the Army / to the Honorable the Commons of England / ... / Concerning the Draught of An / Agreement of the People. / ... Together with the said Agreement / presented Saturday, Jan. 20 ... London. / Printed for John Partridge R. Harford, G. Galvert, and G. Whittington MDCXLIX. 29 pp. 10: The Welch-mans publike / Pecantation / or,/ His hearty sorrow for taking / up of Armes against her / Parliament./ Declaring to all the world how her hath / been abused by faire words, and such adullations and / flatterings, telling her what Booties and Prizes her should / get, and what victories her should obtaine, and what honour / it wold be to her, and her country if her would but / conduct her King to White Hall neer London./ Withall / Advising all her Country-men to take up no / more Armes against her Parliament to defend / the Commission of Array; the Divell / take the Array./ Commanded to be published /. Printed at London for Fr. Coule, 1642. 8 pp. unnumbered. 11: A / Persvvasion to Loyalty, / or the Subiects / Dvtie./ Wherein is proved that resisting or de-/ posing of Kings (under what spccious [sic] preten-/ces soever couched) is utterly unlawfull./ Collected by Do. / Dedicated to all dutifull subjects. / London, Printed for George Badger,/ 1642. 30 pp. 12: Tvvo / Petitions / to the / Generals Excellency,/ one / from the country of Hartfordshire, con-/cerning the Papers of the five Regiaments./ and / the other from Rutland, concerning Tythes. / Also / A Declaration about North-Vvales, / and the Taxes and Assessments; .../ .../ Novemb. 1. 1647 / ... Imprimatur, G. Matt./ Printed at London by Robert Ibbitson, in Smithfield, neer the Oueenes-Head Tavern, 1647.