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Reassignment by Martin Benson Lawford to George Ralph Charles Baron Harlech of a policy of assurance previously assigned to Edward Williams [Vaughan] in 1891 for securing payment of a mortgage on the estate in Leitrim, with a related letter by Lord Harlech attached, 1923.

Wills and executors’ accounts of the Owen and Ormsby Gore families (misc.), 1626-1860, of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore, 1841-1870, John Ralph Ormsby Gore, 1876-1877, and William Richard Ormsby Gore, 1904-1922.

Probate of the will of Dame Ellin Eure [nee Maurice] of Porkington, containing several charitable bequests and the devise of six small dwellings in Willow Street, Oswestry, to the bailiffs and burgesses of Oswestry for housing the poor, 1626.

Bundle labelled ‘Probates etc.’ containing mainly copy wills of the Godolphin, Owen and Lyster families, 1730-1799, namely Henry Godolphin, Provost of the College of Eton, Berkshire, 1730, with codicil, 1731; Rev. Lewis Owen of Wexham, Buckinghamshire, 1735 (recte 1745), proved 1746; Elizabeth Lyster of Penrhos, Montgomeryshire, 1747, proved 1764; Elizabeth Owen [widow of Lewis Owen], 1752, with codicils, 1753, 1756; Margaret Godolphin of Abertanat, 1764; and Ellen Owen of Porkington, 1796; cases and opinions concerning devises in the wills of Francis Lord Godolphin and Margaret Godolphin to Ellen Owen and Francis Owen, 1793, and a bill to Ellen Owen for legal expenses, 1797-1799. The file also contains the administration of Rev. Richard Hughes of Dolgellau, 1826.

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.

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.

Family settlements, other papers relating to the family trusts, and abstracts of title of the Owen and Ormsby Gore families of Brogyntyn and others related to them by marriage, 1730-1974. They include marriage settlements of Owen Ormsby and Margaret Owen, 1730-1793, John Ralph Ormsby Gore and Sarah Tyrell, 1844, William Richard Ormsby Gore and Emily Charlotte Seymour, 1850, Fanny Mary Katherine Ormsby Gore firstly with Lloyd Kenyon, 1863, and secondly with Rev. Thomas Mainwaring Bulkeley Owen, 1880, Capt. Alfred Mordaunt Egerton and Mary Georgina Ormsby Gore, 1878, and Hugh Fortescue Viscount Ebrington and Emily Ormsby Gore, 1886. The marriage settlement of William Gore and Mary Jane Ormsby, 1815, is not present, although the content is recited in the later family settlements. The other papers comprise appointments of trustees, and various other family trust settlements, 1815-1944, including the resettlement of the Brogyntyn estates in 1881; letters relating to the financial entitlements of Fanny Mary Katherine Kenyon, 1880, and abstracts of title compiled 1911-1974, summarising the inheritance and settlements of the Brogyntyn and Glyn estates from 1878 to 1964.

Appointment of Sir Robert Williames Vaughan of Nannau and David Pennant of Downing as new trustees of the Brogyntyn estates under the will of Ellen Owen, in conjunction with Thomas James Warren Lord Viscount Bulkeley, following the resignation of John Owen of Penrhos as trustee, 1804; and the appointment of a provisional trustee for the purpose of reconveying the Brogyntyn trust property, endorsed with the appointment of Thomas Netherton Parker as a new trustee, 1823.

Settlements and other documents relating to trusts on behalf of Fanny Mary Katherine Ormsby Gore, 1856-1910. The file includes a charge of £5000 on the Porkington settled estates and settlement by her father, John Ralph Ormsby Gore, for her benefit, 1856 (attested copy, much deleted and annotated); the settlements made prior to her marriages, firstly to Lloyd Kenyon of Gredington Hall, Flintshire, 1863, and secondly to Rev. Thomas Mainwaring Bulkeley Owen of Tedsmore Hall, Salop, together with an apppointment to him of the sum of £800 and a leasehold property in Onslow Square, Middlesex, 1880; appointments of new trustees by Fanny Mary Katherine Bulkeley Owen, 1882 (copy) and 1901 (draft); releases of trustees from the trusts declared in the wills of William Ormsby Gore and John Ralph Baron Harlech, and in the marriage settlement of John Ralph Ormsby Gore, 1901; an acknowledgement and undertaking by the trustees to produce documents to William Richard second Baron Harlech, 1901; and requests by Fanny Mary Katherine Bulkeley Owen for the investment of funds, 1890, 1910.

A list of financial securities transferred from Lord Harlech to Henry Arthur Ormsby Gore, 1895, with a covering letter from the London Joint Stock Bank Limited, 1897; and cases for the opinion of counsel on a proposed assignment of Lord Harlech’s life interest in part of the Irish estates as a further provision for his son, George Ralph Charles Ormsby Gore, in addition to the portion allocated in the family settlement (not in file), 1895.

Printed abstracts of title to the Brogyntyn estates, compiled 1911 and 1925, and to the Welsh property only, compiled 1930, recording the Ormsby Gore family settlements, trusts and wills, 1878-1928.

Petition to the High Court of Chancery for the replacement of William Ormsby Gore as trustee of the will of General John Despard of Swanhill, Salop, with related papers including an affidavit, acknowledgements, an undertaking by James W. Freshfields, copies and minutes of court orders, and letters to Longueville and Co. 1853-1854.

Release in respect of the trust estate of Thomas Borough by John Charles Burton Borough and others to Mrs M. J. Ormsby- Gore, 15 March 1861, and account book, [c. 1861?].

Draft Porkington (Brogyntyn) rental and account for the estates in Salop, Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire for one half year ending Lady Day 1846.

Roll recording leasehold property [of the Brogyntyn estate] in Caernarfonshire and Merioneth from 1858 to 1880

Papers which were probably compiled during the audits of the Brogyntyn estate, comprising memoranda and statements of errors in the rentals, 1834-1847, and reports on the Brogyntyn and Glyn rentals and accounts, 1919-1926

A miscellaneous bundle apparently relating to the amendment of errors in the rentals and accounts of the Brogyntyn estate, 1834-1847. It includes several memoranda and statements of errors headed ‘Porkington Rental’, 1844-1847; the account of Edward Lloyd, 1834-1845; a letter from Mr Drinkwater of Shrewsbury about payment for a carriage road, 1836; Thomas Hill’s valuation of damage to crops by game at Old Port Farm, 1843; a bill of Thomas Pemberton for straw, 1845; and Porkington arrears lists for rents due on Lady Day 1846.

Reports on the rentals and accounts of Lord Harlech’s Brogyntyn estate and Glyn estate for the years 1914-1925, compiled for the estate audits, 1919-1926; and occasional letters to Longueville and Co. from W.E. Stamer of Underhill, Oswestry, 1921-1922.