Archifdy Ceredigion Archives
PE: Records of the Priory Estate and the Miles Family.

Acc. 1527

Ref: PE/1

REFERENCE: PE/1
TITLE: Records of the estate: tenants, rents, audits and maps
DATE(S): 1839-1902 (mostly 1880-1897)
LEVEL: Series
SIZE: 33 Items

NATURE AND CONTENT:

REFERENCE: PE/1/1
DATE: 1884-1897
SIZE: 1 vol., 65pp
NATURE AND CONTENT: Map book of the Priory Estate, Cardigan, made in 1884. Contains an overall map, as well as detailed smaller maps of the estate holdings. Lists field/plot names and acreages. Pencil notes have been added, usually to indicate parts of the estate which have been sold. Paper and parchment.
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REFERENCE: PE/1/2
DATE: 1880-1884
SIZE: 1 vol.
NATURE AND CONTENT: Audits of the Priory Estate, including tenants’ names.

REFERENCE: PE/1/3
DATE: 1885-1891
SIZE: 1 vol.
NATURE AND CONTENT: Audits of the Priory Estate, including tenants’ names.

REFERENCE: PE/1/4
DATE: 1891-1899
SIZE: 1 vol.
NATURE AND CONTENT: Rent book for the Priory Estate.

REFERENCE: PE/1/5
DATE: 19 August 1879
SIZE: 1 vol.
NATURE AND CONTENT: Rents due on the Priory estate for 1 October 1879, signed by William Woodward. With names of tenants.

REFERENCE: PE/1/6
DATE: 1845-1897
SIZE: 1 vol.
NATURE AND CONTENT: Rents of the Priory estate due Michaelmas 1845, as well as expenses to the estate 1845-46. Noted have been added relating to the 1897 sale on some properties.

REFERENCE: PE/1/7
DATE: 19 August 1879
SIZE: 1 vol.
NATURE AND CONTENT: Rental book for the Priory Estate, for rent due on Lady Day, 1879. Signed by William Woodward.

REFERENCE: PE/1/8
DATE: 19 August 1879
SIZE: 1 vol.
NATURE AND CONTENT: Rent book for the Priory Estate, with detailed observations of each property

REFERENCE: PE/1/9
DATE: 1886-1897
SIZE: 1 item (6 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: 6 pages of accounts, probably rents.

REFERENCE: PE/1/10
DATE: December 1902
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Notice to pay to tenants David Miles and Mary Evans, of Mwldan Street, Cardigan.

REFERENCE: PE/1/11
DATE:
SIZE: 1 item (4 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Copy rental of the Verwick tithes due to Percy E. Lawrence.

REFERENCE: PE/1/12
DATE: 1897
SIZE: 1 item (3 pp in envelope)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Receipts of Atlas Associates and Scottish Widows for redemption of rent charges.

REFERENCE: PE/1/13
DATE: 4 February 1880
SIZE: 3 items (1 of 6 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: 2 template copies of a letter regarding a payment due, (found pinned onto a set of overdue rent accounts).

REFERENCE: PE/1/14
DATE:
SIZE: 1 item (14 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Report by Mr Jones on the Priory Estate. Includes details on the condition of the buildings and land, as well as acreage and rent charges.

REFERENCE: PE/1/15
DATE: August 1880
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Accounts due to the Priory Estate for Lady Day.

REFERENCE: PE/1/16
DATE: August 1880
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Priory Estate audit.

REFERENCE: PE/1/17
DATE: December 1880
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Letter to Rev. R. H. W. Miles from Scottish Widows Fund and Assurance Office regarding a due payment on rent.

REFERENCE: PE/1/18
DATE:
SIZE: 1 item (6 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Rental list for the Priory Estate, referring to map of the parishes of Tremain, Llangoedmore, Mount and Verwick.

REFERENCE: PE/1/19
DATE:
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: List of properties and rents. Poor legibility.

REFERENCE: PE/1/20
DATE:
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: List of houses and their tenants on the Priory Estate for which the landlord pays poor rates.

REFERENCE: PE/1/21
DATE: 1880
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Statement as to royalty from the Priory Estate audit.

REFERENCE: PE/1/22
DATE: 22 January 1880
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Possible list of tenants who have not yet paid rent.

REFERENCE: PE/1/23
DATE:
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Printed form regarding the collection of Priory Estate rents at the Black Lion hotel and the offices of Messrs. Miles and Woodward, Lloyd’s Wharf, from Saville H. Miles.

REFERENCE: PE/1/24
DATE: 1884
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Rent, tithe and drainage charges for Ty Gwynie and Cwmprice.

REFERENCE: PE/1/25
DATE: 22 May 1880
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Letter from the Atlas Assurance office, requesting a half year's rent charge from Rev. Robert H. W. Miles.

REFERENCE: PE/1/26
DATE:
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Letter to S. Jones from Saville Miles regarding a non-payment notice. With some political discussion, incl. the fear of extreme measures such as ‘equal division of land’ or ‘churches turned into concert rooms’.

REFERENCE: PE/1/27
DATE:
SIZE: 1 item (2 pp, in envelope)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Two written pages with information on an audit. Poor legibility.

REFERENCE: PE/1/28
DATE: 1881
SIZE: 1 item (7 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Bundle of documents relating to the rent due on the Priory Estate, for both Lady Day and Michaelmas of 1881. Also includes a letter from Mr. Woodward dated 2 January 1882, detailing some overdue rent.

REFERENCE: PE/1/29
DATE: 1882-1883
SIZE: 4 items
LEVEL AND ARRANGEMENT: file
NATURE AND CONTENT: Bundle of papers.

REFERENCE: PE/1/29/1
DATE: 1883
SIZE: 1 item (6 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Papers detailing the accounts of the late Mr Parker, a tenant of the Priory estate. Includes a dilapidation account for his rented lands, charges to his executors, and a letter from Mr Woodward relating to the matter.

REFERENCE: PE/1/29/2
DATE: 3 March 1882
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Letter from Mr Woodward, forwarding paperwork relating to the Priory estate audit.

REFERENCE: PE/1/29/3
DATE: 23 September 1883
SIZE: 1 item (2 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Letter from John Jones, enclosing £1 19s 3d, two years of ground rent.

REFERENCE: PE/1/29/4
DATE:
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: List, with various properties from the Priory estate, crossed through in pencil.

REFERENCE: PE/1/30
DATE: 1889
SIZE: 1 item (3 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Two lists and one letter dealing with rent arrears for the Priory Estate.

REFERENCE: PE/1/31
DATE: c 1842
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Schedule of deeds relating to the Priory Estate, between the years 1817 and 1842.

REFERENCE: PE/1/32
DATE: 1839-1849
SIZE: 3 items
LEVEL AND ARRANGEMENT: file
NATURE AND CONTENT: Bundle of documents all relating to several fee farms in Carmarthen, Caernarvon and Cardigan, in the Holmes family.

REFERENCE: PE/1/32/1
DATE: 26 September 1839
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Copy of instructions sent to Mr Duvall regarding problems with farm rents and titles from the estate of the late Lord J. W. Holmes, as well as Mr Duvall’s response.

REFERENCE: PE/1/32/2
DATE: 1849
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Additional abstract of the title to several fee farms of Carmarthen, Carnarvon and Cardigan.

REFERENCE: PE/1/32/3
DATE: 1839
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Abstract of the Title of the trustees of the Will of the late Sir Leonard Thomas Worsley Holmes, to fee farms in Carmarthen, Carnarvon and Cardigan.

REFERENCE: PE/1/33
DATE: c 1879
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Schedule of deeds relating to the Priory estate.