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Miscellaneous papers, including printed particulars of the Aber-mad estate in p’s Llanbadarn Fawr, Llanilar and Llanychaearn, to be sold by auction, 1845; succession duty papers on the death of Lewis Pugh (d. 18 Feb. 1868), 1868-1884; and rental of Aberystwyth ground rents due to Lewis Pugh Pugh, 1890.

Original bundle of deeds relating to the Aber-mad estate in p’s Llanbadarn Fawr, Llanilar and Llanychaearn, including a mortgage and further charge by the earl of Lisburne of estates in co. Card., 1842; conveyance of the Aber-mad estate by the said earl to Lewis Pugh of Aberystwyth, esq., for £34,000 (see schedule annexed for extent and map of estate), 1852, mortgage of the said estates and assignments of the same etc., including an agreement by Lewis Pugh Pugh to convey the equity of redemption in the estate to Sir Griffith Humphrey Pugh Evans of Lovesgrove, one of the mortgagees, 1893. Original wrapper marked ‘L. T. Prosser Evans, Abermaed; 2/101’.

Original bundle of deeds and papers relating mainly to mortgages to Lewis Pugh of Aberystwyth of a capital m. called Penywch and m’s and cottages called Bwlch huble, Llyest y Ceiliog, Llyest y Nant Rhys, Nant yr Onnen and Ty yn y Wern in p’s Llanbadarn Fawr and Llanfihangel-y-Creuddyn, to m’s called Blaenpaith and Tavarn y Crib in the same p’s, Graigwen in p. Llanilar, and leasehold premises in North Parade and Portland Place, Aberystwyth, including pre and post-nuptial settlements of James Parry of Penywch, gent., and Jane Pugh of Pantyswllt in p. Llandysiliogogo, 1769, 1784, and a copy of the London Gazette, 5 June 1868, announcing the grant of a licence to Lewis Pugh Evans of Aber-mad and Lincolns Inn to take the name of Pugh instead of Evans in compliance with the will of his maternal uncle, Lewis Pugh.

Lease and release of a capital messuage called Aberpully, p. Llanfihangel-y-Creuddyn, from William Jones late of the same, gent., to John Jones of Nanteos, esq., and to seventeen named landowners in the co's Card., Carm., Rad., Mer., Mont., Caern, Pemb., Denb., Glam. and Flint., redeemable upon payment of 5s. Original bundle labelled 'A, No. 8, Aber Pulley'.

Original bundle of deeds, abstracts of title etc, 1836-1907, relating to a capital messuage called Aberynant, fields called Wharf field and Caepengeulan and three cottages called Pengeulan Cottages, all t. Cilmachallt, bor. and p. Llanidloes, co. Mont., together with correspondence relating to missing title deeds, 1963. The premises were purchased by John Humphreys Davies of Aberystwyth, registrar of UCW, in 1907.

Letters and related papers relating to the sale, by Margaretta Elizabeth Edwards (Rev. Evan Evans of Bala and wife from Dec. 1862, and of Ruthin from Nov. 1864), of freehold lands (1a.) in p. Llanbadarn Fawr. Includes abstracts of title (1835-1862); Margaretta Elizabeth Edwards married Rev. Evan Evans about Oct. 1862.

Miscellaneous deeds, including an agreement for a lease of land adjoining the Prince Albert Hotel, to build club premises, 1903; lease of the Conservative Club, Little Darkgate Street, 1905; letting agreement for the White Horse, Terrace Road, 1910; deed of partition by the children of David Morgan of Alltlwyd, p. Llanrhystud, farmer (d. 1882), of the White Swan, Aberystwyth, and m's and lands, or undivided shares in m's and lands, in p's Cilcennin, Llanbadarn Trefeglwys, Llansanffraid and Llannarth, 1910; lease of Progress Hall, Mill Street, to the trustees of the Aberystwyth YMCA, 1919; and agreement by the Crosville Motor Co. Ltd to purchase the freehold reversion of land in Trefechan, including the Penyranchor Limekiln, 1927.

Deeds relating to dwelling houses and shops in Bridge Street, Market Street otherwise Bow Street, and Weeg Street, Aberystwyth.

Abstract of title (1782-1812) of Roderick Richardes of Penglais, esq., to premises in Bridge Street, Aberystwyth, 1812; and a lease to vest possession (release not found) by John Hughes of Carmarthen, esq., to Morris Davies of Aberystwyth, banker, of three m's and gardens in Grays Inn Lane, Aberystwyth, 1827.

Miscellaneous deeds, including a copy (1831 watermark) of the will of John Morgan of Aberystwyth, gent., 1777, including Pen y Cwm otherwise Llethy'r Grugyar, Bryngwyn and Rhosgoch, p. Llanrhystud, and Troedyrhiw Nant Bran and Henhavod, p. Llanbadarn Fawr; lease to vest possession (release not found) by Pierce Evans to Thomas Herbert and Griffith Roderick, all of Aberystwyth, gents, of dwellinghouses in Bridge Street, Aberystwyth, Sept. 1785 (see CB 3/19, for Pierce Evans buying another burgage in Bridge Street in 1781); copy grant by the court leet and view of frankpledge of Aberystwyth to John Parry of Aberystwyth, of a parcel of waste ground in Penmaenglas, in consideration of his pulling down a part of his dwellinghouse in Great Darkgate Street that projected into the footway, to the great inconvenience of the inhabitants, 1795; copy marriage settlement of Edward Evans, watchmaker, and Sarah Jones, spinster, both of Aberystwyth, Jan. 1803; a lease for 21 years by Roderick Richardes of Penglais to Benjamin Jones of Alltfadog and Richard James of Llettyllwyd, farmers, of the north part of the Penglais demense lands, Oct. 1828; typescript copy probate of the will (dated Feb. 1846) of Elizabeth Williams of Aberystwyth, spinster, Nov. 1846; mortgage on the limekiln and premises, Trefechan, and Fangrach (41a.), p. Llanbadarn Fawr, 1879; and mortgage by the Ninth Swansea Liberal Terminating Building Society to David Phillips of Aberystwyth, car proprietor, of £3000 on eight m's or dwellinghouses in Cliff Terrace, 1905.

Miscellaneous paper deeds, including an agreement to consider the wall between no. 6 Queen Street and the Three Horse Shoe Inn as a party wall, 1877; marriage settlement of David Morgan of Treherbert, co. Glam., draper, and Elizabeth Rowlands of Great Dark Gate Street, Aberystwyth, spinster, 1880; mortgage of five dwellinghouses called Stanley Terrace, and the schoolroom and yard in Poplar Row, to secure £1000 and interest, 1891; and deed of covenant executed on the marriage of William James, farmer, and Jane Williams, spinster, both of Old Ropewalk, Aberystwyth, 1893.

Miscellaneous deeds, including a commission to Lewis Jones of Aberystwyth, gent., to take special bails in co's Card., Carm., Pemb., Brec. and Glam., 1822; a plan of New Street, [c.1830]; tally for securing £100 and interest on the dues of Aberystwyth harbour, 1860; conveyance of the malthouse, storehouse, countinghouse, lime kilns and other buildings, Trefechan, 1874; tenancy agreement for Queens Hotel Stables, 1881, and agreement to deliver them up, 1898; lease of the Commercial Inn, Lewis Terrace, 1881; lease of the Tourist Hotel, Terrace Road, 1882; assent by Sir Pryse Pryse of Gogerddan, bart, to the sale of a piece of land (1a.) in North Road, to the trustees of the Aberystwyth Infirmary, 1884; release by the children of Alexander Rankin of 25 Portland Street, gent. (d. 1883), to his widow from all claims on his estate, 1884; lease of a smithy in Trefechan, 1892; mortgage of (inter alia) the Shiloh Capel schoolhouse, Poplar Row, 1896; lease of the Terminus Vaults, 1897; and mortgage of 16 North Parade and the Terminus Hotel, 1900, and transfer of mortgage, 1905.

A file of Aberystwyth District Visiting Society lady visitors' applications on behalf of applicants to Joseph & Jane Downie's bequest. The file was extracted from a box of loose papers collected from the floor of a storeroom at Roberts & Evans.

Original bundle of monthly files of lady visitors' applications for special relief, Feb., July-Nov. 1938, Jan.-June 1939.

Day book, 7 June 1884-8 Oct. 1888, with a few bill book accounts. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Anne Jane Ellis, 2 North Gate St, Aberystwyth, June 7th 1884'. The goods include bacon, biscuits (including arrowroot and Osborne), black lead, butter, candles (including bedroom candles, parlour candles and night lights), cheese, coffee, currents, flour (including cornflour), jam (including apricot, raspberry and redcurrent), matches, oil, soap (including dry and powder), scotch oatmeal, soda, starch, sugar (including brown and lump), sultanas, tea and vinegar.

Papers relating to a proposed subscription to liquidate a loan of £2000 on account of Aberystwyth harbour works, mainly comprising draft letters from Matthew Davies Williams, Cwmcynfelyn, to the Duke of Newcastle. Includes a draft letter, including ‘I doubt not you have heard of the event of the coroners inquest held yesterday at Wallog. I feel exceedingly anxious to discover the guilty party’, 1838.

Minute book of the half yearly and adjourned meetings of the trustees held at the Aberystwyth infirmary (Aberystwyth hosptal after 1936), and occasionally at the town hall, Aug. 1889-Aug. 1947.

Account book of the Aberystwyth Mutual Freight & Outfit Insurance Co. Ltd, including the ship's name, the name, profession and residence of the ship's husband, the amount insured, and the cost of the insurance. Spine labelled 'Register', and the front cover labelled 'Aberystwith Mutual Freight & Outfit Insurance Company, Limited'. Eighty two tickets were issued in 1879, [96] in 1880, 81 in 1881, and 45 in 1882. A number of vessels are noted as having been 'lost'. In the front of the volume are printed calls on the insured ships for Oct. 1880, and the first and second calls for 1881.