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Includes a lease by Sir Robert Owen of a smithy in Trefonnen, Oswestry, 1692; and agreements of Dame Margaret Owen relating to the leasing of Ruyton Park, 1698.

Papers relating to leases of The LInks in Twyford, West Felton, 1674, 1676, 1745-1763.

Valuations of the combined estates of Porkington in Shropshire, Broniarth in Montgomeryshire, and Llanddyn, Denbighshire, 1793, 1813.

Letters to William Owen, 1666, Sir Robert Owen, 1690, and Dame Margaret Owen, 1698-1709, William Owen, 1730-1765, Robert Godolphin Owen, 1777-1784, Owen Ormsby, 1793, 1796, William Ormsby-Gore, 1830-1843, and William Richard Ormsby-Gore, 1887, received from the agents of Brogyntyn and Llanddyn and from other individuals, sometimes accompanied by relevant letters from third parties. Recurrent subjects include the submission and payment of accounts; rent collection; leasing of properties; payment of chief rents, poor rate and taxes; debts on the estate of Sir Robert Owen; problems with the lease of Ruyton Park from Lord Craven, 1701-1705; the provision of commodities; sales of timber and livestock; fishing rights and the lease of Llynclys Pool from Lord Powis, 1740-1743; property purchases; and repairs to estate buildings.

Memorandum on the letting of the hay tithe in Brymbo, 1736, and papers relating to leases of houses in Brymbo and Wrexham, 1736, 1749.

Rentals and related papers for the of the Abertanat estate, 1711-1803, [c. 1949]; the Cemais estate, between 1747 and 1824; the Penrhos estate, 1824-1833; and the three combined Montgomeryshire estates, 1803-1846. The portions of the Abertanat estate lying in Llanyblodwel, Oswestry, Llanymynech and Llansanffraid-ym-Mechain do not feature in rentals later than 1746, and in 1766 they passed to another branch of the family under the terms of Margaret Godolphin's will. The remaining part of the estate, lying in Montgomeryshire, was called Broniarth. The Abertanat (Broniarth) rentals exhibit a regularity of format, with separate columns for arrears, land tax and expenses for repairs. The Cemais rentals show that John Owen was aready in possession by 1786. By the time of the 1801 rental he also owned the Montgmeryshire portion of Abertanat in Broniarth, inherited from his cousin, Robert Godolphin Owen (died 1792).

Rentals, lists of arrears and rent receipts, 1711, 1716, 1742-1747, of the Abertanat estate of Margaret Godolphin and until 1743, her sisters, Mary and Ellen.

Account books and a large number of loose bills and receipts, 1653-1829, deriving from administration of the estate of Abertanat (Broniarth), incorporating Moreton Hall, and of the Cemais and Penrhos estates, showing income from rents and duties; usual outgoings for tithes, chief rents, taxes, and other dues; profits from estate produce and livestock; occasional rentals; disbursements for repair and maintenance of buildings, purchase and carriage of commodities; employees' wages, agent's travelling expenses and subsistence.

Receipts for fee farm rents, chief rents and the tithes of Penrhos demesne, under its successive owners, Hugh and William Derwas, Richard and Elizabeth Lyster, Elizabeth Owen (née Lyster) and John Owen, 1653-1792.

Accounts and receipts for the Cemais estate of John Owen, 1808-1816, showing regular outgoings, church and poor rates, duty on keeping greyhounds and 'looking after the woods'.

Leases, 1785-1796, of properties including Cemais Mill, 1793, and the mansion and farm at Cemais, 1796.

Memorandum of a lease of Moreton Hall, alias Margaret Hall, [Weston Rhyn, St Martin's], property of Mary Owen, 1787.

Letters to [Col. William Owen?], [16]66, Sydney Godolphin, 1700-1728, Margaret Godolphin, 1717-1759, Arthur and William Owen, 1739, 1754, Mary Owen, 1776-1783, John Owen of Penrhos, 1789-1814, Owen Ormsby, 1794, and William Ormsby-Gore, 1842-1859, from tenants, solicitors and the agents of the Abertanat, Cemais and Penrhos estates, accompanied by occasional replies and relevant letters from third parties. The subject matter comprises mostly routine estate business, such as rent collection, leasing of properties, chief rents, taxes, tithes, submission of accounts, family and local news, problems encountered by agents and tenants, enclosures and encroachments on common land, particularly in Deuddwr and Broniarth, sale of crops and livestock, a sitting place in Llanymynech church, 1759, exploitation of timber and property repairs. Items of interest include fishing rights in Broniarth Pool, 1725-1728; Margaret Godolphin's intention to divert the River Tanat and a mill stream, 1733, 1737; the manorial courts of Cyfeiliog, 1754; consultation of the 1655 sessions rolls at Powis Castle in connection with property of John Owen at Broniarth, 1796; disputes over a sheepwalk on the Cemais estate of John Owen, 1806-1813; subscriptions to a new road from Meifod, 1807; and proposals for a railway near the Cemais estate, 1859. Some letters contain integral accounts.

A sketch and note relating to non-maintenance of a 'seam' (boundary embankment) in the river near Tanyllwyn; printed notices prohibiting fishing in the rivers Vyrnwy and Tanat, 1760; and an estimate for making a fish pool, [1801x1823].

Audited accounts of William Fetherston H[augh] for the Sligo and Mayo estates of William Ormsby-Gore, which include costs of evicting pauper tenants, 1847-1848, draining bog land and improving roads, 1849-1859.

Audited accounts of William Fetherston H[augh] for the Sligo, Mayo and Roscommon estates of Mary Jane Ormsby-Gore, which include costs of drainage and plantation work, 1852-1853.

Miscellaneous estate administration records, comprising crown land commissions, 1590-1650, accounts, 1601-1733, 1834-1837, lists of properties [17 cent., first quarter], letters, [c. 1638]-1938, a rental, 1760, agriculture, 1633-[18 cent., last quarter, gamekeeping, 1682, timber, 1741-1747, property surveys, valuations and sales, [c. 1794]-1894, and a list of papers, [post-1853], deriving from Moynes Court in Monmouthshire, Tetworth House and various other estates, mainly in Caernarfonshire, Shropshire, Berkshire, Hertfordshire and Cornwall.