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Abstracts and transcripts of deeds and documents of the Bodrhyddan estate and of public records ('Placita de Quo Warranto', 'Rotulorum Originalium ... Abbrevatio', Recognizance Rolls, 'Welsh Records', Patent Rolls, Close Rolls, Plea Rolls, Charter Rolls, Pipe Rolls, Fine Rolls), and notes from printed sources (e.g. T. Tanner: Notitia Monastica) relating to the abbey of Basingwerk, and to Caergwrle, Caerwys, Ewlowe, Gwespyr, Hawarden, Holywell, and Hope; notes on Hope church; extracts from a pedigree of Richard Lewys late of Galchog, compiled by Griffith Hughes, deputy-herald for North Wales, 1639; and a pencil sketch of the Basingwerk outbuildings, 1916.

Material relating to a history of Rhuddlan, comprising extracts and transcripts from printed sources, from Bodrhyddan estate muniments, and from a wide variety of public records (Recognizance Rolls, Welsh Rolls, Patent Rolls, Close Rolls, Charter Rolls, Fine Rolls, Pipe Rolls, State Papers Domestic, Land Revenue Miscellaneous Books, Chamberlains' Accounts, Ministers' Accounts, 'Rotulorum Originalium ... Abbrevatio', Papal Letters, Parliamentary Surveys, Red Book of Exchequer, etc.). NLW MS 8973D contains a terrier, partly in shorthand, 1791, and notes, 1915, in the hand of the vicar, T. W. Vaughan.

Material towards a history of the parish of Cwm, comprising a transcript of a terrier of 1774 and an abstract of another of 1856; a transcript of an allotment by John Calveley, 1813, of commons and waste lands in the parishes of Newmarket and Cwm; a list of field names taken from the tithe apportionment, 1844; extracts from Recognizance Rolls, Bodrhyddan estate muniments, and printed sources; and some notes on the flora of Cwm [in the hand of R. H. Day, Cwm], together with a covering letter, 1913.

Abstracts of deeds and documents principally of the Bodrhyddan estate and extracts and transcripts from printed sources, including catalogues of, and reports on, public records (Recognizance Rolls, 'Rotulorum Originalum ... Abbrevatio', etc.), relating to properties in Ayleneton [Allington], Bistre, Bodfari, Cilcain, Coleshill, Diserth, Englefield, Flint, Golftyn otherwise Wolvington, Gwaenysgor, Kelsterton, Leadbrook Major, Northop, Oakenholt, Rhylofnyd [Newmarket], Wepra, Whitford, Worthenbury, and Ysceifiog; transcripts of printed accounts of the churches of Gwaenysgor, Nerquis, and Treuddyn, co. Flint, and of Halston Chapel, co. Salop; a note on Carncarnacan [Carnychen] church; an abstract of the tithe apportionment of the parish of Gwaenysgor, 1846; an historical account of the firm of Henry Wood and Co., Ltd, chain and anchor manufacturers, Saltney; transcripts of two notices relating to Talargoch [Lead] Mines, 1775-7, and reminiscences of Peter Hughes, Castle House, Bryniau, of strikes in the mines, 1877, 1884, etc.

Transcripts of Flintshire interest, comprising extracts from public records (Recognizance Rolls, etc.) relating to Llanasa, Prestatyn, Trelogan, Gronant (Gronantesmore), Gwaenysgor, Gwespyr, Gwestby, Axton, and Picton; extracts from Bodrhyddan muniments relating to Cilcain, Gwespyr, Axton, and Golden Grove; notes on Recusant Rolls taken from 'Lancashire and Cheshire Records in the Public Record Office' in Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society Publications, Vol. VII (1882), pp. 188ff., with some account of recusants in Llanasa, Newmarket, and Diserth; an account of the Llanasa Enclosure Act [of 1811]; a note on the pedigree of Griffith of Pantyllongdy, with reference to Elis Gruffydd, 'a soldier of Calais', and a pedigree of the family of Mostyn of Talacre, compiled by J[onathan] Ceredig Davies, Llanilar, Aberystwyth; notes from printed sources on the family of Morgan of Golden Grove, and the antiquities and customs of Llanasa; and memoranda from the estate muniments of the family of Mostyn of Talacre.

Transcripts of Flintshire interest, comprising extracts from Recognizance Rolls relating to Axton, Caerfallwch (Caervalloch), Creycray, Englefield, Gronant, Gwespyr (Westbury), Linacre, Llanasa, Llewarled, Mostyn, Newmarket, Picton, and Vaynol; notes from printed sources relating to Llanasa (including extracts from the parish registers - see Archaeologia Cambrensis, Ser. V, Vol. IX, pp. 321ff.), Golden Grove, and the family of Griffith of Pantyllongdy; an essay on Gwilgre (Golden Grove); a transcript of a Bodrhyddan estate document relating to a lease of Picton coal mine [in Llanasa], 1631; illustrations from Harleian MS. 2129, p. 175, of arms in 'Westbury Church'; tombstone inscriptions from Llanasa; and correspondence to Thomas Edwards from Dyserth and District Field Club, 1912.

Material relating to the history of Prestatyn, largely in the form of extracts from public records (Recognizance Rolls, Patent Rolls, Close Rolls, Pipe Rolls, Inquisitions Post Mortem, Testa de Nevill, 'Rotulorum Originalium ... Abbrevatio'), Bodrhyddan estate muniments, and printed sources (including the Chronicle of John de Oxenedes).

Material relating to the history of Prestatyn, largely in the form of extracts from public records (Recognizance Rolls, Patent Rolls, Close Rolls, Pipe Rolls, Inquisitions Post Mortem, Testa de Nevill, 'Rotulorum Orginalium ... Abbrevatio'), Bodrhyddan estate muniments, and printed sources (including the Chronicle of John de Oxonedes); together with draft essays on Prestatyn Castle.

Material relating to the history of Prestatyn, largely in the form of extracts from public records (Recognizance Rolls, Patent Rolls, Close Rolls, Pipe Rolls, Inquisitions Post Mortem, Testa de Nevill, 'Rotulorum Originalium ... Abbrevatio'), Bodrhyddan estate muniments, and printed sources (including the Chronicle of John de Oxenedes).

Transcripts of material prepared by Thomas Edwards and Colonel Charles S. Mainwaring, Galltfaenan, Trefnant, relating to the arms entitled to be used by the Dinorben (Hughes of Kinmel) family, and particularly to the relationship claimed to the family of Hughes of Llewerllyd, co. Flint; together with holograph letters and a postcard, 1914, to Thomas Edwards from Philip H. Lawson, Chester, and Charles S. Mainwaring. The papers include extracts from Bodrhyddan estate muniments, a Hughes of Kinmel pedigree prepared by Philip H. Lawson, and the opinion of A. M. Burke, 1 Cloisters, Temple, E.C., 1906.

Material relating to the history of Diserth, particularly of the castle and parish church. Among them are extracts from the parish register, 1623-36; extracts from public records (Recognizance Rolls, Patent Rolls, Close Rolls, Royal and Historical Letters, Domesday Book, etc.), Peniarth and Harleian manuscripts, Bodrhyddan estate muniments, and printed sources; a note by T. Allen Glenn on an inscription in the churchyard; transcripts of letters of Alfred Neobard Palmer, Wrexham, 1910, and H. B. Thompson, Blundellsands, 1910; and a pedigree of the family of Hughes of Kinmel, compiled by Philip H. Lawson, Chester, 1914.

Material relating to the history of the parish of Newmarket, including extracts from public records ('Welsh Records', Recognizance Rolls, Chamberlains' Accounts, 'Taxatio' of Pope Nicholas) and from Bodrhyddan estate muniments; a transcript of the boundaries of the parish made by John Calveley of Stapleford, 1813; transcripts of tombstone inscriptions; extracts from, and notes on, the parish registers; and notes and pedigrees from printed sources.

Transcripts of Bodrhyddan estate and other documents relating to the boundaries of the manor of Rhuddlan, and to manorial rights claimed by the Crown in lands affected by the Rhuddlan Enclosure Act of 1807. Among them are a report by John Golborne, Chester, on lands lying between Point of Ayr and Voryd, 1773; descriptions of the boundaries by John Matthews, 1807, and John Calveley, 1808; and perambulations, 1808-77 and undated.

Material relating to a history of Rhuddlan, comprising extracts and transcripts from printed sources, from Bodrhyddan estate muniments, and from a wide variety of public records (Recognizance Rolls, Welsh Rolls, Patent Rolls, Close Rolls, Charter Rolls, Fine Rolls, Pipe Rolls, State Papers Domestic, Land Revenue Miscellaneous Books, Chamberlains' Accounts, Ministers' Accounts, 'Rotulorum Originalium ... Abbrevatio', Papal Letters, Parliamentary Surveys, Red Book of Exchequer, etc.). NLW MS 8975C contains an address presented to the family of Bodrhyddan by the inhabitants of Dyserth on the coming-of-age of Conwy Grenville Hercules Rowley, Esq., 6 January 1862.