This group represents the deeds and papers, 1428-1788, described in a schedule compiled in 1828 by the Aberystwyth attorney William Jones, with other additions of deeds and estate papers which have been deemed relevant. The William Jones schedule lists deeds and papers once kept at Buscot Park. relating mainly to the estates of the Lewes family of Abernantbychan. These comprised an estate in Llangors and Llanfihangel Nant Bran, Breconshire, the Abernantbychan and Coedmor estates in south Cardiganshire, and lands in Pembrokeshire which had been accumulated in the seventeenth century by Nicholas Lewes of Hean Castle. The estates were acquired by Walter Pryse after the death of George Lewis Langton in 1738. The main groups described in this current catalogue are the Breconshire estate papers and title deeds, 1488-1826; and Abernantbychan estate papers and title deeds, 1416-1918, [1918x1946], which include records of the coal mining industry in Pembrokeshire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Edward Loveden Loveden’s purchase from the Peterwell estate in 1780 appears to have been managed with the other south Cardiganshire properties belonging to Gogerddan. There is also a small groups of deeds and documents relating to an estate in Llangathen, Carmarthenshire, and the Priory at Cardigan, 1428x[1774].
The contents of the bundles described by William Jones are quite diverse so researchers may need to consult several files to discover documents relating to the same property or subject.
