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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.

Original bundle of vouchers from the Irish estates of William Richard Ormsby Gore, second Baron Harlech, labelled ‘Mr Vernon’s vouchers’ and part of the wrapper, giving the date ‘1st May 1884’ but Mr Vernon’s vouchers are actually dated 1880-1885. The bundle has several packets inside, including Mr Walker’s receipts, 1876-1877; and William Percy Jones’ vouchers, 1883-1885

Title deeds and other associated documents concerning properties belonging to the Owen and Ormsby Gore families of Brogyntyn in Salop (Shropshire), 1607-1939, Montgomeryshire, 1647-1902, Merioneth, 1706-1961, Caernarfonshire, 1813-1924, Denbighshire, 1844-1898, Flintshire, 1870-1897, London, 1795-1895, Ireland, 1665-1920, and miscellaneous locations, [1600x1899], 1729-1977. The deeds reflect the consolidation of the Brogyntyn home estates in and around Oswestry and Selatyn, the development of the brick-making industry in Shropshire, the leasing of mines and quarries under mountain farms in Merioneth and Caernarfonshire, and building developments in the popular resorts of Borth-y-gest, Cricieth and Portmadoc. Most of the purchases were made by the Brogyntyn trustees in accordance with the terms of family wills and settlements, particularly those of 1815, 1844 and 1881. Consequently many of the files contain official reports, orders, etc. issued by the High Court of Chancery in connection with the purchases; these are not described at file level unless deemed to be especially significant. Some deeds record sales of parts of the Ormsby Gore family estates for the purposes of water supply, cemeteries, chapels and schools, and for the schemes of the Irish Land Commission

Title deeds and other documents relating to properties mainly in the parishes of Oswestry, Selatyn and Whittington in the county of Salop (Shropshire), either purchased by the Brogyntyn estate or already owned and later sold or leased by them, 1607-1939. The properties include lands which formerly belonged to the Earls of Powis, the Lloyd family of Aston and the Owen family of Woodhouse, former common lands in the manor of Whittington and the Drenewydd estate purchased from the Wynne family of Peniarth in 1830. There are substantial quantities of deeds for the farm of Pentreclawdd, 1607-1899, the Vron, Selatyn, 1697-1874, Pentre David, 1707-1827, Pentrepant, 1741-1894, lands around the Brick Kilns in Oswestry, 1783-1909, and miscellaneous other properties, 1740-1939.

Title deeds relating to Pentreclawdd Farm and cottages in the parish of Selatyn, Salop, purchased by the Brogyntyn estate, 1607-1899

Feoffment of lands at Selatyn by John Hughes to Hughes Sands, 28 June 1797;. Feoffment of a m., stables, and lands at Selatyn by John Holbrooke to William Bickerton, 24 May 1800; feoffment by Lloyd, esq., to Thomas Richardson, gent.,. 29 Sept. 1805; mortgage of lands in Selatyn by Thomas Richardson and others to John Roberts, 20 Feb. 1822; mortgage of a farm and lands at Selatyn by Williams and Davies to Samuel Roberts and another, 5 July 1833; mortgage of premises in Selatyn by William Davies and wife to John Harrison, 2 Jan. 1834; mortgage of Vron Farm by William Davies and Margaret, his wife and their mortgagees to Thomas Howell and his trustees, 29 Sept. 1835; mortgage of the Vron Farm by Thomas Howell and another to Arthur Shone, 25 Nov. 1835; conveyance of the Vron farm by Thomas Howell and others to William Ormsby Gore, esq., and trustees, 24- 25 May 1838; two abstracts of title and purchase agreement, [c. 1838].

Title deeds for properties in Willow Street, Oswestry, Salop, including houses and cottages purchased by the Brogyntyn estate, 1678-1854, and a site for the gas works, 1820, and the old tan yard, 1905, formerly belonging to Brogyntyn

Office copy extract from will of David Davies, 30 June 1804; final concord between Septimus Burton, plaintiff, and The Hon. Philip Sidney Pierrepoint and Georgina his wife, deforciants, Hilary Term 9 Geo. 4; copy final concord, 1, 3 March 1828; conveyance of part of the Old Port Estate, Shropshire, by Henry Desborough, esq., and Mr and Mrs Pierrepont to William Ormsby Gore, esq., to uses to bar dower, 14 May 1828; deed of covenant for production of title deeds between Charles T. Thurston, esq., and Hon. P. S. Pierrepont to William Ormsby Gore, esq., 27 March 1830; assignment of term of 1,000 years for further securing mortgage and interest and subject thereto to attend the inheritance by Edmund Hopkinson by the direction of W. Ormsby- Gore, esq., and appointment of Edmund Hopkinson, mortgagees, to Thomas L. Longueville, the younger, gent., abstracts and other papers.

Deeds relating to lands at Selatyn purchased by the Brogyntyn trustees from Frederick West of Culham Court, Berkshire, and later of Ruthin Castle, Denbighshire, 1707-1827. They relate to two properties in the township of Porkington, namely Pentre David, formerly owned by Thomas Hanmer, and Hen Plassey (or Blassey), formerly belonging to Edward Kynaston of Hardwick. The documents for Pentre David include a deed to lead uses of recovery on the estate of Thomas Hanmer, 1707; the wills of Thomas Hanmer, 1749/50, proved 1752, Austin Leigh of St John, Westminster [nephew of Thomas Hanmer], 1774, and William Leigh of Oswestry, 1805; a conveyance by the descendant of William Leigh’s trustee and by Rev. George Wasey and Anne Sophia his wife, and the other daughters of John Frodsham and William Frodsham [legatees in the will of William Leigh] to Frederick West, 1822; and the affidavit of Alice Davies of Oswestry, former servant to William Leigh, 1827. The deeds for Hen Plassey include the will of Edward Kynaston, 1771, proved 1772; purchase deeds from his brother Roger Kynaston to William Smith of Shrewsbury, 1786, and from the latter to Thomas Whitehurst of Pen y Clawdd, Chirk, Denbighshire, 1796; the marriage settlement of Thomas Whitehurst the younger and Sarah Edwards of Vivod, Llangollen, 1798; a deed of exchange between Thomas Whitehurst and Mary Jane Ormsby, with a bond of indemnity, 1814; assignment of the bond and conveyance by Thomas Whitehurst and Edward Whitehurst to Frederick West, of the fields comprised in the exchange, 1822; and a deed by the same parties for the sale of Hen Blassey Farm and a double pew in Selatyn church, 1822. The deed of sale includes Hen Blassey, other lands in Lower Porkington, Ty Cefn yr Eglwys and fields (named), with plan incorporated, 1827. Other items comprise an abstract of title, 1771-1825; a release by William Lloyd of Aston of two heriots issuing out of Hen Plassey, 1827; and copies (dated 1822 and 1827) of burial records of Mrs Kynaston, wife of Roger Kynaston, 1766, Victoria Kynaston, 1781, Elizabeth Smith, 1788, all in Shrewsbury, Catherine Whitehurst, 1797, and Sarah Whitehurst, 1821, both in Chirk, Rev. Thomas Hanmer of Selatyn, 1749/50, and William Frodsham of Nether Knutsford, 1809.

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.

Title deeds relating to Pant Glas Farm (formerly Nant) and land at Pant Glas, 1771-1868, and to Pant Glas school, 1903, all in the parish of Selatyn, purchased by or owned by the Brogyntyn estate.

Parcel containing two bundles of deeds relating to Pant Glas Farm [formerly called Nant], 1771-1820. The file contains an attested copy (1820) of the will of Peter Tomkies of Oswestry, 1771; the marriage settlement of Edward Tomkies and Ann his wife (late Clutton), which includes Nant, 1779; a feoffment by Rev. John Robert Lloyd of Aston to Edward Tomkies of four pieces of land in Porkington and an allotment of common land awarded out of the manor of Whittington, 1789; a trust settlement to provide portions for the children of Edward Tomkies, of Nant and other properties in Leg Street and Bailey Street, Oswestry, 1795; a mortgage by Charles Eyeyley and Anne his wife (nee Tomkies) and John Tomkies, 1808; deeds associated with disentailment involving John Tomkies and Elizabeth his wife, William Henry Rosser of St Andrew Holborn and John Pugh of Cardiston, 1820; and the conveyance by John Tomkies and his mortgagee to William Ormsby Gore and Mary Jane his wife and their trustees of the messuage of Nant, now called Pant Glas Farm, comprising the house, buildings, fold, garden and fields (named), with plan incorporated, 1820. Further documents comprise an abstract of title, 1771-1820, a coloured plan and solicitors’ correspondence.

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.

Deeds relating to two purchases by Mary Jane Ormsby in the parishes of Selatyn and Oswestry, 1811-1813. The first concerns Skybor Issa, previously called Ty Coach or Ty Cough in the township of Porkington, purchased from Edward Gatacre, his trustees, and Miss Lloyd, excluding a plantation belonging to Mr Warrington, 1811. The second purchase concerns an allotment of former common land at Middleton, acquired from the trustees of Major Watkin Williams [of Penbedw], 1812-1813. Documents include an abstract of the title of Edward Gatacre, Annabella his wife and trustees, and Miss [Jane] Lloyd, 1688-1807, compiled 1811, plans, and letters mainly from Edward Edmunds of Oswestry and Thomas Panting of Salop, 1811-1813; and notes on the line of inheritance from Francis Baron Godolphin and Ellen Owen of Brogyntyn

Deeds relating to lands at Porkington purchased by the Brogyntyn trustees from David Jameson, 1808-1820. They comprise a feoffment by William Lloyd of Aston of a house, buildings and lands, 1808, and a conveyance by John Arthur Lloyd of Croesmere of an allotment previously enclosed out of the commons in the parish of Selatyn, with a schedule of deeds incorporated, 1809, both sold to David Jameson; and the conveyance by David Jameson and Elizabeth his wife to the trustees of William Ormsby Gore and Mary Jane his wife, of both the properties described in the earlier deeds, with a coloured plan incorporated, 1820. The file also contains copies (1820) of the parish registers of Ellesmere, recording the burials of Francis Lloyd of Croesmere, 1719, another Francis Lloyd of Croesmere, 1788, and other burial records of annuitants in the will of Mr Lloyd of Croesmere; copy preamble of an Act for vesting part of the settled estate of Rev. William Lloyd in trustees, 1768; and a letter from the solicitor of J.A. Lloyd

Attested copies of deeds relating to the estate of Sarah Owen of Woodhouse in the parish of West Felton. They comprise a conveyance by Sarah Owen to Edward Moreton of Ellesmere in trust for Hugh Owen, of the capital messuage of Woodhouse, Rednall Mill and numerous other properties in Salop and Montgomeryshire, subject to annuities charged thereon for Sarah Owen and Judith Powell the housekeeper, 1747; and a release by Mary Lloyd of Gloucester Street, St George the Martyr, Middlesex, to William Owen (previously Mostyn) of Woodhouse, of part of the estate devised by the will of Sarah Owen from an annuity of £50, 1775

Lease and surrender of Moreton Hall Farm, p's St Martins and Whittington, co. Shrop.

Deeds relating to land in Oswestry purchased from the Rev. Dr Donne, 1811-1826. The file includes a conveyance by Edward Earl of Powis and John Probert of Copthorn, devisees in trust under the will of George Edward Henry Arthur, Earl of Powis, dec., to Rev. James Donne of Oswestry of two parcels of land, the first in the western part of a field called Gwerglodd adjoining the turnpike road, previously part of Park Issa on the eastern side of Oswestry, and the second comprising Cae Ffeg, Cae Brute, Well Piece and other lands (named), a barn and other buildings, previously part of Park Ucha on the western side of Oswestry, 1811, with a schedule of deeds annexed (1674-1710); the abstract of title of Rev. Dr Donne, 1751-1811; a schedule of deeds, papers and a bond of the Gore family delivered up by Mr Dawson (1772-1815); copy orders issued by the High Court of Chancery concerning the purchase, with affidavits of Thomas Kyffin as to the identity and value of the lands, 1826; and deeds of sale by Rev. James Donne of Oswestry, D.D., to William Ormsby Gore and Mary Jane his wife, and their trustees, of Cae Ffeg, Cae Brute, Well Piece, etc. 1826. Plans incorporated

Conveyance of a m. or tmt and lands in p. Selatyn by Baugh to Joseph Sands, 1 - 2 Jan. 1812; mortgage of m. and lands called the Springs by Joseph Sands to John Jones, Jan. 1818; reconveyance of the same by John Jones to Joseph Sands, March 1843; mortgage of farm and land called The Springs by Joseph Sands to Arthur Owen, 31 March 1880, and further charge, 31 March 1885, endorsed on the same; agreement for sale and purchase of freehold m. and lands called The Springs situate in p. Selatyn, 21 May 1892, between Joseph Sands and Lord Harlech; conveyance of a farm and lands known as The Springs in Selatyn, 23 June 1892, by Joseph Sands to and his mortgagee to the trustees of the Brogyntyn Settled Estates, declaration of Messrs Sand, 28 June 1892, and abstract of title and other papers, [c. 1892].

Conveyance of several pieces or parcels of land lying and being in p. Selatyn by Edward Roberts to Miss Mary Jane Ormsby, Oct. 1813; deed of exchange between Thomas Whitehurst and Miss M. J. Ormsby, 31 Jan. 1814; conveyance of land in p. Selatyn by Mary Jane Ormsby to Lord Viscount Buckeley and others 22 Nov. 1814.