Series GCB4 and Vol. 360 - Letters of Boys and Tweedie, solicitors

Correspondence of the firm of solicitors, Hale, Boys and Austen, later called Boys and Tweedie, of Ely Place and Lincolns Inn Fields, London, 1845-1924. There are two sub-series, comprising letters addressed to the firm by the Pryse family, their trustees, agents and other parties 1845-1870, and letters by Boys and Tweedie to various members of the Pryse family of Gogerddan or their representatives, 1852-1924. The majority of the letters deal with legal and financial aspects of the Gogerddan estate management. Areas of particular concern include the Pryse family settlement of 1846, financial and legal affairs affecting the Buscot, Woodstock and Gogerddan estates after the death of Pryse Pryse in 1849, the mortgages on the Welsh estates, the administration of the estates by the trustees following the death of Pryse Loveden in 1855, the Gogerddan inheritance, investment in stocks, and financial provisions under terms of the family settlements, notably the portions due to Jane Elizabeth Loveden and Harriet Thiebault (previously Thayer), from 1845, and the allowances to the younger sons and daughter of Sir Pryse Pryse, from the time of his death in 1906.