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Manuscript ‘Catalogue of Old Plays’ in the collection at Brogyntyn [?c. 1815], which has a double arrangement. The first part has the Plays alphabetically arranged. The second part has the list of authors with the productions of each

A file of papers concerned with religious subjects which appear to date from the early seventeenth to the mid-eighteenth century. They include sermons; notes of sermons preached by [Thomas] Gatacre, [George] Carew, [Edward] Bentham and others; prayers and reflections on religious matters by Jane Owen [1669x1732]; considerations on appropriate attitudes to death, sin and sickness; arguments of John Frith the martyr; prayers entitled Prayers Out of Ye Christian Life; an essay on Daniel 's vision of the ram and the goat; notes on chapters of the Bible and the interpretation of various theological ideas; and extracts from the works of Bishop [Thomas] Newton.

Extracts from published sources, lists, notes, etc., relating to various historical and antiquarian subjects, [1656], 1693, [1761], [late 19 cent.]. Original material includes a description, dated 1795, of how the predecessors of the Tanat family were awarded the Broniarth charter in return for the capture of Lord Cobham in 1417; and substantial annotations by W.W.E. Wynne to a list of Caernarfonshire sheriffs, with a covering letter and genealogical enquiry to William Ormsby-Gore, 1832. Also of interest is a roll of casualties in Major Bringhurst 's troop at Waterloo, 1815.

Epitaphs in Latin and English to John Fell, Bishop of Oxford [c. 1686], to Mary Bamber by Lewis Owen and to Elizabeth Carpenter, a servant of Mary Owen, 1736.

Accounts of mysterious fires and the deaths of cattle and other farm animals in Merionethshire from an unknown disease [c. 1693]; a copy of Edward Lhuyd 's Parochial Queries [c. 1697]; notes on how the plague spread to Britain [18 cent., first quarter]; and a list of mountains and hills in North Wales and Shropshire, showing their heights in feet [19 cent., first half].

Copy of a prophecy for 1694 found in the ruins of Wallingford House; and two notebooks containing discussions of William Nixon 's prophecies [nineteenth century, first half].

Various undated academic exercises in English and Latin, which appear to date from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. Some are based on imaginary scenarios, namely an address to King Malcolm III of Scotland, speculative letters by Henry Harris to Oxford University tutors and the attempted rescue of the Earl of Desmond from the Tower of London, involving a consultation with Dr John Dee. Also included are an essay written from memory after a lecture on the history of Odonoghue, king of Kerry (Watermark 1806); notes on European alphabets, poetry and mythology; and an English translation of Undine, 1836.

Loose papers and notebooks listing books, periodicals, private papers, documents and maps contained in closets and chests, most of them presumably at Brogyntyn, dated between 1702 and 1893. The catalogues include: Ellen Owen 's books found after her death, 1702; books brought from Abertanat to Oswestry, 1771; bound pamphlets published between 1699 and 1813; books belonging to the library of Lady Morres Gore, 1819; and Brogyntyn charters, 1508-1740, belonging to the Penrhos and Abertanat estates in Montgomeryshire, with a covering letter by the compiler, I.H. Jeayes, 1893. The file also includes a book plate of Robert Godolphin Owen and notes of papers examined by W.W.E. Wynne, 1861, 1870.

Copy of depositions concerning the breeding of a grey Arab horse sold by Sheikh Morad Ebn al Haii Abdullah to Thomas Usgate, the English Consul in 1722, addressed to Arthur Owen, esq.; and eighteenth century notes on chess moves.

Complete editions, cuttings and pages of newspapers, 1685-1887; printed newsletters, broadsides, advertisements and general information leaflets, 1666-1861; and manuscript newsletters, 1676-1710.

Complete editions and pages of newspapers, namely Adams 's Weekly Courant, 1750, 1755; Baner ac Amserau Cymru, 1887; The Britannia, 1869; The Champion or Evening Advertiser, 1741; The Country Journal or the Craftsman, 1736-1748; The Denbighshire Gazette Extraordinary, 1794; The Dublin Evening Mail, 1831-1832; The Englishman, 1740; The Flying Post or The Post-Master, 1701-1702; Fog 's Weekly Journal, 1733-1736; The Globe, 1820; The Illustrated London News, 1881; John Bull, 1835; The London Courant, 1688; The London Evening Post, 1748, 1754; The London Gazette, 1685-1702; The Middlesex Journal or Chronicle of Liberty, 1770; The Middlesex Journal and Evening Post, 1780; Le Moniteur Ottoman, 1837; The Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser, 1783; New State of Europe, 1701; North Wales Chronicle, 1830-1837; Old England, 1748; The Post Boy, 1702; The Post Man, 1702; The Remembrancer, 1748-1749; Shropshireian Journal, 1832-1835; Shrewsbury Chronicle, 1780-1861; The Shrewsbury News, 1841; The Standard, 1834; The Sun, 1818-1821; The Times, 1886-1887; The Weekly Journal or Saturday 's Post, 1718; The Weekly Packet, 1715-1716; The Westminster Journal or New Weekly Miscellany, 1746; and The Whitehall Evening Post or London Intelligencer, 1746-1753. The North Wales Chronicle, Shropshireian Journal and Shrewsbury Chronicle contain reports and letters referring to elections for the Caernarfonshire Boroughs, Caernarfon County and North Shropshire in which William and John Ralph Ormsby-Gore were Conservative candidates, 1831-1837. The series also includes a scrapbook of press cuttings, 1814-1856 and loose articles, 1837, 1887.

Contains a report of the wedding of George Ralph Charles Ormsby-Gore and Margaret Ethel Gordon.