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Papers relating to a re-valuation of the properties of the Monmouthshire estate.

Settled accounts of the Machen collection in the parishes of Bedwas, Bedwellte, Llantarnam, Machen, Mynyddislwyn and Pant-teg in Monmouthshire, and Eglwysilan, Gelli-gaer, Rhydri and Rhyd-y-gwern in Glamorgan, with accounts of casual profits and promiscuous payments. The last volume in the series, AMA 2/10, is not settled.

Rentals and settled accounts of the Tredegar estate in Monmouthshire in the collection of James Tuder (1769-1785) and Henry Brown (1786-1803), together with accounts of casual profits and promiscuous payments. -- The first volume in the series (AMA 3/1) is the settled accounts for the rents of the Tredegar estate in Monmouthshire in the collection of James Tuder (late Thomas Bryan and Charles Powell) in the parishes of Basaleg, Betws, Caerleon & Lansore, Henllys, Malpas, Marshfield, Nash, Newport, Risca and St Woolloos, school lands in Basaleg and St Woolloos, the manors of Caldicot Westend, Llanfaches, Llanfihangel, Magor, Magor le green moor, Newchurch, Roggiet & Ifton, Shirenewton and Undy, the unsettled estate in Thomas Bryan's collection in the parishes of Basaleg, Caerleon & Lansore, Malpas, Newport and St Woolloos, and the manor of Stow, all in the former collection of Thomas Bryan, and in the parishes of Abergavenny, Betws, Cemais Comawndwr, Llanfair and Llangatwg, and the manors of Arnold Castle and Llanfair, and the unsettled estate in [Llangatwg] Coedmorgan, Llanthony or Grosmont, and Llandeilo Gresynni, all in the former collection of Charles Powell. Llanddewi Rhydderch appears in Charles Powell's late collection in 1768. -- By the last volume in the series (AMA 3/13), the collection has evolved into Ruperra and other rents in Newport and the parishes of Basaleg, Coedcernyw, Llanfihangel-y-fedw, Llantarnam, Malpas, Marshfield, Peterstone, Rumney, St Brides and St Mellons, the Friars estate (late Mrs Smith's) in the parishes of Abergavenny, Basaleg, Llanwenarth, Machen, Mynyddislwyn, St Woolloos and Trefethin, and a single property (late Rev. William Edwards's) in the parish of Llanfihangel-y-fedw, all in Monmouthshire, and accounts of casual profits and promiscuous payments, including for Ruperra house and demense, the Friars estate, the Tredegar Park tram road, and the New Lodge weighing machine.

The settled and other accounts of Evan Phillips (d. 1803) for the Tredegar Lower Collection, including in the parishes of Coedcernyw, Llanfihangel-y-fedw, Malpas, Marshfield, Peterstone, Rumney, St Brides and St Mellons.

The main series of Monmouthshire audit books, covering the period from the reorganisation of the various Tredegar estate collections into county estates in 1802, to the sale of the estate in 1957. The series contains the audit books of the Monmouthshire estate, 1802-1918, and the Monmouthshire agricultural estate, 1919-1957. -- The Newport Ground Rents are included until 1887 (AMA 5/13), after which they are separated out to form a new series in 1888 (ANA 5). The audit book for 1915-1916 appears not to have survived. In 1919 the Monmouthshire estate was divided, the Monmouthshire town estate (AMA 6) being separated from what now became the Monmouthshire agricultural estate. The agricultural estate was very much the continuation of the Monmouthshire estate, with premises transferred to the 'Town Rents Department' (the Monmouthshire town estate) actually listed in the 1919 agricultural estate audit, although their rents are only accounted for in terms of decrease from the previous year's Monmouthshire estate rent income. The rent income of the undivided estate was £29,399 in 1918, as compared to the agricultural estate's £23,564 in 1919. Even in 1920, when the transferred premises cease to be listed, all the parishes represented in 1918 continue to be listed. However, Rhiwderyn disappears after 1919 (to AMA 6/1, fo. 84), Shirenewton and Llanfair Cilgedin disappear after 1920, there is no mention of Ifton (under Roggiet in AMA 5/26) after 1922, Caerleon disappears after 1923, Goldcliff appears in 1929, Peterstone-super-montem disappears after 1941, Malpas after 1942 and Caer-went after 1950, and Honeywood appears in 1951. From 1921 onwards 'School lands' are described as 'Rowland Morgan's [or Morgan] charity lands'; they disappear after 1938. -- The Glamorgan agricultural estate is incorporated into the Monmouthshire agricultural estate audit in 1939 (from AGR 3/26 to AMA 5/35), adding rents in the parishes of Eglwysilan, Gelli-gaer, Llanedern, Llanfihangel-y-fedw, Llanisien, Llanwynno, Llys-faen, Peterston-super-montem, Rhyd-y-gwern, Rhydri and Whitchurch; Rhydri disappears from the 'Summary' after 1949, but the Tredegar premises in that parish appear to have been sold in 1941 or earlier (see AMA 5/36, pp. 27 and 195). From 1939 the trend is towards amalgamating the rentals, with the Monmouthshire agricultural rents incorporating the Brecon rents in 1940, the mineral estate in 1949. -- The agricultural estate audit books/rentals for 1944-1948 are missing. AMA 5/37 and AMA 5/38 do not contain details of expenditure and annual balances. They are entitled 'Agricultural estate rentals'. The total income from the agricultural and mineral estate in 1957 was £55,681. -- There is a duplicate series of audit books for the years 1832-1890 (AMA 5/39-48), which run parallel to AMA 5/3-13, apart from some variation in the 'Remarks' column. AMA 5/9-14 have the auditor's name (Mr Carlisle) written at the very beginning of each volume, while AMA 5/40-41 and AMA 5/44-48 have the agent's name (Frederick Justice). The duplicate series of audit books was discontinued after 1890, with a single run of Monmouthshire audit books from 1891 onwards, at much the same time as Tredegar's Newport, Breconshiere and Glamorgan estates were discontinuing their duplicate audit books. The last volume of the duplicate series, covering 1888-1890, was taken up again in 1893 and used as the audit book for 1893-1894; for the sake of convenience this volume has been listed at AMA 5/15 with the main series of audit books rather than with the duplicates. -- The extent given for each volume is taken from the page or folio number on which the text ends, eg, AMA 5/4 is given as 618 pp., and AMA 5/5 as 286 ff. However this may not be a true reflection of the extent of the volume in every case, as AMA 5/34-35 at least contain a mixture of page and folio numbers. AMA 5/34 contains ff. 1-36, pp. 37-84, ff. 85-120, pp. 121-168, ff. 169-204, pp. 205-254.

The rent ledgers devote a single page or a single opening to each tenant, giving name, a description of the holding concerned together with its location, the rents due and paid, and after 1846, sometimes a reference to the appropriate page of the rental survey. In the earlier volumes, rents may be further broken down, distinguishing rent proper from land and property tax, and adding to or deducting from the rent due as property is added to or deducted from the holding. -- At any one time, a group of rental ledgers were in use, with new groups of books started in 1787, 1806, 1818, 1846, 1856, 1885-87, 1900-1904, and 1912-1914. The earliest groups of Monmouthshire estate rent ledgers, formerly MSS 365-384 (1779-1847), are briefly listed in the Preliminary Schedule of the Tredegar Park Muniments, pp. 3640-3711. From 1846, the books within each concurrent group are distinguished by letters of the alphabet: 1846, A-E; 1856, A-G (two G's); 1885-87, A-H; 1900-1904, A-D, E (two), J (two), K, T; and 1912-1914, A-B, D, F, J, Z. A few books get out of synch with the rest of the group, for example, the contents of successive volumes D are dated 1846-1856, 1856-1877, 1878-1896, 1897-1911, 1913-1927. The letter by which each volume is identified on its spine is given in the list below. -- Within each ledger, properties within a single parish tend to be listed together, although properties within a single parish may be split between several of the concurrent volumes. The majority of entries have a back reference to the 'Old Ledger' folio number, and a forward reference to the 'New Ledger'. Generally a property will descend from, for example, one ledger 'A' to the next ledger 'A'; this is especially true between 1846 and 1900, but before and after that period a ledger may have entries forwarded from several previous volumes, and may contribute entries to several successor volumes. However, many properties have a direct descent, as for example, Penyrheol Farm in the parish of Rumney, which descends through each ledger 'A' in turn from 1846 (AMA 10/23, fo. 35, with a back reference to 'OL, fo. 112', viz., AMA 10/20), to 1956, when the freehold was sold (AMA 10/67, fo. 84). -- The arrears accounts for 1898-1903 (AMA 10/45) and 1913-1932 (AMA 10/58) and a number of ledgers of weekly and monthly rents (AMA 10/56-57, 10/59) have been included in this series for convenience.

Files of reports by Habershon & Fawckner (Habershon, Fawckner & Groves from 1898) of surveys of properties in Newport and Pillgwenlli. Most of the reports seem to have been made with a view to a renewal of the lease of the property, and detail the repairs necessary before a renewal can be granted. Habershon & Fawckner were architects to the Tredegar Wharf estate (at least in 1896; see ANS 5/2, no. 73), although the Tredegar Wharf estate is not mentioned explicitely in these reports, as it is in the reports in ANS 4.

Leases and related papers relating to the TWC's properties in Newport.

Copies of payment accounts in respect of the Breconshire estate. Many of these volumes appear to be drafts or rough copies of the fair copies in ABA 1 and 2, with much crossing out and large parts written in pencil. The volume for 1906 (ABA 3/15) was reused in 1915.

The series comprises rent ledgers 'F', containing ledger accounts relating to the farm rents in the Breconshire estate country parishes.
The Breconshire estate ledgers (ABA 4-7) contain the accounts of the individual tenants with the landlord, 1867-1941. Each account continues for the period of the tenancy, with the balance of account transferred from the old ledger to the new ledger. The tenantry of the Breconshire estate are divided into sub-estates, creating four series of ledgers: Brecon rents (B), 1868-1923, Dderw estate rents (D), 1916-23, Farm rents (F, for the 'country' parishes), 1867-1921, and Palleg estate rents (P), 1867-1941. The covering dates of some of the volumes in the same series can overlap, as busy accounts were often transferred to new ledger while slower accounts lingered in the old ledger. Consequently, volumes tended to be discontinued well before they were full, when the slower accounts were finally transferred en masse to the new ledger. Some of the rent ledger volumes include an index of tenants' names. -- Most of the properties in this series of ledgers appear to have been sold in 1915, and some of the other accounts are balanced and transferred to 'Ledger D' (ABA 7/1).

Press letter books of out-going letters of the Breconshire estate. The 1861-1870 volume is numbered 'No. 2', so there was at least one earlier volume.

Three original files of reports and valuations by W. G. Rees of Newport, surveyor and estate agent, and J. F. Groves, including on properties in the parishes of Basaleg, Bedwas, Bedwellte, Christchurch, Llanfihangel Llantarnam, Machen, Marshfield, Mynyddislwyn, Peterstone, Risca, Rogerstone, Roggiet, St Brides, St Mellons and St Woolloos in Monmouthshire, Cardiff, Eglwysilan, Gelli-gaer, Llanwynno and Whitchurch in Glamorgan, and Ystradgynlais in Breconshire. The papers were in chronological order and numbered within each of three binders, the first unlabelled; the second labelled 'W. G. Rees and J. F. Groves, valuations and reports, 1903 to 1916', and the third 'J. F. Groves, valuations and reports, 1903 to [blank]'.

Inventories and schedules of deeds and other papers held at Tredegar, 1775-c.1843, a series of lease books recording deeds passed at the Tredegar estate office, 1896-1936, and a post-1950 schedule of leases.

Volumes containing carbon copies of letters sent by J. G. Palling (1869-1880), Frederick J. Justice (1869-75, 1880-1902), H. P. Williams (1897-1905) and G. P. Mitchell-Innes (1903-1905), all of the Tredegar estate office, Newport. Besides AEC 1/1 and 1/3, which are Frederick Justice's letter books for the period Aug. 1869-Aug. 1875, the volumes (with a missing volume covering Nov. 1890-July 1891) form a single chronological sequence of volumes, passing from one agent to the next. H. P. Williams was possibly the agent's deputy or clerk, and possibly acting agent in 1902-1903, between the death of Colonel Justice and the appointment of Mitchell-Innes. Typewritten letters first appear in Dec. 1902.