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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.

Catalogue of books at Owston Hall

A catalogue of the books in the library of Owston Hall, Yorkshire, made 2 March 1752.
On pp. 1-7 and 80 are notes on 'Elementary and Practicall Geometry and Arithmetick' and on pp. 76-77 there are tables of coin weights and measures, beer-, ale- and wine-measures, measures of length, time, etc.

Miscellaneous Cooke and Davies-Cooke family letters

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1760-[c. 1850], of the Cooke and Davies-Cooke families of Owston and Gwysaney, including correspondence between Bryan Cooke and Lord Fitzwilliam, 1799-1804, letters from Lord Melville to Lord Kingston, 1813-1825, and letters from Sir Foster Cunliffe to Bryan Cooke, 1802, 1819, 1821. The letters touch upon domestic matters, the administration of the estate and local and national politics

Cooke, Bryan, 1756-1821

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.

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

Letters of Earl Fitzwilliam, etc.

Letters, 1798-1842, mainly from William, Earl Fitzwilliam, from Milton, Northamptonshire, to Bryan Cooke at Owston, Yorkshire. The letters deal, inter alia, with local and national current political affairs.

Fitzwilliam, William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, Earl, 1748-1833

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