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Papers relating to the career and interest of William Richard Ormsby-Gore, comprising army certificates, 1836-1854, official passes, 1837-1839, 1870-1875, MP 's papers, [c. 1852]-1859, and freemasonry papers, 1852-1894.

Miscellaneous personal papers of William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, comprising invitation cards for celebratory dinners, 1904-1918, school and university papers belonging to him and his son, John, 1907, 1938, a celebratory statement of his election victory [c. 1910], a congratulatory address from the town of Oswestry, 1913, and official instructions and permits connected with his work overseas, 1918-1943.

Pedigrees, copies of manuscripts, extracts from original and published sources, genealogical notes, copies of monumental inscriptions and correspondence relating to Owen of Clenennau and Brogyntyn, [1702x1823]-1882, and other families who were related to them by marriage or who were relevant to the history of the estate, namely Anwyl of Parke, [18 cent., first quarter], 1751, Derwas and Lyster of Penrhos, 1767-[post-1823], Eure, [post-1861], Godolphin, 1724x1868, Longueville, 1830-1833, Mostyn, [1729x1744]-1951, Vaughan of Corsygedol, 1698-[c. 1795], Wynn(e) of Glyn, Gwydir and Peniarth, 1790-1837, Wynne of Garth, 1753, and miscellaneous others, [post-1727]-1862.

Certificates of appointments to the Privy Chamber, 1795, 1816, grants of arms, 1815, 1876, statutes and a grant of the order of the Bath, 1925, 1936, orders of installation ceremonies within the orders of the Garter and of St Michael and St George, 1947-1948, and grant of the Dignity of a Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, 1947-1948, all relating to honours conferred by royalty on members of the Ormsby-Gore family.

Rentals of the Clenennau, Glyn, Sylfaen and Ystumcegid estates, [1535x1572]-1849. They cover Eifionydd [1535x1572] and Clenennau, 1551-1689, combined with Brogyntyn, Llanddyn and lands in Anglesey from 1589 to 1606; Glyn, 1623; Ystumcegid, 1692-1723; and Clenennau, Glyn, Sylfaen and Ystumcegid, 1690-1849. Gest disappears from the rentals by 1678, which is consistent with Sir Robert Owen's loss of the township to William Price of Rhiwlas. Sir Robert married Margaret Wynn in 1683, but Glyn and Sylfaen in Merionethshire do not appear as joint property until 1690. Some of the Clenennau and Glyn properties appear collectively as the Merionethshire estates from 1727. Likewise by 1749 some of the other Caernarfonshire properties are not distinguished separately from Ystumcegid. From 1779 to 1804, the idividual properties are not identified, but the tenants' names are listed under the vague headings of 'Caernarfonshire estate' or the Merionethshire estate'. The purchased property of Dolbenmaen is incorporated from 1742 and part of the Shropshire and Denbighshire estates are included in 1773. Additions in the form of allotments and encroachments are in evidence from 1832. Several of the rentals incorporate accounts of arrears and repairs to property.

Rental [1380s], accounts, 1550-1655, a valuation, 1625, attornments of tenants, 1684-1685, and a bailiff's appointment, 1684.

Account books, loose accounts and receipts deriving from administration of the estates of Brogyntyn (Porkington), and Llanddyn, 1634-1852, [1882?], showing the income from rents, other profits and the usual outgoings for chief rents, tithes, taxes, poor rate, other dues and charity; disbursements for repair and maintenance of buildings, purchase and carriage of commodities, sale of livestock, employees' wages, agent's travelling expenses and subsistence.

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.

Bills and receipts, 1586, 1711-1743, 1750, and rentals and estate accounts, 1710-1734, for the Lea Hall estate in Preston Gubbals, Shropshire, and the Brymbo estate near Wrexham. They include some interesting items relating to equine management and horticulture.

Memoranda of leases and agreements concerning tithes and properties on the Lea Hall and Brymbo estates, 1736-1737, 1749.

Tenancy papers, comprising mainly leases on the Abertanat (Broniarth), Cemais and Penrhos estates in Cemais and Darowen, 1785-1796, Guilsfield, 1768-1802, Llandrinio and Llansanffraid-ym-mechain, 1776-1815, Llandysilio, 1741-1798, Meifod, 1782-1811, St Martin's, 1787, and miscellaneous Montgomeryshire parishes, [c. 1766]-1811, and a separate bundle of notices to quit tenancies, 1793. Many of the leases and agreements stipulate the reservation to John Owen of minerals, hunting, tree plantation and timber for charcoal, the preservation of game and keeping of game dogs. Some of the documents refer to parcels of old common land in Deuddwr, alloted to John Owen as a result of enclosures and susbequently leased to tenant farmers.

Rentals for the lands of William Gore, 1775-1829, Owen Ormsby, 1781-1809, Mary Jane Ormsby, 1812-1854, and William Ormsby-Gore, 1815-1858, in the counties of Westmeath, Leitrim, Sligo, Mayo and Roscommon. The Westmeath and Leitrim estates are not listed after 1776. The rentals after 1789 are mainly in printed format. The lands of Mary Jane Ormsby-Gore are listed separately from her husband's Irish estates, but they appear to have been managed by the same agent, with the rentals organised on an annual basis from May 1st. Between 1846 and 1850 the crisis of the Irish Potato Famine is evident from the allowances made to some tenants for losses of animals and crops, and ejection of numerous others from their holdings, with considerable loss of rent arrears to the landowners.

Letters to Roger Parke, agent to the Ormsbys, 1793, William Gore, 1797-1805, Mary Jane Ormsby-Gore, 1819-[c. 1851], William Ormsby-Gore, 1824-1859, and William Richard Ormsby-Gore, 1850-1887, from agents, tenants and other individuals, accompanied by occasional replies and relevant letters from third parties. They mainly concern routine estate business such as rent collection and leases, but they also discuss the poverty and ejectment of tenants, complaints against a bailiff, repairs to Willowbrook House, 1850, fishing rights and agricultural practices. Letters to William Ormsby-Gore describe a proposed road construction through an estate at Letterbrone, county Sligo, 1824; political unrest among protestants, 1828; a request by a minister for stone to build a school at Carigallen, Leitrim, 1842; aims of the Society for Draining and Cultivating Irish Bogs, 1843; conditions during the Potato Famine, 1847; a civil bill affecting landlords' rights to eject tenants; and the processing of flax, 1851. Other items include detailed reports of farm work and wages paid to labourers on the estates of William Richard Ormsby-Gore in Dromod, Leitrim, 1875, 1878; and a circular analysing eviction returns for the Irish counties, 1886.

Inventories of house contents and furniture, both at Brogyntyn and other family houses, 1687-1803; and the Porkington cellar books, 1837-1868, 1904-1938.

Files of the court leet, small court, view of frankpledge and court baron of the manor of Broniarth, which include presentments, writs and payment slips to bailiffs, lists of jurors, freeholders and tenants, and legal complaints, 1633-1643, 1722-1779, 1803-1804.

Rentals of chief rents of the lordship of Broniarth, 1687, 1735, 1821.

Title deeds of houses, burgages and other pieces of land in the town of Harlech and the immediate locality, particularly in Acrey Newydd, Acrey Hen, and Y Gors, many of which were leased or purchased from the borough Corporation, 1327-1649. Detailed boundary clauses in the majority of the deeds provide useful information about the early development and town layout of Harlech.

Title deeds and associated documents relating to properties of the Faenol estate in the parishes of Caerhun, Lanwnda and Llanbedrycennin, Caernarfonshire, 1596-1645, the Irish estates of the Ormsby-Gore family mainly in Mayo, Sligo, Roscommon, Leitrim and Westmeath, 1606-1799, and the township of Dolbenmaen, Caernarfonshire, 1721-1737.

Notebooks containing copies of published poems, ballads, songs and prose works in English, French and Italian, translations from classical and continental authors, and original compositions, compiled mainly by Frances Morres Gore in her own hand, with some contributions by others and a small number of printed items, 1809-1832. The authors most commonly represented here are Lord Byron, Mme de Stael, Thomas ('Anacreon') Moore, Mary Robinson, Robert Southey and Edward Young. Others include Robert Burns, Thomas Campbell, William Cowper, Richard Cumberland, Thomas Dibdin, Mme de Genlis, Oliver Goldsmith, Reginald Heber, Horace, Leigh Hunt, John Langhorne, C[harles] L[loyd]?, John Milton, Mary Russell Mitford, James Montgomery, Cornelius Neale, Sydney Owenson, Petrarch, Alexander Pope, Charles Phillips, Sir Walter Scott, Percy Shelley, James Smith, Mary Tighe, Voltaire and Richard West, as well as Frances Morres Gore and her son William Gore. The content of the volumes is similar throughout, with the exception of the last. Many of the works relate to themes of romance, friendship, women, mortality, moralistic and philosophical platitudes, mythology, the natural world and the Irish landscape. Other compositions concern historical figures, the foibles of contemporary society, antipathy to the Georgian monarchy, Hanoverian government policies, and the Napoleonic Wars. Mrs Gore 's interest in the theatre is evidenced by a significant number of items referring to actors and playwrights, George Colman, William Conway, Robert Elliston, David Garrick, the Kemble family, Henrietta O'Neill, Alexander Fisher Palmer, Shakespeare, R.B. Sheridan and Sarah Siddons in performances at various English and Irish theatres between 1808 and 1824.