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

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.

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.

The file comprises a brief, a bill, and draft answers.

Leases and related papers relating to Breconshire estate properties in the parishes of Bronllys, Cantref, Defynnog, Y Faenor, Garthbrengi, Glasbury, Hay, Llandyfaelog Fach, Llandyfalle, Llan-ddew, Llanfihangel Nant Brân, Llanfilo, Llansbyddyd, Llys-wen, Llywel, Maesmynys, Merthyr Cynog and Penderyn.

Volumes of press-copies of letters sent by agents of the Cardiff estate, 1877-1906 (AGC 3/1-6) and by Henry John Davis, the Glamorgan estate agent, 1899-1903 (AGC 3/7).

Collection books of the Cardiff estate. There was probably at least one earlier collection book, which has not survived, as there is a balance in the first volume of the current series, AGO 3/1, carried 'Forward from previous Coll'n Book' (19 May 1925, £281-13-3). The last volume in this series ends on 3 April 1940, when the balances are 'Carried forward to new Glam. Col. Bk' (AGO 2/3).

Cardiff rents account drainage books, giving details of drainage, certificate and private improvement charges, by tenant and property. Both volumes were in use at the same time.

The Glamorgan estate began to gather rural cottage and farm rents and urban ground rents accounts into separate ledgers almost from the begining of the estate in 1846. However the first ledgers described on their spines as Cardiff ledgers are dated 1893, and these form the first volumes in this series. Their predecessor volumes will be found among the Glamorgan estate ledgers (AGD 1), as will contemporaneous ledgers of ground rents in Splott and Roath while they continue to be described as Glamorgan ground rents. -- The rent ledgers were reorganised in 1925, with two series of loose-leaf volumes intitled Cardiff Urban A to K (AGD 2/27-37), and Glamorgan Urban W to X (AGD 1/27-28) gathering together groups of streets in alphabetical order, A (A-Br), B (Bu-Cl), C (Co-D) etc. Many of the accounts end with the freehold being conveyed, mostly in the period 1955-60, and often to the tenant, but also, for example, to the Cardiff & Co. Superanuation & Benefit Society, Cardiff Corporation, Cossam Investment Co. Ltd, Glam. Estates Ltd, Gwalia Land & Prop. Dev. Ltd, and Valley Properties (Hengoed) Ltd. Notes on the accounts include the deaths of tenants and other changes of tenant, war damage and war damage compensation, and mortgagors. AGD 2/38-40 contain of folios taken out of AGD 2/27-37 and AGD 1/27-28. These folios appear to apply to properties, the freeholds of which were conveyed during the life of the volumes. Most, if not all, of the freeholds were conveyed in the period 1926-52.

The settled accounts of Henry John Davis (1877-1902), G. P. Mitchell Jones (1903-1918), John Ireland Storrar (1919-1940) and their successors with Lord Tredegar and the trustees of the Tredegar settled estates for the Cardiff and Pontypridd ground rents, along with miscellaneous receipts and promiscuous payments. This series of audit books was initiated in 1877, when the Cardiff and Pontypridd ground rents were taken out of the Glamorgan estate audit books (AGR 3), which continued as the Glamorgan agricultural estate audit books. -- In 1877 the rental contained ground rents in Cardiff, Tredegarville, Oakville, Roath, Splottlands and Newbridge (later Pontypridd); ground rents in Llanwynno were added in 1878, South Splottlands in 1883, Canton in 1887, Penylan in 1900, Llan Wood in 1906. There was no further change until 1920, when the Pontypridd, Llanwood and Llanwynno ground rents were transferred to a new series, the Glamorgan town estate audit books (AGR 5), and the books of the remaining Cardiff estate renamed 'Cardiff lease rent audit books'. The Glamorgan town series comes to an end in 1938, and in 1939 rents in Pontypridd, Eglwysilan, Gelli-gaer, Llys-faen, Rhyd-y-gwern, Peterston-super-montem, Rhydri and Whitchurch are added to the Cardiff books, which are renamed 'Glamorganshire town and Cardiff audit books'. -- The audit books for 1941-42 end with balances struck on the accounts, but the parties to the accounts are not named; the books for 1943-54 end simply with a summary of the rents, balanced with the total of rents according to the collection books, and lack the supplementary accounts or a balance struck. In 1949 the title of the books changes to reflect the change that they are no longer settled accounts, changing from 'audit book' to 'rental'. The book for 1952 was originally intitled '1950', and the series lacks a book for 1950. The series ends in 1954. -- In common with the other estates of the Tredegar estate, the Cardiff ground rents estate produced duplicate audit books, one for the estate and one for the agent, until the practice was abandoned, in the case of the Cardiff estate after 1890.

These cash books are initially intitled 'Cardiff ground rents', 1877-1919 (AGH 2/1-3), the last volume closing with the words 'Balance carried forward to Glam'n town estate cash book no. 1'. The change to 'Glamorgan town estate' cash books, 1920-1942 (AGH 2/4-6), however, appears to be merely nominal. AGH 2/1 is also intitled 'Mr H. J. Davis. From 1st Jan'y to 31 Dec'r 1896'. -- There is no balance carried forward to AGH 2/1, which may therefore be the first cash book to have been used by this estate. The last transactions in AGH 2/6 are in Dec. 1942, when the account was closed and 'Balance transferred to Mon town a/c'.

Letters relating to Cardiff ground rents. The letters for the period Jan. 1899-June 1902 were numbered and filed in binders in chronological order, with a name index to each file. These binders were intitled 'HJD letters, from [start date] to [end date]'. The letters for July 1902-Aug. 1905 were filed in ring binders in roughly alphabetical order. These later binders were variously entitled 'Cardiff ground rents', 'Cardiff rents a/c', and simply 'Cardiff'. The letters have now been extracted from their original binders, which were rusty and dirty, but kept in their original order.