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Game book of George Ormsby Gore, August 1882- January 1895. Verse pasted onto front flyleaf.

Title deeds relating to Pentrepant, clover fields and Ty Coch, all belonging to the Pentrepant estate in the parishes of Selatyn and Whittington, Salop, purchased by the Brogyntyn estate from George Henry Warrington and Ethel Mary Trollope, a daughter of the Carew family of Crowcombe Court, Somerset, 1741-1894.

Volume (rolled) containing a rental of the chief rents due to the Brogyntyn estate in the manors of Broniarth and Deuddwr, Montgomeryshire, at Michaelmas 1882, 1885, 1888, 1894.

Copy draft conveyance by William Richard second Baron Harlech, Sarah, widow of John Ralph first Baron Harlech, George Ralph Charles Ormsby Gore and their trustees to Richard Southwell George Stapleton Cotton and other trustees of Charlotte Anne Corrie of Park Hall, of two pieces of land with the occupation road adjoining in the parish of Whittington, with plan, and acknowledgement of right of the production of deeds, 1894

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.

‘Old deeds’ recording several purchases by the Peate family in Pentreclawdd in the parish of Selatyn. The first of these is the purchase of Pentreclawdd Farm by Robert Peate of Bangor Is-coed, from Richard Arthur Tudor of Liverpool, 1865-1873. Earlier deeds for Pentreclawdd include a lease by John Swynarton, merchant tailor of London, to Thomas Hanmer of Porkington, 1606/7; a mortgage by Richard Hanmer to John Thomas of Pentreclawdd, 1647; a deed of sale by John Hanmer and Dorothy his wife, to Anne Thomas and trustees, 1653; a mortgage by John Thomas to Jane Griffiths of West Felton, 1746; probate of the will of John Thomas of Pentreclawdd, 1753; an assignment by the Jeffreys family, beneficiaries of John Thomas, of a legacy in trust for Robert Tudor, 1765; an assignment of mortgage by Robert Tudor and the executors of Jane Griffiths to Sarah Williams, 1766; receipts for legacies under the will of John Thomas received by the Richards family, 1775-1805; a mortgage by Robert Tudor to Margaret Jones, 1817; mortgage by John Jones of Brook Street, Oswestry, executor of Robert Tudor, to John Jones of Foxhall, Oswestry, trustee of Margaret Jones, 1831; copy will of John Jones of Oswestry, gatekeeper, 1824, died 1839; abstracts of title of his son Thomas Jones of Oswestry, 1864-1865; and conveyances by Thomas Jones, 1865, and Richard Arthur Tudor of Liverpool, 1873, and the mortagees, to Robert Peate (Bundle 1); and mortgages by Robert Peate to Edward Rogers and William Payne, and further charges, 1879-1887 (Bundle 2).
The other properties, all in Pentreclawdd, Hengoed and Cross Lanes, comprise two cottages purchased by Robert Peate from the representative of Richard Owen of Glansevern, 1868, and from George Henry Warrington Carew, 1868 (Bundles 3-4); two houses and gardens owned by Robert Edwards of Langollen and Sarah his wife, sold to Thomas Owen of St Martins, 1792, then owned by William Price and Margaret his wife, mortgaged by them, 1811-1817, sold by assignees of the mortgages to John Jones of Oswestry, 1821, and conveyed to Robert Peate, 1862-1863, with an abstract of title of John Jones the elder and younger (Bundle 5); a messuage, malt kiln and lands, owned by Robert Jones of Pentreclawdd, (will dated 1793, proved 1799), mortgaged by his son Robert Jones, 1820-1832 (died intestate 1833), mortgaged by Robert Rees Jones of Great Coram Street, Middlesex, 1844, followed by the sale to Robert Peate, 1849, and mortgages by the Peate family to Philip Jennings of Brighton, 1878-1885 (Bundle 7); and five cottages, comprising one cottage divided into two and three others erected on a piece of land originally conveyed by Robert Jones to his son Cornelius, 1812, mortgaged by Cornelius Jones, 1832, transferred to John Edwards of Oswestry, 1873, conveyed successively to George Daniel Gauge, 1873, William Jackson of Oswestry, solicitor, 1894, thence to Robert Tudor Peate of Marple Bridge, Lancashire, and Samuel Peate of Bangor Is-coed, 1894 (Bundle 9).
There are also mortgages by Elizabeth Peate and her family, of several properties (including Cabbage Hall, Cross Lanes), 1882, 1886-1894 (Bundles 6 and 8)
Several of the bundles include abstracts of title and plans are included with some of the conveyances.

Records of the manors of Broniarth and Deuddwr in Montgomeryshire. They include a description (perambulation) of the manor of Broniarth, 1773, deeds relating to the manor of Deytheur (Deuddwr) which include a description of the boundaries, 1816-1824, rentals of chief rents in both manors, 1823-1894, and chief rent collector’s cash receipts, 1891.

A lease agreement by William Richard Lord Harlech to Henry Wilmshurst Sabine of No. 2 Porkington Terrace, Oswestry, 1888, a notice to quit, 1892, and relevant letters to and by W.R. Lawford of Underhill, Longueville and Co., and Sabine, referring particularly to the insanitary conditions caused by defective drains, 1891-1892.

A book of collector’s cash receipt forms for chief rent due to Lord Harlech out of lands in Trewylan, Llandrinio, Penylan, Guilsfield and elsewhere in Montgomeryshire, 1891.

Lease by William Griffith of Portmadoc, builder, and John Ralph Ormsby Gore of Porkington to Owen Morris and other chapel trustees of a piece of land at Borth-y-gest, Caernarfonshire, with a Congregational (Independent) chapel, schoolhouse and other buildings erected thereon (boundaries described), with plan, 1871, and surrender endorsed, 1891.

Title deeds relating to Cyrnybwch or Gowry Bank, Selatyn and Oswestry, purchased by the Brogyntyn estate, 1848-1891

Probate of the will of William Bolver, 7 May 1851; conveyance of an undivided moiety of a m. or tmt and lands at Cernybwch, by Edward Vaughan and his wjfe to John Bolver, 27 Oct. 1852; conveyance of two m's and lands situate at Cernybwch in p. Selatyn, Shropshire, 24 Dec. 1891; and conditions of sale, abstracts of title and other papers, [c.1891].

Draft lease by William Richard Baron Harlech to the Rhosydd Slate Company of mines and quarries under the land called Rhosydd, being part of a farm called Cwmorthin in the parishes of Ffestiniog and Llanfrothen, together with the mine agent’s house, 1891.

Mssrs Longueville and Co.’s cash account with Lady Sarah Harlech, 1879-1890 (1880 missing), showing figures since 1876 for carriage of goods, the Brogyntyn trustees, mortgages, property purchases, rents, insurance premiums, furniture bequeathed to her, interest payments, etc. and work done by Longueville concerning their client’s liablity to make new drains at Westfield Lodge, 1889.

General accounts of the Brogyntyn (Porkington) estate and the Ormsby Gore family, comprising estate cash books of Penrhos and Brogyntyn, 1833-1845, account books of John Ralph Ormsby Gore, 1866-1874, Longueville’s account for the conveyance of a reservoir site near Oswestry, 1869-1877, fixtures and fittings at Brogyntyn Hall, 1871-1875, and Longueville and Co.’s account with Lady Sarah Harlech, 1879-1890.

Lease by the Brogyntyn trustees and William Richard Baron Harlech to Humphrey Richard Thomas, Owen Humphreys Davies, William Williams and others of stone on a piece of land in the parish of Penmorfa, Caernarfonshire, shown in a plan in the margin, 1877. The file also includes copy assignments of the lease to members of the Stutchbury family of Bristol and Arthur Edward Heathcote of Bath, and licences to assign, 1878-1880; letters to Longueville from Burges, Lawrence and Poole of Bristol concerning delays in having the assignment of the lease, together with a prospectus of The Tremadoc Sett and Paving-stone Company Limited, late Queen Stone Quarries, 1880; and notice to the Company of repossession, 1890.

Leases and licences granted by members of the Ormsby Gore family of Brogyntyn, of minerals and slate quarries in Caernarfonshire, 1845-1890. The locations include Fron Oleu in the parish of Penmorfa, 1845-1872, 1875-1881, Hendre Ddu, Dolbenmaen, 1860-1874, Mynyddednyfed and Braich-y-Sant, Cricieth, 1861, Plas yn Pennant, Penmorfa, 1862-1866, Ty Cerrig, Penmorfa, 1864-1880, and elsewhere in Beddgelert, Cricieth, Llanfihangel-y-Pennant and Penmorfa, 1849-1890. One file contains licences to make railways or tramways for the transport of slate from the quarries, 1855-1873

Lease (counterpart) by Mary Jane Ormsby Gore to William Thomas, builder, of a piece of land, heretofore part of Sygyn Issa Farm in the parish of Beddgelert, Merioneth, incorporating a covenant by the lessee to build nine houses, with plan in margin, 1868, together with a draft lease by William Thomas, 1869, letters by William Thomas requesting permission to sell the leasehold properties in Sygyn Terrace, Porkington Street, and draft licences to assign the leases, 1869-1890.

Papers deriving from lawsuits undertaken on behalf of Lord Harlech by Joseph Powner vs Edward Griffith at Oswestry Borough Session for assault, 1889, and by John Jones vs Henry Parry in the County Court of Denbighshire in a boundary dispute involving a walnut tree, with sketch plan, 1889. The file includes a brief for the complainant, court summons, judgement, statements of evidence, solicitor’s correspondence and a bill of costs.

Licences (take notes) and leases by William Ormsby Gore, Mary Jane his wife, John Ralph first Baron Harlech and William Richard second Baron, of lead, copper, manganese and other minerals under the farms of Rhosiger in the parish of Llanfihangel-y-traethau, Farchynys Fach, Sylfaen, Goloedd, Tyddyn Pandu and Gallwyn Bach, all in the parish of Llanaber, Llechwedd Ddu, Llety near Harlech (map incorporated), and Graig Isa and Graig Ucha in the parish of Llanenddwyn. The lessees are James Hollow of Lelant Hayle, Cornwall, and Crown Court, Old Broad Street, Middlesex, 1859, John Parry of Dolgellau, 1862, David Morris of Sylfaen, 1862, John Morris of Dolgellau, 1862, Owen Hughes and Robert Williams of Harlech, 1862, John Edward Parry and others, 1864, William Milford of Bontddu near Dolgellau and William Northey of Goginan, 1876, George Bargate of Barrow-in-Furness, William George Ainslie of Westminster and Edward Hadham of Dalton-in-Furness, 1886, and Henry Miles and John Miles of Dolgellau, 1888. There are also letters to Mary Jane Ormsby Gore from Robert Griffith of Festiniog relating to the lease on Tan-y-grisiau slate quarry, 1864.