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Newspaper cuttings, mainly relating to Flintshire and to ecclesiastical history.

Pedigrees, coats of arms and, in some instances, bookplates, etc. of various families, including those of Ford-Hughes, Hughes of Abercery, Lloyd of Peterwell, H. Crampton Lloyd, Mackworth of Neath, Sir Thomas Macdonald Miller, 4th bart, Phillipps of Picton Castle, Meyrick of Pembrokeshire, Meredith of Pentrebychan, Mason of Montgomery and Salop, Crompton-Roberts of Monmouthshire, Newborough of Caernarvonshire, Williams-Bulkeley of Baron Hill, Davies Cooke of Gwysaney, Cunliffe of Acton, Powys barons Tilford, Talbot of Dinevor and Rice of Newton, Thomas of Wenvoe, Saunders of Largay, and Lloyd of Bronwydd; a copy, printed in 1753, of an Act of Parliament relating to the navigation of the river Dee; a copy of an article by Henry Taylor (1845-1927) of Chester and Flint entitled 'Early lead miners brought from the High Peak to work in Flintshire'; miscellaneous letters, including one written in 1868 by Connop Thirlwall (1797-1875), bishop of St Davids.

Rentals of crown and other lands and manors in various parts of North Wales, including rents due to John Edwards, Chirk, together with three documents relating to land in the lordship of Chirk and Flintshire.

Addresses, 1919, by Meredith J. Hughes on Flintshire worthies ('Rhai o enwogion Sir Fflint') and on 'The alleged voyages of Madoc son of Owen Gwynedd, Prince of North Wales, in the XIIth cent.'.

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

An address on 'Chester in its relation to Flintshire'; and a few notes from printed sources on the Justices of Chester.

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.

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.

Printed lists of the St Asaph parish records held by the Flintshire Record Office, comprising Bettisfield, Bodelwyddan, Bronington, Brynford, Gorsedd, Nercwys, Overton, Treuddyn and Ysceifiog.

A collection of transcripts, mainly by Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt, of records relating to North Wales, including the extent of North Wales by John de Delves, 26 Edward III; a record of a view of frankpledge for the commote of Menai, 28 Henry VIII; ministers' accounts for Flintshire, 30-31 Henry VIII; extracts from miscellaneous inquisitions, rentals, court rolls, and correspondence; receipts of Lewis Owen, deputy receiver of North Wales, 1 & 2 Philip and Mary; notes of leases under the exchequer seal, 1579; notes on the form of administration of justice in Wales by Auditor Hill; 'The State of the Dominion of Wales' by Sir Thomas Canon; accounts of John Lloyd of Ragad, escheator of Merioneth; instructions to the Earl of Bridgewater, President of the Council in Wales and the Marches, 1633; a roll of the coroner for Merioneth, 10-11 Edward III; estreats of fines in North Wales, 22-30 Edward III; lists of persons indicted in Merioneth, 6- 19 Richard II; records of pleas before the justice of North Wales, 4 Edward II; a list of recognisances in the exchequer at Caernarvon, 18 Edward II; lists of persons in Anglesey fined for being in arms with Owen Glyndyfrdwy, with lists of outlaws and jurors; and a breviate of an account between Sir John Salesbury, chamberlain of North Wales, and Lewis Owen, his deputy, 1555.