- L90/1-341.
- Ffeil
- 1845.
Rhan oBute Estate Records,
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).