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Extracts in the autograph of Humphrey Humphreys, afterwards Bishop of Bangor, from a philosophical work by Baron (pp. 1-13, 17); the names of the churchwardens of Llandegai in 1678 (p. 15); extracts from a work in defence of the Church of England (pp. 19-29, 35-47 rectos only).

Printed pamphlets and manuscript leaves comprising Latin speeches, including Bishop Robert Morgan's speech at Beaumaris, preambles to letters patent, copies of monumental inscriptions and miscellaneous other papers.
The printed items are: (a) Edmund Smith, Oratio in publicis academiæ oxoniensis scholis, in laudem Clarissimi Doctissimique Viri Thomae Bodleii, ... habita Ab Insignissimo Viro, tam Ingenio quam Doctrina Excellenti ... (London, 1711, ESTC T58649) (ff. 5-15); (b) Richard Hale, Oratio comitiis anniversariis Harveianæ memoriæ sacris in amphitheatro medicorum Londinensium habita ... (London, 1725, ESTC T43318) (ff. 16-30); (c) Joseph Addison, The Reasons which Induced His Majesty to Create Sir Thomas Parker, Kt. (Chief Justice of the King's-Bench), a Peer of Great-Britain; Being the Preamble to his Patent (London, 1716, ESTC T201852) (ff. 31-35); (d) The Reasons which Induced Her Majesty to create Henry St John, Esq., a Peer of Great-Britain. Also the Preambles to the Patents of the Lord Massam, and the Lord Halifax (London, 1712, ESTC N48382) (ff. 36-41); (e) A Collection of Preambles to the Patents of I. Robert Earl of Oxford. II. Simon Lord Harcourt. III. William Lord Dartmouth. IV. Thomas Earl of Strafford. V. Robert Lord Ferrers. VI. Charles Earl of Orrery. VII. James Duke of Hamilton. VIII. George Augustus Duke of Cambridge, &c. With Remarks, 2nd edn (London, 1712, ESTC N28025) (ff. 42-65 verso).

Extracts from the Specimine Philosophiae Naturalis of Casparus Bartholinus (ff. 4-6 verso) and the Ontologiae Compendium of Clericus (ff. 10-12 verso), etc.

Extracts from Homer, etc., and vocabularies in Greek (ff. 12 verso-32 verso), together with extracts from Juvenal (ff. 4-5, 7 verso-8) and Terence (ff. 6-7, 8-10), etc, in Latin and English.

A genealogical account of the descendants of Meredith Wynn ap Evan ap Robert of Gwyder, and other families, roughly written in a hand which resembles that of Dr Humphrey Humphreys.

Notes on geometry, mathematics, etc.; and a list, with a brief note of their subjects, of letters written to the author's father between 1665 and 1672 (ff. 14 verso-18) and to himself between 1680 and 1709 (ff. 18 verso-60).
There is reason to believe that the writer was Robert Morgan, D.D., head master of Ruthin Grammar School from 1695 to 1705. He was the son of Robert Morgan, D.D., bishop of Bangor from 1667 to 1673. Robert Morgan the younger was afterwards rector of Ross and a canon of Hereford, and his sister Margaret was the mother of Chancellor Wynne.

Notes on Greek philosophy, etc. (ff. 85 verso-110 verso, inverted text); notes on a course of anatomy in 1692 (ff. 70-84, inverted text); notes of sermons preached at Llanddyfnan and Pentraeth about 1711, with texts and verses quoted in Welsh and the notes in English (ff. 1 verso-63 verso). This notebook seems to be the work of Robert Morgan, D.D.

Notes of sermons and notes on moral and religious topics by Robert Morgan, D.D., 1693-1722.

Notes on scripture, sermon notes (ff. 23-266 verso) and miscellaneous notes, mainly in the hand of Dr Robert Morgan.

A fragment of a manuscript containing notes and extracts from several books in the autograph of Dr Robert Morgan.

Notes and skeletons of sermons, presumably by Dr Robert Morgan, rector of Ross, written between 1731 and 1737, with an alphabetical list of sermons.

Notes of sermons preached in 1722-1723 by Dr Robert Morgan.

Copies of nine English sermons 'Preached By Mr Michael Evans, B.D.' (ff. 1-138); bound with a copy of Thomas Sternhold, Iohn Hopkins et al, The VVhole Book of Psalmes: Collected into English Meeter ... (London: printed for the Companie of Stationers, 1631, ESTC S123009) (ff. 144-195).
Michael Evans, B.D., was Rector of Llanbeulan, Anglesey, from 1635 to around the time of his death in 1670 (see Henry Rowlands, Mona Antiqua Restaurata, 2nd edn (London, 1766), p. 335).

Some four booklets containing sermons in English, now bound as one volume. Some of the sermons may have been preached by Robert Wynne, MA, whose name appears at the beginning of the final booklet (f. 53); Wynne was instituted to Llanddeiniolen in 1679/80, Llantrisant in 1681 and Llanbeblig in 1693.

Four booklets, containing sermons in Welsh and English, now bound as one volume. Three sermons are in Welsh and were preached at Pistill and Edern, Caernarvonshire, between 1691 and 1718, [possibly by Robert Wynne, MA] (ff. 4-60); the remaining sermon, in English, is in a different hand (ff. 61-82).

Six booklets, containing sermons in Welsh, now bound as one volume. The sermons were preached mostly at Llanddeiniolen, Llantrisant and Llanbeblig between 1695 and 1717, presumably by Robert Wynne, MA.

Some sixteen booklets, containing sermons in Welsh, now bound as one volume. The sermons were preached mostly at Llanddeiniolen, Llantrisant, Llanbeblig, Llechgynfarwy and Llanrûg between 1680 and 1719, by Robert Wynne, MA.

Some fourteen booklets, containing sermons in Welsh (ff. 1-107, 166-278) and English (ff. 108-165), now bound as one volume. The sermons were preached mostly at Llanddeiniolen, Llantrisant, Llanbeblig, Llechgynfarwy and Llanrûg between 1701 and 1719, by Robert Wynne, MA.
Also included are notes in Latin, English and Greek (ff. 279-281 verso, 294 verso), an English sermon in a different hand to the others, [1722] (ff. 282-290 verso), and a Greek-Latin glossary (ff. 291 verso-294, inverted text).

Seven booklets, containing sermons in Welsh (ff. 1-74, 91-101 verso) and English (ff. 75-89 verso), now bound as one volume. The sermons were preached at Llanddeiniolen, Llanbeblig and Bangor, Caernarvonshire, and Llantrisant and Llechgynfarwy, Anglesey, between 1716 and 1720, by Robert Wynne, MA.

Some eleven booklets, containing sermons in Welsh (ff. 1-81, 135-146, 157-173) and English (ff. 86 verso-134), all undated, now bound as one volume. The English sermons and the later Welsh sermons (ff. 135-146, 157-173) appear to be fragments and drafts only. Some are, at least partly, in the hand of Robert Wynne, MA.