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Account books of the steward giving details of receipts, mainly rents, and of disbursements, including repairs, rates, poor rates, court leets, subscriptions and wages and salaries to labourers, servants, gamekeepers, craftsmen, etc.

Rentals of the co. Glam. estate in lp Gower, comprising man's Gower Anglica and Gower Wallica, Swansea, Lougher, Trewyddfa, [p. Swansea], Pennard, [p. Pennard], Lunnon, [p. Ilston], Kittle, [p's Pennard/ilston], in p's Bishopstown and Oystermouth, man. Kilvey, [p. Llansamlet] and, in BGA1/5 only, in p's Llandeilo Tal-y-bont, Llangiwg, Llanrhidian, Llangennith and Llanddewi [Gwyr]. The rentals are arranged as follows: occasional rentals (first series), [pre-1625]-1711 (BGA1), loose sheets of collector's rentals (second series), 1714-33, (BGA2), receiver's copy of rentals (third series), 1732-43 (BGA3), and main series of (audited) rentals, 1760-1931. Some of the gaps in BGA1-4 are supplemented by rentals in BA 1/6-11.

The rentals are arranged into six series: individual/groups of man's, first series, second series, main series, port of Chepstow and miscellaneous.

The rentals are arranged into four series: first series, c.1550-1740; main series, 1760-1933; draft rentals, 1818-1874, and tithe rentals, 1818. Rentals for 1662-1665 and 1742-1759 are with the rentals of the Badminton Welsh estate at BM1. Some of the rentals were removed from Badminton Group II; previous reference numbers are given where appropriate.

Rentals of the Badminton estate in Wales, or at least in two of the three Welsh cos where the estate was located. Some rentals which relate to the Badminton estate in both England and Wales were returned by NLW to the Badminton estate office in 1988. The rentals cover man's Caldicott, [p's Caldicot, Caer-went, Rogiet, Mathern and Portskewett], Pengevenny, [p. Abergavenny], and Barton and Hardwick, [p. Abergavenny], (all BA1/1), Maindiff and Whitecastle, [p's Llantilio Pertholey and Llantilio Crossenny], (BA1/1-10), Skenfreth and Llantilio Crossenny, otherwise Maes-y-groes, [p's Skenfrith, Llantilio Crossenny, and Llantilio Pertholey], (BA1/1-5), Wysham, [p. Monmouth], (BA1/1-5, 7), Pellenni [i.e. Monkswood], [p. Llanbadog], (BA1/1-5, 7), Porthcaseg, [p. St Arvans], (BA1/1-7), Trelech Grange, [p's Trelech, Mitchel Troy, Tintern and Cwmcarfan], Penrhos, [p's Betws and Clytha], (BA1/1-7), Dingestow, [p. Mitchell Troy], Pen-clawdd, [p. Pen-clawdd], (BA1/2-5), Cilgoegan, [p's Llanbadog, Cilgwrrwg, Llanfihangel Pont-y-moel, Bedwellty and Llandegfedd], (BA1/1-5, 7), Llandenny, Clytha and Betws, [p's Llandenny, Clytha and Betws], (BA1/2-5), Raglan, [p's Dingestow, Raglan, Llangofen and Llandenny], (BA1/2-5), Grosmont, [p. Grosmont], (BA1/6), Monmouth, [p's Monmouth , Dixton, Dixton Newton, Rockfield, Llangattock, St Maughan's, Mitchel Troy, and Pen-allt], (BA1/6-7), Chepstow, [p's Chepstow, St Arvans, Penteri, Newchurch, Llanfair, Llanfaches, Penhow and Kemeys Commander], (BA1/6-7), and Magor and Redwick, [p's Magor, Redwick, Goldcliff, Undy, Caldicott and Llandenny], (BA1/6-7), and Tintern ironworks, (BA1/7), all in co. Mon., man's Crickhowell, [p's Llangattock and Llanelli], (BA1/1-5, 8-11), and Tretwr, [p's Cwm-du and Llangynidr], co. Brec., (BA1/2-5, 8-11), man's Gower Anglica and Gower Wallica, man's Kilvey, [p. Llansamlet], Trewyddfa, [p. Swansea], Pennard, [p. Pennard], Lunnon, [p. Ilston], Kittle, [p's Pennard/ilston], and p's Bishopstown and Oystermouth, co. Glam., (all BMA1/6-11) and man's Chaldon Herring, [p. Chaldon Herring], Dorset, Badminton, [p's Littleton Drew, Luckington and Sopworth, Wiltshire], Chulmleigh and Denbury, p's Chulmleigh and Denbury, Devon (all BA1/6). BA1/8-10 include details of receipts from sales of wood, bark and coal, and of disbursements, including land tax, repairs, servants' wages, election expenses in Swansea, 1745-6, co. Brec., 1753-4, Cardiff, 1754, and allowances for the 11 days 'lost' when the Gregorian calendar was adopted in place of the Julian calendar, 1753-4. Three of these rentals (BMA1/1-2, 5) were exhibited in the Courts of Exchequer and Chancery in 1727 and 1731 respectively in a dispute between Henry, duke of Beaufort, infant, complainant, and John Scott and William Dunwoodie, gent's, defendants, and between Henry, duke of Beaufort, complainant, and Mathew Powell, esq., defendant.

Rent arrears in man's Tretwr and Crickhowell in p's Crickhowell, Llangattock, Llanelli, Llanbedr [Ystrad Yw], Llangenny, Patrishow and Cwm-du.

Accounts of rent arrears, 1669-1766, on the co. Mon. estate, arranged by individual manors (BMC1), parts of the co. Mon. estate (BMC2) and all the co. Mon. estate apart from the manors of Maindiff and Three Castles and Whitecastle which were the responsibility of the receiver for the co. Brec. and co. Glam. estates (BMC3). BMC4 comprises a stray volume from the estate of the earl of Pembroke, parts of which were later purchased by the Badminton estate in 1722. For arrears of rent included in the rentals and in the bailiffs' accounts see BMA1 and BMD.

Registers Of Leases giving dates of grants of leases, terms of leases, names of lessees and of lives of lease, annual rent, amount of fines and heriots, and descriptions of the premises.

Registers of leases of the co. Brec. estate in man's Crickhowell and Tretwr giving date of grant of lease, term of lease, name of lessee and of lives of lease, annual rent, amount of fines and heriots, and descriptions of the premises. Many of the entries in BBP1/1-6 are duplicated.

Uniformly bound, outsize volumes, containing dates of grants of leases, terms of leases, names of lessees and of lives of lease, annual rent, amount of fines and heriots, descriptions of the premises and details of subsequent licences granted to assign or to sub-let which were endorsed on the leases. All the volumes are indexed by assignees and lessees. Up to 1871 three copies of the register was made: one for the Badminton estate office, one for the co. Glam. estate office in Swansea, and one for the Prudential Assurance Co. Ltd, though for the years 1871-1889 only the Prudential Assurance co.'s copy has survived. From 1871 the co. Glam. estate office's copy was dispensed with.

Items numbered 1501-1507 and 1554.

Arranged into Breconshire, 1429-1788, Carmarthenshire, [temp. Eliz. I]-[c.1750], Gloucestershire, 1568-1760, and miscellaneous counties, 1585-1708.

Account of receipts from rents of farms, coal mines and quarries in Clydach and Rumney. For the main mineral accounts see BGA4.

Arranged into the lordship of Gower and Kilvey, 1366-1825, manor of Gower Anglicana & Subboscus, 1498-1921, manor of Gower Supraboscus, 1649-1834, manor of Gower, 1657-1778, manor of Bishopston, 1672-1777, manor of Kilvey, 1623-1856, borough & manor of Loughor, 1669-1799, manor of Oystermouth, 1593-1829, manor of Pennard, 1385-1824, manor of Priorstown otherwise Eastown of Llangenith, 1688-1757, borough & manor of Swansea, 1483-1835, and surveys, [c.1550]-1689.