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Miscellaneous loose papers comprising an abstract of the title of the late William Penn to an estate at Brentwood, Essex, 1616-1756, with opinion thereon; case and opinion on the will of J.K. (sic) made in 1813, which includes bequests to her grandson W.G., 1817; certificate dated 1822 of the burials at West Felton of Richard Cotton of Rednall, 1770, Margaret Rosser of Grimpo, 1797, and Mary Lloyd of Oswestry, 1806; valuation of two cottages, the property of John Jones, and a field belonging to William Ormsby Gore for the purpose of exchanging, 1833; and a fragment of ‘Plan B’ showing the township of Weston Lullingfields [mid-19th cent]

Parcel labelled ‘Miscellaneous’ containing six bundles of documents with original labels, 1767-1819. The first, labelled ‘Sundry Cases, Statements, etc. received from Mr Mortimer’ contains a case for the opinion of Mr Kenyon on the customs for paying and the entitlement of Robert Godolphin Owen to receive rents out of the Merioneth and Caernarfonshire estates after the death of William Owen, 1767; a writ commanding Robert Godolphin Owen, late sheriff of Merioneth, to transfer official documents to his successor Rice James, 1769; Brogyntyn estate accounts and particulars of Edward Thomas’s cottage, 1788-1793; a bond and papers from a lawsuit by William Relph of Dublin and Mary his wife (otherwise Beckett), plts, against Owen Ormsby, deft, concerning a debt claimed by the plts under the marriage settlement of Francis Ormsby in 1716, and a copy of an amended bill, Dalley vs Ormsby, 1794; an abstract of the will of Owen Ormsby, 1804, and draft will of Mary Jane Ormsby, 1810; the London Gazette, 14 Jan. 1815, reporting that William Gore was to take the name Ormsby in addition to Gore, 1815; a case and opinion on an action of ejectment (not specified), 1815; and a letter to Thomas Hill Mortimer from Mary Jane Ormsby Gore requesting an Act of Parliament to sell or exchange property, with a list of relevant deeds and witnesses, 1819.
The other five bundles relate to purchases by Mary Jane and William Ormsby Gore and the trustees under the will of Ellen Owen, of properties in Porkington and Selatyn including the Fron, Cernybwch and the Hills, and other allotments of former common land, from [John] Basnett, Edward Williams, George Henry Warrington, the trustees of Rev. Daniel Griffiths, Walter Williams and James Thomas, 1808-1819. They include abstracts of the titles of the vendors and of William Lloyd, lord of the manors of Whittington and Middleton, agreements, draft conveyances, abstracts of individual deeds, schedules of deeds, solicitors’ correspondence, accounts, bills for legal expenses and receipts; and a description of the intended road from the Lodge to Chirk Bank (in bundle for James Thomas)

Deeds of sale by Mary Combers and Charles Combers, both of Brentwood, Essex, to David Archer of Shenfield, of Conduit Mead, Nunnsi or Nunsies Grove and another parcel of land in the hamlet of Brentwood and parish of South Weald, Essex, and articles of agreement to produce writings, 1777.

Release by Mansel Dawkin Mansel of Lathbury, Buckinghamshire, to Owen Ormsby of the covenants contained in Mr Ormsby’s lease (from Elizabeth Vernon in 1788) of Little Forsters with a courtyard, pasture and gardens in Egham, Surrey, and assignment by Owen Ormsby and his trustee of the said lease to Mr Mansel’s trustees and also of an under-lease granted of the said premises to John King, together with the counterpart of another under-lease granted by John King to Charles Smith and the yearly rent of £80 thereby reserved, 1802. Recites that Mansel Dawkin Mansel was entitled to the premises under the will of Elizabeth Vernon.

Counterpart of a lease by Margaret Ormsby then living at Great Stanhope Street in the parish of St George Hanover Square, to Col. Thomas Bowser, of Canister House in the parish of Datchet, Buckinghamshire, with agent’s bill and receipt, 1805.

A bundle of miscellaneous papers of the Brogyntyn estate, 1829-1846. It includes printed sale particulars of the Drenewydd estate in Oswestry and Whittington, 1829; lease agreements by William Ormsby Gore and Mary Jane his wife, for Grouse Lodge, Paddock Cottage, Nant Ucha and Pant Glas in the parish of Selatyn, Brick Kiln land in Oswestry and Selatyn, a blacksmith’s shop at Cefn Broniarth and property at Brithdir Coch, Guilsfield, and Haughton Farm [Llandysilio], Montgomeryshire, Gayfron Issa and parts of Llanddyn Farm, Llangollen, with occasional plans, 1832-1846; an agreement with Charles Thaxter of Pattingham for a brick and tile factory at Drenewydd, 1846; an agreement for the purchase of two houses in Selatyn from Joseph Griffiths of Wrexham, subject to a brick-making lease to John Beard, 1840; bills and receipts, mainly for building repairs at Maesgwyn [Broniarth], 1844; acreages of lands of Thomas Howell, John Parry and lands in Oswestry, 1845; a valuation of ?Wern Wen; letters to and by William Ormsby Gore, Longueville and tenants or their representatives, 1840-1842; schedules of fixtures at The Mount, indoors and outside [1842]; the petition and accounts of Edward Lawrence of Big House Farm, Whittington, 1843-1845; references for potential tenants and servants at Brogyntyn and the Blue Bell public house, 1845-1846; and papers relating to the value of goods at the White Lion, Oswestry, distrained against Robert Hughes for rent due to William Ormsby Gore, including an agreement for sale to Charles Craighill and depositions as to the grain claimed by Samuel Drury, 1846.

Agreements by William Ormsby Gore for lease or surrender of properties in the counties of Montgomeryshire and Salop, 1837-1847. The properties include Cefn Broniarth in the parish of Guilsfield, houses sub-let by Martha Alexander of Garddlin, Big House Farm in the parish of Whittington, and three houses and a brickyard at Porkington in the parish of Selatyn. The file also contains letters to and by William Ormsby Gore, 1845-1846, one of which relates to the lease of Oerley Hall; and Mr McKie’s list of arrears.

Releases of chief rents Porkington, Oswestry, Twyford, by William Lloyd to William Ormsby- Gore, 25 March 1824; release of manorial rights over lands in Cemaes and Darowen by the trustees of settled estates of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn to William Ormsby- Gore, and conveyance by way of release of chief rents to merge the same by same to same, both 15 May 1858; release of chief rents in Oswestry, 31 Dec. 1874.

Office copy order of exchange of lands situate in Whittington by William Ormsby- Gore to H. Davies, 21 April 1854; office copy order of exchange of lands situate in Llandysilio, 17 Oct. 1854, between William Ormsby- Gore and his wife and Elizabeth Poole, and office copy order of exchange of lands t. Rhandregwnwen, p. Llandysilio, between William Ormsby- Gore and his wife and J. A. Lloyd, 13 Oct. 1859.

Deed of exchange between the trustees of the marriage settlement of the late Lord Harlech and John Morris.

Title deeds and other documents relating to properties belonging to the Brogyntyn estate in Caernarfonshire, 1813-1924. There are four series, comprising leases of parts of Borth-y-gest farm, Ynyscynhaearn, for building plots, 1847-1924; miscellaneous deeds and documents for properties in Cricieth, Dolbenmaen, Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, Llanystumdwy, Morfa Bychan, Penmorfa, Treflys and Ynyscynhaearn, 1813-1909; licences and leases of mines and quarries in Caernarfonshire, 1845-1890; and licences for Ereiniog Peat and Brick Works, 1871-1883.

Leases and licences granted by members of the Ormsby Gore family of Brogyntyn, of minerals and slate quarries in Caernarfonshire, 1845-1890. The locations include Fron Oleu in the parish of Penmorfa, 1845-1872, 1875-1881, Hendre Ddu, Dolbenmaen, 1860-1874, Mynyddednyfed and Braich-y-Sant, Cricieth, 1861, Plas yn Pennant, Penmorfa, 1862-1866, Ty Cerrig, Penmorfa, 1864-1880, and elsewhere in Beddgelert, Cricieth, Llanfihangel-y-Pennant and Penmorfa, 1849-1890. One file contains licences to make railways or tramways for the transport of slate from the quarries, 1855-1873

Licence granted by William Ormsby Gore and Mary Jane his wife to Thomas Hill of Portmadoc, Thomas Hill of Oswestry and John Hill of Copenhall, Cheshire, 1845, and a lease to Miss Ellen Hilditch Johnson of Aldermary Church Yard, London, of quarries of blue flag stones and other stones of like nature under fields (named) being part of the farm of Fron Oleu in the parish of Penmorfa, Caernarfonshire, with map incorporated, 1850. Other items in the file include bonds for securing payments by members of the Johnson family to Thomas Hill of Tremadoc upon assignment of the lease, 1849-1850; an affidavit of Thomas Hill for proof of debt in the matter of Daniel Turton Johnson, Henry Hilditch Johnson and George Hilditch Johnson in the London Court of Bankruptcy, 1851; rough accounts and a statement of rent for Fron Oleu, 1855-1864; letters mainly to and by Longueville about the case of Gore and Johnson, with a legal opinion thereon, 1861, and about arrears of rent on Fron Oleu slate quarry, 1872; authorisation to assign, and a copy assignment of the lease and sale of the plant and machinery to Francis Bulkeley Johnson, 1862.

Licence or take note granted by John Ralph Ormsby Gore to William Skinner Searell of Tremadoc, Caernarfonshire, 1875; a lease by the Brogyntyn trustees and William Richard Baron Harlech to William Skinner Searell and John Francis of quarries, slates, slabs, minerals, etc. under lands forming part of the farm of Fron Oleu in the parish of Penmorfa, 1877; and letters from W.S. Searell and W. R. Lawford of Glyn, 1881.

Lease by the Brogyntyn trustees and William Richard Baron Harlech to Humphrey Richard Thomas, Owen Humphreys Davies, William Williams and others of stone on a piece of land in the parish of Penmorfa, Caernarfonshire, shown in a plan in the margin, 1877. The file also includes copy assignments of the lease to members of the Stutchbury family of Bristol and Arthur Edward Heathcote of Bath, and licences to assign, 1878-1880; letters to Longueville from Burges, Lawrence and Poole of Bristol concerning delays in having the assignment of the lease, together with a prospectus of The Tremadoc Sett and Paving-stone Company Limited, late Queen Stone Quarries, 1880; and notice to the Company of repossession, 1890.

Licences granted by William Ormsby Gore, Mary Jane his wife and John Ralph Ormsby Gore for the mining of slate and stone, sulphur, copper, lead, tin, iron, gold, silver, manganese, calamine and other minerals, mainly in Caernarfonshire, 1849-1872. The locations include Oer Dwr Ucha in the parish of Beddgelert, Plas yn Pennant, Braich y Ddinas and Bwlch y Fedwen in Penmorfa, Tyddyn Madyn and Ymwlch Bach in Llanystumdwy and Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, Hendre Ddu, Sgyborgerrig and Tyddyn Mawr in the parish of Dolbenmaen, Mynyddednyfed and Braich y Sant in the parish of Cricieth, all in Caernarfonshire, and Bwlch y Plwm and Pant y Maesydd in Lanfrothen, Merioneth. The lessees include John Hall Holdsworth and W. Attenborough of London, 1849, Henry Hodgson, 1851, Samuel Holland of Plas yn Penrhyn, 1852, 1855, William Williams of Beddgelert and Robert Williams of Llanllyfni, 1852, Hugh Evans of Cricieth, 1856, Morris Roberts of Mynyddednyfed, Cricieth, 1856, Hugh Jones of Alltyfedw and John Morris of Garn Dolbenmaen, 1860, 1862, John Brewer of Bryn Helen, 1861, Robert Jones, Thomas Williams, Henry Owen and John Jackson, 1861, Thomas Swift of Salford, Manchester, 1864, Owen Humphrey Davies of Llanfihangel-y-Pennant 1864, 1866, Joseph Kellow and Joseph Day (assigneee), 1872. The file also contains letters of Robert Barker, 1851, and Longueville and Co., 1871; and a statement of royalties payable under Mrs Ormsby Gore’s mining leases, 1866.

Licences (mainly duplicates) by William Ormsby Gore of Porkington, Mary Jane Ormsby Gore, John Ralph Ormsby Gore and William Richard Ormsby Gore, respectively to Robert Gill and John Harris, 1855, to Henry John Standly, Astley Paston Cooper and William Prosser, 1861, and to Henry McKellar, 1862, to make railways or tramways through farms and lands (named) in the parishes of Penmorfa, Dolbenmaen, Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, Llanystumdwy and Criccieth for the transport of minerals and slate from Cambivor or Cefn Bifor, Tyddyn Mawr, Ynys y Maen, Hendre ddu and Hafod y Llan to Portmadoc and Cricieth, with schedules and maps incorporated. The file also contains an assignment by the Bangor and Portmadoc Slate and Slate Slab Company Limited (then in liquidation) to The New Prince of Wales Slate Company Limited of the leasehold premises in Penmorfa previously demised for making the tramway, and a related deed of covenant by John Ralph Ormsby Gore, 1873.

Lease by Mary Jane Ormsby Gore of Porkington, John Ralph Ormsby Gore and William Richard Ormsby Gore to Henry John Standly, Astley Paston Cooper and William Prosser of slate and flag quarries and mines and minerals under the farm of Hendre ddu in the parish of Dolbenmaen, Caernarfonshire, and a deed of covenant (attested copy) for confirmation and renewal of lease, 1860. The file also contains letters to Longueville and Co. mainly from George Rooper and John Spain of Lincolns Inn Fields and Morris Griffith Williams about the liquidation of the Hendre ddu Slate and Slab Quarry Company Limited, claims by the Ormsby Gores for rent and royalties, and suggestions for making the quarry a profitable enterprise, 1869-1873; statements of rents and bills, 1867-1872; a notice of trial in a cause in the Court of Queens Bench, Gore vs the Hendre ddu Company and Morris Griffith Williams, for the next assizes at Caernarfon, and countermand, 1872; a printed poster advertising the auction of plant, machinery, slates, etc. at the quarry, 1872; and a map.

Licence granted by Mary Jane Ormsby Gore to John Brewer of Brynheylin and a lease to Thomas Edmund Monk Mason of Brompton, Middlesex, and others, of slates, flags, other stones and minerals under the farms of Mynyddednyfed and Braich-y-Sant in the parish of Cricieth, Caernarfonshire, 1861

Leases (and counterparts) by Mary Jane Ormsby Gore to Urias Bromley of Liverpool, then of Rhyl, Flintshire, then of Manchester and other individuals, of slates and flag quarries, and of mines and minerals under the farm of Plas-yn-pennant in the parish of Penmorfa, Caernarfonshire, 1862 and 1864, with map incorporated; and an assignment, with the licence of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore, by Urias Bromley and the other lessees to The Pennant Slate Company Limited, of the lease and of plant at the quarry, 1865-1866.