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Sixteen volumes containing transcripts and extracts in the hand of Dr E. A. Lewis of record material, mainly in the Public Record Office and the British Museum, relating to Carmarthen, Carreg Cennen, Kidwelly, Dryslwyn, Dynevor, Llandovery, Llanstephan, Laugharne and Newcastle Emlyn castles, towns and lordships, Carmarthen priory and Talley abbey.

Academic papers of Edward Arthur Lewis, [c.1910]-1941, comprising abstracts from medieval and modern public records, including Chancery, Exchequer, Star Chamber and Court of Requests Proceedings, Ministers' Accounts, Subsidies, Chamberlains' Accounts, Pleas before the Justice of North Wales, and Quarter Sessions and Great Sessions records; abstracts from the Powys, Wynnstay, Brogyntyn, and Bronwydd Archives, with schedules of manorial records contained in these deposits; memoranda on the Welsh records in the Public Record Office; abstracts of records and notes on the lordships of Cydewain, Arwystli, Cyfeiliog, Broniarth, and Ardudwy; material for the history of Welsh boroughs (supplementing that published in Lewis, E. A., Medieval Boroughs of Snowdonia (London, 1912)); collections for the study of Welsh trade, commerce, customs duties, industry, shipping and agriculture; drafts of studies on Welshmen in London and the Welsh Fair (Barnet) from the Sessions Records of Middlesex in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Rebecca Movement, the Abbey of Strata Florida, claims of the study of Welsh History upon the attention of the University of Wales, country life in medieval Merioneth, the Kyffin family, the Raglawship of Cardiganshire, the coal and tobacco trade in Pembrokeshire; reports on theses and essays; and letters from Sir William Llewellyn Davies (1887-1952), Sir John Edward Lloyd (1861-1947), and others.

Extracts made by Edward Arthur Lewis and John Hobson Matthews from 'The Taylors Cussion' by George Owen, with an index by Egerton Allen to the facsimile edition published in 1906.

Extracts by E.A. Lewis from 'The Vairdre Book' by George Owen.

Transcripts by E.A. Lewis of documents, mainly in the Public Record Office, illustrating the manorial, administrative, and judicial history of Haverfordwest (see Cymmrodorion Record Series, 7, Vol. I) and copies by E.A. Lewis and D. Lleufer Thomas of two deeds, 1579-1612, relating to Haverfordwest now at the Cardiff Public Library (see West Wales Historical Records, II, pp. 137-148).

A transcript, 1903, by E.A. Lewis of an inquisition, September 23, 1651, relating to the charities bequeathed by James Haward, formerly of Gray's Inn, to the poor of Rudbaxton and to the Hospital of Haverfordwest.

Transcripts by E.A. Lewis of documents in the Public Record Office relating to the trial of Thomas John and Samuel Griffith on a charge of treason in connection with the French invasion of Fishguard, 1797.

A transcript by E.A. Lewis of a survey of the lordship of Haverfordwest, May 14, 1577 (see Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1903, p. 39), with a few notes on Haverfordwest churches (Ibid., 1900, p. 68).