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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).

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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])].

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 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).

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.

Copies of memorial inscriptions, mainly in the churches of Prestatyn, Rhuddlan, Rhyl, Trefriw, St Asaph, Trelogan, Tremeirchion, Whitford and Ysceifiog, with sketches and other illustrations.

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

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.

A collection, compiled by M. Louis, October 1840, of inscriptions on tombstones and monuments in churches in Denbighshire, including Henllan, Rhuddlan and Tremeirchion.

A manuscript music book and manuscript music sheets containing Welsh folk songs, collected by, and some in the hand of, Mrs [later Lady] Ruth Lewis, in Denbighshire, Flintshire and the Llandysul area.

Sermons preached at Efenechtyd and Llangynhafal, Denbighshire, 1810-1830, by John Jones of Plasynllan, Llangynhafal, rector of Efenechtyd, 1799-1817, and of Llangynhafal, 1817-1830, and brother of Robert Jones, the friend of William Wordsworth; and a copy of Mawr werth enaid dyn (Caernarvon, 1805).

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

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).

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.

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).