Account books of moneys received and paid in respect of Tredegar house, gardens and farm. The earlier volumes, 1771-1792 (ADT 2/1-2), are settled accounts between the house stewards and their master. ADT 2/3, weekly household expenditure, 1792-1796, may have contributed to a successor volume of settled accounts, since lost. -- There are only two volumes for the nineteenth century, a butcher's account, 1828-1856 (ADT 2/4), and a household payments account, 1846-1867 (ADT 2/5). -- After a break in the surviving accounts, the series re-starts on 22 May 1913 (ADT 2/6), presumably when Courtenay Charles Evan Morgan, third baron Tredegar, succeeded to the estate on the death of Godfrey Charles, viscount Tredegar. Receipts are almost entirely in the form of moneys received from the estate office. In ADT 2/6, expenditure is divided into household, sundry subscriptions and donations, and miscellaneous outgoings, with a column for gardens (later gardens and kennels) added in March 1915. In ADT 2/7, the miscellaneous column is replaced by columns for the garden, the kennels and hunt, the garage, and the stable, reflecting the interests of Lord Tredegar. In ADT 2/8, the garden and kennels and hunt columns are not used, except when the latter is used for a racing account, Sept. 1923-June 1924. In ADT 2/9, a bassett hounds account starts in April 1928 and runs to the end of the volume, and a 'Non. Evan Morgan's pigeon a/c' runs for the period Feb.-Dec. 1931. In ADT 2/10 (1933-37), the bassett hound account is idle until it is deleted at the end of 1933, and the books are balanced and settled on 3 May 1934 (on the death of Courtenay Charles Evan Morgan), including a loose paper containing the outstanding accounts on the private secretary's account on 3 May 1934. A bird account is started in Aug. 1934, and in Oct. 1934 the columns are reorganized, giving columns headed household, subscriptions and donations, gardens and birds, poultry farm, garage, and farm and game. This latter arrangement continues into ADT 2/11, except that the gardens and birds account is split into separate accounts, zoo (dead from March 1942) and gardens. A column for coal is added in July 1938. Household expenditure includes servants' and outside men's wages, petty cash, the butcher, chauffeur, chemist, fishmonger, grocery and pork butcher books, and quarterly disbursements, as well as accounts for malt and hops, stationery, game, papers, kitchen utensils, fruit, carpet, livery, cricket requisites, oil, whiskey, candles, (cloths, dusters and sheets), and brewing duty. In addition, a number of items for Ruperra were entered on 29 July 1913. The subscriptions and donations include a wide variety of institutions and events, including for example in May-June 1913, Abertyssog Hospital eisteddfod, Ancient Druids conference fund, All Saints Cricket Club, Bargoed Lunacy Fund, Dr Barnardo Home, Basaleg Tennis Club, Bath & West Show, Caer-went Horticultural Society, Canton Baptist Cricket Club, Cardiff Jubilee Nurse, Cardiff Port [Poor?] Cripple Society, Llandaf Diocese Girls Friendly [Society], Maendy Emanual Men's Institute, Mamheilad Colliery Band, Newport Dog Show, Newport RFC cadets, Pontllanfraith Sports and Pontypridd Chapel Bazaar. Evan Frederic Morgan, second viscount, died in 1949, and to save creating a 1950 account the entries dated 4-11 Jan. 1950 were treated as 31 Dec. 1949.