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Including Castleton tenancy agreements, 1882-1947 (AML 5/7).

The Tredegar estate appears to have made allotments available in a number of parishes, over and above the allotment gardens at Mendelgyf on the outskirts of Newport. The allotment leases have been arranged by parish, town, village or allotment garden: Aberbargod, Basaleg, Bedwas, Bedwellte, Caerphilly, Crosskeys, Machen, Marshfield, Belle Vue, Mendelgyf, Mynyddislwyn, Newport, Rhiwderyn, Risca, Rogerstone, Rumney, St Woolloos, Shirenewton and Wattsville.

Papers that have become detached from their original contexts, and gathered into files here for convenience.

Annual rentals, audit books and settled accounts of the Monmouthshire, Glamorgan and Breconshire holdings of the Tredegar estate. -- The rentals include rents and duties due in the Tredegar demense, in the parishes of Basaleg, Bedwas, Bedwellte, Betws, Caerleon, Coedcernyw, Henllys, Llanfihangel Llantarnam, Llangatwg, Llanofer, Machen, Malpas, Marshfield, Llanfihangel-y-fedw, Mynyddislwyn, Nash, Peterstone, Risca, Rumney, St Brides, St Mellons and St Woolloos, in Newport town, and in the manors of Caldicot Westend, Llanfaches, Llanfihangel, Magor, Newchurch & Kevengola, Roggiet & Ifton, and Undy, chief rents of the manors of Basaleg, Castle Arnold, Fitz John de la Moor, Greenfield, Llanfair, Peterstone, Redcastle, Sutton and Youlton, and rents due from the tithe barns of Betws, Malpas, Marshfield, Newport, Peterstone, Rumney and St Mellons, all in Monmouthshire, rents in the parishes of Cardiff, Gelli-gaer, Llanisien, Llysfaen, Roath and Whitchurch in Glamorgan, and in the parishes of Brecon, Bronllys, Cantref, Defynnog, Faenor, Garthbrengi, Glasbury, Llandyfaelog, Llandyfalle, Llanddew, Llanfihangel Nant Bran, Llanfilo, Llansbyddyd, Llyswen, Penderyn, St Davids, St John Evangelist, Trecastle, Ystradfellte, and Ystradgynlais, chief rents and cymortha in the manor of Brecon (in Builth, Cantref, Defynnog, Glyntawe, Hay, Llanddeti, Llangasty [Tal-y-llyn], Llansanffraid[-ar-Wysg], Llywel, Merthyr, Modrydd, Penderyn, Ystradfellte, and in the Hallmote manor) and Penderyn and cymortha in Ystradfellte, all in Breconshire, and chief rents in Herefordshire. -- The 1677 rental includes lands purchased from the executors and trustees of Edward Lewis of the Van, esq., dec., in the manors of Caldicot Westend, Llanfaches, Llanfihangel, Magor, Newchurch & 'Kevengola', Roggiet & Ifton, Shirenewton, and Undy, all in Monmouthshire, and in Cardiff, Llanisien, Llys-faen, Roath, Splott and Whitchurch, and the manors of Roath Kensham and 'Madockes feild', all in Glamorgan (ff. 141-146). -- The rentals also include lands in the parishes of Canton, Cardiff and Roath purchased from Mr Pilkinton and held from the Earl of Pembroke for his and his wife's lives (1677-1684), lands in the parishes of Basaleg, St Woolloos, St Brides and Marshfield settled in trust by Rowland Morgan to raise £20 for a schoolmaster and £14 for four poor people in p. Basaleg (1699-1730), and a tenement in the parish of Machen bought to pay a legacy left by Katherine Morgan of £5 a year for the poor of the parish of Basaleg (1730). -- There are numerous memoranda of leases agreed to and rents received throughout the volumes. -- AMA 1/5-37 are mainly booklets containing c.10 ff of text, being the accounts (1701-1732) of James Pratt with John Morgan, esq. (Dec. 1700-March 1720), William Morgan, esq. (Sir William Morgan after 1724) (March 1720-April 1731), and the executors of the said Sir William Morgan (April 1731-July 1732). The accounts to John Morgan, 1700-1720, are for the year beginning and ending 24 Dec. The first full account to William Morgan (AMA 1/26) is for the fifteen months 24 Dec. 1720-24 March 1721/2. Henceforth, 1721-1731, the accounting year begins and ends 25 March. The final account in this part of the series (AMA 1/37) covers the sixteen and a half months March 1731-July 1732, including the death of Sir William Morgan and an account to his executors. -- At the end of the series are a number of rentals and rent ledgers that cannot be assigned to their appropriate estate.

The Monmouthshire town estate was created as a separate department with its own audit books in 1919. For all that, the first volume in the present series (AMA 8/1) only starts in September 1925. However, this may well be the estate's first dedicated collection book, as there is no balance brought forward from a previous book. Conversely, the last volume of the present series (AMA 8/13) is clearly not the last in the series, as in 1953 a balance of £537 16s. 4d. was 'carried forward to new collection book, folio 13'. This 'new' book was probably still in use in 1956 when the estate was sold to the Eagle Star insurance company, and may well have passed to the buyers.

Drafts and copies of letters, mainly written by Henry Brown (1797-1806), Frederick Justice (1832-1862) and Colonel Frederick Justice (1862-1872). The letters relate initially to the Tredegar estate, and later to the post-1806 reorganisation Monmouthshire estate, with occasional family and social references. Henry Brown's letters were written to Sir Charles Morgan, including while Morgan was at London and Ealing. AMC 1/10-11 were in use at the same time, 1832-1847, presumably for the convenience of the agent and his clerk.

Plan books, containing memoranda and plans of building plots in the TWC estate.

The main series of letters received by the Tredegar estate. The letters were in binders variously intitled 'Mon letters <start date> to <end date>' and 'Monmouthshire and general letters', which despite their titles included letters relating to properties and interests in Glamorgan and Breconshire as well as Monmouthshire. The letters are addressed to J. G. Palling (1879-1881), F. J. Justice (1880-1902), Heber P. Williams (1902-) at the Tredegar estate office, Newport. -- The letters include a number of telegrams, accounts and receipts, as well as notices of assignments of leases and mortgages. (For a series of notices, 1900-1906, see AEC 4). The letters include letters from other Tredegar estate officers (particularly the Breconshire agent, the mineral estate agent and the London solicitor), tenants, prospective tenants, local authorities, other local landowners and estates, commercial concerns and local organisations. The commercial concerns include railway companies, collieries, ironworks, brick manufacturers, wholesalers, solicitors, timber merchants, architects and land surveyors. There are also a few letters to and from Lord Tredegar and Frederic C. Morgan of Ruperra Castle. -- The local organisations and interests are extremely varied, and the letters include applications and receipts for subscriptions and donations. The March-July 1880 letters (AEC 2/2) for example include the Bedwellte Agricultural Society (12, 14), Prince Llewellyn Lodge of Philanthropie, Blaenafon (116), Cardiff Show (103), Cardiff & Penarth Regatta (11), Chepstow Farmers' Club (143), Glamorganshire General Agricultural Society (115), Gloucestershire Agricultural Society (103), a brass band being formed in the parish of Llanfihangel Crucornau (116), Llanvetherine Ploughing Society (143), Magor Farmers' Association (113), Monmouthshire & Caerleon Antiquarian Society (13), the 1st & 2nd Monmouthshire Rifle Volunteers (116, 123), the mayor of Newport's fund relief of the distressed families of the sufferers of the late colliery explosion (9), Pontypool Football Club (145), G & H Batteries of the 1st Worcestershire Artillery Volunteer Corps, headquartered at Pontypool (3), St Mellons District Annual Ploughing Match (144) and the Usk Rifle Corps (123). -- The letters within each binder are generally in chronological order of the date of writing, each letter within each binder being numbered and indexed in the index at the front of each binder. However some letters have earlier letters in the same correspondence grouped with them; the dates of these letters, which can be months earlier, are not taken into consideration in the covering dates of the binders. There are gaps in the numbering sequence within some of the files, and scraps of paper found on the spikes of the original binders are evidence that some letters were torn out, probably being required in the continuing management of the estate. Very occasionally a note was added to the file, or endorsed on an adjacent letter, as to what had happened to the extracted letter. Some letters were later returned to the file, pinned to adjacent letters. Almost every binder has a few letters at the back, out of date order. The letters in the binder covering Jan.-Feb. 1902 (AEC 2/77) are the most out of order, probably due to the upheaval caused by the death of Colonel Justice. -- From July 1902, ring binders with alphabetical dividers were used instead of spiked binders. The letters are not numbered and indexed, merely filed in roughly alphabetical order. -- The original binders and ring binders were rusty and dirty, and have been discarded. The letters from each binder have been kept together as a file.

Audit books of the Dderw, Palleg and Tredegar estates in Breconshire, and the successor post-1806 Breconshire estate.
The books contain the settled accounts (the 'audits') of the Breconshire and Dderw estates. The audit books generally consist of fair copies of the rental and of any other accounts for which the agent was responsible, generally including casual profits and promiscuous payments. On most estates these audited accounts between the agent and the owner were loosely called rentals; on the Tredegar estate they were called audit books. -- There are three series of audit books: the main series, 1762-1927 (ABA 1), a series of copy audit books, 1872-1915 (ABA 2), and rough copy audit books, 1887-1915 (ABA 3). Two copies of the audit books were prepared during the period 1868-1889, one for the estate and one for the agent. Some of the volumes are inscribed either 'Mr Carlisle' or 'Mr Thomas', Lord Tredegar's auditor and agent respectively. The estate's copies are in ABA 1, while the agent's duplicates form series ABA 2, except for the period 1873-1886, where the agent's copies are in the main series at ABA 1/14, 16 and 18, in place of missing volumes. Starting in 1890, when only one copy of the audit was made, the remaining space in both ABA 1/19 and 20, the duplicate books started in 1887, was used before starting a new volume. Thus ABA 1/20 contains the audits for 1887-1891, and ABA 1/19 the audits for 1887-1889 and 1892-1893. -- The series of settled accounts ends in 1915 with ABA 1/26, although there were presumably further volumes, as ABA 1/26 also contains summaries of various payments, 1921-1927. -- In 1847 the rental consists of properties in the parishes of Cantref, Defynnog, Y Faenor, Garthbrengi, Hay, Llandyfalle, Llan-ddew, Llandyfaelog, Llanfihangel Nant Brân, Llanfilo, Llanhamlach, Llansbyddyd, Llys-wen, Merthyr Cynog, Penderyn, St David, St John the Evangelist and Ystradfellte, tithes in the parishes of St John the Evangelist and St Mary, the Palleg estate in the parish of Ystradgynlais. By 1867, rents in the parishes of Llandeilo'r-fân, Llanfihangel Fechan, Glasbury, Llywel and Ystradgynlais are included, as are ground rents in Ystradgynlais and Brecon, and tithes in Ystradfellte.

The series comprises rent ledgers 'B', containing ledger accounts relating to rents in the parishes of Brecon St David and St John. Most of the properties were sold in 1915, with the remaining properties transferred to 'Ledger P' in 1923.

Cash books, being day books of payments and receipts.
The cash book account ends on 15 July 1940, when the balance of £32 16s. 3d. is transferred to "J. F. Storrar's agency", and the book is closed on 1 Oct. 1940 when the same sum is transferred to the agricultural estate account with the National Provincial Bank, Newport. -- ABA 9/5 and 9/7 are draft cash books covering the period 1894-1921.

Copies of Isaac Davies of Brecon's bills numbered 1-10, 12-70, for surveying work in the Breconshire estate, and summaries of these and other bills.

Letters received by the Breconshire estate office, relating to the administration of the estate. These include a number of original files of letters, mainly of letters from J. E. W. Rider, Tredegar's London solicitor, 1911-1915, and letters to J. H. Rosser, the Breconshire estate agent, and his draft replies, 1927-1930. However, most of the letters were found loose, including further letters from Rider and draft letters of Rosser.

Leases and other papers relating to leasehold properties in the parish of Ystradgynlais, Breconshire.

Ledgers of tithe rent charge accounts. ABT 2/1-2 and 2/4-5 contain receipt accounts. The accounts in ABT 2/1 are carried forward from an 'old ledger book' (eg, fo. 19, Philip Davies, Pwllycalch, from 'O.L.B. 178'). The accounts are carried from 2/1 to 2/2 to 2/4. Most of the properties seem to have been sold during the lifetime of ABT 2/4 (1906-36). The twelve accounts in ABT 2/5 appear to have been kept separate from the main series of tithe ledger accounts; eleven were sold as of 29 Sept. 1921, and the twelfth as from 2 Feb. 1922. ABT 2/3 contains payment accounts, but has been kept in this series for convenience.

Rentals of mixed Tredegar, Ruperra and Friars rents.