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Notes on and copies of memorial inscriptions in Welsh and English churches, including the church at Mold, Flintshire.

A history of Wales transcribed from George Owen's treatise of lordships marcher in Wales; copies of a statement made March 10, 1685/6, at New York by Morgan Jones, 'the son of John Jones of Basleg near Newport in Monmouthshire', attesting that he had conversed with American Indians in the Welsh language (see The Gentleman's Magazine, 1740), of a letter, August 14, 1734, on a similar subject sent by Charles Lloyd, Dolobran, Montgomeryshire, to a cousin, and of 'Dr. [Robert] Plott's Account [to the Royal Society] of an Antient Discovery of America from Wales'; a list, in the hand of John Lloyd, Caerwys, of 'The names of the Principal men that kept Hardelech castle against Edwd the 4th;' lists of the sheriffs of Flintshire, Denbighshire, Montgomeryshire, and Merioneth; transcripts of epitaphs in Mold church; and notes taken from Thomas Carte : A General History of England (London, 1747-1755).

Abstracts and transcripts from public records (Recognizance Rolls, 'Rotulorum Originalum ... Abbrevatio', 'Welsh Records', Patent Rolls) relating to Bachygraig, Maelor, Meliden, Mold, Mostyn, Northop, Overton, St. Asaph, Tremeirchion, Vaynol, and Wepra; an abstract of the terrier of Meliden, 1806; a description of the boundary of that part of the lordship of Rhuddlan which lies in the parish of St. Asaph, 1808; extracts from an act for enclosing lands in Tremeirchion, 1810; a list of field names in the parish of Meliden taken from the tithe apportionment, 1839-41, and arranged numerically; descriptions of the churches of Mold and Tremeirchion; transcripts of printed Flintshire pedigrees; and an account of a visit [by Thomas Edwards] to Gwysanney.

Seventy-nine holograph letters from Tho. Williams [Broncoed, near Mold] to Edward Lloyd at his Chamber in Chappell Court in Greys Inn, 1677/8-1685 and undated (copious reports on legal and money matters arising from the writer's agency on behalf of the recipient, with references to Tythin, Penybryn, Argoed, etc.; references also to relatives and friends, and to such matters as the purchase of a seat in Mold Church, parliamentary elections, coalworks at Hawarden, etc.) (together with some observations added by the recipient, and enclosed letters from Ed. W [ ], Chester, to Robert Hughes, Bromfeild, 1680, [Major] Ed. Evatt [to Thomas Williams] [1680], Will. Lloyd to [Edward] Lloyd, [16]80, Edward Williams, Pont y Gwyddell to [Thomas] Williams, [16]80, Jno. Langley, Jun., London, to Tho. Williams, 1680-1682, and W. W., Chester, to Thomas Williams, [16]80/1).