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Transcripts, [?1815], in a single hand, of documents relating to a proposed address by the people of Caernarvonshire to the Marquis of Anglesey to congratulate him on his part in the Battle of Waterloo.
Included are an appeal to William Griffith Oakeley, High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire, to call a meeting, and his reply, dated 10 July 1815, appointing a County Meeting on the 17 July (f. 139); minutes of a meeting held by the bailiffs, burgesses and other inhabitants of the borough of Caernarfon on 10 July 1815 (ff. 140-141) and a copy of the address voted for at that meeting (ff. 141-142).

Deeds, correspondence, pleadings and papers in legal actions, 18 cent.-20 cent., relating to estates in Anglesey, Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire. Miscellaneous papers include Caernarfon borough court rolls, 1392-1393, 1695-1697, and a rental, 1691-1692; papers relating to Benefit Building Societies in Caernarfonshire, 1861-1890; and a minute book of Porthaethwy ferry, 1782-8.

Family and estate records of Griffith of Porthamal, Anglesey, and Llanfair, Caernarfonshire, Griffith of Brynodol, Caernarfonshire, and the associated families of Rowlands of Nant, Caernarfonshire, and Wynn of Taltreuddyn, Merionethshire. The estate records include rentals of the Llanfair estate, 1516-1669, the Brynodol estate, 1581-1751, the Cefnamwlch estate, 1630-1717, the Nant estate, 1702-1719, the Taltreuddyn estate, 1744-1848, the Llanfair and Brynodol estate, 1761-1832, and rentals from various other estates, 1615-1816; and deeds of the Porthamal and Llanfair estate, 1435-1673, the Brynodol (and later Llanfair and Brynodol) estate, 1564-1864, and the Taltreuddyn estate, 1664-1751. -- The archive also includes rentals of Crown rents in Anglesey, Caernarfonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Merionethshire, 1558-1798, and ministers' accounts, 1365-1825; Caernarfon borough records, 1545-1783, including rentals of corporation property, lists of burgesses, and notes on the constitution of the borough and the appointment of officers; and a number of literary and historical manuscripts.

An incomplete copy of an inspeximus of letters patent of Queen Elizabeth touching the twenty-four cursitors of the court of Chancery (ff. 1-24); and notes on the constitution of the borough of Caernarvon, with reference to riots there in 1712 (ff. 1-3).