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Probate records of the Pryse family of Gogerddan, Woodstock and Buscot Park and various other branches of the family at Glanfread, Ynysgreigiog, Glanmeryn and Aberllefenni, 1584-[19]16, family deeds and settlements, 1549-1932, and trust papers, 1587-1950. The trust papers include the administration and trust of Pryse Loveden, who died intestate in 1855.

A large quantity of correspondence between the successive owners of the Gogerddan estate, their agents, solicitors and other parties. The main group comprises incoming letters from miscellaneous correspondents, 1586-1949. The next group contains letters of specific correspondents, 1753-1924, namely the London solicitors, Charles Deare, and Boys and Tweedie, and the stamp distributor, James Morse. The third group consists of numerous letter books containing copies of outgoing correspondence, 1851-1925. The final group comprises the letters and papers of Thomas Pryse and his trustee, mainly 1660-1790. The main subject throughout the correspondence is the routine management of Gogerddan esate business. Other prominent themes include lead mining, quarrying and timber production; commercial ventures such as shipping (mid-18th cent.); the railways (1860s); the development of housing in Aberystwyth and the surrounding villages (mainly 19th cent), manorial rights in the manors of Genau’r-glyn, Perfedd and Cyfoethybrenin, agricultural improvements; the establishment of local shows (late 19th –early 20th cent.), patronage of local schools and charities, and the financial decline of the Gogerddan estate (early 20th cent.) Many of the letters from other landowners reveal the social scene and political interests of the Cardiganshire gentry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They demonstrate clearly the exercise of personal influence to obtain positions for their own families and acquaintances. The solicitors’ letters concentrate on the family settlements, trusts and financial issues affecting the Gogerddan estate. Some letters and documents relate to other estates as well as Gogerddan.. For example, the papers of Thomas Pryse (d. 1745) cover the administration of the Mathafarn and Rug estates; and the letters to Pryse Pryse (d. 1849) refer to the Buscot Park and Woodstock estates.

Papers relating mainly to the inheritance and settlement of the Wynnstay estates belonging to the Williams Wynn, comprising marriage settlements, various family trust papers and abstracts of title, 1771-1933, and an inventory of the Wynnstay settled chattels [1948]. A separate series describes the Williams Wynn family probate records, 1710-1924. Both series contain a large amount of information, in the main content of the deeds and in the recitals, about the individuals concerned, the other families into which they married, their trustees, the operation of the trusts, investments in land purchases and the purchase of stocks and shares, in accordance with the terms of the trusts. A further series describes a small number of non-Wynnstay trusts, 1846-1881.

Papers of, or in the possession of, the Rev. Charles Francis Powys, father of John Cowper Powys, comprising personal papers; letters from family members and other correspondents; personal and family estate documents; and papers of various family members, namely his brother Major Littleton Albert Powys, his wife Mary Cowper Powys and her sisters, and his parents Littleton Charles and Amelia Powys.

These bundles, of files compiled between 1915 and 1946 but containing documents dating back as far as 1844, contain a range of material relating to each parish. The parochial bundles are arranged by diocese according to the post-1923 boundaries. Most of the bundles include the Form D, Particulars of Endowments, filled in by incumbents as directed by Rule 7 of the Welsh Church Rules, made by the Commissioners in pursuance of Section 11 (4) of the Welsh Church Act, 1914. The First Report of the Commissioners (1914-15; see WCC/Admin 2) includes a copy of the Rules, as well as instructions issued to incumbents on filling in Form D. Copies of the form were circulated to all incumbents in 1915 in order to gather information as to the endowments of each benefice, and any other emoluments received by the incumbent. Details are given of:. Names of patrons. Particulars of buildings (e.g., number of churches, chapels of ease, or mission rooms in the parish; also, the extent of the garden or curtilage of the parsonage). Charges on the income of the benefice (e.g., mortgages). Tithe rent-charge and land tax. Particulars of the glebe and any income arising from it. General endowments. Endowments made specifically towards church repairs, salary of parish clerk, etc. Emoluments from sources other than endowments, e.g. Easter Dues, Statutory Pew Rents, Customary Fees (baptisms, marriages, burials), etc. Burial grounds, including those representing private benefactions since 1662. The declaration making up the first page of the form is often submitted with the addition of a signed statement by the incumbent, registering his protest at the passing of the 1914 Act. All bundles include files containing Form D, except for the following:. Diocese of St Asaph:. Rhydycroesau, co. Denb. Penley, co. Flint. St Asaph (Second Vicar), co. Flint. That part of Gresford lying in co. Flint. Criggion. Forden. Montgomery (all in co. Mont.). Diocese of Monmouth:. Aberbeeg. Newbridge. Newport: St Julian (all in co. Mon.). Diocese of Swansea and Brecon:. Swansea: St Luke, co. Glam. Most bundles include files containing details of burial grounds, tithe rent-charge, and glebe lands. Those files noted in the list below as being numbered in the series 70,000 relate to the sale or leasing of glebe land. There is also material relating to churches, schools, church halls, mission rooms (and their respective sites), building insurance, Crown rentals, Fee Farm rents, stipends, annual charges, fabric funds, vested interests, mineral leases, road improvements, railways, local planning, the purchase of land for local authority housing and other schemes (e.g., telephone exchanges and allotments), military requisition of land, reservoir construction, wayleaves, rights of way, parish boundaries, estates, sporting rights, ancient monuments, enclosures, etc. Plans are included in some files, showing the extent of glebe land, burial grounds, curtilages, etc. It should not be presumed that the files for each parish contain all of the information shown above. The content varies from parish to parish. Subjects dealt with in the files have only been noted when out of the ordinary. Place names are given as they appear on the files.

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.

The deeds and related documents appear to fall naturally into three main groups. Firstly there are the deeds and financial papers for land purchases in Montgomeryshire by Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, which were found as a physically discrete group in the archive, 1582-1853; secondly there are deeds relating to various property purchases and exchanges made by the Wynnstay estate in Caernarfonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merioneth, Montgomeryshire and Salop, [1782]-1945; and thirdly, conveyances, particulars, conditions of sale, abstracts of title, etc. recording extensive land sales by the Wynnstay estate, [1771]x1938.

Records of official institutions with which the Pryses of Gogerddan were either directly involved or which they supported. They comprise church and chapel records in Cardiganshire and Montgomeryshire, 1620-1945; poor law records from Penbryn parish, Cardiganshire, Aberystwyth Poor Law Union, and Berriw parish and Machynlleth Union, Montgomeryshire, 1786-(postmark 1924); and papers relating to various charities, schools in the Aberystwyth area and the University College of Wales, 1752-1914.

Papers of the Diocesan Registry administration.

Various records relating to the financial status of the Brogyntyn estate and the Ormsby Gore family, comprising groups of rentals with related memoranda and reports, 1795-1926, accounts, 1833-1934, estate vouchers (Watermark 1828)-1887, and a single series of inventories and valuations, 1876-1906.

Arranged into rentals, [c.1550]-1933 (BBA), rent arrears, 1732-1759 (BBC), stewards' account books, 1815-1858 (BBE), draft ledgers, 1812-1814 (BBF), land tax accounts, 1813-1831 (BBH), accounts, 1791-1808 (BBM), registers of leases, 1683-1847 (BBP), indexes of leases, [?mid 1740s]-1760 (BBQ), abstracts and copies of leases, conveyances etc., 1662-1893 (BBR), and registers of tenancy agreements, 1876-1911 (BBS).

Items listed in the original printed catalogue 'Llandaff Chapter Records' (1963).

Papers, [20 cent., first ¼]-1931, relating to T. I. Ellis's school and university education as well as papers relating to his own career as a lecturer and school headmaster.

Rentals, 1747-1931, receiving/collecting rentals, 1820-1920, rent arrears, 1745-1817, rent audit books, 1891-1918, tithe rent charges, 1891-1916 ; and additional rentals, 1719-1931.

Papers deriving from official administrative procedures at a local level in Cardiganshire, 1523-1929, and in Montgomeryshire, Merioneth, Breconshire, Pembrokeshire and miscellaneous Welsh counties, 1580-1929, which reflect the prominent role of the families of Pryse, Pughe, Salesbury and Lewis in the public life of those counties. They typically include appointments of sheriffs, deputy lieutenants and other county officials, town corporation records, JPs’ papers, crown revenue records and a small number of county council papers.

Records from the office of Longueville and Co. relating to the administration of the Wynnstay estates, which supplement those in the main part of the Wynnstay catalogue. They comprise particulars and rentals (Watermark 1857)-[post1882]; leases, tenancy agreements and other papers relating to tenancies, 1815-1892; fishing and shooting papers, 1877-1928; tramway and railway agreements, 1878-1891; a petition and Act concerning Liverpool Corporation water supply, 1880-1893; applications for estate improvements under the Settled Land Acts, 1887-1905; mining and quarrying papers, 1814-1886; and a miscellaneous series consisting of one file each for enclosure, manorial and taxation records, 1858-1886.