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Will of James Lewis of Penbryn, 1598/9; the properties devised include Gelli Dowyll, Carmarthenshire,

Probate of the will of [Gruffith ap] Ieuan ap Gruffith ap Res, 1568. No place of abode given but refers to the church of Tywyn.

Will of David Jenkin of Blaencarrog, Llanddeiniol, witnessed by James Morice senior and junior of Carrog, 1813..

Original envelope containing an account, bills and receipts for building materials and labour on new buildings at Wileirog Ucha [Llanfihangel Genau’r-glyn] including blasting stone at Ruel Quarry; and a letter to Capt. G.G. Williams from the Land Loan and Enfranchisement Company, 1881

Western Mail, 21 July 1882, reporting on threatening notices issued at the time of Gogerddan estate sales at Newcastle Emlyn.

Official notices relating to the parish and district of Welshpool, addressed to Thomas Morgan, concerning poor relief in the Montgomery and Pool United District, 1822, meetings of the turnpike trustees of the Second District of Roads in Montgomeryshire, 1834; and a discharge by the Welshpool Dispensary, 1834

Book containing part of a Welsh to English vocabulary listing animals, numbers and foodstuffs [early 19th cent.]; a vocabulary on a loose sheet and notes in Welsh on the etymology of house names, on the back of a Barnardo’s circular, 1928

Papers deriving from the foundation and early years of the Welsh National Agricultural Society, based at Cambrian Chambers in Aberystwyth, 1904-1910. They comprise several files of loose letters and papers accumulated by its first secretary, Lewes Pryse of Gogerddan, relating to the purpose and formation of the Society, and to the organisation of the national agricultural show; and printed schedules of the shows held initially at Aberystwyth, 1903-1909, then at Llanelli, 1910.

Letters by Clement F. Buttle, secretary of the Welsh Mining Corporation Limited, and David Wiilliams of Glandovey, discussing the mines of Esgair Hir, Esgair Fraith and Blaenceulan, 1896-1899. For main content see series description.

apers sent to Gogerddan by the Welsh Land Commission, established to investigate the grievances of tenant farmers throughout Wales,, 1893-1896. They comprise a returns form; circulars concerning the collection of evidence and sittings of the Commission in towns across Wales; queries as to agricultural rents in North Wales; the Welsh Land Commission extended form of syllabus and heads of inquiry; and the evidence of Edward Davies of Llandinam, and of David Owen Edwards given at the Town Hall, Aberystwyth, 1894.

Gogerddan weekly dairy account, January 1881-November 1882, with summary to year ending December 31st

Gogerddan weekly dairy account, January 1883-October 1886; June-August 1906.

Gogerddan weekly dairy account, August 1906-July 1910.

Numbered weekly accounts of the Gogerddan estate, August 1851 to March 1852, with account current for August-September 1851.

Numbered weekly accounts of the Gogerddan estate, October 1854 - February 1855, and an account current on behalf of the administratrix of Pryse Loveden, from Michaelmas 1854 to February 1st, 1855.

Copy of a warrant to the Deputy Keeper of Public Records, authorising the removal of records and documents of the courts of Chancery of Montgomeryshire, Denbighshire and Flintshire, lately deposited in the record house or prothonotary’s office at Welshpool and conveyance thence to the Public Record Office in London, 1845, with a relevant questionnaire, receipt to John Cox, registrar, letters to and from Lord Langdale, Thomas Morgan and Walter Henry Black of the Public Record Office, 1842-1845;, and a nineteenth century extract from the award of the commissioners for the enclosure of [Welsh]pool Commons, (1761).

Letters mainly between Edward Loveden Loveden of Buscot Park, Samuel Wilson Warneford and his wife, Margaret, of Bourton-on-the-Hill, and Pryse Pryse of Woodstock, 1792-1842. The contents refer to Warneford’s proposal of marriage to Margaret Loveden, 1792; a new settlement of Pryse Pryse’s estates in Wales, 1813; the payments of maintenance to the three daughters of Edward Loveden, difficulties over the repayments to Warneford of the mortgage on Buscot Park, 1818-1842; renovations to Bourton church, 1827; proving the will of Warneford’s brother, William, of which he and Pryse Pryse were joint trustees, 1835-1839; and family news.

Draft agreement between Jonathan Castlemain of Painswick, Gloucestershire, and his son, Paul Castlemain, concerning the payment of portions to his younger children, using money laid out in trust, for which Walter Pryse was the trustee, 1731

Leather wallet carried by Auguste de Radwan until his death, containing a letter from Marjorie Howell [1926], two photographs of her, and an explanatory note from one of his friends following his death [1957].

Schedules of grants by letters patent of Elizabeth I, made between 1577 and 1591, to Robert, Earl of Leicester, Peter Grey, his son Edward Grey, William Tipper and Robert Dawe, and others, of waste lands in Merioneth, Montgomeryshire, Caernarfonshire and Denbighshire