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Transcripts, partly in the autograph of Dr Wynne, of documents relating to charity schools in Herefordshire, including 'The Methods used for Erecting Charity-schools', etc. (ff. 1-3); the charges of clothing a boy and a girl (f. 3 verso); 'Articles Aggreed [sic] upon by the Trustees and Stewards of the Charity Schools at Ross the twenty first Day of July 1712, for the Regulating and management of the said schools' (ff. 5-10a); extracts from the order books of the trustees and subscribers of the Charity Schools in Hereford (ff. 11-11a); and a list of legators and subscribers to the Charity Schools of Ross for 1744-5 (ff. 12-13).

Commutation voucher book for the Diocese of Hereford, 1709-1746, containing miscellaneous papers: receipts for grants of commutation money for church repairs, etc.; accounts rendered for prosecution in causes of correction, for blasphemy, adultery, etc.; correspondence relating to the same; papers relating to the suit of Middleton & uxor v. Croft concerning proceedings taken against them at the ecclesiastical court of the diocese of Hereford (items 1-84).
Two foolscap sheets loose in the volume contain an incomplete account of fees for various licences, wills, administrations, etc., in the diocese of Hereford, with Chancellor Edward Wynne's receipts for the years 1729 and 1730 (items 85-88).

Lists, with some notes, of the Deans, Precentors, Chancellors, Treasurers, Archdeacons and Prebendaries of the Diocese of Hereford (ff. 2, 6-92 verso).

A copy of the customs of Hereford as newly written by John Chippenham, mayor of Hereford, in 1486, and exemplified by James Yayden in 1560 (ff. 1-17). Several Welsh Boroughs were granted the privileges of the city of Hereford, and the newly enfranchised corporations applied to the burgesses of Hereford to have their privileges certified to them. This manuscript begins with the answer given to the town of Drusselan in the parts of Wales in the year of Henry son of Henry I [sic], and also contains statements made at the request of the burgesses of Kermerden, Herford and Kardyff. At the end of the volume is a list of the mayors of Hereford from 1383 to 1563 in the original hand, with additions in other hands to 1605 (ff. 18-19 verso).