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Collection books of the Glamorgan agricultural estate. The series continues in AGO 3/9.

The audit books of the Glamorgan estate are the audited, settled annual accounts between the agent and the estate. In common with the other estates of the Tredegar estate, the Glamorgan estate produced duplicate audit books, one for the estate and one for the agent, until the practice was abandoned, in the case of the Glamorgan estate, after 1891. The series also includes a few draft or working copies of the audit, 1901-1909. The audit books give an annual list of the tenants and their holdings, arranged by parish or street, together with the rent due and the rent paid. As a convenient year by year record of properties on the estate, they correspond with what go under the name of 'rentals' among the records of many other estates. In the Tredegar archive, only the last few audit books are called rentals. -- The Glamorgan estate audit books begin in 1846 (the first Glamorgan cash book, also for 1846, duplicates the information for 1846 in AGR 3/1), and they record the audit of the whole Glamorgan estate until 1876. From 1877 the Pontypridd and Cardiff ground rents are recorded in a separate series of books (AGR 4), while the 'farm estate', later 'agricultural estate', series continues as before up to 1938. From 1939 the audit of the Glamorgan agricultural estate is incorporated into the series of Monmouthshire agricultural estate audit books. The series of Cardiff ground rent audit books, 1877-1954 (AGR 4), include such urban areas as Splott, Tredegarville and Oakville. The Pontypridd ground rents are included, 1877-1919, until they are incorporated into the Glamorgan town estate, 1920-1938 (AGR 5), before returning to the Cardiff ground rents, 1939-1954.

The cash books of the Glamorgan estate set out the sums received and disbursed. Individual payments of rent are not specified. -- The earliest cash book (AGH 1/1, intitled 'Glamorgan estate. Ledger') begins with a copy of the audit between Henry John Davis and Sir Charles Morgan for the Glamorgan estate for 1846. The cash book entries begin on 1 July 1847. After a gap, Jan. 1864-Nov. 1868, between AGH 1/1 and 1/3 (probably represented by a missing volume, as AGH 1/3 opens with a balance that had been carried forward), the series of cash books runs through a change of title to 'Glamorganshire farm rents cash books' (AGH 1/3-5, 8) and 'Glamorganshire agricultural estate' (AGH 1/9-13). The last transactions are in Dec. 1938, and in Feb. 1939 the account was closed and the balance transferred to the 'Monmouthshire agricultural a/c'. -- The cash books for 1850-1859 (AGH 1/2), 1900-1908 (AGH 1/6) and 1903-1908 (AGH 1/7) are not part of the main run of Glamorgan cash books, but have been placed here for conveniece. AGH 1/2 appears to relate to Glamorgan. AGH 1/6-7 are the cash books of W. Henney, and are included with the Glamorgan cash books on the strength of a number of rates and tax demands for the parish of Rhydri enclosed in AGH 1/7.

Although the lease books do not constitute an extensive series of estate records, they can provide some interesting information, including details of the lease, lessee (including successive lessees of the same property), the property concerned (often described in detail), the term of the lease and rents. With the exception of AGL 1/5, the entries in these volumes are frequently annotated and altered. There are references to ledgers, possibly the series of rent ledgers AGD 1-2.

Glamorgan mineral leases other than coal leases, and including ironstone, limestone, building stone and clay. Coal leases are held separately at Tredegar AGL 3.

Notices to quit, arranged into Roath (AGL 11/2), Whitchurch (AGL 11/3) and other parishes (AGL 11/1), and an original bundle of notices of assignment (AGL 11/4).

Rental surveys of the Glamorgan estate, listing tenants and properties by parish, giving acreage, rents, land tax and particulars of tenancy.