Examples of deeds, entries in court rolls, patents, and other legal instruments collected by Edward ap Rys ap David, auditor of Powis, receiver of Chirk and Chirkland, circa 1509. The documents quoted relate to the lordships of Bromfield and Yale, Chirk and Chirkland, Oswestry, and Cowres, the boroughs of Holt and Beaumaris, and Oxfordshire. There are a few Welsh recipes and verses in the margins.
A fragment of a tract on the war between England and France; a portion of 'the tretice off housbondry that Master Grosthed [Grosseteste] mad the which was Bischope of Lyncolne ...'; a metrical story of Saint Gregory and his mother; miscellaneous cookery recipes; 'a good book off keruynge and servis vnto a prince ...'; and medical recipes.
A volume in the autograph of Mrs Elizabeth Baker comprising miscellaneous culinary recipes; transcripts of notes on the culture of potatoes; notes on horticulture; an extract relating to Irish mineralogy; and a transcript of an address by the city of Dublin to his Excellency Marquis Cornwallis.
A fully-indexed collection of culinary and medicinal recipes made by Madam Sidney Wynne of Melai, 1715. A number of dried ferns and leaves which had been placed in the book are now in sixteen separate envelopes.
