File GLA6/2 - ‘Papers, letters, etc. relating to Aberystwyth Borough and Corporation’

Original bundle of papers and letters relating to Aberystwyth Borough and Corporation, 1706-1929. They refer mainly to 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; and the file includes a case and opinion of C. Abbott of Shrewsbury on those issues, 1815. Several letters and notices demonstrate the interest of the Powell family of Nanteos as lords of the manor of Aberystwyth and conflict with the Gogerddan interest. The file includes lists of Aberystwyth Corporation officers and of burgesses, 1706-1709 (certified 1729/30), 1812; a representation to the Commissioners of H.M. Customs on the dissolute behaviour of John James and Richard Lloyd; letters to Thomas Pryse, Edward Loveden Loveden and Pryse Pryse from William Williams, 1737, Uvedale Price of Foxley, 1795, Edward Horne of Lincolns Inn, Thomas Jones of Machynlleth, 1814-1823, and Rice Williams on his dispute over land near Brindiodde, 1827, a list of allotments granted, 1813, and a rental of new and renewed grants from the Corporation of Aberystwyth, 1821; a printed report of the committee appointed by the Council of the Borough of Aberystwyth, to inquire into the unappropriated land belonging to the Corporation, 1837; a petition to the Board of Guardians of Aberystwyth Union to sever the township of Trefeurig from the current district and attach it to Aberystwyth for the purpose of registering births and deaths [1849x1855]; and printed articles on the history of parliamentary representation, 1849, and on the former office of ragler (rhaglaw0 in Cardiganshire, 1929.