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Catalogue of books, etc., in the Llannerch Library

A catalogue of the books, pamphlets, manuscripts and writings of John Davies of Llannerch, Denbighshire, taken 1778. The books are catalogued according to size. The occasion for the compilation of this catalogue was a lease for fifteen years of Llannerch Hall granted by John Davies to the Rev. William Davies Shipley, dean of St Asaph. Also preserved within this volume are four leaves containing a catalogue of the manuscripts in the Llannerch Library, taken in 1740.

Journal of tours through North Wales and France

Journal, 1815-1821, written in equal parts French and English, by Philip Davies Cooke of Gwysaney, Flintshire, of tours through North Wales and France in the company of David Pennant of Downing, Flintshire.
The entries comprise a tour of North Wales from Downing to Chirk, Denbighshire, July-[August] 1815 (English, pp. 341-368); a tour through France via Orleans, the Loire Valley, Brittany, Aunis and Saintonge, Aquitaine, Pyrenees, Languedoc, Provence, Dauphine and Lyon, May-July 1818 (English, pp.1-156); from Sheffield to Holywell, October 1819 (English, pp. 335-340); and from Paris to Champagne, Piedmont, Genoa, Provence and Nice, Monaco and Burgundy, travelling mainly by boat, October 1820-January 1821 (French, pp. 158-335). The entries emphasise the history, antiquities and culture of the places visited. The main entries are written on the versos with addenda on the rectos opposite.

Davies Cooke, Philip, 1793-1853

Letters concerning the Gwysaney estate

Copies of around one hundred and sixty letters, 1785-1792, written in the main by Mrs Mary Puleston of [Hafod-y-Wern, near] Wrexham, in connection with the Gwysaney estate.
Some of the letters throw light on the problems attendant upon the division of the Llannerch and Gwysaney estates in 1785.

Puleston, Mary, -1802

Llannerch accounts

Rent rolls of the Llannerch and Gwysaney estates for the years 1760-1766 and 1775; disbursements paid by Hugh Jones to the use of Robert Davies and John Davies in the years 1761-1767 and 1776.

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