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Vouchers (mansion, farm, stable, kennel, repairs, woodmen, garden, Income tax, rents and tithes, annuities, interest, rates and taxes, incidentals,) of Sir Robert Williams Vaughan, 3rd baronet, of Hengwrt, Rûg, and Nannau. About 580 items.

Including reports on Clogan and Vigra Copper Mines and Tyddyngwladis Silver-lead Mine near Dolgelley, 1846; list of subscribers to a memorial fund for Griffith Howel Vaughan, 1848; notice of sale of timber at Coed-y-moch in the Nannau Demesne, 1849; notice and programme of the National Gorsedd of British Bards and Eisteddfod at Llangollen, 1858; General State of the Income and Expenditure of the Dolgelley, Mowddwy, and Towyn Turnpike Trust, 1866; and rules and regulations of the Glyndwr Trout Fishery (undated). 17 Items.

Relating to the estate of Edward Owen, Garthangharad, his wife Mary Owen and his son Edward Owen, St Peters Vicarage, Oldham, including probate of the will of Edward Owen senior, 1855, accounts of trustees, 1871•1901, statements of dividends on L.N.W.R. Co. Preference Stock, 1872-8, autograph letters to and from Owen Slaney Wynne, Messrs. Longueville & Co., Oswestry, Messrs Arnold & Son, Birmingham, Edward Owen, St Peters, 1873-1905; vouchers, 1880; and printed particulars of sale of Garthangharad, 1855 and 1907. About 110 items.

Captain William Anwyl, owner of Plas Brith, died at Garthangharad in 1852. The papers include the case and opinion of Chas. Blake Allnatt, 1852; autograph letters of Edward Owen (drafts) and William Griffith, Dolgelley, 1852; and statements of account between Edward Owen, William Anwyl, and Price Anwyl, and vouchers, 1832-40. 34 Items.

They include receipts in respect of the salary of the master of Cynwyd School, 1857; one quarter's instruction to twelve poor boys of the parish of Corwen, 1857; subscriptions to Trawsfynydd National School, 1857, Dolgelley National School, 1858, Dolgelley Clothing Club, 1857, and Dolgelley Rifle Company, 1860; rent of Llanfachreth Schoolroom, 1857-8. About 90 items.

Including a list of pews in Llanelltyd Church, 1842; a valuation of the Ystumcolwyn estate, 1843; minutes of the Association for the Preservation of the Fishery of the River Dee (printed), 1841 and 1852, and of the Corwen Association for preserving the Dee 1845; accounts of the Dolgelley Board of Guardians Union, 1844-47; Hengwrt, Rug, and Nannau farming accounts, 1845-52; copy report on the administration of the Corwen Board of Guardians Union, 1848; poor-rate accounts for the parish of Llanfachreth, 1848-9; reports on the Dolfrwynog Copper Mine (printed), 1851, and Gold Mine, 1855; permit from Jesus College, Oxford, to Sir Robert Williams Vaughan to shoot on lands in Gwyddelwern, Derwen, and Llanvihangel, 1853; specification and plans of a proposed church at the Druid, near Corwen, 1854 ('failed owing to the Death of Mr. Clever who was to endow it'); annual statement of accounts of the North Wales Training College, 1856; list of younghounds in Rug kennel, 1857; table of tolls to be taken at the Caernarvonshire Turnpike Gates (undated); draft minutes relating to the Llanfachreth School Trust (undated). About 80 items.

Including a letter from Thomas Vowler Short, bishop of St. Asaph, relating to the erection of a new church at Llangar, 1853; repairs accounts of Llanfachreth church, 1854; accounts of Trawsfynydd School, 1853; and a copy letter, 1853, from Sir Robert Williams Vaughan to Evan Owen, Inspector of Schools, inviting him to visit the writer's schools at Llanelltyd and Llanfachreth. 34 Items.

Including title-deeds of lands at Llanfachreth, Harlech, Llandanwg, Llanbeder, Llanvair, etc., 1710-1864, among them being a grant to the Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast Railway 1864; sale of timber at Tymawr Farm, Machynlleth, 1834; copy marriage settlement of Dorothy Highway, Kings Norton, and Edward Owen, Garthangharad, 1798; bonds, among them being a bond of Edward Owen, junior, Dolgelley, as clerk of the subdivision meetings of Talybont, 1832; and commission of deputy lieutenancy of Merioneth to Edward Owen, esq., 1803. 17 Items.

Relating to the title to Tuthyn Du, parish of Llanvair, 1741; case and opinion, 1792, of R. Richards, Lincolns Inn, relating to the title of Edward Owen to Garthangharad; accounts of the trustees of Edward Owen, esq., late of Garthangharad [after 1764]; rent accounts of Garthangharad, 1850; licence, 1826, granted to the boat 'Angharad' of Beaumaris (owner, Edward Owen, Garth-Yngharad), employed in pleasure between Bardsey Island and Cardigan; draft minutes of a Society for Punishing Felons held at Dolgelley, 1844; pedigrees; and medical recipes. 26 Items.

And of part of the Garthyngharad estate parish of Celynin 1854; plan of properties in Dolgelley, 1901; impressions of seals of members of the Vaughan family, etc. 7 Items.

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Grant from Lewis, abbot of Cymmer, of land called garth bleddynn in Nannaw [sic].

Title deeds and family papers of the Owen family of Garthangharad, Dolgellau, Merioneth, 1539-1909, papers and correspondence of the legal practice of Edward Owen, 1799-1852, and deeds and estate correspondence of the Hengwrt, Rhug and Nannau estates, mainly 1824-1858.

Including two printed copies of the Merionethshire Turnpike Roads Act, 1850; a statement of facts, 1849; printed general statements of account of the Edeirnion Turnpike Trust, 1849, 1851-2; and autograph letters to Sir Robert Williams Vaughan, 3rd baronet, etc., 1849-52. 12 Items.

Including accounts, 1823-48; counsel's opinion, 1823; letters to Edward Owen, 1835-48, from John Smallwood, Henry George Smallwood, and William Haines, all of Birmingham, and to Owen Slaney Wynne and Mrs. Owen, Garthangharad, 1872, from Messrs. Arnold & Son, Birmingham; and a petition for the appointment of new trustees, 1872. 15 Items.

Relating to Dolykynavon, Abergeirowe vcha, kay Gwyn, blaen y glyn, and y kay poyth in Nanney, Dolychowgryd and kevengarthmaylan in Garthmaylan, and properties in Lloingorrill Llanukill, Llanvlltyd, Pryssor, and Dolgloder, all in co. Merioneth; and wills of Davit ap Mevruc Vechan, 1495 (legacies to Cymmer Abbey, churches of Llan vachraith St. Mary the Virgin in Dolgelle, etc.) and Howell ap David ap Mirike of Llan vagchret, 1539. 9 Items.

Including title-deeds of lands in Corwen, Gwyddelwern, Llangar, Dolgelley, and Llanelltyd, and to the Ystumcolwyn estate, 1829-58, and a deed of covenant with the under-sheriffs of co. Merioneth, 1846. 12 Items.

A supplementary group of documents deposited by Brigadier C. Hilary V. Pritchard, D.S.O. Dol'rhyd, Dolgelley, September 1949. Includes three deeds, 1564-96, relating to dolyknavon, Abergeirow vcha, Abergirow Issa, kay gwyn, blaen glyn, and y kay poyth in Nanney, dolychowgryd (Dolychogryth yche) and kevengarthmaylan in Garthmaylan, and properties in Dolgelley, Trawsvenith, Lloingorill, Llanickill, Llanvlltid, Pryssor, and Dolgleder, co. Merioneth; five deeds, 1767-78, relating to properties in Dolgelley, Llanfachreth, Towyn, Clynin, Mowddwy, Llan Elltyd, Llan Aber, Trawsfynydd, Llan Egrin, Tal y Llyn, and Llanuwchllyn, co. Merioneth, and in co. Caernarvon, and to timber growing on Nanney Demesne Farm, Glastir Issa, Friddgoch, Bryn Prydydd, Cae Crwth, Cellfachreth, Nantgwanhidiw, Galtfelan, Galt y carw, Doluwcheogryd and Tyddun bach, parishes of Llanfachreth and Dolgelley, co. Merioneth; and four letters patent appointing Edward Williames Salesbury Vaughan, esq., to the office of constable of the castle of Harleigh, co. Merioneth, 1786, and Griffith Howell Vaughan, esq., to the same office, 1808, and to the office of constable of the castle and town of Conway, co. Caernarvon, 1813 and 1837. [Note. One of these deeds, a bond (30 April, 1596) for the quiet enjoyment and further assurance of dolychowgryth vcha, is in the form of a photostat reproduction, the original having been returned to the depositor.].

Includes properties in the parishes of Llanfair, Llanbedr, Llandanwg, and Llanfachreth. Among them are title-deeds with schedules thereof and abstracts there from, 1638-1835; autograph letters to Edward Owen, solicitor, Dolgelley, with copy and draft replies, 1835-43; and copy will of Edward Owen, Garthangharad, 1739. 66 Items.