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A continuation of the accounts preserved in MS 90, from Sept. 1693 to Nov. 1701, and rent rolls of the same properties from 1692 to 1699.

Accounts of repairs at Cae-pant [Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant], 1698; report on the ruinous condition of Glantanat, with plan, 1815; accounts of building work at Penllan, Llansilin, 1860-1861, the latter wrapped in an annotated letter concerning mineral rights; and a list of boundary stones set up on the manor of Cynllaith [Owain] between land belonging to Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Chirk Castle estate and Lord Powis, 1818.

Accounts of revenues of the Crown, showing income and expenditure for various offices, the navy, subsidies, maintenance of the royal household, etc., 1608; and of moneys payable to the treasurer and paymaster of H.M. Office of the Ordnance out of the customs, 1670/1.

Miscellaneous papers deriving from the acts and procedures of central government, probably accumulated by Sir Richard Wynn, Henry Wynn and Sir William Williams in the course of their official duties in service to the Crown. They comprise accounts of crown revenues, 1608, 1671; surveys of crown lands in Caernarfonshire, 1608-1673; sequestration papers for the estate of Edward Vaughan, 1622-1654; a chart of the nobility of England, [c. 1636]; proposals for the abolition of the Court of the Council of the Marches of Wales, 1641-1689; and copies of official reports, orders, evidence, etc., [c. 1653]-1705.

Accounts of the receipts, expenses and appropriations of money received at various musical festivals held in Westminster Abbey, including one in commemoration of Handel.

Accounts of timber work carried out at Glascoed and Llangedwyn 1808-1809, receipted 1810; accounts of tree planting work, naming the planters and types of trees, 1819-1820; and memoranda on the sale of timber at Tynymynydd Wood and ?Eglwyseg, 1871.

Draft statements of account between Sir Watkin Williams Wynn and the trustees under the will of the late Sir Watkin Williams Wynn [fifth Baronet, d. 1840] of estates devised by the same will to uses in tail general, 1844-1885, and in tail male, 1853-1885.

Title deeds for properties in the townships of Ackley and Gwnnley in the lordship of Teirtref, rented and purchased by Nicholas Purcell of Shrewsbury, 1539-1541; land in Middletown comprised in family settlements of Gittin ap David ap Phelip 1541; the Whore Ryver, Middletown, leased by Thomas Purcell, 1607; the manor of Teirtref, purchased by Rychard Purcell from Sir Rowland Heyward, 1573-1577; Ty yn y Glyn in Middletown, and other properties leased by Thomas and Edward Purcell, 1611-1617; and a feoffment by Edward Lewis of Dudson, Salop, to John Higgons of Winsbury, of the manor of Teirtref and properties in Wolston or Pen-y-lan and Llanbryn-mair, 1659.

Acquittance to Sir John Wynn of Watstay by the College of St John the Evangelist, Cambridge, for £40 rent charge due out of the manor of Maenan, Caernarfonshire, 1675.

Acquittance from Mary Griffiths of Glynne Twymyn, co. Mont., to William Williams, Glascoed, of 40s. being the legacy of her brother Watkin Kyffin late of Glascoed.

Acquittance from Sir Hugh Owen, Orielton, Pembroke, to Sir William Williams, Glascoed, Denbigh, kt and bart, for £7,000 being the marriage portion of Emme on her marriage to Arthur Owen, esq.

Printed Act for the relief of His Majesty’s army and the northern parts of the Kingdom [i.e. for levying subsidies to pay for national defence]; wrapper is part of a mandate to levy the tax.

Title deeds relating to properties in Acton Scott (Henley), 1752; Bickton 1723; Bishop’s Castle, 1765; Cardington (manor of Lydley and Cardington), 1758-1809; Chetton, 1758; Codsall, 1615-1637, Colemere, 1732. Includes probates of the will (made 1722) of John Muckleston of Bickton, 1723, and Edward Stephens of Bishop’s Castle, 1765; and a lease to Sir Watkin Williams Wynn of the pool of White Mere, a boat cage and fishery in Colemere, 1732.

Copy deeds of sale by Sir John Wynn of Watstay to William, Bishop of Peterborough, of a messuage and lands called Berrymead in Acton, Middlesex, 1679/80.

Act of Parliament for making a navigable canal from Llanymynech, Salop, to Newtown in Montgomeryshire, 1794; and acts for maximising the efficiency of surveyors of the highways, and repairing and improving the roads in Mongomeryshire, Merioneth and Salop, 1812-1813, specifically the road from Welshpool through Oswestry to Wrexham, 1820.

Acts of parliament, drafts, copies and associated papers, mainly concerning enclosures of open arable and pasture land in the manor of Much Wenlock, 1770-1780; and also including drafts of an Act permitting Sir Watkin Williams Wynn to make leases to fund repairs to the Abbey house, according to the trusts in the will of Sir John Wynn (d. 1719)

Manuscript copies and published versions of bills, Acts of Parliament, petitions and cases, sometimes with accompanying notes, comprising an Act for the relief of His Majesty’s army, 1640; private Acts of Parliament, and miscellaneous petitions and cases, 1646-1698; the Case of the Irish Adventurers, 1653-1668; miscellaneous bills and Acts of Parliament, [1662]-[1681], 1836-1880; and bills and Acts of parliament concerning manufacture and commerce, 1661-1680, religion, 1678-[c. 1694], regulation of the election of MPs, 1696, enclosures, 1763-1816, and canals and roads, 1794-1820.