A bound volume inscribed on the outer cover 'Tregrug Inclosure, 1808', and containing printed and manuscript material relating to the enclosure of lands, including wastes called Common Coad y Pane and The Forest, within the manor of Tregrug, co. Monmouth. The printed items consist of a copy of An Act for inclosing lands in the Manor of Tregrug in the County of Monmouth, 1808, and of an act relating to enclosure procedure entitled An Act for consolidating in one act certain provisions usually inserted in acts of inclosure; and for facilitating the mode of proving the several facts usually required on the passing of such acts, 2d July 1801 (London, 1807). The manuscript entries include declarations, subscribed 2 August 1808, by Thomas Fulljames [of Hasfield, co. Gloucester, gent.], as commissioner, and Robert Wright Hall [of Cirencester], as surveyor, that they would discharge their respective duties in connection with the enclosure faithfully; a nomination, subscribed 2 August 1808, by proprietors of land within the manor, of William Morgan of Mamhilad, co. Monmouth, esq., as banker in connection with the project; an affidavit, signed 9 August 1808, by George Long and William Womack, land surveyors, concerning the survey they had made of the lands to be enclosed; copies of notices of meetings to be held, and of declarations issued re public carriage-ways, public foot-paths, and private roads, 1808-1809, signed by Thomas Fulljames; reports of meetings held, and of business transacted, 1808-1809, also signed by Thomas Fulljames; copies of the announcements of allotments to be sold and of the conditions of sale; the commissioner’s statement of account, 1808-1809; and a declaration, signed by the Reverend John Thomas, clerk, and Thomas Jones, esq., Justices of the Peace, 27 June 1810, concerning the completion of certain public carriage roads.

Fifty-three files of unbound material accumulated by Bradney during the preparation of A History of Monmouthshire and containing press and proof copies, transcripts and abstracts of, and extracts from, manuscripts, deeds and documents, holograph and autograph letters, pedigrees and genealogical notes, press cuttings, etc., generally arranged under parishes. Much of the material is in the autographs of friends and official copyists. This volume contains letters, 1924; and a few miscellaneous notes, including a transcript of a survey of the lordships of Usk, Caerleon and Trelech cum membris, 1570.

Forty-seven volumes of 'notae' or abstracts and extracts, principally of Monmouthshire interest, compiled from original records in both public and private possession. With the exception of letters and some insets they are all in the autograph of Bradney. Among the many private collections of title-deeds and documents from which the majority of these notes have been taken, in addition to those of Bradney himself, are those in the possession or custody of Albert Addams-Williams, Llangibby Castle; Garnet Edwin Bevan, Grosmont; S. C. Bosanquet, Dingestow Court; Alfred Bowen, Usk; Burleigh Cecil, Oaklands Park, Weybridge (Surrey); Mrs Morgan Clifford, Llantilio Crossenny; William Cooke, Hereford; the Reverend Henry Charles Davies, St Hilary, Cowbridge (Glamorgan); J. H. Davies, Cwrtmawr (Cardiganshire); Arthur Davies-Berrington, Pantygoitre, Llanfair Kilgeddin; the Reverend Edward Napleton Dew, Welsh Newton and Llanrothall (Herefordshire); Mrs Earnshaw, Court St Lawrence, Llangoven; Miss Charlotte Mary Evans, Nantyderi, Goytrey; Richard Feetham, Penrhos; G. C. Francis, solicitor, Chepstow; Frederick Gardner, solicitor, Newport; Illtyd Gardner, solicitor, Abergavenny; Mrs Gazzard, The Goitre, Grosmont; Isaac George, Llanfihangel-iuxta-Usk; Walter Gustard, Newport; G. E. Halliday, Cardiff; surveyor to the archdeaconry of Llandaff; Dom. J. Cuthbert Hedley, Roman Catholic bishop of Newport; Reginald Herbert, Clytha; John Harvey Hooper, Tutnall, near Worcester; Sir Henry Mather Jackson, Bart, Llantilio Crossenny; Mrs Newton Jackson, Blackbrook, Skenfrith; Gwilym Cristor James, Merthyr (Glamorgan); the Reverend Lemuel James, Ystradmynach (Glamorgan); Alfred Jones, Osbaston; Edmund Jones, Fforest Legionis, Pont-neath-Vaughan (Glamorgan); William Lewis, Tyhir, Pontypridd (Glamorgan); Sir John Lloyd, Dinas (Brecknockshire); --- Nesbitt, solicitor, Abergavenny; Illtyd Nicholl, The Ham, Llantwit Major (Glamorgan); the Reverend Andrew Pope, Upper Bishop, Ross (Herefordshire); Simon B. Preece, Llangattock Lingoed; James Gilbert Price, Abergavenny; the Misses Prothero, Moynes Court, Mathern; John Allan Rolls, 1st baron Llangattock, The Hendre, Llangattock Vibon Avel; Glen Taylor, Neath (Glamorgan); John Tyler, Maesderwen, Pontypool; Mrs Vinter, Moor, Clifford (Herefordshire); D. T. Newton Wade, solicitor, Newport; J. Maitland Watkins, solicitor, Usk; Thomas Watkins, solicitor, Pontypool; T. P. Holmes Watkins, solicitor, Pontypool; Messrs Watts, Watts and Co., colliery proprietors, Cardiff (Glamorgan); William Welch, Monmouth; Mrs Florence White-Spunner, Llanvapley Court; William Henry Smith Whitney, Grosmont; Messrs Williams and Tweedy, solicitors, Monmouth; T. B. R. Wilson, registrar of the diocese of Monmouth; and others. Additional sources include the papers of Thomas Wakeman, The Graig, Llantilio Crossenny, largely in the custody of the Society of Antiquaries, and transcripts of public and other records by William Dean, Ealing, London; Francis Green, St Davids; John Hobson Matthews, Cardiff; and others. This volume contains deeds relating to properties in the parishes of Grosmont, Llanfihangel Ystern Llewern, Llangattock Vibon Avel, Llantilio Crossenny, Llanvetherine and Trevethin, 1538-1795 and undated; and ministers' accounts, surveys, etc. of the manors of Three Castles, Grosmont, Skenfrith, Whitecastle and Monmouth, 1403-c.1800.

A transcript, by Mrs. Edmund Jones, Fforest Legionis, of a survey of the manor of Wentsland and Bryngwin, Monmouthshire, 1659.