Series GBC8 - Loose bills and receipts (general)

Bundles of loose general bills and receipts (vouchers) of the Gogerddan estate, 1474-1927. Some bundles also include relevant letters and copies of the agents’ completed accounts. The earlier bundles contain a variety of different bills and receipts of Sir Richard Pryse, Mary Pryse of Glanmeryn, Thomas Pryse, John Pughe Pryse, Edward Loveden Loveden and Pryse Pryse. From around 1850 to 1880 the contents are more regularised, comprising similar items in each year. They have not been examined in detail. They typically record payments for estate labour and wages, particularly for gamekeeping, gardening, forestry work and fencing; for building materials, repairs and improvements to Gogerddan mansion and other properties; salaries and expenses of the Gogerddan and Abernantbychan agents; seeds and plants; estate surveys and valuations; interest and annuities; solicitors’ charges; auctioneers’ fees; dinners for the tenants on rent days; subscriptions and salaries for the schools at Borth, Clarach, Commins Coch and Taliesin (Llangynfelyn), and the Welsh Charity School at Deptford; land and property tax; crown rents; chief rents; tithe rent charges; poor rates of Aberystwyth and Machynlleth Unions; highway rates; charities; refurbishments and cleaning the [Pryse] monument in Llanbadarn Fawr church; carriage of goods; Aberystwyth and London tradesmen’s bills for commodities and services; Penrhyn-coch curate’s stipend. Individual items of interest are noted at file level.