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A personal account book recording disbursements, 1826-1830, kept by W. T. Ellis, Cornist Hall, Flint, with letters, 1904-1905, relating thereto.

Particulars of a rate or assessment made by the mayor, aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Flint for the purpose of repairing and maintaining certain banks, fences, dams, tunnels, floodgates, culverts, etc., 1851-1854.

Miscellaneous autograph letters, 1828-1901, to George Potts Roskell, Peter Ellis Eyton and others, together with a copy of a letter dated 12 March 1680/1 from Mytton Davies, Gwysaney, to Thomas Edwards, Rhual.

Miscellanea relating to Chester and Cheshire, including copies of papers read at meetings of archaeological and other societies by Henry Taylor and others.

Copies of records in the British Museum, the Public Record Office, etc. relating to Flintshire and Cheshire.

Copies and abstracts of documents in the Public Record Office, the British Museum, etc. relating to Flintshire.

A letter book, 1813-1818, containing copies of business correspondence by Richard Sankey, Holywell (on behalf of Tipton and Company), mainly relating to the mining of lead and other ores in Flintshire.

Memoranda of the Crown side at the Courts of Great Sessions, Flintshire, 1707-1756, and Cheshire, 1741-1756.

Extracts from minutes of meetings of the council and committees of the borough of Flint, 1883-1888.

Correspondence between Henry Taylor (1845-1927) and the Municipal Corporations Commission; a printed copy of the census of Flint, 1871.

Miscellanea relating to Flint, including correspondence and papers relating to the rector of Flint.

Papers relating to the erection of the new town hall at Flint, 1837-1841, 1886, including a list of subscriptions received, an account of the expenditure and copies of resolutions adopted by the burgesses.

A volume containing a list of subscribers towards the erection of a new town hall at Flint, 1837, along with accounts of the Building Committee, 1837-1841.

A Flintshire farmer's notebook, 1808-1815, containing particulars of the sowing and planting of crops at Stockyn, with remarks on their progress.

Copies, made at Mostyn Hall by Henry Taylor's (1845-1927) sister, of original seventeenth century letters and orders of Flintshire interest issued by the Privy Council.

Papers relating to Flintshire parliamentary elections, 1835-1852, being mainly the papers of Edward Bate, Kelsterton, Flintshire, mayor of Flint in 1847, and including many letters addressed to him, drafts of letters written by him, press cuttings, circulars, particulars concerning the electorate and individual electors, accounts, etc.

These manuscripts form part of the Flintshire Historical Collection once in the possession of Henry Taylor (1845-1927), who was Town Clerk of Flint and whose best-known work is Historic Notices ... of the Borough and County-Town of Flint ..., published 1888. The collection comprises material largely of Flint and Flintshire interest and includes historical material, transcripts of documents and extracts from parish registers, minutes of borough meetings, pedigrees relating to notable families of the district, papers relating to parliamentary elections, correspondence, etc.

Interleaved copies of Henry Taylor, Historic Notices, with Topographical and other Gleanings descriptive of the Borough and County-Town of Flint... (London, 1883), with numerous manuscript notes and other additions, including autograph letters.

A manuscript entitled History of the Town and Castle of Flint gan Haneswr (Cymro a anwyd yn Sir Flint), 1851, with a note by Henry Taylor (1845-1927): I found this MS. among the papers of the late J. Ellis Eyton M.P. at the Town Hall, Flint, in 1874. I think it is in his handwriting when a boy.

One of four volumes containing about five hundred and fifty autograph letters written to Henry Taylor (1845-1927), mainly during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century.