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Letters,

  • NLW MS 11548E.
  • File
  • 1834-1836.

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).

The agriculture of Denbighshire.

  • NLW ex 2207
  • File
  • 1959

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).

Parr, Donald

Catalogue of Ruthin Castle Library

  • NLW MS 22715B
  • File
  • 1859

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.

Terrier

  • NLW MS 2098E
  • File
  • 1616

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

Farm and household accounts

  • NLW MS 3592B
  • File
  • 1736-1746

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.

Henllan enclosure award,

  • NLW MS 12191E.
  • File
  • 1936 /

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.

K. M. Davies and W. Lloyd Davies.

Nodiadau pregethau,

  • NLW MS 21999B.
  • File
  • 1828-1829.

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.

Welsh folk-songs

  • NLW MS 22681C
  • File
  • 1910-1911

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).

Courts of Great Sessions

  • NLW MS 1638E
  • File
  • 1799-1806

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.

Sheep earmarks,

  • NLW MS 21756A.
  • File
  • 1878-1879.

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).

Great Sessions circuit accounts

  • NLW MS 4526E
  • File
  • 1783-1798

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.

Rocke, John, Rev. Entry book of fees and recoveries (1783-1798), NLW MS 4526E

Commonplace books,

  • NLW MSS 12083-12084B.
  • File
  • 1824-1831 /

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.

Jones, Edward, Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog

Llyfr cyfrifon; clustnodau defaid,

  • NLW MS 23215A
  • File
  • 1852-1862, 1920s /

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.

Jones, Evan, Llangwm

Old Stone Crosses of the Vale of Clwyd,

  • NLW MS 12644D.
  • File
  • [1860x1886] /

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])].

Owen, Elias