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Records relating to the commission.

An assessment of the borough of Newport made in pursuance of an act of Parliament for granting to his majesty the sum of £989,965 19s. 6d. towards the maintenance of the navy, guard and garrisons and paying the debt of seamen and other necessary occasions, 1700; and an assessment of the borough of Newport for raising the sum of £44 0s. 2d. in land tax, 1753.

Solicitors' clients' papers unrelated to the Tredegar estate. Most of the papers relate to the administration of the estate of Thomas John Evans of Glancelyn, dec., by his executors, Henry F. W. Harries of Brecon, solicitor, and Major Henry John Archibald Evans of Chalcombe House, Banbury, Oxfordshire, 1892-1928. The connection between these papers and the Tredegar estate is that H. F. W. Harries also acted as the agent for the Tredegar Breconshire estate. The papers include items dated 1928, so were swept into the Breconshire estate records after that date, presumably when the Breconshire estate office was finally closed and the records sent to the Newport office. The papers mainly comprise vouchers and related papers, including paying rates and tithes in the parishes of Glyn and Defynnog in Breconshire, and Slebech and Wiston in Pembrokeshire, and receiving moneys out of the Barry Estate Co. Ltd and the Merthyr Tudful glebe estate in Glamorgan, the Colby estate, Pembrokeshire, and dividends from various companies, mainly railway companies. The beneficiaries of the estate appear to have been Rev. John James Evans (d. by Feb. 1924), Mary Dorothes Jame Evans, Eleanor Mote Evans and Major H. J. A. Evans. -- Although the remaining two files relate to Cardiff and Roath, 1914-1931 (P 5/6/20-21), Henry F. W. Harries acted in the case of P 5/6/20, and the papers probably came from his office.

Letters extracted from a binder entitled 'Christchurch Highway Board, letter file, to April 1890'. The letters are addressed to H. J. Davis of Newport, solicitor, in his capacity as clerk to the Christchurch Highway Board. He was also an agent of the Tredegar estate, and presumably this file was caught up by mistake with the Tredegar estate letter files. The letters include circulars from the Highway Board Clerks' Society, 1882-83 (69, 73-74, 114), the orders of the Monmouthshire Quarter Sessions for regulating main roads, 1882 (195), a memorial from G. H. Thorne, surveyor to the board, in answer to the remarks of William Williams, waywarden of p. Redwick, that he has been extravagant with the ratepayers' money, 1885 (198), a notice from the Monmouthshire Commission of Sewers that the commutation of the board's liabilities on its lands in Caldicot under the Caldicot and Wentlloog Level Act of 1884 has been prepared, 1887 (239), a number of the quarterly reports to the Quarter Sessions of William Tanner, county surveyor, on the main roads, 1885-88 (221, 265).

Three original bundles relating to the estate of James Butler of Warminghurst, Sussex, esq., and the rents of Mrs Martha Butler and Misses Ann Jemima and Patty Butler, all originally enclosed in an contemporary wrapper endorsed ‘Acc’ts & vouchers from Lady Day 1775 to Lady Day 1776 inclusive & receits for ballance’. The estate includes Bowfird Farm, Broadwater Farm, Capore, Chancton Manor Farm, Chantry Farm, Clayton, Decoy Farm, Five Mile Ash, Heene Farm, Heene Windmill, Houghton Parsonage, Houghton Upper and Lower Farms, Kithurst Farm, Rowdell Farm, Idehurst, Pricklows, Rackham, Squinces, Thakeham, Washington and Waterfield, some at least of which are in the area of Storrington, Washington and Arundel, Sussex.

Papers relating to charities in co's Brec., Rad. and Mon., including charities sponsored by the Morgan family of Tredegar or administered by their agents, and charities where the papers came into the possession of the family.