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The cash books of the Monmouthshire, Monmouthshire agricultural and Monmouthshire town estates. The cash books provide balanced accounts of income and expenditure, compiled from the collection books, rent books and ledgers. They provide a can detailed breakdown of individual items of payment and receipt. -- AMA 9/1 may be the first cash book to have been used by the Monmouthshire estate, as there is no entry for a balance carried forward from a previous book. There is a gap of four months between AMA 9/1 and 2, perhaps caused by a failure to write up the missing months from a draft cash book or from less formal records, as a balance is brought forward to AMA 9/2. Besides this gap, and a lost volume covering July 1937-June 1943 (between AMA 9/26 and 9/27), the series runs through a change of title in 1920 from the Monmouthshire estate to the Monmouthshire agricultural estate, until 31 Dec. 1958. The following day the balance of £3344 18s. was carried forward to the Monmouthshire town estate cash book, representing the winding up of the agricultural estate. -- The covers and spines of AMA 9/26-29 are stamped no's 4, 6-8 respectively, confirming the loss of the July 1937-June 1943 volume, and perhaps suggesting that AMA 9/23 (April 1917-March 1922) was the earliest volume to hand when the decision was made to start numbering the volumes. -- The Monmouthshire town estate was created by its separation from the Monmouthshire estate. From the start, when a balance of £730 2s. 5d. was forwarded on 1 Jan. 1920 from Newport cash book No. 6 (ANA 3/3) to Monmouthshire town cash book No. 1 (AMA 9/30), the town cash books (AMA 9/30-34, stamped 1-5) were used jointly by the Monmouthshire town and Newport estates, with separate columns for "Newport" and "Mon". From 1 Jan. 1943, when a balance of £305 18s. 3d. was transferred from the Glamorgan town account, there is a third column, "Glam", and the last cash book in the present series, 1947-1956 (AMA 9/34), is intitled simply the Town cash book. There was a further volume, as a balance of £5,876 15s. 2d. was forwarded from the old to the new cash book on 1 Jan. 1957, and it would have been to this missing book that the balance of the Monmouthshire agricultural estate was carried on 1 Jan. 1959, bringing all the surviving estates of the Trdegar estate into the same book. However, this book is not now found, and may have been transferred to the Eagle Star insurance company on the sale of the estate.

The collection books of the post-1802 Monmouthshire estate and the successor Monmouthshire agricultural estate.

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.

Court books and copies of court books of various Monmouthshire manors, containing copies of notices, presentments, surrenders and admissions.

Papers, mainly presentments, relating to various Monmouthshire manors.

Rental surveys, rentals and related accounts relating to chief rents, cymortha, heriots, fines and other manorial income and expenditure.

The series comprises leases relating to minerals other than iron and coal; these are held at Tredegar AML 10.