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

Acc. 1527

Ref: PE/7

REFERENCE: PE/7
TITLE: Records of taxes and other legal matters
DATE(S): 1842-1917 (mostly 1879-1897)
LEVEL: Series
SIZE: 91 Items

NATURE AND CONTENT:

REFERENCE: PE/7/1
DATE: 1878
SIZE: 1 item (25 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Inland Revenue succession duties due upon the death of John William Miles by his successor George William Miles. Includes a full listing of all the property and land owned.

REFERENCE: PE/7/2
DATE: 15 December 1897
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Unfinished letter from Jones and Forrester, Solicitors in Malmesbury. Only line is ‘My dear William,’. Pencil jottings on reverse.

REFERENCE: PE/7/3
DATE:
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Empty envelope, printed with ‘National Provincial Bank of England Limited, Cardigan’.

REFERENCE: PE/7/4
DATE: 31 March 1881
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Letter to Messrs. Jones and Forrester, solicitors, from Masefield and Son regarding the accounts for the Miles succession duties.

REFERENCE: PE/7/5
DATE: 8 December 1879
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Letter from William Woodward, Mayor of Cardigan, regarding a meeting about the relief of the poor.

REFERENCE: PE/7/6
DATE: 13 July 1880
SIZE: 1 item (letter in envelope)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Black edged letter from Harrison Dallow to J. Jones of Malmesbury, regarding an unclear clause in Philip Miles’ will.

REFERENCE: PE/7/7
DATE: 1914 - 1917
SIZE: 1 folder (receipts, in excess of 100)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Receipts for expenses relating to the Priory Estate whilst under the ownership of Col. Miles (e.g. the payment of rates and council and income tax)

REFERENCE: PE/7/8
DATE:
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Summary of income from freeholds in the Priory Estate.

REFERENCE: PE/7/9
DATE: 1884
SIZE: 12 items, in envelope
NATURE AND CONTENT: Endorsed cheques.

REFERENCE: PE/7/10
DATE: No date (19th c.)
SIZE: 1 item (2 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Document entitled ‘In Lunacy’ regarding Frances Thomasine Cave, a ‘supposed lunatic’, regarding an inheritance she was due.

REFERENCE: PE/7/11
DATE:
SIZE: 1 item (softbound pages)
NATURE AND CONTENT: An unsigned succession of duty form from the Inland Revenue. Details of properties on the Priory Estate are included.

REFERENCE: PE/7/12
DATE: 5 November 1879
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Letter from Rev. Jenkyns regarding George Miles.

REFERENCE: PE/7/13
DATE: 1880/1884
SIZE: 2 items
NATURE AND CONTENT: Letters from the Inland Revenue regarding taxes owed from drainage.

REFERENCE: PE/7/14
DATE: 30 June 1880
SIZE: 17 items, in envelope
NATURE AND CONTENT: Cheques relating to the Priory Estate.

REFERENCE: PE/7/15
DATE: 20 February 1885
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Itemised bill from the Black Lion Hotel, Cardigan.

REFERENCE: PE/7/16
DATE: 1880
SIZE: 1 item (11 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Miles v. Harford - Statement of dealings with the Cardiganshire Estates. Concerns property bought by William Henry Harford and William Henry Miles.

REFERENCE: PE/7/17
DATE: 1897
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Priory Estate Income Tax, for Captain Miles.

REFERENCE: PE/7/18
DATE: 1894
SIZE: 1 item (21 pp, in envelope, in another envelope)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Income tax receipts and endorsed cheques in a ‘Black Lion Hotel’ envelope, inside an envelope addressed to Mr S. Jones, Malmesbury.

REFERENCE: PE/7/19
DATE: 23 July 1880
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: A letter to S. Jones in Malmesbury from William Woodward with small news items regarding the estate.

REFERENCE: PE/7/20
DATE: 1880
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Small list of expenses due from Woodward by Lady Day.

REFERENCE: PE/7/21
DATE: 22 January 1885
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: A letter from J. W. Miles to Mr. Jones, discussing the sale of buck for which Miles had recently negotiated a good price in Ireland.

REFERENCE: PE/7/22
DATE:
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: List of sums paid and not paid relating to Cardigan Harbour.

REFERENCE: PE/7/23
DATE: 18 September 1895
SIZE: 2 items
NATURE AND CONTENT: A letter from Mr Woodward with a report on the freehold farms of the Priory Estate, and a valuation of £23,250. A more detailed report on the properties is attached.

REFERENCE: PE/7/24
DATE: 22 January 1880
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Itemised bill from the Black Lion Hotel to Mr S. Jones.

REFERENCE: PE/7/25
DATE: 30 June 1881
SIZE: 2 items
NATURE AND CONTENT: Two forms from the National Provincial Bank, one blank, regarding the examination of Pass Books.

REFERENCE: PE/7/26
DATE:
SIZE: 1 item (4 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Draft of a document for a legal case involving land originally designated for a burial ground but later sold to Messrs. Woodward and Miles.

REFERENCE: PE/7/27
DATE: 22 May 1880
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Letter to S. Jones from William Woodward, requesting a cheque and discussing further correspondence.

REFERENCE: PE/7/28
DATE: 23 July 1880
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Letter from Osbourne, Ward and Vasall regarding a disagreement over the division of some common lands.

REFERENCE: PE/7/29
DATE: 1882 - 1883
SIZE: 1 item (2 bundles)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Three groups of endorsed cheques, labelled 335, 336 and 481.

REFERENCE: PE/7/30
DATE: 15 February 1889
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: A letter from J. R. Davies, Collector, enclosing rate bills (not included) due to be paid.

REFERENCE: PE/7/31
DATE: 14 February 1881
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Letter from Osbourne, Ward and Vasall regarding Cardigan Freeholds.

REFERENCE: PE/7/32
DATE: 31 August 1883
SIZE: 1 item (in envelope)
NATURE AND CONTENT: A letter to Mr S. Jones at the Black Lion hotel, with a list of papers that have been sent by parcel.

REFERENCE: PE/7/33
DATE: 1885
SIZE: 1 item (upwards of 40 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Income tax receipts from the year ending 5 April 1885. All paid on various days of January 1885.

REFERENCE: PE/7/34
DATE: 8 February 1884
SIZE: 1 item (2 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Two letters from the Great Western Railway, one from the General Manager’s office, and one from the Solicitor’s office, on matters concerning land procured for the Whitland and Cardigan Railway.

REFERENCE: PE/7/35
DATE: 1879
SIZE: 6 items
LEVEL AND ARRANGEMENT: file
NATURE AND CONTENT: Documents relating to the payment of borough rates and a possible alteration of the act, found tied together.

REFERENCE: PE/7/35/1
DATE: 26 December 1879
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: A letter from the Mayor of Cardigan to S. Jones in Malmesbury, regarding an attempt to alter municipal rates on the Pembrokeshire side of Cardigan. Includes a recommendation for a solicitor to watch the case and mentions an enclosed public notice.
ASSOCIATED MATERIAL: Enclosed public notice is PE/7/35/3.

REFERENCE: PE/7/35/2
DATE:
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: A letter from Mr Woodward, entitled ‘Borough of Cardiganshire, Municipal Rates’, about the attempted passing of a new act.

REFERENCE: PE/7/35/3
DATE: 12 December 1879
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: A notice of a public meeting, regarding the possible alteration of ‘The Cardigan Markets and Improvement Act, 1857’, in respect to the application of tolls.

REFERENCE: PE/7/35/4
DATE: 5 January 1880
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: A letter from Mr Woodward regarding sanitary expenses and the cost of drainage, whilst still awaiting a result from the council.

REFERENCE: PE/7/35/5
DATE:
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Alternative proposals made by Mr Bowen Rowlands regarding the payment of rates.

REFERENCE: PE/7/35/6
DATE:
SIZE: 1 item (10 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Copy of the case submitted regarding the municipal rates of the borough.

REFERENCE: PE/7/36
DATE: 4 May 1842
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Copy of the will of Thomas Sewell Esquire, naming his sons Henry Sewell and Robert Binleigh Sewell as his executors.

REFERENCE: PE/7/37
DATE: June 1849
SIZE: 2 items
NATURE AND CONTENT: Two extracts from parish registers, pinned together. The first, from Calbourne, Southampton, concerns the marriage of William Henry Ashe à Court and Elizabeth Worsley Holmes on 3 October 1833. The second, from Brocklesby, Lincolnshire, concerns the burial of Charles Anderson-Pelham, Earl of Yarborough, on 1 October 1846.

REFERENCE: PE/7/38
DATE: 10 October 1887
SIZE: 1 item (2 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Declaration verifying that George Frederick William Miles died without issue, written by Edward Bourchier Savile, his brother-in-law. Attached is a copy of the death certificate.

REFERENCE: PE/7/39
DATE: 7 April 1894
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Certificate of mortgage for £9000 borrowed against the farm of Tygwyn in Verwick by Major C. N. Miles. A reconveyance allowing Col. C. N. Miles to sell the farm was added in 1897.

REFERENCE: PE/7/40
DATE: 1889 - 1894
SIZE: 15 items
LEVEL AND ARRANGEMENT: file
NATURE AND CONTENT: Bundle of papers, mostly relating to the firm Daniel and Co., and mortgages taken out with regard to the firm.

REFERENCE: PE/7/40/1
DATE: 31 May 1894
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Memorandum about the payment of a debt due to a mortgage policy with the Bank of Scotland. Charles Napier Miles appears to be both a debtor and a creditor.

REFERENCE: PE/7/40/2
DATE: 1 December 1893
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Agreement on the repayment of a mortgage policy.
ASSOCIATED MATERIAL: This is the original agreement for PE/7/40/1.

REFERENCE: PE/7/40/3
DATE: 30 November 1893
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Letter to Charles Napier Miles confirming the release of some names from a letter of guarantee, whilst confirming a debt still owed by the author, J. S. Bridges.
ASSOCIATED MATERIAL: A mention of the mortgage agreement of PE/7/40/2 is made.

REFERENCE: PE/7/40/4
DATE: September 1889
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Copy of a balance sheet for Thomas Daniel and Co. for the year ending 30 September 1889

REFERENCE: PE/7/40/5
DATE: September 1889
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Copy of the profit and loss account for Thomas Daniel and Co. for the year ending 30 September 1889.

REFERENCE: PE/7/40/6
DATE: 27 February 1892
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Letter of indemnity to Col. Charles William Miles and Capt. Charles Napier Miles, regarding a promissory note of £15000.

REFERENCE: PE/7/40/7
DATE: c 1891
SIZE: 2 items
NATURE AND CONTENT: Form of application for 6% debentures from Thomas Daniel and Co. Limited.

REFERENCE: PE/7/40/8
DATE: 17 February 1891
SIZE: 2 items
NATURE AND CONTENT: Two copies of a letter of indemnity to Col. Charles William Miles and Capt. Charles Napier Miles regarding a promissory note of £15,000, one unsigned.

REFERENCE: PE/7/40/9
DATE: 10 December 1893
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Document relating to the liquidation of Thomas Daniel and Co. Limited, discussing the apportionment of any money made.

REFERENCE: PE/7/40/10
DATE: 13 February 1891
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Equitable charge for securing £5000 and interest, between Col. and Capt. Miles and William Walker.

REFERENCE: PE/7/40/11
DATE: 13 February 1891
SIZE: 2 items
NATURE AND CONTENT: Equitable charge for securing £15000 and interest, between Col. and Capt. Miles and Messrs Prescott, Dimsdale, Cave and Co. Attached is a letter confirming the repayment of the amount.

REFERENCE: PE/7/40/12
DATE: 19 June 1893
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Document of release for Audley C. Miles from the Nottingham banking company, releasing him from liability under a promissory note of 14 March 1892.

REFERENCE: PE/7/40/13
DATE: 19 June 1893
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Document of release for Audley Charles Miles from the Commercial Bank of Scotland, releasing him from liability under a promissory note of 18 September 1891.

REFERENCE: PE/7/40/14
DATE: 25 February 1893
SIZE: 2 items, in envelope
NATURE AND CONTENT: Equitable charge to Capital and Counties bank for £15200, signed by Col. and Capt. Miles.

REFERENCE: PE/7/40/15
DATE: 1892
SIZE: 10 items, in envelope
NATURE AND CONTENT: Letters and certificates all relating to a £15,000 loan taken out by Col. and Capt. Miles.

REFERENCE: PE/7/41
DATE:
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Pedigree of descendants of the Honourable Elizabeth Troughear Worsley Holmes, Catherine Rushworth, Elizabeth Worsley Holmes and Anne Emily Worsley Holmes the heirs at law of the Testatrix Lucretia Roberts.

REFERENCE: PE/7/42
DATE: 10 November 1886
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Copy of probate of the will and codicils of George Frederick William Miles, for use in a court case of George Frederick William Miles v. Archdale and others, and exhibited 18 February 1890.

REFERENCE: PE/7/43
DATE: 1887
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Abstract of title of Charles William Miles and Charles Napier Miles, to heredits in the parishes of Tremain, Verwig, Llangoedmore and St Mary’s, Cardigan in the County of Cardigan.

REFERENCE: PE/7/44
DATE: 1879
SIZE: 5 items
NATURE AND CONTENT: Set of papers relating to the court case 1879 â€" M. â€" No. 61, Miles v. Harford. George Frederick William Miles is the plaintiff, with William Henry Harford, a trustee of Philip John Miles’ will, and various members of the Miles family as the defendants.

REFERENCE: PE/7/44/1
DATE: 2 April 1879
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Statement of claim in the case of Miles v. Harford, concerning the rightful inheritance of the Priory Estate within the Miles family.

REFERENCE: PE/7/44/2
DATE: 29 May 1879
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Statement of defence from the case of Miles v Harford.

REFERENCE: PE/7/44/3
DATE: 1879
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Statement of defence for the defendants Audley C. Miles and Vyvyan C. Miles, from the case of Miles v. Harford.

REFERENCE: PE/7/44/4
DATE: 10 July 1879
SIZE: 2 items
NATURE AND CONTENT: Two copies of the order or judgement in the Miles v. Harford case. It finds in favour of the plaintiff, George Frederick William Miles, giving the rights to the leaseholds and rents of the Priory Estate during his lifetime.

REFERENCE: PE/7/45
DATE: 1 November 1880
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Court case, numbered 1880 M. No. 2928, Miles v. Miles â€" Special Case. The plaintiff is Robert Fenton Miles and the defendants are members of the Miles family. The case regards the inheritance of the freeholds bought on trust in the Priory estate.
ASSOCIATED MATERIAL: PE/7/46 is the judgement on this case.

REFERENCE: PE/7/46
DATE: 25 January 1881
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Judgement in the special case of Miles v. Miles. It finds in favour of the plaintiff, Robert Fenton Miles, confirming his right to the Priory estate.
ASSOCIATED MATERIAL: PE/7/45 is the original case document.

REFERENCE: PE/7/47
DATE: 1880
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Draft settlement by Col. Charles William Miles and Charles Napier Miles of a sum of £15000.

REFERENCE: PE/7/48
DATE: 1887
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Draft surrender and re-assignment between Jones & Forrester and Charles William Miles, to be endorsed 24 June 1887.

REFERENCE: PE/7/49
DATE: 1885
SIZE: item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Draft mortgage between Charles William Miles with Charles Napier Miles and W. Forrester for £7000 of a farm on the Priory Estate.

REFERENCE: PE/7/50
DATE: 1887
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Draft surrender and re-assignment between Jones & Forrester and Charles William Miles, to be endorsed 1 February 1887.

REFERENCE: PE/7/51
DATE: 10 July 1891
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Draft document appointing Capt. Charles Napier Miles as owner of the Priory Estate.

REFERENCE: PE/7/52
DATE: 1887
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Abstract of indenture of mortgage from C. W. Miles and C. N. Miles to H. C. Caulfield for £1,460.

REFERENCE: PE/7/53
DATE: 27 September 1897
SIZE: 1 item (2 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Black-edged letter regarding attached schedule number 3, being one of the separate schedules referred to in the equitable security given by C. N. Miles to the Capital and Counties Bank.

REFERENCE: PE/7/54
DATE: 29 September 1897
SIZE: 1 item (2 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: A black edged letter regarding a deposit of deeds attached to schedule number 4, being one of the separate schedules referred to in the equitable security given by C. N. Miles to the Capital and Counties Bank.

REFERENCE: PE/7/55
DATE: 30 August 1897
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Schedule number 2, being one of the separate schedules referred to in the equitable security given by C. N. Miles to the Capital and Counties Bank.

REFERENCE: PE/7/56
DATE: 2 November 1897
SIZE: 1 item (2 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Letter regarding a deposit of deeds attached to schedule number 6, being one of the separate schedules referred to in the equitable security given by C. N. Miles to the Capital and Counties Bank.

REFERENCE: PE/7/57
DATE: 24 June 1905
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Draft receipt for the sum of £550 received by Arthur William Rich from Col. C. N. Miles as part payment for the sum of £22,000.

REFERENCE: PE/7/58
DATE: 15 April 1890
SIZE: 1 item (2 pp)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Declaration of trust of the sum of £1,450, part of a sum of £3,600, secured on parts of the Priory Estate. The sum was borrowed by C. W. and C. N. Miles from Francis Jacob Bryant and William Forrester. Attached is a printed slip with instructions on signing and sealing the document.

REFERENCE: PE/7/59
DATE: 22 June 1898
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Declaration of trust of the sum of £4,000, part of a sum of £22,000 secured on parts of the Priory Estate. The sum was borrowed from Francis Jacob Bryant, William Forrester and Arthur William Rich by Charles Napier Miles.

REFERENCE: PE/7/60
DATE: 27 January 1905
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Declaration of trust of the sum of £4,000, part of a sum of £22,000 secured on parts of the Priory Estate. The sum was borrowed from Francis Jacob Bryant, William Forrester and Arthur William Rich by Charles Napier Miles.

REFERENCE: PE/7/61
DATE: 1866
SIZE: 3 items
NATURE AND CONTENT: Bundle of papers relating to the title of ‘Parkymair’, Llangoedmore, owned by Mrs Ann Jenkins.
ASSOCIATED MATERIAL: PE/2/49 is a conveyance of this land to P. J. Miles.

REFERENCE: PE/7/61/1
DATE: 29 October 1866
SIZE: 1 item (map attached)
NATURE AND CONTENT: Declaration by Ann Jenkins, widow, upon the ownership of the lands ‘Rhydyfwch’ and ‘Parkymair’ in the parish of Llangoedmore, lately owned by her father Rice Vaughan and inherited by her. A tracing of the tithe map relevant to the property is included.

REFERENCE: PE/7/61/2
DATE: 1866
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Abstract of the title of Mrs. Ann Jenkins and her son Henry Jenkins esquire to an estate called Parkymair in the parish of Llangoedmore in the County of Cardigan.

REFERENCE: PE/7/61/3
DATE: 1866
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Further abstract of title to Parkymair.

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REFERENCE: PE/7/62
DATE: 1 July 1885
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Draft mortgage on the Priory Estate to secure £15,800. From Col. Charles William Miles (M.P.) and Capt. Charles Napier Miles to Wyndham and Jones.

REFERENCE: PE/7/63
DATE: 1885 - 1894
SIZE: 1 item
NATURE AND CONTENT: Mortgage of the farm Tygwynne. Charles William Miles and Charles Napier Miles to William Forrester, and subsequent Reconveyance back to Charles Napier Miles.