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A transcript of Dr. Robert Cochrane: 'Mediaeval House, Dyserth, Flintshire' from Archaeologia Cambrensis, Ser. 6, Vol. 12 (1912), pp. 33-38; together with photographs of the house.

Proof-sheets, with manuscript emendations and additions, of Thomas Edwards: 'Dyserth Castle', which appeared in Archaeologia Cambrensis, Ser. 6, Vol. 12 (1912), pp. 263-294.

Two copies each of E. W. Cox: 'Diserth Castle' extracted from Journal of the Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society ... of Chester, and North Wales, New Series, Vol. 5 (1895), pp. 361-379, and of Henry Taylor, F.S.A.: 'The History of Diserth Castle', ibid., pp. 380-383; together with some manuscript notes and sketches, including a rough plan of foundations on the hill above Meliden drawn by T. A[llen] Glenn, 10 May 1911.

Material relating to the parish of Diserth, comprising notes on the parish registers; extracts from the vestry books, 1721-1836; transcripts, etc., of terriers, 1749, 1841, 1856; abstract of the deed of endowment of the National School, 1863; extracts from printed reports on public records, etc., relating to the mill; extracts and transcripts from Bodrhyddan mumiments containing an inventory of the machinery of the mill taken by Charles Howard, millwright, 1775, reports on Talargoch Lead Mines by John Richardson of Llanerchymor, 1775, and Thos. Slaughter, Chester, 1782, and a writ of the Court of Quarter Sessions to levy on the parish a fine of £30 for not repairing a part of the highway, 1820; and notes on the church and the castle, and on flowers growing on the castle hill.

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.

Two notebooks containing (a) extracts from the tithe apportionment of Diserth, 1839-42, and (b) memoranda relating to Diserth, Llanasa, and Newmarket.

A transcript of the parish registers of Newmarket, 1700-1717, 1752-1912, together with lists of some perpetual curates and churchwardens. The volume also contains a few culinary recipes, and was originally used to record payments to Hawarden and District Waterworks Co., Chester Waterworks Co., Chester Corporation (electric light), Chester Union, and the parish of Hawarden (poor rate, lighting rate), and the payment of income tax and Hawarden tithes, 1897-1902.

A transcript of a history of Newmarket compiled in 1910 ?by Wynne [K.] Roberts.

Two notebooks containing (a) a transcript of the tithe apportionment of the parish of Newmarket, 1844-6; and (b) a draft history of the parish and parish church of Newmarket, prepared at the suggestion of the rector, the Reverend Sydney Aurelius Jones, for inclusion in the minute book of the church. The history includes a lengthy description of 'Maen Achwyfan'.

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.

Records relating to the parish of Newmarket, including a valuation of rateable property, 1838, with a transcript; orders and letters of the Charity Commissioners, 1861-75, a letter of the Committee of Council on Education, 1861, enclosing a report of Her Majesty's Inspector, and other papers relating to the Parish School established under the terms of the Charity of John Wynne of Copa'rleni, 1713; and a list of jurors, 1906-7.

Extracts and transcripts from the parish registers of Llanasa, 1619-1871, with an annotated list of vicars; extracts from the vestry book, 1859-1912; transcripts of tombstone inscriptions; and notes on church plate.

Transcripts of records relating to the history of the parish of Llanasa, comprising an account of the state of the parish, 1855-60, prepared by Edward Evans, a former vicar and then (9 August 1860) rector of Llanfihangel-yng-Ngwynfa; a letter, 6 August 1860, from Edward Evans to the bishop of St Asaph, and notes by Edward Evans relating to the establishment of the Talacre Roman Catholic Schools and of the Parochial School in the parish; a list of subscribers to the Parochial School, 1859; extracts from churchwardens' accounts, 1827-50; an abstract of part of the tithe apportionment, 1839-40, and of the altered apportionment, 1851; and tombstone inscriptions.

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.

A description of the boundaries of the manor of Picton and Axton and the parish of Llanasa, and of the townships, hamlets, parishes, or districts [specified] adjoining thereto or within the same, 12 May 1812, determined by John Calveley and Thomas Wedge, gentlemen, commissioners appointed by the Llanasa Enclosure Act of 51 George III [1811]; and a draft circular of St. Winifryda's Talacre Convent School, mounted on part of a draft lease, 1903, of a cottage at Accra, parish of Llanasa.

'Rhuddlan Castle: An historical record', being the draft of an extensive essay by Thomas Edwards on the structure, description, and history of the castle. The preface is dated 19 July, 1916.

Two facsimile reproductions of the charter of the borough of Rhuddlan, 8 September 1284, together with an English translation.

Material relating to Rhuddlan compiled by, and in the hand of, Archdeacon D. R. Thomas, including an essay on its history and antiquities (with a transcript), transcripts of documents, 1404-57, and draft notes on the castle and other objects of archaeological interest.

A transcript, with explanatory note, by J. S. W. Gumbley, O.P., of C. F. R. Palmer: 'The Friar-Preachers, or Blackfriars of Rhuddlan' in The Reliquary, January 1886; and 'The Dominicans in England' in the same hand.