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.

Transcripts of Flintshire interest, comprising extracts from public records (Recognizance Rolls, etc.) relating to Llanasa, Prestatyn, Trelogan, Gronant (Gronantesmore), Gwaenysgor, Gwespyr, Gwestby, Axton, and Picton; extracts from Bodrhyddan muniments relating to Cilcain, Gwespyr, Axton, and Golden Grove; notes on Recusant Rolls taken from 'Lancashire and Cheshire Records in the Public Record Office' in Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society Publications, Vol. VII (1882), pp. 188ff., with some account of recusants in Llanasa, Newmarket, and Diserth; an account of the Llanasa Enclosure Act [of 1811]; a note on the pedigree of Griffith of Pantyllongdy, with reference to Elis Gruffydd, 'a soldier of Calais', and a pedigree of the family of Mostyn of Talacre, compiled by J[onathan] Ceredig Davies, Llanilar, Aberystwyth; notes from printed sources on the family of Morgan of Golden Grove, and the antiquities and customs of Llanasa; and memoranda from the estate muniments of the family of Mostyn of Talacre.