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Accounts, 1710-1798, which include William Owen 's expenses for the creation of burgesses at Criccieth and in performance of his sheriff 's duties at the Great Sessions of Merionethshire, 1712-1713; legal expenses incurred in preparing petitions to Parliament following irregular election procedures in the borough of Caernarfon, 1713, and in the case between Margaret Lloyd of Cesail Gyfarch and Griffith Parry, 1734-1742; receipts for two assignments of judgement formerly made to Ellen Owen, deceased, 1726, money for the maintenance of Lewis Owen at Oxford, 1725-1726, annuity payments to Arthur Owen, 1727-1735, a diamond ring and a gold watch, 1730, and payment of £260 due by bond, 1767; accounts for land purchases in [Selatyn], 1743 and Trewylan, 1748, shaving and hairdressing Capt. Owen, 1765, and the purchase of ale for bell-ringers on the birthday of Henry Owen of Porkington, 1754; and papers relating to annuity stock investments of [William] and Ellen Owen, 1759-1765, 1784-1798.

Includes a copy will of William Owen of Porkington, 1762, with an extract (watermark 1801), and inventories of plate, books, household and farm goods at Porkington and Glyn, 1767; the will and copy will of his widow, Mary Owen of Westminster and Datchet, made 1774, proved 1784, including bequests of a gold snuff box which came from Paris, silver plate and jewels; and accounts and a receipt, 1802, resulting from probate of the will of their daughter, Ellen Owen.

Includes deeds and exemplifications of earlier documents (1682, 1685, 1728) associated with disentailment and resettlement of the Glyn estate and the Merionethshire portion of Clenennau after the death of Margaret Owen, 1728-1729; the marriage settlement of William Owen and Mary Godolphin, 1730, and further family trust settlements, 1758, 1761; the marriage settlement of his brother, Arthur, and Mary Clayton of Brymbo, 1727, an agreement to pay his sister, Elizabeth, a legacy and debt due from their father, Sir Robert Owen, 1727 and a trust settlement for payment of an annuity from her estranged husband, Sir Thomas Longueville, 1749.