EV-0278 — NLW Bute estate records: Llandough manor rentals 1808–1881 (R 6/27–45) and presentments 1793–1934 (M 17/110–314) (catalogue entries; not seen)

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EV IDEV-0278
TitleNational Library of Wales, Bute Estate records (NRA 581 Stuart): “LLANDOUGH MANOR, rentals, with Cogan and other manors”, 1808–1881 (R 6/27–45), and “LLANDOUGH MANOR, presentments, with other manors”, 1793–1934 (M 17/110–314)
Date of document1793–1934 (presentments); 1808–1881 (rentals)
Typearchive catalogue entry (Manorial Documents Register)
Evidence labelCATALOGUE ENTRY ONLY (record not seen)
Repository / referenceTNA Discovery N14376724 (R 6/27–45, rentals); N14269901 (M 17/110–314, presentments); N14336241 (Cogan manor, “presentments, with Llandough”, 1735–1934). Held by the National Library of Wales; former reference NRA 581 Stuart.
StatusSOURCE PENDING (catalogue entries read 21 Oct 2026; volumes not seen)
ProvenanceFree TNA Discovery API search “Llandough”, 1870–1889, read 21 Oct 2026.
Related evidenceEV-0225 (directories 1868–1901) · EV-0212 (poor rate 1872–76) · EV-0243 (Court Leet at Llandough, 1908) · EV-0007 (Bute trustees’ abstract, 1877)

Quotation (verbatim): “LLANDOUGH MANOR, rentals, with Cogan and other manors” (1808–1881); “LLANDOUGH MANOR, presentments, with other manors” (1793–1934).

Fits with: Bute bought the lordship of Llandough in 1793. The rentals run to 1881, so they span John Williams’s tenancy from 1855 and the 1877 change. A rent entry for Great House before and after 1877 would show whether the house parcel left the farm’s rent in 1877. The presentments run to 1934 and cover the Court Leet that met at Llandough (EV-0243, 1908).

Cuts against: Catalogue lines only. Manorial rentals may list chief rents and cottages, not farm rack-rents, which sat in the estate’s farm rentals. The volumes are unseen.

Notes: Paired with Cogan, so this is Llandough-juxta-Penarth, not Llandough near Cowbridge. Free route: NLW reading room or a paid copy request (read-only sweep: nothing ordered).

Catalogued by Cedwyn editors, 21 Oct 2026, in the decade-by-decade gap sweep (free online sources only).

Interpretation: working hypotheses

Working hypotheses, kept apart from the record above. The record text on this page is unchanged. None of these is a finding: each line is labelled as inference, theory, a reading that cuts against the case, or a discarded theory, and names the evidence it rests on and what would confirm or refute it, so the reader can test it. Updated 25 Oct 2026 (v2: ingredients wording).

Title chain and registration

THEORY · R-01Ground R5: the court's starting point — a Feb 1916 tenancy of "the whole of the farm" and BP's "paper title to the farm" — would fail for the farmhouse if the 1938 Bute → Western Ground Rents conveyance did not include it. The 1905 Bute conveyance and the 1924 drain agreement show Bute dealing with land here, so either the house came back to the main estate by a deed not yet seen, or the 1916 recital is loose.

Rests on: EV-0013 · EV-0014 · EV-0015 · EV-0019 · EV-0022 · EV-0023 · EV-0216 · EV-0045 · ground R5

Would be confirmed by: The 1938 conveyance plan showing the house parcel excluded.

Would be refuted by: The 1938 plan including it. Cuts against: paper title was not in issue in 1987 (E26), and the NLW 33-acre limeworks bundle (1876–1912) fits a letting that ended in 1912 rather than a sale (E43).

Status: Open (ground R5, scores a1 b3 c2 d1)

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