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Mortgages by John Pughe of Mathafarn and by his son, William Pughe, 1666-1697. The first was for £1000 by John Pughe, son of Rowland Pughe, to Nicholas Vanacker of London, of the manor of Cyfeiliog, land called Ffryth Kevenartheg, in Cemais, Ffrydd Tavolwern in the parishes of Llanbryn-mair and Darowen, four tenements and old mills upon the premises, 1666, followed by an assignment by William Pughe and the mortgagee’s sons to Francis Bagshaw of the Middle Temple, London, 1676. The second mortgage was for £1500 by William Pughe to Francis Bagshaw, of a capital messuage in Machynlleth, a tanhouse, Tal yr Henbont and other lands in Isygarreg (tenants named), property in Brynmelin, Penygoes, and Eskir Hyder, Bryn Crono, etc. in Glynceirig, Llanwrin, 1676. Both mortgages were assigned to Thomas Saunders of Beechwood, Hertfordshire, 1684; and there is a further mortgage for £400 to his widow, Helen Saunders, of all the properties, 1696/7.

Pocket book for 1821 belonging to Pryse Pryse of Gogerddan, with enclosures, 1760-1803,. General contents are described at series level. Includes a list of the Aberystwyth Court Leet officials, October 23. Memoranda on the flyleaves include a medical recipe and horticultural notes.

Poetry, songs and prose literature, mainly manuscript, accumulated by the Pryse family of Gogerddan, [1650x1950]. The main themes of the poems are eulogies of the distinguished house of Gogerddan, Pryse family birthdays, love, hunting, drinking, mortality, contemporary national and local events, politics and elections. They include an early ‘cywydd’ to Sir Richard Pryse [1650x1675] and a notebook containing ‘Barddoniaeth’ and other writings of John Lewis of Cardiff, compiled in 1879-1880. Other items of interest are a sheet of maxims framed in a decorative roundel, traced from the original manuscript of Elizabeth Henrietta Phelps (printed 1782), an early 19th century Welsh-English vocabulary, and typescript essays on salads and dressings, possibly by Sir Lewes Pryse (d. 1946)

Notebook entitled ‘Barddoniaeth’ (Poetry), containing poems in Welsh and English and other compositions by John Lewis, son of Anne Lewis, the old nurse of Sir Pryse Pryse of Gogerddan, compiled at Cardiff, 1879-1880. The contents include ‘Ar Drefn Natur’, ‘Ar Ddyfodiad Syr Pryse Pryse i gyflawn oed ai etifeddiaeth ar y 18 Ionawr 1858’, ‘What this doleful sound they are making? ‘ (on the death of a young girl in a coal pit at Aberavon), 1851; other poems to the heir of Gogerddan, the Marquis of Bute, 1872, and Charles Bird of St John’s church, Canton, 1877, together with reminiscences on John Lewis’s own career and the life of his mother, Anne Lewis (d. 1867); with enclosures, 1847.

Printed schedule for Aberffraw Eisteddfod and subscription list, 1849.

Published volume: ‘British Encampments lying between the Rivers Rheidol and Llyfnant in the County of Cardigan and their connection with the mines’ by J.G. Williams of Gloster Hall near Aberystwyth (Aberystwyth 1866). Map included.

‘Raphael’s Prophetic Almanac or the Prophetic Messenger and Weather Guide for 1912’ (London : W. Foulsham & Co., 1912)

Newspapers accumulated by the Pryse family of Gogerddan, consisting of complete editions, articles and cuttings from The Aberystwyth Observer, 1860, 1866, The Craftsman or Say’s Weekly Journal, 1784-1785, The Daily Mirror, 1909, The London Evening Post, 1771, The Morning Chronicle, 1822, The Republican, 1819, The Times, 1805, The Traveller, 1822, Western Mail, 1882, cuttings mainly collected by Pryse Pryse, 1760-1844, and miscellaneous press cuttings, [?1922-1925]. Some articles are marked where they concern members of the Pryse or Loveden families or reflect their interests.

The Aberystwyth Observer supplement 8 September 1860, and full page extract, 2 June 1866.

The Daily Mirror,, 26-27 July 1909.

The Republican, 24 September-10 December 1819, in original envelope addresed to Pryse Pryse in London.

Rule books and membership lists of various clubs and societies to which the Pryse family of Gogerdan belonged or in which they were otherwise interested, [post-1804]-1925. They include the Horticultural Society [post-1804]; several lodges of the Freemasons to which Sir Pryse Pryse belonged in England and South Wales, 1867-1884; and Cheltenham Croquet Club, Cheltenham Steeplechase Club, the Country Gentlemen’s Club and the Hove Club, of which Lewes Thomas Loveden Pryse was a member, 1915-1925.

Rules and regulations, with manuscript additions to the honorary members’ list, 1915

Rules, list of members, officials, fixtures, etc., 1913-1914, with photographic illustration.

Letters by John Pughe Pryse [son of Thomas Pryse, deceased], to the family trustee, Thomas Lloyd at Gogerddan, and to his grandmother, mainly on personal health and alluding to his future political standing in Cardiganshire [c. 1750]-1755

Letter by Edward Loveden Loveden [to his wife, Margaret], about the more effectual financial management of her Welsh estates [c. 1792]

A note to Miss Jane Loveden incorporating an invoice for goods, 1809, a letter to her aunt, Jane Gill, 1819, and one from her half-sister, Harriet Thiebault, 1825, on family, social and financial matters.

Letters to Pryse Pryse from his aunt, Jane Gill at Bath, [c. 1822]-1830, mentioning the payment of her annuity and the legacy from her brother, Edward Loveden Loveden, her declining health, Pryse’s estate affairs, acquaintenances including Knight, ‘the Major’, Mrs Turner and the Campbell family, the sabotage of the Bath coach, snow clearance by men seeking poor relief and her own attendance at Bath town hall with the attorney [George] Stallard

Miscellaneous items of correspondence comprising a decorative envelope addressed to John Pugh Pryse (contents missing), 1826; a letter beginning ‘My dear son Charles’, but addressed to George Campbell in Streatham (incomplete) [early 19th cent.]; and a letter to Capt. Edward Lewis Pryse from Thomas Davies of Cardigan, on his appointment as Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire, 1857

Copies of letters to, by and about Herbert William Pryse of Ystradwrallt, 1896-1898. The correspondents and recipients are his father, Sir Pryse Pryse, his brothers, Pryse Pryse Pryse of Lodge Park and Edward Pryse, his wife, Elsie, his mother-in-law, G.A. Parsons of Ystradwrallt and Bexhill, and Tweedie solicitors of Lincolns Inn Fields, The letters concern Herbert Pryse’s neglect of business with Dixey and Co. Ltd in which he held a partnership, his extravagant mode of living and his illness, viewed as a consequence of his financial problems.