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Volume containing copies of the wills of Herny Godolphin, Provost of the College of Eton, 1730, with codicil, 1731, proved 1732; Ellen Godolphin of Holles Street, Marylebone, Middlesex, 1754; Francis Earl of Godolphin, 1763, with codicils, 1764, 1765, proved 1766; Francis Lord Godolphin, with codicil, 1784, proved 1785; Ellen Owen of Porkington, 1796; and Margaret Ormsby of Porkington, 1805. At the back there are cases and opinions on the wills of Henry Godolphin and Francis Godolphin, 1785-1802.

Volume containing a copy of the will of Margaret Ormsby of Porkington and Stanhope Street, Middlesex, 1805, proved 1806, and the account of Thomas James Warren Viscount Bulkeley, Sir Robert Williams Vaughan and David Pennant, executors, with Miss Mary Jane Ormsby, her daughter and residuary legatee, and duplicate.

Will of William Ormsby Gore of Porkington, MP, made 1853, with codicils, 1854 and 1856, proved 1860.

Seventeen account books and loose accounts, 1841-1870 (mainly 1862-1869), accumulated by the executors and trustees of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore, following her death in 1869, and bills for legal charges from the office of Longueville solicitors, 1869-1870. The accounts are mainly with Oswestry tradesmen such as Jones and Rogers, tailors, William Smale, chemist and druggist, Morris and Jones, grocers, Edward Jones, tailor, J.E. Littlehales, ironmonger, Roberts and Oliver, drapers, William Jones, plasterer, for work at the almshouses and at Porkington, Edward and John Jones, cabinet makers and upholsterers, Dr William Fuller for medical attendance, and E & R. Hughes, drapers, whose account shows the funeral expenses of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore. Other items include a ‘general account’, miscellaneous payments, [?a postage book], servants’ wages, the house account per Mrs Blades for items bought from Lewis and Owen, the gardener’s account of James Edwards, the Sligo election account of William Richard Ormsby Gore, 1870, and bank account books of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore at the Oswestry Bank, Child’s Bank and London Joint Stock Bank.

Will of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore of Porkington, 1866, proved 1869, annotated with registration of the probate at the Principal Registry of the Probate Division of the High Court of Justice, Ireland, 1879.

Claim submitted to the Equitable Insurance Office after the death of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore, 1870.

Probate of the will of John Ralph Ormsby Gore, first Baron Harlech, made 1862, proved 1876, and a memorial to be registered by the Registrar of Deeds, Wills etc. in Ireland, 1877.

Probate of the will of John Ralph Ormsby Gore, first Baron Harlech, 1876, and executors’ accounts, 1876-1877.

Accounts of the executors of John Ralph Ormsby Gore, first Lord Harlech, including a statement of interest on the late Mrs Gore’s trust estate, assets, stocks and shares, simple contract debts, succession duties, Longueville’s cash account, the second Lord Harlech’s cash account, bricks made at Maesgwyn, servants’ wages, keep of livestock at Brogyntyn and Glyn, and a residuary account for the Inland Revenue, 1876. Other papers, dated 1876-1877, include letters to Longueville and Co. from Lord Harlech, also mentioning the purchase of Deradda, Ireland, Lady Sarah Harlech, W.R. Lawford of Glyn, Arber and Rutter of Berkeley Square, London, referring to a leasehold property at Buckingham Gate, Dean and Taylor of Bedford Row, Fox of Harley Street and others; inventories and valuations of stock, machinery, household linen, furnishings, oils and other hardware at Brogyntyn, the timber yard at Brogyntyn and the brick yard at the Mount; valuations of Glyn; an abstract of the marriage settlement of William Richard Ormsby Gore and Emily Charlotte Seymour (1850); memoranda and queries on the accounts.

Accounts of the executors of the late William Richard Ormsby Gore, second Baron Harlech (d. 1904), showing stocks and shares, the estates of Tetworth and Derrycarne, debts and funeral expenses, assets and deductions together with Inland Revenue assessment forms for estate duty, 1904-1908, a list of securities sent by the London Joint Stock Bank Limited, 1904, letters to Longueville and Co., 1904-1909; and receipts for personal legacies including a gold watch previously given to the deceased by Sir George [Francis] Seymour, 1904-1905.

Accounts of the executors of William Richard Ormsby Gore, second Baron Harlech, 1904-1910, and receipts of family members for legacies received under his will, 1904-1922

Accounts of the executors of the late William Richard Ormsby Gore, second Baron Harlech (d. 1904) showing cash in the house and various bank accounts, funeral expenses, legacies, debts due to and from the deceased, expenses for carrying on Glyn, Brogyntyn, Chesham Place and Tetworth, trustees, mortgages, insurance, taxes, stocks and shares, solicitors, etc. and income, 1904-1909, with a statement showing the amount of estate duty payable by the executors of the will to the trustees of the Brogyntyn settled estates in respect of the portions for the younger children, charged on the English and Irish estates.

Two original envelopes containing receipts of George Ralph third Baron Harlech, Henry Arthur Ormsby Gore, Seymour Ormsby Gore, Alfred M. Egerton, Emily Fortescue Countess Ebrington and Lady Mary Egerton, 1904-1905, for legacies received under the will of William Richard, second Baron Harlech, and portions under the Ormsby Gore family resettlement of 1881, together with a list of the trust funds, Inland Revenue forms for legacy duty, 1905, and a letter to Longueville and Co., 1922.

Deeds relating to property settled on the marriage of Owen Ormsby and Margaret Owen, 1730-1793. They include a lease to vest possession of the Brogyntyn estates [part of the marriage settlement of William Owen and Mary Godolphin] 1730, a subsequent mortgage and appointment to Francis Godolphin, trustee, 1737, and a deed for making further provision for the younger children of William Owen, 1761; a receipt by Ellen Godolphin for an annuity, 1736; articles of agreement between Jonathan Lutenor and Thomas Lutenor of Henley Green, Staffordshire, and William Owen of Porkington for making bricks, 1737; an agreement between Margaret Lloyd of Kesail Gyfarch and William Owen of Porkington to settle disputes over a way from Tu Cerrig in the parish of Penmorfa, 1741; a declaration of trust from Francis Godolphin to Mary Owen to fulfil a bequest in the will of their mother, Mary Godolphin, 1762; transcript of a recovery on the Denbighshire estate of Robert Godolphin Owen, 1767; a legal opinion on Sir Thomas Jones’s right to a heriot for premises in the manor of Aston in the county of Salop, 1769; and the marriage settlements of Margaret Owen of Porkington and Owen Ormsby of Willybrook, Sligo, Ireland, both then residing in the parish of Saint George Hanover Square, which include the leasehold property of Margaret Owen at Welbeck Street, London, with a schedule of the contents, 1776; a general release by Thomas Morris and Jane his wife [former housekeeper to Robert Godolphin Owen], 1792; and a release by Ellen Owen to Thomas James Lord Bulkeley for the purpose of severing joint tenancy of the estates of Robert Godolphin Owen, deceased, which had descended to his sisters Ellen Owen and Margaret Ormsby, 1793.

Reused folder containing a deed of disentailment by John Ralph Ormsby Gore to William Watkin Edward Wynne and Charles Kynaston Mainwaring in trust for the sale of parts of the Brogyntyn estate remaining unsold, 1856; an appointment by Mary Jane Ormsby Gore of Rowland Jones Venables as a new trustee, 1861, under a family settlement of 1844; and a draft order of the High Court of Chancery for the reinvestment of funds in court in the purchase of real estate at Cricieth, Caernarfonshire, 1866.

Bundle labelled ‘Gores’ Settled Estates & Trustee Acts’, containing a draft petition by John Ralph Ormsby Gore, under the Act for vesting part of the settled estates of William Ormsby Gore and Mary Jane his wife, and under the trustees acts of 1850 and 1852, for the appointment of William Kenyon Slaney of Hatton Grange, Salop, as a new trustee of the Brogyntyn settled estates in place of Rowland Jones Venables, 1871. Other documents comprise the brief of the petition, instructions, affidavits on the eligibility of William Kenyon Slaney, affidavits and exhibits concerning the former trustees David Pennant, Thomas Netherton Parker, William Watkin Edward Wynne and Rowland Jones Venables, the consent of William Kenyon Slaney, orders issued by the High Court of Chancery, and copies of the parish register of Selatyn recording the burials of Rowland Jones Venables, 1868, and Mary Jane Ormsby Gore, 1869.

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.

Draft memorial to be registered of an indenture of appointment to Sarah, Dowager Lady Harlech, by the executors and trustees of her father, Sir John Tyssen Tyrell, of the rent from No. 2 Lower Grosvenor Place, London, 1878

Draft and epitome of the marriage settlement of Capt. Alfred Mordaunt Egerton and Mary Georgina Ormsby Gore and other related trust papers, 1878-1922. The latter include the appointment of Seymour Fitzroy Ormsby Gore to be a trustee of the settlement, 1896; an appointment of a sum of £2000, 1896; letters to Mr Lawford from Lord Harlech and to Longueville and Co. from Linklaters and Paines of Walbrook, London, 1921-1922; and an abstract of two appointments of new trustees, 1922.

Letters to John Jones of Longueville and Co. from Fanny Mary Katherine Kenyon, widow of Lloyd Kenyon, concerning the financial predicament after her non-inclusion in her husband’s will and fraud by her cook, together with a press cutting, 1880, calculations of her entitlements to a jointure and to bequests under the will of her father, Lord Harlech, in 1876.