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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.

Proof-sheets, with manuscript emendations and additions, of Thomas Edwards: 'Dyserth Castle', which appeared in Archaeologia Cambrensis, Ser. 6, Vol. 12 (1912), pp. 263-294.

A transcript of Dr. Robert Cochrane: 'Mediaeval House, Dyserth, Flintshire' from Archaeologia Cambrensis, Ser. 6, Vol. 12 (1912), pp. 33-38; together with photographs of the house.

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.

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.

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 of deeds and documents, 1588-1869, relating to Cilcain, including a land tax assessment dated 8 May 1799.

A transcript of the tithe apportionment of the parish of Meliden, 1839[-41].

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.

A typewritten essay entitled 'Records Historical and Genealogical of the Royal House of North Wales. The line of Tudor Trefor, Earl of Hereford, and the noble family of Mostyn de[s]cended therefrom ...'; together with two holograph letters to the author on behalf of Lady [Anna Maria] Mostyn of Talacre, Prestatyn, and of the Mount, Constitution Hill, Parkstone, Dorset, 5-31 January 1914.

A tabulated summary of the Domesday survey of Flintshire.

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).

Extracts relating to Flintshire from printed editions and catalogues of, and reports on, public records, principally the 'Taxatio' of Pope Nicholas, c. 1291, Recognizance Rolls [of the Palatinate of Chester] and 'Rotulorum Originalium ... Abbrevatio'.

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

A transcript of a notice of sale, by auction, at the Town Hall, Rhyl, 1 (corrected 11) August 1863, of 4,000 acres of land and houses in Tremeirchion, Cwm, Newmarket and Gwaenysgor.

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

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.

Cuttings from The Rhyl Journal, 17-24 January 1914, of a paper by the Reverend J. Fisher, B.D. on 'Some Place-names in the Locality of St. Asaph', read before the St Asaph Literary Society, 8 December 1913.

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

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