Series AMA 9 - 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.