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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.

Extracts from Recognizance Rolls relating to sheriffs, justices, auditors, escheators and other officers for Flintshire; together with a few extracts from Bills and Answers (Deputy-Keeper's 25th Report).

Extracts from public records (Ministers' Accounts, Exchequer (King's Remembrancer) Accounts, and Court Rolls) relating to Rhuddlan and, in a few instances, to Prestatyn and Coleshill, transcribed and translated by a professional searcher [Miss Ethel Stokes].

A minute book of 'Cymdeithas Cymry Caer' (Chester Welsh Society), 1893-8; with some cuttings from The Chester Chronicle, 1895-7, recording meetings of the Society. Much of the volume is in the hand of Morris Parry, Chester.

Material towards a history of the parish of Cwm, comprising a transcript of a terrier of 1774 and an abstract of another of 1856; a transcript of an allotment by John Calveley, 1813, of commons and waste lands in the parishes of Newmarket and Cwm; a list of field names taken from the tithe apportionment, 1844; extracts from Recognizance Rolls, Bodrhyddan estate muniments, and printed sources; and some notes on the flora of Cwm [in the hand of R. H. Day, Cwm], together with a covering letter, 1913.

Extracts from 'Bodrhyddan Memoirs. Entries copied out of Pierce Roberts of Bronhwylwa [sic] his Memorandum Book, written from the year 1595-1546 [sic for 1646]', printed in Archaeologia Cambrensis, Ser. III, Vol. X, pp. 320ff.

A small group of Flintshire and other North Wales pedigrees, largely from printed sources, including the families of Conwy of Bodrhyddan, Morgan of Gwylgrev (Golden Grove), Davies of Gop (in the hand of T. Allen Glenn, Meliden), Salisbury of Llewenni, Wynne of Ceunant, etc.

Transcripts of material prepared by Thomas Edwards and Colonel Charles S. Mainwaring, Galltfaenan, Trefnant, relating to the arms entitled to be used by the Dinorben (Hughes of Kinmel) family, and particularly to the relationship claimed to the family of Hughes of Llewerllyd, co. Flint; together with holograph letters and a postcard, 1914, to Thomas Edwards from Philip H. Lawson, Chester, and Charles S. Mainwaring. The papers include extracts from Bodrhyddan estate muniments, a Hughes of Kinmel pedigree prepared by Philip H. Lawson, and the opinion of A. M. Burke, 1 Cloisters, Temple, E.C., 1906.

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.

A reprint in booklet form of the Bygones column edited by Thomas Edwards in Prestatyn Weekly, containing extracts from Walter Davies: General View of the Agriculture ... of North Wales, 1810; and P. W. P. Carlyon-Britton: The Saxon, Norman and Plantagenet Coinage of Wales, 1906, reprinted from The British Numismatic Journal, Vol. II, 1906.

Positive photostat facsimiles of extracts relating to Flintshire from the Domesday Book, corresponding to James Tait: 'Flintshire in Domesday Book' in Flintshire Historical Society Publications, Vol. XI, pp. 14-36.

'Memorandum on the Remains from the Cave at the Great Ormes Head' by Professor W. Boyd Dawkins; extracts from the parish register of Newmarket, 1698-1718, Newmarket tombstone inscriptions, and extracts from St. Asaph probate records, in the hand of T. Allen Glenn; notes by Edward Owen on 'Abbrevatio Rotulorum Originalium'; and a variety of extracts by Thomas Edwards from printed sources (relating to Offa's Dyke, the geography of North Wales in the Neolithic Age, Norman Britain), and from 'Y Cwtta Cyfarwydd'.

Letters and postcards addressed to Thomas Edwards. The correspondents include Sir Arthur [John] Bigge, 1911; Sir Owen M. Edwards, Oxford, 1904-5; Beriah Gwynfe Evans, 1923; and T. Allen Glenn, 1911-12 and undated.

Letters, 1914, to Thomas Edwards from Chas. T. Lamacraft and George C. Brooke, both of the British Museum, and from Donald Macbeth Artists Illustrators, Ltd, Fleet Street, London, together with invoices and memoranda, relating to photographs taken for Thomas Edwards of the charter of Rhuddlan and of coins from the Rhuddlan mint.

A group of pictorial postcards addressed, 1907-16, to Thomas Edwards and members of his family.

An album of press cuttings from a variety of newspapers (e.g. Y Llan a'r Dywysogaeth, Yr Haul, Y Cerddor, The Rhyl Journal, The Flintshire Observer, etc., etc.), 1892-1918, relating largely to church music, and including reviews and notices of the musical works of Thomas Edwards, an address by him on church music, and accounts of choral festivals, etc.; together with letters from Thomas and Mary Wynne, Seaforth, 1898.

Music by Thomas Edwards - 'O Na Foliannent Yr Arglwydd', 1887, 'Magnificat', 1893, 'Nunc Dimmittis [sic]', 1893, 'Wyrfai', 'Llangwm', 'St. Martin', 1894, 'Llanerchymor', 1894, 'Gwlad yr Addewid', etc.; together with transcripts, 1902, of music by other composers including Lionel Monckton and Paul A. Rubens.

Music (anthems, hymn- and psalm-tunes, etc.) by Thomas Edwards - 'Festival Te Deum', 'Magnificat a Nunc Dimittis', 'Te Deum Laudamus', 'Peace, perfect peace', 'The Royal Welsh [sic] Fusiliers', 'Coroniad y Brenin', 'Emyn y Diwygiad', 'Anthem Genedlaethol', etc.; together with 'Three Double Chants' by E. J. Hopkins, 1895, transcribed in 1896, and a signed presentation copy by the author to Thomas Edwards, 1921, of Caradog Roberts: Yr Arglwydd yw fy Mugail: Anthem Gynulleidfaol.

Certified copies of the certificates of birth, 6 August 1867, of Elizabeth Ann Davies, Whitford, and of the marriage, 16 September 1897, at Christ Church, Mostyn, of Thomas Edwards, Chester, and Elizabeth Ann Davies, Llanerchymor, Mostyn.