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Abernantbychan general accounts, bills and receipts

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.

Abernantbychan stated accounts

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.

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