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A play (Watermarks 1811-1812) and various drama papers, intended for amateur performances, including a prologue and epilogues [1684], [c. 1800], notes for a proposed play (Watermark 1805), and the script of a dramatic and musical entertainment by a member of the Gore family (Watermark 1806).

Complete editions and pages of newspapers, namely Adams 's Weekly Courant, 1750, 1755; Baner ac Amserau Cymru, 1887; The Britannia, 1869; The Champion or Evening Advertiser, 1741; The Country Journal or the Craftsman, 1736-1748; The Denbighshire Gazette Extraordinary, 1794; The Dublin Evening Mail, 1831-1832; The Englishman, 1740; The Flying Post or The Post-Master, 1701-1702; Fog 's Weekly Journal, 1733-1736; The Globe, 1820; The Illustrated London News, 1881; John Bull, 1835; The London Courant, 1688; The London Evening Post, 1748, 1754; The London Gazette, 1685-1702; The Middlesex Journal or Chronicle of Liberty, 1770; The Middlesex Journal and Evening Post, 1780; Le Moniteur Ottoman, 1837; The Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser, 1783; New State of Europe, 1701; North Wales Chronicle, 1830-1837; Old England, 1748; The Post Boy, 1702; The Post Man, 1702; The Remembrancer, 1748-1749; Shropshireian Journal, 1832-1835; Shrewsbury Chronicle, 1780-1861; The Shrewsbury News, 1841; The Standard, 1834; The Sun, 1818-1821; The Times, 1886-1887; The Weekly Journal or Saturday 's Post, 1718; The Weekly Packet, 1715-1716; The Westminster Journal or New Weekly Miscellany, 1746; and The Whitehall Evening Post or London Intelligencer, 1746-1753. The North Wales Chronicle, Shropshireian Journal and Shrewsbury Chronicle contain reports and letters referring to elections for the Caernarfonshire Boroughs, Caernarfon County and North Shropshire in which William and John Ralph Ormsby-Gore were Conservative candidates, 1831-1837. The series also includes a scrapbook of press cuttings, 1814-1856 and loose articles, 1837, 1887.

County administration papers from Merionethshire, comprising mainly taxation records and officials' papers relevant to the whole county, 1549-1712, 1794; and a file of documents relating specifically to the borough of Harlech, 1573-1612, 1650.

Miscellaneous papers deriving from administration of the Lea Hall and Brymbo estates, comprising mining and timber industry records at Brymbo, 1684-1738, a terrier, [18 cent., first half, and correspondence, 1736, 1739.

Accounts of Brogyntyn servants' wages, 1698-1699, 1745-1748; instructions for the duties and conduct of household servants [mid-18 cent.]; and wages books, 1811-1866.

Bills and receipts from the North Wales and Shropshire estates, mainly for foodstuffs, wines, beer, fabrics, haberdashery, clothing, shoes, repairs to household utensils, medicines and veterinary treatments purchased by Owen Wynn, 1662, Madam [Susanna] Godolphin, 1703-1705, Richard and Mary Clayton, 1708-1727, Arthur and Mary Owen of Brymbo, 1725-1739, 1750, and other members of the Owen and Ormsby-Gore families, 1714-1878.

Original, draft and copy court rolls of the great and small courts, court leet, view of frankpledge and court baron of the manor of Broniarth, 1429-1464, [c. 1559]-1577, 1636-1701; most of the files are in Latin.

Title deeds of lands acquired through 'tir prid' conveyances, purchase, leasehold and exchange by the successive owners of the Clenennau estate, lying in Beddgelert, Dolgellau and Ffestiniog 1522-[pre-1622], Harlech, 1484-1666, Llandecwyn, Llanenddwyn and Llanfair[-juxta-Harlech], 1506-1580, Llanfihangel-y-Traethau, 1457-1833, Llanfrothen, 1513-1572, Trawsfynydd, 1562, 1635, and miscellaneous parishes in Merionethshire, 1454-1685. Some of the deeds are accompanied by or endorsed with nineteenth century notes.

Title deeds of properties acquired through purchase, lease, mortgage and exchange by the owners of the Sylfaen estate in Penyfed and Pennant, which fell within the boundaries of the parishes of Dolbenmaen, Penmorfa and Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, 1586-1596, and properties in Llanaber, 1509-1698, together with a smaller number of premises in Llanfihangel-y-traethau, 1519-1545, and other Merionethshire parishes, which appear to have a connection with Sylfaen, 1614-1634, (Watermark 1811).

A small number of title deeds, 1597-1672, for properties acquired by the Owen family of Ystumcegid and later by the Wynns of Glyn, situated in Caernarfonshire at Clynnog, Dolbenmaen, Llanfihangel-y-pennant and Llanystumdwy combined with Cricieth, Penyfed and Pennant.

Title deeds of properties acquired by the Conway and Mostyn families of Nant in the localities of Bodfari and Cwm, 1497-1625; Gwaunysgor and Llanasa, 1372-1650; Nant and Prestatyn in the parish of Meliden, 1367-1659; Rhiwlyfnwyd, Rhuddlan, and Whitford, 1435-1658; and miscellaneous parishes in Flintshire, Denbighshire and Cheshire, [mid-14 cent.], 1458-[c. 1686]. They include several fifteenth century 'tir-prid' conveyances.

Title deeds of properties in the parishes of Alberbury, 1539, Baschurch, 1296-1695, Ellesmere, 1367-1485, Loppington [13 cent.] and Llansilin, 1596, 1727.

Title deeds of properties in the town and parish of Oswestry, 1397-1838. A number of properties in and around the town were owned by Richard Dryhurst and his son, Edward, prior to their purchase by William Owen in 1636-1639. Other premises were purchased by William Owen, 1660-1661, Sir Robert Owen, 1688-1689, and William Ormsby-Gore, 1835-1838. Detailed boundary clauses in many of the deeds provide useful information about the urban development of Oswestry from the late Mediaeval period onwards.

Title deeds of properties situated in the adjacent Shropshire parishes of St Martin 's, 1582-1672, and Selatyn, 1479-1834; the latter includes the township of Brogyntyn (Porkington). Among the more significant transactions are leases, family settlements, purchases and sales by Thomas, Margaret and John Lacon in Selatyn, 1479-1623; the acquisition of plots of land by John Owen of Fernhill, 1607; deeds of sale and mortgage to William Owen 1623-1664, Sir Robert Owen, 1686-1691, his son William Owen, 1732-1743, Mary Jane and William Ormsby-Gore, 1802-1834; and deeds relating to old common land in the manor of Whittington, adjoining the turnpike road in Selatyn, enclosed under the Enclosure Act and transferred to private ownership, 1783-1834.

Account books, loose accounts and receipts deriving from administration of the estates of Clenennau, Glyn, Sylfaen and Ystumcegid, 1534-1827. They typically show the income from rents and usual outgoings for tithes, taxes, other dues and charity payments; occasional rentals; profits from estate produce; disbursements for repair and maintenance of the farm houses, outbuildings and mills, especially Singrig Mill; purchase and carriage of commodities; keeping livestock; employees' wages; and agent's travelling expenses and subsistence. The accounts for some years, notably the loose accounts of 1705-1711 and the account book of 1725-1750, exhibit a systematic arrangement by type and still bear the original numbers.

Surveys and valuations of the estates of Brogyntyn (Porkington), 1698-1844, Brogyntyn combined with Llanddyn and Broniarth (part of Abertanat), 1793, 1813, Drenewydd (acquired by Brogyntyn in 1830), 1806, 1852, and Llanddyn [19 cent., first ¼], situated in Shropshire, Montgomeryshire and Llangollen.

Title deeds, 1498-1829, of properties of the Llanddyn estate, situated mainly in Trefor Uchaf, Llangollen, and also in Cristionydd Cynrig, Rhiwabon, acquired or disposed of at different times by the owners, John Edwards, 1498, 1505, William Maurice, 1587, John Lacon, 1596, William Owen, 1653-1674, Sir Robert Owen, 1679-1686, William Owen, 1729, Mary Jane Ormsby, 1807, and William Ormsby-Gore, 1829.

Title deeds of properties belonging to the Abertanat estate of the Tanat and Godolphin families, lying in the township and manor of Broniarth in Guilsfield, 1476-[1792], also in the parishes of Llandysilio, 1552-1736, Llanfechain and Meifod, 1640, 1722, Llangedwyn and Llansanffraid in Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire, 1690, 1749, Llanyblodwel and Llanymynech, 1535-1746, St Martin 's and Whittington in Shropshire, 1527-1765. The documents relating to Broniarth show clearly how land was acquired and transferred under the manorial system. Some of the late sixteenth century Montgomeryshire deeds illustrate the acquisition by the Tanats and others of strips of land within larger named fields previously in multiple ownership under the mediaeval agricultural system. A large file of Shropshire deeds relates to the Moreton Hall (renamed Margaret Hall) estate in Weston Rhyn, Ifton and Daywell, purchased by Margaret Godolphin between 1760 and 1763.

A small number of title deeds for properties belonging to the Cemais estate in Montgomeryshire, gained through the marriage of William Lewis Anwyl of Parke to Elizabeth Herbert at the end of the sixteenth century. The surviving deeds relate to properties situated in the parishes of Berriw, 1577, Cemais, 1690, Kerry, 1591-1596, Llanbryn-mair, 1545-1585, and Llanfair Caereinion, 1675-1679.