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Schedules of, and receipts for, deeds and documents.

Letters including letters from Sir William Musgrave, commissioner of the Customs, London (L40/2, 5, 29-31 et seq.), George Venables Vernon, baron Venables, MP for co. Glam. (L40/11), Sir Herbert Mackworth of the Gnoll (L40/17), Colonel Charles Stuart, brother of John, Lord Mountstuart (L40/32, 54), John, Lord Mountstuart (L40/40), Rev. Robert Rickards of Llantrisant (L40/47), and Joseph Vaughan for Messrs Harford Getly & Co. of Melingriffith (L40/70). The correspondence includes letters relating to a vacancy as tidewaiter at Newton Nottage (L40/3-6, 40), a Glamorgan society for agricultural improvement, including reference to the great increase in the demand for turnip seed (L40/9), the manorial court rolls of Llantwit, 1733-42 (L40/20-1, 25), a proposed new meat market at Llantrisant (L40/39), an anticipated general election in Oct., including [Charles] Edwin's candidature and mention of his dispute with Lord Mountstuart relating to the [?Ogmore] fishery (L40/45, 53-6) and a lease of lead mines [?at Llantrisant] (L40/47, 50.

Letters including letters from Howell Richard, overseer of the poor, p. Aberdare (L45/17), Sir Herbert Mackworth of the Gnoll, including off-prints of a letter to the editor of the Gloucester Journal relating to allegations of misconduct in the passing of the Glamorgan Turnpike Act (L45/38, 44, see also G 18), John Bird of Cardiff, in the form of a journal, Feb. 1790 - Sept. 1791 (L45/51, 53-4, 56 et seq.) and Lord Mountstuart (L45/74-5). The correspondence includes letters relating to the Cardiff ironworks, Jan. 1788 (L45/2), a rent roll of the abbot's rents in the manor of Boverton and Llantwit and the malicious killing of the bailiff's greyhound, Jan. 1788 (L45/6), the unauthorized taking of stones from Caerphilly castle for building, Feb. 1788 (L45/13-15), 'this Whim wham Morris' treating the burgesses of Llantrisant, July 1788 (L45/31), the bill of John Calvert of Swansea for a 1773 survey of Cardiff castle, Aug. 1789 (L45/44), the cost of the Cardiff to Merthyr Tydfil canal, March 1790 (L45/51), account of the election of John Stuart and Thomas Wyndham, esq., as MPs, and reference to the engagement of [?William] Yates of Liverpool to survey Glamorganshire for publication, June 1790 (L45/58) and the death of Sir Herbert Mackworth of the Gnoll from the mortification of a thorn in his thumb, Sept. 1791 (L45/71).

Letters including letters from John Wood of Cardiff, attorney, captain of the Cardiff Yeomanry and Clerk of the Peace (L49/1, 10-11, 15 et seq.), John Bird of Cardiff (L49/2, 9, 14 et seq.), William Taitt of Dowlais (L49/3, 23, 29 et seq), Henry, fifth duke of Beaufort (L49/4, 12, 25-6), George White of the House of Commons, esq. (L49/5-6, 8, 22 et seq.), Justice George Hardinge (L49/7, 86), Richard Crawshay of Cyfarthfa (L49/39, 67-9, 71-2 et seq.) and Rev. George Maber of Merthyr Tydfil (L49/60). The correspondence includes a printed booklet of an exchange of letters between William Vaughan of Cardiff, attorney, and Justice George Hardinge, MP, relating to the former's eligibility for appointment as undersheriff for co. Glam., Sept. 1801 - Jan. 1802 (L49/1), the Merthyr Tydfil Glebe Bill and the new market proposed to be established there, March 1802 (L49/3, 5-6, 8), the prisage of wine at Chepstow and Newport, co. Mon., March 1802 - March 1803 (L49/4, 26), the Glamorgan Great Sessions, March 1802 - Sept. 1805 (L49/9, 16, 28 et seq.), including printed calendars of prisoners in Cardiff gaol, Aug. 1802 and Aug. 1805 (L49/16,106), copy memorial of John Bradley, postmaster of Cardiff, to the Postmaster General describing his duties, April 1802 (L49/9), the Glamorganshire Militia and the Supplementary Militia, April 1802 - Feb. 1805 (L49/10, 15, 27 et seq.), an assurance by the Merthyr Tydfil ironmasters that any deserters found at the various ironworks will be delivered up, June 1803 (L49/36), the Duke of Beaufort's willingness to switch his support in the Cardiff boroughs from Lord Evelyn Stuart to Lord William Stuart, June 1802 (L49/12), the address of Thomas Wyndham, MP, on the dissolution of Parliament, June 1802 (L49/14), petition to Parliament for relief for Cardiff from the coast duty on coal in order to restore trade lost as a result of Newport's exemption under a clause in the Monmouthshire Canal Act of 42 Geo. III, Nov. 1802 - Feb. 1803 (L49/17, 22-25, 29 et seq.), poll of votes for the election of a surgeon to Cardiff gaol, Jan. 1803 (L49/20), an outbreak of influenza carrying off many people, April 1803 (L49/30), minutes of meetings of the lieutenancy for co. Glam., July - Aug. 1803 (L49/83), a printed account of the capture of the Dutch brig Atalante near the West Frisian Islands, Netherlands, by boats of the British ship Scorpion and the sloop Beaver, April 1804 (L49/85) and a complaint against Rev. John Jones of Gelli-gaer regarding his conduct as a magistrate, Sept. 1804 (L49/93, cf. L50/7, 9, 11).

Letters including letters from Samuel Homfray of Penydarran Place (L50/1), Thomas Wyndham of Dunraven Castle, MP (L50/2, 4, 25 et seq.), John Wood, Clerk of the Peace (L50/3, 5-6, 8 et seq.), Justice Hardinge (L50/7, 9), William Taitt of Dowlais (L50/12-13, 50-1), Sir Charles Morgan of Tredegar, co. Mon. (L50/15, 20), Rev. George Maber of Merthyr Tydfil (L50/17, 21, 79), Henry Charles, sixth duke of Beaufort (L50/24, 30, 53), Rev. John Nicholl of Cowbridge (L50/41), George Venables-Vernon, second baron Vernon (L50/54, 56), and John Bird of Cardiff (L50/90). The correspondence includes letters relating to the Glamorgan Militia, Jan. - Nov. 1806 (L50/1-3, 5-6, 8 et seq.), a new Commission of the Peace, Jan. 1806 (L50/4), reference to the death of William Pitt, former prime minister, Jan. 1806 (L50/4), a resolution to remove Rev. John Jones of Gelli-gaer from the magistracy, March 1806 (L50/7, 9, 11, see also L49/93), a proposed tax on pig iron, including the resolutions of a general meeting of ironmasters, iron merchants and exporters, addresses to Parliament, and a comparison of the effects of a tax on pig iron and a tax on draught horses, April 1806 (L50/12-13), Merthyr Tydfil church fallen down, June 1806 (L50/17), parliamentary election of Glamorgan county and boroughs, Sept. - Nov. 1806, April - June, 1807(L50/23, 33, 52-77), the prisage of wine at Chepstow, co. Mon., bought by the Treasury, Sept. - Oct. 1806 (L50/24, 31), the depredations of the river Taff, Dec 1806 - Jan. 1807 (L50/39, 42-3), the Glamorgan Great Sessions, March and Aug. 1807 (L50/46, 90), including Justice Hardinge's charge against ship wreckers, March 1807 (L50/46), and a printed calendar of prisoners in Cardiff gaol, Aug. 1807 (L50/90), seven or eight passengers and the drunken captain lost when the Cardiff to Bristol boat ran aground, March 1807 (L50/46), Napoleon's relations with other continental powers, [?1806-7] (L50/86-7), the Glamorganshire Canal Co. Dec. 1807 (L50/94) and the failure of the contractor to the Trustees of the Rumney Bridge, Dec. 1807 (L50/95).

Letters including letters from Justice George Hardinge (L55/1-4, 17, 21 et seq.), Thomas Wyndham of Dunraven Castle, MP (L55/6, 13, 30 et seq.), Henry Knight of Tythegston, colonel of the Glamorgan militia (L55/7, 9, 18 et seq.), Frederick, duke of York (L55/8), Richard Watson, bishop of Llandaf (L55/19), Richard Ryder, Home Secretary (L55/31), John Wood of Cardiff, Clerk of the Peace (L55/34, 36), Henry Addington, viscount Sidmouth, Home Secretary (L55/38, 44, 53 et seq.), and Henry Charles, sixth duke of Beaufort (L55/59). The correspondence includes letters relating to the Commission of the Peace, Jan. - July (L55/3, 12, 28 et seq.), including the John Lucas affair, Jan. (L55/3, see also L54), the Glamorgan milita, Feb. - Nov. (L55/7-11, 16, 18 et seq.), including an application by Private Enoch Francis to join the regular army to commute a conviction by a regimental court martial to five hundred lashes for theft, March (L55/11, 16), and the sentence of a regimental court martial on Private John Williams for desertion at Bristol, Aug. (L55/45), the lieutenancy of co. Glam., March - Sept. (L55/12, 31, 51), printed minutes of the Bridgend Co-operating Society for the Education of the Poor and rules of their school to be run in uniformity with the National Society, March (L55/14-15), a school in Edinburgh established on the Lancastrian system, April (L55/19, see also L55/15), appeals for mercy for Mary Robert, a prisoner in Cardiff gaol under sentence of death for housebreaking, April - May (L55/20-4, 26-7, 33), application of the committee of the Swansea Fish Society for a subscription in support of the poor, Aug. (L55/40), and the general election for the Glamorgan boroughs and county, including references to severe contests for the Carmarthen boroughs and Pembrokeshire, Sept. - Nov. (L55/55, 59-61, 64).

Letters including letters from John Wood of Cardiff, Clerk of the Peace (L57/1, 14, 28), William Taitt of Cardiff (L57/3), Henry Knight of Tythegston, colonel of the Glamorgan militia (L57/5, 8, 10-11 et seq.), Henry Addington, viscount Sidmouth, Home Secretary (L57/7, 9, 12 et seq.), John Harford of the Machen Ironworks (L57/13), Nicholl Wood of Cardiff (L57/15), John, marquis of Bute (L57/26) and Colonel Capper touching his claim on the East India Co., July (L57/37, see also L58/3). The correspondence includes letters relating to the improvement of parish bridges on the Bristol to Milford Haven turnpike at the expense of the county, Jan. (L57/1), the Glamorgan militia, Jan. - Aug. (L57/5, 7-12, 14 et seq.), a proposed watercourse from the river Ely from Ynys Plwm through Ynys Mardy Farm to power a threshing mill at Lanelay, p. Llanharan, including a report and sketch map, May - June (L57/29-31), applications for the living of Llanmaes, July - Oct. (L57/33, 36, 38-9 et seq.), complaint that a new market being held at Newbridge is injurious to the market at Llantrisant, Sept. (L57/43), a reference to the plague in Malta, Oct. (L57/44) and the return of Benjamin Hall as MP for co. Glam., Nov. (L57/45).

Letters including letters from Henry Knight of Tythegston, deputy lieutenant of co. Glam. and colonel of the Glamorgan militia (L59/5, 9-10, 21-2 et seq.), John Wood of Cardiff, Clerk of the Peace (L59/11, 18, 24 et seq.), Edward Priest Richards of Cardiff (L59/47), William Williams of Cowbridge Free School (L59/48), Henry Addington, viscount Sidmouth, Home Secretary (L59/52, 55), and Josiah John Guest of the Dowlais Ironworks, introducing himself as nephew of the late William Taitt and applying to be made a freeman of Cardiff, Dec. (L59/80). The correspondence includes letters relating to Thomas Brown's survey of the Glam. estate, Jan. - May (59/2,16, 19 et seq.), the Glamorgan militia, March - Oct. (L59/9-10, 31, 35-7 et seq.), the royalty on stones from the beach at Lavernock, manor of Cosmeston, March (L59/11), three sets of Captain Manby's apparatus dispatched for co. Glam., June (L59/35, see also L58), the Commission of the Peace, Aug. - Nov. (L59/39, 45, 49 et seq.), a toll on corn within the borough of Llantrisant and the exemption claimed by maltsters, Aug. (L59/42 cf. L60/7), a pleasure ground at Adamsdown, Aug. (L59/42), the corporation of Cardiff, Sept. (L59/47, 49), Lord Bute appointed vice-president of the Glamorgan district committee of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Sept. (L59/48), an insurrection at Merthyr Tydfil following a notice from the ironmasters that wages were to be reduced, Oct. (L59/50-6, 62-3, 75) and the Quarter Sessions, Oct. - Nov. (L59/50, 56, 58 et seq.).

Letters, 1821-1846.

Letters including letters from John, marquis of Bute (L64/3, 5), Josiah John Guest of Dowlais Ironworks (L64/10), J[ohn] Plumptre, dean of Gloucester (L64/12-13, 15-18, 20-1 et seq.), Thomas Telford (L64/14, 26, 29 et seq.), and Wyndham Lewis, MP for the Glamorgan boroughs (L64/22). The correspondence includes an application for a piece of land to erect a gasometer in Cardiff, Jan. (L64/1), an application for the living of Neath, March (L64/2-5), proposed improvements to the port of Cardiff and the Glamorganshire canal, April - Dec. (L64/8, 10, 14 et seq.), including Thomas Telford's observations on the improvements to the port of Cardiff, the Severn estuary crossing between south Wales and Bristol, and the mining districts, Aug. (L64/14), notice from the Glamorgan Quarter Sessions of the danger to bridges, the White House and Cardiff bridges from the bank made across the river Taff, Dec. (L64/31-2), the living of Cardiff, July - Dec. (L64/12-13, 15-18, 20-1 et seq.), and a prospectus for establishing a barter trade of Welsh iron, tin, wire and coal for French wines and brandies, Nov. (L64/28).

Letters including letters from Thomas Telford (L65/1, 10-11, 25), Judge William Wingfield (L65/17), John, marquis of Bute (L65/19), Rev. W. B. Knight, rector of Merthyr Tydfil (L65/30), William van Mildert, bishop of Llandaf (L65/31, 33), Wyndham Lewis, MP (L65/32, 35, 37 et seq.), and Charles Morgan of Tredegar (L65/34). The correspondence includes letters relating to proposed improvements to the Glamorganshire canal and the port of Cardiff, Feb. - March (L65/1, 10-12, 25), reform of the Welsh judiciary, including a Bill for regulating the levying of estreats and recognizances, April - May (L65/14, 17, 19), the Commission of the Peace, June (L65/24), the livings of Roath and Cardiff, Nov. (L65/27, 31, 33), the Glamorgan militia, Aug. (L65/28), iron and coal leases, including that there is scarcely a blast furnace in Scotland for pig or bar iron, owing to the cheap production of pig iron in Wales, Oct. (L65/29), a proposed Anglican chapel at Rhigos, p. Ystradyfodwg, and the proposed Llantrisant school, Dec. (L65/38) and the stewardship of Cardiff races, Dec. (L65/42).

Letters including letters from Thomas Telford (L66/1), Josiah John Guest of Dowlais (L66/2), Wyndham Lewis, MP (L66/3, 5), William Crawshay of Cyfarthfa (L66/7, 10, 14 et seq.), William van Mildert, bishop of Llandaf (L66/9), John, marquis of Bute, suspending negotiations with the Dowlais Co., April (L66/12), Philip Henry, fourth earl of Harrington (L66/32) and Lord Palmerston, Secretary at War (L66/36). The correspondence includes letters relating to the proposed Anglican chapel at Rhigos, p. Ystradyfodwg, co. Glam., March (L66/4), parliamentary business, including the Bill for the commutation of tithes in Ireland, [Henry] Brougham's Bill for regulating the sale of beer, and a Bill for amending the Poor Laws, March (L66/5), the Glamorganshire canal and Thomas Telford's proposed improvements to the port of Cardiff, April - June (L66/7, 10, 17-21), a proposed tramroad through the Taff valley from Merthyr Tydfil to the river Ely near Penarth in order to ruin the canal and bypass Cardiff, April - Oct. (L66/10, 13-14, 29), proposed endowment of the Anglican chapel at Dowlais, p. Merthyr Tydfil, April (L66/9), the Glamorgan militia, Aug. - Nov. (L66/22, 32, 34), William Crawshay's proposals for the renewal of the lease on the Hirwaun Ironworks, Nov. - Dec. (L66/31, 35), and an application to Lord Bute to become vice-president of the Cambrian Institution for the Encouragement of Pursuits in Geology, Mineralogy and Natural History, Nov. (L66/33).

Letters including letters from William Crawshay of Cyfarthfa (L68/2, 5), T. S. Forman, having agreed to buy the Rhymney estate requests assistance with the deposit, May (L68/9), William van Mildert, bishop of Llandaf (L68/13, 19, 34), L[ewis] W[eston] Dillwyn of Penlle'r-gaer (L68/14, 17, 21 et seq.) and H. J. Grant of the Gnoll (L68/22). The correspondence includes a letter hinting at the sale of the Hirwaun Ironworks, Jan. (L68/2), the opening of Llantrisant school, Feb. (L68/3-4), and preparation for a girls' school at Llantrisant, Sept. (L68/23), the Glamorgan militia, March - Sept. (L68/6, 16), Cardiff gaol, May (L68/8), a proposed school at Aberdare, June (L68/10), building on Hirwaun Common at Aberdare, July (L68/11-12), two proposed Anglican chapels in Merthyr Tydfil and Dowlais, Aug. - Oct. (L68/13, 19, 28), J[osiah] J[ohn] Guest's disputes with Lord Bute, including reference to a printed placard 'No Popery - No Stuart - Lewis for ever', Aug. - Sept. (L68/14, 17, 24), Neath school, Aug. (L68/15), the annual Swansea boat races, Sept. (L68/17, 21), the Commission of the Peace, Sept. (L68/18), the death of Colonel Henry Knight, and the proposed disposal of the Tythegston estate, Sept. - Nov. (L68/20-1, 23, 27 et seq.) and the living of Neath, Sept. - Nov. (L68/20, 22, 25-6 et seq.).

Letters including letters from John B. Bruce of Dyffryn Aberdare (L71/1-3, 7, 10 et seq.), James Coke of Neath (L71/6), Robert Bald of Edinburgh, mining engineer (L71/12, 64, 70), Sir Charles Morgan (L71/15), Josiah John Guest of Dowlais, MP (L71/16, 30, 43), Robert Peel, Home Secretary (L71/19-21, 31, 40 et seq.), Rev. William Williams of Cowbridge Free School (L71/32), Charles Morgan of Tredegar (L71/42), J. E. Dorington, parliamentary agent (L71/47, 52), Lord Palmerston, Secretary at War (L71/56), Evan David of Radyr, secretary of the Glamorgan Agricultural Association (L71/60), Sir Henry Hardinge, Secretary at War (L71/87), and John Singleton Copley, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Chancellor (L71/83). The correspondence includes letters relating to the Merthyr Tydfil Police Act and the work of John B. Bruce, magistrate, Jan. - Nov. (L71/1-3, 7, 10 et seq.), including the hope of catching 'the notorious Dai Gam, the Rob Roy of this District', May (L71/66), the Glamorgan militia, Jan. - Dec. (L71/4, 8-9, 13 et seq.), a Cardiff to Clifton steam packet and the proposed steamboat wharf at Cardiff, Jan. (L71/5), proposed parochial banks, Jan. (L71/6), the excess on the Cardiff 'Eight Acres Charity', Jan. - March (L71/11, 51, 53, see also L70/85), report on iron mining [at ?Karuna] in Sweden, Jan. (L71/12), the living of Roath, March (L71/53), Aberdare school, including a subscription list, March - Nov. (L71/55, 84), scales of corn duty proposed to be levied on foreign wheat, April (L71/60), Calvert Jones declared to be sufficiently proficient in Welsh to undertake a Welsh cure, April (L71/62) and application for the living of Loughor, Sept. (L71/77, 83), invitation to be a director of a company to make a canal between the Bristol and English Channel, Aug. (L71/75), Llantrisant school, including a list of the schoolboys, Nov. (L71/80), William Price, a Brecon saddler sentenced to transportation for stealing a saddle, and said to have been granted a free pardon through the influence of his friends, Nov. - Dec. (L71/88, 92), the queries of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the Welsh judicature (L71/89), together with drafts of the Marquis of Bute's answers [printed in the First Report of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the Practice and Proceedings of the Superior Courts of Common Law, 1829, Appendix E, pp. 380, 406-7] (L71/90-1) and replies from a canvass of co. Glam., Dec. (L71/93, 95).

Letters including letters from Colonel Richard Morgan of Llandough Castle (L72/2, 19), Sir Henry Hardinge, Secretary at War (L72/5, 39, 72 et seq.), John B. Bruce of Dyffryn Aberdare (L72/6-7, 9, 11 et seq.), William Crawshay of Cyfarthfa (L72/14, 21, 33 et seq.), Rev. W. B. Knight of Margam (L72/16-18, 23), Onesipherus Tyndall Bruce of Falkland Palace, Fife, Scotland (L72/26, 35, 94 et seq.), Walter Coffin of Llandaf Court (L72/27, 47, 49), Robert Peel, Home Secretary (L72/29, 38, 52 et seq.), John, marquis of Bute (L72/36), Richard Neave of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea (L72/45), Charles Kemeys Kemeys-Tynte of Kefnmably (L72/55), Anthony Hill of Plymouth Lodge (L72/60), Thomas Bruce, seventh earl of Elgin (L72/85), Charles Morgan of Ruperra (L72/86) and Edward Copleston, bishop of Llandaf (L72/109). The correspondence includes letters relating to the Glamorgan militia, Jan. - Aug. (L72/1-5, 10, 12 et seq.), the Merthyr Tydfil Police Bill, Jan. - July (L72/6-7, 9, 11 et seq.), typhus fever at Llantrisant, Jan. - Feb. (L72/9-10, 15, 19), the Glamorganshire Canal Co., and the proposed improvement of the port of Cardiff, Feb. - Dec. (L72/14, 21, 33 et seq.), a petition from Cardiff to Parliament against Roman Catholics, March (L72/27), the inquiry into the Welsh judicature including a reference to Lord Cawdor in cos Pemb. and Carm., and the 'anti-abolitionist' in co. Glam., March - Nov. (L72/27, 42, 44 et seq.), the livings of Llantrisant, Llantwit Major and Lisworny, May (L72/43, 46, 50 et seq.), Newport's continued exemption from the coal duty, May (L72/47, 49, see also L49 et seq.), invitation to subscribe to an intended Caerphilly to Cardiff road, May (L72/50), invitation to subscribe to the completion of Aberafan town hall, and a school intended to be held there, including mention of schools at [Cwmavon?] and at the English Copper Co. at Tai-bach, May - June (L72/51, 58), the ruinous state of Llantrisant town hall and market place, June (L72/63), the system of cottage gardening, including a reference to the first show of the Glamorgan, Monmouthshire and South Wales Horticultural Society at Tredegar, Aug. (L72/82, 91), Llantrisant school, Sept. - Nov., (L72/98, 109), reference to the Golden Grove MSS at Stackpole, co. Pemb. (L72/103) and Aberdare National School, Dec. (L72/117).

Letters including letters from John Nicholl of Merthyr Mawr (L74/1, 28), Colonel Richard Morgan of Llandough Castle (L74/2, 20-1, 25 et seq.), William Crawshay of Cyfarthfa (L74/4, 19, 22 et seq.), John B. Bruce of Dyffryn Aberdare, stipendiary magistrate of Merthyr Tydfil (L74/5, 9-10, 15 et seq.), Walter Coffin of Llandaf Court (L74/23), L[ewis] W[eston] Dillwyn of Penlle'r-gaer (L74/26, 68, 79 et seq.), William Lamb, second viscount Melbourne, Home Secretary (L74/27, 35, 46 et seq.), Josiah John Guest of Dowlais (L74/44, 71), Henry John Grant of the Gnoll (L74/49, 66, 77 et seq.), Anthony Hill of Plymouth Lodge (L74/102, 105, 109 et seq.), Henry Parnell, Secretary at War (L74/116), [William] Thompson (L74/119), Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot of Margam (L74/123, 136), Colonel Brotherton, commanding officer of the regular troops at Merthyr Tydfil (L74/125, 128, 138), Charles, second earl Grey, Prime Minister, declining to give Merthyr Tydfil its own MP, Aug. (L74/159), Sir Christopher Cole, MP (L74/180), and Rowland Hill, second viscount Hill, (L74/212). The correspondence includes letters relating to the New Mill turnpike road and the Bill relating to the co. Glam. roads, Jan. - April (L74/1, 4, 19-22 et seq.), the Glamorgan incendiaries, Jan. - April (L74/2, 20), including a shepherd of Mr Williams of Aberpergwm caught in the act of attempting to destroy a hay stack, April (L74/20), the Glamorgan militia, Jan. - Nov. (L74/2, 11, 14 et seq.), including its disbandment in the aftermath of its poor performance at Merthyr Tydfil, June - Nov. (L74/112, 119, 123 et seq.), the improvements to the port of Cardiff, Jan. (L74/4), a proposed market place and vestry room at Aberdare as schemes to create employment there Jan. - Feb. (L74/5, 9-10), reform and anti-truck meetings at Merthyr Tydfil, including a reference to David John, a Socinian [Unitarian] preacher, Feb. (L74/9), electoral reform, Feb. - Dec. (L74/10, 15-16, 20 et seq.), including the threat to reform from the riot at Merthyr Tydfil, June (L74/97), the new judges on the Welsh circuits to be Sir Nicholas Tindall and Judge Bolland, Feb. (L74/10), a proposed Church and Government newspaper at Cardiff, opposed to the Swansea-based The Cambrian, Feb. - Aug. (L74/14, 157, 163), the 1821 census 'scandalously taken at Merthyr [Tydfil] by a drunken Clerk of the Friendly Societies', and the 1831 census just taken, March (L74/15), and the population after the riot, July (L74/146), a proposed National School at Llantwit Major, March (L74/17), the Swansea Savings Bank and the Swansea Infirmary, April (L74/31), the living of Cardiff, the new curate being unacquanted with the Welsh language, July (L74/142), letters relating to the riots at Merthyr Tydfil, May - Dec. (L74/33-95, 97-128 et seq.), the formation of union lodges (L74/108, 118, 120 et seq.) and the opposition of the ironmasters to them (L74/164, 166, 168 et seq.), riots at Bristol, threats to burn Cardiff castle and arson of ricks at Llanmihangel (L74/201-202, 208), men returning to work at the Plymouth and Dowlais ironworks having renounced the union (L74/207-8, 210), with references to David Thomas (Dai Llaw Haearn), David Thomas (Dai Solomon), Lewis Lewis (Lewsyn yr Heliwr, 'if he is not hanged no man will ever be hanged again', L74/78), Richard Lewis (Dic Penderyn) and other Merthyr rioters, James Abbott the hairdresser, the principal witness against Dic Penderyn, and William Twiss, a union delegate from Bolton, and containing a list of the wounded men of the 93rd Regiment, June (L74/76), and references to Samuel Hill and Aaron Williams, executed in 1801 or 1802, 'not guilty of the twentieth part of the atrocities lately committed' (L74/145, cf, L48/47-9, 57).

Letters including letters from Anthony Hill of Plymouth Lodge (L78/1, 6), John B. Bruce, stipendiary magistrate of Merthyr Tydfil (L78/2-3, 5, 8 et seq.), John Nicholl of Merthyr-Mawr, MP (L78/4, 41, 49 et seq.), Joseph Snow, editor of the Merthyr Guardian (L78/10, 33, 97 et seq.), J[ohn] H[enry] Vivian of Singleton (L78/20), Henry Goulburn, Home Secretary (L78/22), Edward Price, dean of Gloucester (L78/28), Alfred Mallalieu, publisher of the Merthyr Guardian (L78/32, 107-8), Walter Coffin of Llandaf (L78/35, 40, 45 et seq.), Richard Morgan of Llandough Castle (L78/38, 55-6, 93), William Crawshay of Cyfarthfa (L78/39, 48, 81 et seq.), John, marquis of Bute (L78/48, 68), Henry John Grant of the Gnoll (L78/50, 53-4, 104 et seq.), Lord John Russell, Home Secretary (L78/67-8, 72, 153), William Rees of Llandovery, co. Carm., publisher of Yr Haul (L78/75), John Dixon of Cwm Gwrach, Cwm Nedd, a Socinian schoolteacher (L78/95), Henry A. Bruce, editor of the Merthyr Guardian (L78/109, 117), John Deering, Cardiff Castle architect (L78/118, 124), George Rice, fourth baron Dynevor (L78/140), [Charles Grey] Foreign Secretary, Lord Howick, Secretary at War (L78/141), Lord Palmerston, (L78/144), Josiah John Guest of Dowlais, MP (L78/150), and the directors of the Taff Vale Railway Co. (L78/166-7). The correspondence includes letters relating to the general election, Jan. - April (L78/1-7, 13, 34 et seq.), the Merthyr Guardian, Jan. - Nov. (L78/10-12, 14-15, 18-19 et seq.), peers and clergy condemned for supporting the Cambrian newspaper, despite its continuous attacks on Church and State, Aug. (L78/120, 125), the anticipated laying of the first stone of Cardiff Infirmary, March (L78/42), the proposed merger of the diocese of Llandaf with that of Bristol, March-May (L78/43, 47, 80), the livings of St Andrews, Gelli-gaer and Cardiff, March-May, (L78/44, 46-7), and the necessity of having a Welsh speaking curate, April-May (L78/44, 46/71), application by T. Redwood of Cae Wern near Neath on behalf of the newly established Neath Museum and Society for Promoting the Arts and Sciences, including reference to the bard Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg'), April (L78/61), the result of the first day's poll in the election for Devon, May (L78/66), Wales to be included in the circuit of the Commissioners of the Insolvent Court, May (L78/68), the living of Cowbridge, May (L78/73), Yr Haul, the Tory anglican monthly, to be sent to public houses in Aberdare, May (L78/74-5), the living of Aberdare, May (L78/77), proposed improvements to the pilotage regulations at Cardiff, including the pilotage of foreign vessels east of Lundy claimed by the port of Bristol, May - July (L78/70, 78-9, 83 et seq.), a proposed resident coroner in Merthyr Tydfil, July (L78/96), a Jamaican planter's opinion of the future of the island after the end of the period of negro apprenticeship in Aug. 1840, July (L78/98), the registration of conservative electors, July - Oct. (L78/104, 111, 113 et seq.), the Swansea regatta, Aug. (L78/112, 117), the passage of the Municipal Corporations Act, Aug. (L78/120, 128), Daniel O'Connell in Manchester, Sept. (L78/137), the Brecon races, Sept. (L78/142), the Barbados estates of Charles Alleyne, Oct. (L78/149), the recovery in the iron trade, including an order for 400 miles of rail road for America, Oct. (L78/149), Cowbridge hunt week, Nov. (L78/158), the first meeting of the county's Constitutional and Conservative Association at Bridgend, Nov. (L78/161), a bardic meeting at Abergavenny, Nov. (L78/161) and the burning of Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, Nov. (L78/168).

Letters including letters from John Nicholl of Merthyr Mawr, MP (L79/2, 74, 77 et seq.), Lord John Russell, Home Secretary (L79/4, 7-8, 26 et seq.), Bryan Holme, London newspaper agent (L79/5-6, 21, 25 et seq.), John Deering, architect at Cardiff Castle (L79/9, 44), John B. Bruce, stipendiary magistrate of Merthyr Tydfil (L79/10-11, 17, 30 et seq.), Henry John Grant of the Gnoll (L79/18, 23, 27), Henry Scale of Penydarren Ironworks (L79/29), Lord James Stuart (L79/35), William Crawshay of Cyfarthfa (L79/36, 51, 82 et seq.), William Williams of Aberpergwm (L79/37, 63, 79), Thomas Powell of The Gaer, near Newport, co. Mon., one of the directors of the Taff Vale Railway Co. (L79/41), Joseph Snow, proprietor of The Merthyr Guardian (L79/45), Josiah John Guest of Dowlais (L79/53, 111, 138), Colonel Richard Morgan of Llandough Castle, from Heidelberg, Germany (L79/78), Anthony Hill of Plymouth Lodge (L79/81, 95, 103 et seq.), Onesipherous Tyndall Bruce (L79/85), John, marquis of Bute (L79/102, 122), Sir Charles Christopher Pepys, Lord Cottenham, Lord Chancellor (L79/116), Lord Howick, Secretary at War (L79/118, 150, 161), Sir Charles Morgan of Tredegar, requesting the Glamorgan militia band for Christmas 'as usual', Dec. (L79/155) and Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot of Margam (L79/162). The correspondence includes letters relating to The Merthyr Guardian, Jan. - Sept. (L79/1-2, 5-6, 21 et seq.), the Glamorgan militia, Jan. - May (L79/3, 87), work at Cardiff Castle, Jan. - March (L79/9, 44), the Cardiff Visiting Society and the Cardiff Merciful Society, Jan - May (L79/14, 84), the living of Cardiff, Jan. - April (L79/16, 32, 68), a subscription to a publication of the poems of Thomas Miller, a Nottingham basket maker, 'equal to Shelley - let us hope superior in higher matters', Jan. (L79/17), proposed new Llantrisant to Park road, Feb. (L79/24, 63), the sale of the Aberdare Ironworks by auction, Feb. (L79/29), opposition to a renewal of the stipendiary magistrate at Merthyr Tydfil under the Police Magistrates Act, Feb. - Aug. (L79/30, 40, 53 et seq.), the Glamorganshire Canal Co. Bill and the Merthyr and Taff Vale Railway Bill in Parliament, March - May (L79/36, 38, 47 et seq.), a proposed church at Newbridge to serve a growing population and the new tinworks, 'which will certainly be the largest in the world', in p's Eglwysilan, Llantwit Fardre and Llanwynno, March (L79/46, 57), Merthyr Tydfil toll roads, April (L79/56), subscriptions to Edward Williams ('Taliesin ab Iolo')'s The Doom of Colyn Dolphyn, April (L79/57), the establishment of a Merthyr Tydfil savings bank, April (L79/60, 65), discharge of Sergeant William Lewis, on the staff of the Glamorgan militia, for being employed in a flogging in Cardiff gaol, April - June (L79/61-2, 66-7, 70 et seq.), including confusion with the Sergeant William Lewis at the capture of Lewsyn yr Heliwr, April - June (L79/70, 87, 91 et seq.), the Neath Valley to Merthyr section of a proposed Swansea - Brecon - Abergavenny road, May (L79/75, 79, 139), The Silurian, a Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil radical and anti-church newspaper, and its links with The Workman, May - Oct. (L79/86, 89, 123-124), a prospectus circulating for a radical Brecon printed newspaper supported by [Josiah John] Guest, to be called The Breconshire Iris, June (L79/89), the proposed re-establishment of the Cardiff Races, June (L79/99), William Manuel, a child prodigy able to read Greek and Hebrew, and several languages backwards, Aug. (L79/114), Cardiff Infirmary nearing completion, Sept. - Dec. (L79/121-122, 128, 144 et seq.), rumour that the next vacancy in a Welsh diocese would be filled by a Welshman, probably by Mr Williams, headmaster of Edinburgh High School, and former master of Ystradmeurig School, co. Card., Oct. (L79/126), formation of the Cardiff Poor Law Union Oct. (L79/127), application by John Wood to dedicate his map of Cardiff, one of a series of the principal towns of Wales, to Lord Bute, Oct. (L79/137, see also L81/124), a society for the preservation and rescuing from destruction surviving Welsh manuscripts, Nov. - Dec. (L79/142, 146, 149 et seq.), a proposed Dowlais to Brecon Railway, Nov. (L79/143, 146), [Josiah John] Guest's proposed market at Dowlais, threatening to ruin William Thomas of The Court's unfinished market at Merthyr Tydfil, Nov. (L79/145), last year's Cardiff Eisteddfod and the inexpediency of keeping up Welsh as a colloquial language, Nov. (L79/147, 149), a new anti-church newspaper, The Reporter, to be started in Merthyr Tydfil, Dec. (L79/153), application for a letter of introduction for Wiltshire Austin, vicar of Milford and former incumbent of Aberdare, for his return visit to Barbados, the planters having been furious at his warm espousal of the abolition of slavery, Dec. (L79/157) and an application by David Jenkin of Swansea for a subscription to The Glamorganshire Pedigrees, Dec. (L79/158).

Letters including letters from Constantine Henry Phipps, first marquis of Normanby, Home Secretary (L83/1, 8-9, 22 et seq.), Sir Charles Shaw, police commissioner for Manchester, Lancashire (L83/4, 11), J[ohn] H[enry] Vivian of the Gnoll (L83/5, 290), Thomas Dalton of Cardiff, deputy Clerk of the Peace (L83/10, 16, 66 et seq.), William Thomas of the Court, Merthyr Tydfil (L83/12, 213, 333), Rowland Fothergill of the Aberdare Iron Works (L83/14), William Crawshay of Cyfarthfa (L83/15, 240), John Bruce Pryce of Dyffryn Aberdare (L83/20, 28, 30 et seq.), Sir Benjamin Hall of Llanofer, co. Mon. (L83/29, 273, 287), Joseph Snow, former proprietor of The Merthyr Guardian (L83/36), John Edward Dibb, editor of The Merthyr Guardian (L83/44, 99, 109 et seq.), Thomas W. Booker of Velindra (L83/45, 83, 259 et seq.), E. J. Hutchins, MP (L83/61), Lord Adare of Dunraven Castle, MP for co. Glam. (L83/67, 176), Richard Hill, Lord Hill, at Cwrtyrala (L83/68), George Insole of Cardiff, coal-owner (L83/77), Henry Stuart, MP for Bedford (L83/81), J. W. Liddell, MP (L83/85), [Phillip Henry Stanhope], Lord Mahon, MP (L83/86), [John Home-Cutts, afterwards Egerton], Lord Alford, MP for Bedfordshire (L83/88), Captain Richard J. Eaton, MP for Cambridgeshire (L83/89), Eliot T. Yorke, MP for Cambridgeshire (L83/92), John Nicholl, MP for Cardiff boroughs (L83/94, 100, 152 et seq.), Charles M. R. Morgan of Ruperra, MP for Brecon borough (L83/95), Henry Scale of Aberaman House, Merthyr Tydfil (L83/96, 119, 135 et seq.), G. G. V. Harcourt, MP for Oxfordshire (L83/97), Captain Martin White of Jersey, hydrographer and nautical engineer (L83/102, 125, 161 et seq.), Colonel Richard Morgan on tour at Rome, and on return from Germany (L83/110, 464, 472), G. Rice Trevor, MP for co. Carm. (L83/112), Sir Charles Christopher Pepys, Lord Cottenham, Lord Chancellor (L83/132), G. W. Butland of London, Cardiff-born artist (L83/138, 215, 415 et seq.), Lord James Stuart, MP (L83/153, 382, 406-7 et seq.), [William] Thompson, MP for the city of London (L83/191, 198, 201), Henry John Grant of the Gnoll (L83/212, 343), Edward Copleston, bishop of Llandaf (L83/228), Lewis Lewis, Clerk to the Merthyr Tydfil magistrates (L83/233, 354, 363 et seq.), L. Box Stockdale, Cardiff police superintendant (L83/244), Alfred Mallalieu, co-proprietor of The Merthyr Guardian (L83/269, 283, 426-7 et seq.), Onesipherous Tyndall Bruce of Falkland Palace, Fife, Scotland (L83/270), Anthony Hill of Plymouth Lodge (L83/278-9, 291, 301 et seq.), Sir Thomas Phillips of Newport, co. Mon. (L83/289, 297, 300 et seq.), James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, baron Wharncliffe (L83/292), Sir Josiah John Guest of Dowlais, MP for Merthyr Tydfil (L83/300, 337), John Smeaton of London, harbour engineer (L83/368, 375, 380 et seq.), Capel Hanbury Leigh of Pontlotyn (L83/371), L[ewis] W[eston] Dillwyn of Sketty Hall (L83/442), James Berkeley of London, for Robert Stephenson, railway engineer (L83/450, 454) and Arthur Charles Luthman, co-proprietor and resident editor of The Merthyr Guardian (L83/451). The correspondence includes letters relating to Chartism, Jan. - Nov. (passim), including the state of Chartism in Manchester, Lancashire, Jan. - Dec. (L83/4, 11, 475), that Dr William Price is believed to be living at Havre, France, that William David and Ebenezer Davis of Newbridge, were last seen at Liverpool, Lancashire, and are believed to have sailed for America, Jan. (L83/7), a list of the leading Chartists in Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare, Jan. (L83/12), the condition of co. Mon, including a reference to Ribbonism in Co. Galway, Ireland, in 1820, Jan. (L83/24), references to Thomas Jones Philips, clerk to the Newport magistrates, who arrested John Frost, Feb. - Dec. (L83/65, 128, 136 et seq.), the return of Dr William Price to Newbridge, March (L83/83, 197), references to Chartists increasing in number and 'armed to the teeth' in Northumberland, co. Durham and Yorkshire, March (L83/96), a sale of the effects of Ebenezer Davies, secretary of the Newbridge Chartists, including a Chartist banner, bought by subscription and burnt on the spot, March (L83/98), newspaper cuttings relating to a Merthyr Tydfil public meeting to form a loyal address to Queen Victoria on her marriage and the insertion of a Chartist-inspired clause petitioning for the release of John Frost, Zephaniah Williams and William Jones, April (L83/135), newspaper cutting of the Welsh custom of decorating graves on Palm Sunday including those of the Newport Chartists, May (L83/173), reference to Thomas John, a noted Chartist of Merthyr Tydfil, June (L83/197), the return of William Davies of Dinas, active at Newport, from America, and a warrant and reward out against him, Aug. (L83/278), Chartists concealing their real views under the pretence of forming temperance societies, Sept. (L83/319), the state of Chartism at Maes-teg, Nov. - Dec. (L83/411, 471), the discovery of Thomas Giles, who led 200 Llanfabon Chartists to Newport on 4 Nov. 1839, Nov. - Dec. (L83/425, 430, 433-4), the establishment of a Chartist lodge at Cardiff, and an attempt to get a police spy into the meeting room, Dec. (L83/429, 435-8, 440-1 et seq.), 'it is very certain, I understand, that a great deal of information given in at Newport regarding arms, and regarding other alleged proceedings of the Chartists was the invention of the party who furnished it', Dec. (L83/438), the failure of a Chartist inspired run on a Swansea savings bank, Dec. (L83/442), a Christmas Day public meeting at Merthyr Tydfil for the release of Zephaniah Williams, John Frost and William and John William Jones, Dec. (L83/466-469, 477-478), and the arrest of Richard Jones, an unemployed weaver of Llanidloes, co. Mont., for selling Chartist publications and bailed by Dr William Price, and Thomas Morgan of Newbridge, carpenter, Dec. (L83/477). The correspondence also includes references to The Merthyr Guardian, Jan. - Dec. (L83/2, 6, 30 et seq.), March - May (L83/99, 109, 117 et seq.), the printed resolutions of a meeting of Conservatives for the removal of the newspaper to Cardiff from Merthyr Tydfil, April (L83/130), and a proposal to merge with The Monmouthshire Beacon, the Conservative paper in co. Mon., Nov. (L83/426), the Glamorgan Militia, Jan. - Nov. (L83/13, 33 et seq.), the Aberdare Canal Co., Jan. (L83/15), the new church at Cardiff, Jan. - Dec. (L83/19, 40, 47 et seq.), the Welsh Manuscript Society including the presidency on the death of Sir W. W. Wynne, Jan. (L83/29), progress in printing Liber Landavensis, March - Nov. (L83/78, 248, 424), and objections to incorporation into the Cymmrodorion Society and progress on the Lives of the Welsh Saints and Lewys Dwnn's Visitations, Aug (L83/273), the proposed rebuilding of the church of Llanilltud Nedd, Feb. - July (L83/54, 60, 223), Whitehall circular to prevent the diffusion of blasphemous and immoral doctrines by printed publications and by other illegal means endorsed 'Circular as to Socialism', Feb. (L83/55, 73), a proposed chapel of ease at Merthyr Tydfil, Feb. - July (L83/57, 62, 137 et seq.), the Cowbridge and Glamorgan Agricultural Society, March (L83/79), the Taff Vale Railway Bill, March - May (L83/80 et seq.), parliamentary election in Perth, March (L83/85), a new Wesleyan Methodist chapel at Hirwaun, March (L83/106, 114), Yr Udgorn Cymru / The Trumpet of Wales, a Chartist monthly, published at Merthyr Tydfil by David John and Morgan Williams, including reference to The Vindicator and The Southern Star, March - Dec. (L83/108, 119, 135-6 et seq.), the school at Llantrisant, May - July (L83/167, 263), detailed account of the Southampton Railway disaster outside Winchester, Hampshire, May (L83/181), a proposed permanent barracks near Cathays Park, Cardiff, and other establishments at Merthyr Tydfil and Swansea, co. Glam., Newport and Abergavenny, co. Mon., and Brecon, June (L83/192-3, 197-8, 201 et seq.), the Cardiff free school, June (L83/195), the new church at the Rhymney Iron Co. works, June (L83/199), the attempted assassination of Queen Victoria in June, including the possibility that Daniel O'Connell might try to lay it at the door of the King of Hanover and the Tories (L83/205, 218) and a notice of a public meeting to agree on a loyal address on the occasion (L83/213), The Advocate and Merthyr Free Press, an English-language Chartist journal, July - Dec. (L83/229, 237, 271 et seq.), including being referred to the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes with a view to its suppression, Oct. (L83/338, 347), a proposed infants' school at Cardiff, including a list of subscribers, July - Sept. (L83/239, 243, 327), a police magistrate at Merthyr Tydfil, July - Dec. (L83/240, 455, 459 et seq.

), the appointment to the vacant see of St David's, including a deputation of Liverpool Welsh to Lord Melbourne, the Prime Minister, that the next bishop be a Welshman, July (L83/250-251, 259, 261), the appointment of special constables following a complaint of tumults at the Cambrian Ironworks Aug. (L83/294), a subscription for improvements in Swansea, Aug. (L83/295), references to socialism, Sept. - Oct. (L83/297, 379), return of co. Mon. miners to work, the coal-masters having submitted to the miners' terms, Sept. - Oct. (L83/315, 400, 402), the suicide of Henry Rowles, manager of the Rhymney Ironworks, Oct. (L83/387, see also L18/199), printed advertisement from The Monmouthshire Merlin of the circulation figures of newspapers in south Wales, Oct. (L83/403), a proposed Aberdare valley branch railway from the Taff Vale Railway at Navigation House to the Rhigos colliery, Nov. (L83/405), application for an additional subscription to the improvements to the Neath to Merthyr Tydfil turnpike road at Dulais, Nov. (L83/421) and a proposed Glamorgan Vale Union Railway, Dec (L83/450).