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A list, copied from British Museum Harleian MSS. 1933, of the justices of the peace for Pembrokeshire, 1620, and a copy of the charter granted to Haverfordwest by James I.

A manuscript copy, [1610x1650], of a petition by the counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire seeking to be removed from the jurisdiction of the Council of Wales and the Marches; it formed part of a petition of grievances presented by a deputation of Members of Parliament to King James I at Whitehall on 7 July 1610, during negotiations concerning the Great Contract (f. 17 recto-verso).
It is probable that the original petition is now in Kew, The National Archives SP 14/56/part 2; a number of other manuscript copies are also known (see Proceedings in Parliament 1610, ed. by Elizabeth Read Foster, 2 vols (New Haven and London, 1966), II: The House of Commons, pp. 253-254). The text of the petition is printed in William Petyt, Jus Parliamentarium (London, 1739), pp. 330-331, and Foster, pp. 261-263. In the different sources the number of MPs attending the audience is variously given as twenty, seventeen and twelve (see Foster, p. 254); the preamble to the present manuscript states that the grievances were presented 'by Sir Francis Bacon and Twelve more of the lower house of Parliament' (f. 17).

A manuscript entitled Positions proved by Rowland Owen gentleman of ... Anglesey ... that the papistes have most inhumanely iniured your most sacred Maiestie from your infancie; that they have wronged me by whom they understood ... that your wronges should be reavealed ... The manuscript is unfinished and was prepared by the author for presentation to King James I, with the royal arms stamped on the front and back of the cover.

A copy, with a few manuscript notes, of George Owen Harry : The Genealogy of ... James ... King of Great Brittayne, &c. with his lineall descent from Noah, by divers direct lynes to Brutus, first Inhabiter of this Ile of Brittayne; and from him to Cadwalader, the last King of the Brittish bloud ... Where also is handled the worthy descent of his Maiesties ancestor Owen Tudyr ... (London, 1604).