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Plan of Cefnymaes Farm, Oswestry, for sale by auction, 1939.

Title deeds and various other documents relating to miscellanous properties mainly in Oswestry, Selatyn and Whittington in the county of Salop (Shropshire) purchased by or belonging to the Brogyntyn estate, 1740-1939. The most substantial files are for the Parados estate, Selatyn, 1748-1829, a messuage in Porkington purchased from Edward Roberts, 1764-1826, Oerley Hall and adjoining lands, 1783-1830, Mount Pleasant, Selatyn, and land purchased from John Basnett, 1810-1819. Others include purchases from John Mytton of Halston, 1805-1826, and from John Lloyd, 1805-1829, Tynewydd or New Barns, Selatyn, 1805-1901, several fields near Oswestry, 1810-1848, Hengoed Vicarage, 1854-1897, Porkington Terrace, Oswestry, 1888-1892, the Burnt House farm, Selatyn, 1893-1901, and the Almshouses, Oswestry, 1911. A small number of deeds record the sale or lease of land by Lord Harlech to Liverpool Corporation, Oswestry Rural District Council and Oswestry Corporation for the provision of a water supply and a site for a hospital, 1895-1908.

Leases and agreements mainly by and to William Ormsby Gore, John Ralph Ormsby Gore, William Richard second Baron Harlech and George Ralph Charles third Baron Harlech, 1844-1937. The properties comprise Drenewydd in the parishes of Whittington and Oswestry, Myddelton, Oerley Hall, High Fawr and Oerley Farm, land adjoining Wingthorpe, The White Lion, stables, croft, malthouses, etc., land for erecting a carpenter’s shop, and a timber yard and builders’ yard in Willow Street, all in Oswestry; Pentrepant Hall, The Mount and cottages, clay-working and brick yards near the Mount, the sand pit at the Gloppa Farm and shooting rights, all in the parish of Selatyn; Tyntwll in Llanfihangel-y-traethau; The White Lion Hotel, Cricieth; Maesgwyn Farm, Guilsfield; Dee Side, Bangor [Is-coed]; Tetworth House, Sunninghill, Berkshire; and Malpas Lodge, Chester. The file also contains an agreement for the employment of Bernard Head as agent to Lord Harlech for the Brogyntyn and Glyn estates, 1904.

Miscellaneous papers relating to family settlements and trusts of the Ormsby Gore family of Brogyntyn, 1871-1935. They include the following appointments: William Kenyon Slaney as a new trustee under the will of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore, 1871; William Edward Oakley, William Robert Maurice Wynne and Thomas Longueville to be trustees of the settlement of Lady Harlech’s fortune made on her marriage with John Ralph Baron Harlech, dec., 1879; Ian Murray Heathcoat Amory to be a trustee of the marriage settlement of Hugh Fourth Earl Fortescue and Emily Countess Fortescue (nee Ormsby Gore) in place of Albert Edward Wilfred Count Gleichen, 1907; and Hugh Earl Fortescue as a new trustee of the will of William Richard Baron Harlech, 1908. The file also contains an appointment of settled funds by William Richard Baron Harlech and George Ralph Charles Ormsby Gore, 1895; a surrender and conveyance by William Richard Baron Harlech to George Ralph Charles Ormsby Gore of a life interest in property in Ireland, 1895, supplemental to the settlement of 1881; a release by George Ralph Charles Baron Harlech and the younger children of William Richard Baron Harlech to Lord William Frederick Ernest Seymour for the receipt of dividends from investments, 1905; a charge of £3000 on the settled estates in Salop and Merioneth upon the marriage of William George Arthur Ormsby Gore and Lady Beatrice Cecil, 1913, and release of a rent charge issuing out of the same, 1926; a disentailing assurance, 1915; an appointment of investments by George Ralph Charles Baron Harlech and his son William George Arthur Ormsby Gore, 1926; and a further disentailing assurance, 1935.

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.

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.

Various records relating to the financial status of the Brogyntyn estate and the Ormsby Gore family, comprising groups of rentals with related memoranda and reports, 1795-1926, accounts, 1833-1934, estate vouchers (Watermark 1828)-1887, and a single series of inventories and valuations, 1876-1906.

Accounts of the Brogyntyn estate and Ormsby Gore family, comprising general accounts, 1833-1890, and Brogyntyn trust accounts and vouchers, 1848-1934

Letters of various individuals connected to the families of Maurice, Owen, Ormsby-Gore and Godolphin through marriage, friendship or business and a small number of items where neither the author nor the recipient can be identified, 1582-1933.
They comprise letters to, from or about the Wynn family of Glyn, 1596-1690 (whose correspondents include Hugh Pennant, [c. 1663]), Anne Jones of Clenennau, 1679-1695, Rowlands of Nant, [1680s], Glynne of Eleirnion, [1680s]-1703, Humphrey Humphreys, 1700, Waller [of Castletown], 1706-1710, James Brynker, 1724, John Egerton, 1756, Edward Lloyd of Llanforda, 1680, the Seymour family, 1831-1868, Frank Weston, 1914, and others, 1582-1933. Topics include threats of invasions by the Spanish 1596, and the French, 1743; genealogies of Glynne of Glynllifon, [1605] and Gore, 1912; collection of the ship mise in Merionethshire, 1618; Sir Robert Owen 's dispute with Col. William Price of Rhiwlas over land in Gest, 1679-[c. 1694]; estate business of Margaret Lloyd of Cesail Gyfarch, 1729; claims on the estates of Richard Clayton, 1735, and of Robert Godolphin Owen, 1793; church administration in Llanyblodwel and elsewhere, [1730s?], 1756, 1868, 1914; parliamentary elections in Montgomeryshire, 1774 and Leitrim, 1874; the compulsory purchase of Oswestry Corporation property for improving access to London Bridge, 1831; complaints about the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, 1854; the Crimean War, 1855; First World War action against the Turks, 1918; and other items of national and international news. - - - The Stuart correspondence (mainly copies) includes James I to Sir George Calvert on the priveleges of the House of Commons, 1621; the Covenanters to the Earl of Essex, 1639; Sir William Temple to the Countess of Essex on the death of her daughter, [pre-1699]; and others, on the Oath of Allegiance, [1606], the rebellion and conquest of Ireland, 1649-1652, and the character of Sir George Jeffreys, 1680.

Game book of George Ormsby Gore, August 1907 – January 1922 (full entries), and 1907-1933 (game killed at Brogyntyn only). Bookplate of George Ralph Charles Ormsby Gore, 3rd Baron Harlech, inside front cover.

Printed abstracts of title to the Brogyntyn estates, compiled 1911 and 1925, and to the Welsh property only, compiled 1930, recording the Ormsby Gore family settlements, trusts and wills, 1878-1928.

Accounts and receipts labelled variously ‘Brogyntyn trust vouchers’ and ‘Lord Harlech - Longueville & Co’s receipts & bills of costs’, dated 1914-1929. Some of the accounts record the sale of lands in Sligo, Leitrim and Westmeath through the Court of the Irish Land Commission, 1914-1923.

Agreements and conveyances of land by successive members of the Ormsby Gore family to the Mawddwy Railway Co, 1866, Cambrian Railway Company, 1870-1882, Great Western Railway Company, 1897-1898, and The Portmadoc Beddgelert and South Snowdon Railway Company, 1904, for the purposes of various railway development schemes; and a document relating to an electricity development scheme by North Wales Power Company, 1927.

Waiver by the trustees of Lord Harlech’s settled estates of notice of George Ralph Charles Baron Harlech’s intention to sell to North Wales Power Company Limited a piece of land in the borough of Oswestry, on the east side of the road from Oswestry to Whittington, 1927

Papers which were probably compiled during the audits of the Brogyntyn estate, comprising memoranda and statements of errors in the rentals, 1834-1847, and reports on the Brogyntyn and Glyn rentals and accounts, 1919-1926

Reports on the rentals and accounts of Lord Harlech’s Brogyntyn estate and Glyn estate for the years 1914-1925, compiled for the estate audits, 1919-1926; and occasional letters to Longueville and Co. from W.E. Stamer of Underhill, Oswestry, 1921-1922.

Rentals of various parts of the Brogyntyn estate in Merioneth, Caernarfonshire, Shropshire, Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire, 1795-1913; and memoranda and reports on the rentals and accounts, 1834-1926.

Title deeds and other documents relating to properties belonging to the Brogyntyn estate in Caernarfonshire, 1813-1924. There are four series, comprising leases of parts of Borth-y-gest farm, Ynyscynhaearn, for building plots, 1847-1924; miscellaneous deeds and documents for properties in Cricieth, Dolbenmaen, Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, Llanystumdwy, Morfa Bychan, Penmorfa, Treflys and Ynyscynhaearn, 1813-1909; licences and leases of mines and quarries in Caernarfonshire, 1845-1890; and licences for Ereiniog Peat and Brick Works, 1871-1883.

Solicitor’s working notes from the office of Longueville and Co. [c. 1924] referring to land sales by Lord Harlech in Leitrim, Ireland, Borth-y-gest, Caernarfonshire, and the site of the ?Heroes Memorial Hall, and to Brogyntyn family settlements and trusts. Other families and individuals include St George, Willding, Ellis Jones, dec., Oswald Fox, Col. Campbell, Venables, J.H. ?Thin and Margarett Baugh, dec.

Mainly leases by William Ormsby Gore of Brogyntyn, Mary Jane his wife, and John Ralph Ormsby Gore, of parts of Borth-y-gest farm in the parish of Ynyscynhaearn, Caernarfonshire, for development as building plots, 1847-1860, and for the erection of a quay wall, 1867. There is also a lease for the site of Borth-y-gest Independent Chapel, 1871; and an acknowledgement for the conveyance of a garden plot, 1924.