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A legal opinion respecting the settlement of estates upon the marriage of Thomas Morgan of Tredegar, Esq., with Martha his now wife, in the counties of Brecon and Monmouth. Signed by W. Evans and Hen. Lloyd.

The list includes the names of the following members of Parliament for Wales: The Hon. Thomas Bulkeley, arm., co. Caern. Sir Thomas Hanmer, bart, co. Flint. Henry Lloyd, arm., co. Card. Sir Roger Mostyn, bart, co. Flint. Thomas Mostyn, arm. Sir Humph. Mackworth, co. Card. Sir John Wynne [dec. 1719], co. Caern. John Vaughan, co. Mont. Edward Vaughan, co. Mont.

A list of the names of the thirty - one men - servants and seven women - servants of Thomas. Lord Mansel, Baron of Margam. About 1712.

Beginning: Most pure and pretious Jewell.

Beginning: Fairest & sweetest of ye lovely sex.

A memorandum endorsed: Mr Lewis's answer and remarks, being suggestions by an intended purchaser of the manors of Coyty Wallia, Lanharry, and Newland, and a rental of £703 per annum, in the manor of Coyty Anglia, for £14,400, as to the manner of Lord Mansell's dealing with this and other parts of the late Earl of Leicester's Estate in Glamorganshire in respect to the advowsons, mines, wastes, etc.

A note by Philip Williams demanding payment from Leyson Richard [dec. 1691?] of the sum of fifteen pounds 'arrears of rent you owe to the lords of the Mannour of Cadoxton by Neath'.

A note of all that Messuage and tenement of customary lands that I have and doe enjoy in the Parish of St. Brides Major, and comonly called and known by the name of Blackhall. A particular or extent showing number of buildings, names of closes, etc. By Mathew Lewis. Addressed to Mr Thomas Mansell at Margam.

A note of moneys disbursed to the use of the Hon. the Lady Martha Bassett. 27th June, 1666, to July, 1668.

Signed by Edward Mansell, with memoranda of parcels taken out in 1706 and 1707.

'A note of ye Iron Work delivered to ye vse of Mr Phillip Williams from March ye 2d/87 to xber ye 15th/88 ...'. (B). A poem. Beginning: ha bro praye dost know the decre[e?]. ["A note" (signed Mary Brodber). See her name on p. 395 of the History of the Vale of Neath as sister of the first Philip Williams. Mary Brodber was a dominant woman, judging by the master strokes of her writing. She writes her ironwork account on the back of a poem of Anti-Catholic tendencies: 'O by my shoul it is a Talbott / and he will cut all the english's throat ... / now now the hereticks all goe down / by Christ & St Patricke the nation's our own / there's an old prophesy found in a bog / that ireland shall be governed by an ass ... / and now the prophesy is come to pass / Talbot's the dog tirconnell's the ass'. D.R.P.].

A particular (or detailed description) of such goods and household stuff as Robert Button will buy if the Rt. Hon. Sir Thomas Mansell will so please, and also of what he intends to 'leave att Landough only haveing the favour of the use thereof leaveing the same there att his departure'.

Beginning: pray musitian hold a little. The last stanza reads:. If any askes who made this englin. Philip Williams of the Dyffrin. Who dayly wishes without ceasinge. Again to have a merry meeting.

A pedigree of Philip and Llewelin Williams (living now in 1744), derived from Justin ap Gwrgan, Prince and Lord of Glamorgan, through Caradoc, Lord of Avan, etc.