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An original bundle of 18 century leases, and a collection of 20 century notices to quit.

Leases and other papers relating to leasehold properties in the town of Brecon and in the parishes of Brecon St David, Brecon St John the Evangelist and Brecon St Mary.

ABO 1/1 is a Breconeshire estate agent's account and memorandum book, 1819-1838. ABO 1/2 is a Brecon estate office memorandum book, 1880-1896. ABO 1/3-4 are memorandum books relating to audits and repairs on the Breconshire estate, 1886-1900 and 1910-11 respectively.

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.

A tithe collection book, recording the details of tithes collected at the tithes audit, forwarded to the cash books.

Books of counterfoils of demands for tithes, the counterfoil being ticked to denote that the tithe had been received. ABT 5/1 comprises a book of counterfoils of demands for tithes due on holdings in the parish of Ystradgynlais, 1912-15. ABT 5/2 also relates to holdings in the parish of Ystradgynlais, 1914-15. All but two of the counterfoils are dated 11 Feb. 1914, with one deleted counterfoil dated 7 June 1915, and one counterfoil dated 17 Sept. 1915. ABT 5/3 is a book of counterfoils of demands for tithes due on holdings in the parishes of St John and St Mary, 1926-28. ABT 5/4-5 are books of counterfoils of demands for tithes due on holdings in Breconshire, 1935-36 and 1936-37.

Account books of moneys received and paid in respect of Tredegar house, gardens and farm. The earlier volumes, 1771-1792 (ADT 2/1-2), are settled accounts between the house stewards and their master. ADT 2/3, weekly household expenditure, 1792-1796, may have contributed to a successor volume of settled accounts, since lost. -- There are only two volumes for the nineteenth century, a butcher's account, 1828-1856 (ADT 2/4), and a household payments account, 1846-1867 (ADT 2/5). -- After a break in the surviving accounts, the series re-starts on 22 May 1913 (ADT 2/6), presumably when Courtenay Charles Evan Morgan, third baron Tredegar, succeeded to the estate on the death of Godfrey Charles, viscount Tredegar. Receipts are almost entirely in the form of moneys received from the estate office. In ADT 2/6, expenditure is divided into household, sundry subscriptions and donations, and miscellaneous outgoings, with a column for gardens (later gardens and kennels) added in March 1915. In ADT 2/7, the miscellaneous column is replaced by columns for the garden, the kennels and hunt, the garage, and the stable, reflecting the interests of Lord Tredegar. In ADT 2/8, the garden and kennels and hunt columns are not used, except when the latter is used for a racing account, Sept. 1923-June 1924. In ADT 2/9, a bassett hounds account starts in April 1928 and runs to the end of the volume, and a 'Non. Evan Morgan's pigeon a/c' runs for the period Feb.-Dec. 1931. In ADT 2/10 (1933-37), the bassett hound account is idle until it is deleted at the end of 1933, and the books are balanced and settled on 3 May 1934 (on the death of Courtenay Charles Evan Morgan), including a loose paper containing the outstanding accounts on the private secretary's account on 3 May 1934. A bird account is started in Aug. 1934, and in Oct. 1934 the columns are reorganized, giving columns headed household, subscriptions and donations, gardens and birds, poultry farm, garage, and farm and game. This latter arrangement continues into ADT 2/11, except that the gardens and birds account is split into separate accounts, zoo (dead from March 1942) and gardens. A column for coal is added in July 1938. Household expenditure includes servants' and outside men's wages, petty cash, the butcher, chauffeur, chemist, fishmonger, grocery and pork butcher books, and quarterly disbursements, as well as accounts for malt and hops, stationery, game, papers, kitchen utensils, fruit, carpet, livery, cricket requisites, oil, whiskey, candles, (cloths, dusters and sheets), and brewing duty. In addition, a number of items for Ruperra were entered on 29 July 1913. The subscriptions and donations include a wide variety of institutions and events, including for example in May-June 1913, Abertyssog Hospital eisteddfod, Ancient Druids conference fund, All Saints Cricket Club, Bargoed Lunacy Fund, Dr Barnardo Home, Basaleg Tennis Club, Bath & West Show, Caer-went Horticultural Society, Canton Baptist Cricket Club, Cardiff Jubilee Nurse, Cardiff Port [Poor?] Cripple Society, Llandaf Diocese Girls Friendly [Society], Maendy Emanual Men's Institute, Mamheilad Colliery Band, Newport Dog Show, Newport RFC cadets, Pontllanfraith Sports and Pontypridd Chapel Bazaar. Evan Frederic Morgan, second viscount, died in 1949, and to save creating a 1950 account the entries dated 4-11 Jan. 1950 were treated as 31 Dec. 1949.

Cash books relating to receipts and expenditure at Tredegar house and park. Expenditure includes servants' wages, pensions, stipends, bills for the stud farm, the carriage stables, the deer park and game, and the kennels, fox damage, Lord Tredegar's postal orders, smiths, chemists, saddlers, ironmongers, grocers, butchers, builders suppliers and stationers bills, subscriptions, Christmas prizes, funerals of pensioners, Catherine Morgan's charity, and agricultural show expences. Receipts are generally supplied by cheque, but also include GWR tolls for use of the Park Mile Railway, balances brought forward from the sale of hides account, stud fees and sales of horses off the stud farm, prizes given towards the Bedwellty Show, the Tredegar Show and the Welsh National Show, and show catalogues sold. The account appears to have been a new account on 2 Jan. 1906, when the first book opens with a cheque for £5,000. The account closed on 3 March 1960 with the transfer of £23-2-2 to Coutts & Co. to the credit of Lord Tredegar's external account.

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.

Ledgers of materials, wages and other expences of repairs carried out by the estate works, arranged under properties. The items in the accounts are forwarded from the Rhiwderyn estate works daybooks (ADY 3). Many of the minor accounts remain in the same volume for the life of the volumes, but the 'Miscellaneous Rep[air]s' account is forwarded from ADY 1/2 (July 1914-Aug. 1915) to ADY 1/3 (Aug. 1915-Nov. 1918) to ADY 1/4 (Dec. 1918-June 1921) to ADY 1/5 (July 1921-July 1924) to ADY 1/6 (Aug. 1924-May 1927), which is probably a good indication of when the successive volumes were started. The pages beyond the last page of miscellaneous repairs for May 1927 have been torn out of the volume, presumably signalling either the start of a new volume that is now lost. ADY 1/2-6 were originally numbered 1-5. Ledgers 6-8 appear to be lost. ADY 1/8 is ledger no. 9, covering the years 1946-1953. -- ADY 1/7 is intitled 'Ledger. Glam. 1', and the fly-leaf is stamped 'Tredegar estate works, Rhiwderin'. This book also contains ledger accounts of wages and materials, apparently expended on properties belonging to the estate. Most of the accounts include an element '20% overhead charges', perhaps suggesting that the work was done by estate workers. A number of the accounts are continued in Monmouthshire volumes, eg, 'Forward to 8/260' (fo. 213, A. G. Ellis, Cold Cefn Cottage, Lower Machen), 'Folio Mon. 7/87' (fo. 228, T. Llewellyn, Tai Mawr, Lisvane) and 'Mon. folio 7/168' (fo. 253, W. T. Ackland, Ruperra Park Wall Cottage), presumably referring to the lost volumes.

Daybooks containing an account of materials arriving at the Tredegar estate works, Rhiwderyn. From the rear of ADY 2/1 is an account of 69 lots of sawn oak received from the mill, 1914-(?). ADY 2/2 is closed with the endorsement 'End of account. See "Materials Inward" book, no. 2'.

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.

Letter books containing carbon copies of the out-going letters of A. Clifford Harding (1919-1942) of the Clerk of Works Department, based at the Tredegar estate works, Rhiwderyn, Monmouthshire. Many of the letters are to L. Foster Stedman (1919-1938) of the Tredegar estate offices, Newport, the estate agent (J. I. Storrar, 1938-1941, and W. B. T. Rees, 1941-1942), mainly relating to repairs and maintenance of tenanted properties, apparently mainly on the Monmouthshire and Glamorgan agricultural estates. Other letters are to contractors inviting tenders, to tenants, and to other individuals and organisations. The volumes cover the period 27 Sept. 1919-24 July 1942. The 1938-1942 volume (ADY 4/9) also had three letters copied into it dated May-June 1946 before being finally abandoned. Many of the war-time letters refer to the shortage and regulation of materials; ADY 4/9 also contains a letter at the back of the volume (p. 999) from A. Clifford Harding as commander of No. 13 (Basaleg) Platoon to Captain A. L. Howell, officer commanding 'C' Company, 4th Mon. (Risca) Battalion of the Home Guard, that unless he gets coupons for at least 10-12 gallons of petrol a month, his platoon will have to remain stationary and train in their own village, May 1941. -- Bundles of letters found loose at the front or the back of various volumes have been gathered together into a single file (ADY 4/10), containing letters dated 1924, 1931-1932, 1935, 1937, 1940-1942 and 1945. These papers include several certificates from the Clerk of Works, 1940-1942, as to the service records of his employees, and not objecting to them being called up for work of national importance. Letters found filed loose between the pages of the volumes have been left where they were found.

Desk diaries used as daybooks, containing lists and prices of building materials used to repair and maintain estate properties. It may be possible to relate these books to the Rhiwderin estate works ledgers (ADY 1) and daybooks (ADY 2-3), although a cursory examination failed to do so. The 1936 volume starts at the beginning of the year, and the 1949 volume continues to the end of the year, so there were probably predecessor and successor volumes that have not survived. The volumes for 1936-1943 contain lists of (employees'?) Health Insurance cards received, and 1936-40 of 'Trustee work - cowsheds, water supplies etc'. The 1940 volume encloses monthly lists, March-Oct., of 'cubic ft of timber issued from yard', giving the total amount of timber and the amount of home-grown larch, oak, etc. The 1941 volume contains a list of properties for which forms C.2 have been received.