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Miscellaneous letters, etc.:- [ ] to R. Bateman, Trevraner, 1702 (the composition of affairs and minds of all parties) (draft); J. Barlow, Pemboke, to Lord [ ], 1714 (Pembroke election); Jno. Laugharne, Pontvane, to the mayor, aldermen, and common council of Haverfordwest, 1722 (the vacant living of St. Mary); John Philipps, Norbiton Place, to Richard Knethell, Hook (the writer's colliery trade); Row[lan]d P[owell] Laugharne, Orlandon, to [ ] Marks, [17]63 (a bond); J. Allen, Rickeston, to John Gwynne, Lanstinnan, 1801 (money matters, personal); Thos. Glanfield, junior, Bounty Office, Dean's Yard, Westminster, to the Reverend J. [recte Thomas] Bateman, Dinas Parsonage, Fishguard, 1808 (enclosing a description of the estate purchased for augmenting the rectory of Llanychaeth); Margaret James to Jno. Evans, Goat Street [Haverfordwest] [1810] (money matters); John James, High Wycombe, to Wm. Evans, Haverfordwest, 1810 (rights of common in the lordship and parish of Manachlogddu); W. Morgan Meyler, Gloucester, to Jas. Meyler, Haverfordwest, 1829 (a claim to the estate of Richd. Meyler, M.P. for Winchester); D. R. and W. Rees, Stamp Office, Llandovery, to Wm. George, P[r]endergast, Haverfordwest, 1832 (an order for, and a request to advertise, Mr. Morrison's pills); ?N.E. d'Azeglio, Park Lane [London], to William Robertson, Mount Street [London], 1855-1858 (personal); J. Griffith, Castle Cenlas, Letterstone, to [ ], [18]84 (the building of a dairy); and W. H. Greene, Commercial Road [London] to [ ], 1890 (heraldic queries); and two telegrams to Wm. Vaughan James, solicitor, Haverfordwest, [18]83 (regulations affecting Irish cattle, a notice and a letter to Cardigan Urban Authority).

Miscellaneous papers including a draft case on the petition of John Barlow [of Slebech], esq., and others, freeholders of the county of Pembroke, to the House of Commons on behalf of themselves and of Sir Wm. Wogan [of Rickardston], one of the candidates, against Sir Art[hur] Owen [of Orielton], bart., the sitting member, 1700; the case of Lewis Wogan [of Boulston], esq., petitioner against Sir Arthur Owen, bart., sitting member for Pembroke [1712]; a sworn list of the names of freeholders in the parish of Fishguard, 1783; a declaration of Christianity and Protestantism made by Thos. John [Baptist minister, of Little Newcastle], 1795; a certificate of approbation of John Roberts, minister of the Baptist church at Llangloffan, made by members of the church to the Court of Quarter Sessions, 1812; a petition, undated, to the House of Commons for the continuance of the Acts (31, 52 Geo III) 'for amending widening and keeping in repair the Road leading from the Town of Haverfordwest through the Town of Fishguard to the Town of Newport in the County of Pembroke And also from the Town of Fishguard to the City of Saint David's in the said County ...'; the nominatino and appointment of Nicholas Roch of Cocheston, esq., to be sheriff of co. Pembroke, 1835; facsimiles of testimonials by the magistrates of co. Carmarthen and of co. Cardigan to Mr. Richard Kyrke Penson, candidate for the appointment of surveyor of co. Glamorgan, 1853; resolutions of a meeting of freeholders and ratepayers of the parish of St. David's, disapproving of a proposed Joint Lunatic Asylum to be built at Carmarthen for cos. Carmarthen, Cardigan, and Pembroke, together with a memorial to the Court of Quarter Session of the county, 1858; a warrant of appointment of William Francis Roth of Butterhill [near Haverfordwest], esq., to be sheriff of co. Pembroke, 1879 (duplicate); etc.

A rent roll of lands in Hauerfford west to be inserted in the estate 'for the erecting and may[n]teyning of the ffree schole', together with a covering letter, 18 October 1613, from Thomas Lloyd, Kilkethed, to John Skinner, esq., mayor of the town and county of Hauerfford west; draft rentals of the estates of John James, Esq. [Pantsaeson], in the parishes of Monington, St. Dogmells, Moylgrove, and Bayvill, 1809-1810; pedigrees of the families of Cornwallis of Abermarles, co. Carmarthen, 1721, of David of Blaenllechog, parish of Llangolman, co. Pembroke, 1823, and of Rice of Tyhen [parish of Llandysilio East], co. Carmarthen, the latter compiled by John William Phillips, Haverfordwest; lists of members belonging to the Loyal Welsh Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons who meet at the Victoria Hotel, Pembroke Dock, and of the Lodge of Freemasons called the Saint Davids Lodge held at the Nelson Hotel, Milford, 1839; typescript copies of letters from Tho. Picton, Carmarthen, to J[ohn] Philipps, Haverfordwest, 1815 (enclosing bills of exchange), John Martin, Withybush, to his son [John Phelps at Ely], 1815 (money, personal, news of the recipient's brother Samuel in the battle of Waterloo), and Sam[ue]l Phelps, Bois de Bologne, Comy, near Paris, to his brother John [Phelps at Ely], 1815 (an account of the battle of Waterloo); six typescript papers on 'Agricultural Law'; a typescript report of a public inquiry held at the Town Hall, Fishguard, 28 July 1905, by the Local Government Acts Committee of the Pembrokeshire County Council for the purpose of considering an application by the Fishguard Parish Council for the conversion of the parish of Fishguard into an urban district; typescript 'Addenda' to a 'Pembrokeshrie Archaeological Survey' by J. W. Phillips, [19]08; etc.

Papers (case, answer, briefs, a translation of the Haverfordwest charter of 1609/1610, etc.) in two actions in Chancery by Hugh Fowler of the town and county of Haverfordwest, esq., 1721, and by James Cousins, in ejectment on the demise of Hugh Fowler, 1724, against the mayor, sheriff, bailiffs, and burgesses of Haverfordwest and John Perry, water bailiff of the same, defendants, touching the right of profits of an extension of the quay at Haverfordwest alleged to have been erected on part of ground in the possession of Hugh Fowler.

An amended copy of the rules drawn up, 1831, for the Royal William Friendly Society of Milford [co. Pembroke]. On p. 28 John Tidd Pratt, barrister-at-law appointed to certify the rules of savings banks, certifies, 15 February 1832, that he had corrected the rules in accordance with the provisions of the relevant Act of Parliament, and [ ] Rees, clerk of the peace, certifies that they had been confirmed at the Quarter Sessions for co. Pembroke held at Haverfordwest, 4 April 1832.

Two notebooks and loose leaves containing an account of ?daily receipts [at the ?Colby Scott Turnpike Gate, Haverfordwest], January 1873 - December 1875, and January 1877 - January 1879. Inset are two receipts for sums received from Benj[amin] Phillips, 15 November 1877, in respect of poor rate in the parish of Prendergast [co. Pembroke].

Papers, [1300]-1936, from the library of Mrs Ethel Jones of Aberystwyth comprising material of Pembrokeshire interest, including estate rentals, farm accounts, correspondence relating to land tenure, rules of Milford Friendly Society and turnpike gate receipts at Haverfordwest; papers of or relating to the Goldwyer family of Marlborough and [?Bristol] which include a tour journal of 1799 and correspondence; together with miscellaneous accounts, legal precedents, correspondence and a volume of coats of arms, much of which material also relates to Pembrokeshire.

Rentals of the estate of W[illia]m H[enr]y Scourfield, Moat, in co. Pembroke at Lady Day and Michaelmas, 1819-1822.

Rentals of the estate of J[oseph] F[oster] Barham, M.P., of Trecŵn, parish of Llanstinan, comprising Trecoon demesne and properties in Castle Henry (located in later rentals in Henry's Moat) and Fishguard, co. Pembroke, at Michaelmas, 1816-1823.

Legal precedents written in several hands and based on title-deeds and legal papers largely of the second and third quarters of the eighteenth century. The majority of the precedents are of Welsh interest, among them being a case relating to a wreck of a Danish vessel at Little Quay, co. Cardigan, 1757; title-deeds of the family of Williams of Penpont, co. Brecknock; and records relating to properties in cos. Montgomery, Carmarthen, Pembroke, and Cardigan. NLW MSS 11807D is dated 1765 and 1767 on the upper cover.