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Counterpart of a lease by Margaret Ormsby then living at Great Stanhope Street in the parish of St George Hanover Square, to Col. Thomas Bowser, of Canister House in the parish of Datchet, Buckinghamshire, with agent’s bill and receipt, 1805.

Volume containing copies of the wills of Herny Godolphin, Provost of the College of Eton, 1730, with codicil, 1731, proved 1732; Ellen Godolphin of Holles Street, Marylebone, Middlesex, 1754; Francis Earl of Godolphin, 1763, with codicils, 1764, 1765, proved 1766; Francis Lord Godolphin, with codicil, 1784, proved 1785; Ellen Owen of Porkington, 1796; and Margaret Ormsby of Porkington, 1805. At the back there are cases and opinions on the wills of Henry Godolphin and Francis Godolphin, 1785-1802.

Volume containing a copy of the will of Margaret Ormsby of Porkington and Stanhope Street, Middlesex, 1805, proved 1806, and the account of Thomas James Warren Viscount Bulkeley, Sir Robert Williams Vaughan and David Pennant, executors, with Miss Mary Jane Ormsby, her daughter and residuary legatee, and duplicate.

Rental of the Cemais and Darowen estate [of John Owen of Penrhos] which after his death became part of the Brogyntyn estate, 1795-1805, with observations to 1806.

The manuscript catalogue of Porkington (Brogyntyn) Library, arranged by John Broster of Chester, 1809, has a fine illuminated frontispiece incorporating the arms of Margaret Owen, wife of Owen Ormsby for whom it was made. It appears to be the earliest surviving complete catalogue of the Library. An introductory ‘Plan of the Catalogue’ explains the arrangement and gives instructions for the insertion of new books. Each page lists up to twenty-five titles. Some entries post-date the first compilation, up to 1812.

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

Title deeds relating to purchases by Mary Jane Ormsby of Skybor Issa and land at Middleton in the parishes of Selatyn and Oswestry, Salop, 1790-1813.

Documents relating to a piece of land in Porkington Upper in the parish of Selatyn, enclosed out of the commons in the manor of Whittington and alloted to Elizabeth Walters, sold to Richard Bickerton and later purchased from William Bickerton by Mary Jane Ormsby, 1813-1814. The file contains an abstract of the enclosure award made to Elizabeth Walters in 1784, an abstract of title of William Bickerton and his trustee, Rev, John Whitridge, 1784-1813, and solicitors’ letters, 1813-1814

Documents relating to part of Penybryn Farm in the parish of Cricieth, above the old high road from Penmorfa to Pwllheli, purchased from William Wynne of Peniarth, 1813-1814. The file contains printed particulars of sale of Penybryn and other estates in Deneio, Llanystumdwy, Criceith, Llanllyfni, Bodfean and Llandygwnning, Caernarfonshire, 1813; pedigrees showing the descent of William Wynne from John Vaughan and Ellen his wife; and abstracts of the title of William Wynne to part of Penybryn and to Cefn y Maen in the parishes of Cricieth and Llanystumdwy, 1685-1811, with lawyer’s opinions subscribed, 1813-1814.

Manuscript catalogue of plays in the collection at Brogyntyn compiled by William Ormsby Gore, dated February 24, 1815, which has a double arrangement. The first part has the plays alphabetically arranged. The second part has the list of authors with the productions of each.

Manuscript ‘Catalogue of Old Plays’ in the collection at Brogyntyn [?c. 1815], which has a double arrangement. The first part has the Plays alphabetically arranged. The second part has the list of authors with the productions of each

A description (perambulation) of the manor of Broniarth, Montgomeryshire in brown paper cover, 1773; Broniarth rent book, with enclosures, 1798-1812; accounts of rents received by Mr Llewellyn and Richard Croxon for John Owen, 1811-1816, with numerous vouchers, mainly for carriage of coal, chief rents and landlord’s property tax received from George Morgan, Elizabeth Edwards, Thomas Edwards, Elizabeth Roberts, Richard Allen, William Allen and others, 1808-1816. Accounts of interest include repairs at Pentre Biarth, 1811-1812, the attendance of Richard Daniel, bailiff, at the court leet of the manor of Broniarth, 1812-1813, and a blacksmith’s account from William Jones, 1815. The file also contains a notice to John Owen by Henry Bowman, commissioner appointed for the enclosure of lands in the manors of Llanfyllin and Mechain Uwch Coed of his intention to perambulate the boundary of part of the manor of Mechain Uwch Coed, 1812; and two lease agreements by John Owen of Penrhos for a messuage with the garden called Lord Cobham’s, Guilsfield, 1811, and for a farm in Guilsfield, 1814.

Lease by William Ormsby Gore and Mary Jane his wife to Rev. Owen Owen of Bodowen, Merioneth, of a farm called Farch Ynys Fach in the parish of Llanaber, 1818.

Deeds relating to land in Porkington in the parish of Selatyn, purchased by the Brogyntyn trustees from John Basnett of Tinkers Green, Whittington, later of the Ffron Lodge, 1810-1819. The file includes a feoffment by William Lloyd of Aston to John Basnett and his trustee, of the sites of former cottages and of a house newly erected by John Basnett, 1810; a mortgage by John Basnett to Mary Jones of the property called Bank House, 1812, followed by an assignment to William Issard of Oswestry, 1814; a conveyance by Edward Birch of Oswestry, Ann Llewelyn of Oswestry and Christopher Llewelyn of Llanymynech to John Basnett, of another messuage in Porkington, 1816, with a schedule of deeds annexed, 1741-1805; a conveyance by John Basnett and his trustee to William Ormsby Gore, Mary Jane his wife and the trustees of the will of Ellen Owen, and an assignment of the terms of years comprised in the mortgage to William Issard, with plan incorporated, 1817; an assignment by Milward Rogers, representative of Henry Jones (previous assignee in trust for Edward Birch) to Thomas Hill Mortimer of two terms of years comprised in previous mortgages, 1817; a draft conveyance by William Lloyd, 1819 (see endorsement); abstracts of title of John Basnett to Bank House and to the property purchased in 1816, together with lists of deeds, a map of Fron Lodge, 1816, accounts from Childs Bank, 1817, and solicitors’ correspondence, 1817-819, stating that John Basnett was in the county gaol for debt

Parcel labelled ‘Miscellaneous’ containing six bundles of documents with original labels, 1767-1819. The first, labelled ‘Sundry Cases, Statements, etc. received from Mr Mortimer’ contains a case for the opinion of Mr Kenyon on the customs for paying and the entitlement of Robert Godolphin Owen to receive rents out of the Merioneth and Caernarfonshire estates after the death of William Owen, 1767; a writ commanding Robert Godolphin Owen, late sheriff of Merioneth, to transfer official documents to his successor Rice James, 1769; Brogyntyn estate accounts and particulars of Edward Thomas’s cottage, 1788-1793; a bond and papers from a lawsuit by William Relph of Dublin and Mary his wife (otherwise Beckett), plts, against Owen Ormsby, deft, concerning a debt claimed by the plts under the marriage settlement of Francis Ormsby in 1716, and a copy of an amended bill, Dalley vs Ormsby, 1794; an abstract of the will of Owen Ormsby, 1804, and draft will of Mary Jane Ormsby, 1810; the London Gazette, 14 Jan. 1815, reporting that William Gore was to take the name Ormsby in addition to Gore, 1815; a case and opinion on an action of ejectment (not specified), 1815; and a letter to Thomas Hill Mortimer from Mary Jane Ormsby Gore requesting an Act of Parliament to sell or exchange property, with a list of relevant deeds and witnesses, 1819.
The other five bundles relate to purchases by Mary Jane and William Ormsby Gore and the trustees under the will of Ellen Owen, of properties in Porkington and Selatyn including the Fron, Cernybwch and the Hills, and other allotments of former common land, from [John] Basnett, Edward Williams, George Henry Warrington, the trustees of Rev. Daniel Griffiths, Walter Williams and James Thomas, 1808-1819. They include abstracts of the titles of the vendors and of William Lloyd, lord of the manors of Whittington and Middleton, agreements, draft conveyances, abstracts of individual deeds, schedules of deeds, solicitors’ correspondence, accounts, bills for legal expenses and receipts; and a description of the intended road from the Lodge to Chirk Bank (in bundle for James Thomas)

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.

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

Lease by William Ormsby Gore and Mary Jane his wife to Robert Roberts, of Oswestry, plumber and glazier, of a plot of ground in Willow Street adjoining the New Theatre, for the manufacture of gas, 1820.

Title deeds relating to a farm house and lands in the township of Porkington in the parish of Selatyn, Salop, purchased by the Brogyntyn trustees from David Jameson of Oswestry, 1808-1820

Documents relating to a farm house, buildings and lands in the township of Porkington in the parish of Selatyn, originally enclosed from the commons, previously belonging to William Lloyd of Aston and John Arthur Lloyd of Croesmere, purchased by the trustees of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore from David Jameson, 1819-1820. The file includes queries and observations on the title; the opinion and instructions of Robert Walters (Watermark 1819); abstracts and supplemental abstracts of the titles of William Lloyd, 1754-1810, John Arthur Lloyd, 1708-1809, and David Jameson, 1680-1810; a letter from David Jameson and solicitors’ correspondence, 1819-1820; and a plan of the land.