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Correspondence and a typescript copy relating to a children’s story submitted to Brockhampton Press 9 July 1968 with no success, and also submitted unsuccessfully to BBC Schools in June 1970.

Original parcel labelled ‘Miss Loveden’s receipts 1833’, comprising bills and receipts, actually dated 1827-1841, mainly for building work, repairs and furnishings at her house in Bridge Street by various Aberystwyth tradesmen including Edward and John Lumley, Lewis Hopkins, William Williams, glazier and painter, and William Jones; some carriage and saddlery repairs; and the salary of William Williams for managing her affairs

Papers relating to the election of a member to serve in Parliament for the Borough of Montgomery, 1877, in which the candidates were Charles Stewart Vane-Tempest Viscount Castlereagh and Frederick Stephen Archibald Hanbury-Tracy. The file contains a printed register of persons entitled to vote, listing the boroughs and polling districts of Llanfyllin, Llanidloes, Machynlleth, Montgomery, Newtown and Welshpool, 1877, accompanied by vouchers and bills for election expenses, and letters mainly requesting and acknowledging payments, enclosed in an issue of the Mid-Wales Telegraph & Observer, and Cambrian General Advertiser, 21 July 1877, labelled ‘Election Expenses’

Assignment by John Jones of London to Arthur Champness in trust for John Oldbury, of a judgement obtained in 1670 by Henry Rumsey of Dolwyn Eglwys, Cardiganshire, against Henry Vaughan of Gelli-goch, Montgomeryshire, for a debt secured on tenements called Moel y Coed, Ty Braich Ythellgam, and lands called Dolegau and Llechweth Dyrris, subsequently purchased by Humphrey Jones, then by William Corbett of the Middle Temple, 1695.

‘Mr Hughe’s observations on the abstract of the title laid before him of Mrs Mary Evans and Mrs Jane Evans’s house…sent by Mr Cuthbert’, listing deeds from 1706 to 1759, some of which name Wiliam Brigstocke

Rental of the estate of [Richard] Lloyd [ of Mabws] situated in Llanrhystud, Llansanffraid, Llanbadarn Fawr, etc. in Cardiganshire, Llanegwad in Carmarthenshire, Llanfrynach, Llanfigan and Llanelli in Breconshire, and Newcastle Upon Tyne, St Nicholas, in Northumberland, as evidence of his property qualification in the elections of 1729 and 1741

Volume entitled ‘Mr Loveden’s election account for 1852 as pd by Thomas Jones’ in 1853. Includes payments to sea captains and travelling expenses of voters from Builth, Bristol, Liverpool, etc.

Copy of information and correspondence, subscribed with the legal opinion of Lancelot Shadwell on the title of Pant y Bettws and Coed y Perthy, which Edward Loveden Loveden proposed to purchase, 1797.

Papers of William Poole of Peithyll, comprising accounts, bills, receipts and relevant letters, 1829-1837. The bundle inlcudes bills and receipts for building work done at Troedrhiwgwine between 1824 and 1830; William Poole’s accounts with Pryse Pryse for Troedrhiwgwine and Peithyll, 1824-1836, settled in 1837; accounts of rabbit damage at Peithyll, 1826-1827; letters between the agents, Oliver Lloyd of Cardigan and William Williams of Aberystwyth, concerning Poole’s lease, rent arrears and the proposed sale of his property, 1830-1836; and a list of livestock and crops proposed by Poole to assign to Oliver Lloyd as security for his arrears of rent, 1833.

Original bundle of vouchers labelled ‘Mr Wynn’s receipts’ recording the receipt of payments from Farr and Pickering on account of coal, by Ellis Wynne for Plas Issa Company, and for Farr, Wynne and Jones, 1814-1827.

Letters and papers addressed to Pryse Pryse, labelled ‘Mrs Baily’s Papers’, concerning the application of Katherine E. Baily, widow of Richard Baily of the War Office Department, to the government for financial assistance in view of her husband’s service to the country, 1836-1837. The contents comprise a printed statement of Mrs Baily’s case, 1821, with a copy of a petition to Lord Viscount Melbourne, and letters by Katherine Baily at Aldersgate Street and King’s Bench, concerning the damage to her family’s reputation, her appeal to Lord Euston, naming various other government ministers with an interest in the case; and a reply to her from Pryse’s aunt, J.M. Gill (undated)

Handwritten notes of a children’s story about a black and white mongrel dog.

Original envelope containing building accounts, bills and receipts for materials and labour for a new dwelling house and out-kitchen at Neuaddyrynys, 1885-1888

Correspondence and a typescript copy of a play about 1950’s village characters submitted unsuccessfully to BBC Wales.

Scrapbook of newspaper articles on beekeeping and associated notes; press cuttings titles identify the area as Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

A very early version of 'De Veritate', [?c.1619]x[1624].

Copy, [1610x1624], of ‘Observations of France’, by Sir George Carew, ambassador to France before 1610, together with a typescript review of the document, [1965xc.1990], by John Butler of the University of Manitoba.

‘Of the antiquity of parliament’, being extracts taken from the works of Sir John Doderidge [Doddridge], Francis Tate, William Camden, Joseph Holband, and Sir Thomas Smythe [Smith], [1600x1648].

Title deeds mainly relating to properties in the township of Mathrafal [parish of Llangynyw], Montgomeryshire, 1582-1697. Most of the deeds concern properties purchased by Evan Meredith, which descended to his son David Evans. They include the marriage settlements of David Deckyn and Jane vch Thomas ap Ieuan 1582, and of John Deacon the younger and Alice vch Robert Taylor, 1624; a deed of sale by John Deacon and family to Evan Meredith of messuages in Mathrafal and Cynhinfa, including a walk mill, 1640; a mortgage by David Evans to Thomas Richards of a ‘Meas-place’ or ancient tenement called Tomkis Tenement and lands (named) in the township of Mathrafal, 1690, which had been conveyed [c. 1650] by Thomas Benion and Sara his wife to Evan Meredith, dec.; a mortgage by Thomas Richards to John Edwards of ?Roxington, Salop, as security for the payment of arrears of rent on a capital messuage in Llannerchrochwel, 1695; an assignment of the mortgage of Tomkis Tenement and its lands by Thomas Richards, then of Moedog, to John Harris of Stretton, Salop, 1697; and a mortgage by John Harris (who had purchased the property from the heir of David Evans) as security for the payment of £150 due to Thomas Richards, 1697. Other evidence of the debts of David Evans comprise an assignment in 1677 of premises in Hirnant and Trefedryd which he had previously mortgaged to David Charles; and assignments of two judgements obtained against him, 1691 and 1694. The file also contains a conveyance by Henry Smith of Yockleton, Salop, to William Harries of Alberbury, of Whittiniacks Coppys and the Banckcroft, Yockleton, 1610.