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Contains a report of the wedding of George Ralph Charles Ormsby-Gore and Margaret Ethel Gordon.

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.

Complete editions, cuttings and pages of newspapers, 1685-1887; printed newsletters, broadsides, advertisements and general information leaflets, 1666-1861; and manuscript newsletters, 1676-1710.

Copy of depositions concerning the breeding of a grey Arab horse sold by Sheikh Morad Ebn al Haii Abdullah to Thomas Usgate, the English Consul in 1722, addressed to Arthur Owen, esq.; and eighteenth century notes on chess moves.

Loose papers and notebooks listing books, periodicals, private papers, documents and maps contained in closets and chests, most of them presumably at Brogyntyn, dated between 1702 and 1893. The catalogues include: Ellen Owen 's books found after her death, 1702; books brought from Abertanat to Oswestry, 1771; bound pamphlets published between 1699 and 1813; books belonging to the library of Lady Morres Gore, 1819; and Brogyntyn charters, 1508-1740, belonging to the Penrhos and Abertanat estates in Montgomeryshire, with a covering letter by the compiler, I.H. Jeayes, 1893. The file also includes a book plate of Robert Godolphin Owen and notes of papers examined by W.W.E. Wynne, 1861, 1870.

Various undated academic exercises in English and Latin, which appear to date from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. Some are based on imaginary scenarios, namely an address to King Malcolm III of Scotland, speculative letters by Henry Harris to Oxford University tutors and the attempted rescue of the Earl of Desmond from the Tower of London, involving a consultation with Dr John Dee. Also included are an essay written from memory after a lecture on the history of Odonoghue, king of Kerry (Watermark 1806); notes on European alphabets, poetry and mythology; and an English translation of Undine, 1836.

Copy of a prophecy for 1694 found in the ruins of Wallingford House; and two notebooks containing discussions of William Nixon 's prophecies [nineteenth century, first half].