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A collection, accumulated by the Lloyd family of Plas Power, comprising an unpublished sixteenth-century treatise; annotated copies of works by Moses Williams (1685-1742) and John Worrall (d. 1771); an English-Welsh dictionary and material for a Welsh dictionary; transcripts of Welsh poetry, of an essay by Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt (1592?-1666), and of George Ripley's (d. c. 1490) 'The compound of alchymy', 1471; treatises, vocabularies and other texts in Latin and Greek; genealogies of Welsh families; sixteenth-century rental accounts relating to North Wales; an account of proceedings in Parliament for the year 1620; a translation of Christopher Sutton's (c. 1565-1629) Disce mori ...; a version of Piers Plowman; and other items.

Estate, financial, legal, personal, domestic, industrial and commercial papers of the several families who held the Plas Power estate, notably the Myddeltons, Lloyds and FitzHughs, including some papers relating to the Myddelton family of Chirk and their estates.

Unpublished research by the donor titled 'Minera and district 1714-1914' (2012), based on the history and geology of the locality of Minera, co. Clwyd. One volume with one unbound chapter and associated loose leaves, including notes, a letter and a photocopy.
Research is based heavily on the Plas Power archive at NLW, and chapters include (but are not restricted to) the local Myddelton family of Chirk Castle, the William Lloyds' of Plas Power, industry, and agriculture.

Papers relating mainly to Sir Richard Myddelton, 3rd bart, of Chirk Castle, co. Denbigh, and his daughter, Mary Myddelton, and to the Lloyd family of Plas Power, co. Denbigh (cf. NLW Annual Report 1970-71, pp. 64-7), including correspondence, 1704-1804, mainly on personal and estate matters, and domestic and estate accounts, bills and vouchers, 1709-1736.