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Title deeds of houses and lands belonging to the Pughe family of Mathafarn, mainly in the parishes of Cemais, Darowen Llanbryn-mair, Llanwrin, Machynlleth and Penegoes in Montgomeryshire, 1403-1736. The deeds record the Pughes’ possession, under a crown lease, of the lordships of Arwystli and Cyfeiliog, as well as the names of properties within those lordships, 1568-1673.

Title deeds of houses and lands of the Mathafarn estate in the parishes of Cemais, Darowen and Llanbryn-mair, 1521-1736, Llandinam, Llangurig and Llanidloes, 1579-1730, Llanwnnog, 1616, and Llanwrin, 1403-1677. Many of the deeds record acquisitions and other transactions by the Pughe family of Mathafarn between 1561 and 1736. One file contains leases and assignments of the lordships of Arwystli and Cyfeiliog, as well as named properties within the lordships, 1568-1673. Some files refer to the Purcell family of Dinthill, Salop, the Meredith family of Glynceirig and the Jones family of Clegyrddwr, Llanbryn-mair

Title deeds of houses and lands in the parish of Llanwrin and manor of Cyfeiliog, Montgomeryshire, [?1403]-1677. The earliest document is a copy of court roll of the manor of Cyfeiliog, recording a gift to Llywelyn ap Gruffith Ieuan Lloit ap Tuder and Ieuan Vighan ap Cadog' of a gavel of land of Tuder ap Cyno, previously of Madoc ap Owen ap Grono in Llanwrin, and a pardon to the tenants who rebelled in the late insurrection [revolt of Owain Glyndwr], [?1403]. Properties in the later deeds include Tuthyn Mays y Ffrewthey, 1545; Dryll yr Helygen, Dryll y Weirglodd, and Dryll Juxta Derwen y Fran, land in Y Bryn Koch, Anhereg y Cappel in Glynceirig, Aber Nant y Barkytt in Dol Yorchen, Glynceirig, and Yr Ystum Gwyn, purchased by John ap Hugh ap Ieuan of Mathafarn, 1545-1569; Gwerne 'r Stable, otherwise Esgair y Kawdladd, and Dol Gwern Stabley, acquired respectively by Richard ap Hugh ap Ieuan of Penegoes, 1566, Rowland ap John ap Hugh, 1570, and Rowland Pugh, 1595; and [Tyddyn y Ganffrwd], purchased by Rowland Pughe, 1628. The file also contains the post-nuptial settlement of Meredith ap Ho'ell ap Rees and Ethliwe vch D'd Lloyd, 1576; leases by Rowland Pughe, naming Kae Ieuan Vongam, Tythyn Eskair Hir, Llyest Bwlch Gwayn Drosol, Llyest Bwlch Gwayn Nant, Tyddyn Bryn Gronw and part of Bryn Meirig, in Blaenglesyrch and Llanfechan, 1577-1608; mortgages to Rowland Pughe of Tythyn Blaenglesyrch and other properties in Llanfechan, Blaenglesyrch and Glynceirig, 1600x[1648]. Other properties include lands in Dol Rhyd Ieuan Thy, 1587. Among the personal names are Ieuan ap Rees ap Ieuan ap Mredyth ap Ieuan Vaughan of Llanidloes and other descendants of Ieuan ap Mredyth ap Ieuan Vaughan, 1568. The final item is a conveyance by William Pughe of Mathafarn and others to Cornelius LeBrun of Nanteos, Cardiganshire, of Kae Iago, Glynceirig, and Esgair Hyr, Llanfechan, 1677.

Title deeds of houses and lands belonging to the Pughe family of the Mathafarn estate situated in Llanwrin and several adjacent parishes in Montgomeryshire, 1403-1736, and in several parishes in Merioneth, mainly around Mallwyd, 1544-1704; and a series of miscellanous deeds and bonds, 1562-1754.

1. Hoell ap Tud' ap Ieuan, ringild of the commote of Turkelyn;
2. Mevane vergh Hoell ap Ior' duy.
   Receipt for 20s. being the relief and gobr of Gwne' vergh Hoell ap [...] duy ap Trah' [...] who died without heirs of her body.

1. Gruff', Eign', Ieuan, Weirvill and Lleu', sons and daughters of Gron' ap Ph' ap Eign', tenants of St. Hilary of the township of Llanelien;
2. Thomas Godfray.
   Mortgage for four years of the lands and tenements which came to the said Gron' from Nest vergh Ior' ap Mad', formerly the wife of Ph' ap Meil' duy, in the said township in the hamlet of Barrech. Witnesses: Mered' ap Ken' ap Mered'; Deikus ap Ken' ap Mered; Hoell ap Tudur ap Ieuan; Hoell ap David loytwyn; Hoell ap y penloyt.

Ministers' accounts of the Chamberlain of Chester for the counties of Cheshire, Flintshire and Denbighshire.

Records of the Edwinsford estate of the Williams, later Williams-Drummond, family in Carmarthenshire, including deeds, 1411-1860; manorial records, 1500-1744, including records of the manor of Talley, 1551-1744, and Caio, 1500-1734; estate correspondence, 1580-1863, (mainly post 1700), estate and household accounts, 1654, 1670-1903, and rentals, 1707-1843; deeds relating to the Llether Cadfan estate, 1474-1760, and Court Derllys estate, 1563-1805, both in Carmarthenshire.

1. Gruff' ap Mallt verch Wenll' verch [...] ap Kwnna, Cd. ap Mallt, Gwehwyfar verch Ethware verch Cd. ap Kwnna, Lleucy verch Ethware verch Cd. ap Kwnna, free tenants of the Bishop of Bangor of the township of Cornwylan;
   2 [...] Ap Gron.
   Grant of land in the hamlets of Kl ... ckamo (Partly illegible).

1. Ll' ap Ieuan ap Ior' free man of the townships of Boduaeo Dwgyvylchi and Bryn govvchaf in the counties of Caernarvon and Anglesey;
2. Gruff' ap Mad' ap Ieuan.
   Mortgage of lands.

1. John Williams;
2. David ap Ken' at Gron'.
   Power of attorney to deliver seisin of lands which he purchased of Madoc ap Ll. Vaughan in the commote of Lliwan, to Richard de Wodde, burgess of Bevmarres.

Title deeds, 1416-1894, relating to houses and lands situated mainly in Penbryn, Betws Ifan, Bron-gwyn, Blaen-porth, Troed-yr-aur, Llangrannog, Llangynllo, Llandyfriog, Llangoedmor, Cardigan, Llechryd and Tre-main in Cardiganshire but occasionally including properties in Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire. They include Plas Dyffryn Llynan in Cardigan, Cawres in Llangoedmor, Melin Brithdir and other mills in Penbryn and Troed-y-raur, and Cefn Ceirw, Penbryn. The Lewis family also held the manor of Iscoed Is Hirwern, Cardigan Castle and fishing rights on the River Teifi. Names of other property owners include Lewis of Gernos, John Loyd of Llangoedmor and William Wogan of Wiston. The early deeds record the acquisition of properties by the Lewis family from the sixteenth century. From the mid-eighteenth century there are leases by Walter Pryse, Lewis Pryse, Edward Loveden Loveden and Sir Pryse Pryse. Deeds from 1875-1883 record the sale by Sir Pryse Pryse and his trustees of parts of the settled family estate, There is a possibility that this series includes deeds from the Priory estate which have not been identified separately. A small number of items derive from the estate of Abermad in Llanilar, which seems to have been acquired by James Lewes in right of his first wife.

1. David Saer, free tenant of the township of Llanelyen, commote of Turkelyn, co. Anglesey;
2. Thomas Godfray, clerk.
   Grant of two [?walls] (Muros) in the hamlet of Llan., called the Murdon duy and the Murdon which Dd. Oyyt formerly held, and six virgates of arable land thereto adjoining. Witnesses: Ieuan ap Mad' ap Ken'; Mad' ap Hoell ap Mad'; Ionk' ap Meuric; Gron' ap Ieuan Vayn; Dicus ap Hoell.

Title deeds for properties in the town and parish of Cardigan, belonging to Philipp Taylour, son of John Taylour, and Marion Glais his wife, 1416, 1427, and William Phe’ ap Ieuan, 1557; boundaries include the river Teifi and the highway leading to St Mary’s church, and Parke y Marlays respectively; and a lease of Plas Dyffryn Llunan by David Lewis of Gernos, 1609/10

Records of the Abernantbychan estate in south Cardiganshire and Pembrokeshire, 1416-1918, [1918x1946] which also incorporated the Llangoedmor estate., lying mainly in the parishes of Penbryn, Betws Ifan, Bron-gwyn, Blaen-porth, Troed-yr-aur, Llangrannog, Llangynllo, Llandyfriog, Llangoedmor, Cardigan, Llechryd and Tre-main in Cardiganshire, and in Amroth, Crunwear, St Issells, Begeli, Tenby and Hodgeston. The estate also included the lordships or manors of Cilgerran, East and West Pembroke, and Emlyn Iscych. The records comprise title deeds, 1416-1894, estate administration papers, 1613-1918, [1918x1946], legal papers, 1672-1891, and Pembrokeshire colliery papers, 1745-1866.

Title deeds relating to houses and lands belonging to the Lewis family of Abernantbychan and Coedmor, which descended to the Pryse family of Gogerddan, situated in sotuh Cardiganshire, 1416-1894, various Pembrokeshire parishes, 1542-1874, the lordships and manors of East and West Pembroke and Cilgerran, 1482-[c. 1891], and miscellaneous parishes in Cardiganshire and Pembrokeshire, which also include a small number of stray Breconshire deeds, 1566-1788.

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.

Title deeds for houses and burgages mainly in Bridge Street, Aberystwyth, 1417-1840. One deed includes Cross Street, 1575. Boundary clauses mention Maesglas Common and Gerddi Gleison. The earliest deeds record acquisitions by John ap G’li ap Y Bongam, 1417, Lli'n ap Howell Dduy, 1432, William ap John Voya and Goleubryd his wife, 1438/9, and David ap Gr ap Mab Coch Creyth, 1441; a mortgage by Jankyn ap John ap Gutto Vachan, 1465; and a gift by John Glayse, 1484/5. Named properties include Ty D'd Saies, quitclaimed by John Wogan of Wiston to Maurice ap John ap Ridderch of Llanychaearn, 1561, and Tomen Vaure, sold by Henry Phillips to Gruffith Roger, 1609. Further items include a deed of sale by Thomas Phillippes to Thomas Rice of Penglais, 1625/6; a letter of attorney by John Rees (bedridden) 1642, followed by a sale by Richard Rice to James Johnes of Dolaucothi, 1656; and purchases and mortgages by Richard Phillips, 1564, 1586, William ap Morice. 1575, Richard ap Roger, 1594-1595, Thomas Phillips and his son Phabian, 1623, and John Rice, 1627. Later deeds concern houses purchased by John Davies of Crigie, 1770, then sold by James Morice of Wallog (mortgagee of David Davies) to Pryse Pryse the elder, 1840, with an abstract of title, 1770-1819; and Margaret Pryse of Woodstock, 1784-178[6].

1. Elen vergh Gruff' ap Hoell, free tenant of the lord the King of the township of Erryannell, in the Commote of Llywan;
2. Ll' ap Ior' ap Rees.
   Mortgage of land in Erryannell.