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Various general accounts, bills and receipts (vouchers) mainly of the Abernantbychan estate in south Cardiganshire and Pembrokeshire, including the Pembrokeshire collieries, and occasional items from the Breconshire and Gogerddan estates, 1613-1918. The accounts sometimes incorporate rentals, and the majority of them record rents received, estate labour, disbursements for agents’ expenses, rent collection and building repairs. There are bills from Edward Jones of Llandovery and other solicitors for routine legal expenses, bills from Thomas Lewis for surveying and mapping the Abernantbychan estate, 1780-1788, occasional agents’ letters and estate bank books. Numerous other bills and vouchers record payments for the tenants’ rent day dinners, lodgings for the hunt week; clothing; crown rents, turnpike tolls, tithes and taxes; carriage of goods; subscriptions to Cardiganshire Agricultural Society, Cardigan National School, Cardigan News Room, various other societies and institutions, improvements to St Mary’s church in Cardigan; furze seed for the tenants; culm for the poor of Cardigan; imported timber from mid-19th cent.; and receipts from the banks of Child and Drummond in London, and Joseph Downie at the National Provincial, Aberystwyth. Individual items of interest are listed at file level.

A more or less regular series of bundles, each labelled ‘Stated Account’, and containing the Lady Day and Michaelmas accounts in most cases, 1817-1882, by successive agents and solicitors of the Abernantbychan estate, namely Evan Davies, 1817-1828, Oliver Lloyd, 1832-1843, Thomas Davies, 1843-1876, Edward Davies, 1876, and John Pugh Vaughan Pryse, 1880-1882. The stated accounts list the balance of the previous account, rents received, arrears, various disbursements such as the agent’s expenses for travel and accommodation, attendance to estate matters, holding courts leet, remittances to bankers and auditors, postage charges, subscriptions, etc., and the eventual totals. Most of the bundles contain copy rentals, relevant vouchers (bills and receipts) and agents’ letters. There are bills for the registration of voters in the Cardigan Boroughs elections and election expenses in some files, 1832-1843. There are increased numbers of bills and receipts for building repairs at Rhippindy, Pantyrholiad, Penrallt, Pant-y-bettws, the Black Lion in Cardigan, Cefnceirw and many other properties, 1869-1881, Plas Abernantbychan, 1881, and houses in Pembroke, 1874-1875.

Two small volumes containing accounts of the Gogerddan trustees and agents with Messrs Hoare, bankers, 1862-1926

Bills of Boys and Tweedie of Ely Place, London (later Tweedie of Lincolns Inn Fields), solicitors, who served the Gogerddan estate, 1848-1900.

Bills of various solicitors who served the Gogerddan estate, namely Charles Deare of Temple, London, Parry and Atwood of Aberystwyth, A.J. Hughes of Aberystwyth, and Roberts and Evans of Aberystwyth, 1841-1913.

Title deeds of houses and lands mainly in the townships of Caethle, Aberdyfi (Aberdovey), Cefnrhos and Botalog, and of St Cadvan’s lands in the parish of Tywyn, 1505-1668, pre-dating the trust of the Caethle estate. The deeds in the first file relating to Dolgledr, Llwyngwril and Ystradgwyn have been placed with Caethle but their provenance is doubtful (q.v.)

Five small volumes containing accounts current of various members of Pryse family for the running of the Gogerddan estate, held with the North and South Wales Bank, Aberystwyth, 1892-1909, and with Lloyds Bank in Cardigan, 1910-1913

Rentals of arrears due on the Gogerddan estate, 1812, 1842, 1855, 1931.

Gogerddan estate rent collection and audit books, 1741-1746, 1902, [1903x1914], 1916-1920.

Additional rentals of the Gogerddan estate which cover the years 1719, [pre-1779] 1787-1788, 1792-1793, 1818, 1847-1848, 1855-1858, and [?1900x1925] (undated)

Letters and other papers concerning the administration and trust of Pryse Loveden, 1855-1862. The bulk comprises correspondence between the solicitors Boys and Tweedie, Capt. Edward Lewis Pryse at Gogerddan and Peithyll, Margaretta Jane Loveden, Pryse Loveden [Pryse], Henry C. Fryer of Lodge Park, trustees Rev. James Allen and Thomas Pryce Lloyd, Mr Heckford at Buscot Park, and Thomas Davies of Cardigan concerning the trustees’ administration of the Gogerddan, Abernantbychan and Buscot estates after the death of Pryse Loveden in 1855, the guardianship, education and maintenance of the children, the rights of the lord of the manor of Genau’r-glyn, and the sale of Buscot Park in 1860-1861. The files also include notes on the family settlements, accounts, and proposals for the estate management, particularly the leases of mines and farms on the settled estates.
1855-1861

Letters from the solicitors, Hale, Boys and Austen (later Boys and Tweedie) of Ely Place and Lincolns Inn Fields, London, to Sir Pryse Pryse, Capt. Edward Lewis Pryse, Pryse Pryse Pryse, George Rice Pryse, Sir Edward John Webley-Parry Pryse and the agents, John Graham Williams, Col. George Griffith Williams and William Lloyd, 1852-1924. Many of the letters deal with the legal and financial aspects of the Gogerddan estate management, such as leases, property conveyances, recovery of rent arrears, liablity for payment of chief rent, tithes, taxes and insurance; investments and interest payments;; leasing of the Gogerddan mines, game and sporting rights; family settlements and the involvement of the trustees. Topics of major concern include the title and rights of the Pryse family as lords of the manor of Genau’r-glyn; administration of the estates by trustees following the death of Pryse Loveden in 1855; legal disputes, principally with Matthew Lewis Vaughan Davies of Tanybwlch, from 1857; the sale of Buscot Park, 1859-1861; the mortgage to Hart Logan of Montreal for £10,000 and other mortgages on the Welsh estates, 1860-1895; sales of Gogerddan properties and ground rents from 1888; probate of the will of Sir Pryse Pryse, the discharge of debts, implementation of the family settlements, particularly the younger children’s allowances, and special provision for Richard Pryse, from 1906; and the installation of electric lighting at Gogerddan from 1907

Letters to the solicitors, Hale, Boys and Austen (later Boys and Tweedie) of Ely Place, London, from members of the Pryse family, their agents, trustees, bankers, and other solicitors, 1845-1870. The main correspondents are Pryse Loveden (d. 1855), Sir Pryse Pryse, Capt. Edward Lewis Pryse, occasionally John Pugh Pryse of Bwlchbychan and Aberglasney, other members of the Pryse family, Rev. Samuel Heckford of Buscot, Thomas Davies of Cardigan, John Graham Williams, George Griffiths Williams, H.C. Fryer of Lodge Park, the Office of Woods and Forests, John Lewes of Llanlear, Atwood and Hughes of Aberystwyth, Charles Tennant, and the Loveden trustees, Rev. James Allen of Castlemartin and Thomas Pryce Lloyd of Pengwern. The major areas of concern are the financial and legal issues affecting the estates after the death of Pryse Pryse on 2 January 1849; the administration of the estates by trustees following the death of Pryse Loveden in 1855; mortgages on the Gogerddan and Buscot estates, and the sale of Buscot Park; the discharge of legacies, and the payment of the portions due to Jane Elizabeth Loveden, Harriet Thiebault (previously Thayer), Edward Lewis Pryse and John Pugh Pryse; disposal of the house in Bridge Street, Aberystwyth and of personal effects after the death of Jane Elizabeth Loveden in 1855; and leasing of the Gogerddan mines. Specific topics are described at file level.

Title deeds of houses and meadows in Dyffryn Clarach and Llangorwen, parts of which are described as being in the township of Faenor in the parish of Llanbadarn Fawr and in Cyfoethybrenin, usually listed under Llanfihangel Genau’r-glyn, 1506-1798, 1895. Properties include Wirglodd Wyllt, Gwyrglodd Robin, the tenement of Maurice ap Jenkin ap Ieuan Gryth, and Tythyn y Rhiwel, acquired by John Pryse and Sir Richard Pryse of Gogerddan between 1564 and 1634; Tythyn Aber Nant Killan Issa, purchased by Edward Pryse, 1698/9, and Rhos Kellan, agreed for sale to John Pughe Pryse, 1766; and the school house at Clarach, 1798. Names of other parties include Richard ap David ap Rudderch of Llanbadarn Fawr and Richard ap Rees ap David Lloid, his trustee; Edward Roodes, vicar of Llanbadarn Fawr; Philip Williams of Aberystwyth; Richard Phillipps of Aberystwyth and his son Henry; and John Glayse of Aberystwyth