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The series comprises crown rent accounts and other relevant papers concerning the Denbighshire, Flintshire and Merionethshire estates of John Wynne Griffith, 1791-[c. 1821] and his son, George, 1843-1845.

The series comprises loose accounts, 1708-1836, and a notebook containing accounts, 1764-1768, of profits from sale of estate produce, expenditure on agricultural implements, livestock, seeds, fertiliser, building materials and labour, together with an unrelated Greek and Latin vocabulary.

iThe series comprises loose sheets and three notebooks containing surveys and valuations of Cwyber, 1751, Garn and Cwyber demesnes, 1753, Cae'r berllan, 1755, Rhuddlan (Cwyber and Tre Llewelyn), 1781, Henllan, 1807, Llanrwst, 1811, Bryntirion [c. 1834], Pentre Du and Merllyn, 1836, Bryn Issa, Llanefydd [1846x1849], other estates purchased by George Griffith in Llanefydd, [post-1864], Cleiriach and houses in Denbigh, [c. 1866], Bryn Llwyd and Wern Isaf, 1880, showing variously their size, yield, soil quality and yearly value.

The series comprises original and copy leases, agreements to lease, etc. for named properties in the parishes of Llanarmon-yn-Iâl, Llanrwst, Henllan and Llanefydd.

The file comprises agreements by John Griffith (2) and (3) to grant mining leases for the extraction of lead ores, calk (pitch) and calamine (zinc ore) from land at Llanefydd and Henllan, 1751, 1752, 1771, an account of expenses at Coed Pantwn, 1752, authorisation to Rev. John Price to let part of a mine working in Llanarmon-yn Iâl, 1757, and note of sale of lead ore, 1789.

The series consists of accounts deriving from agricultural management of the Denbighshire estate, 1759-1849, and from the maintenance and repair of buildings, 1799-1911.

The file includes a lease to Rev. David Roberts and other Ministers of the Gospel, of a field for the erection of a chapel, 1834.

The group consists of administration papers for the Caernarfonshire estate, comprising estate accounts, 1740.

The group comprises deeds for houses and lands of Griffith of Garn and related families in Denbighshire, 1572-1903, Flintshire, 1737-1891, Anglesey, 1770-1790, Merioneth and Denbighshire combined, 1681, 1691, 1737, Caernarfonshire, 1616-1821, Montgomeryshire, 1754, and miscellaneous counties, 1815, [c. 1819]. The documents comprise deeds of feoffment, bargain and sale, lease and release, grants in fee farm, leases, fines, exemplifications of recovery and other deeds associated with fines and recoveries, mortgages, assignments, probate records, bonds, settlements, abstracts of title and schedules of deeds. They are mostly original, but they also include copies and drafts.

The file comprises a deed for the sale by David Davies of Denbigh to William Hughes of Llanrhaeadr-yng-nghinmeirch, labourer, of a messuage in Denbigh.

The file comprises deeds for Tyddyn Thomas Foulke, otherwise called Tan yr Eglwys or Tan y Fynwent, Tu yn y Bryn and a sitting place in the parish church of Henllan. The properties were mortgaged by Thomas Foulkes and Alce, his wife, in 1699, and were sold by their son, John, to Robert Wynne, son of Charles Wynne of Grygor, in 1707. In 1736, Robert Wynne's son, John, took out a mortgage which was assigned back to his father following his death in 1757. The properties formed part of the lands mentioned in the marriage settlement of Robert Wynne's daughter, Elizabeth, when she married Ambrose Lewis of Beaumaris in 1752. John Griffith (3) of Garn purchased them in 1777 from John Bodychen Sparrow, who had acquired them through his marriage to Anne, the daughter of Ambrose Lewis and Elizabeth Wynne. Some time before 1757, the name of Tyddyn Thomas Foulke was changed to Tyddyn Tan yr Eglwys, but it also seems to have been called Tan y Fynwent. [The premises were later settled to uses of a settlement between John Wynne Griffith and his mother, 1801].

The file comprises three abstracts of title, 1686-1749, 1686-1786, 1686-1801, to a messuage in Lleweni and lands called Cae Tan y Skybor, Groffte Palmant, etc., which John Williams purchased from Dorothy Marle or Marlington and her husband, William, in about 1801 and a schedule of deeds, followed by a mortgage to Nathaniel Minshall of Pen y Palmant, in 1819. John Griffith (2) of Garn was vouchee to a recovery in 1749.

The file comprises a lease by Peter Parry of Pistill, Holywell, to John Roberts of premises in Henllan, 1787.

The file comprises a copy of the will of Thomas Edwards of Nant (Twm o'r Nant), 1807, in which he devised to his wife, Elizabeth, land called Bryn Rhedyn in the parish of Henllan, near the border with Llansannan, which he had from his father, bought using money borrowed from Evan Jones, butcher, of Nantglyn, with further bequests to other members of his family.

The file comprises a deed for the sale by Elizabeth Giffard to John Wynne Griffith of Tyddyn Ucha.

The file comprises a draft deed of sale by Thomas Longueville Longueville and Edward Williams, trustees of Frederick Richard West, to Hugh Hughes of a smith's shop and croft whereon H.H. had already erected a house, called the Cross Keys, and a draft mortgage of the premises by H.H. to George Griffith of Garn, 1856.