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A holograph letter, possibly a draft, 1664, from John Lloyde, Wickwer [Wigfair], to a kinsman in London, referring to the writer's daughter [Anne], wife of John Vaughan, a freeholder in Henllan parish, who is troubled with the 'King's Evil' and is about to take a journey to London in hopes of access to the King's presence to receive his touch. The writer names three physicians whom she has consulted, namely Mr. John Lloyd, Marchwiell, Mr. Pugh of Llanbeder, and cousin Wm. Williams. The writer also mentions his sons John and David, and solicits the recipient's assistance in securing a preferment for the latter, who is at the Court. There are references also to 'your nephew & myne' Nedd. Lloyd of Tythyn and the recipient's nephews and nieces in Caredvynyth who are sick of small pox.

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).

A note book bearing on the outside upper cover the inscription 'Fees as Secretary to Chancelor of ye D[u]chy of Lancast[er]'. The contents include an account of fees received, 1706-1712, ?in connection with the office mentioned in the inscription, quotations from Seneca's two tragedies Medea and Hippolytus or Phaedra, and quotations from Juvenal's Satires, Nos. 1, 6, 8, 10 and 13.

A notebook containing 'An account of Lead Oar weighed off within the Lordship of Mold since Christmas 1718 at 20d per Tun Farme', giving the amounts of farm paid to the agents of the three lords of Mold respectively during the period 1718-1738.

A list of items appertaining to Wales to be found in the Harleian collection of manuscripts in the British Museum. Most of the items listed contain material of a genealogical or heraldic nature. Added comments such as 'seen it but not examined', 'examine it soon', 'copied all worth my while', seem to imply that it was being used as a working list by the compiler.

A household account book recording, month by month, sums expended on food, clothing, household utensils, servants and casual labourers' wages, local travelling, etc., during the years 1763-1775, 1777-1779, 1780 (incomplete), 1781, 1782 (incomplete), 1783 (incomplete), 1784 (incomplete), and 1785. The frequent references to turnpike tolls paid in visiting Ruthin may indicate a residence in that area. Also mentioned in connection with turnpike payments or otherwise are Bodfari, Denbigh, Derwen, Hafodunos, Llanruth, Llanrwst, Northop, Plasnewydd, Plasriffith, Rudland, Soughton, etc. The hand bears a close resemblance to that of the writer of the first two letters in NLW MS 12413C, i.e. M. [possibly Mary] Lloyd, aunt of Phoebe Lloyd and consequently of John Lloyd ('The Philosopher') of Hafodunos. At the end of the volume a loose leaf written in a different hand and recording 'Money layed out at Plascoch' in September 1786 has been inserted.

An account book of the ?Hen (Haun, Hain) Fferm (Ferm) colliery [co. ] in which the Reverend John Conway Potter [who assumed the surname Conway in lieu of Potter circa 1825], the Reverend Dr. Richard Howard and Miss [ ] Lloyd appear to have had an interest, 1824-1832.

A rental of the Hafodunos estate belonging to John Lloyd, Esq., for the year ending Michaelmas 1787, with statements of individual tenants' accounts with regard to rents then due, and a statement of accounts between Thomas Williams [?as agent for the estate] and John Lloyd for the period June 1787 to May 1788.

An account book containing 'An Account of the Creditors of the late John Lloyd, Esquire'; 'An Account of the Sales of Estates & Timber belonging to the late John Lloyd, Esquire' (including a sale of Wigfair timber, April 1817, a sale of the Mold estate, June 1817, and sales at St. Asaph, June 1817, and at Mold, August 1817); the account of W. Wynne with Richard Watkin Price, Esq., and the Reverend Richard Howard; 'An account of the Sales of Timber at Wygfair and Hafodunos in February 1818'; and [the] 'Rev[ eren]d Richard Howard's acc[oun]t with the Representatives of ye late John Lloyd, Esqr.', 1818-1822. All these relate to the settlement of the affairs of John Lloyd of Hafodunos and Wigfair subsequent to his death in April 1815.

A notebook recording sums of money expended on clothes, schooling, books, etc., for Hedd Lloyd [of Hafodunos] ? by his sister, 1662-1668, and rents received and disbursements made in respect of the Hauodynos estate, 1666-1669. An indenture (parchment) dated 19 October 1637, being a further mortgage of a parcel of land called ffrith y kreigie in Branan and Marchalett, co. Denbigh, has been sewn on as a protective covering.

A letter written as a mock scriptural epistle and entitled 'The General Epistle of Obadiah to the Tribe of Benjamin wheresoever dispersed'.

Notes compiled [by ? the Reverend Benjamin Conway, vicar of Northop and rural dean of the deanery of Tegeingl in the diocese of St. Asaph] on a visitation of 'Treyddyn chappel of Ease to Mould' (19 April 1734), 'Nerquis chappel of Ease to Mould' (19 April 1734) 'Flint chappel of Ease to Northop' (20 April 1734), 'Kilken Church' (23 April 1734) 'Holy-well church' (25 April 1734), and 'Halkin church' (20 May 1734). The notes on Holy-well refer to a previous visitation in September 1729.

A copy of The Complete Pocket Book or Gentleman and Tradesman's Daily Journal for the year of our Lord 1764. The manuscript entries, which are not very numerous or full, record payments [? to labourers], other disbursements, and data relating to animals, grain, etc. Pasted to the inside upper and lower covers (in two halves) is a copy of the London Almanack for the year of our Lord 1764 . . .

A copy of The Gentleman's New Memorandum Book Improv'd or the Merchant's and Tradesman's Daily Pocket Journal for the year 1765, bearing the name of Howel Lloyd, Penbedw, on the outside upper cover. The manuscript entries, which were not made very regularly, refer to various payments made, to the covering of animals, etc.

A copy of Riders 1670 Brittish Merlin containing manuscript memoranda including a list of books bought in London, 26 March 1670, a notice of an attachment served 17 June 1670 on one of the servants of Sir Richard Wynne [?4th bart. of Gwydir], and a copy of the Latin inscription on the tomb of John Williams [lord keeper of the great seal and archbishop of York, in the church of Llandygai, co. Caernarvon].

A volume containing (pp. 1-131) an eighteenth century copy of a Welsh text of the laws of Hywel Dda corresponding to the text of the 'Dimetian' version or that published as Cyfreithiau Hywel Dda yn ôl Llyfr Blegywryd (Dull Dyfed) (Caerdydd, 1942). A note at the end of the text states that it was transcribed by Edward Whittington at the request of the Reverend David Wynne, incumbent of the parish of Machynlleth (1711-1732], and that the task was completed in July 1715 ('Y Llyfr hwn ar archiad y parched[i]g wr Mr. Dafudd Wynne, sef person plwy Machynlleth, a ysgrifenwyd gen Edward Whittington, ag y dibenwyd y 26 dudd o fis Gorphenaf yn y flwyddyn 1715 ynghylch 775 o flynyddoedd ar ol gwneuthur y y [sic] gyfreith hon'). Pages 137-75, which are possibly in the hand of the Reverend David Wynne himself, contain miscellaneous historical and genealogical notes relating to Dyfnwal Moelmud ('Gosodedigaeth Dyfnwal'), the hundreds and commotes of Wales ('Llyma y modd y Rannwyd Cantrefoedd a Chymydau holl Gymru yn amser y Tywysogion diwaethaf or Brutaniaid nid amgen Gr[uffudd] ap Ll[ywely]n a Ll[ywely]n ap Gr[uffydd]'), the princes of Wales ('Notes . . . taken out of a Coppy of Record had in the Tower of London. De Principibus Walliae Notae breviter desumptae'), the lordship of Oswestry ('Llyma ddangos y modd yr aeth Arglwyddiaeth Groes Oswallt oddiwrth y Cymry'), and the fifteen tribes of North Wales, these last having been extracted from the book of Lewis Dwnn ('Allan o Lyfr Lewis Dwnn Deputy Herald at Arms dros holl Gymru dam Glarencieux a Norroy . . .').

An exercise book containing a copy in English of the charter granted by Charles II to the borough of Denbigh in May 1662, and a list of crown rents issuing out of the borough of Denbigh payable at the audit by the bailiffs of the said borough (undated).

A certificate recording the admission of John Lloyd of Hafodunos, esq., as a member of the Druid Society, signed by J. Williams, archdruid, 31 August 1780. The seal of the society is attached.

A copy of a Breton-Latin vocabulary. A few of the Breton words are given English, French or Welsh equivalents. At the end of the list is a note: 'Parisiis impressus [ ]pensis Yuonis Quilleuere pridie Kal[endas] febr[uarias] Anno 1521'.

A volume of memoranda and accounts originally in the possession of Benja[ min] Edwards, 'purser of the Advice, man of War', and containing a number of entries relating to provisions, laundry, financial transactions, and other matters connected with Edwards's duties as purser on board the said ship during the period 1745-1748. Entries made subsequent to these include an account of money laid out by Benja[min] Edwards in partnership with John Williams in connection with an unnamed colliery in 1751, miscellaneous entries relating to wages paid to hired servants or labourers, tradesmen's bills, and various other financial transactions, 1749-1762 [? whether these by Benjamin Edwards], and a record of rents received ?by Mary Edwards to the use of Mr. Wickham, 1761-1762.