Dangos 1924 canlyniad

New Year festivities. Miscellaneous papers deriving from the concerts and chapel meetings arranged to mark the beginning of the New Year.

Records of official institutions with which the Pryses of Gogerddan were either directly involved or which they supported. They comprise church and chapel records in Cardiganshire and Montgomeryshire, 1620-1945; poor law records from Penbryn parish, Cardiganshire, Aberystwyth Poor Law Union, and Berriw parish and Machynlleth Union, Montgomeryshire, 1786-(postmark 1924); and papers relating to various charities, schools in the Aberystwyth area and the University College of Wales, 1752-1914.

Records of the Abernantbychan estate in south Cardiganshire and Pembrokeshire, 1416-1918, [1918x1946] which also incorporated the Llangoedmor estate., lying mainly in the parishes of Penbryn, Betws Ifan, Bron-gwyn, Blaen-porth, Troed-yr-aur, Llangrannog, Llangynllo, Llandyfriog, Llangoedmor, Cardigan, Llechryd and Tre-main in Cardiganshire, and in Amroth, Crunwear, St Issells, Begeli, Tenby and Hodgeston. The estate also included the lordships or manors of Cilgerran, East and West Pembroke, and Emlyn Iscych. The records comprise title deeds, 1416-1894, estate administration papers, 1613-1918, [1918x1946], legal papers, 1672-1891, and Pembrokeshire colliery papers, 1745-1866.

Probate records of the Pryse family of Gogerddan, Woodstock and Buscot Park and various other branches of the family at Glanfread, Ynysgreigiog, Glanmeryn and Aberllefenni, 1584-[19]16, family deeds and settlements, 1549-1932, and trust papers, 1587-1950. The trust papers include the administration and trust of Pryse Loveden, who died intestate in 1855.

Records of two other estates linked with Abernantbychan and Gogerddan, comprising lands in Llangathen, Carmarthenshire, and other nearby parishes, 1428-1660, and the Priory estate, Cardigan, [c. 1560x1774].. Llangathen appears to have had connections with the Lewes family of Abernantbychan, and the Priory was purchased directly by Gogerddan in 1705. The Llangathen group comsists mostly of early title deeds, and it also includes a conveyance of the rectory of Pencarreg, 1608. The records from Cardigan Priory include letters, deeds, rentals, a survey and accounts, [c. 1560x1774].

Title deeds of houses and lands belonging to the Pughe family of the Mathafarn estate situated in Llanwrin and several adjacent parishes in Montgomeryshire, 1403-1736, and in several parishes in Merioneth, mainly around Mallwyd, 1544-1704; and a series of miscellanous deeds and bonds, 1562-1754.

Papers once in the possession of Francis Llewellyn Powys, nephew of John Cowper Powys, relating to the wills of John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter and to the literary executorship, copyright, translation rights and royalies, etc. of John Cowper Powys's estate. The material includes contracts, correspondence, and notes and accounts concerning proposed publication and translation of, and performance rights, copyright and royalties relating to, the works of John Cowper Powys, Theodore Francis Powys and Philippa (Katie) Powys. The literary executorship of both John Cowper Powys and Theodore Francis Powys was in the hands of Phyllis Player until she transferred it to John Cowper Powys's nephew (and Theodore's son) Francis Llewellyn Powys by deed of gift in 1972; Francis, in turn, transferred it by deed of gift to his son John Francis Cowper Powys in 1994.