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Abstracts from the tithe apportionment of the parish of Rhuddlan, 1839[-42].

Material relating to a history of Rhuddlan, comprising extracts and transcripts from printed sources, from Bodrhyddan estate muniments, and from a wide variety of public records (Recognizance Rolls, Welsh Rolls, Patent Rolls, Close Rolls, Charter Rolls, Fine Rolls, Pipe Rolls, State Papers Domestic, Land Revenue Miscellaneous Books, Chamberlains' Accounts, Ministers' Accounts, 'Rotulorum Originalium ... Abbrevatio', Papal Letters, Parliamentary Surveys, Red Book of Exchequer, etc.). NLW MS 8973D contains a terrier, partly in shorthand, 1791, and notes, 1915, in the hand of the vicar, T. W. Vaughan.

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.

Records of Prestatyn Urban District Council, comprising the specification of duties of Surveyor, 1900, a list of attendances of councillors, 1900, and a notice of apportionment of street works charges, 1901.

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 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).

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].

Material towards a history of the parish of Cwm, comprising a transcript of a terrier of 1774 and an abstract of another of 1856; a transcript of an allotment by John Calveley, 1813, of commons and waste lands in the parishes of Newmarket and Cwm; a list of field names taken from the tithe apportionment, 1844; extracts from Recognizance Rolls, Bodrhyddan estate muniments, and printed sources; and some notes on the flora of Cwm [in the hand of R. H. Day, Cwm], together with a covering letter, 1913.

'Memorandum on the Remains from the Cave at the Great Ormes Head' by Professor W. Boyd Dawkins; extracts from the parish register of Newmarket, 1698-1718, Newmarket tombstone inscriptions, and extracts from St. Asaph probate records, in the hand of T. Allen Glenn; notes by Edward Owen on 'Abbrevatio Rotulorum Originalium'; and a variety of extracts by Thomas Edwards from printed sources (relating to Offa's Dyke, the geography of North Wales in the Neolithic Age, Norman Britain), and from 'Y Cwtta Cyfarwydd'.

Letters, 1914, to Thomas Edwards from Chas. T. Lamacraft and George C. Brooke, both of the British Museum, and from Donald Macbeth Artists Illustrators, Ltd, Fleet Street, London, together with invoices and memoranda, relating to photographs taken for Thomas Edwards of the charter of Rhuddlan and of coins from the Rhuddlan mint.

A group of pictorial postcards addressed, 1907-16, to Thomas Edwards and members of his family.

A volume containing details of the writer's weekly hours of work, 1876-7; accounts of Court Hamilton No. 3460 [?Benefit Society], 1879-81; and accounts (collections and disbursements) of St. Martin's Welsh Church, Chester, 1883. The volume was originally an arithmetic exercise book used by 'Master Thomas Edwards, Meliden, Horeb School, April 18th, 1859'.

A volume in the hand of Hugh Jones ('Erfyl') containing transcripts of letters written by him from Llanfyllin to Robert Davies ('Bardd Nantglyn'), to the editor of Goleuad Gwynedd, etc., 1819; Welsh poetry, partly of Llanfyllin interest; and 'Cyfansoddiad difyfyr yn Eisteddfod Dinbych Hydr. 6ed. 1819. Testun, Cariad Gwladol' by 'Bardd Nantglyn'.

Letters to 'Erfyl', the correspondents including [John Blackwell, 'Alun'], ?1829 (references to the Royal Denbigh Eisteddfod of 1828, William Owen-Pughe, etc.); Jane Davies, Penmaen Dovey, 1851 (letters of her father, 'Gwallter Mechain'); [Robert Davies, 'Bardd Nantglyn'], 1818; Evan Evans ('Ieuan Glan Geirionydd'), 1847-54 (Rhuddlan Eisteddfod, 1850, etc.); [John Jones, 'Ioan Tegid'], Christ Church, Oxford, 1840; [John Jones[ 'Myllin', 1820 (emigrants from Llanfyllin, Llangadfan, Hirnant, and Llangynog, to America, Wrexham Eisteddfod, 1820, 'Dafydd Ddu Eryri' and 'Dafydd Ionawr'); John Owen ('Owan Alaw') [1855] (death of 'Ieuan Glan Geirionydd'); W[illiam] Owen-Pughe, 1834; W[illiam] Rowlands ('Gwilym Lleyn'); Robert Saunderson, Bala, 1830-48; Morris Williams ('Nicander'), Jesus College [Oxford], 1832-?34 (orthography of the Welsh Bible); and William Williams ('Gwilym Caledfryn'), 1824-5 (a bitter attack on David Saunders, Merthyr, etc.). NLW MS 9031 also contains letters to John Parry, Chester from W[illiam] E[dwards], Ysgeifiog, 1823, and Evan Evans ('Ieuan Glan Geirionydd'), 1820, and from [Thomas Price, 'Carnhuanawc'] to Y Gwladgarwr (printed in the 1834 edition, pp. 19-20); and letters from 'Erfyl' to W[alter] D[avies] ('Gwallter Mechain'), 1818 and undated (Welsh proverbs, Welsh grammar), R[obert] D[avies] ('Bardd Nantglyn'), 1818 (Welsh poetry), [John Jones, 'Myllin', 1838], 'Ioan Tegid', 1831 (orthography of the Welsh Bible), R[ichard] P[arry, 'Gwalchmai'], 1850 and undated (references to Richard Llwyd ('Bard of Snowdon') and the Rhuddlan Eisteddfod of 1850), [Robert] S[aunderson, Bala], 1850 and undated, and others.

A draft of the essay contained in NLW MS 8924C.

Transcripts relating to Flintshire from William Camden (trans. Edmund Gibson): Britannia, 1772, Vol. II; together with an incomplete table (abbas-calumpniatorum) of Latin abbreviations.

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.

An estimate submitted by ----, organ builders, of ----, for a new organ to be erected in [Mostyn] church. Both the name and the address of the builders have been crossed out on the dorse of each sheet.

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.