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Title deeds and other documents relating to properties mainly in the parishes of Oswestry, Selatyn and Whittington in the county of Salop (Shropshire), either purchased by the Brogyntyn estate or already owned and later sold or leased by them, 1607-1939. The properties include lands which formerly belonged to the Earls of Powis, the Lloyd family of Aston and the Owen family of Woodhouse, former common lands in the manor of Whittington and the Drenewydd estate purchased from the Wynne family of Peniarth in 1830. There are substantial quantities of deeds for the farm of Pentreclawdd, 1607-1899, the Vron, Selatyn, 1697-1874, Pentre David, 1707-1827, Pentrepant, 1741-1894, lands around the Brick Kilns in Oswestry, 1783-1909, and miscellaneous other properties, 1740-1939.

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.

Papers relating to the inheritance and settlement of the Brogyntyn estates belonging to the Owen and Ormsby Gore family, comprising probate records, 1626-1922, and family and non-family settlements, trusts and abstracts of title, 1730-1974. There is a large amount of information, in the main content of the deeds and in the recitals, about the individuals concerned, the other families with whom they married, their trustees, the operation of the trusts, investments in land purchases and the purchase of stocks and shares, in accordance with the terms of the trusts. A further series describes a small number of non-family trusts, 1790-1906.

Warrant under the King 's Sign Manual granting the Dignity of a Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order to Beatrice Mildred Edith, Baroness Harlech, 1947, accompanied by an official covering letter, 1948.

Order of the ceremony of installation of Lord Harlech in the Most Noble Order of the Garter, 1948, accompanied by instructions for the ceremonies, an invitation, procession list and guest list for the royal luncheon.

Order of the annual service of the Order of St Michael and St George in St Paul 's Cathedral, including the installation of the banners of the Rt. Hon. Baron Harlech, 1947.

Grant of the Dignity of an Ordinary Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath to George Ralph Charles, Baron Harlech, 1936.

Statutes of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, 1925.

Grant of arms to John Ralph Ormsby-Gore, following his creation as Baron Harlech, with remainder in default of male issue to his brother, William Richard, 1876.

Certificate of the appointment of William Ormsby-Gore as a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, 1816.

Grant of arms to Major William Gore upon his marriage to Mary Jane Ormsby of Porkington, 1815.

Certificate of the appointment of Owen Ormsby as a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, 1795.

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.

Certificates, grants, statutes and orders of ceremony relating to appointments and honours conferred by royalty on various members of the Ormsby-Gore family between 1795 and 1948.

The letters include a warning to Sir Robert Owen not to proceed with action against an eminent public figure and hints of his sympathy for the Catholics, 1687.

Manuscript London newsletters from John Gadbury and others, 1676-1710, addressed mainly to Sir Robert Owen, which strongly reflect the government, politics and society of the Stuart period. Recurrent topics are the relations between the Stuart monarchs and Parliament; proceedings of Parliament and government departments; English election results; events at the royal court; the establishment of Protestantism; antipathy towards Catholics and Protestant dissenters; political conspiracies; foreign affairs in Europe; British overseas trade and colonisation; local government in London; City gossip and Oxford University news. Items of specific interest include the murder of Sir Edmund Berry [Godfrey], 1679; rebellion of the Scottish Covenanters, 1679; the Titus Oates plot and its repercussions, 1679-1685; the trial of Lord Stafford, 1680; the Rye House Plot, 1683; the formation of a mounted bodyguard for Charles II, 1683; effects of Quo Warranto, 1683, and subsequent restoration of London and other corporation charters, 1688; the Austro-Turkish War, 1683-1691; the controversial electorship of Cologne, 1688; a protest by seven bishops against the Declaration of Indulgence, 1688; the abdication of James II and accession of William and Mary, 1688-1689; reviews of revenue and excise, 1688-1689; abolition of the Council of the Marches of Wales, 1688-1689; Jacobite rebellions in Ireland and Scotland, 1688-1691; War of the Grand Alliance, 1688-1697; the papal successsion, 1689; government of the Scottish Church, 1689; the suicide of Lord Teviot, 1694; the War of Spanish Succession, 1710; and activities of Dr Sacheverell, 1710.

Printed advertisements for Queen of Hungary 's Water, 1687, sales of small valuables, recent publications, the services of a doctor and patent medicines, [1694x1744]; the Land Bank, 1695; and the commercial catalogue of a London firm of engineers and contractors, 1861.

A list of the nobility of England, 1680 (from Adams, J., Index Villaris London 1680), a published currency conversion table '...dedicated to the merchants of England, 1769, and a pamphlet describing the ceremonies to be observed at the coronation of William IV and Queen Adelaide, 1831.

Printed newsletters and broadsides, several of which are satirical, covering the political and military events of the Stuart and Hanoverian periods in Britain and Europe between 1666 and [c. 1800]. They include Publick Occurrences Truly Stated, 1687-1688, A Continuation of the Proceedings in Scotland, 1689, A Hue-and-Cry after an Old Cock Robin [1680s?], Gazette de Londres, 1697, Dawks 's Newsletter, 1697, Whitehall, 1702, and The Last Expressions and Dying Words of James II, 1702. The Stuart material, 1666-1702, concerns post-Restoration intrigues involving Titus Oates, the Duke of Monmouth and others; the accession and early reign of William and Mary; Jacobite rebellions in Scotland and Ireland; protestants, dissenters and legislation affecting the Scottish Church; and the contest for the electorship of Saxony (in French), 1697. The remaining papers provide news of Whig/Tory opposition, 1714, the weavers' riots, 1719, the imprisonment of the Bishop of Rochester, 1722, the Shrewsbury elections, 1734, and accusations of libel against John Wilkes, 1768-[1769]; together with lampoons of public figures, 1746-[c. 1800], and the disposition of the army camp at Coxheath, 1778.