File GKB4/9 - ‘Election papers from 1816’

Original bundle containing mainly accounts and letters relating to elections in Cardiganshire, 1816-1853. The accounts include expenditure on the services of James Hughes of Aberystwyth, 1816, and James Evans, 1841, bills for musicians, mace bearers, flag bearer, chairman, constables, taverns, election dinners, etc. 1837-1852, a bank book of T.O. Morgan, chairman of Pryse Pryse’s election committee, 1849, and the election committee account book, 1852-1853. The letters are to Pryse Pryse and Pryse Loveden, with a copy of an outgoing letter by Jane Pryse. Correspondents of interest include B. Millingchamp of Llangoedmor Place, on a Roman Catholic Relief bill, 1821; Lewis Evans, town clerk of Cardigan, with a copy of a letter by Sir Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, on the desirablitiy of local Acts for the improvement of towns in Wales, 1829; and Henry Lewis Davies, curate of Troed-yr-Aur, requesting a permanent living, 1840. Other correspondents are John Davies of Newport, James Thomas of Newcastle Emlyn, Joseph Rees of the Red Cow, and Thomas Davies of Cardigan, about the claims (sometimes inflated) for election bills, with Mr Atwood’s observations and summary of the bills at Cardigan, Newcastle Emlyn and Aberaeron, 1852-1853,. The file also contains an officiial order for Pryse Pryse to attend the House of Commons, 1819.