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The file comprises an index book containing personal names, probably the owners of animals being exhibited in the shows, and numbers, probably of the pens assigned to the animals.

The file comprises an index book containing personal names, probably the owners of animals being exhibited in the shows, and numbers, probably of the pens assigned to the animals.

The file comprises an index book containing personal names, probably the owners of animals being exhibited in the shows, and numbers, probably of the pens assigned to the animals.

Carbon copies of out-going letters of F. Justice (1891-1899) and H. P. Williams (1898-1900) relating to Lord Tredegar's Agricultural Show.

The file comprises a poultry sales book. The poultry sales took place every year over the two days of Viscount Tredegar's Agricultural and Poultry Show, towards the end of November, although there are no sales recorded in the book for the years 1914-18, 1920, and very few birds sold in 1913, 1919 or 1921. The book records the pen number and class number of the birds, the owner's and the buyer's name and address, the purchase price and the commission.

The file comprises a volume containing lists of names and numbers in the range 2-925 at least. A few comments such as 'put in prize list after Cook' and 'for prize list', and a note on the inside front cover '409 exhibitors', suggest that the book is related to the Tredegar Show.

The file comprises a volume containing the standing regulations respecting the races at Tredegar, annual lists of subscribers, 1816-36, and lists of runners and results, 1816-44. The volume also includes memoranda of a number of bets made during the races, such as in 1818, 'Mr Morgan & Mr Lane bet Mr Hesketh ten guineas to five that he does not ride the buffalo from Tredegar House to the Lodge - won by Mr Hesketh'. The subscribers and stewards comprise much of county society, including various branches of the Morgan family and officers of the Newport garrison.

The series comprises papers relating to the Tredegar Races, including race calendars (standing orders, subscribers and lists of runners and winners), 1816-1873, and hunter trails judges' notebooks, 1926-1932; papers relating to the Tredegar Show, including poultry books, c.1880-c.1927, correspondence, 1891-1927, and show catalogues, 1919-1921; and papers, 1845-1850, relating to a statue of Sir Charles Morgan, subscribed to and erected as a testimonial to his suppport of the agricultural interest. -- The letters include applications for entries and trade stands, apologies for pulling entries for various reasons, and the appointment and reports of judges of various classes. Also a few printed items, including the rules, report and members of the Welsh Leghorn and Minorca Club, 1906 (filed under letter A), and the schedule for the Tredegar poultry show, 1907 (also filed under letter A). Most of the letters are dated September, October and November of the particular year.

The Cardiff Corporation Bill 1909, empowering it to create the Llwyn-on reservoir in the parishes of Vaynor and Penderyn, Breconshire, and other works. The papers include copies of the Bill, drafts of a clause to protect Lord Tredegar’s interests, correspondence, and memoranda relating to earlier developments of Cardiff’s water supply, maps, and an extract from a conveyance dated 1912.

Official agriculture publications comprising Board of Agriculture and Fisheries weekly notes for farmers, 1917; and the Corn Production Act, 1917, enclosing memoranda and London Gazette notices.

An undated typescript walking guide to Tredegar House, entering by the side hall, and passing through the secretary’s room, the smoking room, the dining room, the main hall, the king’s room, the brown room and the drawing room.

Copies of newpapers, comprising the Brecon County Times, 28 April 1893 and 10 June 1915 (2 copies), Llais Llafur/Labour Voice, 24 Jan. and 7 Feb. 1914, the Brecon & Radnor Express, 3 June 1915, the South Wales Daily News, 23 June 1915, and the Western Mail, 23 June 1915, and a cutting dated 18 Feb. [--], probably from the Brecon & Radnor Express, relating to the local government board inquiry into the water supply for Llys-wen, including reference to Lord Tredegar’s contribution to the scheme, and to two recent deaths from diptheria.

A photographic print of an illustration of the trunk of the Cefnmabli Oak, which fell in 1779, with a printed note dated 1886 attached, and eight mounted photographs of Godfrey Charles Morgan, viscount Tredegar, being three copies of a half-length portrait photograph and five copies of a head and shoulders portrait photograph. The Cefnmabli Oak photograph is attached to a board to which is attached the remains of hinges.

Off-prints of articles by G. T. Clark on moated mounds, 1874-1875. The file is endorsed ‘G. T.Clark &c, medieval military architecture in England, earthworks, mounds, castles.’

An article from The Builder on the military architecture of Wales, 1869, and off-prints of articles written by G. T. Clark on Montgomery castle, Dolforwyn castle, and the moated enclosures of the upper Severn, 1877. The file is endorsed ‘G. T. Clark &c, castles, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Wales.’.

Copies of the Annual supplement to Willich’s tithe commutation tables for the years 1856, 1864, 1868-72, 1875-88, 1891-95, 1897-1918 and 1919 (‘1919-1925’), and of Percy William Millard’s Tithe rentcharge tables, 1919 (‘1918-1926’) and 1926.

Original bundle of offprints of articles by Octavius Morgan on plate and maces of London guilds, 1860, a miniature of Frederick V, elector palatine of the Rhine, and Elizabeth of England his wife, 1864, Tau rings and crosses of the Knights of St Anthony, 1873, sulphur portraits, 1875, a tessellated pavement at Caerleon, Monmouthshire, 1877, deeds and documents relating to the manor of Watlesburgh (Shropshire), Fotheringay College (Northamptonshire), Llangynog (Archenfield), the honour of Tickhill (Yorkshire), and the monastery of Dartford (Kent), 1877, a silver model of the Eddystone lighthouse, 1878, a 9-10th century Danish ship discovered near the mouth of the river Usk, 1878, and several printed articles by Octavius Morgan published in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, 1855-1857. Many of the articles are annotated by Octavius Morgan. The file also includes a document with sectional diagrams of Caerwent Roman baths; a letter, 1887, to Octavius Morgan from the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe;; a folio from Notes and Queries, Feb. 1872, containing ‘Journeys from the south of Ireland to England and back in 1778, 1784, 1791, 1794’; and a folio from The Athenӕum, April 1882, containing a review [?by Octavius Morgan] of J.F. Nicholls and J. Taylor, Bristol, past and present.

Printed papers relating to the coronations of George IV, William IV and Victoria. They comprise a lithograph, View of Palace Yard on the day of the coronation of His Majesty George IV, July 19, 1821; a copy of The Observer, 22 July 1821, including a supplement devoted to the coronation of George IV; an admission ticket to Westminster Abbey for the coronation [of William IV and Queen Adelaide, 1831], and covering note; a copy of The Observer, 11 Sept. 1831 (endorsed ‘Lady Rodney’), largely taken up with an account of the coronation; and an admission ticket to Westminster Abbey for Octavius Morgan, esq., to the coronation [?of Victoria, 1837].

The series comprises printed material accumulated by the Morgan family and printed public notices accumulated by the Tredegar estate.

The file comprises an appointment of Thomas Morgan, esq., as custos rotulorum for Monmouthshire. Great seal attached. The box is lined with pages from Heathcote's original [...], for Friday 18 December [...].