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Brogyntyn Estate and Family Records Anglesey.
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Cases concerning quarries and millstones in North Wales,

Breviates of suits, interrogatories, deposition of witnesses and defendants' answers arising mainly from cases in the Court of the Exchequer based on complaints by Sir William Maurice against Rowland Owen, Sir Richard Bulkeley, William Williams, Sir Sackville Trevor and others concerning the title to quarries and the appropriation of millstones at Llangefni, Penmon and Vedw Vawr in Llangoed, Anglesey and at Maenol Bangor and Aber y Pwll in Bangor, Caernarfonshire, 1608-1609, 1619; and on the complaint of Sir Richard Bulkeley against Sir William Maurice for trespass in taking a millstone at Penmon, Anglesey, 1615. The papers state the title of the Crown to quarries and stones in North Wales and the evidence on which each of the complainants claimed his title.