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Title deeds of houses and lands in the township of Cyfoethybrenin lying mainly in the parish of Llanfihangel Genau’r-glyn, 1568-1613, 1869. Some deeds for Cyfoethybrenin also refer to Llanbadarn Fawr. The earlier file contains evidence of purchases by Sir Richard Pryse to 1613.

Title deeds of properties in the township of Ystrad Peithyll or Dyffryn Peithyll in the parish of Llanbadarn Fawr, purchased by Sir Richard Pryse of Gogerddan, 1575-1637, and a later lease of Peithyll Farm, 1880.

Two Welsh literary manuscripts which suffered damage in the 1858 fire at Wynnstay; both were repaired and rebound following the fire.

Items numbered C34, 36-39, 41-42, 44-47, 51-64; and L388-404, 407-415, 456-460, 522, 539-540, 551-556, 562-585, 696-706, 1233.

Documents, [1603x1624]-[1632x1648], accumulated by Edward Herbert in connection with his position as ambassador to France and member of the Council of War; many are copies made by him or for him. They include accounts of France, Spain and the Low Countries, and in particular of their military capabilities; discussions of English foreign policy, and copies of treaties with foreign powers; and accounts of English military expeditions; together with miscellaneous material relating to the work of English ambassadors.

Various general accounts, bills and receipts (vouchers) mainly of the Abernantbychan estate in south Cardiganshire and Pembrokeshire, including the Pembrokeshire collieries, and occasional items from the Breconshire and Gogerddan estates, 1613-1918. The accounts sometimes incorporate rentals, and the majority of them record rents received, estate labour, disbursements for agents’ expenses, rent collection and building repairs. There are bills from Edward Jones of Llandovery and other solicitors for routine legal expenses, bills from Thomas Lewis for surveying and mapping the Abernantbychan estate, 1780-1788, occasional agents’ letters and estate bank books. Numerous other bills and vouchers record payments for the tenants’ rent day dinners, lodgings for the hunt week; clothing; crown rents, turnpike tolls, tithes and taxes; carriage of goods; subscriptions to Cardiganshire Agricultural Society, Cardigan National School, Cardigan News Room, various other societies and institutions, improvements to St Mary’s church in Cardigan; furze seed for the tenants; culm for the poor of Cardigan; imported timber from mid-19th cent.; and receipts from the banks of Child and Drummond in London, and Joseph Downie at the National Provincial, Aberystwyth. Individual items of interest are listed at file level.

Account rolls of Sir Richard Wynn, knight and baronet, treasurer and receiver general of the revenues of Queen Henrietta Maria.

Letters relating to specific silver-lead and copper mines and to quarries belonging to the Gogerddan estate, 1697-1919. For main content see series description. The most substantial files relate to Allt y Crib, 1851-1914, Bronfloyd and New Bronfloyd, 1852-1907, Bryn yr Afr, 1880-1918, Camdwr Mawr and Camdwr Bach, 1856-1908, Darren (Fach and Fawr), 1742-1910, East Darren, 1852-1906, Esgair Hir and Esgair Fraith, 1697-1918, Grogwynion, 1739-1910, Hafan and Henfwlch, 1752-1914, Leri Valley mines, 1907-1914, Loveden United, 1852-1918, and South Darren, 1880-1918; others include Blaenceulan, the Bog mine, Cwmsymlog and Ystrad Einion.

Additional rentals of the Gogerddan estate which cover the years 1719, [pre-1779] 1787-1788, 1792-1793, 1818, 1847-1848, 1855-1858, and [?1900x1925] (undated)

Bundles of loose tack notes granted to mining prospectors on the Gogerddan estate by Thomas Pryse, Richard Richardson, David Morgan and John Pughe Pryse or their agents, for mining in Henfwlch, Allt y Crib, Nantcoch near Ceulan, Nantycagle, Blaenceulan, Esgair Hir, Esgair Fraith and elsewhere in the lordship of Genau’r-glyn, 1732-1772; and tack notes issued by Pryse Loveden (later Sir Pryse Pryse), for mining in Henllys Farm, Cwmere, Cwmeinion, Blaenclettwr, Nantyrarian, Darren, Penpompren Ucha, Blaendyffryn Isa, East Bronfloyd, Ffosfudr, Troedrhiwsebon, Lluest Gotta, Cwmbwa, part of Glanravon, Bwlchyr Adwy, Nantyperfedd, Bryngwyn Mawr, Bryngwyn Canol, Bwlch Glas, Craignant Bach or Bog Pool, Neuadd-yr-ynys, Llawr Cwmbach, Lletty Evan Hen, Cwmglo, Troedrhiwseiri, Camdwr Mawr, Camdwr Bach, Braichgarw, and numerous other locations in Cwmrheidol, Elerch, Llanbadarn Fawr, Cynull Mawr, Ysgubor-y-coed, Llanfihangel Genau’r-glyn and Llangynfelyn, and the lordship of Genau’r Glyn, Cardiganshire, and occasionally in Llechweddmor, Tynohir and Dolgarnedd otherwise Felin Llyfnant, Montgomeryshire, 1859-1903. The tack notes often provide the tithe map reference numbers.

Letters concerning miscellaneous silver-lead and copper mines, and also stone quarries belonging to the Gogerddan estate, 1741-1920. These letters either refer to several mines within the same file or they do not supply the name of the mine at all. Many of them refer to the brief revival of interest in the Cardiganshire lead mines, from c. 1906. Some letters additionally concern other Gogerddan estate affairs. There are several references to Cardiganshire politics and to the effects of parliamentary legislation on local mining. For the main recipients and content see series description.

Gogerddan estate rent collection and audit books, 1741-1746, 1902, [1903x1914], 1916-1920.