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Eight volumes (2 copies of each account) containing the trust settlement account of John Ralph, first Lord Harlech, 1848-1881, Mrs Mary Jane Ormsby Gore, deceased, trust account, Brogyntyn estate, 1869-1876, the executorship and general trust accounts, 1869-1881, and the trust account, Irish estate, 1870-1880; and loose accounts of the estate duty payable by the successors to the Brogyntyn estate following the deaths of Sarah Baroness Harlech and William Richard, second Baron Harlech, comprising Inland Revenue forms, valuations of Brogyntyn home farm, Glyn, Talsarnau, and 37 Chesham Place, London, and particulars of the real estate comprised in the accounts, 1899, 1904-1909

Brogyntyn trust accounts and vouchers, which include substantial bills of costs for legal services provided by Longueville and Co., 1848-1934. The titles of the files generally reflect the content. The bills elucidate the trustees’ functions, the details of family settlements, land purchases, sales, estate improvements and investments in stocks and shares under the terms of the trusts. There are accompanying letters to and by Longueville and Co., H.T. Dix of Dublin, other solicitors, Lord Harlech, the Brogyntyn trustees, surveyors and auctioneers. Many of the accounts refer to the sale of parts of Lord Harlech’s estate under the Irish Land Commission schemes in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Most files contain authorisations by Lord Harlech to the trustees to invest or release money, and brokers’ notes for the purchase or transfer of stocks and shares.

Bundle in original wrapper labelled ‘Brogyntyn trust. Old receipted accounts, brokers’ notes and requests etc. to trustees’, 1895-1907. The contents include bills for legal services charged by Longueville and Co., W.W. Carruthers, and H.T. Dix and Sons of Dublin, and occasional related letters, 1896-1906; an application to the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, 1898, to enforce a payment to the current Brogyntyn trustees for land purchased by the Gorsedda Junction and Portmadoc Railway Company, together with transcripts of the relevant accounts of John Ralph Ormsby Gore and William Watkin Edward Wynne and William Kenyon Slaney against Patersons Snow Bloxham and Kinder, 1873-1898; and accounts for the sales of Dee Side, [Bangor Is-coed], the Cemais estate, Montgomeryshire, and properties in Sligo, Leitrim and Mayo, 1903-1907.

Papers relating to the accounts of estate duty payable by the successors to the Brogyntyn estate following the death of William Richard, second Baron Harlech, comprising letters and official observations from the Estate Duty Office, Somerset House, London, and answers from Longueville and Co., 1905-1906.

Bundle of accounts and receipts labelled ‘1907-1908 Lord Harlech (Brogyntyn trust) Requests, brokers’ notes, receipted bills’ showing legal costs due to Longueville and H.T. Dix from 1906, billed to the trustees in 1907-1908

Bundle of accounts and receipts labelled ‘Brogyntyn trust vouchers etc. 1909-1910’, showing Longueville’s legal costs from 1907, billed to the trustees in 1909-1910.

Bundle of accounts and receipts labelled ‘Brogyntyn trust vouchers 1911-1912’. Several of them refer to the sale of Church Island, Lough Gill, Sligo, and parts of the Caernarfonshire and Merioneth estate in Cricieth, Portmadoc, Beddgelert, Barmouth, Llanfrothen and Ffestiniog. Some accounts and letters mention improvements made at Bryn Efail Issa and the White Lion Hotel, Cricieth, prior to the sale

Bundle of accounts and receipts labelled ‘Brogyntyn trust vouchers 1914 (Dec.)’ but actually showing Longueville’s legal costs from 1911, billed to the trustees in 1913-1914. Some of the accounts record the sale of lands in Leitrim and Mayo through the Court of the Irish Land Commission, accompanied by affidavits of Baron Harlech and relevant letters

Accounts and receipts labelled variously ‘Brogyntyn trust vouchers’ and ‘Lord Harlech - Longueville & Co’s receipts & bills of costs’, dated 1914-1929. Some of the accounts record the sale of lands in Sligo, Leitrim and Westmeath through the Court of the Irish Land Commission, 1914-1923.

Accounts of charges for legal services, payable by the trustees of the Brogyntyn estate to Longueville and Co., 1930-1934; and bills of Bob Parry and Co., Ltd. of Caernarfon, and Whitfield and Ryley of Oswestry and Wem, auctioneers, 1930, 1932.

Feoffment of 2 a. in Selatyn by Edward Wynne Evans to John Holbrook, 16 Sept. 1783; bond of indemnity by John Holbrooke toWilliam Bickerton, 24 May 1800; conveyance of a piece of land situate in t. Llanforda, by Walter Williams to Thomas Hilditch, 25 March 1808; conveyance by Henry Warren to Thomas Hilditch of a piece of land on Cern y Bwlch in t. Llanforda, p. Oswestry, 25 March 1808; conveyance by Henry Warren to Thomas Hilditch of a piece of land on Cern y Bwlch in t. Llanforda, p. Oswestry, 25 March 1808; conveyance by Robert Clay to Thomas Hilditch of a piece of land in Llanforda, 25 March 1808; conveyance of land on Cern y Bwlch, Llanforda by Mrs Elizabeth Evans and others to Thomas Hilditch, 25 Jan. 1811; conveyance of piece of land in Llanforda, p. Oswestry, by Mrs Griffiths to Thomas Hilditch, 1-2 Feb. 1811; conveyance of several pieces of land lying within the liberties of the town ofOswestry by the Earl of Powis and John Probert to Arthur Davies, 1-2 Feb. 1811; conveyance of several pieces of land lying within the liberties of the town of Oswestry by the Earl of Powis and John Probert to Thomas Hilditch, 1-2 Feb. 1811; mortgage by Thomas Hilditch to Samuel and John Roberts, 25 March 1811 ; mortgage by Arthur Davies to Mary Hughes, 15 Jan. 1812; conveyance of a dwelling house, stable and piece of land in Oswestry with a merger of a term of 500 years by William Bickerton and others to Thomas Hilditch and his trustee, 25 March 1815; conveyance of several pieces or parcels of land called Park Ucha, Oswestry, by Messrs Edmunds and others, assignees of Mathew Jones, a bankrupt, and the same bankrupt, to Thomas Hilditch and his trustee, 23-4 June 1817 ; mortgage by Thomas Hilditch to Thomas Atherton Parker and others, 24 July 1817; conveyance of Oerley Hall, Oswestry, by Messrs Richards and others to William Ormsby Gore and his trustee, 22 Jan. 1830.

Conveyance of land in Oswestry by Earl Powis and another to Edward Davies 1-2 Feb. 1811; Conveyance of land in Oswestry by the devisees of Edward Davies to the trustees of the settled estate of Wm Ormsby Gore, 2 Feb. 1848; and abstract of title and contract for sale, [1848].

Conveyance of land at Oswestry by Mrs Mary Hughes and Thomas Kyffin to William Ormsby Gore, esq., 29 Sept. 1823.

Conveyance of land at Oswestry by Henry Clive and others to Wm Ormsby Gore and his trustees, 22 May 1827 [returned to Longueville Gittins in 1991]; mortgage by Wm Ormsby Gore to Rev. Robert Maddox and Thomas Longueville Longueville., 17 Dec. 1831; assignment of a mortgage by Rev. Robert Maddox to Mrs C. S. Siebright, 8 - 9 Nov. 1839; conveyance by William Watkin Edward Wynne and Mark Anthony Saurin to John Ralph Ormsby Gore, 1 Dec. 1860; reconveyance by John Ralph Ormsby Gore with the consent of Mrs Mary Jane Ormsby Gore to the Trustees of the marriage settlement of the said J. R. Ormsby Gore and Sarah his wife, 1 Jan. 1867.

Title deeds relating to a brick yard, Brick Fields, Brick Kilns and cottages in the parishes of Oswestry and Selatyn, Salop, purchased by the Brogyntyn estate, 1783-1909. These deeds show the origins and development of the brick yards, on former common land in the manor of Whittington and on land formerly belonging to Powis Castle, from the late eighteenth century

Copy will of Thomas Payne. 26 March 1834; mortgage of 1/4 part of premises at the Brick Kiln, Oswestry,by James Payne and uxor to Thomas Urion, 20 Nov. 1841;. Transfer of mortgage by James Payne and mortgagee to John Hayward, 13 March 1844; conveyance of land at Oswestry by Thomas Payne and others to trustees of Settled Estates of W. Ormsby-Gore, 25 Feb. 1850; draft transfer of mortgage by John Hayward and another to Richard Prynallt (not executed), 13 March 1850; mortgage of equity of redemption by James Payne to Henry Davies with copy will of James Payne enclosed; 10 Jan. 1862; will of James Payne, 13 Dec. 1867; conveyance of land at Brick kilns at Oswestry by Miss Elizabeth Payne and mortgagees to trustees of the will of Mrs M. J. Gore, 25 May 1870.

Porkington (Brogyntyn) estate vouchers, 1864-1865.

A discrete group of numbered vouchers (bills and receipts) originating from three estates belonging to the Ormsby Gore family, namely Porkington (Brogyntyn), 1864-1869, Merioneth and Caernarfonshire, 1860-1874, and Cemais, Montgomeryshire, 1864; and a further group of miscellaneous vouchers from the various Welsh and Irish estates (Watermark 1828)-1887.

Bundles labelled ‘Porkington estate vouchers’ 1864-1869. The descriptions on the labels do not always match the dates of the receipts. Most of the vouchers are numbered but some are missing from the sequence. They cover both the Porkington (Brogyntyn) estate and the Llanddyn estate at Llangollen. Typically they include bills and receipts for building materials, repairs to buildings, railway freight of stone and timber, ironmongery, coal, stationery, labourers’ wages, land drainage, garden work under James Edwards, bailiff’s bills of David McConnell, gamekeeping equipment, tithe rent charges, general district rates, church rates, poor rates, land tax, income tax and chief rents in Selatyn, Oswestry, Whittington, Llanforda, Middleton and Llangollen, subscriptions to schools at Trefor [Llangollen], Llandysilio and Guilsfield, subscriptions to Shropshire and North Wales Natural History and Antiquarian Society, annuities, allowances and sick pay, and the rent of a pew in Oswestry parish church. There are occasional letters from tradesmen presenting bills to the Brogyntyn agent. Specific points of interest are described at file level.

Porkington (Brogyntyn) estate vouchers, 1867. Includes bills for repairs at Old Port Farm, Scybor Issa and Underhill Farmhouse.