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- 1846-1938 (Creation)
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The Glamorgan estate is to a large extent the successor to the Ruperra estate, and the Glamorgan audit books are to a large extent the successors to the Ruperra estate settled accounts.
AGR 3/1 begins with a rental only, for 1846, but from 1847 the annual rental is accompanied by other income and expenditure accounts and a balance is struck (as in the 1837-1844 volume, although it is now Henry John Davis in account with Sir Charles Morgan). The title Glamorgan estate first appears in 1847. From the beginning of this volume the parishes are arranged in alphabetical order, except that Llanfihangel-y-fedw comes before Cardiff, probably because Ruperra Castle is in Llanfihangel-y-fedw. The annual expenditure accounts in this and the following volumes detail repair and building work on the estate.
The Monmouthshire audit books clearly testify to the rapid growth of the town of Newport during the nineteenth century, and the Glamorgan audit books bear similar witness to the growth of Cardiff and, to a lesser extent, Pontypridd ('Newbridge' in the parish of Llanwynno). In 1854 an 'Improvement Account' appears (after the balance for that year). The rents accounted here are for premises at Tredegarville and Newtown (both Cardiff) and Longcross (Roath). In 1855 this account appears as 'Improvement Fund' (after the rental summary). This is also the pattern in 1856 and 1857. Premises at Newbridge [Pontypridd] appear in the 1855-1856 Improvement Fund accounts. In 1858 a ground rents account first appears, following Whitchurch in the rental. There are a considerable number of ground rents at Cardiff and Roath, mostly arranged by street under the headings 'Newtown &c' and 'Oakville' (Oakville including Tredegarville); quite a few at 'Newbridge in Llanwynno', again arranged by street; four at Whitchurch and one each at Gelli-gaer and Peterstone-super-montem. In 1859 a number of 'Splottlands' ground rents appear, arranged by street. In 1863, the Tredegarville rents appear separately, the one Roath rent also receives a separate heading in the summary (instead of coming under Oakville), and the Gelli-gaer and Peterstone-super-montem rents are transferred to the main rental after 1862.
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The audit books of the Glamorgan estate are the audited, settled annual accounts between the agent and the estate. In common with the other estates of the Tredegar estate, the Glamorgan estate produced duplicate audit books, one for the estate and one for the agent, until the practice was abandoned, in the case of the Glamorgan estate, after 1891. The series also includes a few draft or working copies of the audit, 1901-1909. The audit books give an annual list of the tenants and their holdings, arranged by parish or street, together with the rent due and the rent paid. As a convenient year by year record of properties on the estate, they correspond with what go under the name of 'rentals' among the records of many other estates. In the Tredegar archive, only the last few audit books are called rentals. -- The Glamorgan estate audit books begin in 1846 (the first Glamorgan cash book, also for 1846, duplicates the information for 1846 in AGR 3/1), and they record the audit of the whole Glamorgan estate until 1876. From 1877 the Pontypridd and Cardiff ground rents are recorded in a separate series of books (AGR 4), while the 'farm estate', later 'agricultural estate', series continues as before up to 1938. From 1939 the audit of the Glamorgan agricultural estate is incorporated into the series of Monmouthshire agricultural estate audit books. The series of Cardiff ground rent audit books, 1877-1954 (AGR 4), include such urban areas as Splott, Tredegarville and Oakville. The Pontypridd ground rents are included, 1877-1919, until they are incorporated into the Glamorgan town estate, 1920-1938 (AGR 5), before returning to the Cardiff ground rents, 1939-1954.
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Preferred citation: AGR 3