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Records of the Gogerddan estate, Cardiganshire, and the Pryse family, including branches of the family at Glanfred, Ynysgreigiog and Glanmerin,1238-1987. There are also records of various other families linked to Gogerddan by marriage: Loveden of Buscot Park, Berkshire, Lewes (or Lewis) of Llan-gors, Breconshire, and of Abernantbychan and Coedmor in Cardiganshire, Hean Castle in Pembrokeshire and Hurst in Berkshire and Wiltshire, Pughe of Mathafarn, Montgomeryshire, and via the Pughe family, Salesbury of Rug. Merionethshire. The main group of Gogerddan estate papers comprises rentals, 1719-1931; valuations, 1805-[early 20th cent.]; title deeds, 1332-1930; estate administration records which include agency and tenancy papers, 1810-1925, estate accounts, 1474-1926 (mainly 1850s-1926), building records, 1766-1921, agricultural records, 1796-1922, forestry and timber records, 1816-1923, papers relating to enclosures on Cors Fochno and elsewhere, 1743-1899, hunting, shooting and fishing records, 1804-1943, and household administration records, 1668-1928; estate and general correspondencec, 1586-1924; papers of various agricultural societies, 1815-1924; Cardiganshire lead mining records, 1656-1924; manorial records mainly from Genau’r-glyn, Cardiganshire, and Emlyn Iscych, Pembrokeshire, and a few from Lampeter, 1610-1919; legal papers, 1441-[post-1908]; mortgages and other financial papers, 1577-1926; papers relating to the Cardigan Borough elections and other political papers, [1690]-1880[; county administration papers from Cardiganshire and other counties, 1523-1929; records of institutions such as churches and chapels, schools and charities, 1620-1945; papers relating to roads and railways, 1776-1900; the Pryse family probate records and family settlements, 1549-1950; and personal papers of the family, including Lady Marjorie Pryse, 1641-1987. There are several sub-groups of records from the other estates. The first of these is Abernantbychan, 1416-1918, which includes rentals, 1722-1887and valuations, 1790-[c. 1881]. The other estates comprise Mathafarn, 1403-1754, Aberbechan and Main, 1238-1684, Rug, 1529-1744, and miscellaneous estates which include Peterwell and Nanteos, Cardiganshire, Llanboidy in Carmarthenshire and Montserrat, West Indies, 1562-[c.1887],The BRA deposit consisted of papers mainly from the offices of solicitors, Atwood and Hughes of Aberystwyth, and Boys and Tweedie of London. It included original Gogerddan deeds, together with maps, correspondence, papers relating to enclosures in the manor of Genau’r-glyn, sales and purchases of land, mining and court cases, and papers amassed during administration of the estate after the death of Pryse Loveden in 1855. The material in the BRA Deposit has been amalgamated with the main Gogerddan catalogue, albeit as discrete files for retrieval purposes.Overall, the collection reflects the historical importance of Gogerddan and the Pryse family within Cardiganshire. Several major themes emerge from the estate records: the history of property ownership and building development in the Aberystwyth area, estate work such as land drainage, building improvements, agriculture, forestry, mining, gamekeeping and foxhunting, county politics, and participation in large-scale commercial enterprises such as the railways. The personal papers illustrate the family’s interests and their deep concern over financial issues during the final decline of the Gogerddan estate.

Printed volume including data recording the names of fishermen and the number of fish caught in north Ceredigion lakes (Llyn Conach, New Pool, Llynpenrhaidr and Llyn Dwfn) owned by the Gogerddan estate, 1944-1960.

Gohebiaeth a nodiadau'n ymwneud â chenhadon Cymreig. (Gynt Penar Griffiths MS 7.) Mewn byrddau. Rhoddwyd gan feibion a merched y diweddar Barchedig G. Penar Griffiths, trwy law Miss M. A. Penar Griffiths, Abertawe, Gorffennaf 1942.

Copies kept by W. J. Parry, Bethesda, Caernarvonshire of letters which he wrote as secretary of Eisteddfod Cymreigyddion Bethesda, Caernarvonshire, 1863-1867.

(Gynt Borth-y-gest MS 84.) Rhwng byrddau. Prynwyd o lyfrgell Mr R. E. Jones, Borth-y-gest, 1959-1961.

An autobiography of Robert Thomas of Llanfechain, Montgomeryshire, written 1863-1864, describing his early life in Llanfechain and other places in Montgomeryshire and Salop, 1836-1852 (ff. 2-9 verso, 11-23 verso), a voyage from Liverpool to Melbourne, September-December 1852 (ff. 23 verso-51 verso, 56 recto-verso) and, in some detail, his life in the Australian goldfields between December 1852 and April 1854 (ff. 56 verso-149 verso). The volume also contains an incomplete summary of contents (f. 1 verso) and a log of his return voyage from Melbourne to London, May - August 1862 (ff. 10 recto-verso, 52-5).

Papers relating mainly to the passing of a Bill to authorise the Golden Valley Railway Company to extend its railway to Hay, 1875-1883, including legal papers, 1875-1877; financial papers, 1876-1883; and miscellaneous papers, 1876-1883.

An issue (Cyfrol 1, Awst 1841) of Goleuni Glan Ceri, a hand-written magazine in Welsh edited by Thomas Emlyn Thomas (Taliesin Craig-y-felin, 1822-1846), Unitarian minister and schoolmaster. The magazine was circulated from house to house within the parishes of Penbryn, Troed-yr-aur and Betws Ifan, co. Cardigan (see Yr Ymofynnydd, 1 (1901), 268-9).

A copy of Goliath and David by Robert Graves (London 1916), ‘privately printed for a select circle of friends’, including an incomplete letter from the author to his friend Frank [Francis] Jones-Bateman, 27 March 1917, in reply to his criticism of the poems in Goliath and David. The letter was written from Erinfa, Harlech. Frank Jones-Bateman, a fellow officer of Graves in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, was killed during the attack on Engelfontaine on 4th November, 1918, aged 22.

The original typescript of Dr Enid Roberts's work Gwaith Siôn Tudur I a II (Caerdydd: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, 1980).

Black & white & col photographs of Gomer Lewis' studio, his (and possibly other artists) artworks.

A collection which includes a bootmaker's account books; overseers' and farming accounts; papers of Henry W. Evans, Solfach; and transcripts of eighteenth century sermons.

Recollections of agriculture in the vale of Edeyrnion, 1857-1870, written in 1928-1929 by Gomer Roberts, then of Bryn Llyfin, Llanfair, Ruthin.

Copi o'r gyfrol Gorchestion Beirdd Cymru... (Amwythig, 1773) wedi'i golygu gan Rhys Jones, yn dwyn enw George Brymer, Highgate, Garndolbenmaen, 1860, ac yn cynnwys marwnad ganddo i'w fab John a fu farw 19 Rhagfyr 1866, yn ddwy ar bymtheng mlwydd oed; ynghyd â thoriad o'r wasg o Cronicl Cymru yn rhoi adroddiad am ei angladd.

An incomplete copy of Rhys Jones, Gorchestion Beirdd Cymru ... (Amwythig, 1773), lacking title-page, some preliminaries, and pp. 265-300 of the text. Y Rhagymadrodd (ff. vii-ixv) is a page-proof copy bearing emendations, possibly in Rhys Jones's hand. A mock title-page (f. v) and the missing text (pp. 265-99) have been supplied by Peter Bailey Williams (1763-1836), antiquary, together with additional poems by Guto'r Glyn, Hywel ap Dafydd ab Ieuan ap Rhys, Syr Lewis Meudwy, Owain Gwynedd, Syr Phylip Emlyn, Roger Kyffin, and William Llŷn (pp. 301-426), annotations to the text, and other items. Items found loose in the volume have been tipped in at the end and include Enwau ac ychydig o hanes rhai Beirdd gorchestol probably in the hand of the Reverend David Ellis (1736-1795), Cricieth (pp. 439-49).

Five letters and two postcards, 1943-1944, from Gordon Bottomley to Leslie Harries, Llandysul, discussing the latter's proposed free translation into Welsh of Bottomley's verse drama 'Kirkonnel Lea' (see his Lyric Plays (London, 1932)).
The translation was subsequently published as 'Daldir Circonnel' in Leslie Harries and Jack Hughes, Chwe Drama Fer: Trosiadau (Llandysul, 1944), pp. 47-62.

Papers of the Goring-Thomas family of Llannon, Carmarthenshire, nineteenth century, including diaries of Rees Goring Thomas, 1841-1848, 1850-1885; a collection of cookery and household recipes; accounts of several journeys made by members of the family; photographs; and miscellaneous letters, accounts and papers.

Typescript copies of the will of Gronow Owen ('Goronwy Ddu o Fôn') of the parish of Saint Andrews, co. Brunswick, Virginia, U.S.A., dated 3 July 1769, and proved in the Circuit Court for co. Brunswick, 26 March, 1770; of the will of his wife Ioney (Ionah) Harrison of the parish of Saint Andrew, dated 15 August, 1780, and proved in Brunswick County Court, 26 February, 1787; and of a dedimus, 20 December, 1762, to examine Rebecca Cocke of co. Lunenburg, and a certificate, 18 February, 1764, of the latter's relinquishments of her right of dower in a tract of 400 acres of land on the south side of the Reedy Creek in co. Brunswick conveyed by William Cocke and the said Rebecca, his wife, to Gronow Owen by indenture of bargain and sale dated 20 August, 1761. The dedimus and certificate were extracted from the Deed Books of the County Court of Brunswick.

A photostat copy of an article in William and Mary College Quarterly [? 1923] on Goronwy Owen ('Goronwy Ddu o Fôn'), who emigrated to the state of Virginia, U.S.A., where he became master of William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1758-60, and later minister of St. Andrew's, Brunswick County.