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A scrap-book containing cuttings from Prestatyn Weekly, etc., 1905-10, relating to Prestatyn, Diserth, Gwaenysgor, and Newmarket. Among them are several cuttings of a Bygones column edited by Thomas Edwards, containing a history of the Talargoch Lead Mine. Also included in the volume are two typewritten acknowledgements, 1911, of copies of anthems and a Welsh coronation hymn presented by Thomas Edwards to the King, and holograph letters to Thomas Edwards from D[aniel] L[ewis Lloyd], bishop of Bangor, 1894, [Sir] O[wen] M. Edwards, Oxford, 1906, Thos. Francis, music printer, Islington, London, undated, and members of his family.

Records of Prestatyn Urban District Council, comprising the specification of duties of Surveyor, 1900, a list of attendances of councillors, 1900, and a notice of apportionment of street works charges, 1901.

Notes of Flintshire interest, comprising extracts from public records and from Harleian manuscripts (e.g. arms from MS 1143), and lists of original sources to be examined.

Extracts from Recognizance Rolls relating to sheriffs, justices, auditors, escheators and other officers for Flintshire; together with a few extracts from Bills and Answers (Deputy-Keeper's 25th Report).

Extracts from public records (Ministers' Accounts, Exchequer (King's Remembrancer) Accounts, and Court Rolls) relating to Rhuddlan and, in a few instances, to Prestatyn and Coleshill, transcribed and translated by a professional searcher [Miss Ethel Stokes].

Material towards a history of the parish of Cwm, comprising a transcript of a terrier of 1774 and an abstract of another of 1856; a transcript of an allotment by John Calveley, 1813, of commons and waste lands in the parishes of Newmarket and Cwm; a list of field names taken from the tithe apportionment, 1844; extracts from Recognizance Rolls, Bodrhyddan estate muniments, and printed sources; and some notes on the flora of Cwm [in the hand of R. H. Day, Cwm], together with a covering letter, 1913.

'Memorandum on the Remains from the Cave at the Great Ormes Head' by Professor W. Boyd Dawkins; extracts from the parish register of Newmarket, 1698-1718, Newmarket tombstone inscriptions, and extracts from St. Asaph probate records, in the hand of T. Allen Glenn; notes by Edward Owen on 'Abbrevatio Rotulorum Originalium'; and a variety of extracts by Thomas Edwards from printed sources (relating to Offa's Dyke, the geography of North Wales in the Neolithic Age, Norman Britain), and from 'Y Cwtta Cyfarwydd'.

Letters, 1914, to Thomas Edwards from Chas. T. Lamacraft and George C. Brooke, both of the British Museum, and from Donald Macbeth Artists Illustrators, Ltd, Fleet Street, London, together with invoices and memoranda, relating to photographs taken for Thomas Edwards of the charter of Rhuddlan and of coins from the Rhuddlan mint.

A group of pictorial postcards addressed, 1907-16, to Thomas Edwards and members of his family.

A volume containing details of the writer's weekly hours of work, 1876-7; accounts of Court Hamilton No. 3460 [?Benefit Society], 1879-81; and accounts (collections and disbursements) of St. Martin's Welsh Church, Chester, 1883. The volume was originally an arithmetic exercise book used by 'Master Thomas Edwards, Meliden, Horeb School, April 18th, 1859'.

Holograph poetry, with some transcripts and printed cuttings, collected by Hugh Jones ('Erfyl'), and by John Owen ('Owain Alaw'), among which are poems by or in the hand of John Blackwell ('Alun'), Richard Davies ('Bardd Nantglyn'), John Jones ('Talhaiarn'), Morris Williams ('Nicander'), William Rees ('Gwilym Hiraethog'), John Williams ('Ab Ithel'), John Jones ('Myllin'), Lewis William Lewis ('Llew Llwyfo'), David Williams ('Alaw Goch'), and W. Morgan ('Penfro'); 'Englynion o waith Sir Rees Cadwaladr Curat yn Aber Garthgelyn yn Sir Gaernarfon i ymofyn a Thomas Jones ynghylch y Seren gynffonog a ymddangosodd yn y flwyddyn 1680', with a covering letter by J. W. Prisiart, Plasybrain; 'Arwyrain i Gymdeithas Cymmrodorion Caerlleon a henwau ei Phenaethiaid' by Wm. Edwards, Ysgeifiog, 30 August 1823, printed in T. Edwards: The Chester Cambrian Societies, 1906, pp. 12ff.; 'Lines proposed to be placed on the Column, to be erected on Moel Famma ... in commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of his Majesty's reign' by J[ohn] H[umphreys] P[arry], 14 November 1810; 'Ar ddyfodiad William Grenville Williams, ab Syr Huw Williams, Barwnig, Bodelwyddan, i'w lawn oed, 30, Mai, 1865', by 'Talhaiarn'; a souvenir of a testimonial presented to the Hon. E. M. Ll. Mostyn, 31 October, 1843, with a 'hir-a-thoddaid' by Evan Evans ('Ieuan Glan Geirionydd'); cuttings, 1862 and undated, of poetry by John Ceiriog Hughes ('Ceiriog'), with marginal notes by the author and a marginal covering letter from him to John Owen ('Owain Alaw'); and poetry addressed to Thomas Edwards, Junior, Chester.

A volume in the hand of Hugh Jones ('Erfyl') containing transcripts of letters written by him from Llanfyllin to Robert Davies ('Bardd Nantglyn'), to the editor of Goleuad Gwynedd, etc., 1819; Welsh poetry, partly of Llanfyllin interest; and 'Cyfansoddiad difyfyr yn Eisteddfod Dinbych Hydr. 6ed. 1819. Testun, Cariad Gwladol' by 'Bardd Nantglyn'.

Letters to 'Erfyl', the correspondents including [John Blackwell, 'Alun'], ?1829 (references to the Royal Denbigh Eisteddfod of 1828, William Owen-Pughe, etc.); Jane Davies, Penmaen Dovey, 1851 (letters of her father, 'Gwallter Mechain'); [Robert Davies, 'Bardd Nantglyn'], 1818; Evan Evans ('Ieuan Glan Geirionydd'), 1847-54 (Rhuddlan Eisteddfod, 1850, etc.); [John Jones, 'Ioan Tegid'], Christ Church, Oxford, 1840; [John Jones[ 'Myllin', 1820 (emigrants from Llanfyllin, Llangadfan, Hirnant, and Llangynog, to America, Wrexham Eisteddfod, 1820, 'Dafydd Ddu Eryri' and 'Dafydd Ionawr'); John Owen ('Owan Alaw') [1855] (death of 'Ieuan Glan Geirionydd'); W[illiam] Owen-Pughe, 1834; W[illiam] Rowlands ('Gwilym Lleyn'); Robert Saunderson, Bala, 1830-48; Morris Williams ('Nicander'), Jesus College [Oxford], 1832-?34 (orthography of the Welsh Bible); and William Williams ('Gwilym Caledfryn'), 1824-5 (a bitter attack on David Saunders, Merthyr, etc.). NLW MS 9031 also contains letters to John Parry, Chester from W[illiam] E[dwards], Ysgeifiog, 1823, and Evan Evans ('Ieuan Glan Geirionydd'), 1820, and from [Thomas Price, 'Carnhuanawc'] to Y Gwladgarwr (printed in the 1834 edition, pp. 19-20); and letters from 'Erfyl' to W[alter] D[avies] ('Gwallter Mechain'), 1818 and undated (Welsh proverbs, Welsh grammar), R[obert] D[avies] ('Bardd Nantglyn'), 1818 (Welsh poetry), [John Jones, 'Myllin', 1838], 'Ioan Tegid', 1831 (orthography of the Welsh Bible), R[ichard] P[arry, 'Gwalchmai'], 1850 and undated (references to Richard Llwyd ('Bard of Snowdon') and the Rhuddlan Eisteddfod of 1850), [Robert] S[aunderson, Bala], 1850 and undated, and others.

An essay by Thomas Edwards on 'Flintshire Place-names', with numerous emendations and additions by the author and others. The preface is dated March 1909, and an accompanying autograph letter, dated 10 October 1910, from W. H. Evans, Sons & Co., The Farmers' Herald Office, Chester, to the author, contains an estimate of the cost of the proposed publication of the volume.

A small group of draft notes and memoranda on Flintshire history and pedigrees (Diserth Castle, Llanferres, Ffynnongroyw, etc.); and a printed proposal, 1 December 1912, by Thomas Allen Glenn, Meliden, Prestatyn for the publication of a quarterly journal entitled 'Northern Flintshire', together with a cutting from The Prestatyn Weekly, 7 December 1912, of a letter in support of the proposal by Meredith J. Hughes, Vicarage, Prestatyn.

A small group of draft notes on Flintshire pedigrees (Bagshaw of Rhosesmor, etc.; Robert Davies, 'Bardd Nantglyn').

A transcript of a notice of sale, by auction, at the Town Hall, Rhyl, 1 (corrected 11) August 1863, of 4,000 acres of land and houses in Tremeirchion, Cwm, Newmarket and Gwaenysgor.

An essay, with accompanying extracts and draft notes, on Flintshire in the Domesday Book.

A typewritten essay entitled 'Records Historical and Genealogical of the Royal House of North Wales. The line of Tudor Trefor, Earl of Hereford, and the noble family of Mostyn de[s]cended therefrom ...'; together with two holograph letters to the author on behalf of Lady [Anna Maria] Mostyn of Talacre, Prestatyn, and of the Mount, Constitution Hill, Parkstone, Dorset, 5-31 January 1914.

A transcript of the tithe apportionment of the parish of Meliden, 1839[-41].