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Miscellaneous bundle containing mainly letters addressed or forwarded to Longueville and Co. from John Ralph Ormsby Gore, William Richard Ormsby Gore, William Ryder of Cemais, the London Joint Stock Bank, Thomas Savin, W.W. Wagstaff of Plas Vivod, Benjamin Ferrey, Richard Easton of Taunton, Mary P. Carew of Crowcombe Court, Sarah Ormsby Gore at Glyn, Griffith Jones Williams of Dolgellau, the Office of Woods, Thomas Davies of Sarney, Edward Jones of Penrhos and Oliver Richards of Regent Street, (Watermark 1871)-1880, concerning estate matters such as enclosure, land ownership and trespass, notably at Gyrn Common, Farchynys Fach, Borth-y-gest and Llechwedd-du Bach near Harlech, finance and investments, legal matters, new works at the Mawddwy railway bridge (with plan), the brick yard and colliery at Oswestry and Whittington, insurance claims for restoration following a fire at Brogyntyn in 1874, a site for the cottage hospital at Llangollen, and Mr [?J.E.] Parry’s illness. The file also includes a rough pedigree of the children of William Richard Ormbsy Gore [post-1863]; a memorandum on charges on the Brogyntyn estates; an analysis of the will of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore, 1869; a lease agreeement for a cottage at Cefnfach, Salop, 1870; a deed for the transfer of stocks and shares by the executor of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore to the Brogyntyn trustees, 1871; a notice by the Mawddwy Railway Company of land required at Cemais, Montgomeryshire (with plan), 1874; accounts with Benjamin Ferrey for alterations and additions to Brogyntyn Hall, 1874; legal papers from a prosecution by Thomas Henry Wright Anderson against Lord Harlech for debt, 1880; and a map showing a pencilled-in boundary of lands near Cwmbodlyn, Llanenddwyn.

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.

Memoranda of agreements and a conveyance by William Richard Baron Harlech to the Great Western Railway Company of land in Langollen Urban, Denbighshire, together with mines and minerals, 1897-1898; plans attached.

Agreement between George Ralph Charles Baron Harlech and The Portmadoc Beddgelert and South Snowdon Railway Company for the sale and purchase of lands in the parish of Beddgelert, Caernarfonshire, with plan attached, 1904

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

24 Dec. 1870, John Ralph Ormsby Gore and others to The Cambrian Ry Co. duplicate conveyance of lands in cos Mer. and Caern.; 2 Sept. 1873, Cambrian Railway Co. to The Trustees of the Marriage Settlement of John Ralph. Ormsby Gore, conveyance of land at Barmouth; 19 Dec. 1882, Cambrian Railway Co. to Trustees of Brogyntyn Settled Estates, coveyance of land at Barmouth.

Mary Jane Ormsby Gore to The Mawddwy Railway Co., duplicate conveyance of lands in p. Cemmes (Cemais) 1866, June 2.

Legal papers of the Ormsby Gore family of Brogyntyn, 1863-[c. 1924]. They cover three main aspects of work handled by the office of Longueville and Co., firstly prosecutions by or against the Ormsby Gore family in the High Court of Justice, Oswestry Borough Session, and the county courts of Caernarfonshire and Denbighshire; secondly petitions to the High Court of Chancery in connection with family trust settlements; and thirdly, cases for legal opinion. The most substantial of the files comprise the matter of Fanny Mary Katherine Ormsby Gore, to enable a settlement upon her marriage to Lloyd Kenyon, 1863; a petition to the High Court of Chancery concerning powers of leasing mines under the Ormsby Gore family settlement, 1866-1875; Borth-y-gest ejectment [c. 1874]-1879; Cooper and Allen vs Harlech concerning a contract for a land purchase, 1876; Harlech vs Hall in a claim for money, 1880-1884; lawsuits on behalf of Lord Harlech in a case of assault and a boundary dispute, 1889; and Lord Harlech, Jones and Lewis vs Parry in a case to recover lands at Morfa Bychan, 1896. There is also a file of solicitor’s working notes from the office of Longueville and Co. [c. 1924]

Papers relating to a petition to the High Court of Chancery in the matter of the Infants’ Settlement Act (1855) and in the matter of Fanny Mary Katherine Ormsby Gore, an infant aged eighteen years, to enable a settlement of her real and personal estate upon her marriage to Lloyd Kenyon, 1863. The file includes the consent of her father and next friend, the brief petition, a list of papers, a schedule of deeds, probate copies and abstracts, 1833-1863, solicitors’ telegrams, affidavits, the solicitor’s work diary for submission of the petition, 3 July – 11 August 1863, the summons, a draft memorial to the Commissioner of Inland Revenue, a bill of costs, copy court order and minutes; and in the matter of Gore’s Settled Estates Act and the Trustees Act (1850 and 1852) the brief petition of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore for the appointment of new trustees, 1863.

Papers relating to cases in the County Court of Caernarfonshire between Hugh Jones, plt., vs Joseph Parry, deft. and Hugh Lewis vs Joseph Parry, former tenants of Lord Harlech, in an action to recover possession of lands at Morfa Bychan in the parish of Ynyscynhaearn, Caernarfonshire, 1896. The file includes the brief for the plaintiffs, particulars of plts’ demands, copies of court orders, plts’ oaths, notice of deft’s intention to appeal and copies of his letters to Lord Harlech’s agent W.R. Lawford in 1894.

Case for the opinion of counsel to settle the form of farm tenancy agreement to be used by Lord Harlech on the Brogyntyn settled estate in the counties of Salop, Montgomery, Denbigh, Caernarfon and Merioneth, and samples of the agreements, 1908.

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.

Drafts of two cases for opinion of counsel on the failure of the Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway to pay a rent charge to Mary Jane Ormsby Gore as compensation for land belonging to the Brogyntyn settled estates, acquired in addition to the Company’s original requirement [1865x1869]

Particulars of a writ relating to a prosecution involving Gore, plt. vs Lewis, deft., in a claim for half a year’s rent, 1866.

Papers relating to a petition to the High Court of Chancery in 1875 concerning powers of leasing mines under the Ormsby Gore family settlement of 1844, the appointment of William Watkin Edward Wynne and William Kenyon Slaney as trustees and other matters in connection with the settled estates. The file includes a valuation of the Mynydd Ednyfed estate, Caernarfonshire, 1866; a draft analysis of the will of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore, 1869, and an extract from a codicil to the will of William Ormsby Gore, 1874; announcements in the Cambrian News and the North Wales Chronicle, 26-27 March 1875; instructions to Mr Harrison for petition under the Leases and Sales of Settled Estates Act and observations of Longueville thereon, solicitors’ correpondence, affidavits and the consent of William Richard Ormsby Gore to act as guardian, 1875.

Papers labelled ‘Borth y gest ejectment’ from a case in the High Court of Justice (Exchequer Division) which includes a statement of claim by William Watkin Edward Wynne and other trustees of the Brogyntyn estate, plts, against William Williams Jones, deft, concerning the deft’s refusal to give up a property called Craigydon at Borth-y-gest and a piece of land which was appropriated to make a wharf, 1877-1879. The file contains a list of building leases granted between 1858 and 1874; letters to Longueville and Co. from Jones and Jones of Portmadoc, Lord Harlech and John Charles Burton Borough, 1877; tracings of plots in Mersey Street and Ralph Street; and particulars of building leases, 1878.

Papers from a case in the High Court of Justice Chancery Division, between Sir Henry Cooper and George Allen, trustees of Rev. Hugh Ker Cockburne, plts, and the trustees of William Richard Lord Harlech, defts, concerning a contract with the latter’s agent, William Robinson Lawford, for the sale and purchase of Acra Galed, Tyn-y-Morfa, Crogan and Groeslas, Merioneth, previously part of the Mostyn estate, 1876. The file includes the statement, affidavits, minutes of order, solicitors’ correspondence, a schedule of deeds, 1818-1864, a copy opinion and the outer cover of the brief for counsel (contents missing)

Papers labelled ‘Penmorfa Award’ relating to a dispute over the boundary between Lord Harlech’s lands and Gesail [Gyfarch], 1877, comprising a letter from W.R. Lawford, a bill of charges by Spooner and Co., and two plans showing the boundary and a quarry leased to Humphrey Richard Thomas.

Papers concerning a case in the High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division between William Richard Baron Harlech, plt, and William Henry Allen Hall of Brixton and New Bond Street, deft. in a claim for money received for the plt’s use, including rent for Tetworth House, 1880-1884. The file includes letters from W.H.A. Hall, 1880, and George Blagden, solicitor, 1883; the writ and particulars of writ, affidavits of Harry King Millard, and particulars of search of bill of sale, 1881-1884; the judgement and bill of plaintiff’s costs, 1884.

Papers deriving from lawsuits undertaken on behalf of Lord Harlech by Joseph Powner vs Edward Griffith at Oswestry Borough Session for assault, 1889, and by John Jones vs Henry Parry in the County Court of Denbighshire in a boundary dispute involving a walnut tree, with sketch plan, 1889. The file includes a brief for the complainant, court summons, judgement, statements of evidence, solicitor’s correspondence and a bill of costs.