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A letter concerning the pension of Gwilym Maeran P. Jones of Oswestry, 1968, and warrants for the payment of dividends on shares, 1976-1977.

Abstracts of title to the Brogyntyn and Glyn estates, comprising printed, typescript and manuscript drafts, memoranda and solicitors’ instructions, previously contained in a large envelope labelled ‘Brogyntyn A/Ts’, compiled 1940-1974, recording family settlements, trusts, wills and conveyances, 1878-1964, and identifying the successors to the title as: personal representatives of the late George Ralph Charles, third Baron Harlech, the Brogyntyn Estate Company and William David Ormsby Gore, fifth Baron Harlech; and a typed abstract of a transfer of mortgage on the Rug estate and subscribed with the name ‘Plas Isaf’ and other notes, 1953 (?stray)

Arbitration award in accordance with the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1948, for the settlement of claims and differences between William David Ormsby Gore (landlord) and Merioneth County Council (tenant) concerning breaches of the tenancy agreement for Ty Cerrig, Glyn estate, in the parish of Llanfihangel-y-traethau, Merioneth, 1960, together with associated papers, mainly 1958-1961. Ty Cerrig and part of Tynacra were let to Merioneth County Council by the exercise of their compulsory powers to acquire small holdings in 1920. The substantial file contains the counterpart lease of 1921; the tenant’s request for a new lease, 1955; handwritten notes and official statements of the case; a supporting statement by the county secretary of the Merioneth branch of the Farmers’ Union of Wales; reports and specifications; a rental; schedules detailing the valuation of the farm and buildings, the delapidation claim on behalf of the landlord and work to be done; plans of Ty Cerrig; letters from Longueville solicitors, the clerk of Merioneth County Council, county land agent, valuers and architect; notices served on the tenants; bills of costs; instructions to counsel to advise; and a precedent case Edmunds vs Woollacott, Minehead, 1958.

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.

Account of game given away from Porkington and game received, August 1828 –March 1835.

Lease by Queen Victoria, represented by Edward Stafford Howard, a Commissioner of Woods, to William Richard Baron Harlech of coal, metals and metallic minerals and ores, limestone and slate on or under land in the parishes of Llanenddwyn, Llanddwywe and Llanelltud, Merioneth, and draft, 1894; a licence granted by George Ralph Charles Baron Harlech to Harry Johnson Wright for the mining of manganese at Graig Issa and Graig Ucha, Llanenddwyn, 1916; royalty accounts, 1893-1895; a copy of the Enclosure Act for Llanaber, Llanddwywe, Llanenddwyn, Llanbedr and Llanfair, 1810; letters mainly to Longueville and Co. from the Dyffryn Mining Company Limited, the Office of Woods, Macqueen Bros, Samuel Pope QC and W.H. More, concerning the Dyffryn Company at Graig Issa, ascertainment of figures for the Crown Receiver’s accounts, claims for royalties due to Lord Harlech and to the Crown, and Lord Harlech’s mineral lease in Llanaber Inclosure, 1894-1896; a map (tracing) of the allotments of common [made post 1810 Act] in the parishes of Llanddwywe and Llanenddwyn; and 6 inch ordnance survey maps, Sheets X, XXVI, 1888. The file also contains draft deeds relating to a wooden bungalow at The Morfa, Harlech, originally leased by George Ralph Charles Baron Harlech to George Reid of Stafford, 1925-1931; and enclosures, 1895-1947.

Family settlements and other associated papers of the Ormsby Gore family, 1844-1944. The file includes a disentailing deed followed by the marriage settlement of John Ralph Ormsby Gore and Sarah Tyrell of Bereham, Essex, 1844, and appointment of William Kenyon Slaney as a new trustee, 1871; a disentailing assurance of stocks and bonds and agreement by William Richard Baron Harlech and his son George Ralph Charles Ormsby Gore, 1880; a resettlement by William Richard second Baron Harlech and George Ralph Charles Ormsby Gore of the Brogyntyn estates in England, Wales and Ireland, and of heirlooms and trust moneys, 1881; appointment of a jointure to Margaret Ethel Ormsby Gore and portions for the younger children, 1881; surrenders and conveyances of property in the parishes of Cemais, Llanbryn-mair, Darowen and Machynlleth, 1902, Cross Lanes farm at Five Crosses, Pentreclawdd, Selatyn, 1906, and Blue Bell Farm, Guilsfield Without, with plan, 1909; an appointment of £7000 out of trust funds, disentailing assurances referring to the sale of the estates in Ireland in 1915, and a deed of indemnity to Lord Harlech subsequent to the marriage of William George Arthur Ormsby Gore and Lady Beatrice Cecil, with associated papers, 1913-1927; a conveyance by William George Arthur Ormsby Gore to the Brogyntyn Estate Company of reversionary interests in the Brogyntyn settled estates and settled funds, with schedule incorporated, 1929; the marriage settlement of Hugh Fortescue Viscount Ebrington and Emily Ormsby Gore, 1886; appointments of new trustees of Sarah, Baroness Harlech, 1890, 1894; an agreement concerning the ownership of money paid by the Gorsedda Junction and Portmadoc Railways Company to the Brogyntyn settled estates, 1896, and two copies of the will of William Richard Baron Harlech, 1898, with codicils, 1900-1902, proved 1904, extracted from the Principal Registry, 1944.

Plan of Cefnymaes Farm, Oswestry, for sale by auction, 1939.

Leases and agreements mainly by and to William Ormsby Gore, John Ralph Ormsby Gore, William Richard second Baron Harlech and George Ralph Charles third Baron Harlech, 1844-1937. The properties comprise Drenewydd in the parishes of Whittington and Oswestry, Myddelton, Oerley Hall, High Fawr and Oerley Farm, land adjoining Wingthorpe, The White Lion, stables, croft, malthouses, etc., land for erecting a carpenter’s shop, and a timber yard and builders’ yard in Willow Street, all in Oswestry; Pentrepant Hall, The Mount and cottages, clay-working and brick yards near the Mount, the sand pit at the Gloppa Farm and shooting rights, all in the parish of Selatyn; Tyntwll in Llanfihangel-y-traethau; The White Lion Hotel, Cricieth; Maesgwyn Farm, Guilsfield; Dee Side, Bangor [Is-coed]; Tetworth House, Sunninghill, Berkshire; and Malpas Lodge, Chester. The file also contains an agreement for the employment of Bernard Head as agent to Lord Harlech for the Brogyntyn and Glyn estates, 1904.

Miscellaneous papers relating to family settlements and trusts of the Ormsby Gore family of Brogyntyn, 1871-1935. They include the following appointments: William Kenyon Slaney as a new trustee under the will of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore, 1871; William Edward Oakley, William Robert Maurice Wynne and Thomas Longueville to be trustees of the settlement of Lady Harlech’s fortune made on her marriage with John Ralph Baron Harlech, dec., 1879; Ian Murray Heathcoat Amory to be a trustee of the marriage settlement of Hugh Fourth Earl Fortescue and Emily Countess Fortescue (nee Ormsby Gore) in place of Albert Edward Wilfred Count Gleichen, 1907; and Hugh Earl Fortescue as a new trustee of the will of William Richard Baron Harlech, 1908. The file also contains an appointment of settled funds by William Richard Baron Harlech and George Ralph Charles Ormsby Gore, 1895; a surrender and conveyance by William Richard Baron Harlech to George Ralph Charles Ormsby Gore of a life interest in property in Ireland, 1895, supplemental to the settlement of 1881; a release by George Ralph Charles Baron Harlech and the younger children of William Richard Baron Harlech to Lord William Frederick Ernest Seymour for the receipt of dividends from investments, 1905; a charge of £3000 on the settled estates in Salop and Merioneth upon the marriage of William George Arthur Ormsby Gore and Lady Beatrice Cecil, 1913, and release of a rent charge issuing out of the same, 1926; a disentailing assurance, 1915; an appointment of investments by George Ralph Charles Baron Harlech and his son William George Arthur Ormsby Gore, 1926; and a further disentailing assurance, 1935.

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.

Game book of George Ormsby Gore, August 1907 – January 1922 (full entries), and 1907-1933 (game killed at Brogyntyn only). Bookplate of George Ralph Charles Ormsby Gore, 3rd Baron Harlech, inside front cover.

Printed abstracts of title to the Brogyntyn estates, compiled 1911 and 1925, and to the Welsh property only, compiled 1930, recording the Ormsby Gore family settlements, trusts and wills, 1878-1928.

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.

Waiver by the trustees of Lord Harlech’s settled estates of notice of George Ralph Charles Baron Harlech’s intention to sell to North Wales Power Company Limited a piece of land in the borough of Oswestry, on the east side of the road from Oswestry to Whittington, 1927

Reports on the rentals and accounts of Lord Harlech’s Brogyntyn estate and Glyn estate for the years 1914-1925, compiled for the estate audits, 1919-1926; and occasional letters to Longueville and Co. from W.E. Stamer of Underhill, Oswestry, 1921-1922.

Solicitor’s working notes from the office of Longueville and Co. [c. 1924] referring to land sales by Lord Harlech in Leitrim, Ireland, Borth-y-gest, Caernarfonshire, and the site of the ?Heroes Memorial Hall, and to Brogyntyn family settlements and trusts. Other families and individuals include St George, Willding, Ellis Jones, dec., Oswald Fox, Col. Campbell, Venables, J.H. ?Thin and Margarett Baugh, dec.

Acknowledgment by Humphrey Davies Owen to George Ralph Charles Baron Harlech for production of an indenture of conveyance of a piece of land in Borth-y-gest, used by him as a garden, 1924.

Reassignment by Martin Benson Lawford to George Ralph Charles Baron Harlech of a policy of assurance previously assigned to Edward Williams [Vaughan] in 1891 for securing payment of a mortgage on the estate in Leitrim, with a related letter by Lord Harlech attached, 1923.

A miscellaneous file relating to mortgages, trust moneys and sales of the Brogyntyn estate, 1885-1923. The contents include a security (mortgage) by George Ralph Charles Ormsby Gore to Edward Williams of Oswestry of all his property in the county of Leitrim, Ireland, a rent charge issuing from the same and a policy of assurance, 1885, and a reassignment to him of the policy of assurance, 1913; a similar mortgage dated 1891, a transfer by the executors of Edward Williams, lately Edward Williams Vaughan, to Martin Benson Lawford of Oswestry, 1902, and reassignment of the policy of assurance to George Ralph Charles Baron Harlech, 1923; an abstract of the title of George Ralph Charles Ormsby Gore, 1891; an indemnity to his father, William Richard Baron Harlech, from payment of £800 secured by bond to Edward Broughall, 1894; instructions to the Brogyntyn trustees to pay funds appointed to William George Arthur Ormsby Gore into Drummonds Bank, with receipts, 1913, and to pay compensation to the solicitors of Thomas Bryan relating to a land sale in Broniarth, 1921; and a list of Brogyntyn estate purchases at Oswestry sales and the sums payable on completion, 1921.