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Rental of chief rents received for Mrs Ormsby Gore, lady of the manor of Broniarth, and for William Ormsby Gore, lord of the manor of Deuddwr, Montgomeryshire, due 1833 (Nov. 5) – 1882 (Michaelmas); and enclosures, 1872-[c. 1883]

Papers concerning mainly the Ereiniog Prepared Peat Fuel Works or the Ereiniog Prepared Peat and Brick Works, 1874-1880, but also including other items relating to parish matters in Cricieth and quarrying at Llanfrothen, 1871-1883. The main contents of the file comprise licences or take notes granted by John Ralph Ormsby Gore and William Richard Baron Harlech to Thomas Edward Davies of Bodenham, Herefordshire, then of Penmorfa, John Humphrey Jones of Portmadoc and George Percival Spooner to dig peat, turf, clay and sand at Ereiniog, Cefn Coch Ucha, Maesllech, Ynyswen and Hen Maesllech in the parishes of Penmorfa, Ynyscynhaearn and Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, Caernarfonshire, 1874-1878; an assignment of their interest to George James Barnard, and an agreement for the sale of the take note to William Augustus Beckles, trustee on behalf of a new company called Portmadoc Brick, Clay and Peat Works Limited, 1879; a notebook containing a survey and valuation of the peatland under Cefn Coch Ucha and Ereiniog, 1874; letters to Longueville and Co. from T.E. Davies, George Percival Spooner, G.J. Barnard of Portmadoc, W.R. Lawford of Glyn, John H. Jones of Portmadoc and Lord Harlech, 1874-1880, with occasional copies of replies; a map, 1876; and printed prospectuses of the Ereiniog Brick and Tile Company [post-1876], the West of England Compressed Peat Company Limited, 1878, Portmadoc Brick, Clay and Peat Peat Works, Limited [1879]. Other items include letters to Longueville and Co. from the rector, churchwarden and clerk of Cricieth respectively, about the provision of a new school classroom and an additional burial ground in the parish, 1871-1876; and a licence granted by William Richard Baron Harlech to John Parry, Arundel John Drew and Frederick William Jones to quarry slate under Hafod Ucha farm in the parish of Llanfrothen, Merioneth, 1883.

24 Dec. 1870, John Ralph Ormsby Gore and others to The Cambrian Ry Co. duplicate conveyance of lands in cos Mer. and Caern.; 2 Sept. 1873, Cambrian Railway Co. to The Trustees of the Marriage Settlement of John Ralph. Ormsby Gore, conveyance of land at Barmouth; 19 Dec. 1882, Cambrian Railway Co. to Trustees of Brogyntyn Settled Estates, coveyance of land at Barmouth.

Agreement by William Richard Baron Harlech for the sale of Hafodwen, Llanfor, to William Ellis, with an accompanying letter from the purchaser, and a draft conveyance of Hafodwen Bach to Robert Vaughan Jones, 1882.

Deeds relating to a cottage and three pieces of land sited within the liberties of the township of Oswestry, purchased by Lord Harlech’s trustees from James Payne, 1811-1882. The file includes a conveyance by Edward, Earl of Powis and John Probert, trustees of George Edward Henry Arthur, Earl of Powis, dec. to Thomas Payne, of the western parts of fields (named), formerly Oerley Hall lands, 1811; mortgages of the messuage and garden, and the Brick Field and Little Field by members of the Payne family firstly to John Tomkies, shoemaker, 1840, assigned to Janet Bentley, 1841, secondly to Ann Broughall, 1882, and thirdly to Henry Davies, 1882; copy wills of Thomas Payne of the Brick Kilns, 1834, and William Payne, 1874 (died 1876); the declaration of Ann Thomas, wife of Andrew Thomas of Portland Place, Lord Street, Oswestry, witness to the (now lost) will of Ann Rogers (nee Payne), concerning the three pieces of land, 1882; an abstract of title of the devisees under the will of William Payne, 1840-1882; and the conveyance by the mortgagees and James Payne of Oswestry to the trustees of the Brogyntyn settled estates, 1882.

Licence or take note granted by John Ralph Ormsby Gore to William Skinner Searell of Tremadoc, Caernarfonshire, 1875; a lease by the Brogyntyn trustees and William Richard Baron Harlech to William Skinner Searell and John Francis of quarries, slates, slabs, minerals, etc. under lands forming part of the farm of Fron Oleu in the parish of Penmorfa, 1877; and letters from W.S. Searell and W. R. Lawford of Glyn, 1881.

Draft re-settlement by William Richard Baron Harlech and his eldest son, George Ralph Charles Ormsby Gore, of the Brogyntyn estates in England, Wales and Ireland, and of heirlooms and trust moneys, 1881.

Deeds and documents labelled ‘Hon. Mrs Kenyon re 5 Halkin Street’, which include particulars and conditions of sale, a draft letting agreement by Fanny Mary Katherine Kenyon, 1879, a draft assignment of her leasehold properties in Middlesex to trustees in contemplation of her marriage to Rev. Thomas Mainwaring Bulkeley Owen of Tedsmore Hall, 1880; letters to Dean and Taylor from Fanny Bulkeley Owen, Longueville and Co., representatives of Belgrave Auction House, Tyrell Lewis and Co., and Burrows and Barnes, discussing the possibility of a prosecution or other legal solution to the nuisance caused by a furnace belonging to the neighbouring London and Provincial Dairy Company Limited, and the potential loss to Mrs Bulkeley Owen of her purchaser, J.B. St Croix Crosse, 1881; a sketch elevation of the furnace; a draft writ; and copy undertaking by the Dairy Company to abate the nuisance, 1881.

A lease, licences and agreement by Mary Jane Ormsby Gore and William Richard Baron Harlech respectively, of slates and minerals under the farm of Ty Cerrig in the parish of Penmorfa, Caernarfonshire, 1864-1880. The lessees include William Jones of Portmadoc, 1864, Samuel Boyd Barnett of Maida Vale, Middlesex, William Berkeley Beatty of Kensington, 1865, and George Ross of Cornhill, London, 1877, 1880. Map incorporated, 1865.

Roll recording leasehold property [of the Brogyntyn estate] in Caernarfonshire and Merioneth from 1858 to 1880

Original bundle of numbered vouchers from the Glyn estate, Merioneth, of William Richard Ormsby Gore, second Baron Harlech, 1879-1880. Includes monthly totals of pay sheets for the estate, farm, woods, game, gardens, house, warren, school and incidental costs, February 1879 – January 1880.

Letters to John Jones of Longueville and Co. from Fanny Mary Katherine Kenyon, widow of Lloyd Kenyon, concerning the financial predicament after her non-inclusion in her husband’s will and fraud by her cook, together with a press cutting, 1880, calculations of her entitlements to a jointure and to bequests under the will of her father, Lord Harlech, in 1876.

Miscellaneous bundle containing mainly letters addressed or forwarded to Longueville and Co. from John Ralph Ormsby Gore, William Richard Ormsby Gore, William Ryder of Cemais, the London Joint Stock Bank, Thomas Savin, W.W. Wagstaff of Plas Vivod, Benjamin Ferrey, Richard Easton of Taunton, Mary P. Carew of Crowcombe Court, Sarah Ormsby Gore at Glyn, Griffith Jones Williams of Dolgellau, the Office of Woods, Thomas Davies of Sarney, Edward Jones of Penrhos and Oliver Richards of Regent Street, (Watermark 1871)-1880, concerning estate matters such as enclosure, land ownership and trespass, notably at Gyrn Common, Farchynys Fach, Borth-y-gest and Llechwedd-du Bach near Harlech, finance and investments, legal matters, new works at the Mawddwy railway bridge (with plan), the brick yard and colliery at Oswestry and Whittington, insurance claims for restoration following a fire at Brogyntyn in 1874, a site for the cottage hospital at Llangollen, and Mr [?J.E.] Parry’s illness. The file also includes a rough pedigree of the children of William Richard Ormbsy Gore [post-1863]; a memorandum on charges on the Brogyntyn estates; an analysis of the will of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore, 1869; a lease agreeement for a cottage at Cefnfach, Salop, 1870; a deed for the transfer of stocks and shares by the executor of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore to the Brogyntyn trustees, 1871; a notice by the Mawddwy Railway Company of land required at Cemais, Montgomeryshire (with plan), 1874; accounts with Benjamin Ferrey for alterations and additions to Brogyntyn Hall, 1874; legal papers from a prosecution by Thomas Henry Wright Anderson against Lord Harlech for debt, 1880; and a map showing a pencilled-in boundary of lands near Cwmbodlyn, Llanenddwyn.

Assignment by Thomas Edward Davies, George Percival Spooner and John Humphrey Jones to George James Barnard under a licence or take note granted by William Richard Lord Harlech to discover, work, convert and manufacture into naphtha charcoal, fuel and other similar products and to sell and dispose of clay, brick-earth, sand, etc., under the farms of Ereniog, Cefn Coch Uchaf, Maes Llech, Ynyswen and Hen Maes Llech in the parishes of Penmorfa and Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, Caernarfonshire, 1879, together with the licence to assign, Longueville’s charges for legal services and relevant letters

Marriage settlement of William Michael Tufnell of Chelmsford, Essex, and Eliza Isabella Tyrell, daughter of Sir John Tyssen Tyrell of Boreham House, Essex, 1841.

Agreements and particulars of lease by and to Mary Jane Ormsby Gore and William Richard Baron Harlech for an encroachment at Cefngwyn farm near Traeth Bach, Llanfihangel-y-traethau, Merioneth, 1861, Tetworth House, Sunninghill, Berkshire, 1863, and a building plot at Cricieth, Caernarfonshire, 1879.

Papers relating to Dinbren and Siamber Wen in the parish of Llangollen, 1848-1879. The file contains a rental and accounts of the estate of Frederick R. West in Denbighshire and St Martins, Salop, 1848-1849; agreements and letters to West’s agent, F.W. Smith of Greenfield Lodge, Chirk, Roger Roberts of Plas Ucha, Eglwysegl, and C. Richards of Llangollen, by John Roberts of Tilstock, Edward Roberts of Llangollen, Ellis Jones of Dinbren, John Jones of Rhewl, Llandysilio, and the prospective purchaser Richard Jones of Bellan, concerning the troublesome arrangements for the new tenancy of Dinbren Farm, Llangollen, and recompense to the outgoing tenant, Ellis Jones, 1849-1850; and letters to Lord Harlech’s agent, W.R. Lawford, from Henry Robertson of Pale, Corwen, about the tenancy and improvements to Siamber Wen, Llangollen, home of his partially disabled brother, Dr Robertson, 1879.

Papers labelled ‘Borth y gest ejectment’ from a case in the High Court of Justice (Exchequer Division) which includes a statement of claim by William Watkin Edward Wynne and other trustees of the Brogyntyn estate, plts, against William Williams Jones, deft, concerning the deft’s refusal to give up a property called Craigydon at Borth-y-gest and a piece of land which was appropriated to make a wharf, 1877-1879. The file contains a list of building leases granted between 1858 and 1874; letters to Longueville and Co. from Jones and Jones of Portmadoc, Lord Harlech and John Charles Burton Borough, 1877; tracings of plots in Mersey Street and Ralph Street; and particulars of building leases, 1878.

Lease by Mary Jane Ormsby Gore to William Roberts of Hen Gapel, of a piece of land in Beddgelert [adjoining the Glaslyn River] with houses erected or to be erected thereon, with plan in margin, and counterpart, 1868; and authorisation to Robert Roberts (altered to Humphrey Roberts) to mortgage the premises, 1878.

Bundle vaguely labelled ‘Old papers taken out of old lease book’ which relate to Caernarfonshire and Merioneth properties of the Brogyntyn estate, 1847-1878. The file contains a receipt for the sale of materials at the toll house, Brynyrefail, 1847; papers relating to crown rents in Caernarfonshire and Merioneth, including letters of J.E. Parry and the Office of Woods, schedules of rents and a deed for the purchase of the crown rents by the Brogyntyn trustees, all wrapped in a printed sale notice of property at Harlech, 1858-1878; a request and plan for a new house at Pant Dwr Oer, Beddgelert, 1873; the petition of Edward Lloyd concerning Harlech Lletty mines, 1875; a list of shareholders in Penmorfa Sett Quarry, 1876; a list of leases from Mrs Ormsby Gore of building land at Borth-y-gest and other places, commencing 1858-1874; leases, plans, and letters mainly by W.R. Lawford relating to Clenennau Mill, 1869, 1874, building plots and a site for schools at Borth-y-gest in the parish of Ynyscynhaearn, plots at Cricieth and at Porkington Terrace and Caefadog in Barmouth, showing the position of the railway line, Mynydd Gorllwyn in the parish of Llanaber, and the stone quarries at Fron Oleu, Portmadoc, 1858-1878; and a list of charges by Longueville and Co. with reference to a lease from Lord Harlech, 1877.