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Commonplace books containing miscellaneous extracts mainly from printed sources, and relating to North Wales.

A collection of transcripts, mainly by Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt, of records relating to North Wales, including the extent of North Wales by John de Delves, 26 Edward III; a record of a view of frankpledge for the commote of Menai, 28 Henry VIII; ministers' accounts for Flintshire, 30-31 Henry VIII; extracts from miscellaneous inquisitions, rentals, court rolls, and correspondence; receipts of Lewis Owen, deputy receiver of North Wales, 1 & 2 Philip and Mary; notes of leases under the exchequer seal, 1579; notes on the form of administration of justice in Wales by Auditor Hill; 'The State of the Dominion of Wales' by Sir Thomas Canon; accounts of John Lloyd of Ragad, escheator of Merioneth; instructions to the Earl of Bridgewater, President of the Council in Wales and the Marches, 1633; a roll of the coroner for Merioneth, 10-11 Edward III; estreats of fines in North Wales, 22-30 Edward III; lists of persons indicted in Merioneth, 6- 19 Richard II; records of pleas before the justice of North Wales, 4 Edward II; a list of recognisances in the exchequer at Caernarvon, 18 Edward II; lists of persons in Anglesey fined for being in arms with Owen Glyndyfrdwy, with lists of outlaws and jurors; and a breviate of an account between Sir John Salesbury, chamberlain of North Wales, and Lewis Owen, his deputy, 1555.

References and extracts, relating mainly to North Wales affairs, taken from issues of The Rhyl Journal for 1905-1911.

Official documents and other papers, 1675-1727, many of them addressed to the deputy lieutenants, etc. of Caernarvonshire and relating to the militia, musters, the confiscating of weapons in the possession of Papists, etc. Among the correspondents are Henry, 3rd marquis of Worcester and first duke of Beaufort, Lord President of the Council in the Marches of Wales, Col. Thomas Mostyn of Gloddaeth, John Wynne of Whitehall, mustermaster for Caernarvonshire, and Richard, 3rd baron Bulkeley of Baron Hill. The documents include a statement by Thomas Glynne relating to a 'conventicle' at the house of Ellis Owen, Llangybi, at which James Owen preached; a memoranandum by Thomas Mostyn relating to the refusal of William Wynne, sheriff of Flintshire, to read the proclamation of King George II at Holywell; and some papers of general North Wales interest.

A volume compiled by J. H. Davies labelled 'North Wales' and containing press cuttings, notices, copies of photographs and engravings, etc. relating to North Wales and North Wales families.

Treatises in Latin; a Greek vocabulary; material relating to the hundreds and parishes of Merioneth, Montgomeryshire and Pembrokeshire; 'the Syren & the hundredes of Engelonde'; rentals of several North Wales manors; an account of a tax paid by North Wales counties in 1701; a transcript of documents of King Alfred; etc.

North Wales pedigrees copied from 'Llyfr Melyn Tyfrydog', which is said to be a transcript, made [c. 1766], by Hugh Hughes ('Y Bardd Coch') of a manuscript owned by Lewis Morris; papers relating to persons and places in North Wales and to the diocese of Bangor; 'englynion'; correspondence between W[illiam] Wynn Williams, Jonathan Jones and Lady Chandos Reade; etc.

Pedigrees, genealogical notes, letters, pamphlets, etc. relating to North Wales collected by Hugh Robert Hughes (1827-1911).

Rentals of crown and other lands and manors in various parts of North Wales, including rents due to John Edwards, Chirk, together with three documents relating to land in the lordship of Chirk and Flintshire.

Press cuttings, some of them of North Wales interest.

Transcripts of records relating to North Wales, being the text of the Additamenta printed in The Record of Caernarvon, 1837, pp. 296-303, from Harleian MS 4776.