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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.

The collection books of the post-1802 Monmouthshire estate and the successor Monmouthshire agricultural estate.

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.

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.

Papers that have become detached from their original contexts, and gathered into files here for convenience.

An original bundle of 18 century leases, and a collection of 20 century notices to quit.