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One of three volumes containing abstracts of inquisitines post mortem, escheats, etc. in Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Somerset, temp. Henry VIII - Elizabeth.

One of eight volumes containing extracts from inquisitiones post mortem for Somerset taken from British Museum Harleian MS 4120.

One of eight volumes containing extracts from inquisitiones post mortem for Somerset taken from British Museum Harleian MS 4120.

One of eight volumes containing extracts from inquisitiones post mortem for Somerset taken from British Museum Harleian MS 4120.

Topographical and historical extracts, together with particulars of holders of land in the hundreds of Triplow and Witherley, Cambridgeshire and Bampton and Banbury, Oxfordshire, at, and after, Domesday.

One of four volumes containing extracts from the memoranda rolls of the Exchequer (King's Remembrancer and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer) for various years during the reigns of Henry II, Edward I, Edward II, Henry IV and Henry V. There are a few Welsh references amongst the volumes.

Notes by William Floyd on the reign of King John, together with reflections on government, etc.

NLW MSS 3641-4252 belonged to William Floyd (?1810-?1898), who spent many years at the Public Record Office - he applied for a ticket as from Bridgend, Glamorgan in 1856 - and in the British Museum engaged in research in the various types of records relating to the history of England and Wales preserved in those two institutions. With a few exceptions, most of which are described at the beginning of the collection, all the volumes are Floyd's notebooks and memoranda books. His collection, which had been presented to the London Library, of which he had been a member since its foundaton in 1841, was by that body transferred in 1899 to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth at the time when the Welsh Library Committee of the College was accumulating material of Welsh interest to form a nucleus for the projected national library for Wales.

An early 19 cent. transcript of particular accounts of Robert le Campsale, Clerk of the King's Works in the Palace of Westminster and the Tower of London from 21 June 1351 to 20 September 1355 [P.R.O. Exchequer Accounts 471/6, 10].

One of two volumes containing lists of lands and manors mentioned in thirteen of the books of liveries preserved among the miscellaneous books of the Court of Wards and Liveries. The places have been entered under the names of English counties, this second volume containing names taken from volumes 9-13. According to a note, 1719, by C. Grymes on the inside cover of the first volume the index was compiled by one Phillips.

Transcripts, abstracts and notes from the public records, including Charter, Patent, Close, Fine, Roman, French and Scots Rolls, Inquisitions, Coram Rege, Common Plea, Assize Rolls, K.R. 22 T.R. Exchequer Rolls, Parliamentary Rolls, Domesday Book, the Red Book of the Exchequer, Testa de Nevill, Duchy of Lancaster Records, Cartae Antiquae, etc. ranging from the reign of William I to that of Edward IV. There are extracts also from chronicles and from monastic registers in private hands, also transcripts of miscellaneous items, including The manner of Proceeding and Tryall in the Marshalls Court upon an Appeal of Treason ... and A Discourse of the High Stewardship of England. Written to the Right Honourable late Earle of Leycestr ... (temp. Elizabeth). This volume is called Miscellaneorum Vol: 4.

A lithographed copy of a portion of an ancient manuscript known as Domitian A 18, which relates to Ireland and was originally in the hand of Laurence Nowell (or Nowel), Dean of Lichfield (d. 1576).

One of ten volumes containing notes taken from printed sources (e.g. John Collinson: The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset ..., 3 vols (Bath, 1791) and R. W. Eyton: Domesday Studies ... Somerset ..., 1880) and from public records as material towards a parochial history of Somerset.

One of ten volumes containing notes taken from printed sources (e.g. John Collinson: The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset ..., 3 vols (Bath, 1791) and R. W. Eyton: Domesday Studies ... Somerset ..., 1880) and from public records as material towards a parochial history of Somerset.

One of three volumes containing notes taken from the Black Book of the Exchequer, Testa de Nevill, Close Rolls, Assize Rolls, Aids and other records of entries relating to certain English families, which are indexed.

An alphabetical index of persons, mainly ecclesiastics, with references to sources giving biographical and other details concerning them.

Notes on Monmouthshire families; a summary of Monmouthshire inquisitions (temp. Elizabeth - James I); a list of Monmouthshire Knights of the Royal Oak.

Brief abstracts of inquisitiones post mortem, 1-51 Edward III, of tenants in chief in Berkshire and Oxfordshire, with an index of names.

Notes on the families of Albini of Caynho, Braybrok and Despencer.

A calendar of three volumes consisting of selections from the Charter, Close, Patent and other Rolls, 3 Edward I - 3 Edward III.