File O/9. - Crown lands,

Extracts from Quadrennial reports of HM Surveyor General of the Land Revenues of the Crown, 1797-1809; Triennial Reports of the Commissioners of Woods Forests and Land Revenues of the Crown, 1812-1829 and Annual Reports of the Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues of the Crown, 1830-1852, including all references to leases and sales of crown lands and sales of fee farm rents relating to western Caernarfonshire and parts of Carmarthenshire in detail. The existence of similar transactions in eastern Caernarfonshire and the other counties of Wales noted by the name of the county. Also including Appendix 19 of 4th triennial report (1823) dealing with tbe appointment of a Receiver General of the Land Revenues of the Crown for Wales. The first sale of a fee farm rent in western Caernarfonshire was that of the hamlet of Pengogo in the commote of Cwmwd-y-maen on 17 Dec. 1794. There was no further sale for that part of the county for 60 years.