A miscellaneous collection of pedigrees made by Thomas Langford between 1611 and 1625, partly out of the collections of other Welsh genealogists. There are several tables of the Langford family, with the remainder of the volume containing pedigrees from all parts of Wales and from border counties, particularly Cheshire and Shropshire. There are also some copies of documents mainly relating to Montgomeryshire, including a list of sheriffs, a rental of the manor of Llanerchydol, 1559 (f. 168), etc. In addition to pedigrees, there are some notes of the arms of English families (ff. 156-162), and of the creations of noblemen from Edward the Confessor to Elizabeth (ff. 144 verso-155 verso). The Hokleton pedigree (ff. 45 verso-46), was written by Richard Broughton of Oulbry.
This series comprises letters written to F. E. Llewellyn Jones answering his various enquiries, mostly into aspects of Welsh pedigrees, genealogy and history. There are also a few letters reflecting his interest in botany, conservation, linguistics, philology, the origin of Welsh words and place names, and aspects of the Catholic faith. Correspondents include public record offices, libraries, museums, universities, etc., and many individuals the most notable being Dr Michael Powell Siddons and Dr E. D. Jones, who were personally acquainted with F. E. Llewellyn Jones.
Twenty-one folio volumes, in uniform binding of half green morocco, containing transcripts by E. Noyes from a copy of the Golden Grove Book of Pedigrees, [c. 1765], now amongst the Cawdor Vaughan Muniments at Carmarthenshire Archives Service. See Edward Owen, 'The Golden Grove Book of Pedigrees', Archaeologia Cambrensis, 6th ser., 3 (1903), 154-169, and Francis Jones, 'An Approach to Welsh Genealogy', Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (1948), 303-466 (pp. 412-414, 456-466). A7/XIX-XXI are noted on their front covers as 'Bodleian MSS'.
