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Two copies each of E. W. Cox: 'Diserth Castle' extracted from Journal of the Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society ... of Chester, and North Wales, New Series, Vol. 5 (1895), pp. 361-379, and of Henry Taylor, F.S.A.: 'The History of Diserth Castle', ibid., pp. 380-383; together with some manuscript notes and sketches, including a rough plan of foundations on the hill above Meliden drawn by T. A[llen] Glenn, 10 May 1911.

Material relating to the history of Diserth, particularly of the castle and parish church. Among them are extracts from the parish register, 1623-36; extracts from public records (Recognizance Rolls, Patent Rolls, Close Rolls, Royal and Historical Letters, Domesday Book, etc.), Peniarth and Harleian manuscripts, Bodrhyddan estate muniments, and printed sources; a note by T. Allen Glenn on an inscription in the churchyard; transcripts of letters of Alfred Neobard Palmer, Wrexham, 1910, and H. B. Thompson, Blundellsands, 1910; and a pedigree of the family of Hughes of Kinmel, compiled by Philip H. Lawson, Chester, 1914.