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Although the lease books do not constitute an extensive series of estate records, they can provide some interesting information, including details of the lease, lessee (including successive lessees of the same property), the property concerned (often described in detail), the term of the lease and rents. With the exception of AGL 1/5, the entries in these volumes are frequently annotated and altered. There are references to ledgers, possibly the series of rent ledgers AGD 1-2.

Unbound files of audit sheets of the Tredegar Town estate, for the half-years ending Midsummer and Christmas.

Audit books, being the annual accounts of the estate agents, G. P. Mitchell Jones (1911-1918), Leonard Foster Stedman (1919-1937), John Ireland Storrar (1938-1940), with Lord Tredegar (1911-1940) and the executors of Courtenay, viscount Tredegar (1934-1936). For the period 1941-1948, the account is simply headed 'Private account'. The annual account includes accounts of receipts and expenditure relating to Coutts & Co., the Park Mile Railway, subscriptions, donations and pensions, repairs to mansion, park and lands in hand, establishment expences, gardens, hunt stables, carriage stables, deer park and game, kennels, stud farm, and the agricultural show, as well as promiscuous receipts and miscellaneous payments. -- A file of bank statements of Lord Tredegar's private account with the National Provincial Bank, 1951-1960, has been added to this series for convenience.

Daybooks of the cost of materials and labour in repairs carried out by the estate works, generally totalled at the end of each month. The accounts include a reference to the ledger account to which the individual items were assigned in the ledgers in ADY 1, initially mainly Miscellaneous Repairs and Tredegar House Repairs, but also including the accounts of other properties, including Alma Cottage and Craig-yr-haul. In later volumes the reference is reduced to ledger number and folio. A volume covering the period Nov. 1920-Sept. 1925 is missing between between ADY 3/1, 'Day book no. 1', and ADY 3/2, 'Day book 3'. ADY 3/2-3 are stamped 'Tredegar estate works, Rhiwderin'. The series ends with the July 1949 total.

These papers are unrelated to the Tredegar estate, having been accumulated by members of the Morgan family of Tredegar and their agents in the course of their public or private lives, or otherwise strayed into the Tredegar estate records. The bulk of the strays are client files of Henry F. W. Harries, the Brecon solicitor who acted as the agent for Tredegar's Breconshire estate (P 5/6). These files probably became mixed with the Tredegar material on the final dispersal of the Breconshire estate and the removal of the Breconshire estate records to Newport. Six other groups also all come from within the sphere of influence of the Tredegar estate, comprising the Monmouthshire commission of sewers, 1660-1792 (P 5/8), Newport assessments, 1700-1753 (P 5/7), Newport turnpike trust records, 1759-1880 (P 5/1), charity papers, 1772-1959 (P 5/2), St Woolloos rate book, 1875 (P 5/4), and Christchurch Highway Board letters received, 1880-1890 (P 5/5). The three files of Sussex vouchers, 1775-1776 (P 5/3), relate to an estate in the trusteeship of members of the Morgan family.

Marriage settlements of William Morgan and Dame Elizabeth Dayrell, lands in Cambridgeshire, Oxfordshire, Monmouthshire and Glamorgan, including the estate of her late brother Edward Lewis of Van in Glamorgan, Breconshire and Monmouthshire.

The main series of Monmouthshire audit books, covering the period from the reorganisation of the various Tredegar estate collections into county estates in 1802, to the sale of the estate in 1957. The series contains the audit books of the Monmouthshire estate, 1802-1918, and the Monmouthshire agricultural estate, 1919-1957. -- The Newport Ground Rents are included until 1887 (AMA 5/13), after which they are separated out to form a new series in 1888 (ANA 5). The audit book for 1915-1916 appears not to have survived. In 1919 the Monmouthshire estate was divided, the Monmouthshire town estate (AMA 6) being separated from what now became the Monmouthshire agricultural estate. The agricultural estate was very much the continuation of the Monmouthshire estate, with premises transferred to the 'Town Rents Department' (the Monmouthshire town estate) actually listed in the 1919 agricultural estate audit, although their rents are only accounted for in terms of decrease from the previous year's Monmouthshire estate rent income. The rent income of the undivided estate was £29,399 in 1918, as compared to the agricultural estate's £23,564 in 1919. Even in 1920, when the transferred premises cease to be listed, all the parishes represented in 1918 continue to be listed. However, Rhiwderyn disappears after 1919 (to AMA 6/1, fo. 84), Shirenewton and Llanfair Cilgedin disappear after 1920, there is no mention of Ifton (under Roggiet in AMA 5/26) after 1922, Caerleon disappears after 1923, Goldcliff appears in 1929, Peterstone-super-montem disappears after 1941, Malpas after 1942 and Caer-went after 1950, and Honeywood appears in 1951. From 1921 onwards 'School lands' are described as 'Rowland Morgan's [or Morgan] charity lands'; they disappear after 1938. -- The Glamorgan agricultural estate is incorporated into the Monmouthshire agricultural estate audit in 1939 (from AGR 3/26 to AMA 5/35), adding rents in the parishes of Eglwysilan, Gelli-gaer, Llanedern, Llanfihangel-y-fedw, Llanisien, Llanwynno, Llys-faen, Peterston-super-montem, Rhyd-y-gwern, Rhydri and Whitchurch; Rhydri disappears from the 'Summary' after 1949, but the Tredegar premises in that parish appear to have been sold in 1941 or earlier (see AMA 5/36, pp. 27 and 195). From 1939 the trend is towards amalgamating the rentals, with the Monmouthshire agricultural rents incorporating the Brecon rents in 1940, the mineral estate in 1949. -- The agricultural estate audit books/rentals for 1944-1948 are missing. AMA 5/37 and AMA 5/38 do not contain details of expenditure and annual balances. They are entitled 'Agricultural estate rentals'. The total income from the agricultural and mineral estate in 1957 was £55,681. -- There is a duplicate series of audit books for the years 1832-1890 (AMA 5/39-48), which run parallel to AMA 5/3-13, apart from some variation in the 'Remarks' column. AMA 5/9-14 have the auditor's name (Mr Carlisle) written at the very beginning of each volume, while AMA 5/40-41 and AMA 5/44-48 have the agent's name (Frederick Justice). The duplicate series of audit books was discontinued after 1890, with a single run of Monmouthshire audit books from 1891 onwards, at much the same time as Tredegar's Newport, Breconshiere and Glamorgan estates were discontinuing their duplicate audit books. The last volume of the duplicate series, covering 1888-1890, was taken up again in 1893 and used as the audit book for 1893-1894; for the sake of convenience this volume has been listed at AMA 5/15 with the main series of audit books rather than with the duplicates. -- The extent given for each volume is taken from the page or folio number on which the text ends, eg, AMA 5/4 is given as 618 pp., and AMA 5/5 as 286 ff. However this may not be a true reflection of the extent of the volume in every case, as AMA 5/34-35 at least contain a mixture of page and folio numbers. AMA 5/34 contains ff. 1-36, pp. 37-84, ff. 85-120, pp. 121-168, ff. 169-204, pp. 205-254.

The rent ledgers devote a single page or a single opening to each tenant, giving name, a description of the holding concerned together with its location, the rents due and paid, and after 1846, sometimes a reference to the appropriate page of the rental survey. In the earlier volumes, rents may be further broken down, distinguishing rent proper from land and property tax, and adding to or deducting from the rent due as property is added to or deducted from the holding. -- At any one time, a group of rental ledgers were in use, with new groups of books started in 1787, 1806, 1818, 1846, 1856, 1885-87, 1900-1904, and 1912-1914. The earliest groups of Monmouthshire estate rent ledgers, formerly MSS 365-384 (1779-1847), are briefly listed in the Preliminary Schedule of the Tredegar Park Muniments, pp. 3640-3711. From 1846, the books within each concurrent group are distinguished by letters of the alphabet: 1846, A-E; 1856, A-G (two G's); 1885-87, A-H; 1900-1904, A-D, E (two), J (two), K, T; and 1912-1914, A-B, D, F, J, Z. A few books get out of synch with the rest of the group, for example, the contents of successive volumes D are dated 1846-1856, 1856-1877, 1878-1896, 1897-1911, 1913-1927. The letter by which each volume is identified on its spine is given in the list below. -- Within each ledger, properties within a single parish tend to be listed together, although properties within a single parish may be split between several of the concurrent volumes. The majority of entries have a back reference to the 'Old Ledger' folio number, and a forward reference to the 'New Ledger'. Generally a property will descend from, for example, one ledger 'A' to the next ledger 'A'; this is especially true between 1846 and 1900, but before and after that period a ledger may have entries forwarded from several previous volumes, and may contribute entries to several successor volumes. However, many properties have a direct descent, as for example, Penyrheol Farm in the parish of Rumney, which descends through each ledger 'A' in turn from 1846 (AMA 10/23, fo. 35, with a back reference to 'OL, fo. 112', viz., AMA 10/20), to 1956, when the freehold was sold (AMA 10/67, fo. 84). -- The arrears accounts for 1898-1903 (AMA 10/45) and 1913-1932 (AMA 10/58) and a number of ledgers of weekly and monthly rents (AMA 10/56-57, 10/59) have been included in this series for convenience.