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Original bundle comprising (i) a lease for a year dated 27 April 1781 by Roger Clough of Glanywern, Denbighshire, esq., and Ann Jemima (nee Butler) his wife, to John Warry of New Inn, Middlesex, gent., of an undivided moiety of Heene Farm (428 a.) in the parishes of Heene, West Tarring, Goring and Broadwater, Sussex, and other m's and lands (described), all of which are the same as those mentioned in the marriage settlement of James Butler of Rowdell, Sussex, esq., and Martha his wife dated 19 June 1760, (ii) a lease for a year, also dated 27 April 1781, by Luke Medwin of Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire, gent., and the said Roger Clough and Ann Jemima his wife, to Charles Morgan of Tredegar, esq., and Thomas Clough of Glanywern aforesaid, gent., of an undivided moiety of the manor of Pinkhurst in the parishes of Billingshurst, Itchingfield and West Chiltington, Sussex, also West Farm alias Kithurst Farm (203 a.), Town Farm and Walden Croft (47 a.), all in the parish of Storrington, Nash Farm (60 a.) in the parishes of Thakeham and Shipley, the capital messuage or mansion house called Thakeham Place (210 a.) in the parishes of Thakeham and Warminghurst, the manor of Chankton, the mansion house called Chankton with Chankton and Dinkle Farms (600 a.) in the parishes or hamlets of Washington, Ashington, Wiston and Brunton, and other messuages and lands (described), (iii) a release, dated 28 April 1781, from the said Luke Medwin to Charles Morgan of Tredegar, being the post-nuptial settlement of the said Roger Clough and Ann Jemima his wife, and also to bar all entails and remainders, and (iv-v) final agreements.

A copy of Donald Parr's thesis, 'The study of the development and present form of agriculture in Denbighshire', prepared for the degree of BA (University of Durham, 1959).

Sixteen volumes of various account books used by 'Nefydd' between 1842 and 1869. MS 7082A contains some memoranda of a farmer in Denbighshire, 1843-1852.

Two composite commonplace books of Edward Jones, Cyrchynan-uchaf, Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, 1824-1831, containing lists of preachers' texts, farming accounts and memoranda, overseers' accounts, sheep ear-marks, a ' carol plygain' (1830) by R. Williams and other verses in free metres, equivalent Welsh and English words and expressions, etc.

A collection of historical accounts of the castles of Prestatyn, Diserth, Basingwerk, Holywell, Caergwrle (otherwise Hope), Hawarden, Mold, Ewloe, Overton and Flint.

A collection, compiled by M. Louis, October 1840, of inscriptions on tombstones and monuments in churches in Denbighshire, including Henllan, Rhuddlan and Tremeirchion.

Copies of memorial inscriptions, mainly in the churches of Prestatyn, Rhuddlan, Rhyl, Trefriw, St Asaph, Trelogan, Tremeirchion, Whitford and Ysceifiog, with sketches and other illustrations.

Sermons preached at Efenechtyd and Llangynhafal, Denbighshire, 1810-1830, by John Jones of Plasynllan, Llangynhafal, rector of Efenechtyd, 1799-1817, and of Llangynhafal, 1817-1830, and brother of Robert Jones, the friend of William Wordsworth; and a copy of Mawr werth enaid dyn (Caernarvon, 1805).

An entry book, 1783-1798, of fees collected by the Reverend John Rocke on the passing of fines and recoveries in the Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire circuit of the Court of Great Sessions.

Farm and household accounts, 1736-1746, kept in a volume containing notes on gardening and fruit cultivation and on mechanics by Sidney Williams and/or Dorothy Wynne [?of Melai or of Rhos and Llangynhafal], Denbighshire.

A manuscript containing sermons preached at various places in Denbighshire, Flintshire, Montgomeryshire and Caernarvonshire.

Account book of Evan Jones, Park, parish of Llangwm, co. Denbigh, containing particulars of meat sold, 1852-4, and other accounts and memoranda, ca. 1855-62. The volumes was used, 1920s, to record over three hundred sheep earmarks from farms in counties Denbigh and Merioneth.

A catalogue of the library of Frederick Richard West (1799-1862) at Rhuthun Castle, co. Denbigh, August 1859, arranged in shelf order, with pencilled valuations and additions to the original list in a later hand.

A collection of twenty-eight folk-songs, mostly with words, noted by Mrs [later Lady] Ruth Herbert Lewis, collected in Flintshire and Denbighshire in 1910-1911. Thirteen of the songs are published in her Folk-songs collected in Flintshire and the Vale of Clwyd (Wrexham, 1914) or Journal of the Welsh Folk-song Society, 1 (1909-12) and 2 (1914-25).

Notes, 1828-1829, of sermons by John Elias, James Hughes ('Iago Trichrug') and others heard at Calvinistic Methodist churches in and around Denbigh, together with occasional references to events in the district.

A notebook, 1878-1879, containing sheep earmarks from over two thousand farms in counties Merioneth, Denbigh and Caernarfon, with an index of parishes and localities (pp. 246-7).

A manuscript containing a terrier of lands, 1616, in Cheshire, Flintshire, Montgomeryshire and Denbighshire, together with memoranda involving money owing and lent, etc.

A catalogue of the books, pamphlets, manuscripts and writings of John Davies of Llannerch, Denbighshire, taken 1778. The books are catalogued according to size. The occasion for the compilation of this catalogue was a lease for fifteen years of Llannerch Hall granted by John Davies to the Rev. William Davies Shipley, dean of St Asaph. Also preserved within this volume are four leaves containing a catalogue of the manuscripts in the Llannerch Library, taken in 1740.

A manuscript containing copies of titlings for writs of covenant, entries of fines levied and recoveries suffered at courts of Great Sessions for Montgomeryshire and Denbighshire, 1799-1806.

An imperfect rental of the lordship of Ros, ?Reuonyok, and Keym[er]gh, for the year ending Michaelmas 1451.