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Brawdy MSS, Land tenure -- Wales -- Pembrokeshire
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Letters,

Thirteen holograph letters to Henry Goldwyer, Bristol, from George Gwyther, Custom House, Milford, 1840-1841 (6) (the recipient's rental and the proceeds of his Fox Hill and Woodland Collieries in Walton [West]) (with accompanying accounts), James Kealy, Dalkey, 1832 (the management of Dalkey and the market), John Owens, Little haven, 1840 (the unauthorised sinking of pits on property in the writer's occupation) (with accounts of culm landed), J. Rogers Powell, Haverfordwest, [1837]-1841 (4) (land in dispute at Walton, the recipient's rental at Walton), and John Prosser, Little Haven, 1840 (a request for a lease of a colliery at Walton); and six holograph letters from Richd. Rees, Hilton, to Henry Goldwyer and George Gwyther, 1840 (the working of the Fox Hill and Woodland Collieries in Walton) (with some accounts).

Letters, &c.,

Miscellaneous letters:- Eunice Bellairs, Serampore, to [Emily] Phelps, Crawley, Sussex, 1856 (personal), Wm. Grey, Grays Inn, to Henry Rees, Haverfordwest, etc., 1811-1827 (2) (the action of Allen v. Gwynne), J. H. Harries, Trevaccoon, near Trevine, to Jas. Griffiths, 1847 (the receipt of a payment to the writer as a freeman of Haverfordwest), John James, Cov[en]t G[arde]n, London, to Wm. Evans, Haverfordwest, 1809 (a remittance of £30), Anne Gwynne to her brother 'Tom' Gwynne, Haverfordwest, undated (the occupation of land), [General Sir] Tho[mas] Picton, Carmarthen, to J. Philipps, Haverfordwest, 1815 (bills of exchange) (typescript copy), H. Res, Haverfordwest, to H. Goldwyer, Bristol, 1837 (a dispute concerning the title to a piece of ground [at Walton West] (together with the draft of a letter written two days previously by the recipient to the writer), and G. Starbuck, Priory Lodge, near Milford Haven, to the Reverend Frank Thomas, Harroldstone Glen, near Haverfordwest, 1853 (money matters); and a document in the hand of James Pugh, Horse and Jockey, Portfield, 1840, offering a sum of £8 for the lease of land at Portfield.

Local government papers, &c.,

Miscellaneous papers including a draft case on the petition of John Barlow [of Slebech], esq., and others, freeholders of the county of Pembroke, to the House of Commons on behalf of themselves and of Sir Wm. Wogan [of Rickardston], one of the candidates, against Sir Art[hur] Owen [of Orielton], bart., the sitting member, 1700; the case of Lewis Wogan [of Boulston], esq., petitioner against Sir Arthur Owen, bart., sitting member for Pembroke [1712]; a sworn list of the names of freeholders in the parish of Fishguard, 1783; a declaration of Christianity and Protestantism made by Thos. John [Baptist minister, of Little Newcastle], 1795; a certificate of approbation of John Roberts, minister of the Baptist church at Llangloffan, made by members of the church to the Court of Quarter Sessions, 1812; a petition, undated, to the House of Commons for the continuance of the Acts (31, 52 Geo III) 'for amending widening and keeping in repair the Road leading from the Town of Haverfordwest through the Town of Fishguard to the Town of Newport in the County of Pembroke And also from the Town of Fishguard to the City of Saint David's in the said County ...'; the nominatino and appointment of Nicholas Roch of Cocheston, esq., to be sheriff of co. Pembroke, 1835; facsimiles of testimonials by the magistrates of co. Carmarthen and of co. Cardigan to Mr. Richard Kyrke Penson, candidate for the appointment of surveyor of co. Glamorgan, 1853; resolutions of a meeting of freeholders and ratepayers of the parish of St. David's, disapproving of a proposed Joint Lunatic Asylum to be built at Carmarthen for cos. Carmarthen, Cardigan, and Pembroke, together with a memorial to the Court of Quarter Session of the county, 1858; a warrant of appointment of William Francis Roth of Butterhill [near Haverfordwest], esq., to be sheriff of co. Pembroke, 1879 (duplicate); etc.

Rental,

A rental of the estate of W[illiam] H[enry] Scourfield, Moat, in the hundreds of Dungleddy, Roose, Dewsland, and Kemmes, co. Pembroke, and in the town and county of Haverford West, 1809-1818. Insets include additional accounts to 1821; conditions for letting land by auction at New Moat, 1812; and a holograph letter from Charles Child, Nayland, to [Henry] Rees, 1818 (arrears of rent).