Two volumes containing an account by John Williams of the trial for treason of certain persons concerned in the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. John Williams was one of the counsellors for the Crown.

Three letters, 1745-1749, from John Owen, Rochdale to John Palmer, Swansea, the earliest letter giving news of the '45 Rebellion.

The file comprises letters to Hugh Hughes, 1735-1749, all from personal, academic friends, including William Herring, 1740-1749, on literary matters, church officials and preferments, national events in Europe and the West Indies, Denbigh parliamentary election, persecution of Methodists and threat of a French invasion during the Jacobite Rebellion.