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Documents relating to part of Penybryn Farm in the parish of Cricieth, above the old high road from Penmorfa to Pwllheli, purchased from William Wynne of Peniarth, 1813-1814. The file contains printed particulars of sale of Penybryn and other estates in Deneio, Llanystumdwy, Criceith, Llanllyfni, Bodfean and Llandygwnning, Caernarfonshire, 1813; pedigrees showing the descent of William Wynne from John Vaughan and Ellen his wife; and abstracts of the title of William Wynne to part of Penybryn and to Cefn y Maen in the parishes of Cricieth and Llanystumdwy, 1685-1811, with lawyer’s opinions subscribed, 1813-1814.

Title deeds and other documents relating to properties owned by the Brogyntyn estate in Caernarfonshire, 1813-1909. They include deeds for the purchase of Penybryn Farm, Cricieth, from the Peniarth estate in 1813-1814; ‘old papers’ relating to crown rents, building developments, mining and quarrying in Caernarfonshire and Merioneth, 1847-1878; leases of Clenennau mill and its lands, 1869-1888; papers relating to Cricieth Corporation and the castle, [1869x1875]; and deeds recording the sale by William Richard, second Baron Harlech, of property in Cricieth, Dolbenmaen, Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, Llanystumdwy, Morfa Bychan, Penmorfa, Treflys and Ynyscynhaearn, including cottages, building plots for schools, a chapel at Penmorfa, a burial ground at Dolbenmaen and the lifeboat station at Portmadoc, 1871-1909

Manuscript catalogue of plays in the collection at Brogyntyn compiled by William Ormsby Gore, dated February 24, 1815, which has a double arrangement. The first part has the plays alphabetically arranged. The second part has the list of authors with the productions of each.

Manuscript ‘Catalogue of Old Plays’ in the collection at Brogyntyn [?c. 1815], which has a double arrangement. The first part has the Plays alphabetically arranged. The second part has the list of authors with the productions of each

Papers relating to trusts of the Ormsby Gore family, comprising an appointment by William Gore the elder of Sir Robert Williames Vaughan as trustee of the estates in Ireland, 1815; a declaration preceding the marriage of William Gore and Mary Jane Ormsby, 1815; a copy statement of property and proposals for the marriage settlement (Watermark 1821); an order issued from the High Court of Chancery for a change of trustees, 1823, and the Master’s report appointing Thomas Netherton Parker in place of Sir Robert Williames Vaughan, 1823

Bundle labelled ‘Deeds relating to the manor of Deytheur and containing a description of the boundaries of the Manor of Deytheur’. It does contain the said description of the manor of Deuddwr, 1821, and an abstract of title of William Harry Earl of Darlington and Henry Viscount Barnard to estates in Montgomeryshire, 1743-1813 (Watermark 1821). The bundle also contains two copies of an appointment by Mary Jane Ormsby Gore to the trustees of the will of Ellen Owen, of the estates in Mayo, Roscommon and Sligo in Ireland, for securing the sum of £5000, 1816.

Bundle labelled ‘Brogyntyn trust. Deeds relating to freehold farm lands and hereditaments known as Tygwyn Gamlas, Carreg-y-ro and Ty Newydd in the parish of Llanfihangel-y-traethau, Merioneth, purchased from Prichard trustees’. The file includes deeds of sale by the enclosure commissioners to John Prichard of Ty Gwyn y Gamlas, of a portion of the common in Llanfihangel-y-traethau bounded by Traeth Bach, the embankment and the road from Harlech to Traeth Bach, 1818; a release by representatives of the Roberts family to William Williams of Llanycil of sums charged on Tygwyn y Gamlas and other properties for legacies paid to them under the will of Robert Morris of Cae Glas, Trawsfynydd, 1821; deeds effecting a disentailment by William Williams, son of David Williams of Blaen y Cwm, Llanycil and Mary his late wife (nee Roberts), of Tyddyn Du, Carreg-y-roe and Ty Gwyn yn y Gamlas, 1821, followed by a mortgage, 1821, and a conveyance by William Williams and his mortgagee to John Prichard, 1825; a succession of mortgages and transfers by John Richard Prichard of the National Bank of Wales, Portmadoc, of the lands, now with houses erected thereon, 1892-1904; a printed sale catalogue, 1910; the sale agreement and conveyance by the executors of John Richard Prichard to the trustees of the Brogyntyn settlement, subject to access by the occupiers of Ty Gwyn Cottages, to a public right of way along a path to the shore and to Crown mineral rights, 1910-1911; an abstract of title, and a schedule of deeds and documents, 1818-1911. Plans included.

Lease by William Ormsby Gore and Mary Jane his wife to Rev. Owen Owen of Bodowen, Merioneth, of a farm called Farch Ynys Fach in the parish of Llanaber, 1818.

Documents relating to a farm house, buildings and lands in the township of Porkington in the parish of Selatyn, originally enclosed from the commons, previously belonging to William Lloyd of Aston and John Arthur Lloyd of Croesmere, purchased by the trustees of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore from David Jameson, 1819-1820. The file includes queries and observations on the title; the opinion and instructions of Robert Walters (Watermark 1819); abstracts and supplemental abstracts of the titles of William Lloyd, 1754-1810, John Arthur Lloyd, 1708-1809, and David Jameson, 1680-1810; a letter from David Jameson and solicitors’ correspondence, 1819-1820; and a plan of the land.

Lease by William Ormsby Gore and Mary Jane his wife to Robert Roberts, of Oswestry, plumber and glazier, of a plot of ground in Willow Street adjoining the New Theatre, for the manufacture of gas, 1820.

Volume entitled ‘Mrs and Mrs Ormsby Gore’s trust’ (2 copies) containing statements of various sales and purchases made by the trustees of William and Mary Jane Ormsby Gore under Act of Parliament of 1821 and under the will of Ellen Owen, 1804-1842, and by the trustees of the marriage settlement of John Ralph Ormsby Gore, 1848-1858.

Porkington game book, recording game shot, August 1822- April 1828.

Game books recording game birds, hares, rabbits, and occasionally deer, shot at Brogyntyn (Porkington), Glyn, Penrhos, Cemais, and other estates in Wales, England, Ireland and Scotland, and listing game given or received as presents, 1822-1933, 1951 They also record persons present at the shoots, such as the Ormsby Gore family (Lords Harlech), the Egerton family, Lord Kenyon, Lord Spencer Chichester, Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, the Duke of Portland, Lord Gordon, the Duke of Grafton, the Bentinck family, Sir John Gladstone, Lord Churchill, the Prince and Duke of Teck, Lord Penrhyn, Lord Powis and numerous other members of the aristocracy.

Soft-back volume titled ‘Rental and account, chief and fee farm rents due to William Ormsby Gore Esquire as Lord of the Manor of Deytheur in the county of Montgomery commencing 5th November 1823’ and showing the payments due up to Michaelmas 1835.

Deeds relating to the Pentrepant estate, Salop, purchased by the trustees of William Richard Ormsby Gore, 1825-1894. The properties comprise Pentrepant Hall, Pentrepant Issa, Cross Lane, part of Ty Coch, Pentre Dafydd, Ysgubor Isaf Mardy, Holly Cottage, Wern Isaf, Selatyn Lodge Farm, Brook Cottage, the toll house at Craignant, and other messuages and lands (tithe maps refs given) in the parishes of Selatyn and Whittington. The file includes a deed of exchange between George Henry Carew, formerly Warrington, of Crowcombe Court, Somerset, and Frederick West of Culham Court, Berkshire, 1825; a conveyance by the executors of John Jones, of a messuage at Pentreclever, Lower Porkington, to William Bevan, 1835, the copy will of William Bevan of Cross Lanes, Selatyn, containing bequests to the Sands family, 1871, proved 1874, and the conveyance by Joseph Sands to Ethel Mary Trollope of Crowcombe Court, Somerset, of the former site of two cottages at Cross Lanes, Selatyn, 1891; a conveyance by William Povey and George Salter, trustees for the Birch family, to Rev. Gerald Carew, of a messuage near the Rossett in Weston Rhyn [?1852]; a deed of exchange between George Henry Warrington Carew and Mary Jane Ormsby Gore, for plots allocated under the enclosure acts, naming parts of Ty Coch Farm, Mardie Farm, Bank Farm and Nant Farm, 1868; copies of orders issued by the Hight Court of Chancery in a case between Mary Ann Shawe and Thurston Bewley Caton, creditors of Job Henry Kinchant, dec., plts, and Charlotte Jemima Kinchant, def., 1873-1874; a conveyance by the commissioners of the Oswestry turnpike roads to the trustees of the marriage settlement of George Henry Warrington Carew and Mary Philipps Mynor, of the toll house at Craignant, 1876; a conveyance by Rev. John Parkinson Bayly Younge of Wilsford Rectory, Lincolnshire, to Ethel Mary Trollope, of Cross Lanes Field, 1893; copy extracts made in 1894 of the will and second codicil of Sir Alexander Bateman Perian Fuller Acland Hood of St Audries, Somerset, 1888-1892; abstracts showing the release of the Salop estates of the Carew family from various charges, 1868, 1894, a copy of the succession account, and copies of the burial records of Elizabeth Anne Carew, 1887, and Elizabeth Hannah Penman, 1891. The final conveyance (in hard covers) for £29,000 is by Ethel Mary Trollope, wife of Robert Cranmer Trollope of Crowcombe Court, Somerset, to the trustees of William Richard Ormsby Gore, Baron Harlech, 1894, with associated documents, including particulars and a valuation, the statutory declaration of Richard Easton, solicitor to the Carew family, and abstracts of title, 1796-1894. Some documents incorporate schedules of deeds, 1678-1894, and coloured plans.

Deeds relating to the Drenewydd estate in the parishes of Oswestry and Whittington, 1826. They comprise the will of John Thomas of Drenewydd, 1825, proved 1826; and an attested copy of a lease and release by William Watkin Edward Wynne, Edward Lloyd Williams and Annabella his wife to make Meaburn Tatham tenant to the precipe for suffering a recovery (by William Ormsby Gore) of the Drenewydd estates, 1826

Deeds relating to a cottage and lands at Broniarth in the parish of Guilsfield, Montgomeryshire, comprising a conveyance by Anne Davies, widow of Thomas Davies of Cox Street, Birmingham, eldest son and heir of Robert Davies of Broniarth, to William Ormsby Gore of Porkington, 1826; a copy of the will of Robert Davies, 1813 (Watermark 1828); a letter relating to an ejectment, Davies vs Gore, 1830; and a power of attorney by the Earl of Wiltshire to Mark P. Bouverie, 1885.

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 1-10, properties in the parishes of Clynnog, Deneio, Ynyscynhaearn, Llanystumdwy, Penmorfa and Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, Caernarfonshire, sold at the Madock’s Arms, Tremadoc, and of lots 1-26, in the parishes of Llandanwg, Llanfair, Llanaber, Llanenddwyn, Llanfihangel-y-traethau and Llanfor, Merioneth, sold at the Corsygedol Arms, Barmouth, 1827.

Vouchers mainly from the Merioneth and Caernarfonshire estates of the Ormsby Gore family, 1858-1876, and a few from Penrhos, Montgomeryshire, 1865-1866. This massive parcel contained several original packets and many loose vouchers, which have now been divided into seventeen bundles for convenience of handling. Includes a plan of the lordship of Mawddwy, Merioneth (Watermark 1828), the receipt of Charles Mickleburgh, enclosure commissioner, for the purchase by William Ormsby Gore of lands in Trefor and Dinbren, Llangollen, 1841, accounts of estate work and repairs at Glyn Hall and Sylfaen, 1859, 1873 and bills for repairs at Ystumcegid, 1867.