- L93/1-108.
- File
- 1760-1792.
Part of Bute Estate Records,
Letters mainly to Thomas Edwards, the Glamorgan steward, including from Lady Alice Windsor (L93/2-3, 12), Lord Mountstuart (L93/4-5, 10, 13-23 et seq.), Thomas Browne of London, estate secretary (L93/7, 24, 26 et seq.), Thomas Coutts, banker, (L93/34), Sir Herbert Mackworth (L93/40, 55, 58-9 et seq.), Robert Stephenson of Plawsworth, co. Durham, steward (L93/86, 90, 92-4), and Sir William Musgrave (L93/98), together with some draft replies (L93/1, 8, 11 et seq.). The letters include letters relating to the Glamorgan militia, Jan. 1776 - May 1783 (L93/4, 13, 41-4 et seq.), Lord Mountstuart rumoured to depart for Spain as ambassador to Madrid, May 1776 - May 1783 (L93/10, 95, 99), opinion that Lady Windsor will never consent to purchase anything in Wales, June 1776 (L93/14), Cardiff Castle, including Lord Pembroke insisting that Cardiff borough includes the castle which is denied by Lord Mountstuart, Oct. 1776 - Oct. 1777 (L93/15, 20, 23 et seq.), straggling seamen to be apprehended for service in the king's Navy, Nov. 1776 (L93/16), Lord Mountstuart's order that no new burgesses are to be made in the boroughs of Cardiff, Cowbridge and Llantrisant, April 1777 (L93/21), the livings of p's Neath, Merthyr Tydfil, Gelli-gaer and Llanmaes offered for sale by Thomas Edwards, May - June 1777 (L93/25, 29), a violent spirit raised among the Presbyterians against enclosing the waste in Glynrondda, Sept. 1777 (L93/35), appointment of Robert Stephenson as manager of the Mountstuart estates in Wales and the north of England, Aug. - Oct. 1778 (L93/86, 89), reports on the estate in north Glamorgan, including 'there cannot at present be a more neglected estate, or wretched set of tenants, with miserable habitations, indeed, to dwell in', Sept. 1779 (L93/90), and an attack on letting on leases for lives or 99 years (L93/91), the borough of Cardiff, including Jane Herbert's charity school and non-resident aldermen, May 1783 (L93/95, 99-100), the election of aldermen to the borough of Llantrisant, May 1783 (L93/97) and a Scottish factor or doer recommended to be made agent of the Welsh estates 'and if he understands Erse it will facilitate his learning Welsh', May 1783 (L93/98).