Sub-series GCB4/2 and Vol. 360 - Letters from Boys and Tweedie to the Pryse family and agents

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GCB4/2 and Vol. 360

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Letters from Boys and Tweedie to the Pryse family and agents

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  • 1852-1924 (Creation)

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1 vol., 22 bundles, 5 envelopes

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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

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Chronological order; the majority appear to have been filed by year, as indicated by original covers and labels.

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