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NLW MSS 3641-4252 belonged to William Floyd (?1810-?1898), who spent many years at the Public Record Office - he applied for a ticket as from Bridgend, Glamorgan in 1856 - and in the British Museum engaged in research in the various types of records relating to the history of England and Wales preserved in those two institutions. With a few exceptions, most of which are described at the beginning of the collection, all the volumes are Floyd's notebooks and memoranda books. His collection, which had been presented to the London Library, of which he had been a member since its foundaton in 1841, was by that body transferred in 1899 to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth at the time when the Welsh Library Committee of the College was accumulating material of Welsh interest to form a nucleus for the projected national library for Wales.

A manuscript containing the names of all rectories 'in the kingdom of England and Calais and the Marches thereof' of the annual value of over £10, arranged in dioceses, deaneries and counties, followed by the names of all vicarages in England, Wales and the Marches of the annual value of over £10, similarly arranged, all having been transcribed from the Liber Regis in the First Fruits and Tenths Office.

Seven legal treatises, etc. bound together and written at differnt times by differnt hands but all of the 17th century.

An index of feet of fines, county of Gloucester, 1-13 George I, lithographed from the handwriting of Joseph Burtt, Assistant Keeper of the Public Records, and issued with a printed title-page set up at the Middle Hill press of Sir Thomas Phillipps.

A series of alphabetical lists of English towns compiled by James Grymes and Ben. Edwards from records ranging in date from the reign of Richard I to that of Philip and Mary.

A collection of legal precedents mainly in actions of trespass upon the case, trespass, debt and replevin. A large number of Shropshire cases are cited in the first part of the manuscript and there is one Carmarthenshire case (ejectment). Among names who figure in the actions are John [Williams], bishop of Lincoln (1582-1650) (quare impedit, etc.) and John Hampden (1594-1643) (debt as administrator). One the inside of the front cover is a table of fees of passing a fine in Wales.

A collection of writs arranged in alphabetical order of class, with a few notes taken mainly from the reports of Sir James Dyer (1512-1582). Under the headings privilegii and prohibitiones there are examples relating to the Court of the Marches.

One of two volumes containing lists compiled from the Book of Heirs from the time of Edward IV to that of Charles I, together with a note on ecclesiastical sokes.

One of ten volumes containing notes taken from printed sources (e.g. John Collinson: The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset ..., 3 vols (Bath, 1791) and R. W. Eyton: Domesday Studies ... Somerset ..., 1880) and from public records as material towards a parochial history of Somerset.

One of ten volumes containing notes taken from printed sources (e.g. John Collinson: The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset ..., 3 vols (Bath, 1791) and R. W. Eyton: Domesday Studies ... Somerset ..., 1880) and from public records as material towards a parochial history of Somerset.

One of ten volumes containing notes taken from printed sources (e.g. John Collinson: The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset ..., 3 vols (Bath, 1791) and R. W. Eyton: Domesday Studies ... Somerset ..., 1880) and from public records as material towards a parochial history of Somerset.

Brief abstracts of Somerset inquisitions post mortem, 24-30 Elizabeth.

An index of undertenants in Domesday Book holding lands mainly in Somerset, with accounts of the descendants of some of them based on public records and on Collinson's History (see NLW MSS 3657D-3666D).

Statistical summaries by counties compiled from Domesday returns.

Indices nominum to the Black Book of the Exchequer (ed. Thomas Hearne: Liber Niger Scaccarii ... Vol I, 1728), including separate alphabetical lists of earls and of tenants in chief and holders of fees by county and a general index nominum with reference to counties, with some further genealogical and other data on some of the families abstracted from public records.

An index of persons named in inquisitiones post mortem, etc., temp. Edward IV - Elizabeth.

Indexes to inquisitiones post mortem (with abstracts), lists of heirs, etc. for Devon, temp. Edward IV - Charles I.

One of two volumes containing lists of tenants and fees in Devon extracted from Domesday Book, with valuations, together with references to the Black Book of the Exchequer and the Testa de Nevill.

One of four volumes containing collections for a parochial history of Essex, consisting of extracts from public records and other sources arranged under parishes.

One of two volumes containing collections made for a parochial history of London taken from public records, British Museum manuscripts and printed sources, together with a list of references to London inquisitions.