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A copy of Donald Parr's thesis, 'The study of the development and present form of agriculture in Denbighshire', prepared for the degree of BA (University of Durham, 1959).

Rough notes of farm and field names extracted from the maps and schedules of apportionment of tithe rentcharge, 1838-1839, of the parishes of Llangollen, Llangadwaladr, Llansilin, Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, and Llansantffraid Glyn Ceiriog, co. Denbigh.

Two composite commonplace books of Edward Jones, Cyrchynan-uchaf, Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, 1824-1831, containing lists of preachers' texts, farming accounts and memoranda, overseers' accounts, sheep ear-marks, a ' carol plygain' (1830) by R. Williams and other verses in free metres, equivalent Welsh and English words and expressions, etc.

An entry book, 1783-1798, of fees collected by the Reverend John Rocke on the passing of fines and recoveries in the Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire circuit of the Court of Great Sessions.

Farm and household accounts, 1736-1746, kept in a volume containing notes on gardening and fruit cultivation and on mechanics by Sidney Williams and/or Dorothy Wynne [?of Melai or of Rhos and Llangynhafal], Denbighshire.

Account book of Evan Jones, Park, parish of Llangwm, co. Denbigh, containing particulars of meat sold, 1852-4, and other accounts and memoranda, ca. 1855-62. The volumes was used, 1920s, to record over three hundred sheep earmarks from farms in counties Denbigh and Merioneth.

A catalogue of the library of Frederick Richard West (1799-1862) at Rhuthun Castle, co. Denbigh, August 1859, arranged in shelf order, with pencilled valuations and additions to the original list in a later hand.

A collection of twenty-eight folk-songs, mostly with words, noted by Mrs [later Lady] Ruth Herbert Lewis, collected in Flintshire and Denbighshire in 1910-1911. Thirteen of the songs are published in her Folk-songs collected in Flintshire and the Vale of Clwyd (Wrexham, 1914) or Journal of the Welsh Folk-song Society, 1 (1909-12) and 2 (1914-25).

Notes, 1828-1829, of sermons by John Elias, James Hughes ('Iago Trichrug') and others heard at Calvinistic Methodist churches in and around Denbigh, together with occasional references to events in the district.

A notebook, 1878-1879, containing sheep earmarks from over two thousand farms in counties Merioneth, Denbigh and Caernarfon, with an index of parishes and localities (pp. 246-7).

A manuscript containing a terrier of lands, 1616, in Cheshire, Flintshire, Montgomeryshire and Denbighshire, together with memoranda involving money owing and lent, etc.

A manuscript containing copies of titlings for writs of covenant, entries of fines levied and recoveries suffered at courts of Great Sessions for Montgomeryshire and Denbighshire, 1799-1806.

An imperfect rental of the lordship of Ros, ?Reuonyok, and Keym[er]gh, for the year ending Michaelmas 1451.

A bound volume containing holograph notes and pencil and pen-and-ink sketches [by the Reverend Elias Owen, vicar of Efenechdyd, 1881-1892, and of Llanyblodwel, 1892-1899, being material subsequently incorporated in his published work Old Stone Crosses of the Vale of Clwyd and Neighbouring Parishes, together with some Account of the Ancient Manners and Customs and Legendary Lore connected with the Parishes (London [1886])].

A typewritten transcript, with manuscript insertions, by K. M. Davies and W. Lloyd Davies, Bournemouth, of the enclosure award of Henllan Wastes and Denbigh Green, 1814. The transcript was made at the County Offices, Ruthin, in November 1936. Inset are a typewritten copy of the article on the award by W. Lloyd Davies which appeared in the Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, Vol. IX, pp. 247-71, and a 'pull' of the map accompanying the article.

Four holograph letters to the Reverend Dr. [William] Buckland, Christ Church, Oxford, from J[oshua] Trimmer, Caerna[r]von, etc., 1834-1836 (a 'good budget' of 'diluvial news' from Caernarvonshire, the 'alluvia' of Dublin Bay, etc.) (together with one draft reply), and from J[ohn] E[ddowes] Bowman [the elder], from Varteg near Ponty Pool, Monmouthshire, and from Gresford, near Wrexham, 1836 (papers read at the British Association meetings at Bristol, the excavation of the Cefn bone cave); and one holograph letter from Geo. Cumming, Dolhyfryd, near Denbigh, to the Reverend Edward Stanley (of Adderley) [sic] at the British Association, Bristol, 1836 (observations on the limestone caves at Cefn).

Original bundle comprising (i) a lease for a year dated 27 April 1781 by Roger Clough of Glanywern, Denbighshire, esq., and Ann Jemima (nee Butler) his wife, to John Warry of New Inn, Middlesex, gent., of an undivided moiety of Heene Farm (428 a.) in the parishes of Heene, West Tarring, Goring and Broadwater, Sussex, and other m's and lands (described), all of which are the same as those mentioned in the marriage settlement of James Butler of Rowdell, Sussex, esq., and Martha his wife dated 19 June 1760, (ii) a lease for a year, also dated 27 April 1781, by Luke Medwin of Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire, gent., and the said Roger Clough and Ann Jemima his wife, to Charles Morgan of Tredegar, esq., and Thomas Clough of Glanywern aforesaid, gent., of an undivided moiety of the manor of Pinkhurst in the parishes of Billingshurst, Itchingfield and West Chiltington, Sussex, also West Farm alias Kithurst Farm (203 a.), Town Farm and Walden Croft (47 a.), all in the parish of Storrington, Nash Farm (60 a.) in the parishes of Thakeham and Shipley, the capital messuage or mansion house called Thakeham Place (210 a.) in the parishes of Thakeham and Warminghurst, the manor of Chankton, the mansion house called Chankton with Chankton and Dinkle Farms (600 a.) in the parishes or hamlets of Washington, Ashington, Wiston and Brunton, and other messuages and lands (described), (iii) a release, dated 28 April 1781, from the said Luke Medwin to Charles Morgan of Tredegar, being the post-nuptial settlement of the said Roger Clough and Ann Jemima his wife, and also to bar all entails and remainders, and (iv-v) final agreements.

A manuscript containing sermons preached at various places in Denbighshire, Flintshire, Montgomeryshire and Caernarvonshire.

A collection of historical accounts of the castles of Prestatyn, Diserth, Basingwerk, Holywell, Caergwrle (otherwise Hope), Hawarden, Mold, Ewloe, Overton and Flint.

Sixteen volumes of various account books used by 'Nefydd' between 1842 and 1869. MS 7082A contains some memoranda of a farmer in Denbighshire, 1843-1852.