Material relating to Shropshire castles and fortifications collected by Edward Edwards, bookseller, Shrewsbury, with many engravings, plans, etc.

Notes on folklore, etc., mainly of North Wales and Shropshire interest.

Inventories of household goods, including silver, 1687; furniture at Abertanat, 1732-1736; plate and jewels of Lady Elizabeth Longueville, 1734; domestic utensils at Sylfaen and Glyn [late 17 cent.] and 1803; table linen at Porkington, 1742; kitchen utensils, 1748; plate, some of which was from Abertanat and Porkington, 1769-1771; and contents of houses at Uxbridge, 1774, Datchet, 1783, and elsewhere.

Notes of sermons delivered at Salop, late 17 cent., by Messrs Price, Reynolds (6), Osland, Fisher (5), Goffe, Gee and Dr Giles (7), Brecknall, Lathrop.

Notes, extracts, etc., by E. R. Horsfall Turner from various printed sources including [A. H.] Dodd: The Industrial Revolution in North Wales [( Cardiff, 1933)]; [Edward] Hamer [:A Brief Account of the] Chartist Outbreak [at Llanidloes in the year 1839 (Llanidloes, 1867)]; [J. L. and B.] Hammond: The Age of the Chartists, 1832-54 [(London, 1930)]; History of the Chartists and the Bloodless Wars of Montgomeryshire (Welshpool, N.D.); various numbers of the Shrewsbury Chronicle and Salopian journal for the year 1839, etc. The material was probably collected in the course of research work on Chartism in co. Montgomery.

An annotated interleaved copy of T. [N]. Parker's Remarks on the Malt Tax: with reference to the debate in the House of Commons on the 10th March 1835, and in defence of the farmers and maltsters against the injurious effects of misrepresentations and misprints, and the indiscreet kindness of some of their friends. Shrewsbury, 1835; with a covering circular and cuttings from the Salopian Journal.

The series comprises deeds for properties in Alberbury in Salop and Montgomeryshire, 1815, Henllan, Llanrwst and Rhuddlan in Denbighshire and Flintshire, [c. 1819].