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Files of research notes on the social structure of medieval Gwynedd, the material for a projected volume concerned with the evolution of free and bond tenures in Gwynedd between the 13th C. and the 16th C. The manuscript is divided as follows: Introduction: the disintegration of tribal society in the 13th C.; free tenures 14th C; free tenures 15th C. and 16th C.; bond tenures - early; bond lands-late.

Material derived from the Exchequer Depositions of the reign of Elizabeth arranged in bundles, the material in each bundle relating to an individual township mainly in co. Anglesey and some in co. Caernarfon.

Notes, presumably the basis of a projected volume, on the history of medieval Criccieth. The manuscript is divided into chapters e.g. Introductory, history of the castles, the church, administration, the wars of 1277 and 1282-83, trade and commerce, military armaments, garrisons, pay etc., and various individuals.

Notes entitled 'The Cwmmwd[sic] in the 15th Century' sub-divided as follows: The Owen Glyndwr War and its results; military condition of Wales in the 15th century; Eifionydd during the Glyndwr war-feud and faction; The Wars of the Roses in Wales - causes determining Welsh support.