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Records of the Brogyntyn estate, home of the Ormsby-Gore family, Barons Harlech, 1296-1951. They include estate papers and deeds, legal papers, financial papers, family papers and county administration papers of the Ormsby-Gore family, their ancestors, the Maurices and the Owens of Clenennau, the Wynns of Glyn and others, such as Anwyl of Park, Clayton of Lea Hall, Godolphin of Abertanat, Lyster of Penrhos, Mostyn of Nant, and Vaughan of Corsygedol. The three main estates represented in the collection are Brogyntyn, Clenennau and Glyn, the latter constituting a major addition to the existing North Wales holdings of Sir Robert Owen upon his marriage to Margaret Wynn in 1683. The documentation also covers other, subsiduary estates acquired by marriage or inheritance, namely Llanddyn, Sylfaen, Ystumcegid, Nant, Cemais, Penrhos, Abertanat and properties in the west of Ireland. The record types include title deeds for lands in Caernarfonshire, Merionethshire, Flintshire, Denbighshire, Montgomeryshire, Shropshire, elsewhere in England and Wales, and in the Irish counties of Westmeath, Leitrim, Sligo, Mayo and Roscommon, 1296-1838; rentals, accounts and other papers associated with estate administration, [1380s]-1951; manorial records, 1429-1804; household management papers, 1662-[c. 1949]; legal and arbitration papers, 1410-1834; financial papers such as mortgages and accounts, 1492-1876; family settlements, probate records and trusts, 1485-[c. 1862]; private letters, 1582-1950; papers relating to family interests, [14th cent.]-1951; personal papers of family members, 1672-1945; royal appointments and honours, 1795-1948; central government papers, 1581-1887; county administration papers, 1518-1904; and administration records of the church, schools and charities, 1598-[1876x1904]. Other component parts of the archive are the Clenennau Letters and Papers, which combine personal correspondence with the civil and military administration of Caernarfonshire from the late sixteenth to late seventeenth centuries. Additional records, comprising Lord Harlech's Game Books (3 volumes), 1882-1933, a journal kept by W. R. Ormsby Gore of the 13th Light Dragoons, May-September 1854, two manuscript catalogues of plays, 1815, and a manuscript catalogue of the library at Porkington, 1809, were acquired in March 2017.
The Brogyntyn (Longueville) group comprises deeds and documents relating to the Brogyntyn estate, 1607-1977, deposited by Longueville Gittins solicitors who provided professional legal services to the estate.

Papers relating to the Brogyntyn estate, extracted from the Longueville and Co. solicitors’ collection. There are three main groups comprising probate records, settlements and trusts, 1626-1974; rentals, accounts, vouchers, inventories and valuations, 1795-1934; and deeds and related documents, [1600x1899], 1607-1977. There are also six single series, of sale catalogues and papers relating to estate sales, 1827-1919; papers relating to land improvement, 1839-1955; papers relating to railway and electricity development schemes, 1866-1927; miscellaneous letters and estate papers, 1830-1880, legal papers, 1863-[c. 1924] and mortgages, 1870-1923

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.

Sale catalogues of Tetworth mansion,, Ascot Heath, Berkshire, and its contents by direction of the trustees of the late Lord Harlech, 1904-1905; and papers relating to the sale by his executors to Henry Frederick Beaumont of Whitley Beaumont near Huddersfield, Yorkshire, 1905, including a draft conveyance, assignment of benefit of covenants, particulars of sale, a schedule of deeds and documents, 1772-1905, and requisitions on title.

Sale catalogue of lots 1-70, properties in the parishes of Cricieth, Llanystumdwy, Clynnog, Dolbenmaen and Ynyscynhaearn, sold at the Public Hall, Cricieth, 12 Sept. 1911, with memoranda of agreement bound into the back of the volume. Photographic illustration of Cricieth in frontispiece.

Sale catalogue of lots 71-132, properties in the parishes of Dolbenmaen, Ynyscynhaearn and Beddgelert, sold at Porthmadog town hall and the Royal Goat Hotel, Beddgelert, 13 Sept. 1911, with memoranda of agreement bound into the back of the volume. Photographic illustration of Beddgelert in frontispiece.

Sale catalogue of lots 133-274, properties in the parishes of Llanfrothen, Ynyscynhaearn and Llandecwyn, sold at Porthmadog town hall, 14 Sept. 1911, with memoranda of agreement bound into the back of the volume. Bound by mistake with a cover of the Corsygedol Hotel sale of Sept. 15. Photographic illustration of Borth-y-gest in frontispiece.

Sale catalogue of lots 276-300, properties in the parishes of Llanaber, Barmouth and Harlech, sold at the Corsygedol Hotel, Barmouth, 15 Sept. 1911, with memoranda of agreement bound into the back of the volume. Photographic illustration of Harlech Castle in frontispiece.

Schedules of deeds etc. (mainly counterpart leases) handed over by Longueville to other firms of solicitors, including Lloyd George, in Cricieth, Barmouth, Portmadoc, Dolgellau, Caernarfon and Llanfairfechan at the time of Lord Harlech’s land sales in Caernarfonshire and Merioneth, 1911-1914.

Sale catalogue of the outlying portions of the Aston estate near Oswestry at the Victoria Rooms, Oswestry, 1918. Photographic illustrations.

Papers relating to applications by the Brogyntyn estate mainly between 1870 and 1955, under government schemes in accordance with the Improvement of Lands Acts 1864 and 1899, the Settled Land Acts, 1882 to 1890, and the Town and Country Planning Acts, 1947 and 1954. The lands in question included Brogyntyn mansion, Home Farm (Ty Coch), Glyn, Sylfaen and Ystumcegid, 1870-1883; Penrhos, Old Port and Cross Lanes (Pentrepant), 1903-1905; Mardy Farm, Selatyn, 1905-1906; Ystumcegid Isaf, 1911; and Brogyntyn mansion and farm, Oerley Hall, The Mount, Brick Kilns, Harlech Camp, stone quarries and sand pits in Shropshire, Caernarfonshire and Harlech, 1949-1955.

Papers deriving from applications by the Brogyntyn estate to the Land Loan and Enfranchisement Company and the General Land Drainage and Improvement Company under schemes for the improvement of landed estates, 1870-1883. They include a schedule of lands to be charged with new outlay including Brogyntyn mansion, Home Farm (Ty Coch), Glyn, Sylfaen, Ystumcegid and others; copies of the official application form by John Ralph Ormsby Gore; a statement of additions and deductions, estimates for building work; summary of accounts; Inland Revenue forms for succession duty; prospectuses of the Land Loan and Enfranchisement Company and the General Land Drainage and Improvement Company; a copy of the Company’s Act (1849); letters from the relevant companies, the Inclosure Commission, John Ward of Oswestry, contractor for public works, Robert Owen of Oldport, solicitors and the tenant of Cefn Collfryn, Cricieth. The file also contains a grant by William Ormsby Gore to his son William Richard, of an annuity of £20 issuing out of the Oerley Hall estate, Oswestry, 1839.

Papers deriving from an application by the Brogyntyn estate under the Settled Land Acts 1882 to 1890 to effect estate improvements viz enlargement of a house and erection of new farm buildings at Penrhos, and the construction of labourers’ cottages at Old Port and Cross Lanes (Pentrepant), dated 1903-1904 but labelled 1905. The file includes the application form for the approval by the Board of Agriculture of a surveyor nominated by the estate trustees, 1903; specifications and architectural plans, 1903; an account of W.H. Thomas, builder, 1904; the building inspection certificates of John Bligh Monck, 1903-1904; receipts; and letters to the trustees and to Longueville and Co. by Lord Harlech and John Bligh Monck 1903-1904.

Papers relating to improvements to Mardy Farm in the parish of Selatyn, Salop, under the provisions of the Settled Land Acts 1882 to 1890, comprising the application form for the approval by the Board of Agriculture of a surveyor nominated by the estate trustees, he building inspection certificate of John Bligh Monck, the bill of Jones and Evans, builders, and related letters to Longueville and Co., 1905-1906.

Papers deriving from applications made previously by the Brogyntyn estate to the General Land Drainage and Improvement Company, later merged with The Lands Improvement Company, to fund improvements at Ystumcegid Isaf (Cricieth) in the parish of Llanystumdwy, Caernarfonshire, Old Port Farm in the parishes of Oswestry, Selatyn and Whittington in the county of Salop (Contracts 1208 and 1208B). The papers comprise apportionments of rent charge, a release of Ystumcegid Isaf from the rent charge imposed on the properties as security for the loan, and letters mainly to Longueville and Co. from The Lands Improvement Company relating to the same and discussing difficulties arising in the release from the rent charge, all dated 1911.

Papers deriving from compensation claims for loss of development value or ‘Treasury Scheme cases’ under the Town and Country Planning Acts of 1947 and 1954, dealing mainly with the valuation of claims submitted by the Brogyntyn Estate Company and recommendations for fulfilment of the criteria, 1949-1955. The properties for which compensation was claimed included Brogyntyn mansion and farm, Oerley Hall, The Mount, Brick Kilns, other Brogyntyn estate properties, parts of the Glyn estate including requisitioned land at Harlech Camp, mineral interests such as the limestone quarries at Underhill and Carreg-y-big, Llwyn Sand and Gravel Pits, Foel Wood Sandpit and Sandstone Quarry, Salop, Dorothea Slate Quarry, Nanhoron Quarry, Portmadoc Quarry, and the Sand Pit, Golf Links, Harlech. The papers comprise mainly the official Central Land Board claim forms, schedules of Brogyntyn estate claims, circulars and correspondence between the Inland Revenue District Valuers in Shrewsbury and Bangor, the Central Land Board, Birmingham, E. Pakenham Hamilton of the Brogyntyn Estate Office in Oswestry, Mssrs Yard and Hardcastle of the Estate Office, Pwllheli, Capt. D.E. Anderson, and Durnford and Lee mining engineers, Doncaster.

Files of miscellaneous letters and papers mainly concerning the management of the Brogyntyn estates, 1830-1880. The letters are mostly to Longueville and Co. and they concern estate business, finance, legal matters, and insurance claims following a fire at Brogyntyn Hall in 1874. The estate papers include lease agreements, valuations, building accounts, notices served on tenants; there are also small quantities of legal papers and Ormsby Gore family documents [post-1863]-1871.

Letters to William Dean of Palsgrave Place, including one from Longueville, apparently concerning a conveyance from John Gibbons’ trustees to the Gore trustees of land in Oswestry, 1830.

Miscellaneous bundle of letters and papers relating to management of the Brogyntyn estate, 1841-1848. The letters, mainly to William Ormsby Gore and Longueville and Co., are from Robert Grindley, John Hayward of Oswestry, the Misses Lyon and William Mckie, concerning tenancy matters and properties at Big House Farm, Whittington, Oerley Hall and Drenewydd, a valuation at Cae Eithin and applications to open another stone quarry adjoining Portryddyn [Llanfihangel-y-Pennant], with some copies of replies, 1841-1846. The file also contains a lease agreement by William Ormsby Gore for the Keepers Fields in the township of Porkington in the parish of Selatyn, 1846; a printed form of agreement 184[?]; a valuation of lands in Whittington agreed to be exchanged between William Ormsby Gore and R.H. Kinchant, 1848; accounts of Thomas Hughes and others for building a new church at Penrhos, a farm house at Carnbwl, and estate work at Drenewydd, Pant Glas and Llangollen, with relevant agents’ letters, 1844-1846; an agreement by Jonathan Jones to build piggeries and a stable at the White Lion Inn, Oswestry, 1846; a bill of William Vaughan for ironmongery, 1846; a valuation of Drenewydd and delapidations by Frederick Wehnert, architect, 1843; notices served on John Jones, draper, at Llangollen, and on representatives of the late Edward Thomas of Myddelton, Oswestry, 1846; and an extract of the letters of administration of Patrick Jones of Llangollen, 1818, taken from the records of the Consistory Court of St Asaph, 1848.