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References to documents of Welsh interest included in Thomas Rymer : Foedera ... (London, 1704-1732).

Transcripts of two letters from Lord Lyttleton to his brother Charles, dean of Exeter (and afterwards bishop of Carlisle), written from Brynkir, Caernarvonshire, July 6, and Shrewsbury, July 14, 1755, giving an account of a tour in North Wales, of notes by Dr. William Wynne, Tower near Mold, on ancient religious customs in North Wales, and of observations made during a tour to Snowdon by [Anthony] Champion; and notes by Thomas Pennant.

An account of rents received by Thomas Pennant and David Pennant, and papers, including letters from Edward Jones, agent to the Downing estate.

An interleaved copy of Henry P. Wyndham : A Gentleman's Tour through Monmouthshire and Wales ... 1774 (London, 1775), with comments and notes by another traveller.

Letters, mainly to Thomas and David Pennant, the correspondents including Lewis Bagot, (bishop of St. Asaph), J. Drinkwater (Gibraltar), G. P. Harding, Samuel Hearne, Edward Jones (agent to the Downing estate), Richard Jones (printer, Dolgelley), John Latham, John Lightfoot, Thomas Maurice (London), Robert Norris (Richmond), Henry Parry (Llanasa), George Shaw (British Museum), Richard Sillitoe (Bodfari), Joseph Strutt (London), Joseph Cooper Walker (Dublin), and Benjamin White (London).

Miscellanea, including notes on the history of Cheshire, and a copy of Canterbury Notes. Information concerning the ... Settlement of Canterbury, New Zealand (London, 1850) with a letter, April 2, 1850, from James Edward Fitzgerald.

A copy sent to David Pennant (1763-1841) of the report by George Stephenson (1781-1848) on proposed railway communications with Ireland, dated 19 December 1838.

Notes by Thomas Pennant on Lincoln, with a letter, 29 March 1776, to him from T. Sympson.

Notes by Thomas Pennant concerning a tour in North Wales, with additions and corrections by him and by John Lloyd, Caerwys.

Historical and topographical notes on parts of France and Spain, mainly transcribed from printed sources by David Pennant, and a receipt, 14 April 1788, relating to his journey from Seville to Madrid.

Historical, topographical, and genealogical notes relating to North Wales written by Richard Thomas, curate of Llanegryn.

An index by David Pennant to the plates included in some of his father's publications and a rough index showing the arrangement of some classes of books in the library [?at Downing].

A volume of Pennant miscellanea. It comprises poems, mainly in English and Welsh, including 'An Elegy on the death of Captain Thos. Myddelton, Denbigh' by Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), translations in the autograph of R. Williams, Vron, from paraphrases by Evan Evans (Ieuan Brydydd Hir), 'Banks of the Daw' and 'Ode to Laudanum' by and in the autograph of Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg), 'Garricks Verses on seeing Buxton' and 'Upon seeing Garricks verses', an elegy on the death of Sir Stephen Glynne (d. 1 April 1780), and two poems in Estonian with Latin translations and the melody in staff notation; printed broadsides, circulars, etc., including a copy of Dafydd Ddu Feddyg [David Samwell], Ode for St. David's Day, 1791 ([?London], [1791], ESTC T231565), being a copy sent by Samwell to Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) with an autograph poem entitled 'To Thos. Edwards of Nant on his having received the Honour of Cadairfardd at St. Asaph Eisteddfod in May 1790'; letters and transcripts of letters from Sir John Wynn, bart., of Gwydir, to Sir Hugh Myddelton (September 1, 1625), from Robert Wynne, Gresford, to Richard Williams (March 24, 1731/2), from Thomas Pennant to John Lloyd, Caerwys, to Thomas Pennant from Mathurin-Jacques Brisson (author of Ornithologie and other works), John Lloyd, Caerwys, Richard Williams, Vron (together with a mock elegy to Evan Evans (Ieuan Brydydd Hir)), Richard Davies, Holywell, and John Edwards, Kelsterton, from Evan Evans (Ieuan Brydydd Hir) to Paul Panton, from John Williams, Ystradmeurig, to Philip Yorke, Erthig, to David Pennant from Samuel Strong, John Parry, Henry Parry, Llanasa, Edward Jones, J. Oldfield, J. Douglas, J. W. Eyton, Leeswood, and E. Williams (secretary of the Flint and Denbigh Agricultural Society), and from William Davies Shipley (dean of St. Asaph), G. Thompson (editor and publisher of A Select Collection of Original Welsh Airs), David Howell (Llawdden), Thomas Croft (secretary to the 'Committee of the Grand Flintshire Eisteddfod', 1835), J. P. Eyton, etc.; material relating to Moses Griffith, the Welsh artist who accompanied Thomas Pennant on many of his tours, including his terms for executing landscapes, portraits, etc.; legal papers, including an inventory taken in 1637 of the goods, etc., of Robert Jones of Halkin, a copy of a bond from Thomas, baron Dillon, Viscount Castello Galler, and Theobald, viscount Jaffe, to Hugh Pennant of Bichton, a receipt (1774) from David Jones, Trefriw, for ten shillings and sixpence paid by Thomas Pennant, and depositions (1792) of colliers in regard to the alleged drowning of coal on the land of Sir Roger Mostyn; printed matter, including press cuttings, broadsides, circulars, etc., relating to volunteers to the merchant navy, the Metropolitan Cambrian Institution, poor-law, railways, communication with Ireland, hospitals, the Holywell Association, eisteddfodau, parliamentary elections, the Association for the encouragement of Agriculture and Industry, military service, schools in Flintshire, entertainments, mines, benefit clubs, etc.

Papers, [16 cent.]-[early 20 cent.], mainly of Thomas Pennant and his son, David, and comprising accounts of tours in Britain and Europe; geographical, topographical and historical notes and transcripts, as well as notes on natural history; accounts of David Pennant; correspondence of Thomas and David Pennant; annotated printed works of Thomas Pennant, including copies, with manuscript and other additions and related papers, of Outlines of the Globe, a work in four volumes by Thomas Pennant published between 1798 and 1800; and papers relating to the Downing estate and to Flintshire.