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Glamorgan Estate rentals,

The rentals run from 1728 to 1875/6. In 1842, Cardiff was made a separate district with its own series of rentals (see R 4 below). In 1843, the rental of the remaining Glamorgan Estate was split into two parts, namely Farm Rents and Cottage and Reserved Rents, although both rentals are found in the same volume. In 1876/77, the districts were re-organized, with most of the remaining Cardiff properties, and all of the Roath properties, being transferred from the Glamorgan Estate to the Cardiff District, which were simultaneously re-named Country and Cardiff; the Country rentals come down to 1892/93. With minor variations, the order within the rentals is as follows:. 1728-79. Ogmore, Boverton and Llantwit, Llantwit Rawley, Llanmaes Bedford and Malefant, Llanblethian, Cowbridge, Ruthin, Llantrisant, Miskin, Glynrhondda, Pen-tyrch and Clun, Senghennydd supra, Senghennydd subtus, Rudry and Whitchurch, Llys Tal-y-bont, Roath Dogfield, Spittle, Cardiff, Leckwith, Cosmeston, Walterston. 1780-1841. Cardiff, Spittle (to 1807), Llys Tal-y-bont, Roath Dogfield, Leckwith, Llandough and Cogan (from 1821), Cosmeston, Walterston, Llanmaes Bedford and Malefant, Llantwit Rawley, Boverton and Llantwit, Llanblethian, Cowbridge (to 1782), Ogmore, Ruthin, Llantrisant, Miskin, Pen-tyrch and Clun, Senghennydd, New Purchases. 1845-1892/93. Farm rents, comprising Cardiff, Roath (to 1875/76), Llys Tal-y-bont, Leckwith Moors (to 1875/76), Leckwith, Llandough, Cosmeston, Ogmore, Ruthin, Glynrhondda, Miskin, Pen-tyrch and Clun, Senghennydd, Monmouthshire (to 1872/73), Roath Tithes, Llanedern Tithes. Cottage rents, comprising Cardiff, Roath (to 1875/76), Llys Tal-y-bont, Leckwith, Llandough, Cosmeston, Walterston, Llanmaes Bedford and Malefant (to 1889/90), Boverton and Llantwit, Llantwit Rawley, Llanblethian, Ruthin, Glynrhondda, Treherbert (from 1876/77), Treorchy (from 1876/77), Miskin, Llantrisant (to 1891/92), Pen-tyrch and Clun, Senghennydd, Ysgwydd-gwyn (from 1876/77), Monmouthshire. Changes occur to a number of the individual lordships, parishes and manors that made up the estate. Unless otherwise noted below they descend undisturbed or, with only minor omissions noted in the list, from 1728 to 1892/93:. Ogmore demesne, fair and fishery: the fair is struck out as 'quite reduced' in 1754; the demesne is omitted in 1779 as 'not now in the possession of the Family', and the entry struck out in 1782; the fishery is the 'absolute Right of Fishing in the River Ewenny in the Parish of St Bride's Major, and the right of Fishing 4 days out of 8 in the River Ogmore, in the Parish of Merthyr Mawr and St Bride's Major'. Llanmaes Bedford and Malefant, omitted from 1889/90. Cowbridge borough, transferred to 'Chief and other rents' in 1783. Llantrisant borough, including burgage rents from 1816, transferred to Pen-tyrch and Clun, 1892/93. Glynrhondda, including sub-divisions for Treherbert and Treorchy, from 1876/77. Senghennydd Subtus (including sub-division for Rudry and Whitchurch, 1729-51) and Senghennydd Supra, merged from 1775 and including sub-division for Ysgwydd-gwyn [p. Gelli-gaer] from 1876/77. Roath Dogfield (and Roath Keynsham in 1792). Roath from 1827 and transferred to the Cardiff District rental in 1876/77. Spittle, omitted from 1808, being at least partially transferred to Cardiff. Cardiff. Some farm and cottage rents remain on the Glamorgan Estate rental after the creation of the Cardiff District in 1842 and even after the enlargement of the Cardiff District in 1876/77. Leckwith. From 1851/52, the Leckwith farm rents are divided into Leckwith Moors (transferred to Cardiff in 1876/77) and Leckwith. Cosmeston. Includes Flat Holm until 1823, but the island is included in Cardiff borough from 1824. Monmouthshire. A single house in Usk from at least 1781, usually listed under Senghennydd, but occasionally separately (eg, 1792 and1794). From 1825, the house was supplemented by purchased property. Stray rentals for the lordships of Usk and Tryleg are preserved in R 1/1 and R 6/10, below. Chief and other [ie, customary, cottage, burgage and abbotts] rents, extracted from the body of the rental 1782-87 (Cowbridge burgage rents from 1873), and 1802. Where these are not a single sum of money due from a portreeve or someone else who had the farm of the rents these entries appear to be totals passed over from the manorial rentals (series R 6, below). New Purchases / Purchased Estate comprising the following:. Properties in Cardiff, 1781-82, appended to Cardiff borough, 1783-86, and transferred into the same, 1787-94. Properties in Cardiff (including chief rents of Kibbor otherwise Friars), Roath, Llandough (including chief rents), Peterstone and St Bride's, Ystradyfodwg and Eglwysilan, 'new purchased from Messrs Hurst and Jones', were similarly intermixed (with the Ystradyfodwg properties under Glynrhondda and the Eglwysilan properties under Senghennydd), 1792-93, then separated out, along with the 1781 Cardiff purchases, as the Purchased Estate, 1794-99, before being moved to separate volumes, 1800-14 (R 2/10-11), appended to the Glamorgan Estate rental in 1815, and finally intermixed from 1816. Whitchurch appears in 1797 and 1800-7 only, and Peterston also disappears after 1807. From 1818 the chief rents of Llandough and of Kibbor otherwise Friars are transferred to the manorial rental. In the gap between 1821 and 1827 in Series R1 the draft rentals R 2/8-13 show that a number of purchases were made between those years comprising the tithes of p's Leckwith, Llandough and Cogan (1824, all subsumed under Llandough), a Llanisien estate purchased from Wyndham Lewis in 1825 (see D 91), and properties in co. Mon., 1825, and Aberdare, 1827. Other purchases also appear at the end of the rental for a year or two, before being incorporated into the body of the rental. In 1836, properties in Llandaf and Ystradyfodwg purchased from Mrs Pride and from Mr Wood's assignees respectively make their first appearance, and in 1838 properties in Llandaf purchased from John Harford and in Cardiff purchased from Thomas Thomas and Rev. George Thomas. In 1841, the Bute Ship Canal and Docks (for this year only, before being transferred to the Cardiff District) and the Roath tithes appear, and in 1845/46, the Llanedern tithes. In 1845/46, the Mrs Pride and John Harford purchases in Llandaf were incorporated into Cardiff, and the Mr Wood Ystradyfodwg properties into Glynrhondda; the Wyndham Lewis Llanisien and Aberdare entries also disappear (Aberdare at least partially into Miskin). The Pwllypant estate bequeathed to the Marquis of Bute by William Evan Williams in 1870 does not appear to have been integrated into the rentals of the Bute estate. The Pwllypant estate rentals, 1837-93, will be found with the other records of that estate at D 255. Besides the casual profits and settled accounts appended to the rentals there are a number of booklets and papers of accounts bound into R 1/6-7, including:. R 1/6, pp. 129-36 Cash disbursement and receipt accounts of Thomas Thomas, Dec. 1778 - Oct. 1782. R 1/6, pp. 137-50 Expenditure account of Mr Stephenson, 1778-82. R 1/6, pp. 151-94 Settled accounts of Thomas Thomas, 1778-82. R 1/6, pp. 195-8 Cardiff Castle Audit and accounts, 1780. R 1/6, pp. 199-200 Settled accounts of Thomas Thomas, 1780-2. R 1/6, pp. 224-40 Expenditure and settled accounts of Mr Stephenson, 1783-5. R 1/7, pp. 108-31 Disbursement and remittance accounts of Henry Hollier, 1783-5. R 1/7, pp. 132-66 Sundry accounts, 1787-8.

Cardiff District rentals,

The Cardiff District was formed out of the Glamorgan Estate in 1842, 'of that part of the Marquis of Bute's Estate that is situated in Cardiff and its immediate vicinity comprehending the Town of Cardiff the Docks and accommodation Lands extending easterly to the confines of Adams Down Farm on the road leading from the Bristol Channel along the Cardiff Moors to near the County Gaol and from thence to the East Toll Gate on the Turnpike Road leading to Newport and from thence along the Road leading to the Race Course to Crws y bychan Toll Bar to the Road over the Railway Bridge at the Top of Cathays Park and along the Boundary of the Blackweir and Park Farm to the Taff River following its course from thence to the Channel' (R 5/1, cover). In 1842 Cardiff was made a separate district. The arrears of 1841 and the previous years were however charged to the 'Cardiff District and are contained in the following pages' (R 4/1, p.3). From 1876/77, most of the remaining Cardiff properties and all of the Roath properties in the Glamorgan Estate were transferred to the Cardiff District which, as Cardiff, has rentals coming down to 1895. Many of the draft Cardiff District rentals (series R 5) contain an index to streets which was not fair-copied into these rentals, except in 1894 and 1895 (R 4/43 and 44). R 4/12-26 contain lists of 'Public House License Money', listing Bute's licensed Cardiff premises and their tenants.

Manorial rentals,

A number of once loose booklets and paper rentals, collections and accounts down to 1815 were at some stage bound together and numbered 1-13 (now R 6/1-2, 4-6, 9-10, 12, 16-17, 20, 25, 27). Vol. 1 (R 6/1) combines two rentals of 1595-6 covering various manors, starting with Senghennydd Supra and Neath Ultra respectively; vols 2-13 are gatherings by collection, some of them of a single manor, others of a number of manors. From 1816 (R 6/28) all the manorial rentals are brought together into a single volume, although various post-1815 drafts and duplicates survive from the various individual collections.

Draft monthly accounts,

The main sequence of this class is a run of annual booklets which continues after the 1842 reorganization of the estate as the Cardiff District draft monthly accounts. The Glamorgan Estate draft cash books, which serve the same purpose for that department of the estate after 1842, are appended to this class as A3/29-30. From the death of the second Marquis on 18 March 1848 the agent accounted with the executors and trustees of the Marquis of Bute and from 30 Sept. 1848 with the Marchioness of Bute. A3/24 includes the accounts of the Marchioness of Bute and A3/27-8 are exclusively her accounts. A number of booklets containing late eighteenth century accounts, both draft and fair copies, are to be found bound in R 1/6 and 7. From A3/4, each volume runs from 1 Aug. to 31 July.

Accounts current,

This class is the agent's copy of the annual settled account signed by Lord Bute. In later years, however, the estate and the agent's copies appear to have become mixed - or at least less distiction was made between the two - as some of the booklets listed below are signed by the auditor and some by the agent, while some are signed by both, and one is a duplicate endorsed 'Not to be signed'. The post-1842 accounts are for the Cardiff District only. Post-1842 settled accounts for the Glamorgan Estate will be found in class A7. Each volume runs from 1 Aug. to 31 July.

Yearly accounts,

A7/1-5 are volumes into which the estate's copy of the annual settled account has been copied, while A7/6-8 are gatherings of annual booklets similar to the agent's copy in class A6. The early volumes, A7/1-4 and 8, were also known as ledgers. The post-1842 accounts, A 7/9-14, are for the Glamorgan Estate only, and run from 10 July to 10 July; the equivalent accounts for the Cardiff District will be found in class A6.

Personal correspondence and papers of John, second marquis of Bute,

Letters mainly to John, Lord Dumfries, and, from 1814 second marquis of Bute, mainly from family, friends and political and ecclesiastical figures, letters relating to the management of family accounts and annuities, and letters relating to his English estates, including interests at Banbury and Wroxton, both in Oxfordshire, and at Luton, Bedfordshire. Originally bundled as 'Miscellaneous', the correspondence also includes petitions for assistance and applications for subscriptions, often including printed enclosures.

Correspondence re. the guardianship of the children of Lord Henry Stuart, dec,

Records and letters relating to the guardianship of Henry, William, Charles and Gertrude Stuart, orphans of the late Lord Henry Stuart [the fifth son of John, first marquis of Bute] (d. 1809) and Lady Gertrude-Amelia Stuart his wife (d. 1809), and of Henry Stuart and his sister [?Elizabeth], [children of ?Lord George Stuart,] under the guardianship of the Marquis of Bute and Lord Hertford.

Luton estate correspondece,

Letters relating to the Luton estate and Bedfordshire interests of John, marquis of Bute, as lord of the manor of Luton and Lord Paramount of the Hundred of Flitt.

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