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Leases and other papers relating to leasehold properties in the parish of Ystradgynlais, Breconshire.

Loose vouchers, 1842 and 1902-1934, and an incomplete series of original bundles of numbered Breconshire estate vouchers, 1921-1938.

The file comprises a printed judgment of the House of Lords in the case of Viscount Tredegar, appellant, and Mrs Harwood and others, respondents.

The Argoed lease, 1805, the Tredegar lease, 1815, the Tredegar Iron & Coal Company Ltd lease, 1881, and leases and related papers relating to properties in New Tredegar, 1879-1933.

Letters received, [c.May] 1904-Sept. 1905, and carbon copies of letters sent, Aug.1904-Sept. 1905. The letters received have been extracted from ring binders, both intitled 'Tredegar Town Estate, 1904-05', which have been discarded.

Unbound files of audit sheets of the Tredegar Town estate, for the half-years ending Midsummer and Christmas.

Rental accounts, or what the Tredegar estate usually calls audit books, of the Tredegar Town estate.

The series comprises papers relating to the Tredegar Races, including race calendars (standing orders, subscribers and lists of runners and winners), 1816-1873, and hunter trails judges' notebooks, 1926-1932; papers relating to the Tredegar Show, including poultry books, c.1880-c.1927, correspondence, 1891-1927, and show catalogues, 1919-1921; and papers, 1845-1850, relating to a statue of Sir Charles Morgan, subscribed to and erected as a testimonial to his suppport of the agricultural interest. -- The letters include applications for entries and trade stands, apologies for pulling entries for various reasons, and the appointment and reports of judges of various classes. Also a few printed items, including the rules, report and members of the Welsh Leghorn and Minorca Club, 1906 (filed under letter A), and the schedule for the Tredegar poultry show, 1907 (also filed under letter A). Most of the letters are dated September, October and November of the particular year.

Cash books relating to receipts and expenditure at Tredegar house and park. Expenditure includes servants' wages, pensions, stipends, bills for the stud farm, the carriage stables, the deer park and game, and the kennels, fox damage, Lord Tredegar's postal orders, smiths, chemists, saddlers, ironmongers, grocers, butchers, builders suppliers and stationers bills, subscriptions, Christmas prizes, funerals of pensioners, Catherine Morgan's charity, and agricultural show expences. Receipts are generally supplied by cheque, but also include GWR tolls for use of the Park Mile Railway, balances brought forward from the sale of hides account, stud fees and sales of horses off the stud farm, prizes given towards the Bedwellty Show, the Tredegar Show and the Welsh National Show, and show catalogues sold. The account appears to have been a new account on 2 Jan. 1906, when the first book opens with a cheque for £5,000. The account closed on 3 March 1960 with the transfer of £23-2-2 to Coutts & Co. to the credit of Lord Tredegar's external account.

Audit books, being the annual accounts of the estate agents, G. P. Mitchell Jones (1911-1918), Leonard Foster Stedman (1919-1937), John Ireland Storrar (1938-1940), with Lord Tredegar (1911-1940) and the executors of Courtenay, viscount Tredegar (1934-1936). For the period 1941-1948, the account is simply headed 'Private account'. The annual account includes accounts of receipts and expenditure relating to Coutts & Co., the Park Mile Railway, subscriptions, donations and pensions, repairs to mansion, park and lands in hand, establishment expences, gardens, hunt stables, carriage stables, deer park and game, kennels, stud farm, and the agricultural show, as well as promiscuous receipts and miscellaneous payments. -- A file of bank statements of Lord Tredegar's private account with the National Provincial Bank, 1951-1960, has been added to this series for convenience.

Account books of moneys received and paid in respect of Tredegar house, gardens and farm. The earlier volumes, 1771-1792 (ADT 2/1-2), are settled accounts between the house stewards and their master. ADT 2/3, weekly household expenditure, 1792-1796, may have contributed to a successor volume of settled accounts, since lost. -- There are only two volumes for the nineteenth century, a butcher's account, 1828-1856 (ADT 2/4), and a household payments account, 1846-1867 (ADT 2/5). -- After a break in the surviving accounts, the series re-starts on 22 May 1913 (ADT 2/6), presumably when Courtenay Charles Evan Morgan, third baron Tredegar, succeeded to the estate on the death of Godfrey Charles, viscount Tredegar. Receipts are almost entirely in the form of moneys received from the estate office. In ADT 2/6, expenditure is divided into household, sundry subscriptions and donations, and miscellaneous outgoings, with a column for gardens (later gardens and kennels) added in March 1915. In ADT 2/7, the miscellaneous column is replaced by columns for the garden, the kennels and hunt, the garage, and the stable, reflecting the interests of Lord Tredegar. In ADT 2/8, the garden and kennels and hunt columns are not used, except when the latter is used for a racing account, Sept. 1923-June 1924. In ADT 2/9, a bassett hounds account starts in April 1928 and runs to the end of the volume, and a 'Non. Evan Morgan's pigeon a/c' runs for the period Feb.-Dec. 1931. In ADT 2/10 (1933-37), the bassett hound account is idle until it is deleted at the end of 1933, and the books are balanced and settled on 3 May 1934 (on the death of Courtenay Charles Evan Morgan), including a loose paper containing the outstanding accounts on the private secretary's account on 3 May 1934. A bird account is started in Aug. 1934, and in Oct. 1934 the columns are reorganized, giving columns headed household, subscriptions and donations, gardens and birds, poultry farm, garage, and farm and game. This latter arrangement continues into ADT 2/11, except that the gardens and birds account is split into separate accounts, zoo (dead from March 1942) and gardens. A column for coal is added in July 1938. Household expenditure includes servants' and outside men's wages, petty cash, the butcher, chauffeur, chemist, fishmonger, grocery and pork butcher books, and quarterly disbursements, as well as accounts for malt and hops, stationery, game, papers, kitchen utensils, fruit, carpet, livery, cricket requisites, oil, whiskey, candles, (cloths, dusters and sheets), and brewing duty. In addition, a number of items for Ruperra were entered on 29 July 1913. The subscriptions and donations include a wide variety of institutions and events, including for example in May-June 1913, Abertyssog Hospital eisteddfod, Ancient Druids conference fund, All Saints Cricket Club, Bargoed Lunacy Fund, Dr Barnardo Home, Basaleg Tennis Club, Bath & West Show, Caer-went Horticultural Society, Canton Baptist Cricket Club, Cardiff Jubilee Nurse, Cardiff Port [Poor?] Cripple Society, Llandaf Diocese Girls Friendly [Society], Maendy Emanual Men's Institute, Mamheilad Colliery Band, Newport Dog Show, Newport RFC cadets, Pontllanfraith Sports and Pontypridd Chapel Bazaar. Evan Frederic Morgan, second viscount, died in 1949, and to save creating a 1950 account the entries dated 4-11 Jan. 1950 were treated as 31 Dec. 1949.