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Scrapbook of press cuttings and occasional manuscript notes on social, economic, and agricultural issues in England and Ireland, especially the Corn Laws, 1814-1841, church rates and other taxations on landowners, 1834, claims to Crown lands, 1840-1841, cattle diseases, 1840, proposals for a railway to Dublin via Porth Dinllaen [c. 1840], the dismissal of Lord Roden, 1849, and establishment of the Catholic Church hierarchy, 1850.

Press cutting relating to the Tithes Commutation Bill [c. 1837], and reprint of a newspaper article by W.D.W. Griffith of Garn, protesting against the Tithe Bill, 1887.

Printed newsletters and broadsides relating to contemporary news and politics, 1666-[c. 1800], general information leaflets, 1680-1831, and advertisements for goods, 1687-1861.

Printed newsletters and broadsides, several of which are satirical, covering the political and military events of the Stuart and Hanoverian periods in Britain and Europe between 1666 and [c. 1800]. They include Publick Occurrences Truly Stated, 1687-1688, A Continuation of the Proceedings in Scotland, 1689, A Hue-and-Cry after an Old Cock Robin [1680s?], Gazette de Londres, 1697, Dawks 's Newsletter, 1697, Whitehall, 1702, and The Last Expressions and Dying Words of James II, 1702. The Stuart material, 1666-1702, concerns post-Restoration intrigues involving Titus Oates, the Duke of Monmouth and others; the accession and early reign of William and Mary; Jacobite rebellions in Scotland and Ireland; protestants, dissenters and legislation affecting the Scottish Church; and the contest for the electorship of Saxony (in French), 1697. The remaining papers provide news of Whig/Tory opposition, 1714, the weavers' riots, 1719, the imprisonment of the Bishop of Rochester, 1722, the Shrewsbury elections, 1734, and accusations of libel against John Wilkes, 1768-[1769]; together with lampoons of public figures, 1746-[c. 1800], and the disposition of the army camp at Coxheath, 1778.

A list of the nobility of England, 1680 (from Adams, J., Index Villaris London 1680), a published currency conversion table '...dedicated to the merchants of England, 1769, and a pamphlet describing the ceremonies to be observed at the coronation of William IV and Queen Adelaide, 1831.

Printed advertisements for Queen of Hungary 's Water, 1687, sales of small valuables, recent publications, the services of a doctor and patent medicines, [1694x1744]; the Land Bank, 1695; and the commercial catalogue of a London firm of engineers and contractors, 1861.

Manuscript London newsletters from John Gadbury and others, 1676-1710, addressed mainly to Sir Robert Owen, which strongly reflect the government, politics and society of the Stuart period. Recurrent topics are the relations between the Stuart monarchs and Parliament; proceedings of Parliament and government departments; English election results; events at the royal court; the establishment of Protestantism; antipathy towards Catholics and Protestant dissenters; political conspiracies; foreign affairs in Europe; British overseas trade and colonisation; local government in London; City gossip and Oxford University news. Items of specific interest include the murder of Sir Edmund Berry [Godfrey], 1679; rebellion of the Scottish Covenanters, 1679; the Titus Oates plot and its repercussions, 1679-1685; the trial of Lord Stafford, 1680; the Rye House Plot, 1683; the formation of a mounted bodyguard for Charles II, 1683; effects of Quo Warranto, 1683, and subsequent restoration of London and other corporation charters, 1688; the Austro-Turkish War, 1683-1691; the controversial electorship of Cologne, 1688; a protest by seven bishops against the Declaration of Indulgence, 1688; the abdication of James II and accession of William and Mary, 1688-1689; reviews of revenue and excise, 1688-1689; abolition of the Council of the Marches of Wales, 1688-1689; Jacobite rebellions in Ireland and Scotland, 1688-1691; War of the Grand Alliance, 1688-1697; the papal successsion, 1689; government of the Scottish Church, 1689; the suicide of Lord Teviot, 1694; the War of Spanish Succession, 1710; and activities of Dr Sacheverell, 1710.