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NEWS FROM THE GLAMORGAN RECORD OFFICE ACCESSIONS have continued to come in fairly steadily since our last progress report published in the first issue of Morgannwg. These represent further valuable additions to the wide variety of documentary source material already in the custody of the Glamorgan Record Office. It was reported last year that documents relating to several large estates in the County had been transferred to the Office by the owners, agents, and solicitors who held them. Since that date, new and supplementary deposits have strengthened the Office collection of estate archives. Of these, the twenty-two tin boxes of Gnoll (Neath) Estate records placed on deposit by a firm of Bristol solicitors, is certainly the largest, and remains, as yet, unlisted. A small but interesting collection of estate documents was received through the British Records Association, and joins the Tyrwhitt-Drake deposit noted in our last report. These documents relate to the St. Donat's Estate-formerly held by the Stradlings before passing to the Tyrwhitt-Drake family in the eighteenth century-and include, as well as deeds, letters, and receipts, 1439-1751, an episcopal Inspeximus concerning the tithes of Cadoxton-juxta-Neath, 1343. A second deposit of the estate records of the Aubreys of Llantrithyd has been received. This contains over six hundred items and covers the period 1725- 1914. The trustees of the Thomas Glamorganshire Estates have deposited in the Office a collection of documents relating to the Pontypridd and Llanbradach Estates. This collection, which contains two fine volumes of eighteenth-century plans, has not yet been listed. Finally, deeds and plans relating to the Ynispenllwch and Cadoxton Estates, 1801-1918, have been deposited by a Bridgend estate agent and a firm of London solicitors. Mining has been of vital importance in the industrial development of the County and it is therefore fitting that the