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Assignment by Thomas Edward Davies, George Percival Spooner and John Humphrey Jones to George James Barnard under a licence or take note granted by William Richard Lord Harlech to discover, work, convert and manufacture into naphtha charcoal, fuel and other similar products and to sell and dispose of clay, brick-earth, sand, etc., under the farms of Ereniog, Cefn Coch Uchaf, Maes Llech, Ynyswen and Hen Maes Llech in the parishes of Penmorfa and Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, Caernarfonshire, 1879, together with the licence to assign, Longueville’s charges for legal services and relevant letters

Counterpart agreement for tenancy of No. 16 St James Place, London, between Mrs M. J. Ormsby Gore and J. Neal, 2 Aug. 1860; agreement for sale of a m. and premises situate in St James Place, Middlesex, between M. J. Ormsby-Gore and Charles S. Pears, 27 Sept. 1862; agreement for sale and purchase of the lease of No. 66 Portland Place and the fixtures and furniture between Mrs M. J. Ormsby Gore and William Jackson, MP, 17 July 1863.

Ormsby Gore. Letters patent to Phillip Ormsby, 18 Nov. 1665; mortgage of lands in Co. Sligo by William Jones to Capt. William Ormsby, 19 Oct. 1693; and bond of even date by William Jones, copy of Jones Estate Act, 29 Oct. 1693; lease and release of lands in Co. Sligo by William Jones to William Ormsby, 23 Nov. 1697; counterpart lease for 999 years of lands at Closmillen, Cloontnaffe and Clooneskert by William Ormsby to Sir Edward Crofton, [29 Dec. 1694]; counterpart fine of land in Cos Roscommon, Mayo and Sligo by Ormsby and wife to Crofton and French, Hilary Term 1719; copy recovery suffered by William Ormsby of lands in Co. Mayo, Easter Term 1743; copy recovery suffered by William Ormsby of lands in Co. Roscommon, Easter Term 1743; copy recovery suffered by William Ormsby of lands in Co.Sligo, Easter Term 1743; copy fine of lands in Co. Roscommon by William Ormsby to French, Trinity Term 1743; copy fine of lands in Co. Mayo by William Ormsby to French, Trinity Term 1743; copy fine of lands in Co. Sligo by William Ormsby to French, Trinity Term 1743; fair copy settlement on the marriage of William Ormsby Gore and Miss Hannah Wynne, 23 June 1743; lease for lives of lands in Co. Sligo by William Ormsby to Thomas Evans, 13 Jan. 1746; lease for lives of lands in Co. Sligo by Francis Ormsby to Richard Irwin, 16 Jan. 1747; copy memorial - Beckett and others to French and others, 5 Aug. 1752; lease for lives of lands in Co. Sligo by Bernard Smith Ward to Thomas Parke, 3 Sept. 1764; assignment of security for £400 by Rev. Henry Coughlan to William Ormsby, 22 June 1765; copy recoveries of lands in Cos. Sligo, Roscommon and Mayo, all Trinity Term 1770; deed making tenant to the praecipe, 6 Aug. 1770; settlement between William Ormsby and Owen Ormsby, 23 Aug. 1770; deed of assignment of annuity in trust for M.Ormsby by William Ormsby and Hannah Ormsby, his wife, to Owen Ormsby, 6 July 1771; mortgage for securing £400 and interest by William Ormsby and Owen Ormsby to the Rev. Robert Bligh, 6 July 1771 with counterpart and copy dated14 Feb. 1794; conveyance by the Commissioners of the Turnpike Road to Owen Ormsby and John Lloyd of an old turnpike road in lieu of a new one, 29 June 1776; negative certificate of searches in register, 3 Jan. 1795; release of portions by Philip Ormsby and others to Owen Ormsby, 1 Jan. 1800; renewal of lease by Owen Ormsby to Hugh Mc Dermott, 27 April 1801; conveyance of two quarters of lands of Shruffe and Corkowna by Owen Ormsby to Mathew O'Conor, gent., 20 July 1804; reconveyance of mortgaged towns, lands and premises in Cos Sligo and Roscommon by Thomas Bligh to Owen Ormsby, 1 July 1841; deed of annuity by William Ormsby Gore, esq., and Mary Jane, his wife, to William Richard Ormsby Gore, esq. deed of annuity.

Surrender by Caroline Low of Richmond Place, Dublin, and Edward Sutton Low to William Ormsby Gore of leases of one third part of the town and lands of Gulladuff called Denahoes Gulladuff in the Barony of Carrigallen, Leitrim, Ireland, 1788, and the other two thirds of Gulladuff, 1790, all previously leased to Nathaniel Low, with a release from rents and covenants, 1859.

Conveyance of lands at Deradda, Co. Leitrim, by the Landed Estates Court to Mary Jane Ormsby Gore, 26 July 1860; conveyance of part of the lands of Deradda in Co. Leitrim by Mary Jane Ormsby Gore to William Richard Ormsby Gore, 30 March 1861; conveyance of part of the lands of Deradda, Co. Leitrim, in exchange for part of lands of Gortakoosh, by William Richard Ormsby Gore to J. R. Ormsby-Gore, 6 Nov. 1865; conveyance of several dwelling houses, pieces or parcels of land and hereditaments by the devisee in trust of 1st Baron Harlech, to William Richard, 2nd William Richard, Baron Harlech, 30 Dec. 1876; conveyance of several dwelling houses and land called Deradda, Barony of Carrigallan,Co. Leitrim, by William Richard, Baron Harlech, to G. R. C. Ormsby-Gore, 14 June 1895; and two letters, 12 -14 Feb. 1913, from H. T. Dix & Sons, Co. Dublin. [This list was compiled from a schedule loaned by Messrs Longueville & Co., but despite the list, this bundle in fact comprises only a small number of letters: there are no deeds at all in the bundle].

Copy draft conveyances by William Richard second Baron Harlech, by George Ralph Charles third Baron Harlech, and the trustees of the Brogyntyn estate, to several rural district councils and to private individuals in the counties of Sligo, Mayo, Leitrim and Westmeath, Ireland, 1902-1920. They include conveyances to Tobercurry Rural District Council of land in the townland of Rue Poor Law Union for a new cemetery, 1902; to Sligo Rural District Council land in the townlands of Clooskirt and Kinkillew, 1905; to Swinford Rural District Council a plot for the proposed enlargement of Killasser graveyard, 1906; to the Coole Rural District Council land in Togher, Finea, Williamstown and Lisnugent, to Mohill Rural District Council lands in Clooncorrick, Drumod More, Faulties, Callough, Drumod Beg and Furnace (Bleankillew), to Sligo Rural District Council land in Carrickcoola, Clooskirt and Bellawillinbeg, to Tubbercurry Rural District Council land in Lislea, Toberscardan, Castleloye, Magheranore, Carrownaworan, etc. all for the purposes of the Labourers (Ireland) Acts, 1907-1910; and to the Congested Districts Board the Aclare fairs and markets , 1918. There are other conveyances to private individuals of the farm of Leitrim Hill, the Drumcoura Royal Irish Constabulary Barracks in the parish of Drumreilly, part of the town and lands of Willowbrook, various parts of Clooncorrick, Carrigallen, Drumlea Wood, a plantation in Carrownaworan, Tobertelly Wood, a house and garden in Dromod, and part of the mountain of Tullyvellia, land in Clooskirt adjoining the Coola crossroads, 1903-1920; and to the trustees of the will of Owen Wynne, Church Island in Lough Gill, 191[1]. The file also contains relevant letters to Longueville and Co. from H.T. Dix and Sons, Dublin, 1910-1919; and plans.

Copy of a notice published in the Dublin Gazette, of an order by the Irish Land Commission to vest the estate of George Ralph Charles Baron Harlech in the counties of Sligo and Mayo in the Congested Districts Board for Ireland, 1911, and memos of the allocation schedule, 1912.

Miscellaneous deeds and other papers relating to lands belonging to the Brogyntyn estate, situated in Salop, Wales, London and Cornwall 1729-1830. The file contains abstracts of the marriage settlements of William Owen and Mary Godolphin, 1730, and of Owen Ormsby and Margaret Owen, 1776; abstracts of title of William Owen (3) to lands in Salop, Caernarfonshire, Denbighshire and Merioneth, 1626-1728, compiled 1729, of Mary Jane Ormsby to a leasehold messuage in Welbeck Street, Marylebone, with the stables and coach house in Easley Mews, 1760-1806, compiled [c.1810], and of Elizabeth Owen to the estate at Trewylan, Montgomeryshire, 1659-1748, purchased from John Pryce in 1748; attested copies received from Mr Jackson in 1778, of marriage settlements and associated documents of Edward Owen and Meryell Greaves, daughter of Sir Richard Greaves, 1629, Robert Owen and Mary Edisbury, 1651, Edward Owen and Sarah Cotton, 1681, and Edward Owen of Woodhouse, 1730, and an agreement by William Owen of Woodhouse to convey to Thomas Baugh the messuage of Pentre David, Selatyn, 1777; and papers from the termination of the tenancies of William Symons and William Williams on a field called Trecanpraze, Parkan Praze or Park Chapell in the parish of Sithney in the manor of Peventon, Cornwall, implemented by Arundel Rogers, agent for the Brogyntyn trustees, 1828-1830.

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.

A letter concerning the pension of Gwilym Maeran P. Jones of Oswestry, 1968, and warrants for the payment of dividends on shares, 1976-1977.

Sale catalogue of lots 71-132, properties in the parishes of Dolbenmaen, Ynyscynhaearn and Beddgelert, sold at Porthmadog town hall and the Royal Goat Hotel, Beddgelert, 13 Sept. 1911, with memoranda of agreement bound into the back of the volume. Photographic illustration of Beddgelert in frontispiece.

Sale catalogue of lots 133-274, properties in the parishes of Llanfrothen, Ynyscynhaearn and Llandecwyn, sold at Porthmadog town hall, 14 Sept. 1911, with memoranda of agreement bound into the back of the volume. Bound by mistake with a cover of the Corsygedol Hotel sale of Sept. 15. Photographic illustration of Borth-y-gest in frontispiece.

Schedules of deeds etc. (mainly counterpart leases) handed over by Longueville to other firms of solicitors, including Lloyd George, in Cricieth, Barmouth, Portmadoc, Dolgellau, Caernarfon and Llanfairfechan at the time of Lord Harlech’s land sales in Caernarfonshire and Merioneth, 1911-1914.

Sale catalogue of the outlying portions of the Aston estate near Oswestry at the Victoria Rooms, Oswestry, 1918. Photographic illustrations.

Papers deriving from applications by the Brogyntyn estate to the Land Loan and Enfranchisement Company and the General Land Drainage and Improvement Company under schemes for the improvement of landed estates, 1870-1883. They include a schedule of lands to be charged with new outlay including Brogyntyn mansion, Home Farm (Ty Coch), Glyn, Sylfaen, Ystumcegid and others; copies of the official application form by John Ralph Ormsby Gore; a statement of additions and deductions, estimates for building work; summary of accounts; Inland Revenue forms for succession duty; prospectuses of the Land Loan and Enfranchisement Company and the General Land Drainage and Improvement Company; a copy of the Company’s Act (1849); letters from the relevant companies, the Inclosure Commission, John Ward of Oswestry, contractor for public works, Robert Owen of Oldport, solicitors and the tenant of Cefn Collfryn, Cricieth. The file also contains a grant by William Ormsby Gore to his son William Richard, of an annuity of £20 issuing out of the Oerley Hall estate, Oswestry, 1839.

Papers relating to improvements to Mardy Farm in the parish of Selatyn, Salop, under the provisions of the Settled Land Acts 1882 to 1890, comprising the application form for the approval by the Board of Agriculture of a surveyor nominated by the estate trustees, he building inspection certificate of John Bligh Monck, the bill of Jones and Evans, builders, and related letters to Longueville and Co., 1905-1906.

Papers deriving from applications made previously by the Brogyntyn estate to the General Land Drainage and Improvement Company, later merged with The Lands Improvement Company, to fund improvements at Ystumcegid Isaf (Cricieth) in the parish of Llanystumdwy, Caernarfonshire, Old Port Farm in the parishes of Oswestry, Selatyn and Whittington in the county of Salop (Contracts 1208 and 1208B). The papers comprise apportionments of rent charge, a release of Ystumcegid Isaf from the rent charge imposed on the properties as security for the loan, and letters mainly to Longueville and Co. from The Lands Improvement Company relating to the same and discussing difficulties arising in the release from the rent charge, all dated 1911.

Papers deriving from compensation claims for loss of development value or ‘Treasury Scheme cases’ under the Town and Country Planning Acts of 1947 and 1954, dealing mainly with the valuation of claims submitted by the Brogyntyn Estate Company and recommendations for fulfilment of the criteria, 1949-1955. The properties for which compensation was claimed included Brogyntyn mansion and farm, Oerley Hall, The Mount, Brick Kilns, other Brogyntyn estate properties, parts of the Glyn estate including requisitioned land at Harlech Camp, mineral interests such as the limestone quarries at Underhill and Carreg-y-big, Llwyn Sand and Gravel Pits, Foel Wood Sandpit and Sandstone Quarry, Salop, Dorothea Slate Quarry, Nanhoron Quarry, Portmadoc Quarry, and the Sand Pit, Golf Links, Harlech. The papers comprise mainly the official Central Land Board claim forms, schedules of Brogyntyn estate claims, circulars and correspondence between the Inland Revenue District Valuers in Shrewsbury and Bangor, the Central Land Board, Birmingham, E. Pakenham Hamilton of the Brogyntyn Estate Office in Oswestry, Mssrs Yard and Hardcastle of the Estate Office, Pwllheli, Capt. D.E. Anderson, and Durnford and Lee mining engineers, Doncaster.

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.

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.