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The bundle includes an account of the rents received from, and the sums allowed for land tax, repairs etc. to, the tenants of Mrs Martha Butler and Misses Ann Jemima and Patty Butler, June 1776.

Original bundle of 1775 vouchers relating to the estate of James Butler of Warminghurst, Sussex, esq., although the account of June 1776 relates to the rents of Mrs Martha Butler and Misses Ann Jemima and Patty Butler. The estate includes Bowfird Farm, Broadwater Farm, Capore, Chancton Manor Farm, Chantry Farm, Clayton, Decoy Farm, Five Mile Ash, Heene Farm, Heene Windmill, Houghton Parsonage, Houghton Upper and Lower Farms, Kithurst Farm, Rowdell Farm, Idehurst, Pricklows, Rackham, Squinces, Thakeham, Washington and Waterfield, some at least of which are in the area of Storrington, Washington and Arundel, Sussex.

Three original bundles relating to the estate of James Butler of Warminghurst, Sussex, esq., and the rents of Mrs Martha Butler and Misses Ann Jemima and Patty Butler, all originally enclosed in an contemporary wrapper endorsed ‘Acc’ts & vouchers from Lady Day 1775 to Lady Day 1776 inclusive & receits for ballance’. The estate includes Bowfird Farm, Broadwater Farm, Capore, Chancton Manor Farm, Chantry Farm, Clayton, Decoy Farm, Five Mile Ash, Heene Farm, Heene Windmill, Houghton Parsonage, Houghton Upper and Lower Farms, Kithurst Farm, Rowdell Farm, Idehurst, Pricklows, Rackham, Squinces, Thakeham, Washington and Waterfield, some at least of which are in the area of Storrington, Washington and Arundel, Sussex.

Ledger accounts of Rowland Morgan's charities, 1929-1957. The accounts of Rowland Morgan's charities end with pencil notes that they were included in the sale to Eagle Star Insurance Company, 2 Aug. 1959. The other accounts end without explanation.

Annual lists (wanting 1847-1849, 1851, 1854) of the names, ages and circumstances of the poor and aged who were given blankets in annual distributions in the parishes of Basaleg, Betws, Coedcernyw, Dyffryn, Henllys, Machen, Malpas, Marshfield, Michaelstone, Newport, Peterstone, Risca, Rogerstone, Rumney, St Brides, St Mellons and St Woolloos, Monmouthshire.

A list of the names of 20 boys and 29 girls at Basaleg school, co. Mon., and their gifts from Sir Charles Morgan on Christmas Eve 1838.

The account book of the Boughrood Charity. The book contains a memorandum of the intentions of the charity, a rental of the Boughrood estate in Radnorshire, 1772-1774, a list of the chief rents due in the manor of 'Colwyn' [=Elfael Uwch Mynydd], minutes of the annual charity meeting and accounts of the receiver, 1775-1791, and extracts from presentments at the court leet of the manor of Elfael Uwch Mynydd relating to heriots and encroachments, 14 May 1784 and 30 May 1789.

Papers relating to charities in co's Brec., Rad. and Mon., including charities sponsored by the Morgan family of Tredegar or administered by their agents, and charities where the papers came into the possession of the family.

Audited account book of the Newport turnpike trust. The trust expired on 1 Nov. 1879, and the volume ends with the final meeting on 4 Feb. 1880, when the balance left in the hands of the treasurer (£408) was divided between the Newport, Christchurch and Caerleon highway boards, the Caerleon, Risca and Christchurch local boards, and Newport Corporation, in proportion of the milage of the trust's roads that passed to each body.

Account book (charge and discharge) of Charles Van, esq., 'treasurer of the district'. Receipts include tolls gathered at the Bridge, St Woolloos, Stop and Rumney Gates, while payments include interest money owing to lenders, and expenditure on Catsash, Rumney, Stow and Millstreet turnpike houses and gates, and on the roads, including between Christchurch and Newport, Christchurch and Catsash, the Rock & Fountain road in the parish of Cemais Inferior, Crindai Bridge.

These papers are unrelated to the Tredegar estate, having been accumulated by members of the Morgan family of Tredegar and their agents in the course of their public or private lives, or otherwise strayed into the Tredegar estate records. The bulk of the strays are client files of Henry F. W. Harries, the Brecon solicitor who acted as the agent for Tredegar's Breconshire estate (P 5/6). These files probably became mixed with the Tredegar material on the final dispersal of the Breconshire estate and the removal of the Breconshire estate records to Newport. Six other groups also all come from within the sphere of influence of the Tredegar estate, comprising the Monmouthshire commission of sewers, 1660-1792 (P 5/8), Newport assessments, 1700-1753 (P 5/7), Newport turnpike trust records, 1759-1880 (P 5/1), charity papers, 1772-1959 (P 5/2), St Woolloos rate book, 1875 (P 5/4), and Christchurch Highway Board letters received, 1880-1890 (P 5/5). The three files of Sussex vouchers, 1775-1776 (P 5/3), relate to an estate in the trusteeship of members of the Morgan family.

The file comprises letters from John Evan Thomas, sculptor, to John Hellicar relating to the statue, designed by John Evan Thomas.

The file comprises letters from artists and others who submitted designs and models to the statue competition, including George Alexander, C. Bruce Allen, John S. Austin, Geroge Barrett, George Adam Burn, J. M. Clark, E. W. Elmslie, Thomas Freke, Solomon Gibson, James Hamilton, W. Rooke Harrison, Samuel Joseph RSA, Robert Kerr, Thomas Yale Kingston, Charles Lawrence, S. Manning, Edmund Marks, William Calder Marshall, Thomas Nicholson, John Palmer, James L. Pedley, Charles Augustus Rivers, Frederick Thrupp, E. W. Tundall, Calvert Vaux and R. D. Wilson.

The file comprises a slim volume containing a subscription list headed by HM Queen Dowager, the Duke of Beaufort and Sir Benjamin Hall. It is probably the subscription list for the Sir Charles Morgan testimonial.

The file comprises the testimonial fund treasurer's account book.

The file comprises the testimonial committee minute book.

The file comprises papers relating to the proposed testimonial, comprising rough minutes of the committee, letters, rough memoranda, instructions to artists, and a copy of the annual statement of the clergy fund for that part of Glamorgan in the diocese of Llandaf, 1844-1845.