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Miscellaneous papers of the trustees of Pryse Loveden. 1857-1861, comprising copies, draft and abstracts of deeds, and release of trustees; a list of rentals; and a case for opinion on the allowance of Pryse Loveden.

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

Title deeds of houses and lands in the township of Cyfoethybrenin lying mainly in the parish of Llanfihangel Genau’r-glyn, 1568-1613, 1869. Some deeds for Cyfoethybrenin also refer to Llanbadarn Fawr. The earlier file contains evidence of purchases by Sir Richard Pryse to 1613.

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 lands mainly in the township of Penrhyn-coch in the parish of Llanbadarn Fawr, 1557-1597, and later leases, 1830-1878. The township or village is not named in the earliest deeds. Properties include Tythyn y Penryn and Penyberth, purchased by Gogerddan 1860-1861, Cwmbwa, and building plots near Penyberth, on part of Penrhyn-coch farm and near Penybank farm [the area later known as the Garth], illustrating the development of the village in the mid-nineteenth century.

Title deeds of properties in the township of Ystrad Peithyll or Dyffryn Peithyll in the parish of Llanbadarn Fawr, purchased by Sir Richard Pryse of Gogerddan, 1575-1637, and a later lease of Peithyll Farm, 1880.

Title deeds of houses and lands in the township of Elerch in the parish of Llanbadarn Fawr, including Tyddyn Rhyde yr Onnen, Cwmere and Camddwr Bach, 1548-1880

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.

Title deeds of houses and lands in the township of Faenor in the parish of Llanbadarn Fawr, 1552-1885. Part of the township, Faenor Issa, is also referred to as lying in Dyffryn Clarach. The properties include Y Gardde Bychen and Tir Maes y Gove, acquired by Sir Richard Pryse between 1600 and 1604; a moiety of Tythyn Estyn y Ffynon Ddu, purchased by Sir Richard Pryse, 1643/4; Tyddyn Estyn Ffynnon Sais Duy purchased by Thomas Pryse, 1741; Tythyn Bron y Gof, Tythyn Dol y Velin, etc., purchased by Thomas Pryse in 1734; and Wern Philip purchased by the trustees of Sir Pryse Pryse, 1885. There are also miscellaneous deeds recording acqusitions by mortgage and purchase by John Pryse, Thomas Pryse of Glanfred, Sir Richard Pryse (elder and younger), and Thomas Pryse of Ynysgreigiog, 1564-1652. Other prominent names include Richard Phillipps of Aberystwyth and his son Henry, Sir Thomas Johnes of Abermarlais, the Vaughan family of Rhosgillan, Llanbadarn Fawr, Rees of Rhiwarthen, and Lloyd of Dan y Castell, Llanychaearn.

Title deeds for properties in the township of Ysgubor-y-coed (later a civil parish) in the parish of Llanfihangel Genau’r-glyn. The earlier file records transactions by the Phellipe family of Aberystwyth and purchases by Sir Richard Pryse in the sixteenth century, [1547x1552]-1609. There are also leases and conveyances by later members of the Pryse family in the nineteenth century, 1845-1890.

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

Title deeds of houses, farms and lands mainly in the parish and/or commote of Llanfihangel Genau’r-glyn (formerly called Llanfihangel Castell Gwallter), 1334-1899. The earliest comprise two documents of inspeximus and confirmation to members of the Clement family, of lands in Pennardd, Coedmor and Genau’r-glyn, mentioning Gogerddan, 1334, 1427/8. There is also a lease by the Abbot of Strata Florida, 1539. Most of the files contain evidence of acquisitions by John Pryse and Sir Richard Pryse in the late sixteenth and early seventeeeth centuries, and by Margaret Pryse of Woodstock in the late eighteenth century, together with leases by their successors. Other prominent names include John Wogan of Wiston, the Phillipps family of Aberystwyth, Moris ap Rees ap David Goch of Llanfihangel Genau’r-glyn, and the Morgan family of Dole, Glanfread and Pwllglas. The nineteenth century deeds provide evidence of building developments in the parish, and of the existence of woollen factories and a school at Tal-y-bont, 1785-1899. Two files also include properties in the adjacent parish of Llanbadarn Fawr, 1567-1646, and 1863-1873.

Title deeds of houses and lands in the township of Trefeurig in the parish of Llanbadarn Fawr, 1565-1636, 1900, and in Banc-y-Darren, which also lay within Trefeurig, 1879-1891. The majority of the deeds concern acquisitions of lands by Richard Pryse of Gogerddan between 1593 and 1636. There is also a small number of transactions involving Sir Pryse Pryse, 1891-1900.

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