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Title deeds for houses and gardens in the village and parish of Llanbadarn Fawr, Cardiganshire, 1332-1903. Some files refer to specific street names or individual properties. Boundary clauses include the streets, the church cemetery and the river Rheidol. Several of the deeds refer to properties acquired in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries by Richard ap Rees ap David Lloyd, Thomas Johnes (Jones) of Llanbadarn Fawr, John Pryse of Gogerddan and Richard Pryse, and in the late eighteenth century by Margaret Pryse of Woodstock. Other prominent names include Edward Rodes, vicar of Llanbadarn Fawr, John Williams of Llangathen, Carmarthenshire, Henry Johnes of Abermarlais and the Lewis family of Glasgrug.

Books of counterpart tack notes granted to mining prospectors by the Pryse family of Gogerddan in the manors of Genau’r-glyn and Nantryarian, 1852-1907.

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

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.

Letters to Mary Cowper Powys from members of her family, including her parents, children and grandchildren.

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.

Letters relating to specific silver-lead and copper mines and to quarries belonging to the Gogerddan estate, 1697-1919. For main content see series description. The most substantial files relate to Allt y Crib, 1851-1914, Bronfloyd and New Bronfloyd, 1852-1907, Bryn yr Afr, 1880-1918, Camdwr Mawr and Camdwr Bach, 1856-1908, Darren (Fach and Fawr), 1742-1910, East Darren, 1852-1906, Esgair Hir and Esgair Fraith, 1697-1918, Grogwynion, 1739-1910, Hafan and Henfwlch, 1752-1914, Leri Valley mines, 1907-1914, Loveden United, 1852-1918, and South Darren, 1880-1918; others include Blaenceulan, the Bog mine, Cwmsymlog and Ystrad Einion.

Letters concerning miscellaneous silver-lead and copper mines, and also stone quarries belonging to the Gogerddan estate, 1741-1920. These letters either refer to several mines within the same file or they do not supply the name of the mine at all. Many of them refer to the brief revival of interest in the Cardiganshire lead mines, from c. 1906. Some letters additionally concern other Gogerddan estate affairs. There are several references to Cardiganshire politics and to the effects of parliamentary legislation on local mining. For the main recipients and content see series description.

Twenty-one folio volumes, in uniform binding of half green morocco, containing transcripts by E. Noyes from a copy of the Golden Grove Book of Pedigrees, [c. 1765], now amongst the Cawdor Vaughan Muniments at Carmarthenshire Archives Service. See Edward Owen, 'The Golden Grove Book of Pedigrees', Archaeologia Cambrensis, 6th ser., 3 (1903), 154-169, and Francis Jones, 'An Approach to Welsh Genealogy', Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (1948), 303-466 (pp. 412-414, 456-466). A7/XIX-XXI are noted on their front covers as 'Bodleian MSS'.

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

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

Bundles of loose tack notes granted to mining prospectors on the Gogerddan estate by Thomas Pryse, Richard Richardson, David Morgan and John Pughe Pryse or their agents, for mining in Henfwlch, Allt y Crib, Nantcoch near Ceulan, Nantycagle, Blaenceulan, Esgair Hir, Esgair Fraith and elsewhere in the lordship of Genau’r-glyn, 1732-1772; and tack notes issued by Pryse Loveden (later Sir Pryse Pryse), for mining in Henllys Farm, Cwmere, Cwmeinion, Blaenclettwr, Nantyrarian, Darren, Penpompren Ucha, Blaendyffryn Isa, East Bronfloyd, Ffosfudr, Troedrhiwsebon, Lluest Gotta, Cwmbwa, part of Glanravon, Bwlchyr Adwy, Nantyperfedd, Bryngwyn Mawr, Bryngwyn Canol, Bwlch Glas, Craignant Bach or Bog Pool, Neuadd-yr-ynys, Llawr Cwmbach, Lletty Evan Hen, Cwmglo, Troedrhiwseiri, Camdwr Mawr, Camdwr Bach, Braichgarw, and numerous other locations in Cwmrheidol, Elerch, Llanbadarn Fawr, Cynull Mawr, Ysgubor-y-coed, Llanfihangel Genau’r-glyn and Llangynfelyn, and the lordship of Genau’r Glyn, Cardiganshire, and occasionally in Llechweddmor, Tynohir and Dolgarnedd otherwise Felin Llyfnant, Montgomeryshire, 1859-1903. The tack notes often provide the tithe map reference numbers.

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)