Rough notes by Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt, on early British history; a list of Cumbrian Kings; British and Saxon chronology; the rivers of Britain; a list of Gwentian kings; notes on Welsh saints and kings; genealogies; a writ issued by Robert Vaughan, 7 May 1658, for the binding over of Richard Griffith ap Rees and Owen Morris of Llanddwywe, yeomen, to keep the peace towards Margret Evan of Llanddwywe. Many of the notes are written on mutilated letters addressed to Robert Vaughan. On the original covers, bound in at the end of the volume, is the incomplete text of a grant of an annuity issuing out of Y Towr Maen in Trawsvynyth from Richard Nanney of Llanylltyd to Cadwaladr ap Humfrey (ff. 95-96).

A letter book of Rob[er]t Howard [collector of customs at Conway, co. Caernarvon], and post master there 1759-1760, containing holograph copies and abstracts of letters written at Conway during the period 1755- 1765. The outside upper cover is inscribed 'Letter Book since Feb[ruar]y 1752', but the first few pages of the volume have been torn out and the first entry is dated Jan[uar]y 1755. The addressees include Ralph Allen, Bath, 1759-1761 (6), W[illia]m Allix and Edw[ar]d Mason at the Receiv[er]s Office, Tower Hill [London], 1758, W[illia]m Allix and ? others, Esquires, 1757, Mr. Bostock, 1756, Mr. Bradney, Penn, 1756, Mr. Bridge at the furnace, 1758, W[illia]m Bridge, 1756, James Brisco [1759], Geo[rge] Brown at Sir John Wynne, M.P., in Dean Street, Soho [London], 1759, W[illia]m Brynkir, 1755-1757 (6), Ynyr Burges, East India House, 1755-1759 (7), Sir Francis Charlton, Gen[era]ll Post Office [London], 1760 (4), Mr. Cochran, London, 1763 (2), Mrs. Coytmore, Chester, 1758-[1760] (3), Griff[i]th Coytmore at St. Davies, 1763, John Cross, Chester, 1757, Brother Davies, 1763, Master Edwards, Lincolns Inn, 1755-1765 (21), Rich[ar]d Edw[ar]ds, 1759, Hugh Evans at Bodysgallen [co. Caernarvon], 1758-[?1760] (?2), Rees Foulkes at Gwern y Gron, 1755-1756 (?3), Roger Griffith, London, 1763-1764 (3), W[illia]m Holland, Lincolns Inn, 1756-1757 (7), James Forbes Jones, Dublin, [ 1761]-1762 (2), John Jones and others, miners in Holywell, 1764, Rich[ar] David Jones, attorney at ?Bewmares, 1761, Mrs. Winifred Jones, White Chapple Road, London, 1762-1763 (3), Mr. Langford, Lond[o]n, 1759, the Rev[ eren]d Mr. [Robert] Lewis, Mold, 1755-1763 (6), Mrs. Limbrey [Exeter] [1762], Matthew Limbrey, Exeter, 1760-1765 (38), ? P. Magrun, the Gen[era]ll Po[st] Office, Dublin [1759], the Mas[ter] in Chancery, 1755, J[oh]n Owen, Bodidda [co. Caernarvon], 1755, John Owen, Carnarvon, 1759-1760 (2), Mrs. Pearson, ? North Runcton, Norfolk, 1764-1765 (9), Mr. Penkett, 1757, Mr. ? Henry Perkins, Chester, 1756-1757 (8), Tho[ma]s Pit[ ], Gen[era]ll Po[st] Office [London], 1760, [the] Post Masters Gen[era]ll [London], 1760, Henry Potts, secretary at the Gen[era]ll Post Office, London, 1760 (2), the Hon[ oura]ble Lady Prendergast, Dublin, 1757-1759 (4), Mrs. Preston, Dublin, 1764, Charles Rob[er]ts, Bodnod [co. Denbigh], 1760, Tom Rob[er]ts, Plow Court, Fetter Lane, London, 1761, Jo[h]n Saw[ ]ll, the Gen[era]ll Po[st] Office [ London], 1760 (2), Thomas Seele, ? Liverpool, 1757, George Shelvock, the Gen[era]ll Post Office, London, 1759-1760 (3), John Spencer [?Bombay], 1758, Edw[ar]d Stanley, the Custom h[ouse], London, 1758, Capt[ai]n Thomas, Green Street, Grosvenour Square [London], 1762, W[illia]m Vaughan, Plas [ ]ydd, 1756, Tho[ma]s Ward, London, [1763]-1764 (2), Councillor Williams, [17]58-1760 (4), Mr. W[illia]ms, Glanrafon, 1758-1761 (3), Rob[er]t Williams, breeches maker [Chester], 1762, Cha[rle]s Wrench, attorney, Chester [1763], Edw[ar]d ?Wrench, Chester, 1763 (2), Mr. Wright, Chester, 1763, Mr. Wynn of Glyn in London, 1765, Mr. Wynn of Wern, 1761-1762 (5), Sir John Wynne [2nd bart. of Bodfean and Glynllifon, co. Caernarvon], Dean Street, Soho, London, 1757-1765 (17), Rob[er]t Wynne [of Bodysgallen, co. Caernarvon], member of parliament [for Caernarvon, 1754-1761], London, 1755-1759 (11), and W[ illia]m Young and W[illia]m Allix, the Receiv[er]s Office, Tower Hill [London], 1755. The letters deal with the personal and family affairs of the writer (health, financial transactions, legal problems, etc.), his activities as an estate agent or steward, and, to a much lesser degree, his work as a customs and post office official (mainly the rendering of accounts). Specific matters dealt with include the death of Mrs. Marg[are]t Wynne [of Bodysgallen] and the management of affairs at Bodscallen for Robert Wynne, M.P., during his absence (1755); a law suit in which the writer's right to property [?Tre Castell] at Llanglunnin [co. Caernarvon] was contested (1756-1757); the excessive price of corn, the scarcity of corn [ at Conway] market, the distress of 'the meanest sort of people', and the justices' recommendation that no grain be moved 'from this river' [at Conway] (1757); disturbances [at Conway], and a subpoena issued against the writer as one of the commissioners of the [Conway] turnpike road (1758); the writer's application for and appointment to the office of post master at Conway in succession to Hugh Holland in 1759, and his resignation of the said office in 1760; the purchase by the writer from Robert Williams of Chester of property called Hendre and the payment of annuities charged upon the said property (1762-1763); the writer's management of the Bodnod estate [in the parish of Eglwys-back, co. Denbigh] on behalf of Mr. Matthew Limbrey (1760-1765); and the writer's management of additional estates in Merionethshire (Cefn Bodig demesne and property in Bala [in the parish of Llanycil], tenements at Trawsfynydd), and Denbighshire (houses in Denbigh, property at Gwytherin) also on behalf of the said Mr. Limbrey ( 1762-1765).