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Volumes containing personal memoranda, journal entries and accounts of Walter and Lewis Pryse of Painswick, Woodstock and Abernantbychan, 1702-1778; and a travelling pocket book or journal of George Lewis Langton, 1737-1738.

Letters mainly to John Pughe of Mathfarn, MP from his family, agents, solicitors, friends and acquaintances, with copies of his replies and forwarded third party letters, 1704-1734. They reflect the private life of John Pughe among the Welsh gentry and his position as MP for the Montgomery Boroughs, containing news of Parliamentary and county affairs, together with expressions of local political support. Many of the letters discuss the household supplies, servants, livestock, sale of rabbits and estate management at Mathafarn, the trust of William Vaughan of Caethle, debts and mortgages, emphasising the difficulty of securing money on estates in Wales, the solicitation of John Pughe’s influence to gain employment or ecclesiastical preferment, appeals for legal help and requests for money. The latter demonstrate both the precarious system of credit, and the financial dependency of widows and single women in the eighteenth century. Specific subjects of interest are described at file level.

Papers of Aberystwyth Corporation and its governing body, the Court Leet. After the Municipal Corporations Actt of 1835, the Court Leet was supplanted by Aberystwyth Borough Council. The series provides good information on the constitution and procedure of Aberystwyth Court Leet and the powers of the Corporation, particularly in the election of the mayor amd in the control of waste lands around the town, 1705-1929. The contents include an original bundle of papers and letters relating to Aberystwyth Borough and Corporation, 1706-1929, a copy of the borough charter granted by Edward I in 1277; an interesting representation by the Corporation and inhabitants to the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Customs on the dissolute behaviour of two individuals [pre-1746]; an official statement issued by Aberystwyth Corporation about lands in the wastes of Aberystwyth, [post-1824]; and papers concerning the provision of amenities including the town clock, 1858, and a new water supply, 1879-1880.

Miscellaneous papers relating to the aministration of the Breconshire estates owmed successively by the Lewis family, Walter Pryse and Edward Loveden Loveden, comprising Llan-gors timber records, with letters, a rent roll and other papers, 1705-1736; a survey made in 1653 of a fishing pool called Llyn Syfaddan [copy c. 1744]; an estimte of building repairs [1779x1805]; and sale particulars, 1805

Title deeds and other documents relating properties belonging to the Brogyntyn estate in the county of Merioneth, 1706-1912. The most substantial files are for Tygwyn Gamlas, Carreg-y-ro and Ty Newydd in the parish of Llanfihangel-y-traethau, 1818-1911, and for Erw Wen and Lasynys in the parishes of Llandanwg and Llanfihangel-y-traethau, 1872-1908. Others include Lasynys Fach, Garthmawr Hen and Garthmelan, 1706-1852, Glyn woollen factory, 1841-1869, building leases at Beddgelert, 1868-1890, Porkington Terrace, Barmouth, 1871-1877, and the site of a Baptist chapel at Harlech, 1896.

Title deeds, which appear to relate to two separate parts of a property called Pentre David in the parish of Selatyn, Salop, 1707-1827. One part, together with Hen Plassey, was purchased by the Brogyntyn trustees from Frederick West in 1827, and the other, Pentre David Farm, had been purchased from Thomas Jackson in 1822

Miscellaneous papers relating to administrative procedures of central government and the interest of the Pryse family as Members of Parliament, 1708-1880, They comprise a copy, dated 1708, of Mr Price’s speech in the House of Commons, 1695’; a presentment of the Grand Jury for the county of Middlesex, 1723; reports and a letter concerning the Corn Laws, 1790-1814; votes and proceedings in the House of Commons, in particular on the Reform Bill, 1822-1849; various Bills and Acts of Parilament, 1832-1880; a Chartist pamphlet [c. 1840]; a petition about education [mid-19th cent.]; and returns to the House of Commons on numbers of electors and steam vessels in Britain, 1857.

Printed books with manuscript notes by T. Llechid Jones (487, 490, 494) and others (502) (not in chronological order).
Nos 481-486, 488-489, 491-493, 495-501, 503-507 (all of which contain manuscript notes) have been transferred to the Printed Books Collection: 481. Bishop Hacket's Memoirs of the Life of Archbishop Williams ... (London, 1715); 482. a miscellaneous volume including A Charge Delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Bangor ... 1817 (Bangor, [1817]), and a manuscript sermon on the Book of Numbers Chapter XXIII verse 10; 483. Angharad Llwyd, A History of the Island of Mona (Ruthin, 1833) [XDA 1338 LL79 (4to)]; 484. A Brief Sketch of a Proposed New Line of Communication between Dublin and London... (Dublin, 1836); 485. Old Price's Remains ... by John Price, MA (London, 1864); 486. Arthur James Johnes, An Essay on the Causes which have Produced Dissent from the Established Church in the Principality of Wales (Llanidloes, 1870); 488. Sir John Wynne, The History of the Gwydir Family ... (Oswestry, 1878); 489. W. H. James, Old Karnarvon ... (Carnarvon, [1882]); 491. Hugh J. Williams, Hanes Eglwys Llanllechid (Bangor, 1910); 492. Hanes Eglwysi a Phlwyfi Lleyn ..., dan olygiaeth y Parch. D. T. Davies (Pwllheli, 1910); 493. David Davies (Dewi Eden), Harlech, Ardudwy a'i Gwron ... (Blaenau Festiniog, 1914); 495. Hunangofiant y Parch. Thomas Jones ..., wedi ei olygu gan Idwal Jones (Aberystwyth, 1937); 496. Rulacc, Ruedok, and the Valley of the Welsh Dee by a FRA (London, 1899); 497. Grey Ewing, A History of Cowden ... (Tunbridge Wells, 1926) [DA 699.8 C87 E95]; 498. Thomas Griffiths Jones, A History of the Parish of Llansantffraid-yn-Mechain; 499. articles from Y Traethodydd, including John Owen, Criccieth, ‘Y Parch. Thomas Roberts, Jerusalem’ (Y Traethodydd, 60 (1900), pp. 229-238), with a manuscript note by T. Llechid Jones, [c. 1919]; 500. Llyfr Gweddi Cyffredin a Gweinidogaeth y Sacramentau (London, 1678) with manuscript notes by Peter Vaughan [Ws 1678 (1a)]; 501. A Summary View of the Articles Exhibited Against the Late Bishop of St Davids ... (London, 1701) and A Short Narrative of the Proceedings Against the Bishop of St Asaph ... (London. 1702) [Ws 1701 (4a)]; 503. Henry Rowlands, Mona Antiqua Restaurata ... (London, 1766) [XDA 1338.2 R88 (4to)]; 504. Sir John Wynn, The History of the Gwydir Family... (Ruthin, 1827) with manuscript notes by W. W. E Wynne [Ws 1827 (4to)]; 505. John Reynolds of Oswestry, The Scripture Genealogy ... to which is added A Display of Heraldry (Chester, 1739), pp. 3-192 only, the missing pages having been copied in manuscript by Alfred Neobard Palmer from Peniarth MS 146, [c. 1885?] [OXA 551]; 506. Alfred Neobard Palmer, A History of Ancient Tenures of Land in the Marches of North Wales ... (Wrexham, [1885]) with manuscript notes by the author; 507. Alfred Neobard Palmer, History of the Town of Wrexham ... by Alfred Neobard Palmer, Wrexham, 1893 with manuscript notes by the author, 1893.

Probate records of several members of the Williams Wynn family of Wynnstay, comprising mainly copies, abstracts and transcripts of the wills of Sir John Wynn and Sir William Williams, 1710-1735; Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, 1840-1876; Grenville Watkin Williams Wynn, 1865-1924; and Sir Watkin Williams Wynn and Dowager Lady Williams Wynn, 1884-1905.

Mainly items dated 1711-1740, but including a group of papers dated 1727-1862. See also no. 11743 (rental of the manors of Woollaston and Tudenham, Gloucestershire, 1713), 10167-10201 (papers relating Lady Scudamore's charity for five poor widows, to be chosen by the heirs to the manor of Homlacy, co. Here., 1727-1862), 8299-8312 (deeds re. property in cos Lincs, Notts and Sussex, 1728-1770), 11777 (pre nuptial settlement of Henry, duke of Beaufort and Frances Scudamore, 1729, including lands in co. Glos. and elsewhere), and 11699 (surrender of terms of 1,000 years created in manors in cos Mon. and Glos. for raising the portion of Lord Noell Somersett, 1734), all in the co. Mon. section.

Papers deriving from lawsuits and other legal matters involving John Pryse of Glanmeryn, Montgomeryshire, his son Thomas Pryse of Gogerddan, Thomas’s son John Pughe Pryse, and Walter Pryse [of Painswick], [1712x1717] -1755, and office copies, 1860. The most substantial of these concern a dispute between Walter Pryse and Lord Lisburne of Trawsgoed over the boundaries of Grogwynion lead mine, 1741-1751. Other files relate to the inheritance of the Gogerddan estate, 1720, 1749-1754, disputes over property and trespass in Llanglydwen, Carmarthenshire, [1712x1717]] and Llanbadarn Fawr, Cardiganshire, 1739-1744, and cases between John Pughe Pryse and his mother pertaining to his inheritance of the Gogerddan estate, 1753-1755. There are also two items of interest relating to the town of Aberystwyth, one being the case against William James for usurping the office of mayor, 1731, the other concerning the custom of suit of mill at Our Lady’s Mill, 1743-1744

Books and pamphlets printed between 1714 and 1912, accumulated by the Pryse family of Gogerddan. The earliest is an edition of ‘The Second Part of Natural Writing’ by George Shelley (London 1714). The series also contains a schedule for Aberffraw Eisteddfod, 1849, an essay on British encampments in Cardiganshire and their connection with the mines by the Gogerddan agent, J.G. Williams, 1866, cottage plans by John Frederick Vaughan, Earl of Cawdor, 1869, and an almanac for 1912.