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A history of Wales transcribed from George Owen's treatise of lordships marcher in Wales; copies of a statement made March 10, 1685/6, at New York by Morgan Jones, 'the son of John Jones of Basleg near Newport in Monmouthshire', attesting that he had conversed with American Indians in the Welsh language (see The Gentleman's Magazine, 1740), of a letter, August 14, 1734, on a similar subject sent by Charles Lloyd, Dolobran, Montgomeryshire, to a cousin, and of 'Dr. [Robert] Plott's Account [to the Royal Society] of an Antient Discovery of America from Wales'; a list, in the hand of John Lloyd, Caerwys, of 'The names of the Principal men that kept Hardelech castle against Edwd the 4th;' lists of the sheriffs of Flintshire, Denbighshire, Montgomeryshire, and Merioneth; transcripts of epitaphs in Mold church; and notes taken from Thomas Carte : A General History of England (London, 1747-1755).

An incomplete transcript of 'Antiquitates Parochiales ... De Paraeciis et Villulis Maene' by Henry Rowlands, author of Mona Antiqua Restaurata ... (Dublin, 1723).

Sixteen miscellaneous manuscript items extracted from NLW MS 12706E, including three separate sheets each containing an English poem (the third entitled 'Gun Powder Treason'), and each one endorsed, in the same hand, '(verses) wrote by my son', 1740, 1741, and 1742 respectively; an English verse translation of Horace: Odes, Book 1, Ode XXII, endorsed 'June 1743'; a draft copy of a loyal address by the gentlemen, freeholders, and mine adventurers of the county of Flint, to [George III] on his accession to the throne [1760]; a certificate of election of Thomas Pennant as a member of the American Philosophical Society, 9 May 1791, signed by Dav[i]d Rittenhouse, president, and John Ewing, William Smith, and Th[omas] Jefferson, vice-presidents; an elegy by W[illia]m Henry Groves entitled ' Lines wrote on the lamented death of Thomas Pennant, Esqr'. [1798]; an eight-line stanza, ? in the hand of David Pennant, headed 'Verses written by the late Mrs. Piozzi, on the report of my Father's death in 1797 or 1798'; a holograph letter from Th[omas] Mostyn, from Bodysgallan, to ? David Pennant, undated (the death of Mrs. Pennant, ? Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th bart., of Mostyn, 2nd wife of Thomas Pennant); a note from Sir Edw[ard] Mostyn, Will[iam] Stanley, Hen[ry] Blundell, and Phil[ip] Jones, from Talacre, to Tho[ma]s Penant [sic], at Downing, 14 June [ ] (informing recipient that the three first named would 'attend him to Dublin', and desiring the favour of his company at Talacre the day prior to setting out); copies (undated) of 'A Prologue Spoke by one of the Scholars att Wrexham, at ye Acting of ye Siege of Damascus', and of an epilogue spoken on the same, or a similar, occasion; and copies or drafts of four items already noted as part of the manuscript content of NLW MS 12706E, viz., the memorial inscription to John Norman, in Newmarket church, the oration delivered by Sam[uel] Forster, when presenting Thomas Pennant for the honorary degree of LL.D., at Oxford, 11 May 1771, the letter by 'Laicus' referring to the state of the clergy (the present copy is dated April 15th, 1785), and the note of the death at Bychton, ? 13 November 1796, of Mr. Williams, tide waiter.

Eight holograph letters to David Pennant [son of Thomas Pennant], at Downing, from [the Reverend] T[homas] D[udley] Fosbroke, Walford, near Ross, 1823 (2) (personal, enquiring whether there was a plan of Tre'r caeri in Caernarvonshire amongst the papers of the late Mr. [Thomas] Pennant, the writer being in need of one for his encyclopaedia [? Encyclopedia of Antiquities . . . (London, 1825)], information concerning the Weston family, who held the earldom of Portland [1633-1688], support for the proposed encyclopaedia, thanks to recipient for his promise of a new sketch of Tre'r Caeri), G[eorge] P[erfect] Harding, Strand [London], 1812 (a visit by the writer to the Savoy Chapel, a brief description of some of the monuments there, including those of Sir Robert Douglas, Lady Dalhousie, and ? a countess of Nottingham, and of the brasses in memory of William Chatterby and Thomas Halsey, the raising of the floor of the Savoy Chapel in 1801, an intended visit to St. Stephen's Chapel, portraits copied by the writer during the previous summer, including those of Sir F[rancis] Bacon, Thomas, earl of Cleveland, and Queen Elizabeth (by [Nicholas] Hilliard), at Gorhambury, and of Algernon, earl of Northumberland ('a very fine picture by Vandyke'), and Lady Jersey at Cashiobury), [the Reverend] J[ohn] Jones, the Vicarage, Holywell, 1819 and undated (2) (unrest amongst the colliers, threats to use violence against Mr. Clarke and Mr. Storey, and to destroy the Bagillt coal works, the writer's orders to innkeepers not to provide the Bagillt colliers with beer, his belief that parish relief could not be provided, and that it was necessary to summon military aid), Messrs. Longman & Co., London, [18]18 ( a reply to recipient's enquiry concerning his father's Tour in Scotland), Henry Parry, undated (a reply to a query relating to the sheriffs of cos. Denbigh and Flint, sixteenth and first half seventeenth cent., giving occasional biographical detail), and N. Roberts, clerk of the peace [for co. Flint], Mold, 1823 (enclosing a copy of a letter the writer had received from the Rev[eren]d Whitehall Whitehall Davies, from Broughton, 1823, in which he tendered his resignation as chairman of the magistrates, owing to the state of his health); and a holograph letter from [the Reverend] R[obert] W[ynne] Eyton, Llangollen Vicarage, to ? Mr. or Mrs. Pennant, 1824 ( personal, requesting recipient's assistance in finding a person to be responsible for the cleanliness of [St. Winifred's] well at Holywell, money for the purpose having been given by Mrs. Coutts).

Thomas Pennant's copy of his Outlines of the Globe. The View of Hindoostan. Vol. II. Eastern Hindoostan (London, 1798), containing original water-colours and hand-coloured and pen-and-ink drawings, and extra illustrations not contained in the published work. Included are two drawings by Thomas Pennant, the original water-colour headpiece by William Angus, and water-colours by Thomas Pennant and Moses Griffith, Junior. Plates, drawings and engravings found loose inside the volume have been tipped in between the relevant pages. Other items loose inside (26 ff.) relating to the work include notes by Thomas Pennant; and eight letters to Thomas Pennant, 1798, including a letter from the Royal Society thanking him for their copy of his work, and letters from Thomas Daniell (1), John Douglas, bishop of Salisbury (3) and Patrick Russell (1).

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.

Notes on a short tour in North Wales.

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

Notes on a tour through parts of Belgium, northern France, and southern England, and memoranda.

Notes by Thomas Pennant on a tour in Lancashire, 1772, a list of drawings made by Moses Griffith, his Welsh artist, during their tour to Scotland, 1772, and of others presented to Pennant on that journey, and notes made by David Pennant, junior, grandson of Thomas Pennant, during a tour through parts of North Wales.

A copy of Cary's New Itinerary; Or, An Accurate Delineation of the Great Roads ... throughout England and Wales ... (London, 1798), with details by David Pennant of journeys and tours made by him in various years between 1799 and 1839, including his bills at inns and posting houses.

Notes by David Pennant on parts of Dorset, Devon, and Cornwall.

A note book by Thomas Pennant labelled 'Western Tour 1787. Wells. Longleate ...'

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].

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

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 account by David Pennant of tours to the Lake District, 1789, and from London to Chester, 1792, with a list of pictures at Burleigh, a seat of the Marquis of Exeter.

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.

A list of topographical prints of English counties, and a list of gentlemen's houses in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.