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Title deeds, which appear to relate to two separate parts of a property called Pentre David in the parish of Selatyn, Salop, 1707-1827. One part, together with Hen Plassey, was purchased by the Brogyntyn trustees from Frederick West in 1827, and the other, Pentre David Farm, had been purchased from Thomas Jackson in 1822

Deeds relating to land in Oswestry purchased from the trustees of Rice Roberts, 1810-1827. They include a conveyance by Sir Stapleton Cotton of Combermere Abbey, Cheshire, Bart, son and heir of Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, to Rice Roberts of Oswestry, of two pieces of land and all the trees, saplings, etc. thereon, formerly part of the estate of Watkin Williams of Penbedw; 1810, with a copy of the particulars of freehold estates in Whittington, Oswestry and Ruabon, for sale by auction, 1809; a mortgage by Rice Roberts to Martha Lloyd of Knockin, 1810; an extract from the will of Rice Roberts [1821, proved 1826]; an affidavit and letters relative to the baptism of Lord Combermere, 1827, and copies of marriage, baptism and burial records of the Williams family of Penbedw, Denbighshire, 1741-1825; the abstract of title of the trustees for sale named in the will of the late Rice Roberts, 1741-1826; and the conveyance by Richard Roberts and other trustees, Elizabeth Roberts, widow, and Martha Lloyd, mortgagee of Rice Roberts, to William Ormsby Gore of Porkington, Mary Jane his wife and their trustees, of the two pieces of land, one called Cae Pepper or Bigfield and the other also called Cae Pepper or Meadow with a plan incorporated, 1827.

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.

Porkington game book, recording game shot, August 1822- April 1828.

Deeds relating to two messuages and lands in the parish of Selatyn purchased from John Lloyd, 1805-1829. The file includes a feoffment by William Lloyd of Aston to Robert Lloyd of Selatyn, 1805; the will of Robert Lloyd, 1806, proved 1810; a final concord naming John Lloyd and Ann his wife as deforciants, 1828; official reports, orders, etc. issued by the High Court of Chancery in connection with the purchase, describing the properties as contiguous to Porkington demesne on the north side, 1828-1829; and deeds of sale by John Lloyd of Oswestry, Ann his wife and William Lloyd of Aston to the trustees of William Ormsby Gore and Mary Jane his wife, of the two messuages and lands, and the timber thereon, with plan incorporated, 1829.

Deeds relating to The Parados estate in the township of Porkington in the parish of Selatyn, purchased by the Brogyntyn trustees, 1748-1829. The file includes disentailing deeds for the estate of John Hughes of Porkington, followed by a mortgage to Peter Basnet of Wikey, 1748; another mortgage to Richard Meredeth, assigned to Hugh Owen of Woodhouse in trust, 1754; an assignment of the mortgage to William Edwards of Pentrewern, 1760, assignment of the remaining term of years to John Arther of Pentrewern in trust, 1760, and a release by John Hughes and Elizabeth his wife to William Edwards of the equity of redemption, 1763; probate of the will of Richard Hughes of Holborn Bridge, London, 1797; deeds by Richard Boodle and Theresa his wife, surviving daughter of Richard Hughes, Alexander Green Boughton, her son by her first husband, and Richard Edwards [surviving heir of William Edwards] and by Mary Rogers the elder, Thomas Rogers and Mary his wife, for suffering a joint recovery of The Parados estate and a messuage at Pentreclever, 1822; affidavits on the redemption of the mortgage and the title, 1823, 1828; a lease agreement by Alexander Green Boughton of Oswestry, 1824; two mortgages by Alexander Green Boughton, then of Manchester, to John Jones of Oswestry, 1827; a final concord and deed declaring joint uses of the fine, of The Parados to the use of Alexander Green Boughton and of other properties in the parish of St Martin to the use of Thomas Davies of Ruabon, then to his wife, Elizabeth, 1829; official reports, orders, etc. issued by the High Court of Chancery, 1828-1829; a list of deeds, 1829; the deeds of sale by John Jones of Oswestry (mortgagee), Sarah Upjohn (widow of Richard Hughes’s trustee), Alexander Green Boughton and John Hayward (trustee), to the Brogyntyn trustees to be settled to the uses of the settled estates of William Ormsby Gore and Mary Jane his wife, with a plan incorporated, 1829, and assignment of the remaining term of years by John Boodle and Mary his wife (daughter of John Arther) to Septimius Burton in trust for Thomas Netherton Parker and David Pennant, the Brogyntyn trustees, 1829

Miscellaneous deeds and other papers relating to lands belonging to the Brogyntyn estate, situated in Salop, Wales, London and Cornwall 1729-1830. The file contains abstracts of the marriage settlements of William Owen and Mary Godolphin, 1730, and of Owen Ormsby and Margaret Owen, 1776; abstracts of title of William Owen (3) to lands in Salop, Caernarfonshire, Denbighshire and Merioneth, 1626-1728, compiled 1729, of Mary Jane Ormsby to a leasehold messuage in Welbeck Street, Marylebone, with the stables and coach house in Easley Mews, 1760-1806, compiled [c.1810], and of Elizabeth Owen to the estate at Trewylan, Montgomeryshire, 1659-1748, purchased from John Pryce in 1748; attested copies received from Mr Jackson in 1778, of marriage settlements and associated documents of Edward Owen and Meryell Greaves, daughter of Sir Richard Greaves, 1629, Robert Owen and Mary Edisbury, 1651, Edward Owen and Sarah Cotton, 1681, and Edward Owen of Woodhouse, 1730, and an agreement by William Owen of Woodhouse to convey to Thomas Baugh the messuage of Pentre David, Selatyn, 1777; and papers from the termination of the tenancies of William Symons and William Williams on a field called Trecanpraze, Parkan Praze or Park Chapell in the parish of Sithney in the manor of Peventon, Cornwall, implemented by Arundel Rogers, agent for the Brogyntyn trustees, 1828-1830.

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.

Feoffment by John Evans of Knockin, Salop, to Edward Evans of Trewern, Montgomeryshire and his trustee, of a messuage at the Upper Green in the townships of Melverley and Tir-y-coed in the parishes of Melverley and Kinnerley, to the uses and trusts of the will of the feoffor’s father, Evan Evans of Melverley, dec., which was deemed void and ineffectual in law, 1833.

Miscellaneous loose papers comprising an abstract of the title of the late William Penn to an estate at Brentwood, Essex, 1616-1756, with opinion thereon; case and opinion on the will of J.K. (sic) made in 1813, which includes bequests to her grandson W.G., 1817; certificate dated 1822 of the burials at West Felton of Richard Cotton of Rednall, 1770, Margaret Rosser of Grimpo, 1797, and Mary Lloyd of Oswestry, 1806; valuation of two cottages, the property of John Jones, and a field belonging to William Ormsby Gore for the purpose of exchanging, 1833; and a fragment of ‘Plan B’ showing the township of Weston Lullingfields [mid-19th cent]

Soft-back volume titled ‘Rental and account, chief and fee farm rents due to William Ormsby Gore Esquire as Lord of the Manor of Deytheur in the county of Montgomery commencing 5th November 1823’ and showing the payments due up to Michaelmas 1835.

Cash book of the Penrhos estate, Montgomeryshire, showing payments mostly for routine estate work, 1833-1836. Points of interest include a rent paid to to the curate of Penrhos Chapel for the rector, and repair of the conservatory.

Cash book of the Porkington (Brogyntyn) estate, showing payments mostly for routine estate work, charity and rates, 1833-1839. Points of interest include schooling six children and gowns for the poor at Llangollen, repairs to the malt kiln at Whittington, making bricks at Drenewydd, and pews in the churches of Llandysilio and Llangollen.

Deeds relating to property purchased from Joseph Griffiths at the Brick Fields in the parishes of Oswestry and Selatyn, 1783-1840. They comprise two feoffments to Richard Griffiths the younger, bricklayer, the first by Edward Wynne Evans, of land lately enclosed out of the commons in the manor of Whittington, 1783, the second by George Edward Henry Arthur Herbert Earl of Powis and Rev. John Robert Lloyd of Aston, of three pieces of land adjoining the turnpike road over Cernybwch from Oswestry to Llansilin, with plan incorporated, 1788; a lease by Joseph Griffiths of Wrexham to John Beard of Oswestry, of three houses and gardens and a brick yard, 1840; a declaration of Mary, wife of John Beard, daughter of Richard Griffiths, 1840; and the conveyance by Joseph Griffiths to William Ormsby Gore of a total of five messuages and the brickyard which were formerly purchased by Richard Griffiths, father of the vendor, 1840.

Bundle labelled ‘Deeds relating to land at Selatyn purchased from Peploe Cartwright by the trustee of the will of Ellen Owen’ but also containing deeds described on the inner label as ‘Purchase from Commissioners under Inclosure Act’, 1810-1842, referring to two purchases by Mary Jane Ormsby of portions of common land in the parish of Llanfihangel-y-traethau, Merioneth, bordering the parish of Llanfair, the first bounded by the farms of Plas Ucha and Moel y Glo, 1810, the other being part of Moelgoedog, 1812 (other boundaries described); also a conveyance by the trustees under the will of Watkin Williams of Penbedw to Mary Jane Ormsby, of a parcel of former common land in Middleton, Oswestry, bounded by the road leading out of the road from Wootton to Oswestry and from Middleton to the Milehouse (other boundaries given) 1813; and a conveyance by Mary Jane Ormsby of Porkington to her trustees of the lands comprised in the three previous deeds, 1813. The remaining items comprise two mortgages of the Allotment, formerly part of the commons in the parish of Selatyn, by Peploe Cartwright of Oswestry, firstly to Edward Lloyd of Llangollen, 1831, secondly to Ann Humphreys of Berghill, 1835; and a conveyance by Peploe Cartwright, with his mortgagee and trustee, to Sir Robert Williames Vaughan, surviving trustee of the will of Ellen Owen of Porkington, on behalf on William Ormsby Gore and Mary Jane his wife, and an assignment of the term of years to Septimius Burton, 1842; a schedule of title deeds; abstract of the acts of Parliament in 1777 and 1780 for enclosing the commons and waste lands in the manor of Whittington and of the award in 1784 made to Edward Peplow (sic); abstract of the mortgages, 1831-1835; and abstract of the title of Peploe Cartwright, 1732-1823, with an opinion thereon, 1842. Plans incorporated

Drenewydd estate and Willow Street [Oswestry] rentals, Salop, Sept. 1836 - Jan. 1842. Front cover embossed 'Cash'. Back cover embossed ‘Bills’.

Rental of arrears due on the Porkington (Brogyntyn) estate in Salop and Montgomeryshire at Lady Day and Michaelmas, 1841, with enclosure, 1842

Copy marriage settlement of John Ralph Ormsby Gore of Portland Place, Middlesex, and Sarah Tyrell of Boreham House, Essex, 1844.

Deeds relating to four messuages in Willow Street, Oswestry, bought from Walter Price and others, 1678-1840, 1844. The file includes successive feoffments of a single cottage or burgage and a pew in Oswestry church by Edward Kyffin of Edgerley to Roger Thornes of Kayhowell, 1678, by Edward Thornes of Shotatton and his son Thomas Thornes to Richard Griffiths of Oswestry, 1735-1736, and by William Griffiths to his sister Elizabeth Griffiths, 1739; a purchase deed from Edward Knowles of Denbigh to Nathaniel Price, of three messuages in Willow Street and two pews in the north aisle of Oswestry parish church, 1771; mortgages by Henry Price to William Batterbee of Sutton, West Felton, of four newly erected houses and two pews, 1813, and by Elizabeth Price, Richard Borroughs and other family members to Thomas Price, 1835; the wills (mainly copies) of Roger Thornes of Edgerley, 1679, Nathaniel Price of Oswestry, 1790, William Batterbee of Grimpo, West Felton, 1823, and Henry Price of Oswestry, 1826, proved 1835; a schedule of Henry Price’s deeds, 1678-1827; the declaration of David Price of Oswestry, 1840; extracts taken in 1840 from parish registers of Oswestry and Ellemere recording baptisms and burials of the Price and Burroughs families, 1752-1840; a conveyance by Nathaniel Price to Walter Price of his two fourth parts of the properties, 1840, and the conveyance by Thomas Price, John Clark and Sarah his wife, Edward Vaughan and Sarah his wife, and Walter Price and Ann his wife (nee Clark), devisees under the will of Henry Price, to William Ormsby Gore and his trustee of all four dwelling houses and gardens, 1840

Deeds relating to Mount Pleasant in the parish of Selatyn, and three pieces of land enclosed out of the common called Gyrn y Bwch in the manor of Whittington, 1784-1824, endorsed 1844. They include copies [1824] of the Act for dividing and inclosing the commons or waste lands within the Manor of Whittington in the county of Salop, 1777; an attested copy of the Selatyn enclosure award and an abstract of the award to Robert Hale late of Copthorn, then of Penrhyn, Caernarfonshire, 1784; a mortgage by Robert Hale of the three allotments, 1785; a purchase deed from Robert Hale then of Spring Gardens Middlesex and Elizabeth Freeman his wife to George Stoakes of Oswestry, 1788; deeds for the sale by George Stoakes to Mary Jones of her dwelling house called Mount Pleasant and the three parcels of former common land, 1790; a copy and extract of the will of Mary Jones, 1796-1797; attested copies of three family deeds involving Pryce Jones of Cofronydd, Matthew Jones and Margaret Jones, children of Mary Jones, 1797, 1802, 1812, including the marriage settlement of Rev. Evan Lewis of Llanfair Caereinion and Margaret Jones, 1802; the will of William Jameson of Oswestry [trustee of the term of 500 years in the mortgage] 1794, proved 1818; a conveyance by the assignees of Matthew Jones, bankrupt, dec., to Thomas Parry Jones Parry of Madryn, Caernarfonshire, an assignment by David Jameson of the term of 500 years, and covenants for the production of deeds, 1819; abstracts of title of Richard Pryce, Richard Edmunds and George Gould, assignees of Matthew Jones, 1784-1814, and of Thomas Parry Jones Parry, 1823; affidavits by Pryce Jones and Margaret Lewis (nee Jones), and by Richard Pryce, George Gould and John Davies Corrie, 1824; deeds of sale by Thomas Parry Jones Parry to William Ormsby Gore of Porkington and his trustee, and an assignment of the residue of the term of years to Septimus Burton of Lincolns Inn, 1824; and a schedule of the deeds and documents relative to the title of Mount Pleasant [1824]