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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.

Printed catalogues advertising the sale of specific parts of the Brogyntyn estate in Caernarfonshire, Merioneth and Salop, 1827, 1911-1919, and of Tetworth mansion, Berkshire, belonging to William Richard Ormsby Gore, 1905. Some of the catalogues have photographic illustrations of the locality in the frontispiece. Several are annotated with manuscript notes in the margins. Maps are incorporated. Other papers include draft conveyances and schedules of deeds.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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)

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.

Documents relating mainly to mortgages by William Richard Ormsby Gore and George Ralph Charles Ormsby Gore of the estates in Leitrim Ireland, together with papers concerning trust moneys and sales of the Brogyntyn estate, 1870-1923.