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Rentals of mixed Tredegar, Ruperra and Friars rents.

Volumes containing carbon copies of letters sent by J. G. Palling (1869-1880), Frederick J. Justice (1869-75, 1880-1902), H. P. Williams (1897-1905) and G. P. Mitchell-Innes (1903-1905), all of the Tredegar estate office, Newport. Besides AEC 1/1 and 1/3, which are Frederick Justice's letter books for the period Aug. 1869-Aug. 1875, the volumes (with a missing volume covering Nov. 1890-July 1891) form a single chronological sequence of volumes, passing from one agent to the next. H. P. Williams was possibly the agent's deputy or clerk, and possibly acting agent in 1902-1903, between the death of Colonel Justice and the appointment of Mitchell-Innes. Typewritten letters first appear in Dec. 1902.

The main series of letters received by the Tredegar estate. The letters were in binders variously intitled 'Mon letters <start date> to <end date>' and 'Monmouthshire and general letters', which despite their titles included letters relating to properties and interests in Glamorgan and Breconshire as well as Monmouthshire. The letters are addressed to J. G. Palling (1879-1881), F. J. Justice (1880-1902), Heber P. Williams (1902-) at the Tredegar estate office, Newport. -- The letters include a number of telegrams, accounts and receipts, as well as notices of assignments of leases and mortgages. (For a series of notices, 1900-1906, see AEC 4). The letters include letters from other Tredegar estate officers (particularly the Breconshire agent, the mineral estate agent and the London solicitor), tenants, prospective tenants, local authorities, other local landowners and estates, commercial concerns and local organisations. The commercial concerns include railway companies, collieries, ironworks, brick manufacturers, wholesalers, solicitors, timber merchants, architects and land surveyors. There are also a few letters to and from Lord Tredegar and Frederic C. Morgan of Ruperra Castle. -- The local organisations and interests are extremely varied, and the letters include applications and receipts for subscriptions and donations. The March-July 1880 letters (AEC 2/2) for example include the Bedwellte Agricultural Society (12, 14), Prince Llewellyn Lodge of Philanthropie, Blaenafon (116), Cardiff Show (103), Cardiff & Penarth Regatta (11), Chepstow Farmers' Club (143), Glamorganshire General Agricultural Society (115), Gloucestershire Agricultural Society (103), a brass band being formed in the parish of Llanfihangel Crucornau (116), Llanvetherine Ploughing Society (143), Magor Farmers' Association (113), Monmouthshire & Caerleon Antiquarian Society (13), the 1st & 2nd Monmouthshire Rifle Volunteers (116, 123), the mayor of Newport's fund relief of the distressed families of the sufferers of the late colliery explosion (9), Pontypool Football Club (145), G & H Batteries of the 1st Worcestershire Artillery Volunteer Corps, headquartered at Pontypool (3), St Mellons District Annual Ploughing Match (144) and the Usk Rifle Corps (123). -- The letters within each binder are generally in chronological order of the date of writing, each letter within each binder being numbered and indexed in the index at the front of each binder. However some letters have earlier letters in the same correspondence grouped with them; the dates of these letters, which can be months earlier, are not taken into consideration in the covering dates of the binders. There are gaps in the numbering sequence within some of the files, and scraps of paper found on the spikes of the original binders are evidence that some letters were torn out, probably being required in the continuing management of the estate. Very occasionally a note was added to the file, or endorsed on an adjacent letter, as to what had happened to the extracted letter. Some letters were later returned to the file, pinned to adjacent letters. Almost every binder has a few letters at the back, out of date order. The letters in the binder covering Jan.-Feb. 1902 (AEC 2/77) are the most out of order, probably due to the upheaval caused by the death of Colonel Justice. -- From July 1902, ring binders with alphabetical dividers were used instead of spiked binders. The letters are not numbered and indexed, merely filed in roughly alphabetical order. -- The original binders and ring binders were rusty and dirty, and have been discarded. The letters from each binder have been kept together as a file.

Files of letters, 1898-1905, that do not form part of the main series of letters received. The first file (AEC 3/1) extracted from a binder entitled 'Tredegar Estate', comprises letters, 1898-1900, mainly relating to Cardiff, Roath and Pontypridd, although there are also a number of letters relating to Newport. The remaining original files (AEC 3/2-11) comprise letters, 1903-1905, originally filed in rough alphabetical order in a series of ring binders. Two groups of loose letters and related papers, 1794-1939, has been appended to the series (AEC 3/12-13). These various groups of letters have been brought together for convenience; there is no suggestion that they originally formed a single series. The original binders have been discarded.

Bundles of notices of assignments of leases, mortgages and assignments of mortgages of leasehold properties. They appear to relate entirely to the Tredegar town estates in Cardiff, Newport and Pont-y-pridd. Many of the notices have been annotated with what appears to be a reference to the appropriate folio in the rent ledgers. The notices for 1900-1903 were formerly filed in chronological order in binders, and the notices for 1903-1906 were formerly in rough alphabetical order of assignee in concertina files. The binders and concertina files have been discarded, the contents of each forming a file. -- A number of notices are included in the main series of letters, including for property in Newport. It is not clear whether those notices should have been filed with these notices, or whether some distinction was made between the two sets of notices.

Surveys and rental surveys that have been gathered here for convenience, and fall into two groups. The first group are those that relate to (parts of) two or more of the pre-1806 Tredegar, Ruperra, Dderw and Palleg estates. The second group of rentals relate to (parts of) two or more of the post-1806 county estates.

Three original files of reports and valuations by W. G. Rees of Newport, surveyor and estate agent, and J. F. Groves, including on properties in the parishes of Basaleg, Bedwas, Bedwellte, Christchurch, Llanfihangel Llantarnam, Machen, Marshfield, Mynyddislwyn, Peterstone, Risca, Rogerstone, Roggiet, St Brides, St Mellons and St Woolloos in Monmouthshire, Cardiff, Eglwysilan, Gelli-gaer, Llanwynno and Whitchurch in Glamorgan, and Ystradgynlais in Breconshire. The papers were in chronological order and numbered within each of three binders, the first unlabelled; the second labelled 'W. G. Rees and J. F. Groves, valuations and reports, 1903 to 1916', and the third 'J. F. Groves, valuations and reports, 1903 to [blank]'.

Inventories and schedules of deeds and other papers held at Tredegar, 1775-c.1843, a series of lease books recording deeds passed at the Tredegar estate office, 1896-1936, and a post-1950 schedule of leases.

Estate map books and books of reference, and Ordnance Survey maps of the various estates.

Ruperra estate letter books, containing drafts of letters from Henry Brown at Tredegar to Charles Morgan, including while Morgan was at London and Ealing. The letters mainly relate to estate administration, with occasional family and social references.

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.

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).

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 cash books of the Glamorgan estate set out the sums received and disbursed. Individual payments of rent are not specified. -- The earliest cash book (AGH 1/1, intitled 'Glamorgan estate. Ledger') begins with a copy of the audit between Henry John Davis and Sir Charles Morgan for the Glamorgan estate for 1846. The cash book entries begin on 1 July 1847. After a gap, Jan. 1864-Nov. 1868, between AGH 1/1 and 1/3 (probably represented by a missing volume, as AGH 1/3 opens with a balance that had been carried forward), the series of cash books runs through a change of title to 'Glamorganshire farm rents cash books' (AGH 1/3-5, 8) and 'Glamorganshire agricultural estate' (AGH 1/9-13). The last transactions are in Dec. 1938, and in Feb. 1939 the account was closed and the balance transferred to the 'Monmouthshire agricultural a/c'. -- The cash books for 1850-1859 (AGH 1/2), 1900-1908 (AGH 1/6) and 1903-1908 (AGH 1/7) are not part of the main run of Glamorgan cash books, but have been placed here for conveniece. AGH 1/2 appears to relate to Glamorgan. AGH 1/6-7 are the cash books of W. Henney, and are included with the Glamorgan cash books on the strength of a number of rates and tax demands for the parish of Rhydri enclosed in AGH 1/7.

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'.

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.