THE PRYSE FAMILY OF GOGERDDAN I In October 1948 the National Library acquired from Sir Pryse L. Saunders- Pryse, Bart., the Gogerddan collection of family papers which contains a consider- able amount of material of importance to students of the history of Wales, and of Cardiganshire in particular. There are some apparent gaps in the collection, due partly no doubt to the transfer-and subsequent
1878, No. 36, p. 301) as the charter of Llanbadarn Fawr, through an oversight on his part in failing to identify the 'Ville de Lanbader' of the charter as Aberystwyth. A copy translation of the charter and confirmation by Henry VIII in 1528 was made on 2 April 1726, and has been preserved among the Gogerddan archives. As generations of the Pryse family have played an important part in its history
and exactions throughout our whole dominions as well in England as in all our other territories. And we grant that our aforesaid Burgesses of Lanbadar have freely all other l...
should be transacted in the said our Burgh of Lampadar We command you that you cause the aforesaid Market to be publickly proclaimed and strictly to be forbidden on our part...
Wherefore we will and strictly command for Us and our heirs that neither the aforesaid Burgesses nor their heirs or successors at any time shall be convicted by any lawsuits...
out to use and enjoy both they themselves and their ancestors and pre- decessors Burgesses of the aforesaid Burgh their liberties and freedoms from the time of their grant an...
bene hadde betwene Jankyn ap John ap Gwelym Vaghan Gruff' ap M'ed' and Maude the doght[er] of Gruff' ap M'ed' late the wyf of David Vighan ap Gruff' proth on the on p"te and...
ap Gwylym Vighan & to the doght'es of the sayd Gruff' prothe: And to all here other Kyn & ffrends for this mat' schall no bodely harme be done by hem ne by here sturyng and t...
and infirme of body providing before remedys ageinste the ferefull oure of dethe in the trewe feythe of Jhu' criste ordein and make my testamente and last will in fourme and...
, by John Wogan, Esq., of Wyston, co. Pembroke, and Dicell, his wife, to levy to John Pryse of Gogerthan, a fine of the manor of Geneu'r Glyn. These deeds do not answer the queries of how, when and why the family of John Pryse settled at Gogerddan, but mention of them here may help to clarify the position later. One of the most important of the antecedents of the Pryse family was Rhydderch ab Ieuan
