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Large file containing various speeches, lectures and scripts for radio broadcasts, 1940-1945.
It includes the script of W.G.A. Ormsby-Gore 's inaugural radio broadcast as UK High Commissioner in South Africa, 1941, together with his professional reports to the Dominions Office, speeches and essays on typical South African issues, such as the effects of industrialisation; agricultural production, with suggested measures for improvement; the constitution and local administrative systems under colonial government; health care and education; the development of Afrikaner nationalism; political, religious and racial relations in a cosmopolitan population; South Africa 's position in the Second World War including political relations with the resident German community; and preservation of the cultural heritage by the South African Library at Cape Town, 1942-1944. The file also contains the script of a radio broadcast about the Portuguese prime minister, Dr Salazar, 1940; a memorandum on post-war British agricultural policy, 1944; a speech given at Chatham House in 1945 on the mandate system devised by the Allied Powers after the First World War; an essay about the need for more liberal education; and several lectures and essays on Western European architecture and painting, art criticism, contemporary South African art, museums and monuments in Portugal, and English place names, 1940-1943.

Large file of speeches, lectures and scripts of broadcasts given by William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore in his capacity as Under-secretary of State for the Colonies, mainly concerning the economic and agricultural development of British colonies, especially in Africa and southern Asia; other topics related to colonial government include education, transport, human and veterinary tropical medicine, the administrative system, recruitment to the colonial service, government policies and diplomatic relations, 1925-1933. The file includes an address on the general economic geography of the British empire [1925], the typescript of a speech made to the League of Nations Conference in 1929 on the subject of forced labour in colonial Africa, and a reprint of Ormsby-Gore 's published report on the fourteenth assembly of the League of Nations, 1934.

Title deeds, dated between 1527 and 1765, mainly of the Moreton Hall estate, situated mainly in Weston Rhyn, Ifton and Daywell, but also including property at Oswestry.
They include the marriage settlement and related documents of Sir John Trevor of Morton and Gaynor Wynne, 1634-1639; prenuptial and postnuptial settlements of Margaret Trevor and Edward Hunt, 1652-1653, 1658, containing conditions for the payment of John Trevor 's debts and mortgages by Anthony Hunt of Fernhill; various conveyances to the trustees of the marriage settlement and to Anthony and Edward Hunt, 1653-1656, 1665; a surrender of title by Anthony Hunt to his son, Edward, 1658; mortgages, 1670, 1679, 1701, and a deed of sale of parts of the estate by Edward Hunt, 1701; family settlements of Edward Hunt and his son of the same name, 1702, 1705; schedules of aforementioned deeds and duties payable, 1632-1702; the will of Margaret Hunt, 1705; a mortgage and other documents concerning securities by Thomas Seed and his wife, Mary, heiress to Edward Hunt, 1736; subsequent leases and assignments of mortgage, 1740-1751; and further deeds relevant to Margaret Godolphin 's purchase of Moreton, afterwards called Margaret Hall, 1760-1763. The file also contains a schedule of deeds for properties in Weston Rhyn and Daywell, mortgaged to Margaret Godolphin in 1758.

Title deeds of properties situated in the adjacent Shropshire parishes of St Martin 's, 1582-1672, and Selatyn, 1479-1834; the latter includes the township of Brogyntyn (Porkington). Among the more significant transactions are leases, family settlements, purchases and sales by Thomas, Margaret and John Lacon in Selatyn, 1479-1623; the acquisition of plots of land by John Owen of Fernhill, 1607; deeds of sale and mortgage to William Owen 1623-1664, Sir Robert Owen, 1686-1691, his son William Owen, 1732-1743, Mary Jane and William Ormsby-Gore, 1802-1834; and deeds relating to old common land in the manor of Whittington, adjoining the turnpike road in Selatyn, enclosed under the Enclosure Act and transferred to private ownership, 1783-1834.

Conveyances, 1582-1601, 1621-1646, 1665-1672, of parcels of land and houses in Ifton, Weston Rhyn and Wiggington in the parish of St Martin 's. They include the assignment of a pew in St Martin 's parish church to Hugh Lloid of Weston Rhyn, 1596; the marriage settlement of Thomas ap John of Weston Rhyn and Elinor vch William of Broniarth, 1600; a mortgage by Edward Dryhurst of land in Ifton, 1623; and the mortgage of a house in Ifton to William Owen of Brogyntyn, 1672.

Memorandum of a lease of Moreton Hall, alias Margaret Hall, [Weston Rhyn, St Martin's], property of Mary Owen, 1787.

Deeds labelled ‘As to houses in Stanhope and Welbeck Streets. Sold’. They comprise a lease (counterpart) by Owen Ormsby of Porkington to Phillip Henry of Bridge Street, Westminster, of No. 59 on the west side of Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, in the parish of St Mary le Bone and the coach house and stables, with a schedule of fixtures and fittings, 1795; a lease by the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster, to Sir John Gore and Thomas Kenyon [trustees of Mary Jane Ormsby] of a messuage late in the occupation of Owen Ormsby, on the north side of Stanhope Street in the parish of St George, Hanover Square, 1817, and an assignment of the same to Catherine Martha Mellists of Hamels Park, Hertfordshire, 1820.

Statement by William Maurice for the opinion of Simon Thelwall. His father and grandfather assured certain lands to him and to his late wife, Margaret, by way of marriage settlement. Can he assure the jointure to a second wife? Thelwall replies that since Maurice's son is not mentioned by name, a new jointure or any other form of alienation of the first wife's jointure can be made at pleasure.

Statutes of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, 1925.

Appointment of John Hayward of Oswestry as steward of the lordship of Deuddwr, 1839.

Papers relating to a suit brought in the Court of King 's Bench by Thomas Hanmer of the Inner Temple, plt., against Sir Robert Owen, deft, for a debt of £1000, 1682.

Summary Account by John ap Humfrey of various mises (the shire hall mise, the Llanystumdwy mise, bridge mise, etc.) imposed within his limits (part of Eifionydd) together with the names of defaulters and the amount of arrears.

Deeds relating to land near Summerhill, Oswestry, purchased from Mrs Frances Sarah Brancker, 1840-1905. They comprise a conveyance by Anne Griffithes of Welshpool and Mary Griffithes of Llanfyllin, daughters of Margaret Griffithes and nieces of Walter Williams, dec., to Edward David Bennion of Summer Hill and his trustee, of a messuage and lands in the township of Llanforda, 1840; agreements for the sale, and the conveyance by Mrs Frances Sarah Brancker (nee Dean) to George Ralph Charles Ormsby Gore, Baron Harlech, and his trustees, with an abstract of title, 1905; plan incorporated.

Title deeds relating to land near Summerhill in the parishes of Oswestry and Selatyn, Salop, purchased by George Ralph Charles Ormsby Gore, Baron Harlech, and his trustees from Frances Sarah Brancker, 1840-1911

Conveyance of 2 pieces of land near Summerhill, Selatyn, purchased by the trustees of the Brogyntyn settlement of 1881 from Mrs Frances Sarah Brancker, with plan incorporated, 1911; with abstract of title, 1867-1911 (typescript); and a request on the label for the deeds of Cross Lanes Farm.

Parcel labelled ‘Miscellaneous’ containing six bundles of documents with original labels, 1767-1819. The first, labelled ‘Sundry Cases, Statements, etc. received from Mr Mortimer’ contains a case for the opinion of Mr Kenyon on the customs for paying and the entitlement of Robert Godolphin Owen to receive rents out of the Merioneth and Caernarfonshire estates after the death of William Owen, 1767; a writ commanding Robert Godolphin Owen, late sheriff of Merioneth, to transfer official documents to his successor Rice James, 1769; Brogyntyn estate accounts and particulars of Edward Thomas’s cottage, 1788-1793; a bond and papers from a lawsuit by William Relph of Dublin and Mary his wife (otherwise Beckett), plts, against Owen Ormsby, deft, concerning a debt claimed by the plts under the marriage settlement of Francis Ormsby in 1716, and a copy of an amended bill, Dalley vs Ormsby, 1794; an abstract of the will of Owen Ormsby, 1804, and draft will of Mary Jane Ormsby, 1810; the London Gazette, 14 Jan. 1815, reporting that William Gore was to take the name Ormsby in addition to Gore, 1815; a case and opinion on an action of ejectment (not specified), 1815; and a letter to Thomas Hill Mortimer from Mary Jane Ormsby Gore requesting an Act of Parliament to sell or exchange property, with a list of relevant deeds and witnesses, 1819.
The other five bundles relate to purchases by Mary Jane and William Ormsby Gore and the trustees under the will of Ellen Owen, of properties in Porkington and Selatyn including the Fron, Cernybwch and the Hills, and other allotments of former common land, from [John] Basnett, Edward Williams, George Henry Warrington, the trustees of Rev. Daniel Griffiths, Walter Williams and James Thomas, 1808-1819. They include abstracts of the titles of the vendors and of William Lloyd, lord of the manors of Whittington and Middleton, agreements, draft conveyances, abstracts of individual deeds, schedules of deeds, solicitors’ correspondence, accounts, bills for legal expenses and receipts; and a description of the intended road from the Lodge to Chirk Bank (in bundle for James Thomas)