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Cuttings from The Rhyl Journal, 17-24 January 1914, of a paper by the Reverend J. Fisher, B.D. on 'Some Place-names in the Locality of St. Asaph', read before the St Asaph Literary Society, 8 December 1913.

Abstracts of deeds and documents, 1588-1869, relating to Cilcain, including a land tax assessment dated 8 May 1799.

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.

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.

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.

Transcripts of Bodrhyddan estate and other documents relating to the boundaries of the manor of Rhuddlan, and to manorial rights claimed by the Crown in lands affected by the Rhuddlan Enclosure Act of 1807. Among them are a report by John Golborne, Chester, on lands lying between Point of Ayr and Voryd, 1773; descriptions of the boundaries by John Matthews, 1807, and John Calveley, 1808; and perambulations, 1808-77 and undated.

S. C. and M. C. A. Wynne Edwards: Historical Guide to Rhuddlan [1891], with some manuscript corrections; and a proof copy of Thos. Edwards: Rhuddlan. A Short History and Guide, 1914.

Material relating to a history of Rhuddlan, comprising extracts and transcripts from printed sources, from Bodrhyddan estate muniments, and from a wide variety of public records (Recognizance Rolls, Welsh Rolls, Patent Rolls, Close Rolls, Charter Rolls, Fine Rolls, Pipe Rolls, State Papers Domestic, Land Revenue Miscellaneous Books, Chamberlains' Accounts, Ministers' Accounts, 'Rotulorum Originalium ... Abbrevatio', Papal Letters, Parliamentary Surveys, Red Book of Exchequer, etc.). NLW MS 8975C contains an address presented to the family of Bodrhyddan by the inhabitants of Dyserth on the coming-of-age of Conwy Grenville Hercules Rowley, Esq., 6 January 1862.

An incomplete draft of a history of the castle and lordship of Prestatyn.

Four typewritten copies of 'Prestatyn, 1669-1777', being material for an address on the vestry books of the parish delivered to the Prestatyn Scientific and Literary Society, 1 April 1919.

Accounts of Jenking Gruffith and Robert Thomas ab Edward, churchwardens for the franchise of Rhuthland for the year 1700.

A minute book of 'Cymdeithas Cymry Caer' (Chester Welsh Society), 1893-8; with some cuttings from The Chester Chronicle, 1895-7, recording meetings of the Society. Much of the volume is in the hand of Morris Parry, Chester.

A reprint in booklet form of the Bygones column edited by Thomas Edwards in Prestatyn Weekly, containing extracts from Walter Davies: General View of the Agriculture ... of North Wales, 1810; and P. W. P. Carlyon-Britton: The Saxon, Norman and Plantagenet Coinage of Wales, 1906, reprinted from The British Numismatic Journal, Vol. II, 1906.

Letters and postcards addressed to Thomas Edwards. The correspondents include Sir Arthur [John] Bigge, 1911; Sir Owen M. Edwards, Oxford, 1904-5; Beriah Gwynfe Evans, 1923; and T. Allen Glenn, 1911-12 and undated.

An album of press cuttings from a variety of newspapers (e.g. Y Llan a'r Dywysogaeth, Yr Haul, Y Cerddor, The Rhyl Journal, The Flintshire Observer, etc., etc.), 1892-1918, relating largely to church music, and including reviews and notices of the musical works of Thomas Edwards, an address by him on church music, and accounts of choral festivals, etc.; together with letters from Thomas and Mary Wynne, Seaforth, 1898.

Music by Thomas Edwards - 'O Na Foliannent Yr Arglwydd', 1887, 'Magnificat', 1893, 'Nunc Dimmittis [sic]', 1893, 'Wyrfai', 'Llangwm', 'St. Martin', 1894, 'Llanerchymor', 1894, 'Gwlad yr Addewid', etc.; together with transcripts, 1902, of music by other composers including Lionel Monckton and Paul A. Rubens.

Music (anthems, hymn- and psalm-tunes, etc.) by Thomas Edwards - 'Festival Te Deum', 'Magnificat a Nunc Dimittis', 'Te Deum Laudamus', 'Peace, perfect peace', 'The Royal Welsh [sic] Fusiliers', 'Coroniad y Brenin', 'Emyn y Diwygiad', 'Anthem Genedlaethol', etc.; together with 'Three Double Chants' by E. J. Hopkins, 1895, transcribed in 1896, and a signed presentation copy by the author to Thomas Edwards, 1921, of Caradog Roberts: Yr Arglwydd yw fy Mugail: Anthem Gynulleidfaol.

Certified copies of the certificates of birth, 6 August 1867, of Elizabeth Ann Davies, Whitford, and of the marriage, 16 September 1897, at Christ Church, Mostyn, of Thomas Edwards, Chester, and Elizabeth Ann Davies, Llanerchymor, Mostyn.

Manuscript and printed matter and miscellaneous memoranda acquired by Thomas Edwards. Among them are a notice of musical works published by Thomas Edwards; a programme of the dedication service and opening of the organ at Rhuddlan Parish Church, 1915; and holograph poetry of Blaenau Ffestiniog interest - 'Rhanbarth Conglywal a Theigil', 'Rhanbarth Bethania a Fourcrosses' - by Robert Roberts ('Isallt'), 1910.