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Title deeds for two groups of properties in the townships of Dyffryn, Main and Peniarth in the parish of Meifod, Montgomeryshire, purchased by Charles Watkin Williams Wynn from Samuel Leach of Llanforda Issa in 1806. The first group comprises Pentrego, Maes y Wern, a messuage with a blacksmith’s shop, Pen-y-coed, Kynant (Ceunant), three parcels of land previously belonging to Main Farm, Pen-y-foel, Coed-tre-las, Ty yn y Celyn and Pen-y-craig, and includes deeds by Richard Rocke to William Humffreys of Llwyn for the purchase of Pen-y-coed, 1784, and by John Humffreys and his mortgagee to Thomas Morris of Main and his trustees, 1790; deeds relating to a recovery of the estate of Powel Parry of Main, 1789; a mortgage by Thomas Morris, cousin and devisee in the will of Powel Parry, of properties belonging to the latter’s estate, 1798; a conveyance by Thomas Morris to trustees in consideration of the marriage of his daughter Mary to Samuel Leach of Llanforda Issa, with copies, 1800. The second group of properties comprises parts of Dyffryn Farm called the piece below the village, Singrige, three furlongs in the town field, Croes Duon, Ystum-yr-Wydd, Cae Delin, Cae David Hugh and Gro Ucha. There are deeds recording their respective purchases by Samuel Leach and Thomas Morris from John Williams of Glanhafren and Catharine his wife, 1800, from Robert Clifton of Clifton Hall, Nottinghamshire, 1802, and from Walter Jones of Clomendu, Corwen, and Arthur Davies of the Hays, Oswestry, 1802; and a mortgage of some of the recently puchased premises, 1802. Finally, the file contains the conveyances by Samuel Leach and his mortgagee, and by Samuel Leach, his wife Mary, daughter of Thomas Morris, their remaining trustee Richard Croxon, and mortgagees who included John Edwards and Hugh Edwards, executors of Edward Edwards, Archdeacon of Brecon, of the two respective groups of properties to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn and his trustee, 1806

Diagram, [1640x1645], depicting the true and erroneous theological beliefs of religious groups in the early Christian period.

Typescript copy of a children’s story and an extract from ‘Sunny Stories’.

Porkington (Brogyntyn) estate vouchers, 1864-1865.

Porkington (Brogyntyn) estate vouchers, 1867. Includes bills for repairs at Old Port Farm, Scybor Issa and Underhill Farmhouse.

Porkington (Brogyntyn) estate vouchers, 1868-1869. Includes bills for repairs at Llanddyn Hall and Rose Cottage, 1868; and interior decorating at No. 3 Porkington Terrace, 1869.

Brogyntyn cash book labelled ‘Porkington receipts and payments book’, April-June 1845, also showing rents received by Mr McKie and costs of labourers since 14 January 1845.

Draft Porkington (Brogyntyn) rental and account for the estates in Salop, Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire for one half year ending Lady Day 1846.

Original bundle of miscellaneous papers comprising lists of the aldermen, Common Council and burgesses of the Borough of Cardigan, Troed-yr-Aur, Blaen-porth, other nearby parishes, and Aberystwyth, 1701-1726; presentments by the grand jury of the borough of Cardigan in which stray animals are described in Welsh, 1734-1739, 1766; an agreement and bond between Lewis Pryse of Gogerddan and William Powell of Nanteos about fishing rights in the rivers Rheidol and Ystwyth at Aberystwyth, 1718; a copy dated 1729 of the parliamentary return declaring the election of Thomas Rawlins MP for Cardigan in 1597; and an order from the Committee of Privileges and Elections to permit Thomas Pryse to inspect the records of burgesses at Llanbedr Pont Steffan, 1741

Original bundle of letters to Hale, Boys and Austen (later Boys and Tweedie) of Ely Place, London, 1848-1853. For main correspondents and content see sub-series description. Other correspondents include the Legacy Duty Department of the Inland Revenue Office, Decima Dorothea Rice of Llwynybrain, Lewis Morris of Carmarthen, Alfred Cox of New Bond Street, the British Institution, William Margetts of Woodstock, and Graham and Son of Abingdon. Additional subjects include the trusteeship of the will of Jane Gill; the canvass [for the Cardigan boroughs election, 1849];; disposal of the property of James Morse; pollution by a lead mining company, and mineral rights under the site of New Hooks School, Tenby.

Account of the election expenses of Pryse Pryse at Cardigan, 1847-1848.

‘Raphael’s Prophetic Almanac or the Prophetic Messenger and Weather Guide for 1912’ (London : W. Foulsham & Co., 1912)

‘Report on Experiments to Assess the Extent of Honey Bee Poisoning After Spraying Sugar Cane with Malathion’ by J. R. Metcalfe (The Sugar Manufacturers’ Association (of Jamaica) Ltd., Mandeville, [1966]).

A copy of an unpublished MS by R. Jarvis.

Particulars of ‘returns sent up’ [servants’ wages and expenses], and other money paid in the counties, [16]89-[16]96.

Volume entitled ‘Rough leases and agreements’ but which actually contains applications for leases of properties around Aberystwyth, Bow Street, Penrhyn-coch and Ponterwyd, belonging to the Gogerddan estate, 1883-1908.

Copy of the sales and show yard timber account book of the Gogerddan estate, 1909.

Title deeds, letters and legal papers relating to a dispute between Walter Pryse on behalf of George Lewis Langton, and John Philipps of Kilgetty, 1726-1743, concerning the title to the Paddock, the Old Slate House, etc. near the beach at Saundersfoot in the parish of St Issells. The papers include drafts and copies of earlier leases, deeds and disputes, 1622-1683. The letters are addressed to the Lewis family of Hurst and Coedmor, and to Walter Pryse in Holborn, London, mainly from lawyers and agents, 1701-1743; one of them justifies an attempted salvage from a shipwreck at Freshwater East, 1729. There are statements of the claims on both sides, describing the construction of a quay by Walter Pryse, with a pictorial map of the area in dispute [1726]; evidence of boundaries and rights in the lordships of Coydrath and East and West Pembroke, and a copy of the chief rent roll for the latter, 1738