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Outsize scrap book containing English manuscript and printed poems, letters, ballads, songs, press cuttings, posters and speeches, 1648-1763. As the title suggests, the majority of the material is concerned with royalist themes under the Stuart monarchs, support for the Jacobite cause and anti-Hanoverian propaganda. The earlier works include a copy of a poem by Charles I during his captivity at Carisbrooke Castle, 1648, and items relating to the Commonwealth regime. The later 17th century material concentrates particularly on William III 's foreign wars and his unpopular policies. Individual items of interest include a poem by by Hugh Quellyn praising Sir Robert Owen 's royalist loyalties [pre-1698]; a translation of Merlin 's prophecy; a poster for the [Denbighshire] elections entitled The Protestant Ballad or Advice to Freeholders [c. 1730]; programmes for a puppet show, 1734, and for songs performed at Hardwick, 1763; and well-known accounts of the executions of Lords Kilmarnock and Balmerino, 1746.

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.

Manuscript and printed verses, riddles and puzzles written on loose sheets, dated between 1624 and 1847. The file contains elegies in Welsh by Rhisiart Phylip (Richard Philip), and Harri Howel in memory of Annes, wife of Moris ap Robert Wynn of Glyn, 1624 and Sir John Owen [1666] respectively; memorials to Griffith Owen [infant, of Llanddyn], 1666; a description of Nanmor in Latin by Lewis Anwyl; lines in Latin by Thomas Price in honour of Sir Robert Owen, 1697; The Captive King by Dr Walcot (Peter Pindar); and verses celebrating archery. Other authors include Richard Duke, Humphrey Kynaston, 1711, Robert Godolphin Owen, 1749, and the Marquis Wellesley. The remainder of the poems concern the Civil War and anti-parliamentarian sentiments [1642x1649]; the Jacobite cause, religious toleration and anti-Catholicism [1688x1746]; Whig and Tory politics; the French-Indian wars and Wolfe 's fatal victory [1759]; imitations of classical Latin themes; the local life of Oswestry and its Corporation, 1770-1836; the coming of age of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, 1793; a dinner given by the Bishop of Bangor, 1797; grievances of New Chapel [Penrhos]; the election of W. R. Ormsby-Gore as M.P. for Sligo, 1847; and the Shropshire Hounds.