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Letters including letters from Robert Daw, secretary of the Cardiff and Glamorgan Literary and Scientific Institution (L90/1, 18), John Nicholl of Merthyr Mawr, MP for the Cardiff boroughs, and chairman of the Quarter Sessions (L90/5, 91, 97 et seq.), Thomas Dalton of Cardiff, Deputy Clerk of the Peace (L90/6, 15, 93 et seq.), Lord James Stuart at Cardiff Castle, MP for the Ayr district of burghs, and trustee of the co. Glam. estate (L90/9-10, 16, 27-9 et seq.), John Singleton Copley, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Chancellor (L90/12), John Bruce Pryce of Dyffryn Aberdare (L90/21, 69-70, 89 et seq.), George Overton of Merthyr Tydfil, owner of a moiety of the Dowlais Old Works (L90/44, 61, 276 et seq.), Lord FitzRoy Somerset (L90/46), Onesipherous Tyndall Bruce of Falkland Palace, Fife, Scotland, personal adviser, and trustee of the co. Glam. estate (L90/56-7, 78, 129 et seq.), Henry John Grant of the Gnoll (L90/132, 141, 294), John, marquis of Bute (L90/153, 171), Sir James Graham, Home Secretary (L90/186, 203, 290), Captain Charles Napier of Bridgend, chief constable of Glamorgan (L90/190, 197, 219), Edmund Corr of Bridgend, superintendant of the Glamorgan constabulary (L90/197), Anthony Hill of the Plymouth Ironworks (L90/229, 252), Henry John George Herbert, 3rd earl of Carnarvon (L90/236), Sidney Herbert, Secretary at War (L90/242, 274), Alderman William Thompson of Penydarran (L90/249, 275), Sir Thomas Phillipps of Middle Hill, Worcestershire, enquiring whether his Glamorganshire Pedigrees and The Charters of Kemeys Barony had arrived at Cardiff Castle and asking for a list of the valuable paintings and manuscripts lost in the fire at Luton Hoo, Nov. (L90/268), Andrew Miller of Cardiff, secretary of the Cardiff Infants' School (L90/307) and Prince George, duke of Cambridge (L90/333). The correspondence includes letters relating to the award by the Public Works Loans Commissioners for consolidating the turnpike trusts in South Wales relating to the New Mill Turnpike Trust, Jan. - Sept. (L90/2, 177), the Glamorgan militia, Jan. - Dec. (L90/3, 25, 41 et seq.), including reference to the regimental records, April - Dec. (L90/96, 172, 335) and the desirability of having a Welsh speaking adjutant, Dec. (L90/278 et seq.), the County Roads Board, Jan. - March (L90/5, 33-4, 49), the provision of churches at Merthyr Tydfil, Jan. - Dec. (L90/7, 17, 48 et seq.), including the desirability of having separate churches for Welsh and English language congregations, Jan. (L90/7), Cardiff Castle, Jan. - Dec. (L90/9-10, 31, 37 et seq.), references to dances, Jan. - Feb. (L90/10, 37), gas lighting at the Castle and the Bute Docks, Nov. (L90/239), the new Glamorgan Commission of the Peace, Jan. - March (L90/11-12, 19, 66), the Merthyr Guardian, Jan. (L90/21), an anonymous letter from Bridgend naming conspirators plotting to blow up the House of Commons, Jan. (L90/28), the renewal of the Dowlais lease and the division of the coal under Merthyr Tydfil Great Common, Feb. - Dec. (L90/45, 50, 54 et seq.), shares in the South Wales Railway, March (L90/52, 60), list of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners who generally attend meetings, March (L90/58), a testimonial to Thomas Attwood, clerk to the Swansea magistrates, for his conduct during the Rebecca riots, May - Oct. (L90/112, 196, 213), Bute Docks, Cardiff, March - Dec. (L90/67, 82, 94 et seq.), a proposal for turning the course of the Taff below Cardiff bridge, March (L90/72), and a proposed Brecon to Leominster railway with branches to Carmarthen, Swansea, Llandeilo and Llanelli, joining the Taff Vale Railway at Merthyr Tydfil, and connecting Nant-y-glo, Tredegar and the principal iron manufactories, March - May (L90/73, 98, 101 et seq.), petitions from the Guardians of the Bridgend and Cowbridge Union and the Cardiff Union against the New Settlement Bill, April - May (L90/81, 99, 104), the consecration of the church and dis-uniting of Cardiff St Mary's from Cardiff St John the Baptist, May - Nov. (L90/116, 168, 218 et seq.), the Tithe Commissioners at Merthyr Tydfil, May (L90/120), application to lay gas pipes in Bute Street, Cardiff, June (L90/133), additional minerals and coals for the Rhymney Iron Co., having built three blast furnaces in addition to the three already on the Bute site, Aug. - Oct. (L90/171, 209), the complaint of Morgan Davies of Llangynwyd Village, Maes-teg, against Messrs Malins and Rawlinson of Coed-y-garth colliery, for withholding pay and operating a Truck shop, and against Rev. Robert Knight, a partner in the colliery's railway, and Rev. H. L. Blose and Mr Llewellyn, his sons-in-law, all Bridgend magistrates, for operating proverbially corrupt justice against the colliers and miners, Sept. - Nov. (L90/178, 197, 257), Scottish tour of Lord James Stuart, Sept. - Nov., including comments on the road and weather between Oban, Argyll, Scotland, and Fort William, Inverness-shire, Scotland, including the Ballachulish ferry, Argyll, Scotland (L90/187), a visit to Culloden Field, Inverness-shire, Scotland (L90/202), a proposed Great Welsh Central Railway, Oct. (L90/236) and a proposed Ogmore and Garw Vales and Cardiff Union Railway, Dec. (L90/326).

Letters mainly from Lord Windsor to Edmund Lloyd at Cardiff, his Glamorgan steward. The letters include reference to the walking of bounds 'over the Hill', May 1754 (L92/1), the price of corn, Jan. 1756 - Nov. 1757 (L92/6, 13, 27 et seq.), distribution of relief to the poor of Cardiff, including the discharge of gaoled debtors in gratitude for the recovery of Lady Windsor from illness, Jan. 1756 - July 1757 (L92/6, 13, 18-19 et seq.), the Ten Commandments, Creed and Lord's Prayer to be put up in Llanmaes church, May 1756 (L92/10), elections, June 1756 - May 1757 (L92/12, 14-15, 32-3), the execution of 'that enemy to his country', Admiral John Byng, Feb. - March 1757 (L92/26-28), Mr Traherne's lead mining lease, March - Nov. 1757 (L92/27-8, 37-40, 44) and a proposed Monmouth to Usk turnpike road, Nov. 1757 (L92/43).

Letters mainly to Thomas Edwards, the Glamorgan steward, including from Lady Alice Windsor (L93/2-3, 12), Lord Mountstuart (L93/4-5, 10, 13-23 et seq.), Thomas Browne of London, estate secretary (L93/7, 24, 26 et seq.), Thomas Coutts, banker, (L93/34), Sir Herbert Mackworth (L93/40, 55, 58-9 et seq.), Robert Stephenson of Plawsworth, co. Durham, steward (L93/86, 90, 92-4), and Sir William Musgrave (L93/98), together with some draft replies (L93/1, 8, 11 et seq.). The letters include letters relating to the Glamorgan militia, Jan. 1776 - May 1783 (L93/4, 13, 41-4 et seq.), Lord Mountstuart rumoured to depart for Spain as ambassador to Madrid, May 1776 - May 1783 (L93/10, 95, 99), opinion that Lady Windsor will never consent to purchase anything in Wales, June 1776 (L93/14), Cardiff Castle, including Lord Pembroke insisting that Cardiff borough includes the castle which is denied by Lord Mountstuart, Oct. 1776 - Oct. 1777 (L93/15, 20, 23 et seq.), straggling seamen to be apprehended for service in the king's Navy, Nov. 1776 (L93/16), Lord Mountstuart's order that no new burgesses are to be made in the boroughs of Cardiff, Cowbridge and Llantrisant, April 1777 (L93/21), the livings of p's Neath, Merthyr Tydfil, Gelli-gaer and Llanmaes offered for sale by Thomas Edwards, May - June 1777 (L93/25, 29), a violent spirit raised among the Presbyterians against enclosing the waste in Glynrondda, Sept. 1777 (L93/35), appointment of Robert Stephenson as manager of the Mountstuart estates in Wales and the north of England, Aug. - Oct. 1778 (L93/86, 89), reports on the estate in north Glamorgan, including 'there cannot at present be a more neglected estate, or wretched set of tenants, with miserable habitations, indeed, to dwell in', Sept. 1779 (L93/90), and an attack on letting on leases for lives or 99 years (L93/91), the borough of Cardiff, including Jane Herbert's charity school and non-resident aldermen, May 1783 (L93/95, 99-100), the election of aldermen to the borough of Llantrisant, May 1783 (L93/97) and a Scottish factor or doer recommended to be made agent of the Welsh estates 'and if he understands Erse it will facilitate his learning Welsh', May 1783 (L93/98).

Letters mainly to Henry Hollier mostly from John, Lord Mountstuart, and also from James Harford of Bristol, banker and ironmaster (L94/13), John Stuart (L94/62, 153), Charlotte, lady Mountstuart (L94/73, 123, 126 et seq.) and Justice [George] Hardinge (L94/194). The letters relate mainly to estate matters but include references to the Melingriffith copper company, Nov 1783 - July 1784 (L94/4-5, 6, 13), Cardiff Castle, including Matthew's tan-yard and William Lewis's ironworks, both adjoining, Nov. 1783 - June 1788 (L94/4-5, 17-19, 25 et seq., see also C 91, C 125, and D 152/15 et seq.), Lord Mountstuart's resignation of the Spanish embassy, Jan. 1784 (L94/7), relief of the poor, including an offer of £50 which would liberate more than half the debtors in Cardiff gaol, or to be given to the more deserving poor, Feb. 1784 (L94/8), an offer of £50-60 for the relief of debtors or for provisions for the poor, 'we have had here for near three weeks the hardest winter I ever recollect', Dec. 1784 (L94/26-7), relief of the poor in Cardiff, Cowbridge and Llantrisant, Jan. 1789 and Jan. 1790 (L94/131, 166), arrangements for the return of Sir Herbert Mackworth, Lord Mountstuart's nominee, as MP for the Glamorgan boroughs, and the Duke of Beaufort's nominee as MP for co. Glam., March 1784 (L94/11), the disputed title to Llanblethian Castle, July 1784 - June 1785 (L94/13-14, 17, 40), arrangements to bring forward Frederick, brother of Lord Mountstuart, as MP for the Glamorgan boroughs should Sir Herbert Mackworth's disorder prove fatal, the creation of dependant voters in the borough of Cardiff, and enquiry as to the number of freemen in the borough of Kenfig, Nov. 1784 (L94/23, 25), anonymous letter attacking William Davies, the Llantrisant agent, Nov. 1784 (L94/26), the loss of the pre-1770 Llantrisant borough records, including the burgess admission records, and the desirability of supplying the deficiency secretly, as the other boroughs are probably in the same predicament, which might be taken advantage of should any electoral opposition arise, Nov. 1785 - May 1786 (L94/51, 53, 65, cf. C123 and L43/81 et seq.), the Glamorgan militia, including 'the military are always obnoxious ... we must in future look alone to natives' to fill commissions, Jan. 1786 - Nov. 1790 (L94/59-60, 62-3, 79 et seq.), an old charter granted to the borough of Llantrisant by Richard Beauchamp, earl of Warwick (d. 1439) or his son (d. 1445) found in the private possession of an alderman, including reference to two missing charters of Cardiff, Jan. - Feb. 1787 (L94/85-6, 88), the return of the Great Sessions from Cowbridge to Cardiff, May - Dec. 1787 (L94/90, 92-3, 105), doubts as to the attachment of the borough of Cowbridge to the Mountstuart interest and the need to introduce dependant voters and 'some confidential person' to take the chief lead in borough affairs, Oct. 1787 - Jan. 1790 (L94/103, 105-6, 156 et seq.), a proposal to introduce a large body of sure voters into the borough of Cardiff, Oct. 1787 - May 1788 (L94/104, 106, 119-20), Jane Herbert's charity school, Cardiff, Jan. 1788 (L94/109), and praise for the accuracy, completeness and neatness of Bird's records, Jan. - June 1788 (L94/109, 120), the corporation pews in the church of Cardiff, June 1788 (L94/120, plan transferred to the Dept. of Picture and Maps), the need for dependant burgesses in the borough of Llantrisant, June 1788 - Feb. 1789 (L94/121, 124-5, 136), the Spinning School at Cardiff, July 1788 - Aug. 1789 (L94/123, 126, 151), Mr Ibbetson, painter, engaged to take views in co. Glam., and to be made acquainted with the most beautiful spots, June 1789 (L94/145), complaint about Mr Guest enclosing commons comprised in the Dowlais lease, June 1789 (L94/146), Cardiff gaol, Nov. 1789 - Jan. 1790 (L94/162, 166), the loss of the Great Sessions to Cardiff unless at least one third of the ale-houses are shut down, Dec. 1789 - Sept. 1790 (L94/164, 181), the proposed Glamorganshire Canal, Feb. - Sept. 1790 (L94/168, 180, 182) and parliamentary election, June - Aug. 1790 (L94/173-5, 178).

Letters mainly to Henry Hollier, from various correspondents, including John Bird of Cardiff (L97/7, 10, 53), Lord Mountstuart (L97/25), Augustus Henry FitzRoy, third duke of Grafton (L97/26), William Cook the younger of Afan Forges, ironmaster (L97/27, 31, 38 et seq.), Sir Herbert Mackworth of Gnoll Castle (L97/28), Anthony Bacon of Cyfarthfa, ironmaster (L97/39), Richard Hill of Cyfarthfa, ironmaster (L97/42, 45, 78), John Wood of Cardiff (L97/50, 73), Thomas Guest of Dowlais Furnace (L97/57), and William Lewis of the Pen-tyrch Co. (L97/62, 64, 70 et seq.). The letters include letters relating to the Clergy Charity in the diocese of Llandaf, including printed rules and list of subscribers for 1783, Aug. 1783 - June 1786 (L97/4, 30, 80 et seq.), references to the disputed titles to Llanblethian Castle, May 1784 (L97/33), and to the College estate, May 1784 - Aug. 1785 and undated (L97/33, 96, 148), plea to have a dispute relating to hunting at Aberdare settled, 'or there is some people here very angry ... Lodovick John has almost been kilt in drinking my Lord's health', Jan. 1785 (L97/60), and the Swansea coach robbed twice between Cardiff and Chepstow, Feb. 1785 (L97/75).

Letters mainly to Henry Hollier, including letters from John Morgan of Neath, clerks of the various hundreds of co. Glam., (L9 et.seq.) and Richard Crawshay of Cyfarthfa (L98/18). The letters include references to the Glamorgan militia, March 1793 - Sept. 1794 (L98/1-14, 16-17, 19-22 et seq.), the substitution of regimental band musicians as volunteers for ballotted men, including John Powell, harper, April - June 1794 (L98/21, 24, 30-1) and the desertion of a party of 35 ballotted men at Cardiff after refusing to march to the regiment before receiving their marching guinea, June - July 1794 (L98/37, 40-1),.

The letters include copy correspondence with the Earl of Findlater's factor relating to the engagement of John Coul as Lord Mountstuart's Welsh agricultural agent, Sept. - Oct. 1786 (L101/17), the Llantrisant charter in the hands of the alderman and other charters granted by the ancient Lords of Glamorgan, translated and copied into a book, Nov. 1786 - Oct. 1787 (L101/18, 23, 33 et seq.), the removal of the Great Sessions from Cowbridge to Cardiff, May 1787 (L101/33), references to the seizure of muslin and other linen clothes by the Customs, Oct. 1788 (L101/65-7, 71), the removal of the estate records from the damp office adjoining Cathays to Cardiff Castle, Nov. 1788 (L101/72), reform of the system of keeping accounts, Nov. 1788 - Oct. 1789 (L101/72, 75, 89-91 et seq.), approval of the relief of the poor of Cardiff, Cowbridge and Llantrisant during the late severe weather and regret that the debtors and criminals in Cardiff gaol were not also relieved, Jan. 1789 (L101/76), alarm at the number of new burgesses created at Cardiff and the early dissolution of Parliament, March - April 1789 (L101/82, 84, 87-8), the Glamorgan militia, Nov. 1789 - April 1795 (L101/98, 175, 182 et seq.), reference to the mayor of Nottingham being a dissenter, and that an application to the Court of King's Bench, which has alarmed the bailiffs of the borough of Cardiff, is a prelude to a trial of strength between the Church parties, Feb. 1790 (L101/101), the Glamorganshire Canal Bill, March - April 1796 (L101/103-110, 112, 114 et seq.), dissolution of Parliament, June 1790 (L101/120, 122-3), the election of Captain Evelyn James Stuart as MP for the Glamorgan boroughs, Jan. 1794 (L101/181), the Cardiff subscription fund for supplying the poor with corn, June - July 1795 (L101/207-208), the living of Merthyr Tydfil, July - Nov. 1795 (L101/210, 214, 220), the levelling of enclosures made on Cardiff Great Heath, Feb. - Sept. 1796 (L101/226, 229, 231 et seq.) and the dissolution of Parliament and the re-election of Lord Evelyn Stuart as MP for the Glamorgan boroughs, including reference to an election ball, May 1796 (L101/239-243).

The letters include references to the renewal of the Dowlais lease, Oct. 1848 - March 1849 (L108/5-7, 12-14, 16, et eq.) and the reservation of land for ballast ground, on the basis of an export trade of 1 million tons of coal and iron a year, and imported ballast to be one sixth of the exports, March 1849 (L108/17-18).

Letters to John, marquis of Bute, including letters from Edward Maltby, bishop of Durham (L110/6), Matthew Plummer, chairman of the Newcastle upon Tyne and Carlisle Railway Co., relating to a Central Union Railway to Edinburgh (L110/9), Charles Thorpe, archdeacon of Durham (L110/11, 13), Rev. Thomas Jackson, curate of Collierley (L110/19, 45, 51-2), Sir Thomas Henry Liddell, baron Ravensworth (L110/20, 34-5, 43 et seq.), John, marquis of Bute (L110/31), Thomas Liddell, son of Lord Ravensworth (L110/53) and Charles Whitby, librarian of the University of Durham (L110/61). The letters include a printed letter from the Newcastle upon Tyne Coal-Trade Office, July 1843 (L110/2), the chaplaincy of the Northern Asylum for the Blind, Deaf and Dumb, Newcastle upon Tyne, including 'we have a difficulty, partly from the scruples of dissenters', March - April 1844 (L110/11, 13), Tanfield National School, May 1844 - Dec. 1845 (L110/15-16, 18, 42), Collierley National Schools, including that 'the principal land & coal owner here is of the Roman Catholic church', May 1844 - July 1846 (L110/19, 45, 51-2), the repewing of Lanchester church, March - Dec. 1845 (L110/31, 33, 41), the Newcastle upon Tyne meeting of the Agricultural Society of England, Feb. - June 1846 (L110/44, 47) the prisoners in Durham prison, Dec. 1846 (L110/64), the purchase of the living of Kirknewton, Dec. 1844 - Dec. 1845 (L110/24, 26, 32 et seq.), the purchase of the Brandling Junction Railway, Dec. 1844 - Sept. 1845 (L110/25-7, 29, 36-8) and the election of secretary of the Newcastle Infirmary, April 1845 (L110/34).

Letters to John, marquis of Bute, and to Thomas Collingdon from Matthew Thompson, fitter at the Pontop Office, and later at the Garesfield Office. The letters include a reference to a renewal of the contract to supply Garesfield coal to the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, Jan. - Feb. 1845 (L113/2, 5), monthly estimates of monies required at the fitting office of the Tanfield Lea and Garesfield collieries, Feb. 1845 - Jan. 1847 (L113/3, 6, 13 et seq.), the Stanhope and Tyne Railway Co.'s 'Original Tanfield' coal introduced into the Lynn coal market, in competition to Lord Bute's 'Original Windsor's Tanfield', May 1845 (L113/14, 16-17), the break-up of the coal combination, May 1845 (L113/15-16), production figures for the collieries and coke ovens, June 1845 - July 1846 (L113/18, 20, 25 et seq.), printed bill of the Hareshaw Iron Co., Hexham, Northumberland, Nov. 1841 (L113/36), the coal trade, particularly the London market, has not been worse for 12-15 years, Feb. 1846 (L113/48), including a possible contract to supply Donald R. Macgregor with 10,000 tons of coking coal a year for the North British Railway or the Edinburgh and Berwick Railway, Feb. - May 1846 (L113/48-9, 51, 58), a return of the 1845 consignments of Tanfield Lea coal to the London market, showing the date, ship and loss on each consignment, July 1846 (L113/63), an attempted combination by the collieries on the Tanfield branch of the Newcastle and Darlington Railway July 1846 (L113/64), a contract secured to supply the Dundee and Arbroath Railway, and reference to the opening of the Dundee and Perth Railway, Aug. 1846 (L113/65), lists of the collieries belonging to the 'Grand Alliance', the coal-seams worked, the names under which their coals are sold, and their quality and uses, Sept. - Oct. 1846 (L113/67, 69), the 1842 Newcastle and Darlington Railway Act, Oct. - Dec. 1846 (L113/70-72), the Pontop and South Shields Railway Co. sold to [George] Hudson for £450,000, Oct. - Dec. 1846 (L113/70, 73), who is anxious to buy the North British Railway to bring the whole line from Rugby to Edinburgh under his control, but in competition with the North Western Co., who have secured the Edinburgh and Glasgow, Dec. 1846 (L113/72), Garesfield coking coal supplied to the German railways, March 1848 (L113/77), the coal trade depressed, May 1848 (L113/83-4), the coke trade must remain depressed until the Danish - Prussian/Schleswig-Holstein war is settled as a considerable quantity goes to the Baltic, May 1848 - April 1849 (L113/84, 92, 100), the sale of the Tanfield Lea colliery to James Joicey, June 1848 - Jan. 1849 (L113/85, 93-5), the Aberdeen Junction Co. contract won by the Brancepeth Coking Co., Oct. 1848 (L113/89), and production figures for Garesfield colliery and the coke ovens, Dec. 1848 (L113/92).

Letters relating to the estates of the North family in which John, marquis of Bute, had a life interest by virtue of his first wife, Maria, daughter and co-heiress of George North, earl of Guilford. Her share of her father's property comprised the 2,945 acre Kirtling estate in Cambridgeshire and the 350 acre Harlow estate in Essex. Maria died childless in 1841, and the estates reverted to the North family on the death of the Marquis of Bute in 1848.

Letters to John, marquis of Bute, including letters from Benjamin Ferrey of London, architect (L114/1, 3, 6-7 et seq.), Richard Faircloth, honorary secretary of the Provident and Medical Club at Newmarket (L114/4, 23, 50 et seq.), William Coleman Gill, steward at Harlow (L114/13, 17, 30 et seq.), George P. Collin, [?steward] at Kirtling (L114/17, 25, 35 et seq.), Rev. Edmund Hill of Kirtling Tower (L114/34, 39, 57 et seq.), J. Fairlie of the Provident Club at Newmarket (L114/51, 59, 64), John Henry Manners, fifth duke of Rutland (L114/70), John Fletcher of Belvoir Castle, steward to the Duke of Rutland (L114/71), and Rev. Hewith Carey, curate of the chapel of St Mary Magdalene, p. Harlow (L114/77, 81). The letters include references to the parsonage and almshouses at Kirtling, Jan. - Dec. (L114/1, 6-7, 25-7 et seq.), the fire at Luton Hoo and an incendiary fire in p. Harlow, Jan. (L114/2), the Provident and Medical Club at Newmarket, including the relief of the permanent paupers and fees in the Union Workhouse, Feb. - Oct. (L114/4, 23, 50-1 et seq.), a new church at Ashley, March - July (L114/8-9, 16, 24 et seq.), paid emigration from Kirtling, sailing from Southampton for Canada, March - Aug. (L114/10, 15, 19 et seq.), an agricultural show at Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, July (L114/34), scarlet fever raging in the p's adjoining Kirtling, including a number of deaths, Oct. (L114/57), an agricultural meeting at Saffron Walden, Oct. (L114/62), John Henry Manners, fifth duke of Rutland's system of draining on his estates in Leicestershire, Nov. (L114/70-1), petition from Lord Bute's tenants in p. Harlow for a reduction in the tithe composition, the corn crop having been poor and the price ruinously low, being about half the price it was when the petitioners compounded, Nov. - Dec. (L114/76, 80), the Walderhave Road Turnpike Trust, Dec. (L114/78, 82) and Ashley Clothing Club, Dec. (L114/83).

The letters include references to the Glamorganshire Canal Co., Jan. 1847 - Feb. 1849 (L117/1, 37), the Fund for the Distressed Districts of Ireland and Scotland, Jan. 1847 (L117/3), the Taff Vale Railway Co., Feb. 1847 - July 1849 (L117/4-5, 7-9, 11 et seq.), deeds relating to Luton Hoo, March - May 1848 (L117/14, 20), bye-laws for the Bute Docks, Cardiff, Sept. 1848 - June 1849 (L117/26-7, 46), the Equitable Assurance Office mortgage on the Kirtling estate, Oct. 1848 (L117/30), a return of coal loaded at the Staithes, co. Durham, one third as much as the coal trade of the Bute Docks, Cardiff, Feb. 1849 (L117/38), the Vale of Neath Railway Co., April 1849 (L117/42) and an offer to buy the estate's coke ovens on the river Tyne, April 1849 (L117/43).