Series AGR 4 - Cardiff ground rent audit books

The settled accounts of Henry John Davis (1877-1902), G. P. Mitchell Jones (1903-1918), John Ireland Storrar (1919-1940) and their successors with Lord Tredegar and the trustees of the Tredegar settled estates for the Cardiff and Pontypridd ground rents, along with miscellaneous receipts and promiscuous payments. This series of audit books was initiated in 1877, when the Cardiff and Pontypridd ground rents were taken out of the Glamorgan estate audit books (AGR 3), which continued as the Glamorgan agricultural estate audit books. -- In 1877 the rental contained ground rents in Cardiff, Tredegarville, Oakville, Roath, Splottlands and Newbridge (later Pontypridd); ground rents in Llanwynno were added in 1878, South Splottlands in 1883, Canton in 1887, Penylan in 1900, Llan Wood in 1906. There was no further change until 1920, when the Pontypridd, Llanwood and Llanwynno ground rents were transferred to a new series, the Glamorgan town estate audit books (AGR 5), and the books of the remaining Cardiff estate renamed 'Cardiff lease rent audit books'. The Glamorgan town series comes to an end in 1938, and in 1939 rents in Pontypridd, Eglwysilan, Gelli-gaer, Llys-faen, Rhyd-y-gwern, Peterston-super-montem, Rhydri and Whitchurch are added to the Cardiff books, which are renamed 'Glamorganshire town and Cardiff audit books'. -- The audit books for 1941-42 end with balances struck on the accounts, but the parties to the accounts are not named; the books for 1943-54 end simply with a summary of the rents, balanced with the total of rents according to the collection books, and lack the supplementary accounts or a balance struck. In 1949 the title of the books changes to reflect the change that they are no longer settled accounts, changing from 'audit book' to 'rental'. The book for 1952 was originally intitled '1950', and the series lacks a book for 1950. The series ends in 1954. -- In common with the other estates of the Tredegar estate, the Cardiff ground rents estate produced duplicate audit books, one for the estate and one for the agent, until the practice was abandoned, in the case of the Cardiff estate after 1890.