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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.

A manuscript containing the names of all rectories 'in the kingdom of England and Calais and the Marches thereof' of the annual value of over £10, arranged in dioceses, deaneries and counties, followed by the names of all vicarages in England, Wales and the Marches of the annual value of over £10, similarly arranged, all having been transcribed from the Liber Regis in the First Fruits and Tenths Office.

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].

A transcript of items from the Close Rolls, 1 to 56 Henry III (1216 to 1272), all of which are printed in full in Calendars of Close Rolls, 2 vols, 1216 to 1227 (unextended), and in Calendar of Close Rolls, 14 vols, 1227 to 1272 (extended). The following note appears on the fly-leaf: 'Compiled by Prynne Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London'.

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.

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 first volume containing names taken from volumes 1-8. According to a note, 1719, by C. Grymes on the inside cover 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.

Transcripts of pleas before the Council, Trinity Term, 1 Edward I (cf. P.R.O. Coram Rege Rolls, Nos 5 & 6), with ff. 61-155 of the transcripts covering mm. 8-23 of the record missing, followed by transcripts of Assizes temp. Henry III from British Museum MSS and of legal tracts on Sheriffs' Tourns and Eyres.

Seven legal treatises, etc. bound together and written at differnt times by differnt hands but all of the 17th century.

An index of feet of fines, county of Gloucester, 1-13 George I, lithographed from the handwriting of Joseph Burtt, Assistant Keeper of the Public Records, and issued with a printed title-page set up at the Middle Hill press of Sir Thomas Phillipps.

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).

A series of alphabetical lists of English towns compiled by James Grymes and Ben. Edwards from records ranging in date from the reign of Richard I to that of Philip and Mary.

An alphabetical index of the English manors and lands mentioned in the thirteen books of sale and liveries, listed according to county.

A collection of writs arranged in alphabetical order of class, with a few notes taken mainly from the reports of Sir James Dyer (1512-1582). Under the headings privilegii and prohibitiones there are examples relating to the Court of the Marches.

One of two volumes containing lists compiled from the Book of Heirs from the time of Edward IV to that of Charles I, together with a note on ecclesiastical sokes.

One of two volumes containing lists compiled from the Book of Heirs from the time of Edward IV to that of Charles I, together with a note on ecclesiastical sokes.

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 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.