Estate records, including deeds and documents, 1304-1887, relating to the estates of the Glynnes in Flintshire and elsewhere. The first three centuries covered by the deeds relate largely to the Ravenscroft family, their property, and their legal transactions. A large body of the documents relate to the period when Sir John Glynne, 6th bart., was the occupier of the estate. Other estate records include accounts, rentals, estate, household, and personal accounts, inventories, election expenses, colliery accounts, lists of charities distributed, estate maps, plans, surveys, bills, vouchers, etc., 1690-1872, including rentals of the lordship of Hawarden, 1686-1886. -- Amongst the personal papers are the diaries and account books of Sir John Glynne, 1753-1757, the diaries of the Rev. Stephen Glynne, 1798-1824, Mary Glynne, afterwards Lady Lyttelton, 1824-1831, Stephen Richard Glynne, 1825-1874, and W. H. Gladstone whilst at Eton College, 1856-1857; travel journals through North Wales, 1824, South Wales, 1824, Scotland, 1839, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland, Belguim, Greece and Austria, 1834-1866, Turkey, 1848, Egypt, 1850, and Palestine, 1850. -- The archive also includes election papers such as lists of voters, canvass returns, accounts, relating to Flintshire elections, 1727-1837, letters written by and to members of the Glynne family and to Gladstone; notes on history, genealogy and ecclesiology; ships' log-books, 1727-1730 and 1734-1739. -- A separate group of legal papers which belonged to a lawyer named Dovey, relate mainly to bankrupts, and their immediate relevance to the Glynne family is not very obvious.

A volume, with insets, containing pedigrees, with annotations and some blazons of arms, partly in the hand of Robert Prys Morris ('Robyn Frych').

Private letters of the families of Maurice, Owen and Ormsby-Gore of Clenennau and Brogyntyn, 1587-1950, the Godolphin family of Abertanat, 1698-1764 and other individuals who were connected with them by marriage, friendship or official business, 1582-1933, frequently accompanied by copies, drafts or originals of outgoing correspondence and relevant letters from third parties. The range of subjects includes personal and social matters; local government; political news; contemporary national and local events; lawsuits; questions of title and inheritance; trusts; debts, mortgages and other financial matters; family history; the education and careers of individuals; property purchases and estate business in North Wales, Shropshire and Ireland, where this is inseparable from other topics.

The file comprises a letter by Reginald Charles Heaton to his aunt, Jessy Griffith, regarding pedigrees and arms of Heaton and Griffith.

A notebook containing 'collectanea' of Thomas relating to the diocese of St Asaph, the Church and Nonconformity in Wales, archaeology, pedigrees, poetry, place names, autograph signatures, etc.

'Cadw Di gai neu Gofiedydd yr Amserau', being a miscellany and commonplace book kept by William Owen ('Gwilym Alaw'), Chwaen Wen, Anglesey, farmer and poet. -- Among the numerous items in the volume are: 'Petigree of William Owen Chwaen wen Anglesey ... son of Owen Williams of Erianall Goch Llechgwenfarwydd ...', 'Count of stock at Whaen Wen when I married Being in the 23 years of my age in July 1785', 'Prawf o fuddioldeb rhywogaeth dda o ddefaid a wnaed gan ... Arglwydd Somerville yn Somerset yn ... 1804', 'Swm Treth y Property a godwyd gan W. Owen yn Llantrisant Ceidio a gwredog ...', 1803-15, 'Hanes Ardrethion chwaen wen', 1785-1801, 'Rents Paid by Wm. Owen to Sr. J. T. Stanley...', 'Tythes rents paid by Will Owen at chwaen wenn', 1787-1819, 'An Inventory of all Live and dead Stock in the Parish of Llantrisaint, and in the Chapelry of Gwredog in the said Parish ... made in the year 1798 May 21 when an invasion was daily expected by the French under Napoleon Buonaparte which inventories were duly made in all the Maritime districts of Gt. Britain so that sufferers should be indemnified out of the Public Funds', 'A list of persons in the Parish of Llantrisaint and in the Chapelry of Gwredog willing to serve in defence of the Country should an invasion be made, in what manner and what implements they can bring forward, all between the age of 15 and 60 years', 'Copies of Inventories Appraised by William Owen of Dronwy and others between the years 1773 and [1848]', 'Account of Leg(a)cy schedules filled and send to London By me William Owen Blew Bell Holyhead', 1837-49, 'Copies of some Wills Made by me William Owen', valuations and appraisements in various Anglesey parishes, a long autobiographical note by William Owen, 'Cyfrif or Arian a gefais wrth fyned ir carchar ir Kings Bench ac a gefais yno oddiwrth gyfeillion yn Mon ac wedi dyfod adref gan y rhai teimladwy', etc.

The pedigree of the Lloyd family of Dolobran, Montgomeryshire, from the sixth to the eighteenth centuries, compiled by Charles Lloyd, November 1753.

Pedigrees and notes, copied for W. Harry Rylands, from MSS. Ashmole 836, 846, and Rawlinson D 866 and 911.

Notes by Walter Davies on the pedigree of various branches of the Herbert family, and on Welsh grammar and philology; extracts from poems; a letter from Humphrey Foulkes [? to Edward Lhuyd]; etc.

Transcripts of a letter from 'Mr Kinaston o Bant y Byrsley', a letter from Robert Vaughan (Hengwrt) to 'Mr Kinaston' a table of tolls payable by the inhabitants of the townships of Measbury, Sweeney, Llanforda, Treflech, Trefychlawdd, Weston, Cotton, and Soughton, and by 'forrinors' at Oswestry fairs [1608], Trioedd Taliesin, fragments of early British history and genealogy, and englynion by Huw Morus, Richard Abraham, Syr Lewis, etc.