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Title deeds of the Aberbechan estate in Aberhafesb, Betws Cedewain, Carno, Llanllwchaearn, Llanwnnog and Manafon, 1238, 1564-1680, and to the Main estate, Meifod, 1545-1684.

Gogerddan rentals, 1719-1931 and Abernantbychan rentals, c. 1722-1887 .

Arranged into Gogerddan estate valuations, 1805-early 20 century (AA 1-13), and Abernantbychan estate valuations, 1790-c.1881 (AB 1-4).

Records of the main Gogerddan estate, comprising title deeds relating to properties mainly in Aberystwyth, Llanbadarn Fawr, Llanfihangel Genau’r-glyn, Llangynfelyn and Machynlleth, 1332-1930; estate administration records, 1474-1950;; estate and general correspondence, 1586-1924; papers of James Morice and Thomas Morgan, 1779-1894; papers of agricultural societies, 1815-1924:, mining records, 1656-1924; manorial records, 1610-1919; legal and arbitration papers, 1441-[post-1908]; financial records, 1577-1926; political papers, [1690]-1880; county administration papers, 1523-1929; records of official intstutions such as churches, schools and charities, 1620-1945; papers concerning roads, railways and bridges, 1776-1900; Pryse family probate records, settlements and trusts, 1549-1950; and Pryse family personal papers, 1641-1987

This group represents the deeds and papers, 1428-1788, described in a schedule compiled in 1828 by the Aberystwyth attorney William Jones, with other additions of deeds and estate papers which have been deemed relevant. The William Jones schedule lists deeds and papers once kept at Buscot Park. relating mainly to the estates of the Lewes family of Abernantbychan. These comprised an estate in Llangors and Llanfihangel Nant Bran, Breconshire, the Abernantbychan and Coedmor estates in south Cardiganshire, and lands in Pembrokeshire which had been accumulated in the seventeenth century by Nicholas Lewes of Hean Castle. The estates were acquired by Walter Pryse after the death of George Lewis Langton in 1738. The main groups described in this current catalogue are the Breconshire estate papers and title deeds, 1488-1826; and Abernantbychan estate papers and title deeds, 1416-1918, [1918x1946], which include records of the coal mining industry in Pembrokeshire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Edward Loveden Loveden’s purchase from the Peterwell estate in 1780 appears to have been managed with the other south Cardiganshire properties belonging to Gogerddan. There is also a small groups of deeds and documents relating to an estate in Llangathen, Carmarthenshire, and the Priory at Cardigan, 1428x[1774].
The contents of the bundles described by William Jones are quite diverse so researchers may need to consult several files to discover documents relating to the same property or subject.

Estate papers and title deeds of the Mathafarn estate, which were identified as a distinct group within the Gogerddan archive by Glyn Parry at NLW. Mathafarn was gained by Gogerddan when Thomas Pryse married Maria Charlotta, daughter of Rowland Pughe, c. 1738. Gogerddan sold the Mathafarn estate in 1752 but the deed confirming the sale to Dame Frances Williams Wynn (acting for her son, Sir Watkin) is dated 1754. No definite reason can be given for the retention of the title deeds at Gogerddan after the sale of the Mathafarn estate to Wynnstay. These may be the deeds which were retained to settle a dispute with Mr Owen (letter from John Chambre, 3 Sept. 1754, papers of Thomas Pryse, ref. GCC1/15)
This section includes title deeds, 1403-1754, family settlements and probate records, 1505-1742, mortgages, 1569-1734, mining leases, 1698-1713, legal papers and arbitration awards, 1546-[c. 1743/4], and letters, 1704-1734. The Mathafarn papers also incorporate a trust of the Caethle estate in Tywyn, Merioneth, for which William Pughe acted as trustee, 1505-1726.

This section contains deeds and documents relating to miscellaneous other estates and places, found with the Gogerddan estate records. The reasons for their presence here can be readily identified in some cases, while others cannot be determined with any certainty. The Cardiganshire section includes the intended purchase by Edward Loveden Loveden of the Peterwell estate near Lampeter, 1607, 1748-1811, and papers relating to Nanteos, 1695-1812. The other sections comprise deeds and documents relating to various Welsh counties, notably Carmarthenshire and Merioneth, 1562-(Watermark 1887); miscellaneous counties in England, 1600-1845; and Montserrat, West Indies, 1695-1698.

Title deeds and family and estate papers belonging to the Rug estate near Corwen, Merioneth, which became linked with Gogerddan in the mid-eighteenth century via the Pughe family of Mathafarn (q.v.). Rowland Pughe had married Elizabeth Salesbury of Rug, c. 1721, and their daughter, Maria Charlotta, married Thomas Pryse of Gogerddan [c. 1738] The papers
mainly concern the Salesbury family of Rug, and those related to them by marriage, such as Thelwall of Plas y Ward, Goodman of Abenbury and Pughe of Mathafarn. The title deeds, 1529-1717, refer to properties mainly in Corwen, Gwyddelwern and Llansanffraid Glyndyfrdwy, together with a few other locations in Wales and England. The family and estate papers, 1566-[1745] include family settlements, very few wills, mortgages, rentals and a sixteenth century inquisition into rents, accounts, a small number of legal papers, and letters.