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Papers arising from lawsuits between Sir William Maurice and Robert Wyn ap John ap Humffrey of Cesail Gyfarch, his brothers and others concerning the title to Cefn Perfedd and Tyddyn Wenffrwd in Penyfed and Gest, Caernarfonshire, claimed by Sir W.M. to be partly in his own holding and partly crown land, 1607-1615. The file includes a list of jury in an action brought by Cadwalader ap Richard, tenant of Robert Wyn ap John, for ejectment from farm; interrogatories administered to witnesses and defendants; bonds indicating attempts to settle the matter by arbitration, 1611-1612; details of the suit of Cadwalader ap Richard and other complaints of trespass on premises in Penyfed and Gest to be answered by Sir W.M., 1613; and answers and examinations of three defendants, who include Cadwalader ap Richard, to a bill of complaint of Sir W.M. in Star Chamber, 1615, concerning riot, unlawful assembly, forcible entry and forcible possession at Cefn Perfedd and Tyddyn Wenffrwd, and mentioning Cadwalader 's illiteracy and non-comprehension of English.

Breviates of suits, interrogatories, deposition of witnesses and defendants' answers arising mainly from cases in the Court of the Exchequer based on complaints by Sir William Maurice against Rowland Owen, Sir Richard Bulkeley, William Williams, Sir Sackville Trevor and others concerning the title to quarries and the appropriation of millstones at Llangefni, Penmon and Vedw Vawr in Llangoed, Anglesey and at Maenol Bangor and Aber y Pwll in Bangor, Caernarfonshire, 1608-1609, 1619; and on the complaint of Sir Richard Bulkeley against Sir William Maurice for trespass in taking a millstone at Penmon, Anglesey, 1615. The papers state the title of the Crown to quarries and stones in North Wales and the evidence on which each of the complainants claimed his title.

Papers deriving from a dispute between Sir Robert Owen and Col. William Price of Rhiwlas, which began in 1679 at the expiry of the last crown lease on the townships of Rhedynogfelen and Gest.
In 1679 Col. Price inherited Rhedynogfelen and Gest under the will of his uncle, Charles Jones, who had purchased the former crown lands in 1632. The disagreements concerned several properties which Sir Robert Owen maintained were his freehold estate, but which Col. Price considered to be part of his own inheritance. The file contains papers in a suit brought in the Court of Great Sessions for Caernarfonshire by Col. Price and his tenant, Robert Ellis, against Anne Jones of Clenennau and Sir Robert Owen on a charge of trespass and ejectment in Ynyscynhaearn and Gest, 1680-1681. Further documents include William Price 's subsequent bill of complaint to the Court of the Exchequer, 1682; defendants' answers; a detailed breviate of suit [c. 1682]; memoranda of transactions and proposed agreements between the parties [c. 1682-1683]; particulars of the lands in question, 1683; interrogatories and depositions of witnesses, 1682, 1687-1688; an account of rent arrears, 1688; and correspondence relating to the case, 1680-1688. An arbitration award made by William Lloyd, Bishop of St Asaph and Humphrey Humphreys, Dean of Bangor in 1686 was deemed inadequate by counsel on both sides. Court orders, 1686-1687, show that a commission was appointed to clarify the boundaries between Gest, Ynyscynhaearn and the adjacent parishes, prior to a further arbitration in 1690 which acknowledged the right of Sir Robert Owen to certain freehold properties, while ensuring a fair allocation of the former crown lands to Col. Price. The matter was eventually concluded after the latter 's death with a release by his daughters to Sir Robert Owen of all disagreements and further actions in 1694.

Letters received by William Owen, [c. 1705]-1767, together with a number of copies or drafts of his replies. Some of the letters are from members of the Godolphin and Owen families, [c. 1705]-1758, and others are from solicitors, bankers, national figures and local gentry, including several from Edward Wynn(e) of Bodewryd. General topics include charitable bequests and legacies by Anne Jones of Clenennau, [c. 1705]-1716; William Owen 's role in local government; elections in Shropshire and North Wales, particularly corrupt practices in the Caernarfon Borough elections for 1713 and 1722; improvements to Brogyntyn (Porkington) Hall, 1734; the appointment of Dr Hutton as bishop of Bangor, 1743; the Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746; the purchase of Dolbenmaen, 1735; litigation relating to the estates of Richard Clayton and Arthur Owen, 1740-1760, boundary disputes in Gest and Penyfed, and quarrels with Margaret Lloyd of Cesail Gyfarch, 1741. The last file contains correspondence between William Owen, Edward Wynn(e), a Flemish lawyer and others, in an attempt to prove his claim to £500 out of the Bodysgallen estate, following the death of a distant kinsman John Francis Ouwens, 1710-1711, 1785.