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Labourers' work and wages books, containing details of work done, such as alterations, cutting timber, erecting bridges, fencing, gamekeeping, making and hanging gates, planting, and repairs (including roofs, skylights and windows). Each man's receipt (frequently his wife's receipt) is written across a stamp for his monthly wages. The value of the work done is summarized fortnightly under various headings, including Castle Hotel, Castle farm (Brecon), Cefnbrynich building, Coedowen farm, estate office, game, general repairs, Glangwt building, gratuity, Llwch farm, mansion house, Ruperra house, sick pay, shooting box, Sunnybank, Therrow farm, Therrow waterwheel, Wern farm, and woods and plantations.

Pension books of Mrs Margaret Meredith of Talach-ddu, Feb. 1916-July 1924 (d. 8 July 1924), Mrs Margaret Watts of Llan-faes, Feb. 1916-Jan. 1932 (d. 9 Feb. 1932), Mrs Mary Watkins of Fenni-fach, Feb. 1916-Nov. 1935 and Dec. 1935-Oct. 1938 (buried 18 Oct. 1938), Thomas Bufton, Jan. 1920-Nov. 1933, and Mrs Margaret Lewis of Llys-wen, March 1921-Nov.1925 (d. 1 Nov. 1925), and three letters and a note relating to pensions, including those of David Walters (d. c.Jan. 1931), John Rogers, former under-agent at Ystradgynlais, and Gwen Morgan, widow of John Rogers's predecessor.

Letters relating to the administration of the Breconshire estate, found loose.

Tredegar Breconshire estate letters and other papers relating to specific subjects that created substantial quantities of correspondence. Some of the files (ABC 2/2/1-2, 5, 7-8, 10) are original bundles created by the staff of the Tredegar estate office, Brecon. The other files comprise letters that were found loose and would otherwise have become part of the annual files (ABC 2/1), but have been gathered together for convenience.

Original files of letters received at the Tredegar estate office, Brecon, comprising files of letters from J. E. W. Rider of Lincolns Inn, Lord Tredegar's London solicitor, 1911-1915, and annual bundles of letters received by J. H. Rosser, along with drafts of his replies, 1927-1930. The letters relate to all aspects of the administration of the estate, and particularly to the sale of property in 1915 and 1930.

Files of letters to H. F. W. Harries, Breconshire estate solicitor, mainly from J. E. W. Rider, London solicitor, mainly relating to the sale of the Breconshire estate.

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.

Letters extracted from a binder entitled 'Christchurch Highway Board, letter file, to April 1890'. The letters are addressed to H. J. Davis of Newport, solicitor, in his capacity as clerk to the Christchurch Highway Board. He was also an agent of the Tredegar estate, and presumably this file was caught up by mistake with the Tredegar estate letter files. The letters include circulars from the Highway Board Clerks' Society, 1882-83 (69, 73-74, 114), the orders of the Monmouthshire Quarter Sessions for regulating main roads, 1882 (195), a memorial from G. H. Thorne, surveyor to the board, in answer to the remarks of William Williams, waywarden of p. Redwick, that he has been extravagant with the ratepayers' money, 1885 (198), a notice from the Monmouthshire Commission of Sewers that the commutation of the board's liabilities on its lands in Caldicot under the Caldicot and Wentlloog Level Act of 1884 has been prepared, 1887 (239), a number of the quarterly reports to the Quarter Sessions of William Tanner, county surveyor, on the main roads, 1885-88 (221, 265).

Solicitors' clients' papers unrelated to the Tredegar estate. Most of the papers relate to the administration of the estate of Thomas John Evans of Glancelyn, dec., by his executors, Henry F. W. Harries of Brecon, solicitor, and Major Henry John Archibald Evans of Chalcombe House, Banbury, Oxfordshire, 1892-1928. The connection between these papers and the Tredegar estate is that H. F. W. Harries also acted as the agent for the Tredegar Breconshire estate. The papers include items dated 1928, so were swept into the Breconshire estate records after that date, presumably when the Breconshire estate office was finally closed and the records sent to the Newport office. The papers mainly comprise vouchers and related papers, including paying rates and tithes in the parishes of Glyn and Defynnog in Breconshire, and Slebech and Wiston in Pembrokeshire, and receiving moneys out of the Barry Estate Co. Ltd and the Merthyr Tudful glebe estate in Glamorgan, the Colby estate, Pembrokeshire, and dividends from various companies, mainly railway companies. The beneficiaries of the estate appear to have been Rev. John James Evans (d. by Feb. 1924), Mary Dorothes Jame Evans, Eleanor Mote Evans and Major H. J. A. Evans. -- Although the remaining two files relate to Cardiff and Roath, 1914-1931 (P 5/6/20-21), Henry F. W. Harries acted in the case of P 5/6/20, and the papers probably came from his office.

An assessment of the borough of Newport made in pursuance of an act of Parliament for granting to his majesty the sum of £989,965 19s. 6d. towards the maintenance of the navy, guard and garrisons and paying the debt of seamen and other necessary occasions, 1700; and an assessment of the borough of Newport for raising the sum of £44 0s. 2d. in land tax, 1753.