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Game book of George Ormsby Gore, August 1882- January 1895. Verse pasted onto front flyleaf.

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.

Game book of George Ormsby Gore, August 1895 –January 1907. Bookplates of George Ralph Charles Ormsby Gore, 3rd Baron Harlech, inside front cover.

Administrative records of the estates of Lea Hall in Preston Gubbals, Shropshire, and the Brymbo estate near Wrexham, Denbighshire, previously in the ownership of Richard Clayton, comprising rentals and accounts, 1586, 1710-1743, 1750, memoranda of leases, 1736-1749, and miscellaneous estate administration papers, 1684-1739.

Receipts for payment by Robert Gryffyth of the tithes of Brymbo and Minera, 1586.

Bills and receipts, 1586, 1711-1743, 1750, and rentals and estate accounts, 1710-1734, for the Lea Hall estate in Preston Gubbals, Shropshire, and the Brymbo estate near Wrexham. They include some interesting items relating to equine management and horticulture.

Rentals, 1710, 1734, and estate accounts for 1716-1723, which include a rental for 1722, of the Lea Hall and Brymbo estates in the successive ownership of Richard Clayton and Arthur Owen.

Bills and receipts of Richard and Mary Clayton, 1711-1726, for miscellaneous items including horse medicines, 1711-1720, horse shoeing, other blacksmith work, saddlery and dog harness, 1718-1719, 1721; brewing ingredients, 1719-1720; vegetable seeds and plants, 1719; timber work, 1719-1722; domestic and horticultural glazing, 1717-1719; and building work at Preston Gubbals, Merrington, Minera mill and Brymbo, 1720-1724.

Bills and receipts of Arthur and Mary Owen, 1728-1743, for various items, including fruiting and ornamental trees, 1728; joinery in the house and at Minera mill, 1730-1738; work done to a well at Brymbo, 1733, 1738; domestic and horticultural glazing, 1735, 1737; and building repairs at Wrexham, 1738.

Memoranda of agreements on behalf of Arthur Owen of Brymbo for leases of the tithe corn in the townships of Cheswardine, Sowdley, Sambrooke, Ellerton and Goldstone, Shropshire, 1736.

Memoranda of leases and agreements concerning tithes and properties on the Lea Hall and Brymbo estates, 1736-1737, 1749.

Miscellaneous papers deriving from administration of the Lea Hall and Brymbo estates, comprising mining and timber industry records at Brymbo, 1684-1738, a terrier, [18 cent., first half, and correspondence, 1736, 1739.

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

An agreement of Robert Griffith, relating to coal extraction in Brymbo, 1684; leases to Arthur Owen of lead mines in the same place, 1737-1738; and an agreement for the sale to Arthur Owen of standing oak trees, 1733.

A terrier of the lands and profits belonging to the vicarage of Cheswardine [Lea Hall Estate held the tithes].

Letters to Arthur Owen and his wife, Mary, concerning the rent of a meadow and the sale of coal, 1736, 1739.

Records deriving from administration of the Abertanat estate, mainly in Broniarth, Guilsfield, Llansanffraid-ym-Mechain and Llandysilio in Montgomeryshire, together with the parishes of Llanyblodwel, Oswestry and Llanymynech in Shropshire, and Llangedwyn in Denbighshire; the Penrhos estate in Llandrinio, Guilsfield, Llandysilio and Llansanffraid-ym-Mechain; and the Cemais estate in Cemais, Darowen, Trefeglwys and Machynlleth. The records comprise rentals, 1711-1846, [c. 1949], accounts, 1653-1829, leases and other tenancy papers, 1741-1815, correspondence, [16]66-1859, and miscellaneous estate administration papers, 1717-1824.

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.

Rental for the Cemais estate compiled in 1747, showing an account of arrears, 1739-1741.