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Title deeds for Tythyn Estyn y Ffynon Ddu or Tyddyn Estyn Ffynnon Sais Duy in the township of Faenor in the parish of Llanbadarn Fawr, 1644-1741. They include a deed of sale by Hugh ap Evan Gwyn to Sir Richard Pryse of Gogerddan, of a moiety of Tythyn Estyn y Ffynon Ddu, 1643/4; the post-nuptial settlement of Rees David ap Evan Thomas and Jane vch Edward ap Howell Thomas, comprising Tyddyn Estyn Ffynnon Sais Duy and another messuage and garden, 1651; mortgages by Edward Rees of Rhywarthen, 1699, 1702; probate of the will of the mortgagee, Evan Morgan of Llanbadarn Fawr, 1702; marriage settlements of James Edward, son of Edward Rees, and Mary Richard, widow of Watkin John, 1712, and of David Rice, son of Hugh Rice (a mortgagee), and Elizabeth Francis, eldest daughter of James Francis the elder of Caron, 1733; a deed of sale by Simon James of Llanbadarn Fawr, son of James Edward, and his mortgagees to Griffith Hugh of Llanychaearn, 1740 ; and a subsequent sale to Thomas Pryse of Gogerddan, 1741.

Bundle of miscellaneous and unidentified press cuttings and other printed material, [17C-19C]

1. John Wynn of Bodewrid;
2. Gruffith Lewis ap Owen of Llandrygarn.
   Lease of Tythyn penn y sarn in the township of Llechgenvarwy, commote of Llivon. Annual rent: 36s. 8d.; 2 capons at Easter; and one day's reaping of corn with a sufficient reaper.

A letter, 18 December 1644, from prince Rupert at Oxford to [?], concerning £100 from Sir Basil Brooke, due to be paid at Oxford, and £200 from Sir Thomas Whitmore.

A document, dated 8 October 1645, bearing the signature of the poet and philosopher Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, acknowledging receipt of his 'weeklie allowance' of £10 from Thomas ffauconberge [Fauconberg or Fauconbridge], Esq., Receiver General of the Public Revenue.
The receipt also contains the signatures of two witnesses, including Matth[ew] Clay. Although Herbert had been granted a weekly pension of £20 by Parliament the previous February the present receipt is for only half that amount, possibly on account of a warrant of 6 June cited in the receipt.

A collection of miscellaneous letters and papers, 1645-[1993x1999], purchased or received by donation from various sources by the National Library of Wales during the period April 2013-November 2020 and boxed as one volume.

Holograph letters addressed mainly to Morgan Llwyd. The correspondents include Esther Jones, Dol[ ], 1655 (2) (Coll. Jones's letter to Ellis Hughes, spiritual experiences); E. Herbert to his dear sister [?the wife of Morgan Llwyd], 1658/9 (the recipient's health); Hugh Prichard, Wrexham, etc., 1651-1654 (7) (the reason why Mr. Cradocke and Mr. Powell went out of town, references to Mr. Rice Vaughan, Capt. Strange, Jo[h]n Lilburne, M[ajor] G[eneral] Lambert, and Col. Barrow, the recipient's visits to Merioneth and Carnarvon shires, feelings against M[ajor] G[eneral] H[arrison], union and peace in the church at Wrexham, etc.); Phill[ip] Rogers, Beaumaris, etc., 1653/4-1654/5 (3) (impressions of 'this darke Countrey', books sent to the recipient, the death of Mrs. Courtney, W. Erbery's publication of 'some papers'); Peter Sterry, Whitehall, 1651-1656 and undated (5) (opinions on free will, the godhead of Christ, the writings of Beaumont, etc.); Hugh Courtney, 1649 (Mr. Cradocke's congregation, the Moderate Petition, news of Inchequin's forces in Ireland, etc.); John Trevor, Symon Thelwall, Stephen Marshall, Joseph Caryll, John Glynn, and Henry Herbert to [Sir Thomas Myddelton] [not before 1645] (Mr. Ambrose Mostyn and Mr. Morgan Floyd to be sent to the recipient to help reduce that country to due obedience) ('true copy'); H. J. [from London], 1656 (Mr. Jo. Goodwin's answer); Robert Hughes, Westminster, 1658/9 (Parliamentary business, the illness of two successive speakers, Major-General Overton sent ... to Jersey) (mutilated); Va[vasor] Powell, 1657-1659 (2) (comments on the recipient's beliefs and on their personal relationships); ?Phil. Eyton, London, 1656 (the election of an arbitrator, the war with the Spaniards, the Act for Registers); Samuel Hughes, Swansea, 1656 (personal, references to Mr. Ambrasse Mosten, John Robert, Edward Cynricke, etc.); Will. Rider and Wal. Thimelton, Hollborne, etc., 1652/3-1653/4 (3) (Mr. Erbury's publications and his trial by the Committee for plundered m[inisters], references to Strange and Spencer, etc., and to books); and W. T. Chapellizzard, 1653 (landing in Ireland, a report that the recipient has given over all meetings, etc.). Also included in the volume are a despatch, 1648, giving an account of the engagement (endorsed 'fight') at Maidstone; an order, [c. 1649], by the common knaves of England for the destruction of all gallows or gibbets, and the burning of all halters, ropes, etc., in the county of Montgomery, illustrated with rough sketches of gallows prepared for Powel, Mosten, Capt. Wil'n, the knight of the shire, E[dward] V[aughan], the committees, sequestrators, and all rebels, signed 'Amicus sculpit' [sic]; queries, undated, by James Parke 'To all the professors in Wrexham that deny the light of christ to bee in every man ...'; and an epistle signed by H. Jessey, Will Crees, and Tho. Teobald, in the name of the Church at Colman Street, London, to Mr. Morgan Lloyd, Minister of the Gospel at Wrexham, 1656. Bound at the beginning of the volume is a fragment of 'A perfect account of all the Horses that I receaved the sixth of May 1651', being an imperfect list which appears to have been used as a wrapper for a bundle of Morgan Llwyd's letters and which is endorsed: 'Bundle of letters to Mr. Morgan Lloyd of which perhaps some profitable use may be made if I should have leisure to peruse ym. so as to make some sober remarks & reflections uppon them, if not burn them. May 29th 1706'.

An autograph letter, dated 17 May 1645, from Prince Rupert, at Newport, [Shropshire], to [Sir Edward Nicholas, secretary of state], [?at Oxford], communicating the news that Montgomery Castle, under Sir John Price [or Pryce] the parliamentary governor, has come over to the Royalists, and that 'the Ennemys have drawne their cannon from Harding [Hawarden] Castle' (f. 28).
Also included is a letter, 30 March 1976, from the military historian Brigadier Peter Young to Anthony S. Gilbert, discussing the letter and tentatively suggesting General Charles Gerard or the Marquis of Worcester as its intended recipient (ff. 29-30). However, Thomas Thorpe's catalogue of autograph letters (1836) identifies the recipient as 'Sir Edw. Nicholes [sic]' and the Prince Rupert letter is endorsed in Nicholas's hand ('Maij. 1645. R[eceived] 21o. P. Rupert to me' on f. 28 verso).

A continuation of the accounts in respect of Wimbledon, 1645-1647.

1. John Wynne of Bodewryd, esq.;
2. Richard Gruffyth of Rhodogeidio, gent.
   Agreement for the lease of messuages in Llanbedr, commote of Tyndaythwy, and the messuages of Colonel Harbert and Mr. Bagnalls. Annual rent, £21. 6s. 8d., four capons at Easter and two geese at Christmas.

1. John Wynne of Bod Ewryd, gent.;
2. Owen Lewis of Bodowyr, gent., and John Lewis, his son and heir.
   Lease of Tv yn y Coed in Mynydd Mwyn vcha in the parish of Llandrygarne. Annual rent 40s. Endorsed with a memorandum of the surrender of the lease, 20 July 1663.

A transcript of Lord Byron's English Bards and Scotch Reviewers: A Satire (London, 1809) in the hand of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore whose signature, dated 10 March 1816, appears on f. i verso (ff. 1-58, rectos only); together with a further transcript, of Byron's 'The Lament of Tasso', in the hand of Mrs Frances Morres Gore, whose initials, dated 23 July 1823, appear on f. 63 verso (ff. 59-63 verso).
A Civil War letter, 9 July 1645, from John Byron, 1st Baron Byron of Rochdale, to Col. Sir John Owen of Clenennau has been tipped in on f. iii, probably because its author, like the poet, was a Byron.

1. Richard ap Robert ap William of Tre Ieuan ap Ithon and Katherine his wife;
2. Owen ap Richard of the same and Owen his wife.
   Grant of Cledog in the township of Tre Ieuan ap Ithon.

Records of the manors of Emlyn Iscych (Emlyn Is Cuch) and Dyffryn Breuan in Pembrokeshire, which had descended to the Pryses of Gogerddan by inheritance from the Lewes family of Abernantbychan, comprising chief rentals, 1742, 1793, 1853-1919; court books and court leet presentments, 1832-1918; accounts and receipts, 1646, 1843-1915; and letters, 1876-1895. The court leet was held at Boncath.

1. Peeres Johns of Llanrhuddlad;
2. John Gruffyth ap Howell of the same.
   Lease of ynys lwyd and llyn hafod in the township of Bodegri gayth.

Articles Concluded & Agreed on for the Surrender of Oxford & Farrington To His Excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax, Upon Wednesday the 24th of this instant June: And Read in the Honourable House of Commons, June 23. 1646 (London: Printed for Edward Husband ... June 24, 1646); the petition, 29 April, 1651, of Willm. Lewis of Bryn y Voyle, Merioneth, to the Commissioners for Compounding, that the sequestration of Bryn y Voyle and his other messuages and tenements in Merioneth be discharged, as he had paid his proportion of the general fine imposed upon North Wales (copy, attested by T. Bayly, 24 March [16]54/5; the oder, 29 April, 1651, of the Committee for Compounding to refer the petition of Willm. Lewis to the Committee of North Wales (copy, attested by T. Bayly, 24 March, [16]54/5; the report, 19 December, 1651, of Tho. Ball, sheriff [of Denbighshire], John Peck, and Daniell Loyd, from Wrexham, upon the case of Willm. Lewis (Colonel John Jones, M.P., had informed them that Lewis was a delinquent beyond the seas and therefore excepted from any benefit of the Act) (copy, attested by T. Bayly, 24 March, [16]54/5); the report, 20 September, 1653, of Jo. Reading upon the case of William Lewis, D.D. (copy, attested by T. Bayly, register at Haberdashers' Hall, 30 January, [16]54/5; the affidavit, 8 February, 1654/5, of Joseph Collier, sworn before Henry Pytt, that on 25 March, 1654, he received an annexed certificate of the discharge of the sequestration of the estate of William Lewis, D.D., upon the payment of £56.3s. (copy, examined by Edw. North) (according to an endorsement the document refers to the case of Col. Jones and Sir Maurice Williams); the plea, 14 February, 1654/5, of Humfrey Jones, plaintiff, before the Commissioners of Obstructions, in an action against Sir Maurice Williams, defendant, for the justification of his title to the lands of Dr. William Lewis (mutilated); the certificate, 24 March, 1654/5, of Tho. Browne, auditor, of an entry relating to the estate of Dr. William Lewis of Landony [sic], sequestered for delinquency, and to the payment of £40, being rent for the years 1650 and 1651, by Mr. Humfrie Jones, together with a certificate, 28 December, 1653, by T. Bayly that the did not find any confirmation of the contract made for the estate (according to an endorsement the document relates to the case of Jones and Williams) (mutilated); the petition [27 May, 1655] of Coll. John Jones to the Commissioners for Relief upon Articles of War (Dr. William Lewis declined the clemency of Parliament under the Articles of Oxford and did not compound for his lands in Llanethoyn and Llanddwywe within the time prefixed, but went to France; the trustees for forfeited lands sold these properties to Humfrey Jones, petitioner's brother; in 1653, Dr. Lewis, combining with Sir Maurice Williams, was admitted to compound upon the pretence that the properties descended to him from his mother in 1647; he petitions for the reversal of the order of 17 August, 1653), together with a draft of the same; the case, 2 November, 1655, of Dorety Lloyd, widow of Hunffrey John ap Ruddergh late of Bron y foel, parish of Llanenthoyn, deceased, concerning rent for Bronyfoel paid in 1649 by the said Humffrey by the hand of Caddr. ap Rees Gruff., drover, to Mr. Goslinge, steward of Dr. William Lewis of Bronyfoel (sequestrators demanded payment of rent for the same year, and Hunffrey John was ejected; soon after he died of consumption, the complainant being left helpless and forced to scatter her children among friends) (signed by Richard Jones, clerk, and Dorety Lloyd alias Jones, complainants); and an undated and imperfect account of the case between Humfrey Joens, plaintiff, and Sir Maurice Williams, defendant, before the Committee for Removing Obstructions in the Sale of Delinquents' Lands, touching the lands of Dr. William Lewis, a delinquent, in Llanthwywe and Llanenthoyn, Merioneth.

Mainly accounts and receipts, 1646, 1843-1915, for the payment of chief rents in the manor of Emlyn Iscych, taxes on properties in Cilgerran and Clydau, and for expenses incurred in the administration of the manorial court. They typically include serving summons and warrants to the constables, summoning the jurors and tenants to the court leet, subsistence for jurors and horses at the Boncath Inn, and costs of horse hire to Boncath and Newcastle Emlyn. The files for 1881-1883 also contain rentals.

Acquittance to George Lewis, bailiff, for chief rent in the manors of Cefn-drum, Emlyn and Dyffryn Breuan.

Title deeds and other documents relating to property owned by the Brogyntyn estate in Montgomeryshire, 1647-1902. One series concerns properties of the Penrhos and Cemmes (Cemais) estates, formerly belonging to John Owen, which descended to Mary Jane Ormsby Gore, 1647-1899; another series comprises records of the manors of Broniarth and Deuddwr, 1773-1894. Other deeds concern properties in the township of Broniarth in the parish of Guilsfield, 1740-1885, and at Sarnau in the parish of Meifod, 1828-1902.

Conveyance of tmt's in Rhysnant and Domgay, co. Mont., 22 March 1647; from Thomas Jones to Mrs Penelope Owen; deed to lead the issues of a recovery by Mrs Lyster and daugters to John Peers, 18 March 1739; deed of settlement on Miss Lyster's marriage with Rev. Lewis Owen and copy of same, 24 & 25 July 1740; [Derwas to Lewis Owen] , [Conveyance of Penbryn bechan, Llandrinio], [23 Aug. 1740]; John Price and others to Mrs Elizth Owen, Release and Copy of same, 26 March 1748 ; Probate of the Will and 2 codicils of Mrs Elizth Owen, 9 Feb. 1758; William Powell to Mr Geo. Lyster release of a m. and lands in Penbryn Vechan, co. Mont., 14 Dec. 1758 ; John Owen to Messrs Hughes & Williams, release to make Tenants to the Praecipe for suffering a Recovery, 18 & 19 June 1767; William Wynne and Devereux Mytton, Demandants, Price Hughes and John Williams, Tenants. John Owen, Vouchee, recovery, 7 Aug. 1767 ; Mr Edwd Edwards to John Owen, release of a tmt in Penbryn Cithan, co. Mont. A copy of same, 29 Sept. 1774; John Owen to Robert Griffiths lease and release making a tenant to the Praecipe for the Recovery of part of his estate, co. Mont., and copy of same, 10 & 11 Feb. 1794; Richard Morhall, Demandant, Robert Griffiths, Tenant, John Owen, Vouchee recovery and copy of same, Spring Session 1794.