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Illustrated transcripts of a treatise and notes on heraldry. The volume bears the name of Miss Jane Goldwyer, 25 March, 1819. Inset are a poem describing the equipage of knights riding in procession to a joust, and a stanza by Bishop [Benjamin] Hoadley entitled 'On a Spring near Stourton'.

A notebook containing medical and other recipes written largely in the same hand. Beginning at the end are entries of the birth of [his] children between 1727 and 1749/1750 (with some entries of death to 1801), and entries of the marriage of Frances Richmond Webb and Mr. T. Humphris at Swindon in 1734 and of the birth of their children between 1735 and 1754.

An account book, with numerous insets, of Levi Griffiths of Rickeston and Pointz Castle, parish of Brawdy, co. Pembroke, 1836-1848, largely recording accounts with individual servants and tenants.

An eighteenth century blazon of the arms of the family of Knethel of co. Northumberland (ermine, a saltire gules) (mounted on a fragment of an early seventeenth century survey of the farm of properties in Iscoyd Gwynioneth, Aberustwith, Iscoyd Cardigan, Cruthin, Generglin, Diffrin Claragh, Llangeby, Cardigan, Mevennyth, Kilkennon, and Hanyniocke, co. Cardigan); a calligraphic exercise by Thomas Meyler, 1816; a passport issued to Edward Picton Phillips, 1843; a typescript carbon copy of a letter from J. W. Phillips to the press, 1933, relating to the building of the organs of St. Mary's and St. Martin's [Haverfordwest]; and a brief typescript description and history of Skomer Island.

Miscellaneous letters:- Eunice Bellairs, Serampore, to [Emily] Phelps, Crawley, Sussex, 1856 (personal), Wm. Grey, Grays Inn, to Henry Rees, Haverfordwest, etc., 1811-1827 (2) (the action of Allen v. Gwynne), J. H. Harries, Trevaccoon, near Trevine, to Jas. Griffiths, 1847 (the receipt of a payment to the writer as a freeman of Haverfordwest), John James, Cov[en]t G[arde]n, London, to Wm. Evans, Haverfordwest, 1809 (a remittance of £30), Anne Gwynne to her brother 'Tom' Gwynne, Haverfordwest, undated (the occupation of land), [General Sir] Tho[mas] Picton, Carmarthen, to J. Philipps, Haverfordwest, 1815 (bills of exchange) (typescript copy), H. Res, Haverfordwest, to H. Goldwyer, Bristol, 1837 (a dispute concerning the title to a piece of ground [at Walton West] (together with the draft of a letter written two days previously by the recipient to the writer), and G. Starbuck, Priory Lodge, near Milford Haven, to the Reverend Frank Thomas, Harroldstone Glen, near Haverfordwest, 1853 (money matters); and a document in the hand of James Pugh, Horse and Jockey, Portfield, 1840, offering a sum of £8 for the lease of land at Portfield.

A small group of miscellaneous militia records including a list of the old trained band of the town and county of Haverfordwest [c. 1663]; a warrant, 1710, to the mayor of Haverford West and the rest of the Commissioners for putting in execution the Acts for recruiting Her Majesty's land forces and marines; a copy of a notice by the War Office [late eighteenth or early nineteenth century] regarding the commission of militia officers, with a covering letter, 1936, from Leslie Williams, Llanelly, to 'Frank' [Francis Jones, Haverfordwest]; and the commission, 1806, of Thomas Lloyd, gent., to be a lieutenant of the Dungleddy Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry.

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.

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.