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Five small notebooks and loose accounts of Lady Margaret Owen and William Owen, 1713-1767, which include a bill from Francis Smith for building work at Porkington, 1736; an account of payments by the tenant at Middleton, 1739-1746; receipts for legacy money to benefit the poor of Selatyn, 1718-1767; and receipts for harvest labour, brick manufacture, poor lewn contributions, and a millstone for use at Llangollen, 1728-1744.

Includes an account book, 1770, and loose receipts for estate and domestic disbursements at Porkington, 1792; a summary of the property and securities of Margaret, Ellen and Robert Godolphin Owen, 1776-1779; payments made at turnpike meetings [location not specified] on behalf of Robert Godolphin Owen, 1769-1784; and an account of the estate of a Mrs Edwards, mainly in Oswestry.

Accounts and receipts for Brogyntyn and Llanddyn, 1654-1716, 1748, 1755, including rates for Porkington demesne, 1675, 1698; an unspecified assessment of upper and lower Porkington [pre-1678]; an account in Welsh of the farm bailiff William Dafudd [c. 1690]; local lewn (tax) assessment, 1697; rents and profits of the late Sir Robert Owen, 1697-1702; and agents' accounts of disbursements at Porkington and Ruyton Park, and costs of horse keep in addition to the usual expenses, 1697-1700.

Includes an account for building a house called Siamber Wen, [Llangollen], 1793; receipts for sales of timber at Llanddyn and Porkington, 1823; general accounts of William Ormsby-Gore, mentioning a property purchase in Deuddwr, Montomeryshire, 1824; a statement of tithes for the parish of Selatyn, 1834; and two notebooks listing livestock sold at Porkington, 1852, and the finances of the late Mrs Owen at Porkington and Datchet, dubiously dated 1882.

Account books, loose accounts and receipts deriving from administration of the estates of Brogyntyn (Porkington), and Llanddyn, 1634-1852, [1882?], showing the income from rents, other profits and the usual outgoings for chief rents, tithes, taxes, poor rate, other dues and charity; disbursements for repair and maintenance of buildings, purchase and carriage of commodities, sale of livestock, employees' wages, agent's travelling expenses and subsistence.

Records deriving from administration of the Shropshire estate of Brogyntyn (Porkington) in Selatyn, Weston, Trefonnen, Twyford, Middleton and the town of Oswestry, and the Llanddyn estate in Llangollen, Denbighshire. The two estates were contiguous and almost invariably listed together in the rentals and accounts. Some items additionally incorporate the Montgomeryshire portion of the Abertanat estate. The records comprise rentals, 1646-1849, accounts, 1634-[1882?], leases, 1634-1763, surveys and valuations, 1698-1852, correspondence, 1666-1887, miscellaneous estate administration papers, 1653-1923., and game books, 1822-1933, 1951.

Letters to William Owen, 1666, Sir Robert Owen, 1690, and Dame Margaret Owen, 1698-1709, William Owen, 1730-1765, Robert Godolphin Owen, 1777-1784, Owen Ormsby, 1793, 1796, William Ormsby-Gore, 1830-1843, and William Richard Ormsby-Gore, 1887, received from the agents of Brogyntyn and Llanddyn and from other individuals, sometimes accompanied by relevant letters from third parties. Recurrent subjects include the submission and payment of accounts; rent collection; leasing of properties; payment of chief rents, poor rate and taxes; debts on the estate of Sir Robert Owen; problems with the lease of Ruyton Park from Lord Craven, 1701-1705; the provision of commodities; sales of timber and livestock; fishing rights and the lease of Llynclys Pool from Lord Powis, 1740-1743; property purchases; and repairs to estate buildings.

Leases and other papers associated with tenancies mainly on the Brogyntyn (Porkington) estate in the parishes of Oswestry, 1634-1754, Selatyn, 1636-1727, and West Felton, 1674-1763; and one item from the adjacent Llanddyn estate in Llangollen, 1758.

Rentals mainly for the Shropshire estate of Brogyntyn and the Llanddyn estate in Llangollen, Denbighshire, 1646-1849. They also sporadically include the Owen family's lands in Merionethshire and the Clenennau estate in Caernarfonshire, 1657-1696, 1768-1773. A substantial gap exists in the Brogyntyn (Porkington) and Llanddyn rentals between 1720 and 1762. From 1792 the rentals exist as separate units for each half year and they become more regular in format, to include columns of arrears and land tax payments. At the same date the name of Ellen Owen, Robert Godolphin's remaining unmarried sister, appears as joint owner with that of her brother-in-law, Owen Ormsby. From Michaelmas 1797, the rentals include property in Broniarth and Llandysilio, Montgomeryshire. The purchased estates of Oerley Hall and Drenewydd are included from 1827 and 1832 respectively. Several rentals include accounts of arrears and expenditure on labour and repairs.

Rentals, lists of arrears, chief rents, outgoings on labour, repairs and taxes of the Brogyntyn (Porkington) and Llanddyn estates, 1703-1720.

Three volumes containing rentals and accounts by John Jones for the Brogyntyn and Llanddyn estates 1762-1773.

Six-monthly rentals and accounts of outgoings by Peter Bentley for the Brogyntyn (Porkington) and Llanddyn estates, 1792-1797.

Surveys and valuations of Porkington (Brogyntyn) demesne, 1698 and 1798, lands in Trefonnen, 1699-1700, Twyford (copy of a survey made in 1725), and the demesne of Llanddyn, 1767 (valuation taken from a survey of 1721); a particular of the Porkington estate in Selatyn, Whittington and Oswestry, 1835; and a volume of numbered field names and acreages, with a colour key at the front, probably intended for reference to a map, 1844.

Surveys and valuations of the estates of Brogyntyn (Porkington), 1698-1844, Brogyntyn combined with Llanddyn and Broniarth (part of Abertanat), 1793, 1813, Drenewydd (acquired by Brogyntyn in 1830), 1806, 1852, and Llanddyn [19 cent., first ¼], situated in Shropshire, Montgomeryshire and Llangollen.

Records of the Brogyntyn estate, home of the Ormsby-Gore family, Barons Harlech, 1296-1951. They include estate papers and deeds, legal papers, financial papers, family papers and county administration papers of the Ormsby-Gore family, their ancestors, the Maurices and the Owens of Clenennau, the Wynns of Glyn and others, such as Anwyl of Park, Clayton of Lea Hall, Godolphin of Abertanat, Lyster of Penrhos, Mostyn of Nant, and Vaughan of Corsygedol. The three main estates represented in the collection are Brogyntyn, Clenennau and Glyn, the latter constituting a major addition to the existing North Wales holdings of Sir Robert Owen upon his marriage to Margaret Wynn in 1683. The documentation also covers other, subsiduary estates acquired by marriage or inheritance, namely Llanddyn, Sylfaen, Ystumcegid, Nant, Cemais, Penrhos, Abertanat and properties in the west of Ireland. The record types include title deeds for lands in Caernarfonshire, Merionethshire, Flintshire, Denbighshire, Montgomeryshire, Shropshire, elsewhere in England and Wales, and in the Irish counties of Westmeath, Leitrim, Sligo, Mayo and Roscommon, 1296-1838; rentals, accounts and other papers associated with estate administration, [1380s]-1951; manorial records, 1429-1804; household management papers, 1662-[c. 1949]; legal and arbitration papers, 1410-1834; financial papers such as mortgages and accounts, 1492-1876; family settlements, probate records and trusts, 1485-[c. 1862]; private letters, 1582-1950; papers relating to family interests, [14th cent.]-1951; personal papers of family members, 1672-1945; royal appointments and honours, 1795-1948; central government papers, 1581-1887; county administration papers, 1518-1904; and administration records of the church, schools and charities, 1598-[1876x1904]. Other component parts of the archive are the Clenennau Letters and Papers, which combine personal correspondence with the civil and military administration of Caernarfonshire from the late sixteenth to late seventeenth centuries. Additional records, comprising Lord Harlech's Game Books (3 volumes), 1882-1933, a journal kept by W. R. Ormsby Gore of the 13th Light Dragoons, May-September 1854, two manuscript catalogues of plays, 1815, and a manuscript catalogue of the library at Porkington, 1809, were acquired in March 2017.
The Brogyntyn (Longueville) group comprises deeds and documents relating to the Brogyntyn estate, 1607-1977, deposited by Longueville Gittins solicitors who provided professional legal services to the estate.

Game books recording game birds, hares, rabbits, and occasionally deer, shot at Brogyntyn (Porkington), Glyn, Penrhos, Cemais, and other estates in Wales, England, Ireland and Scotland, and listing game given or received as presents, 1822-1933, 1951 They also record persons present at the shoots, such as the Ormsby Gore family (Lords Harlech), the Egerton family, Lord Kenyon, Lord Spencer Chichester, Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, the Duke of Portland, Lord Gordon, the Duke of Grafton, the Bentinck family, Sir John Gladstone, Lord Churchill, the Prince and Duke of Teck, Lord Penrhyn, Lord Powis and numerous other members of the aristocracy.

Papers relating to the Brogyntyn estate, extracted from the Longueville and Co. solicitors’ collection. There are three main groups comprising probate records, settlements and trusts, 1626-1974; rentals, accounts, vouchers, inventories and valuations, 1795-1934; and deeds and related documents, [1600x1899], 1607-1977. There are also six single series, of sale catalogues and papers relating to estate sales, 1827-1919; papers relating to land improvement, 1839-1955; papers relating to railway and electricity development schemes, 1866-1927; miscellaneous letters and estate papers, 1830-1880, legal papers, 1863-[c. 1924] and mortgages, 1870-1923

Receipt book for chief rents, tithes and land tax issuing out of lands in Brogyntyn, Middleton, Trefonnen and Oswestry, 1642-1746.

Title deeds of houses and lands belonging to Brogyntyn and to the purchased estates of Drenewydd, Oerley Hall and Pentre-pant, situated in the parishes of Alberbury, Baschurch, Ellesmere, Loppington and Llansilin, 1296-1727; Oswestry, 1397-1838; St Martin's, 1582-1672; Selatyn, 1479-1834; West Felton and Whittington, 1527-1767, and miscellaneous parishes, 1571-1830. The property interests of the Lacon family in Shropshire are represented in the early Brogyntyn deeds up to 1623.

Accounts of charges for legal services, payable by the trustees of the Brogyntyn estate to Longueville and Co., 1930-1934; and bills of Bob Parry and Co., Ltd. of Caernarfon, and Whitfield and Ryley of Oswestry and Wem, auctioneers, 1930, 1932.