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Letters, 1798-1842, mainly from William, Earl Fitzwilliam, from Milton, Northamptonshire, to Bryan Cooke at Owston, Yorkshire. The letters deal, inter alia, with local and national current political affairs.

A letter book containing copies of letters, 14 April 1806-19 April 1820, sent by Bryan Cooke of Owston, Yorkshire, to W. WIlliams, Careglwyd, Mold, and other correspondents, concerning his estates in Wales.

A fifteenth-century manuscript of the Brut in English with continuation to 1450, written probably in the 1460s or 1470s in the West Midlands of England (indicated by the dialect) or possibly in Wales.
The text is the English translation of the Brut to 1333 followed by the usual continuation to 1377. The continuation for 1377-1450 (at which point the text ends abruptly) is, except for the years 1415-19, that of the unusual text printed by J. S. Davies in 1856, known as Davies's Chronicle. A quire and a half are wanting at the end of the manuscript; originally no doubt the text continued to 1461, as does Davies's Chronicle. The Brut with its continuation was printed by Caxton in 1480, and then frequently until 1530. Among additions to Brie's text of the Brut are the epitaphs of the Welsh and the English clerk on Llywelyn ap Gruffydd. On a blank page is a Latin epitaph for Mathew Goch, previously only known in a shorter form from a single manuscript (f. 181 verso). The manuscript is on paper, written by three or more hands, and as pastedowns and flyleaf has three leaves of a fine English noted missal of the twelfth century.

Letters, July 1831-December 1836, to Viscount Kingsborough, mainly at Mitchelstown, co. Cork, from various correspondents, together with a few written by Kingsborough, concerning inter alia the antiquities of Mexico.

Travel journal belonging to Bryan Cooke of Owston, Yorkshire, recording various tours undertaken between 1790 and 1797 through Wales and the north of England and other journeys between his seats at Owston, [near Doncaster], and [Hafod-y-Wern], Wrexham.
The volume describes tours of North Wales, beginning and ending at Wrexham, 13-20 September 1790 (ff. 1 verso-3), the Lake District, 14 June-3 July 1793 (ff. 4 verso-9 verso), and South Wales (in the company of his second cousin George Cooke[-Yarborough] and his sons), 10-29 July 1793 (ff. 10 verso-19 verso), together with brief accounts of journeys from Owston to Wrexham, via Leeds and Ripon, 8-15 July 1790 (ff. i verso, 1), Wrexham to Owston, 23-25 September 1790 (ff. 3 verso-4), Owston to Wrexham, May 1791 (ff. 3 verso-4), Owston to Wrexham, via Kilnwick Percy, Ripon and Storrs, May 1797 (ff. 21, 22), Wrexham to Askrig[g], 9-[?10] August 1797 (ff. 22 verso-23 verso), and Askrig to Wrexham, 20-[?22] August 1797 (ff. 24 verso-25). Each account includes a table listing places visited, distances, inns visited, time on the road and remarks on the state of the roads, etc. (ff. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 11, 13, 21, 23, 25); the remaining pages contain general remarks and notes. Items found inside the pocket have been placed in an archival envelope (ff. 35-37). These include a table, [?1793], detailing a tour of Monmouthshire and Glamorgan, similar but not identical to that on ff. 10 verso-14 verso, possibly in the hand of George Cooke[-Yarborough] (f. 35 recto-verso).

Ministers' accounts of the Chamberlain of Chester for the counties of Cheshire, Flintshire and Denbighshire.

A volume entitled 'Welsh Pedigree' but containing Latin homilies and Welsh material relating to heraldry, poetry and music.

A volume of cywyddau and awdlau and other Welsh poems, addressed mainly to members of the Vaughan families of Hergest and Tretower.

Copies of around one hundred and sixty letters, 1785-1792, written in the main by Mrs Mary Puleston of [Hafod-y-Wern, near] Wrexham, in connection with the Gwysaney estate.
Some of the letters throw light on the problems attendant upon the division of the Llannerch and Gwysaney estates in 1785.