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Schedules of deeds and documents belonging to the Gogerddan estates, mainly in norh Cardiganshire but also including the Llan-gors estate in Breconshire, Abernantbychan in south Cardiganshire and Pembrokeshire, Buscot Park in Berkshire, Woodstock in Oxfordshire, properties in Montgomeryshire, Merioneth, and elsewhere in Wales and England, 1739-1868. They include the Gogerddan Old Schedule, [1790] and the schedules compiled by William Jones, an Aberystwyth attorney, 1828-1829.

Receiving rentals of the Abernantbychan estate as specified in RB 1-75.

Account books of the Gogerddan estate, showing estimated and actual receipts for Gogerddan rents, Cardigan rents, land tax, royalties, casualties and loan office, with remarks, and various expenditure, 1870-1876.

Receipt ledgers of the Gogerddan estate and counterfoils, 1880-1913 recording receipts for rents, land tax and tithes, royalties, woods, game, tack for sheep, and miscellaneous items, and a balance or summary of accounts; examined successively by James Paull, Pryse Pryse and Edward Webley Parry Pryse.

Gogerddan estate requisitions books containing orders and counterfoils of orders from local Aberytwyth tradesmen for ironmongery, building materials and repairs, agricultural equipment, fuel, 1891-1920.

Original series of Gogerddan estate voucher books containing numbered receipts for poor law and other rates, taxes, chief rents, tithes, estate work, particularly property repairs and forestry, agricultural supplies, staff wages and pensions, tradesmen’s bills, solicitors’ bills, Cambrian Railways, Grogwynion mine, Tynygarth quarry, subscriptions to the schools at Borth, Clarach and Tal-y-bont, etc., 1880-1910, 1912-1915. Some volumes contain vouchers for several years, usually beginning and ending in March.

Books of receipts and counterfoils, mainly for rents but also including personal allowances to members of the Pryse family, rates, wages, building repairs, sales of livestock and estate timber, 1905-1926.

Title deeds of houses and lands in the several combined parishes of Caron, Llanbadarn Odwyn, Llanddewibrefi and Llanbadarn Odwyn, 1549-1676, and
Creuddyn, Clarach and Llanfihangel Genau’r-glyn, 1592-1636, as well as in the separate parishes of Llandysilio [Gogo], 1476, Llanfihangel-y-Creuddyn, 1544-1590, Nancwnlle, 1569, Cwmystwyth, Llangwyryfon and Ysbyty Ystwyth, 1578-1622, Llanwnnen, 1586, Llanfihangel Ystrad, 1859-1862, Llanddewi Aber-arth (Aberaeron), 1861, the manor of Creuddyn, 1878, and Llanbadarn Fawr (Bont-goch), 1881, where the numbers of deeds are too small to create a separate series for each parish. There are also original bundles of final concords and deeds, 1494-1726, bonds where the parish is not specified at all, 1512-1674, an inquisition post-mortem John Pryse, 1585; and agreements for the purchase of rights in crown lands in the lordships of Creuddyn and Cyfoethybrenin, 1862-1865.

Seals, fragments of documents, labels and wrappers, [16th cent]-1960. Most of these were found detached from the original documents, with the exception of the ‘Old Schedule’ labels, which were removed to accommodate the new arrangement.

Surveys and valuations of lands, buildings and stock on parts of the Gogerddan estate, in the parishes of Llanbadarn Fawr, Llanfihangel Genau’r-glyn and Llangynfelyn, sometimes with maps enclosed, 1766-1919. Some of the surveys include observations on the condition of the tenements and allowances by the landlord for improvements. The names of several of the surveyors are given and the bills for their services are included.

Miscellaneous papers relating to the cultivation of agricultural land and livestock husbandry on the Gogerddan estate, 1796-1920. They include copies of the encouragements offered by Thomas Jones of Hafod to his own tenants, 1796, a cultivation records book from Gogerddan, 1918-1920, farming orders, various papers on land fertilisation and sheep farming, and printed catalogues for poultry appliances and seeds.

Tenancy agreements for properties in the parishes of [Eglwys-fach] (Ysgubor-y-coed), Llanbadarn Fawr, Llanfihangel Genau’r-glyn, Llangynfelyn, and Machynlleth, 1859, and notices to quit, 1859-1864.

Demises or leases for properties in the parishes of Eglwys-fach and Llangynfelyn, Llanafan, Llanbadarn Fawr, Llanfihangel Genau’r-glyn and Llangorwen, and a tenancy agreement for land in Machynlleth, 1865.

Letters to Sir Pryse Pryse of Gogerddan, Sir Edward John Webley-Parry-Pryse, George Rice Pryse, Sir Lewes Thomas Loveden Pryse, Sir Pryse Loveden Saunders-Pryse, and the agents, Capt. Edward Howell, William Lloyd and Roger Lloyd, 1900-1949. Most files also contain printed official circulars, third party letters, occasional family letters and copies of outgoing correspondence. The correspondents are mainly estate tenants, agents of other estates, solicitors, banks, timber merchants, agricultural suppliers, electrical engineers, mining companies, local government officials, school boards and local vicars. They include Percy Wilkinson of Crosswood (Trawsgoed) estate office, Charles R. Kenyon of Glandyfi and Machynlleth, agent of the Gwynfryn estate, Roberts and Evans of Aberystwyth, Hugh Hughes, Gillart and Sons of Machynlleth, Bridges Sawtell and Company of London, J.E. James, auctioneer, Aberllefenni Slate Quarry, the Alliance Assurance Company, the Inland Revenue, W. Evans of Pomterwyd, collector, officials of Cardiganshire County Council, Cardiganshire Education Committee, Aberystwyth Corporation, Arthur Johnson Hughes of the Town Clerk’s Office, James Hughes, sanitary inspector for Aberystwyth Rural District Council, The General Post Office, Cambrian Railways Company, Edward Evans of Tal-y-bont, the Office of Woods and Forests, the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, The Lands Improvement Company, the Small Holdings and Allotments Department, W.H. More of Harlech, Crown Receiver, Wales, D.J. Lloyd of the Crown Manors Office, Lampeter, John Jenkins of Llwynderw and the Garland family of Cwmsymlog. Recurrent subjects include routine affairs of the Gogerddan estate and occasionally Abernantbychan. Notable topics are the court leet of the manor of Genau’r-glyn; applications to The Lands Improvement Company, the Gogerddan Fox Hounds, gamekeeping; sporting rights in Llanbadarn Fawr in the manor of Perfedd, and at Ysbyty Ystwyth; lead and copper mining at Esgair Hir, Esgair Fraith, Bryn yr Afr, South Darren, East Darren, Leri Valley Mine (Penpompren), the Loveden Mine and Blaenceulan, repairs to the Dovey and Leri embankments, drainage on Cors Fochno, sea defences at Borth; the Hafan tramway; boundary fences on the sheepwalks of the Gogerddan esate and in the crown manor of Perfedd; improvement of the water supply at Craig y Penrhyn and elsewhere, lead pollution and other sanitary concerns; church business at Penrhyn-coch and Llanfihangel Genau’r-glyn; the supply of quarry stone and timber from the Gogerddan estate to the County Council; the establishment of telegraph offices at Taliesin and Eglwys-fach and subsequent financial deficiencies from 1905; proposals for the commercial extraction of peat from Cors Fochno for the manufacture of fuel; orders from the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries for compulsory sheep dipping from 1906; the installation of electricity at Gogerddan from 1907, and telephone from 1909; the acquisition of land by Cardiganshire County Council under the Small Holdings and Allotments Act from 1908; the increased mechanisation of agriculture; the allocation of land at Bow Street and Devils Bridge for a Territorial Army training camp from 1909; insurance of employees and claims against the Railway Passengers Assurance Company; and the effects of World War I on the operation of the estate. A number of the letters illustrate the problems involved with the Pryse family settlements and the deteriorating financial position of the estate, mostly between 1918 and 1924.

Letters and papers relating to James Morse, former post master of Cardigan, 1831-1855, disnissed from office and subsequently appointed stamp distributor at Carmarthen, for whom Pryse Pryse acted as surety and who defaulted to the Crown. There are three files, comprising letters by James Morse to Pryse Pryse with related papers, 1831-1847, letters and papers from the office of Hale, Boys and Austen (later Boys and Tweedie), 1834-1855, and further letters, 1847-1849. The correspondents include Pryse Pryse, Thomas Davies of Cardigan, John James Stacey of Carmarthen, Morris Thomas of Carmarthen, Posthumous Richard Philipps of Carmarthen, the Inland Revenue and the Board of Stamps and Taxes. The papers illustrate the career of James Morse, as well as his financial situation.and political interests. There are detailed insights into the political events of Cardiganshire, north Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire during the first half of the nineteenth century, referring to influential figures such as Sir John Owen and Lord Cawdor. They reveal Morse’s fervent support of Pryse Pryse, MP for the Cardigan boroughs, and his own comments on parliamentary affairs and government reform. The remaining letters and papers discuss the discharge of the payment owed by James Morse to the Crown, describing the insecure position of his mortgagee, represented by William Sackville Hamilton, and the attempts to gain indemnity for the co-sureties, Pryse Pryse and P.R. Philipps. Some of Thomas Davies’ letters also cover Abernantbychan estate business, county politics and the recommendation of Mr Lloyd, ironmonger, for the appointment of a gaoler [?at Cardigan]

Correspondence of the firm of solicitors, Hale, Boys and Austen, later called Boys and Tweedie, of Ely Place and Lincolns Inn Fields, London, 1845-1924. There are two sub-series, comprising letters addressed to the firm by the Pryse family, their trustees, agents and other parties 1845-1870, and letters by Boys and Tweedie to various members of the Pryse family of Gogerddan or their representatives, 1852-1924. The majority of the letters deal with legal and financial aspects of the Gogerddan estate management. Areas of particular concern include the Pryse family settlement of 1846, financial and legal affairs affecting the Buscot, Woodstock and Gogerddan estates after the death of Pryse Pryse in 1849, the mortgages on the Welsh estates, the administration of the estates by the trustees following the death of Pryse Loveden in 1855, the Gogerddan inheritance, investment in stocks, and financial provisions under terms of the family settlements, notably the portions due to Jane Elizabeth Loveden and Harriet Thiebault (previously Thayer), from 1845, and the allowances to the younger sons and daughter of Sir Pryse Pryse, from the time of his death in 1906.

Hunting journals of members of the Pryse family, recording the locations of Gogerddan hunt meets, events of the hunt, weather, numbers of hounds and names of horses ridden; some of the volumes contain enclosures, 1836-1923.

Lists of the Gogerddan Fox Hounds and their pedigrees, 1834-1899, with occasional notes on maladies and medicinal remedies for hounds

Papers of other (ie. non-Gogerddan) hunts and associations in Wales and England, in which the Pryse family obviously took an interest, 1848-1910, namely Bronwydd, Pembrokeshire and Tivyside, Carmarthenshire and Cotswold hunts, the Beagle Club and the Association of Masters of Harriers and Beagles. The papers include printed pack lists, an agreement appointing a master, reports and year books.