Series GBC9 - Solicitors’ bills

Bills of costs by the various solicitors who served the Gogerddan estate, namely Charles Deare of Temple, London, Parry and Atwood of Aberystwyth, A.J. Hughes of Aberystwyth, and Boys and Tweedie of Ely Place, London (later Tweedie of Lincolns Inn Fields), 1841-1913. The bills are very detailed, showing costs incurred for work on the Pryse family settlements, land sales and purchases, mortgages and civil lawsuits, usually over land ownership. Prominent areas of concern are the claims of Pryse Pryse as the executor of Edward Loveden Loveden; the executorship of the will of Pryse Pryse (d. 1849); the administration of Pryse Loveden (d. 1855); the lease and subsequent sale of the Buscot Park estate and parts of the Wootton and Woodstock estates; the marriage settlements of Pryse Loveden [and Margaretta Jane Price] and their son Pryse Loveden and Louisa Joan Lewes; the change of Pryse Loveden’s name and arms to Pryse Pryse, and his baronetcy, 1866; the rights of the Pryse family as lords of the manor of Genau’r-glyn and the Genau’r-glyn enclosures; a dispute with Sir Watkin Williams Wynn over sporting in the manor of Cyfeiliog; the sale of Gogerddan land to the Welsh Coast Railway; and purchases of Cwmcynfelyn, Glanfread, and the Penyberth and Penrhyn-coch estates.