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Herefordshire ledgers,

Ledgers relating to the Herefordshire estate, containing ledger accounts for rents and tithes in the parishes of Marstow, Hentland, Peterstow (including Little Whitfield), Bridstow, Welsh Bicknor and Goodrich, and summary accounts of G. P. Mitchell Innes with Lord Tredegar for the Hereford rents. Much of AHA 2/1 comprises a day book of receipts and payments relating to the Herefordshire estate, 1903-11, and may be the cash book to straddle the gap between AHA 3/1 and 3/2.

Herefordshire cash books

The settled cash accounts of H. J. Davis (1889-1903) with Lord Tredegar relating to the Herefordshire estate. AHA 3/1 also contains five rental ledger accounts relating to properties on the Herefordshire estate, 1902-03 (ff. 60, 66, 72, 78, 84). Much of AHA 2/1 comprises a day book of receipts and payments relating to the Herefordshire estate, 1903-11, and may be the cash book to straddle the gap between AHA 3/1 and 3/2.

Early Tredegar rentals (main series)

Annual rentals, audit books and settled accounts of the Monmouthshire, Glamorgan and Breconshire holdings of the Tredegar estate. -- The rentals include rents and duties due in the Tredegar demense, in the parishes of Basaleg, Bedwas, Bedwellte, Betws, Caerleon, Coedcernyw, Henllys, Llanfihangel Llantarnam, Llangatwg, Llanofer, Machen, Malpas, Marshfield, Llanfihangel-y-fedw, Mynyddislwyn, Nash, Peterstone, Risca, Rumney, St Brides, St Mellons and St Woolloos, in Newport town, and in the manors of Caldicot Westend, Llanfaches, Llanfihangel, Magor, Newchurch & Kevengola, Roggiet & Ifton, and Undy, chief rents of the manors of Basaleg, Castle Arnold, Fitz John de la Moor, Greenfield, Llanfair, Peterstone, Redcastle, Sutton and Youlton, and rents due from the tithe barns of Betws, Malpas, Marshfield, Newport, Peterstone, Rumney and St Mellons, all in Monmouthshire, rents in the parishes of Cardiff, Gelli-gaer, Llanisien, Llysfaen, Roath and Whitchurch in Glamorgan, and in the parishes of Brecon, Bronllys, Cantref, Defynnog, Faenor, Garthbrengi, Glasbury, Llandyfaelog, Llandyfalle, Llanddew, Llanfihangel Nant Bran, Llanfilo, Llansbyddyd, Llyswen, Penderyn, St Davids, St John Evangelist, Trecastle, Ystradfellte, and Ystradgynlais, chief rents and cymortha in the manor of Brecon (in Builth, Cantref, Defynnog, Glyntawe, Hay, Llanddeti, Llangasty [Tal-y-llyn], Llansanffraid[-ar-Wysg], Llywel, Merthyr, Modrydd, Penderyn, Ystradfellte, and in the Hallmote manor) and Penderyn and cymortha in Ystradfellte, all in Breconshire, and chief rents in Herefordshire. -- The 1677 rental includes lands purchased from the executors and trustees of Edward Lewis of the Van, esq., dec., in the manors of Caldicot Westend, Llanfaches, Llanfihangel, Magor, Newchurch & 'Kevengola', Roggiet & Ifton, Shirenewton, and Undy, all in Monmouthshire, and in Cardiff, Llanisien, Llys-faen, Roath, Splott and Whitchurch, and the manors of Roath Kensham and 'Madockes feild', all in Glamorgan (ff. 141-146). -- The rentals also include lands in the parishes of Canton, Cardiff and Roath purchased from Mr Pilkinton and held from the Earl of Pembroke for his and his wife's lives (1677-1684), lands in the parishes of Basaleg, St Woolloos, St Brides and Marshfield settled in trust by Rowland Morgan to raise £20 for a schoolmaster and £14 for four poor people in p. Basaleg (1699-1730), and a tenement in the parish of Machen bought to pay a legacy left by Katherine Morgan of £5 a year for the poor of the parish of Basaleg (1730). -- There are numerous memoranda of leases agreed to and rents received throughout the volumes. -- AMA 1/5-37 are mainly booklets containing c.10 ff of text, being the accounts (1701-1732) of James Pratt with John Morgan, esq. (Dec. 1700-March 1720), William Morgan, esq. (Sir William Morgan after 1724) (March 1720-April 1731), and the executors of the said Sir William Morgan (April 1731-July 1732). The accounts to John Morgan, 1700-1720, are for the year beginning and ending 24 Dec. The first full account to William Morgan (AMA 1/26) is for the fifteen months 24 Dec. 1720-24 March 1721/2. Henceforth, 1721-1731, the accounting year begins and ends 25 March. The final account in this part of the series (AMA 1/37) covers the sixteen and a half months March 1731-July 1732, including the death of Sir William Morgan and an account to his executors. -- At the end of the series are a number of rentals and rent ledgers that cannot be assigned to their appropriate estate.

Monmouthshire rent ledgers

The rent ledgers devote a single page or a single opening to each tenant, giving name, a description of the holding concerned together with its location, the rents due and paid, and after 1846, sometimes a reference to the appropriate page of the rental survey. In the earlier volumes, rents may be further broken down, distinguishing rent proper from land and property tax, and adding to or deducting from the rent due as property is added to or deducted from the holding. -- At any one time, a group of rental ledgers were in use, with new groups of books started in 1787, 1806, 1818, 1846, 1856, 1885-87, 1900-1904, and 1912-1914. The earliest groups of Monmouthshire estate rent ledgers, formerly MSS 365-384 (1779-1847), are briefly listed in the Preliminary Schedule of the Tredegar Park Muniments, pp. 3640-3711. From 1846, the books within each concurrent group are distinguished by letters of the alphabet: 1846, A-E; 1856, A-G (two G's); 1885-87, A-H; 1900-1904, A-D, E (two), J (two), K, T; and 1912-1914, A-B, D, F, J, Z. A few books get out of synch with the rest of the group, for example, the contents of successive volumes D are dated 1846-1856, 1856-1877, 1878-1896, 1897-1911, 1913-1927. The letter by which each volume is identified on its spine is given in the list below. -- Within each ledger, properties within a single parish tend to be listed together, although properties within a single parish may be split between several of the concurrent volumes. The majority of entries have a back reference to the 'Old Ledger' folio number, and a forward reference to the 'New Ledger'. Generally a property will descend from, for example, one ledger 'A' to the next ledger 'A'; this is especially true between 1846 and 1900, but before and after that period a ledger may have entries forwarded from several previous volumes, and may contribute entries to several successor volumes. However, many properties have a direct descent, as for example, Penyrheol Farm in the parish of Rumney, which descends through each ledger 'A' in turn from 1846 (AMA 10/23, fo. 35, with a back reference to 'OL, fo. 112', viz., AMA 10/20), to 1956, when the freehold was sold (AMA 10/67, fo. 84). -- The arrears accounts for 1898-1903 (AMA 10/45) and 1913-1932 (AMA 10/58) and a number of ledgers of weekly and monthly rents (AMA 10/56-57, 10/59) have been included in this series for convenience.

Agricultural estate receipts and payments books

Annual accounts of receipts and payments, including for agricultural and mineral estate rents, sales of timber and coppice woods, War Damage Commission payments, rates and taxes, tithe rent charge annuities, insurance, seawalls and drainage, repairs, woods and plantations, Ruperra Castle, and remittances to Lord Tredegar.

Machen collection settled accounts

Settled accounts of the Machen collection in the parishes of Bedwas, Bedwellte, Llantarnam, Machen, Mynyddislwyn and Pant-teg in Monmouthshire, and Eglwysilan, Gelli-gaer, Rhydri and Rhyd-y-gwern in Glamorgan, with accounts of casual profits and promiscuous payments. The last volume in the series, AMA 2/10, is not settled.

James Tudor's collection settled accounts

Rentals and settled accounts of the Tredegar estate in Monmouthshire in the collection of James Tuder (1769-1785) and Henry Brown (1786-1803), together with accounts of casual profits and promiscuous payments. -- The first volume in the series (AMA 3/1) is the settled accounts for the rents of the Tredegar estate in Monmouthshire in the collection of James Tuder (late Thomas Bryan and Charles Powell) in the parishes of Basaleg, Betws, Caerleon & Lansore, Henllys, Malpas, Marshfield, Nash, Newport, Risca and St Woolloos, school lands in Basaleg and St Woolloos, the manors of Caldicot Westend, Llanfaches, Llanfihangel, Magor, Magor le green moor, Newchurch, Roggiet & Ifton, Shirenewton and Undy, the unsettled estate in Thomas Bryan's collection in the parishes of Basaleg, Caerleon & Lansore, Malpas, Newport and St Woolloos, and the manor of Stow, all in the former collection of Thomas Bryan, and in the parishes of Abergavenny, Betws, Cemais Comawndwr, Llanfair and Llangatwg, and the manors of Arnold Castle and Llanfair, and the unsettled estate in [Llangatwg] Coedmorgan, Llanthony or Grosmont, and Llandeilo Gresynni, all in the former collection of Charles Powell. Llanddewi Rhydderch appears in Charles Powell's late collection in 1768. -- By the last volume in the series (AMA 3/13), the collection has evolved into Ruperra and other rents in Newport and the parishes of Basaleg, Coedcernyw, Llanfihangel-y-fedw, Llantarnam, Malpas, Marshfield, Peterstone, Rumney, St Brides and St Mellons, the Friars estate (late Mrs Smith's) in the parishes of Abergavenny, Basaleg, Llanwenarth, Machen, Mynyddislwyn, St Woolloos and Trefethin, and a single property (late Rev. William Edwards's) in the parish of Llanfihangel-y-fedw, all in Monmouthshire, and accounts of casual profits and promiscuous payments, including for Ruperra house and demense, the Friars estate, the Tredegar Park tram road, and the New Lodge weighing machine.

Evan Phillips's collection settled accounts

The settled and other accounts of Evan Phillips (d. 1803) for the Tredegar Lower Collection, including in the parishes of Coedcernyw, Llanfihangel-y-fedw, Malpas, Marshfield, Peterstone, Rumney, St Brides and St Mellons.

Monmouthshire audit books and rentals

The main series of Monmouthshire audit books, covering the period from the reorganisation of the various Tredegar estate collections into county estates in 1802, to the sale of the estate in 1957. The series contains the audit books of the Monmouthshire estate, 1802-1918, and the Monmouthshire agricultural estate, 1919-1957. -- The Newport Ground Rents are included until 1887 (AMA 5/13), after which they are separated out to form a new series in 1888 (ANA 5). The audit book for 1915-1916 appears not to have survived. In 1919 the Monmouthshire estate was divided, the Monmouthshire town estate (AMA 6) being separated from what now became the Monmouthshire agricultural estate. The agricultural estate was very much the continuation of the Monmouthshire estate, with premises transferred to the 'Town Rents Department' (the Monmouthshire town estate) actually listed in the 1919 agricultural estate audit, although their rents are only accounted for in terms of decrease from the previous year's Monmouthshire estate rent income. The rent income of the undivided estate was £29,399 in 1918, as compared to the agricultural estate's £23,564 in 1919. Even in 1920, when the transferred premises cease to be listed, all the parishes represented in 1918 continue to be listed. However, Rhiwderyn disappears after 1919 (to AMA 6/1, fo. 84), Shirenewton and Llanfair Cilgedin disappear after 1920, there is no mention of Ifton (under Roggiet in AMA 5/26) after 1922, Caerleon disappears after 1923, Goldcliff appears in 1929, Peterstone-super-montem disappears after 1941, Malpas after 1942 and Caer-went after 1950, and Honeywood appears in 1951. From 1921 onwards 'School lands' are described as 'Rowland Morgan's [or Morgan] charity lands'; they disappear after 1938. -- The Glamorgan agricultural estate is incorporated into the Monmouthshire agricultural estate audit in 1939 (from AGR 3/26 to AMA 5/35), adding rents in the parishes of Eglwysilan, Gelli-gaer, Llanedern, Llanfihangel-y-fedw, Llanisien, Llanwynno, Llys-faen, Peterston-super-montem, Rhyd-y-gwern, Rhydri and Whitchurch; Rhydri disappears from the 'Summary' after 1949, but the Tredegar premises in that parish appear to have been sold in 1941 or earlier (see AMA 5/36, pp. 27 and 195). From 1939 the trend is towards amalgamating the rentals, with the Monmouthshire agricultural rents incorporating the Brecon rents in 1940, the mineral estate in 1949. -- The agricultural estate audit books/rentals for 1944-1948 are missing. AMA 5/37 and AMA 5/38 do not contain details of expenditure and annual balances. They are entitled 'Agricultural estate rentals'. The total income from the agricultural and mineral estate in 1957 was £55,681. -- There is a duplicate series of audit books for the years 1832-1890 (AMA 5/39-48), which run parallel to AMA 5/3-13, apart from some variation in the 'Remarks' column. AMA 5/9-14 have the auditor's name (Mr Carlisle) written at the very beginning of each volume, while AMA 5/40-41 and AMA 5/44-48 have the agent's name (Frederick Justice). The duplicate series of audit books was discontinued after 1890, with a single run of Monmouthshire audit books from 1891 onwards, at much the same time as Tredegar's Newport, Breconshiere and Glamorgan estates were discontinuing their duplicate audit books. The last volume of the duplicate series, covering 1888-1890, was taken up again in 1893 and used as the audit book for 1893-1894; for the sake of convenience this volume has been listed at AMA 5/15 with the main series of audit books rather than with the duplicates. -- The extent given for each volume is taken from the page or folio number on which the text ends, eg, AMA 5/4 is given as 618 pp., and AMA 5/5 as 286 ff. However this may not be a true reflection of the extent of the volume in every case, as AMA 5/34-35 at least contain a mixture of page and folio numbers. AMA 5/34 contains ff. 1-36, pp. 37-84, ff. 85-120, pp. 121-168, ff. 169-204, pp. 205-254.

Monmouthshire town audit books and rentals

The Monmouthshire town estate was formed in 1919, and originally comprised the Tredegar town leaseholds (from AT 2), together with premises in the parishes of Basaleg (including Rhiwderyn), Bedwas, Bedwellte, Llanfaches, Machen, Mynyddislwyn, Risca, Roggiet, St Brides Wentlloog, St Mellons and St Woolloos that had previously been part of the Monmouthshire estate (see AMA 5/26-27). The Tredegar garden rents appear in the summary accounts only, as a total sum transferred from a separate series of rentals or collection books. The rent income from Tredegar town in 1919 contributed £2,387 to the total Monmouthshire town estate rent income of £8,751. This sum appears in the balance (AMA 6/1, fo. 79) together with the totals of the rents and other sources of income accounted in the Newport rents settled account book for 1919 (ANA 1/43, fo. 225). The Newport rents continue to be audited together with the income arising from the Monmouthshire town estate until 1938 (see AMA 6/11, p. 106). The books for 1939-1943 are missing. The subsequent surviving Monmouthshire town estate rentals, for 1944-1952 (AMA 6/12, 14-15), do not contain details of expenditure and no balance was struck, which is probably why these last three volumes are called rentals rather than audits. A volume of town estate receipts and payments, 1945-1952, which may contain the missing expenditure accounts, has been inclded in this series for convenience (AMA 6/13). -- From 1922 onwards the Tredegar town rents follow Bedwellte. With the exception of St Woolloos, all parishes in the 1919 audit book also appear in the 1952 rental. The St Woolloos rents (and two Basaleg rents) were 'Transferred to Newport dept as from 29 Sept 1930' (AMA 6/6, fo. 164). Premises in Rumney first appear in 1925, and had multiplied considerably by 1952. Caerleon and Coedcernyw make brief appearances (1922-1923 and 1936-1938 respectively) and Magor disappears in 1922, only to reappear in 1952.

Monmouthshire town estate collection books

The Monmouthshire town estate was created as a separate department with its own audit books in 1919. For all that, the first volume in the present series (AMA 8/1) only starts in September 1925. However, this may well be the estate's first dedicated collection book, as there is no balance brought forward from a previous book. Conversely, the last volume of the present series (AMA 8/13) is clearly not the last in the series, as in 1953 a balance of £537 16s. 4d. was 'carried forward to new collection book, folio 13'. This 'new' book was probably still in use in 1956 when the estate was sold to the Eagle Star insurance company, and may well have passed to the buyers.

Monmouthshire cash books

The cash books of the Monmouthshire, Monmouthshire agricultural and Monmouthshire town estates. The cash books provide balanced accounts of income and expenditure, compiled from the collection books, rent books and ledgers. They provide a can detailed breakdown of individual items of payment and receipt. -- AMA 9/1 may be the first cash book to have been used by the Monmouthshire estate, as there is no entry for a balance carried forward from a previous book. There is a gap of four months between AMA 9/1 and 2, perhaps caused by a failure to write up the missing months from a draft cash book or from less formal records, as a balance is brought forward to AMA 9/2. Besides this gap, and a lost volume covering July 1937-June 1943 (between AMA 9/26 and 9/27), the series runs through a change of title in 1920 from the Monmouthshire estate to the Monmouthshire agricultural estate, until 31 Dec. 1958. The following day the balance of £3344 18s. was carried forward to the Monmouthshire town estate cash book, representing the winding up of the agricultural estate. -- The covers and spines of AMA 9/26-29 are stamped no's 4, 6-8 respectively, confirming the loss of the July 1937-June 1943 volume, and perhaps suggesting that AMA 9/23 (April 1917-March 1922) was the earliest volume to hand when the decision was made to start numbering the volumes. -- The Monmouthshire town estate was created by its separation from the Monmouthshire estate. From the start, when a balance of £730 2s. 5d. was forwarded on 1 Jan. 1920 from Newport cash book No. 6 (ANA 3/3) to Monmouthshire town cash book No. 1 (AMA 9/30), the town cash books (AMA 9/30-34, stamped 1-5) were used jointly by the Monmouthshire town and Newport estates, with separate columns for "Newport" and "Mon". From 1 Jan. 1943, when a balance of £305 18s. 3d. was transferred from the Glamorgan town account, there is a third column, "Glam", and the last cash book in the present series, 1947-1956 (AMA 9/34), is intitled simply the Town cash book. There was a further volume, as a balance of £5,876 15s. 2d. was forwarded from the old to the new cash book on 1 Jan. 1957, and it would have been to this missing book that the balance of the Monmouthshire agricultural estate was carried on 1 Jan. 1959, bringing all the surviving estates of the Trdegar estate into the same book. However, this book is not now found, and may have been transferred to the Eagle Star insurance company on the sale of the estate.

Monmouthshire draft letter books

Drafts and copies of letters, mainly written by Henry Brown (1797-1806), Frederick Justice (1832-1862) and Colonel Frederick Justice (1862-1872). The letters relate initially to the Tredegar estate, and later to the post-1806 reorganisation Monmouthshire estate, with occasional family and social references. Henry Brown's letters were written to Sir Charles Morgan, including while Morgan was at London and Ealing. AMC 1/10-11 were in use at the same time, 1832-1847, presumably for the convenience of the agent and his clerk.

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