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Papers relating to the Finance (1909-10) Act 1910. ABA 12/1-3 are mainly files of papers and loose papers relating to the valuation of land and the completion of land owners' returns on duties on the value of the land, including Forms 1 (Land: notice to make returns), 2 (Land: instructions for making returns on Form 4), 4 (Land: return to be made by an owner of land or any person receiving rent in respect of land), 7 (Land: claim for site value deductions), 35 (covering letter accompanying Form 36), 36 (Land: provisional valuation), 38 (Land: amended provisional valuation), and 172 (Land: undeveloped land duty), while ABA 12/4-5 are copy land owners' returns.

Loose vouchers, 1842 and 1902-1934, and an incomplete series of original bundles of numbered Breconshire estate vouchers, 1921-1938.

Insurance policies and related papers, 1850-1922, monthly Breconshire estate office pay sheets and supporting vouchers, 1921, and half-yearly accounts of arrears of Ystradgynlais rents, 1929-1934.

Title deeds, estate accounts and correspondence, papers relating mainly to the estate of Bishop John Hume and Lady Mary Hume, etc.

The papers comprise deeds and papers relating to the Morgan family and the succession at Tredegar, the genealogy of the Morgan family of Tredegar and related families, the personal papers of individual members of the Morgan family, particularly the antiquarian papers of Octavius Morgan, appointments to public office, particularly as lord lieutenant and custos rotulorum, and deeds and papers relating to families that members of the Morgan family were involved with, for example as executors of wills or trustees of settlements.

The series comprises a collection of deeds, each in its own individual presentation box. The deeds include a grant of free warren, 1616, a royal pardon to William Morgan of Dderw, 1644, appointments as lord lieutenant, custos rotulorum and advocate general, 1702-1933, grants of arms, 1779-1792, licences to take new surnames, 1787-1792, and grants of the rank of baronet, 1702, and viscount, 1905. -- The great seal is attached to the letters patent and most of the appointments. The armorial seals of Garter and Clarenceux kings of arms are attached to the grants of arms, and a broken and crudely repaired seal of the Duchy of Lancaster is attached to the 1761 appointment as steward of the Three Castles.

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.

Annual accounts of receipts and payments, including for agricultural and mineral estate rents, sales of timber and coppice woods, War Damage Commission payments, rates and taxes, tithe rent charge annuities, insurance, seawalls and drainage, repairs, woods and plantations, Ruperra Castle, and remittances to Lord Tredegar.