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An account book containing 'An Account of the Creditors of the late John Lloyd, Esquire'; 'An Account of the Sales of Estates & Timber belonging to the late John Lloyd, Esquire' (including a sale of Wigfair timber, April 1817, a sale of the Mold estate, June 1817, and sales at St. Asaph, June 1817, and at Mold, August 1817); the account of W. Wynne with Richard Watkin Price, Esq., and the Reverend Richard Howard; 'An account of the Sales of Timber at Wygfair and Hafodunos in February 1818'; and [the] 'Rev[ eren]d Richard Howard's acc[oun]t with the Representatives of ye late John Lloyd, Esqr.', 1818-1822. All these relate to the settlement of the affairs of John Lloyd of Hafodunos and Wigfair subsequent to his death in April 1815.

A household account book recording, month by month, sums expended on food, clothing, household utensils, servants and casual labourers' wages, local travelling, etc., during the years 1763-1775, 1777-1779, 1780 (incomplete), 1781, 1782 (incomplete), 1783 (incomplete), 1784 (incomplete), and 1785. The frequent references to turnpike tolls paid in visiting Ruthin may indicate a residence in that area. Also mentioned in connection with turnpike payments or otherwise are Bodfari, Denbigh, Derwen, Hafodunos, Llanruth, Llanrwst, Northop, Plasnewydd, Plasriffith, Rudland, Soughton, etc. The hand bears a close resemblance to that of the writer of the first two letters in NLW MS 12413C, i.e. M. [possibly Mary] Lloyd, aunt of Phoebe Lloyd and consequently of John Lloyd ('The Philosopher') of Hafodunos. At the end of the volume a loose leaf written in a different hand and recording 'Money layed out at Plascoch' in September 1786 has been inserted.

Forty-one holograph letters, etc., 1769-1813, from John Lloyd from Oxford, Dublin, London, Bewdley, Brussells, Calais, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Worcester, and Wygfair, and on board the Courageux at Spit Head, addressed to Mr. Brittain, Chester, 1793 (instructions relating to the handling of cases containing inter alia a clock and instruments sent from London to Wygfair), Mr. Jones, Wygfair, St. Asaph, 1795-1797 (2) (description of conditions on a voyage from Holyhead to Dublin, the taking over of a gold mine [in Ireland] by the government to prevent the peasants working it, an intended visit to Mr. Mills's house at the copper mine at Cronbane, a stay with Sir Joseph Banks in London, the writer's presentation to the King and Queen, speculation as to the outcome of negotiations between the ambassadors from France and Lord Malmsbury), Mr. Nat. Jones, Wickwer, Denbigh, 1789 [? the same person as the Mr. Jones of the two previous letters] (personal, a visit to Brussells and a meeting with the Abbe Mann, a proposed trip to Paris, details as to the terms, conditions, etc., of education in the convent at St. Omers), 'Dear Nat', 1791 [? the same person as the Nat. Jones of the previous letter] (personal, news of acquaintances, plans in connection with a proposed trip to the island of Shetland with Sir Thomas Dundas in Sir Thomas's yacht to inspect land belonging to Sir Thomas for copper, the said land being adjacent to ground on which copper had already been found), Mrs. [Dorothea] Lloyd, [writer's mother, Soughton near Northop and Hafodunos, 1769-1784 (16) (personal, family and estate affairs, financial matters, a receipt for money received from the Rev. William Conway as one of the executors of the will of Mrs. Eliza Conway, observations made by the writer and a friend in Bewdley on the comet and his keen interest in the science of optics though not to the neglect of his business (1769), impressions of London and places and persons seen ( 1770), a visit to the Herald's office [in London] to examine the pedigree of the Lloyds of Havodunos and comments on the said pedigree (1770), the cost of a new coach and harness, a visit to Calais and thence in Mr. Shuttleworth's yacht to Amsterdam and Antwerp and some account of activities in these places (1777), plans for a proposed trip to Bruxelles (1777), a stay with Sir John Cope at Bromshill, Hants. (1778), a visit to Spit Head to witness the King's review of the fleet (1778), a Snowdon expedition (1778), the writer's belief that all were 'to be ruined in Wales by a scheme of our diabolical cursed Ministers . . . to inclose all the waste lands in Wales for the Benefit of the Crown solely' (1778), a violent gale which had struck the ships of the fleet at Spithead where the writer was on board the Courageux (1781)), Howell Lloyd [the writer's father], Soughton near Northop and Hafodunos, 1770-1776 and undated (4) (personal, arrangements for a journey to Llangernew (1770), the price of clover and trefoil, bequests made by Sir John Wynne (1773), an account of proceedings of a commission to determine whether Mrs. S[ ] Lloyd was a lunatic and matters arising there from (1776)), the Rev. J. Conway Potter, 1801 (2) (the death of the writer's mother [Mrs. Dorothea Lloyd]), the Rev. Rice Pugh, Llysfaen, Carnarvon, 1796 (a request that recipient would deny reports that he was going to vote against Sir Robert Williams after promising to vote for him [? in the Caernarvonshire parliamentary election, though the letter is dated 8 June whilst the election date is given as 7 June in W. R. Williams, Parl. Hist. Wales and other returns), John Lloyd Salusbury, Galtf . . . aenan, 1813 (suggestions relating to the act for inclosing lands in the parish of St. Asaph), Sir George Shuckburgh [who later adopted the additional name of Evelyn], Margate, 1784 (a balloon ascent by [Vincenzo] Lunardi), Mr. [John] Topham [treasurer of the Society of Antiquaries], undated (the intended resignation of the writer from the Society [of Antiquaries], a complaint that he had not been receiving copies of the society's publications, mention of talks or correspondence with Mr. [William] Norris [secretary of the society], a recommendation on behalf of Dr. [? Thomas] Meredith [for membership] signed by the writer [see N.L.W. MS. 12420]) (copy?), Sir W[atkin] W[illiams] Wynne, 1795 (the stewardship of the lordship of D[enbigh]) (draft copy), the gentlemen, clergy, and freeholders of the county of Flint, 1796-1799 (2) (offering his services as parliamentary candidate for the county in 1796, his resignation as parliamentary representative of the county in 1799) (draft copies), the Commissioners of the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Denbigh, 1797 (the writer's resignation of his commission as a lieutenant in the supplementary militia of the county and the reasons for his action) (copy), a copy of an application by Lloyd for 'such an Office as will vacate my Seat for the county of Flint' in 1799 [? a copy of his application for the Chiltern Hundreds]), and five incomplete or fragmentary letters.

Seventeen holograph letters addressed to Howell Lloyd at Hafodunos and at Soughton, near Northop. The writers include [ ] Hall (in the third person), undated (the care of Mr. Griffith's mare, personal), Peter John, Ruthin, 1776 (the financial affairs of the late Mr. Conway of Soughton, with references to chief rents and heriots in Efenechtid and Llangwifen and a debt due to the writer), Edw. Jones, Holywell, 1777 (the examination of Mrs. Susan Lloyd for lunacy, personal), John Jones, W[hi]t Church, 1775 ( an invoice for books, etc., personal, a reference to the sale at Hammer Hall), [Dr.] Trevor Jones, Soughton Grove, 1780 (a plan for the restoration of the recipient's health), David Lloyd, [vicar of] Llangernew, also from Pentre, 1770-1772 (2) (the sealing of 'every place' at Havod unos, the death of the writer's 'worthy friend', the vacant curacy of Llangernew, the writer's relationship with the recipient's family), Hedd Lloyd, Whitchurch, [17]70 (the health of their brother, must go to Ruthin and Plascoch), R. Lloyd, Hope, [17]66 and un-dated (2) (the death of Mrs. Wickham, a proposed visit to Soughton, the recipient's health, the death of their brother and of the vicar's brother-in-law), Tho. Sloughter, Chester, 1781 (thanks for a pot of char), Arn[old] Vincent, Stoke D'Abernon, 1780 (a better plan for working the mines on Mold Mountain), Bennett Williams, Chester, 1770 (news of the recipient's brother), J. Wynne, London, 1782 (a draft for £32/10/0, the writer's visit to Soughton, unhealthy weather, news of Mr. and Mrs. Bankes, the 'Dr',s engagements in the Court of Admiralty and on the Visitation of the Bishop of London), and John Wynne, Coed Coch, 1776 (3) (a godfather to an infant son John).

Sixty-one holograph and autograph letters, notes, etc., addressed to John Lloyd at Garden Court, London, at Hafodunos near St. Asaph, at Wigfair near St. Asaph and elsewhere, 1776-1814.
They comprise letters, etc., from Joseph Elkington, Birmingham and Wooburn, 1796 and undated (4) (personal, locations of places where the writer had undertaken the job of underdraining); Tho[ma]s Ellis, Rhosfynnach [co. ?], 1804 (the erection of a hut and beacon, a trial fire on the Bodavon mountain beacon); [Sir] Henry C[harles] Englefield, London and Cheltenham, 1782 and undated (4) (personal news, the death of his uncle Sir Ch[arles Louis] Buck, the confusion in the ministry caused by the death of Lord Rock[ingham], comments on scientific instruments); Kathe[rine] Englefield [?Lady Englefield, mother of Sir Henry aforementioned], London, 1785 (personal); J[ohn] Evans, Wynnstay, 1794 (a map which the writer was ? compiling, a request for a sketch of the park at Kinmel); [Sir] George [Augustus William] Shuckburgh Evelyn [the additional name of Evelyn having been assumed in 1793], Shuckburgh Park, [Warwickshire], Felbridge near East Grinsted, Sussex, East Bourne, Westminster, Geneva, etc., 1778-1801 and undated (31) (personal news, news of mutual acquaintances, the construction of an astronomical edifice at Havodunos (1778), a request to Lloyd to call on Walther's, the bookbinder in Castle Court, the Strand [London], sums paid to [Jesse] Ramsden in respect of an 'equatorial' cum pertinentibus [at Shuckburgh] (1789), the death of [Major] General [William] Roy and concern regarding his calculations, books, etc. (1790), peace with Spain (1790), talk of a coalition between Pitt and Fox (1790), the birth of a daughter to Lady Shuckburgh and the writer (1790), comments on barometrical observations, refraction, etc., observations of the solstice in order to determine the obliquity of the ecliptic (1791), a request for an opinion on the writer's account of the equatorial [An Account of the Equatorial Instrument. From the Philosophical Transactions, London?, 1793?], the defeat of the French (1794), the assumption by the writer of the additional name of Evelyn (1794), fine harvests (1795), the writer's intention 'to determine the length of the Pendulum in order to ascertain a fixed Standard for weights and measures' and preparations for this (1795), 'troublesome Assemblies' and a 'disposition to rio[ts]' in recipient's neighbourhood, the need for vigour and firmness to stop such conduct and the necessity of stopping 'the common people' from taking the law into their own hands (1795), riots and meetings in London to petition against the two Bills (1795) [?the Seditious Meetings Act and the Treasonable Practices Act], the writer's election (1796) [?re-election as Member of Parliament for the county of Warwick], the death of Lady Shuckburgh's uncle, Mr. Medley and his bequest of his property to Lady Shuckburgh and the writer (1796), experiments with the pendulum and the new scales from Troughton and work with regard to weights and measures (1796), the spread of 'the flame of war', the accumulation of private and public debts, the King's illness, the abandonment of the helm by ministers 'in a moment of such danger' and 'for such a miserable pretext as the Catholic question' (1801), an expedition to Mt. Saleve and barometrical and trigonometrical observations and a proposal to measure the height of Mt. Blanc 'by a suite of triangles'); Thomas Fairbairn, Spring Grove, 1812 (questions re. fruit); J. Farey, Langevny, Anglesea, 1813 (arrangements in connection with a proposed mineral survey in North Wales); Cha[rle]s Finch [later Charles Griffith-Wynne], Voylas, [1806] (levies and a fine imposed on the townships of Tre Ganol and Tre Kernioge in the parish of Tir y Abbot, [Denbighshire] in respect of road mending, mention of the Denbigh road and the Great Holyhead Turnpike); T [ ] Firminger, Greenwich Royal Observatory, 1803 (enclosing tables of the geocentric motion of the planets [ie. asteroids] Pallas and Ceres Ferdinandea); Dr. J. Fisher, Doctors' Commons, 1799-1803 (2) (personal); [John Hamilton FitzMaurice, styled viscount] Kirkwall, Denbigh, Deganwy Castle and Charles St. [London], 1812-1813 and undated (6) (personal, a quest for accommodation [in London], comments on Sir Watkin [?Williams Wynn] and his regiment [? the Denbighshire militia], the prospects of peace); [Mary FitzMaurice, suo jure countess of] Orkney, Lleweny, Bath and Charles St. [London], 1793-1814 (3) (personal, the letting or selling of Fron Yew); Ja[me]s Fox, Derby, 1812 (3) (technical details relating to water closets, drying closets, washing machines, steam engines for threshing corn, etc.); and R[ichar]d Fydell, Boston, [Lincolnshire], 1776 (thanks for news of events in America).

Fifty-eight holograph letters addressed to Susan(na) Lloyd at Hafodunos, Mold, at Soughton House (upper Soughton), Northop, etc. The writers include Ann Jemima Clough, Thakeham Place, 1797 (a proposed visit by the writer's children, news of family and friends), D[orothea] Clough [the recipient's sister], Denbigh, [1805] and undated (2) (legacies bequeathed by the wills of aunt E. Conway and aunt Wickham) (with one draft reply), Richd. Garnons [Colomendy], undated (2) (pleasantries), Eliza Griffith, Carreg-lwyd, etc., [1801]-1803 and undated (4) (news of relatives and friends, a meeting at Llangefni in connection with a proposed testimonial to Mr. Sparrow for his services in the Customs, disturbances in the Paris mines, the arrival of troopers in Caernarvonshire for fear of a rising by the poor, the discovery of copper at Ynysygwyddal, the birth of an heir at Leweney and a reference to Mrs. Piozzi, the progress of the harvest, comments on a visit to Bath), Holland Griffith, Carreglwyd, 1838 (amusement afforded the recipient by the writer's Welsh paper, hopes that electioneering differences are fast dying away in Flintshire, a visit to the writer by a multitude of Teetotalists, the letting of the writer's colliery at Berw), Richd. Howard, Denbigh and Beaumaris, c. 1817-1843 and undated (4) (news of relatives and friends, a visit to Bangor Deanery, serious proceedings arising from old Panton's will, a change in the agency of the Marquis of Anglesey, satisfaction with the writer's curate, the probable departure of Thomas Davies from Jesus College, Oxford, a new statute in the University, the rejection of three Anglesey young men for scholarships, observations on the projected division of Soughton Common, a legal action touching a mortgage of the Hafodunos estate (together with a receipt, 1815, from Richd. Howard to Susan Lloyd for a sum of £6/10/0 paid by the former on the latter's behalf to Bevan, the timber merchant, on account of Coedycra Mill), the writer's departure from Beaumaris and subsequent movements, income from minerals received for the recipient, dissension in the National Church) (one incomplete), Catha[rine] Lloyd, from Carreglwyd, from Bath, etc., [17]94-1820 and undated (26) (copious news of relatives and friends, references to threats of French invasion and to the defenceless state of the Kingdom (1795-1804), accounts of visits to the theatre and to parties and to Ireland and Bath, etc., Colonel William Shipley's success in the Flintshire parliamentary election of 1807, references to the mine at Ynnisygwyddle), J[ohn] Ll[oyd], Dublin Bay, 1801 (an account of the voyage from Holyhead and the arrival at Dublin), M. Lloyd, Bagillt, etc., [17]81-1790 and undated (9) (personal, the writer's health, news of relatives and friends, the death of the recipient's brother Ben), M. Lloyd, London, etc., 1803-1809 and undated (5) (news of relatives and friends, the health of the writer's husband, a reference to the most excellent shore at Llandidno Bay, the progress of the harvest, the writer's removal to London, visits to the 'Ladies of Llangollen' and to Cheltenham, the recipient's trouble about the writer's chaise), Phoe[be] Lloyd, from Plascoch, undated (the health of the writer's aunt), M. E. Potter, Soughton, [17]91 (personal, business matters on behalf of the writer's mother, news of the writer's mother) (with additions by M. E. Potter to Mr. Potter, touching 'home matters', with references to stock, and from C[atharine] Lloyd to Susanna Lloyd, touching armorial colours for a piece of plate), and Sarah Potter, undated (thanks for the loan of Aunt Lloyd's letter, requires a supply of ale).

A volume containing a rental for the year 1661 of the demesne of Hauodynnos, and of lands in Llansanan [co. Denbigh] held by virtue of a lease granted by Mr. Rob[er]t Wynne of Dyffryn Aled to Mr. Henry Lloyd of Hauod ynnos, deceased; an account of rents received in respect of the demesne of Hauod ynnos and of lands in Llansanan aforesaid, and of rents received from Hauod ynnos tenants, May and Michaelmas 1661; accounts of money received [? from the sale of] horses, cattle, sheep, crops, etc., and of presents received, 1661; and a summary of accounts [? in respect of the Hafodunos estate] for the period 6 November 1661 to 9 May 1662 by Dauid Lewis.