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A small group of letters to Jones Pierce, 1942-43, concerning the Caernarvonshire Historical Society and its Transactions. The correspondents include Colin Gresham, Ben Bowen Thomas and W.H. Waters.

Files of research materials on the social structure of medieval Wales: Anglesey (2 files); Merioneth; Pwllheli (2 files); Pwllheli, Nevyn and Bardsey.

Files of research notes on the social structure of medieval Gwynedd, the material for a projected volume concerned with the evolution of free and bond tenures in Gwynedd between the 13th C. and the 16th C. The manuscript is divided as follows: Introduction: the disintegration of tribal society in the 13th C.; free tenures 14th C; free tenures 15th C. and 16th C.; bond tenures - early; bond lands-late.

Files of undergraduate lecture notes: Welsh history: prehistory to the Norman Conquest; Welsh political history: the Dark Ages and the Age of the Princes; Welsh Law (included are notes for a lecture 'The Law of Wales - the last phase', the Hartwell Jones Memorial Lecture of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1961); English medieval history (2 files); European medieval history. Notebook containing the outlines of some fifty-six lectures on Jurisprudence.

Material derived from the Exchequer Depositions of the reign of Elizabeth arranged in bundles, the material in each bundle relating to an individual township mainly in co. Anglesey and some in co. Caernarfon.

Notes entitled 'The Cwmmwd[sic] in the 15th Century' sub-divided as follows: The Owen Glyndwr War and its results; military condition of Wales in the 15th century; Eifionydd during the Glyndwr war-feud and faction; The Wars of the Roses in Wales - causes determining Welsh support.

Notes from original sources employed by Jones Pierce in the course of his research. The sources used include: tithe apportionment schedules; records of the apportionment of rent charge in lieu of tithe in the parish of Nefyn, co. Caern., transcribed at the offices of the Welsh Church Commission in 1930; Exchequer Depositions from the reigns of Elizabeth and James I; materials in the Public Record Office, including Inquisitions Post Mortem for Caernarfon, patent rolls, Welsh rolls and close rolls; The Record of Caernarvon; estate collections at the National Library of Wales; Chancery Proceedings; Exchequer Depositions; Plea Rolls and Sheriffs' accounts for the 15th century.

Notes, presumably the basis of a projected volume, on the history of medieval Criccieth. The manuscript is divided into chapters e.g. Introductory, history of the castles, the church, administration, the wars of 1277 and 1282-83, trade and commerce, military armaments, garrisons, pay etc., and various individuals.

Page proofs, drafts of the index and introduction to T. Jones Pierce (ed.) Clenennau Letters and Papers in the Brogyntvn Collection (Aberystwyth, 1947).

Research materials. [The more important of Jones Pierce's research contributions to various journals have been collected in T. Jones Pierce, Medieval Welsh Society: selected essays (ed. J.B. Smith) (Cardiff, 1972)].

Rough notes made as drafts of the above chapters and transcripts of source materials mainly from the Ministers' Accounts for the vill of Criccieth.

Papers, 1899-1964, of T. Jones Pierce, relating to his research on medieval Welsh history, comprising mainly lectures, correspondence and transcripts. Research papers and lecture notes of W. Garmon Jones, Jones Pierce's tutor and research supervisor at the University of Liverpool, are also included.

Texts of public lectures: Three lectures delivered at Bangor in 1945 on 'Yr hen fywyd Cymreig: tair darlith ar ddadfeiliad y Gyfundrefn Lwythol yng Nghymru'. (The first of these lectures was subsequently published as 'The Age of the Princes' in D. Myrddin Lloyd (ed.), The historical basis of Welsh Nationalism (Cardiff, 1950), pp. 42-59). 'Wales from the Edwardian Conquest to the Act of Union', a lecture delivered at an Extra Mural Department Rally at the U.C.W., Aberystwyth, c. 1951. 'The transition from medieval to modern times'. Lecture on the Acts of Union, 1536 and 1543. Lecture on 'The Record of Caernarvon', the Cambridge Presidential Address in 1964 (3 copies).

Texts of the contributions made by Jones Pierce to two volumes: 'A list of the Rulers of Wales, with an Introductory Note', in F. M. Powicke and E.B. Fryde (eds.), Handbook of British Chronology 2nd ed. (London, 1962), pp. 46-52. 'Landlords in Wales, the nobility and the gentry' in H.P.R. Finberg (ed.), The agrarian history of England and Wales, Vol. IV (Cambridge, 1967), pp 357-81.