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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.

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.

Brogyntyn trust accounts and vouchers, which include substantial bills of costs for legal services provided by Longueville and Co., 1848-1934. The titles of the files generally reflect the content. The bills elucidate the trustees’ functions, the details of family settlements, land purchases, sales, estate improvements and investments in stocks and shares under the terms of the trusts. There are accompanying letters to and by Longueville and Co., H.T. Dix of Dublin, other solicitors, Lord Harlech, the Brogyntyn trustees, surveyors and auctioneers. Many of the accounts refer to the sale of parts of Lord Harlech’s estate under the Irish Land Commission schemes in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Most files contain authorisations by Lord Harlech to the trustees to invest or release money, and brokers’ notes for the purchase or transfer of stocks and shares.

Records of the manors of Broniarth and Deuddwr in Montgomeryshire. They include a description (perambulation) of the manor of Broniarth, 1773, deeds relating to the manor of Deytheur (Deuddwr) which include a description of the boundaries, 1816-1824, rentals of chief rents in both manors, 1823-1894, and chief rent collector’s cash receipts, 1891.

Title deeds for Bank Farm, Guilsfield, 1729-1870, parcels of meadow in Broniarth purchased by Margaret Godolphin of Abertanat in 1740, and for a cottage in Broniarth purchased by William Ormsby Gore of Brogyntyn in 1826, and a few later documents, 1830-1885.

Files of the court leet, small court, view of frankpledge and court baron of the manor of Broniarth, which include presentments, writs and payment slips to bailiffs, lists of jurors, freeholders and tenants, and legal complaints, 1633-1643, 1722-1779, 1803-1804.

Original, draft and copy court rolls of the great and small courts, court leet, view of frankpledge and court baron of the manor of Broniarth, 1429-1464, [c. 1559]-1577, 1636-1701; most of the files are in Latin.

Miscellaneous records relating to the manor of Broniarth, comprising a grant of customs and privileges, 1536; estreats of fines and amercements, 1606-1632 and [mid-18 cent.]; questions and notes on the rights of the lord of the manor, 1639-[c. 1721]; a list of cottagers and enclosures, [17 cent., first half]; copies of the charter and related memoranda, 1652, 1687, [18 cent.]; and boundary surveys, 1690, 1773.

Rentals of chief rents of the lordship of Broniarth, 1687, 1735, 1821.

County administration papers mainly from Caernarfonshire and occasionally elsewhere in North Wales, comprising county officials' papers, [c. 1576]-1820, assessments and taxation records, 1583-1664, [18 cent.], militia papers, [1588x1595]-1683, and election papers, 1620-1831. Documents which concerned Sir William Maurice and Sir John Owen as Deputy Lieutenant and Vice-Admiral of North Wales have been included here since the main sphere of their duties lay within the county of Caernarfon.

Leases and licences granted by members of the Ormsby Gore family of Brogyntyn, of minerals and slate quarries in Caernarfonshire, 1845-1890. The locations include Fron Oleu in the parish of Penmorfa, 1845-1872, 1875-1881, Hendre Ddu, Dolbenmaen, 1860-1874, Mynyddednyfed and Braich-y-Sant, Cricieth, 1861, Plas yn Pennant, Penmorfa, 1862-1866, Ty Cerrig, Penmorfa, 1864-1880, and elsewhere in Beddgelert, Cricieth, Llanfihangel-y-Pennant and Penmorfa, 1849-1890. One file contains licences to make railways or tramways for the transport of slate from the quarries, 1855-1873

A small number of title deeds for properties belonging to the Cemais estate in Montgomeryshire, gained through the marriage of William Lewis Anwyl of Parke to Elizabeth Herbert at the end of the sixteenth century. The surviving deeds relate to properties situated in the parishes of Berriw, 1577, Cemais, 1690, Kerry, 1591-1596, Llanbryn-mair, 1545-1585, and Llanfair Caereinion, 1675-1679.

Certificates of appointments to the Privy Chamber, 1795, 1816, grants of arms, 1815, 1876, statutes and a grant of the order of the Bath, 1925, 1936, orders of installation ceremonies within the orders of the Garter and of St Michael and St George, 1947-1948, and grant of the Dignity of a Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, 1947-1948, all relating to honours conferred by royalty on members of the Ormsby-Gore family.

Papers relating to Oswestry charities and school, 1635-1772, charities in North Wales and Shropshire, 1644-1855, charitable donations by John Owen of Penrhos, 1814-1823, and schools, 1841-1863.

Church administration papers mainly from North Wales, Montgomeryshire and Shropshire, concerning cases in the consistory courts, 1598-1638, church buildings and churchyards, 1633-[1876x1904], the clergy, [1670x1680], 1829, Penrhos chapel, 1696-1844, poor law records, 1711-1749, and legislation affecting the church, 1835, [c. 1868].