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A collection of manuscripts containing pedigrees and genealogical material relating mainly to North Wales; extracts, etc. from Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire and Flintshire deeds; accounts, [17 cent.]-[19 cent.], of the Ty Fry estate, Anglesey; transcripts by Angharad Llwyd; material relating to David Hughes, founder of the free grammar school, Beaumaris; extracts from Anglesey public records and other notes and transcripts relating to Anglesey; a calendar relating to the Courts of Great Sessions for Flintshire and Denbighshire, 1668-1696; correspondence collected by John Lloyd, Caerwys (1733-1793); Caerwys churchwardens' accounts, 1662-1669, 1680-1690, 1697-1698; material relating to Abergele; miscellaneous transcripts, extracts and translations; etc.

A transcript of Hugh Thomas's collection of pedigrees of Welsh families contained in British Museum Harleian MS 2288, with reproductions in colour of the coats of arms, an index to the pedigrees and an index to the coats of arms.

One of two manuscripts containing a copy of S. R. Meyrick (1783-1848), ed.: Heraldic Visitations of Wales and part of the Marches between the years 1586 and 1613 ... by Lewys Dwnn, deputy herald at arms ... 2 vols (Llandovery, 1846), with manuscript corrections and additions by Hugh Robert Hughes (1827-1911), many of them based on the annotated copy in the library at Peniarth.

One of two manuscripts containing a copy of S. R. Meyrick (1783-1848), ed.: Heraldic Visitations of Wales and part of the Marches between the years 1586 and 1613 ... by Lewys Dwnn, deputy herald at arms ... 2 vols (Llandovery, 1846), with manscript corrections and additions by Hugh Robert Hughes (1827-1911), many of them based on the annotated copy in the library at Peniarth.

Pedigrees of North Wales and border counties families, copies of charters and documents, and a copy of the Vernon pedigree and claim to the barony of Powis.

Pedigrees of North Wales and border counties families, with many coloured coats of arms.
This manuscript is possibly a copy of the seventeenth-century Owen Salusbury of Rhug and John Salusbury of Erbistock genealogical collection (see also NLW MS 1504E).

A summary by Edward Lhuyd (1660-1709) of answers to his Parochial Queries in order to a Geographical Dictionary, etc. of [North] Wales (see Parochialia, Part I, published in 1909 by the Cambrian Archaeological Association as a Supplement to Archaeologia Cambrensis.

One of four manuscripts containing material taken from parish registers, wills, etc. relating to members of North Wales families bearing the surname Hughes.

One of four manuscripts containing material taken from parish registers, wills, etc. relating to members of North Wales families bearing the surname Hughes.

One of four manuscripts containing material taken from parish registers, wills, etc. relating to members of North Wales families bearing the surname Hughes.

One of four manuscripts containing material taken from parish registers, wills, etc. relating to members of North Wales families bearing the surname Hughes.

One of three manuscripts containing The history of Berw, 1861, by John Williams, Beaumaris (1833-1872) (see Supplement, 1915, to the Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society), together with pedigrees of North Wales families, mainly those connected with Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire and Merioneth (cf. the Taicroesion MS).

One of three manuscripts containing The history of Berw, 1861 by John Williams, Beaumaris (1833-1872) (see Supplement, 1915, to the Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society), together with pedigrees of North Wales families, mainly those connected with Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire and Merioneth (cf the Taicroesion MS).

One of three manuscripts containing The history of Berw, 1861 by John Williams, Beaumaris (1833-1872) (see Supplement, 1915, to the Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society), together with pedigrees of North Wales families, mainly those connected with Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire and Merioneth (cf the Taicroesion MS).

A 19th century transcript of a schedule of deeds relating to Anglesey and Caernarvonshire, 1427-1726.

An incomplete transcript by John Williams (1833-1872) of a history of the town and borough of Beaumaris written by William Williams (c. 1625-1684), [c. 1675], together with notes and extracts from British Museum Harleian MS 2129 and other sources relating to inscriptions in Beaumaris church and elsewhere.
William Williams's original manuscript is now NLW MS 9081D.

A 19th century transcript of a schedule of deeds relating principally to Flintshire, 1475-1812.

A volume of pedigrees of North Wales families labelled Taicroesion MSS, with additions and corrections by Thomas Williams, Bryn, Beaumaris and his nephew, John Williams.

Arguments against levying an impost for wines brought into Welsh ports, with a transcript of a decree, 19 November 1584, in a cause in the court of the exchequer between John Pooll, deputy farmer of the impost, and John Vaughan and others touching wines discharged at Bewmarres [sic] (cf a statement, temp. James I, on the same question in Cardiff Records, IV, 143-5); a letter, 17 Sepember 1636, from Edmund Griffith (1570-1637), bishop of Bangor, to Sir Thomas Holland, Berw; transcripts of a decree by Sir John Lambe (1566?-1647), read in the church of the Arches, 13 November 1637, touching the case of Williams v. Sir Thomas Holland, and of depositions taken, by commission, at Llanidan, 4-5 January 1637/8, in a case in which Lewis Williams, vicar there, was a defendant, with the opinion of G. Sweitt (see also NLW MS 1546 iii) - a Rowland Williams, curate and schoolmaster, was also involved, and the depositions throw much light on the condition of the clergy in Anglesey.

Pedigrees of North Wales families, possibly an early transcript of the Taicroesion manuscript.