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Letters of administration of Pryse Loveden of Gogerddan (d. 1855) and accounts of his trustees for the purposes of estate valuation, taxation and discharge of outstanding debts, 1846-1861; and separate accounts with the administratrix of the late Pryse Loveden, 1855-1856; agent’s accounts, 1855-1858; trustees general accounts, 1855-1860; and bank books, 1855-1862.

Three small volumes containing accounts of Pryse Pryse, esq. with Messrs Drummond, 1811-1841, showing payments to individuals and subscriptions to clubs,

Arranged in alphabetical order of township or other place name.
Title deeds of houses and lands in the townships of Cwmrheidol, 1544-1671, and Melindwr (including the mill), 1490-1594, 1861; and leases of the site for Dyffryn chapel, 1859, and of the Gogerddan Arms and a sheepwalk at Ponterwyd, 1864, all within the parish of Llanbadarn Fawr.

Bundles of bills and vouchers or receipts in original wrappers, 1855-1858, addressed to Pryse Loveden’s trustees and described on the wrappers as ‘Vouchers delivered up by Capt. Pryse on passing accounts of estates in Wales’. They cover the Gogerddan and Abernantbychan estates. Typically they record payments of Mrs Loveden’s jointure and family allowances, interest, tradesmens’ bills, estate labour and wages, especially of the keepers and gardeners, property maintenance and repairs, poor rate, highway rate and church rate, income tax, land tax, crown rents, chief rents, groceries for rent day dinners, rent collection and agent’s expenses. Some of the vouchers have original numbers, noted at file level.