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This collection is divided into two sections: that of the Thomas Edwards ('Pencerdd Caer') collection (NLW MSS 8924-9014) and that of the John Owen ('Owain Alaw') and Hugh Jones ('Erfyl') collections (NLW MSS 9015-9037). Thomas Edwards' collection is largely in his own hand and is mainly comprised of material relating to Flintshire, Denbighshire and Chester, including essays and articles, pedigrees, transcripts of records, and abstracts of deeds and documents; also included are letters, a collection of postcards, music by Thomas Edwards, Edwards family records, accounts, and miscellanea. The John Owen ('Owain Alaw') collection comprises correspondence, music by 'Owain Alaw', poetry, an essay and biographical notes on 'Owain Alaw', papers of William John Roberts ('Gwilym Cowlyd'), and a copy of The Poetical Works of Richard Llwyd, The Bard of Snowdon ... (London, [1837]) and letters to Richard Llwyd. The Hugh Jones ('Erfyl') collection comprises correspondence, diaries, an incomplete autobiography, poetry by 'Erfyl', an essay, an elegy to 'Erfyl', and accounts and miscellanea.

An essay by Thomas Edwards on 'Flintshire Place-names', with numerous emendations and additions by the author and others. The preface is dated March 1909, and an accompanying autograph letter, dated 10 October 1910, from W. H. Evans, Sons & Co., The Farmers' Herald Office, Chester, to the author, contains an estimate of the cost of the proposed publication of the volume.

A draft of the essay contained in NLW MS 8924C.

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

Transcripts relating to Flintshire from William Camden (trans. Edmund Gibson): Britannia, 1772, Vol. II; together with an incomplete table (abbas-calumpniatorum) of Latin abbreviations.

Cuttings from The Rhyl Journal, 17-24 January 1914, of a paper by the Reverend J. Fisher, B.D. on 'Some Place-names in the Locality of St. Asaph', read before the St Asaph Literary Society, 8 December 1913.

A small group of draft notes and memoranda on Flintshire history and pedigrees (Diserth Castle, Llanferres, Ffynnongroyw, etc.); and a printed proposal, 1 December 1912, by Thomas Allen Glenn, Meliden, Prestatyn for the publication of a quarterly journal entitled 'Northern Flintshire', together with a cutting from The Prestatyn Weekly, 7 December 1912, of a letter in support of the proposal by Meredith J. Hughes, Vicarage, Prestatyn.

A small group of draft notes on Flintshire pedigrees (Bagshaw of Rhosesmor, etc.; Robert Davies, 'Bardd Nantglyn').

A transcript of a notice of sale, by auction, at the Town Hall, Rhyl, 1 (corrected 11) August 1863, of 4,000 acres of land and houses in Tremeirchion, Cwm, Newmarket and Gwaenysgor.

An essay, with accompanying extracts and draft notes, on Flintshire in the Domesday Book.

Extracts relating to Flintshire from printed editions and catalogues of, and reports on, public records, principally the 'Taxatio' of Pope Nicholas, c. 1291, Recognizance Rolls [of the Palatinate of Chester] and 'Rotulorum Originalium ... Abbrevatio'.

Extracts relating to Flintshire from William Beamont (ed.): A Literal Extension and Translation of the portion of Domesday Book relating to Cheshire and Lancashire and to parts of Flintshire and Denbighshire ... 1863, with emendations based largely on James Tait (ed.): The Domesday Survey of Cheshire (Chetham Society Publications, Vol. 75, New Series, 1916).

A tabulated summary of the Domesday survey of Flintshire.

A typewritten essay entitled 'Records Historical and Genealogical of the Royal House of North Wales. The line of Tudor Trefor, Earl of Hereford, and the noble family of Mostyn de[s]cended therefrom ...'; together with two holograph letters to the author on behalf of Lady [Anna Maria] Mostyn of Talacre, Prestatyn, and of the Mount, Constitution Hill, Parkstone, Dorset, 5-31 January 1914.

An estimate submitted by ----, organ builders, of ----, for a new organ to be erected in [Mostyn] church. Both the name and the address of the builders have been crossed out on the dorse of each sheet.

A transcript of the tithe apportionment of the parish of Meliden, 1839[-41].

Abstracts of deeds and documents, 1588-1869, relating to Cilcain, including a land tax assessment dated 8 May 1799.

Abstracts of deeds and documents principally of the Bodrhyddan estate and extracts and transcripts from printed sources, including catalogues of, and reports on, public records (Recognizance Rolls, 'Rotulorum Originalum ... Abbrevatio', etc.), relating to properties in Ayleneton [Allington], Bistre, Bodfari, Cilcain, Coleshill, Diserth, Englefield, Flint, Golftyn otherwise Wolvington, Gwaenysgor, Kelsterton, Leadbrook Major, Northop, Oakenholt, Rhylofnyd [Newmarket], Wepra, Whitford, Worthenbury, and Ysceifiog; transcripts of printed accounts of the churches of Gwaenysgor, Nerquis, and Treuddyn, co. Flint, and of Halston Chapel, co. Salop; a note on Carncarnacan [Carnychen] church; an abstract of the tithe apportionment of the parish of Gwaenysgor, 1846; an historical account of the firm of Henry Wood and Co., Ltd, chain and anchor manufacturers, Saltney; transcripts of two notices relating to Talargoch [Lead] Mines, 1775-7, and reminiscences of Peter Hughes, Castle House, Bryniau, of strikes in the mines, 1877, 1884, etc.

Abstracts and transcripts from public records (Recognizance Rolls, 'Rotulorum Originalum ... Abbrevatio', 'Welsh Records', Patent Rolls) relating to Bachygraig, Maelor, Meliden, Mold, Mostyn, Northop, Overton, St. Asaph, Tremeirchion, Vaynol, and Wepra; an abstract of the terrier of Meliden, 1806; a description of the boundary of that part of the lordship of Rhuddlan which lies in the parish of St. Asaph, 1808; extracts from an act for enclosing lands in Tremeirchion, 1810; a list of field names in the parish of Meliden taken from the tithe apportionment, 1839-41, and arranged numerically; descriptions of the churches of Mold and Tremeirchion; transcripts of printed Flintshire pedigrees; and an account of a visit [by Thomas Edwards] to Gwysanney.

Abstracts and transcripts of deeds and documents of the Bodrhyddan estate and of public records ('Placita de Quo Warranto', 'Rotulorum Originalium ... Abbrevatio', Recognizance Rolls, 'Welsh Records', Patent Rolls, Close Rolls, Plea Rolls, Charter Rolls, Pipe Rolls, Fine Rolls), and notes from printed sources (e.g. T. Tanner: Notitia Monastica) relating to the abbey of Basingwerk, and to Caergwrle, Caerwys, Ewlowe, Gwespyr, Hawarden, Holywell, and Hope; notes on Hope church; extracts from a pedigree of Richard Lewys late of Galchog, compiled by Griffith Hughes, deputy-herald for North Wales, 1639; and a pencil sketch of the Basingwerk outbuildings, 1916.