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About two hundred and sixty Documents, consisting largely of letters to Henry J. Randall, Bridgend, with some copy and draft replies and subsidiary documents, relating to colliery enterprises on the Dunraven estate. Among the correspondents are Wm Thomas Lewis (afterwards 1st Baron Merthyr), from the Bute Mineral Estate Office, Aberdare, 1873-6 (Aberkerdin Colliery, West Rhondda Colliery, and Cwm Garw Colliery leases); Bryn y Glo Colliery Co., Swansea, 1872-3 (coal under Killan Fach); Cardiff Merthyr Steam Coal Co. Ltd, 1872-3 (sale of Blaenrhondda Colliery); Walter Webb, London, 1873 (assignment of Bettws Llantwit Colliery); Edwd Plummer, of Glyncorrwg Colliery, and of Falda Steam Coal Colliery, 1873-7 (Forchwen, Gelli Walter, and Falda Lease); Archd. Douglas, London, 1875 (new working at Ty Cribbwr): Llan-Gan Lead Mining Co. Ltd, Birmingham, 1878 (lease of minerals from Earl of Dunraven); Welsh Main Coal Co. Ltd, London, 1873-81 (draft wayleave, Llanyffynnon minerals): Haematite Iron and Steel Works, Barrow-in-Furness, and Barrow Haematite Mines, Dalton-in-Furness, 1878-81 (sinking at Tynywaun); Messrs Tilleard, Godden, and Holme, London, etc., undertaking at Aberkenfig); Glamorgan Coal Co. Ltd, Cardiff, 1884 (wayleave at Tonypandy); etc.

Account of capons paid and due, manor of Coity Anglia, capons due, manors of Newcastle, Cefncribwr, Llanharry, Newland, Laleston and on 'Shoppes in Bridgend', 1573/4. Endorsed 'xvi Elizabeth. To prove that the tenantes customary of Newcastle and Laweston paid capons upon the customary holds'.

Accounts And Schedules relating to the Coity and Llanvihangel estates, 1718-34; accounts of Samuel Edwin, Usher of the Exchequer, 1706-9; a grant on behalf of the Earl of Leicester to Charles Lucas and Evan Jenkins of the power to dig coal at Llest Jair on the common of Kevenhirgoed, 1711/12; business letters to Griffith Jenkins, Llanvihangel and Minehead, 1721-1724-5; business letters from S. Edwin, 1721/2; miscellaneous vouchers, 1692-1786; the Case of Thomas Gage, esq., the petitioner, touching the right of election for bor. Minehead (printed fragment, undated), and votes of the House of Commons, 24 Feb. 1717, and 8 and 23 Jan. 1731 (printed), including references thereto.

Accounts of Charles Edwin, Clearwell, Coleford, with Rob. Child, esq., and Co., 1776-1801; a volume of stamped receipts to Charles Edwin, 1789-91; and a letter to him, 1801.

Accounts of Silvanus Padley, junior, and of Messrs Padley and Sterry, with the Dowager Countess of Dunraven, in respect of royalties and wayleave on coal worked at the Gorwydd Colliery, 1852-7; nineteen letters (including copy replies) to John Randall, Bridgend, from Silvanus Padley, junior, and others, relating thereto, 1854-8; and a map of Cefn Gorwydd and Cwm Trole Farms, 1854.

Agreements for the lease of minerals under Abercerdin Farm, p. Llandyfodwg, co. Glam., 1865, 1889, 1896, and twenty letters to Henry J. Randall, Bridgend, relating thereto, from W. Thomas Lewis, Bute Mineral Estate Office, Aberdare, 1872-96, William Thos Rees, Maesyffynon, Aberdare, 1896, and Christmas Evans, The Dinas Main Coal Co., Cardiff, 1896.

An Account of plasterer's work done at Dunraven Castle, 1806-1807; a list of deeds deposited with Mr Frere and Messrs Coutts, 1819 (including several contained in nos 194-195); and ten shares (nos 273-282) of Thomas Wyndham of Dunraven Castle in the Swansea Tontine Society, 1813.

An Act for Better Paving, repairing, cleansing, lighting, and watching the several Streets and other public Passages and Places within the Town and Franchise of Swansea, in the County of Glamorgan, and for removing and preventing Nuisances, Annoyances and Obstructions therein. 50 Pp. Bound.

'An outline of the history of Dunraven Castle' by, and in the hand of, Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg'), 1818, together with an introductory letter to Mrs Wyndham of Dunraven Castle, written from 'Keven Cribor Near Pyle Inn', 2 Feb. 1818.

Attornments to the Earl of Dunraven in respect of lands in p's Langeinwr, Coity, St Brides Minor, Newcastle, and Coychurch, 1825-58, and in the manors of Coity Wallia, Newcastle and Kevan Cribbwr, and Coity Anglia, 1865-1911.

Bundles of deeds, letters, legal papers and accounts of the family of Ashby of Isleworth, Middlesex, etc. They contain deeds relating to properties in St Fagan, co. Glam., Newland and Cold Aston, Gloucestershire, Swanswick, Somerset, Shenley, Hertfordshire, and Newenham Morren, Oxfordshire, 1329-1802; letters, 1767-1804, to Mrs Mawhood at Isleworth and Mrs Ashby at Dublin, and others, from Sus. Woodward, Dublin, Frances Wood, Pontefract, Eliz. Grey, Plymouth, A. Dawson, Dublin, Lord Pembroke, Lord Harrington, Robert Jones, Fonmon, J. Jones, Fonmon, J. T[aylor], etc.; correspondence between Ri. Toovey, Henry Barker, Wm Mathews, Chas Widdows, all of Wallingford, and others, 1763-71, concerning the estate of Ann Ashby at Cromarsh, Berkshire; bills of complaints and subsidary papers in the actions of Thos Ashby, citizen and haberdasher of London, v. John Robinson of Woodhurst, Huntingdonshire, and others, touching the title to properties in Woodhurst and St Ives, Huntingdonshire, 1685-93, Ann Ashby v. Wm Toovey, to recover title deeds of the Cromarsh estate, 1763-4, Anna Maria Ashby v. Charlotte Ashby and others, touching the administration of the estate of Ann Ashby [after 1766], Henry Collins and others v. Thomas Ashby and others, touching the administration of the same estate, 1769, etc.; vouchers relating to the estate, funeral and administration of Elizabeth Ashby of Whethamsted, Hertfordshire, spinster (died 1743); vouchers of Stephen Ashby, 1719-48, Edward Ashby, 1748-9, and Thomas Ashby, 1755-68; etc.

Bundles of estate Vouchers And Accounts (annuities, rent charges, repairs and improvements, land tax, property tax, wages, interest on mortgages etc.). [See also nos. 440-444].

Bundles of Royalty Accounts due to the Dunraven estate in respect of the following South Wales collieries: Elba, Cefn Gowyddd, Alltwen, Bishwell, Penlan (Penclawdd), Cefn Bachen (Penclawdd), Cefn Golau (Alltwen), Three Crosses, Dinas Clydach, Glyn Nant (Bettws), Bryncethin, Glyncorrwg, West Rhondda, Glyn Neath, New Adare, Foes (Cefn), Fforch y Garran, Pandy, Rhondda and Gilfach, South Glamorgan (Cribwr Main), Brynwith, Killan Fach, Corwg Merthyr, and Welsh Main, 1857-96; and accounts of quantities of lime produced at the Blue Lias Lime Works, Bridgend, 1870-4.

Cases of the Earl of Dunraven, 1847, and the Dowager Countess of Dunraven, 1853, touching the right to develop coal levels at Noxton Park in the Forest of Dean, together with subsidiary material relating thereto, including printed reports (1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th) of the Dean Forest Commissioners of the Treasury, 1835, a printed Bill for regulating the opening and working of mines and quarries in the Forest of Dean (with amended and draft copies), 1838, printed Award of the Dean Forest Mining Commissioners as to the Coal and Iron Mines in the Forest of Dean (London, 1841, 209 pp.), seventeen holograph and copy letters of John Randall, Bridgend, 1846-53, the Earl of Dunraven, 1846, Arthur Montague, for the Forest of Dean Iron Co., 1848, etc.; and some miscellaneous relevant details and transcripts, including a grant to John de Wysham of the vivary of Noxton and 200 acres, 1282, and a supplementary grant of 80 acres, 1286.