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County administration papers from Flintshire, comprising subsidy rolls for the hundreds of Coleshill, Mold, Prestatyn and Rhuddlan, and Maelor, 1641; bonds for the performance of the offices of deputy sheriff and gaoler, 1666; letters patent appointing Owen Wynn sheriff of Flintshire, and the deed appointing his deputy, 1674-1675; receipts to Owen Wynn for 'Tuncke' (twnc =revenue) and for his account for the year of his office, 1675; and an eighteenth century list [assessment?] of names in Prestatyn and Llanasa.

County administration papers from Montgomeryshire, comprising a certificate of the oaths of allegiance sworn by Susanna Godolphin of Abertanat, 1748; an unspecified assessment for Broniarth, 1748; and notice of a meeting at Welshpool to discuss a proposed government reform of parliamentary representation at county level, 1830.

County administration papers from Shropshire relating to the mayor and town council of Oswestry, 1640-1735, county poll assessments, 1660, JP 's papers, 1714-1743, land and window tax assessments, 1722-1761, elections, 1759-1832, and appointments of county officials, 1796, 1846.

Papers from Oswestry, including a promissory note by the bailiffs, aldermen and burgesses to repay £100 to William Owen for helping to procure an act of Parliament to establish a cloth market in the town, 1640; bills of expenses incurred by William Owen as mayor of Oswestry, 1730-1731; indentures and bonds for the appointment of two sergeants at mace, 1730; and a copy writ to the mayor and town council of Oswestry for the restoration of Richard Maurice, esq., a deposed alderman, 1735.

Assessments for the poll tax, 1660, in Knockin, Kinnerley and Argoed, Edgerley, Kynaston, Dovaston, Maesbrook Isaf, Maesbrook Uchaf, Myddle and Loppington, Noneley, Burlton, Ellesmere and St Johns, [Llany]blodwel, Abertanat, Bryn, Llynclys, townships in the parish of Oswestry, Ruyton, Old Ruyton, Eardiston, Wikey, Cotton, Shelv[ock] and Shotatton; and a list of charges on different categories of persons in the Poll Bill.

JPs' papers comprising certificates of sacrament and oaths of allegiance taken by William Owen, 1714, Margaret Godolphin and Margaret Owen, 1723; and notices to the Shropshire JPs concerning arrears of excise duty owed by several victuallers, 1722, recruitment of seamen to H.M. fleet, 1739, the Vagrant 's Bill [1744], and the investigation and supression of suspected papists in the county, 1743.

Land tax assessments for the townships of Porkington 1722 and 1741; Hisland, Sandford and Sweeney, 1734; Aston, Berghill, Frankton, Halton, Llynclys, Maesbury, Weston Cotton, Whittington and Woolston, 1734 and 1752; Twyford, 1748-1761; Abertanat, Bryn, Crickheath, Daywell, Eardiston, Ebnal, Fernhill, Henlle, Hinford, [Llany]blodwel, Llwyntidman, Old Marton, Rednal, Sutton, Twyford, and West Felton, 1752; and a window tax assessment for Wikey, 1752.

Printed election notices concerning the votes of the burgesses of Shrewsbury for their borough representative, 1759, and the candidatures of county members, Rowland Hill and William Ormsby-Gore, 1831-1832.

Appointments to the office of Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Shropshire of Owen Ormsby, 1796, and William Ormsby-Gore, with covering letters, 1846.

County administration papers from Leitrim in Ireland, comprising official administrative appointments of members of the Ormsby-Gore family, 1878 and 1904.

Letters patent appointing William Richard Ormsby-Gore Lieutenant of co. Leitrim, Ireland, 1878.

Letters patent appointing George Ralph Charles Ormsby-Gore Lieutenant of co. Leitrim, 1904.

Letters patent appointing George Ralph Charles Ormsby-Gore Custos Rotulorum of co. Leitrim, 1904.

Administrative papers from miscellanous counties in Wales and England, concerning crown officials, [1620x1670]; the Civil War and Commonwealth, [c. 1644]-1660, and public works, 1664-1858.

Royal notification of jurisdictions and authority granted to the Lord President or Vice-president and the Council in the Marches of Wales to investigate fraud by county officials, perjury, libel and private legal actions [c. 1620]; a list of general grants of official positions and crown lands in North Wales and Montgomeryshire, [1660x1670]; and reasons for appointing customs officers in the ports of Cardigan Bay, [post-1662].

Original and copied Civil War and Commonwealth papers which show the effects of major national events at county level. These include accounts of maintaining military troops and of war contributions in Ardudwy, [1644x1650?]; a royal pass for an army officer going to Ireland, 1645; an agreement for the surrender of Oxford, 1646; and a report of the Sub-Committee of the Commonwealth, 1654. Other subjects of interest are Sir John Owen 's governorship of Conwy Castle, notably his dispute with Archbishop John Williams and conditions stipulated for surrender of the fortress, [1645-1646]; the treatment of Royalists at castles in North Wales; the quartering of troops in Merionethshire; the sequestered lands of Sir John Owen in Caernarfonshire, the affected estate of William Owen and a demand of £1200 on the estate of the latter 's wife, Catherine Anwyl, 1646-1660; and information against Sir John Carter in respect of his political and religious activities [c. 1659].

Mainly printed papers relating to the construction and maintenance of roads, railways and bridges, notably at Pont Cysyllte, Llangollen and the Denbighshire county boundaries, 1664; proposals for a turnpike road from Llangynog in Montgomeryshire to Traeth Mawr and thence to Porth Dinllaen, [1719x1767]; Acts of Parliament, orders, a petition and letter concerning roads from [Welsh]pool to Wrexham, Knockin to Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Shrewsbury to Bangor Ferry, Shrewsbury to Holyhead, the Porkington road, and roads in the Oswestry district, [c. 1762], 1793-1835; and reports and a prospectus for the railway companies of Whitehaven and Furness Junction, Newry and Enniskillen, Central Wales, Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford, and Carnarvonshire, 1855-1858.

Papers originating from the administration of various institutions, namely the church, 1598-[1876x1904], schools and charities, 1635-1863, both nationally and locally in North Wales, Montgomeryshire and Shropshire.

Church administration papers mainly from North Wales, Montgomeryshire and Shropshire, concerning cases in the consistory courts, 1598-1638, church buildings and churchyards, 1633-[1876x1904], the clergy, [1670x1680], 1829, Penrhos chapel, 1696-1844, poor law records, 1711-1749, and legislation affecting the church, 1835, [c. 1868].

Copy act in the Consistory Court of Bangor admitting an allegation in a cause between Elizabeth vch Robert and Owen ap Richard at Llandanwg over a legacy, 1598; a citation for the appearance of Hugh ap Edward and other parishioners of Llandysilio, Montgomeryshire, in a suit in the Consistory Court of St Asaph for the subtraction of tithes, 1605; and a petition of Theodor Roberts, vicar of Llanfor, to the Archbishop of Canterbury to have his case heard before the Bishop of St Asaph, 1638.