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Records relating to the management of the estate's woodlands, and the sale of trees and coppice for timber, cordwood, bark, poles and smart hoops. Although individual sales often related to woodlands within a single county, the woodlands appear to have been at least semi-detatched from the administration of the individual county-based estates, at least in the case of Monmouthshire and Glamorgan. All records relating specifically to the estate's woodlands have therefore been gathered together here for convenience.

Financial records of the Breconshire estate, comprising rentals (called audit books by the Tredegar estate), 1758-1927, draft and copy audit books, 1872-1915, farm rent ledgers, 1867-1921, Palleg, Brecon and Dderw estate rent ledgers, 1867-1941, rent collection books, 1868-1937, cash books, 1864-1940, surveyor's bills, 1862-1890, employee records, 1889-1935, taxation records, 1910-c.1936, and vouchers, 1850-1938.

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The tithe records mainly relate to the Basaleg rectory tithe collection, 1743-1804, including the Basaleg hamlets of Dyffryn Lower, Dyffryn Higher, Graig and Rogerstone, and the parishes of Coedcernyw, Henllys, Risca and St Brides, and the Mynyddislwyn and Bedwellte tithe collection, 1790-1839. The two collections appear to have been merged in about 1862. -- The Basaleg, Mynyddislwyn and Bedwellty tithe rental for 1844 (formerly Tredegar MSS 465), is not found.

Records of the Tredegar demense, which before the development of the Rhiwderyn estate works c.1900 (see ADY) was accounted responsible for at least some of the landlord's work on tenanted properties. Also records of the Tredegar granary, 1816-1848 (ADU /4, 6), Lord Tredegar's stud farm at Coedcernyw, 1825-1901 (ADU /7), and estate employees, 1882-1907 (ADU /11).

Ruperra home farm accounts and other records.

One hundred and sixty-three Estreats Rolls (being particulars of all the fines, amercements, and other financial issues abstracted from the Court Rolls by the Steward for the time being, and which were subsequently levied and collected by the manorial bailiffs; the extracts for the reign of Elizabeth and James I are exceedingly full, and are in excellent condition): scheduled on detail below and distributed among the several manors, thus:. Kemes Infra (1474-1622) 55 Rolls. Kemes Supra (1573-1621) [with Addenda-Barony of Kemes (1695-1748)-9 documents] 52 Rolls. Eglwyswrw (1574-1613) 29 Rolls. Moylgrove (1577-1600) 13 Rolls. Town of Newport (1574-1631) 11 Rolls. Newcastle (1618-1621) 1 Roll. Court of Rhys ab Thomas: 'Angle' (1513) 1 Roll.

Sixty-two court rolls (scheduled in detail below and recording the proceedings of the half-yearly court leet with view of frankpledge, and the fortnightly court baron, with frequent lists of suitors or homagers and a few files of subsidiary documents) distributed among the several manors thus:-. The Barony of Kemes (Kemes Infra and Supra) (1420; 1569-1771) 25 Rolls. The Manor of Eglwyswrw (1508-1645) 10 Rolls. The Manor of Bayvill (& Crigie) (1584-1659) 4 Rolls. The Manor of Moylgrove (1381-1660) 9 Rolls. The Manor of Newcastle (1640-1652) 1 Roll. The Town of Newport (1588-1741) 13 Rolls.

Rentals, terriers, surveys, extents etc. of the Barony of Kemes and its members and of some other parts.

Papers of J. H. Davies, 1883-1929, including correspondence, diaries, writings, notes and cuttings.

Papers, [1890x1896]-1955, of the Rev. R. L. Headley, Mari Ellis's father, consisting of diaries, 1896-1955, a notebook, [1890s]-1908, and diaries recording Church collections, 1928-1939.

Photographs, 1915-2007, and press cuttings, 1948-2002, relating mostly to the Headley family.

Personal papers of the Rev. Charles Francis Powys, including botanical notebooks (juvenilia) and samples of hair taken from Powys family members.

Letters addressed to the Rev. Charles Francis Powys from his mother Amelia Powys, other family members and various other correspondents.