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A small group of miscellaneous militia records including a list of the old trained band of the town and county of Haverfordwest [c. 1663]; a warrant, 1710, to the mayor of Haverford West and the rest of the Commissioners for putting in execution the Acts for recruiting Her Majesty's land forces and marines; a copy of a notice by the War Office [late eighteenth or early nineteenth century] regarding the commission of militia officers, with a covering letter, 1936, from Leslie Williams, Llanelly, to 'Frank' [Francis Jones, Haverfordwest]; and the commission, 1806, of Thomas Lloyd, gent., to be a lieutenant of the Dungleddy Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry.

An eighteenth century blazon of the arms of the family of Knethel of co. Northumberland (ermine, a saltire gules) (mounted on a fragment of an early seventeenth century survey of the farm of properties in Iscoyd Gwynioneth, Aberustwith, Iscoyd Cardigan, Cruthin, Generglin, Diffrin Claragh, Llangeby, Cardigan, Mevennyth, Kilkennon, and Hanyniocke, co. Cardigan); a calligraphic exercise by Thomas Meyler, 1816; a passport issued to Edward Picton Phillips, 1843; a typescript carbon copy of a letter from J. W. Phillips to the press, 1933, relating to the building of the organs of St. Mary's and St. Martin's [Haverfordwest]; and a brief typescript description and history of Skomer Island.

The petition [1650] of the inhabitants of the town and county of Haverford West to the Commons of England in Parliament assembled, for relief from the monthly assessment and the assessment for Ireland, raised from £10 to £45; and a land tax assessment of St. Martyns, Bridgestreet, and Shipstreett ward in the town and county of Haverfordwest, 1719.

A notebook containing medical and other recipes written largely in the same hand. Beginning at the end are entries of the birth of [his] children between 1727 and 1749/1750 (with some entries of death to 1801), and entries of the marriage of Frances Richmond Webb and Mr. T. Humphris at Swindon in 1734 and of the birth of their children between 1735 and 1754.

A rental of the estate of W[illiam] H[enry] Scourfield, Moat, in the hundreds of Dungleddy, Roose, Dewsland, and Kemmes, co. Pembroke, and in the town and county of Haverford West, 1809-1818. Insets include additional accounts to 1821; conditions for letting land by auction at New Moat, 1812; and a holograph letter from Charles Child, Nayland, to [Henry] Rees, 1818 (arrears of rent).

Rentals of the estate of W[illia]m H[enr]y Scourfield, Moat, in co. Pembroke at Lady Day and Michaelmas, 1819-1822.

Rentals of the estate of J[oseph] F[oster] Barham, M.P., of Trecŵn, parish of Llanstinan, comprising Trecoon demesne and properties in Castle Henry (located in later rentals in Henry's Moat) and Fishguard, co. Pembroke, at Michaelmas, 1816-1823.

An undated [mid eighteenth century] rental of the estate of Great Nash in the parishes of St. Lawrence, St. Edrins, Granston, Mathery, Llanhowell, St. Davids, Camross, Talbenny, St. Thomas in Haverfordwest, St. Mary's in Haverfordwest, Burton, and Langum, co. Pembroke; a draft rental, 1810, of the estates of John James, Pantsaison, in the parishes of Monington, Saint Dogmells, Moilgrove, Bayvill, and Narberth, co. Pembroke; and an alphabetical list, compiled in 1850, of the freemen for the town and county of Haverfordwest (348 names).

A rent roll of lands in Hauerfford west to be inserted in the estate 'for the erecting and may[n]teyning of the ffree schole', together with a covering letter, 18 October 1613, from Thomas Lloyd, Kilkethed, to John Skinner, esq., mayor of the town and county of Hauerfford west; draft rentals of the estates of John James, Esq. [Pantsaeson], in the parishes of Monington, St. Dogmells, Moylgrove, and Bayvill, 1809-1810; pedigrees of the families of Cornwallis of Abermarles, co. Carmarthen, 1721, of David of Blaenllechog, parish of Llangolman, co. Pembroke, 1823, and of Rice of Tyhen [parish of Llandysilio East], co. Carmarthen, the latter compiled by John William Phillips, Haverfordwest; lists of members belonging to the Loyal Welsh Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons who meet at the Victoria Hotel, Pembroke Dock, and of the Lodge of Freemasons called the Saint Davids Lodge held at the Nelson Hotel, Milford, 1839; typescript copies of letters from Tho. Picton, Carmarthen, to J[ohn] Philipps, Haverfordwest, 1815 (enclosing bills of exchange), John Martin, Withybush, to his son [John Phelps at Ely], 1815 (money, personal, news of the recipient's brother Samuel in the battle of Waterloo), and Sam[ue]l Phelps, Bois de Bologne, Comy, near Paris, to his brother John [Phelps at Ely], 1815 (an account of the battle of Waterloo); six typescript papers on 'Agricultural Law'; a typescript report of a public inquiry held at the Town Hall, Fishguard, 28 July 1905, by the Local Government Acts Committee of the Pembrokeshire County Council for the purpose of considering an application by the Fishguard Parish Council for the conversion of the parish of Fishguard into an urban district; typescript 'Addenda' to a 'Pembrokeshrie Archaeological Survey' by J. W. Phillips, [19]08; etc.

Two notebooks and loose leaves containing an account of ?daily receipts [at the ?Colby Scott Turnpike Gate, Haverfordwest], January 1873 - December 1875, and January 1877 - January 1879. Inset are two receipts for sums received from Benj[amin] Phillips, 15 November 1877, in respect of poor rate in the parish of Prendergast [co. Pembroke].