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

Acc. 1527

Ref: PE/5

REFERENCE: PE/5
TITLE: Records of the estate sales
DATE(S): 1845-1910 (mostly 1880-1897)
LEVEL: Series
SIZE: 53 Items

NATURE AND CONTENT:

REFERENCE: PE/5/1
DATE: 1 September â€" 31 December 1897
SIZE: 1 folder (in excess of 50 letters)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Letters relating to the Priory Estates sales of 1897, mostly from solicitors.

REFERENCE: PE/5/2
DATE: 1897
SIZE: 2 items
NATURE AND CONTENT: 2 maps of the lots 7, 8 and 9 of the Priory Estate. On one copy lot 8 is annotated ‘sold in 1897’.

REFERENCE: PE/5/3
DATE: 3 August 1910
SIZE: 1 item (2 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Copy of a proposal of the sale of bounty land, with references to Brynyfi and Alltygoes Farms.

REFERENCE: PE/5/4
DATE: 1897
SIZE: 1 item (2 bound items and 2 loose sheets)
NATURE AND CONTENT: 2 estate sale catalogues from the sale of 10 September 1897. One with maps intact, but many written pages damaged; other with no maps, but written pages almost complete. Loose sheets are the ‘conditions of sale’ pages. Between them a complete copy can be viewed.
ASSOCIATED MATERIAL: PE/5/18 and PE/5/25 are some of the missing maps.

REFERENCE: PE/5/5
DATE: 1887
SIZE: 1 item (13 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Sale catalogue for parts of the Priory Estate, complete with maps and some pencil notes, which may be successful bidders.

REFERENCE: PE/5/6
DATE: 1885
SIZE: 2 items
NATURE AND CONTENT: 2 copies of a sale catalogue for parts of the Priory Estate, one with notes of the highest bids.

REFERENCE: PE/5/7
DATE: 1897
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Map of lots 2 and 6 of the Priory Estate.

REFERENCE: PE/5/8
DATE:
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Plan of lots 1 â€" 15, including Greenland Meadows and Lower Stepside in Cardigan.

REFERENCE: PE/5/9
DATE:
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Plan of lots 1 â€" 53 of parts of the Priory Estate.

REFERENCE: PE/5/10
DATE: 1897
SIZE: 1 item (in envelope)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Plan of lots 2 and 6 of the Priory Estate, from the sale catalogue, with alterations in red.

REFERENCE: PE/5/11
DATE: 7 June 1880
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Draft of a letter to Messrs. Osborne, Ward, Vassall and Co. regarding the valuation of parts of the Priory Estate.

REFERENCE: PE/5/12
DATE: 1885
SIZE: 4 items
NATURE AND CONTENT: 3 letters with enquiries about lot 17 of the Priory Estate sale, and a page with rough calculations.

REFERENCE: PE/5/13
DATE: 5 June 1880
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Letter regarding the sale of some freeholds on the Priory Estate, and the conditions imposed.

REFERENCE: PE/5/14
DATE:
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Draft statement of amount payable from the purchase of various lots from the Priory Estate sale. From Col. Miles to Dr. Pritchard.

REFERENCE: PE/5/15
DATE: 12 October 1897
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: List of reversions not sold from the Priory Estate.

REFERENCE: PE/5/16
DATE: 3 February 1898
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Rough note of reversions, with purchasers and rents until Christmas 1897.

REFERENCE: PE/5/17
DATE: 3 November 1897
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Statements of purchase monies remitted by Jenkins and Evans, from the Priory Estate sale.

REFERENCE: PE/5/18
DATE: 1897
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Map of lots 17 â€" 29 and 31 of the Priory Estate sale. With pencil notes on ‘sold’ lots.

REFERENCE: PE/5/19
DATE: 29 December 1897
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Draft statement of amounts payable by Messer’s Morgan and Richardson, on reversions on the Priory Estate sale.

REFERENCE: PE/5/20
DATE: 1897
SIZE: 2 items
NATURE AND CONTENT: Apportionments of rent in accordance with the condition of sale.

REFERENCE: PE/5/21
DATE: 31 July 1897
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Comparison of estimates with the actual price achieved at auction from the estate sale.

REFERENCE: PE/5/22
DATE: June 1897
SIZE: 1 item (2 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Template letter offering the first chance to purchase the Priory Estate lands to the current lessee. Attached is a list of lessees and details of their rent.

REFERENCE: PE/5/23
DATE: 1897 - 1899
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: List of reversions sold from the Priory Estate, with purchasers and their solicitors.

REFERENCE: PE/5/24
DATE:
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Statement of purchase moneys of freeholds on the Priory Estate.

REFERENCE: PE/5/25
DATE: 1897
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Map of lots 17 â€" 29 and 31 from the Priory estate sale. Red ink indicates lots which were sold, and names have been added to some lots.

REFERENCE: PE/5/26
DATE:
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Letter from Llangattock Park, Crickhowell, regarding valuations. Very poor legibility.

REFERENCE: PE/5/27
DATE: 1845 - 1900
SIZE: 24 items
LEVEL AND ARRANGEMENT: file
NATURE AND CONTENT: Bundle of papers, originally tied together, mostly relating to the Priory Estate sales of 1897 under Col. Miles.

REFERENCE: PE/5/27/1
DATE:
SIZE: 1 item (3 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: A list of Priory Estate leaseholds ‘for years’.

REFERENCE: PE/5/27/2
DATE: 1898
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Statement showing application of purchase monies, for the 1st and 2nd sales.

REFERENCE: PE/5/27/3
DATE: 31 July 1897
SIZE: 1 item (3 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: A list of purchasers from the Priory Estate sale, both by auction and private contract.

REFERENCE: PE/5/27/4
DATE: September 1897
SIZE: 1 item (3 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: A list of lots sold in the 2nd Priory Estate sale.

REFERENCE: PE/5/27/5
DATE: 28 September 1900
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: A notice to quit to Mr William Lloyd, butcher, from Gotrell farm by the 21 September 1901.

REFERENCE: PE/5/27/6
DATE:
SIZE: 1 item (8 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Particulars of holding for the Priory Estate as revised by Mr Woodward.

REFERENCE: PE/5/27/7
DATE: 1845
SIZE: 1 item (2 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Copy of the rental of the Priory estate at Michaelmas 1845.

REFERENCE: PE/5/27/8
DATE: c 1897
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Sales from the Priory estate, including the 1st and 2nd sales and private contract.

REFERENCE: PE/5/27/9
DATE: c 1897
SIZE: 1 item (4 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Notes, apparently related to the Priory estate sales, on acreages and rents of the estate.

REFERENCE: PE/5/27/10
DATE: 31 December 1897
SIZE: 1 item (2 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Notes on charges relating to the lots of the 2nd Priory estate sale.

REFERENCE: PE/5/27/11
DATE: 8 January 1898
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: A list of purchase monies still due to be received from the Priory estate sales.

REFERENCE: PE/5/27/12
DATE: 9 March 1897
SIZE: 1 item (5 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Copy of the particulars of Priory Estate as supplied to the Capital and Counties bank.

REFERENCE: PE/5/27/13
DATE: 1873
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: A list of tenements and tenants of the Priory estate.

REFERENCE: PE/5/27/14
DATE: 9 March 1897
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Letter about the sale of the Priory estate, from the first decision by Col. Miles. Poor legibility.

REFERENCE: PE/5/27/15
DATE: 1897
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Draft of a notice to pay off mortgages owed to Thomas Harris and to William Warman and William Stephen Jones by Col. Miles.

REFERENCE: PE/5/27/16
DATE:
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Pencil list of parts of the Priory Estate. Poor legibility.

REFERENCE: PE/5/27/17
DATE: 10 April 1897
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Letter from Col. Miles’ solicitor outlining his intention to pay back a debt six months from the date of the letter to William Henry Laverton et al.

REFERENCE: PE/5/27/18
DATE: 1897
SIZE: 1 item (2 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Two copies of a letter from Col. Miles’ solicitor, outlining his intention to pay back a debt six months from the date of the letter, to William Warman and William Stephen Jones.
ASSOCIATED MATERIAL: A final version of PE/5/27/15.

REFERENCE: PE/5/27/19
DATE: c 1897
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Details of lots 10-12, with OS map references and acreages.

REFERENCE: PE/5/27/20
DATE: 22 March 1893
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Letter to Thomas Harris, regarding some Priory Estate properties which had been sold.

REFERENCE: PE/5/27/21
DATE: 23 February 1893
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Letter from Thomas Harris confirming the debt owed to him by Col. Miles.

REFERENCE: PE/5/27/22
DATE:
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: List relating to the Priory estate. Poor legibility.

REFERENCE: PE/5/27/23
DATE: 12 April 1897
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Letter from Col. Miles’ solicitor, outlining his intention to pay back a debt six months from the date of the letter, to Thomas Harris.

REFERENCE: PE/5/27/24
DATE: 9 March 1897
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Draft of the particulars of the Priory Estate as supplied to Capital and Counties bank.
ASSOCIATED MATERIAL: Draft version of PE/5/27/12.

REFERENCE: PE/5/28
DATE: 9 August 1849
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: A black-edged letter, entitled ‘Holmes’ representatives to Miles’, concerning a purchase of property from Miles.

REFERENCE: PE/5/29
DATE: 24 May 1884
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Conveyance between Messrs. John Henry Miles and William Woodward and W. S. Jones, Esq. for the sale of ‘freehold hereditaments’ in the Priory Estate.