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A collection of historical accounts of the castles of Prestatyn, Diserth, Basingwerk, Holywell, Caergwrle (otherwise Hope), Hawarden, Mold, Ewloe, Overton and Flint.

Extracts relating to Flintshire from William Beamont (ed.): A Literal Extension and Translation of the portion of Domesday Book relating to Cheshire and Lancashire and to parts of Flintshire and Denbighshire ... 1863, with emendations based largely on James Tait (ed.): The Domesday Survey of Cheshire (Chetham Society Publications, Vol. 75, New Series, 1916).

A tabulated summary of the Domesday survey of Flintshire.

Positive photostat facsimiles of extracts relating to Flintshire from the Domesday Book, corresponding to James Tait: 'Flintshire in Domesday Book' in Flintshire Historical Society Publications, Vol. XI, pp. 14-36.

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

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.

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).

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

A small group of Flintshire and other North Wales pedigrees, largely from printed sources, including the families of Conwy of Bodrhyddan, Morgan of Gwylgrev (Golden Grove), Davies of Gop (in the hand of T. Allen Glenn, Meliden), Salisbury of Llewenni, Wynne of Ceunant, etc.

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 draft of the essay contained in NLW MS 8924C.

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.

A scrap-book containing cuttings from Prestatyn Weekly and The Rhyl Journal and printed sources, 1906-13, relating principally to the history and antiquities of Diserth and Ffynnongroyw, the activities of the Flintshire Historical Society and the Dyserth and District Field Club, and to the visit to Prestatyn of the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments.

A large group of cuttings, 1907-18, from Prestatyn Weekly, The Rhyl Journal, The Flintshire Observer, The Chester Observer, The Chester Chronicle, etc., relating to a variety of subjects of Flintshire interest, such as the antiquities of Holywell, St. Asaph, Rhuddlan, Newmarket, Gwaenysgor and Llanasa, excursions of the Dyserth Field Club, strikes at Talar Goch, etc., etc.

Abstracts and transcripts of deeds and documents of the Bodrhyddan estate and of public records ('Placita de Quo Warranto', 'Rotulorum Originalium ... Abbrevatio', Recognizance Rolls, 'Welsh Records', Patent Rolls, Close Rolls, Plea Rolls, Charter Rolls, Pipe Rolls, Fine Rolls), and notes from printed sources (e.g. T. Tanner: Notitia Monastica) relating to the abbey of Basingwerk, and to Caergwrle, Caerwys, Ewlowe, Gwespyr, Hawarden, Holywell, and Hope; notes on Hope church; extracts from a pedigree of Richard Lewys late of Galchog, compiled by Griffith Hughes, deputy-herald for North Wales, 1639; and a pencil sketch of the Basingwerk outbuildings, 1916.

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 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].

Abstracts of deeds and documents principally of the Bodrhyddan estate and extracts and transcripts from printed sources, including catalogues of, and reports on, public records (Recognizance Rolls, 'Rotulorum Originalum ... Abbrevatio', etc.), relating to properties in Ayleneton [Allington], Bistre, Bodfari, Cilcain, Coleshill, Diserth, Englefield, Flint, Golftyn otherwise Wolvington, Gwaenysgor, Kelsterton, Leadbrook Major, Northop, Oakenholt, Rhylofnyd [Newmarket], Wepra, Whitford, Worthenbury, and Ysceifiog; transcripts of printed accounts of the churches of Gwaenysgor, Nerquis, and Treuddyn, co. Flint, and of Halston Chapel, co. Salop; a note on Carncarnacan [Carnychen] church; an abstract of the tithe apportionment of the parish of Gwaenysgor, 1846; an historical account of the firm of Henry Wood and Co., Ltd, chain and anchor manufacturers, Saltney; transcripts of two notices relating to Talargoch [Lead] Mines, 1775-7, and reminiscences of Peter Hughes, Castle House, Bryniau, of strikes in the mines, 1877, 1884, etc.

Abstracts and transcripts from public records (Recognizance Rolls, 'Rotulorum Originalum ... Abbrevatio', 'Welsh Records', Patent Rolls) relating to Bachygraig, Maelor, Meliden, Mold, Mostyn, Northop, Overton, St. Asaph, Tremeirchion, Vaynol, and Wepra; an abstract of the terrier of Meliden, 1806; a description of the boundary of that part of the lordship of Rhuddlan which lies in the parish of St. Asaph, 1808; extracts from an act for enclosing lands in Tremeirchion, 1810; a list of field names in the parish of Meliden taken from the tithe apportionment, 1839-41, and arranged numerically; descriptions of the churches of Mold and Tremeirchion; transcripts of printed Flintshire pedigrees; and an account of a visit [by Thomas Edwards] to Gwysanney.

Transcripts of Flintshire interest, comprising extracts from public records (Recognizance Rolls, etc.) relating to Llanasa, Prestatyn, Trelogan, Gronant (Gronantesmore), Gwaenysgor, Gwespyr, Gwestby, Axton, and Picton; extracts from Bodrhyddan muniments relating to Cilcain, Gwespyr, Axton, and Golden Grove; notes on Recusant Rolls taken from 'Lancashire and Cheshire Records in the Public Record Office' in Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society Publications, Vol. VII (1882), pp. 188ff., with some account of recusants in Llanasa, Newmarket, and Diserth; an account of the Llanasa Enclosure Act [of 1811]; a note on the pedigree of Griffith of Pantyllongdy, with reference to Elis Gruffydd, 'a soldier of Calais', and a pedigree of the family of Mostyn of Talacre, compiled by J[onathan] Ceredig Davies, Llanilar, Aberystwyth; notes from printed sources on the family of Morgan of Golden Grove, and the antiquities and customs of Llanasa; and memoranda from the estate muniments of the family of Mostyn of Talacre.