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Thomas Edwards manuscripts, Dyserth and District Field Club
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Flintshire press cuttings,

A scrap-book containing cuttings from Prestatyn Weekly and The Rhyl Journal and printed sources, 1906-13, relating principally to the history and antiquities of Diserth and Ffynnongroyw, the activities of the Flintshire Historical Society and the Dyserth and District Field Club, and to the visit to Prestatyn of the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments.

Flintshire press cuttings,

A large group of cuttings, 1907-18, from Prestatyn Weekly, The Rhyl Journal, The Flintshire Observer, The Chester Observer, The Chester Chronicle, etc., relating to a variety of subjects of Flintshire interest, such as the antiquities of Holywell, St. Asaph, Rhuddlan, Newmarket, Gwaenysgor and Llanasa, excursions of the Dyserth Field Club, strikes at Talar Goch, etc., etc.

Flintshire records,

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.

Letters,

Letters and postcards addressed to Thomas Edwards. The correspondents include Sir John Herbert Lewis, Caerwys, 1912; Sir John Edward Lloyd, Bangor, 1911; Charles S. Mainwaring, Galltfaenan, Trefnant, 1904-14 and undated; Llewelyn Nevill Vaughan Lloyd-Mostyn, 3rd baron Mosyn, 1912; Alfed Neobard Palmer, Wrexham, 1911; D. Rhys Phillips, Swansea, 1906; Sir John Rhys, Oxford, 1911; Ethel Stokes, Chancery Lane, London, 1915; and John Thomas ('Eifionydd'), 1905-?6.
Among the subjects discussed in NLW MSS 9002E, 9003-9004C are ancient monuments in Flintshire; the history of Prestatyn Castle; the activities of Dyserth Field Club and 'Cymdeithas Cymry Caer'; measures of the Gop, Newmarket; the friar preachers of Rhuddlan; the pedigrees of Ellis Gruffydd, 'a soldier of Calais', of Hughes of Kinmel, and of Wynne of Copa'rlenni, and of the recipient; the works of 'Talhaiarn'; and the biography of Hugh Jones ('Erfyl').