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Valuation, 1809, by Charles Macniven, of part of the Gwysaney estate lying in Flintshire.

Valuation, 1809, by Charles Macniven, of part of the Gwysaney estate lying in Flintshire.

Travel journal belonging to Bryan Cooke of Owston, Yorkshire, recording various tours undertaken between 1790 and 1797 through Wales and the north of England and other journeys between his seats at Owston, [near Doncaster], and [Hafod-y-Wern], Wrexham.
The volume describes tours of North Wales, beginning and ending at Wrexham, 13-20 September 1790 (ff. 1 verso-3), the Lake District, 14 June-3 July 1793 (ff. 4 verso-9 verso), and South Wales (in the company of his second cousin George Cooke[-Yarborough] and his sons), 10-29 July 1793 (ff. 10 verso-19 verso), together with brief accounts of journeys from Owston to Wrexham, via Leeds and Ripon, 8-15 July 1790 (ff. i verso, 1), Wrexham to Owston, 23-25 September 1790 (ff. 3 verso-4), Owston to Wrexham, May 1791 (ff. 3 verso-4), Owston to Wrexham, via Kilnwick Percy, Ripon and Storrs, May 1797 (ff. 21, 22), Wrexham to Askrig[g], 9-[?10] August 1797 (ff. 22 verso-23 verso), and Askrig to Wrexham, 20-[?22] August 1797 (ff. 24 verso-25). Each account includes a table listing places visited, distances, inns visited, time on the road and remarks on the state of the roads, etc. (ff. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 11, 13, 21, 23, 25); the remaining pages contain general remarks and notes. Items found inside the pocket have been placed in an archival envelope (ff. 35-37). These include a table, [?1793], detailing a tour of Monmouthshire and Glamorgan, similar but not identical to that on ff. 10 verso-14 verso, possibly in the hand of George Cooke[-Yarborough] (f. 35 recto-verso).

Pedigree roll, dated 10 March 1664, with additions to 1672, recording the genealogy of the family of Puleston (or Pyvelesdon) of Puleston, Shropshire, and their descendants the Pulestons of Emral, Flintshire, and of Havod-y-Wern, Allington and Bersham, all in Denbighshire. It was transcribed by John Salusbury of Erbistock from the books of Robert Davies of Gwysaney, Edward Puleston of Allington, and Owen Salusbury of Rhug.
The pedigree is traced from 'Sr Richard Pyvelesdon de Pyvelesdon' (fl. 12-13 cents) and contains no heraldry.

Pedigree, dated 31 January 1771, of the brothers Robert Davies [II] and Thomas Davies of Gwysaney in the hand of Ralph Bigland, Somerset Herald, extracted by him from a 1622 pedigree in College of Arms, MS Vincent 135, f. 296, probably compiled by Augustine Vincent (d. 1626).
The pedigree includes five fully painted coats of arms and is traced, in the male line only, from 'Madoc ap Mredith [Madog ap Maredudd] Princeps Powisiae', through his son 'Kenwricus Euell' [Cynric Efell].

Pedigree roll of John Meredith of Allington [Trefalun], Denbighshire, compiled in 1604 by his brother-in-law Edward Puleston of Allington and executed by Randle Holme I, containing thirty-six fully painted coats of arms, many impaled or quartered.
In addition to the descent of Meredith from a number of ancestors, the roll also shows that of his wife Ermyn Puleston from Sir Richard Puleston of Emral and Agnes Waren, and that of Ermyn's mother Margaret Almer from Gwaeddfawr. The pedigree is arranged so that the combined arms of John Meredith and Ermyn Puleston, those of Ermyn's parents Edward Puleston and Margaret Almer and those of her paternal grandparents Sir Edward Puleston of Emral and Ermyn Hanmer are prominently displayed side by side at the foot of the pedigree, and below them the personal coat of arms of John Meredith, with its six quarterings. The authorship of the roll was attributed to Edward Puleston by Siôn Cain (see Peniarth MS 269i, p. 43, and M. P. Siddons, Welsh Pedigree Rolls (Aberystwyth, 1996), p. 23). The roll is an example of Siddons' style 3.

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1760-[c. 1850], of the Cooke and Davies-Cooke families of Owston and Gwysaney, including correspondence between Bryan Cooke and Lord Fitzwilliam, 1799-1804, letters from Lord Melville to Lord Kingston, 1813-1825, and letters from Sir Foster Cunliffe to Bryan Cooke, 1802, 1819, 1821. The letters touch upon domestic matters, the administration of the estate and local and national politics

Ministers' accounts of the Chamberlain of Chester for the counties of Cheshire, Flintshire and Denbighshire.