pp.1-6 This book was for some time in the possession of Mr John Williams of Penlan, Llandegai, a descendant of William Williams and himself a valued servant of the Penrhyn estate. He has filled the empty pages with varied but very interesting matters - particulars about the tenants and rental of the [old] Penrhyn Arms Hotel; an onslaught upon the impositions at Conway ferr; extracts from the North Wales Gazette of 1819; longer extracts about the Shrewsbury-Holyhead road from Harper's volume of 1902; and a calculated comparison of mileage between the old and new mail-coach roads, Londo to Holyhead.
pp.7-82 Here are the accounts of Benjamin Wyatt of Lime Grove with the [Turnpike] Trustees of teh Capel Curig road, he being evidently clerk to the Commissioners appointed by Act of Parliament. There are records of subscriptions by leading magnates (eg. the £1,000 of [the first] Lord Penrhyn in 1803; the amounts of cash received at the various toll-gates e.g. Coetmor, Bettws, Hendre etc.; the building and repair of bridges.
On p. 24 opposite 6 January 1806 is this entry : "By a Dinner provided at C[apel] Curig for a Turnpike Meeting the day so bad nobody attended but [the ] Clerk and Surveyor, £1.5.0"
Considerable place is given to the letting of tolls, paymets to the surveyor and to the workmen for the maintenance of the road in good repair.