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Printed catalogues advertising the sale of specific parts of the Brogyntyn estate in Caernarfonshire, Merioneth and Salop, 1827, 1911-1919, and of Tetworth mansion, Berkshire, belonging to William Richard Ormsby Gore, 1905. Some of the catalogues have photographic illustrations of the locality in the frontispiece. Several are annotated with manuscript notes in the margins. Maps are incorporated. Other papers include draft conveyances and schedules of deeds.

Papers relating to applications by the Brogyntyn estate mainly between 1870 and 1955, under government schemes in accordance with the Improvement of Lands Acts 1864 and 1899, the Settled Land Acts, 1882 to 1890, and the Town and Country Planning Acts, 1947 and 1954. The lands in question included Brogyntyn mansion, Home Farm (Ty Coch), Glyn, Sylfaen and Ystumcegid, 1870-1883; Penrhos, Old Port and Cross Lanes (Pentrepant), 1903-1905; Mardy Farm, Selatyn, 1905-1906; Ystumcegid Isaf, 1911; and Brogyntyn mansion and farm, Oerley Hall, The Mount, Brick Kilns, Harlech Camp, stone quarries and sand pits in Shropshire, Caernarfonshire and Harlech, 1949-1955.

Files of miscellaneous letters and papers mainly concerning the management of the Brogyntyn estates, 1830-1880. The letters are mostly to Longueville and Co. and they concern estate business, finance, legal matters, and insurance claims following a fire at Brogyntyn Hall in 1874. The estate papers include lease agreements, valuations, building accounts, notices served on tenants; there are also small quantities of legal papers and Ormsby Gore family documents [post-1863]-1871.

Agreements and conveyances of land by successive members of the Ormsby Gore family to the Mawddwy Railway Co, 1866, Cambrian Railway Company, 1870-1882, Great Western Railway Company, 1897-1898, and The Portmadoc Beddgelert and South Snowdon Railway Company, 1904, for the purposes of various railway development schemes; and a document relating to an electricity development scheme by North Wales Power Company, 1927.

Legal papers of the Ormsby Gore family of Brogyntyn, 1863-[c. 1924]. They cover three main aspects of work handled by the office of Longueville and Co., firstly prosecutions by or against the Ormsby Gore family in the High Court of Justice, Oswestry Borough Session, and the county courts of Caernarfonshire and Denbighshire; secondly petitions to the High Court of Chancery in connection with family trust settlements; and thirdly, cases for legal opinion. The most substantial of the files comprise the matter of Fanny Mary Katherine Ormsby Gore, to enable a settlement upon her marriage to Lloyd Kenyon, 1863; a petition to the High Court of Chancery concerning powers of leasing mines under the Ormsby Gore family settlement, 1866-1875; Borth-y-gest ejectment [c. 1874]-1879; Cooper and Allen vs Harlech concerning a contract for a land purchase, 1876; Harlech vs Hall in a claim for money, 1880-1884; lawsuits on behalf of Lord Harlech in a case of assault and a boundary dispute, 1889; and Lord Harlech, Jones and Lewis vs Parry in a case to recover lands at Morfa Bychan, 1896. There is also a file of solicitor’s working notes from the office of Longueville and Co. [c. 1924]

Documents relating mainly to mortgages by William Richard Ormsby Gore and George Ralph Charles Ormsby Gore of the estates in Leitrim Ireland, together with papers concerning trust moneys and sales of the Brogyntyn estate, 1870-1923.

Title deeds and other documents relating to properties belonging to the Ormsby Gore family in Ireland, 1665-1920. The main locations are the counties of Sligo, Mayo, Leitrim, Roscommon and Westmeath, and one file relates to Barrowmount, Kilkenny. There is a file of deeds for the estates settled on the marriage of William Richard Ormsby Gore, 1665-[1899]. The majority of the deeds, 1885-1920, record the sale of lands by William Richard Ormsby Gore, second Baron Harlech, to individuals and to various rural district councils for the provision of public utilities such as new waterworks at Lisduff, Sligo, 1885, cemeteries in Rue Poor Law Union, Tobercurry, 1902, and in Killasser, 1906, and sales of Willowbrook estate lands for the purposes of the Labourers (Ireland) Acts, 1907-1910, and to the Congested Districts Board, 1911-1918, under the Irish Land Commission schemes.

Deeds relating to leasehold properties held by various members of the Ormsby Gore family in London, 1795-1895. The locations are Stanhope Street and Welbeck Street, Portland Place and St James Place, Grosvenor Crescent, and Halkin Street West in Belgrave Square. The leaseholds usually included a coach house and stables. Some files contain details of fixtures and fittings

Deeds and other documents relating to properties in the parish of Llangollen, Denbighshire, owned by the Brogyntyn estate, 1844-1898. The locations include Dinbren and Siamber Wen, Erw Garn Ucha, Trefor, Canal Side, land sold to Thomas Gee in 1895, and Llangollen School, 1898.

Miscellaneous deeds and documents relating to freehold and leasehold properties of the Owen and Ormsby Gore families of Brogyntyn at various locations in Wales and England, mainly Salop (Shropshire), Caernarfonshire, Merioneth, Denbighshire, Montgomeryshire, Berkshire, Essex, London and Cornwall, [1600x1899], 1729-1937, and one file concerning the pension of Gwilym Maeran P. Jones of Oswestry, 1968-1977. The various properties include the Trewylan estate, Montgomeryshire, 1748, a leasehold in Welbeck Street, Marylebone, 1760-1806, Brentwood, Essex, 1777, Pentre David, Selatyn, 1777, 1821, Fron, Cernybwch and the Hills, Porkington and Selatyn, 1808-1819, Little Forsters, Egham, Surrey, 1802, Canister House, Datchet, 1805, lands in Stoke Poges and Wexham, Buckinghamshire, 1810-1823, fields in Sithney in the manor of Peventon, Cornwall, 1828-1830, Drenewydd estate, Oswestry and Whittington, 1829, premises in Oswestry and Selatyn leased for brick-making purposes, 1832-1847, and Tetworth House, Sunninghill, Berkshire, 1863. Families mentioned include Owen and Ormsby Gore of Brogyntyn, Owen of Woodhouse, Lloyd of Aston and Jackson of Pentre David. There are also sundry legal cases, 1767-1819, a description of the manor of Broniarth, 1773 (ref. 64/2), useful abstracts of title, abstracts of family settlements and of wills of the Owen and Ormsby Gore family and others, 1729-182, and a schedule of deeds compiled by Longueville and Co., [1896x1904].

Leases and licences granted by members of the Ormsby Gore family of Brogyntyn, of minerals and slate quarries in Caernarfonshire, 1845-1890. The locations include Fron Oleu in the parish of Penmorfa, 1845-1872, 1875-1881, Hendre Ddu, Dolbenmaen, 1860-1874, Mynyddednyfed and Braich-y-Sant, Cricieth, 1861, Plas yn Pennant, Penmorfa, 1862-1866, Ty Cerrig, Penmorfa, 1864-1880, and elsewhere in Beddgelert, Cricieth, Llanfihangel-y-Pennant and Penmorfa, 1849-1890. One file contains licences to make railways or tramways for the transport of slate from the quarries, 1855-1873

Licences or take notes granted by John Ralph Ormsby Gore and William Richard Baron Harlech and other papers relating mainly to 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.

Title deeds and other documents relating to properties owned by the Brogyntyn estate in Caernarfonshire, 1813-1909. They include deeds for the purchase of Penybryn Farm, Cricieth, from the Peniarth estate in 1813-1814; ‘old papers’ relating to crown rents, building developments, mining and quarrying in Caernarfonshire and Merioneth, 1847-1878; leases of Clenennau mill and its lands, 1869-1888; papers relating to Cricieth Corporation and the castle, [1869x1875]; and deeds recording the sale by William Richard, second Baron Harlech, of property in Cricieth, Dolbenmaen, Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, Llanystumdwy, Morfa Bychan, Penmorfa, Treflys and Ynyscynhaearn, including cottages, building plots for schools, a chapel at Penmorfa, a burial ground at Dolbenmaen and the lifeboat station at Portmadoc, 1871-1909

Mainly leases by William Ormsby Gore of Brogyntyn, Mary Jane his wife, and John Ralph Ormsby Gore, of parts of Borth-y-gest farm in the parish of Ynyscynhaearn, Caernarfonshire, for development as building plots, 1847-1860, and for the erection of a quay wall, 1867. There is also a lease for the site of Borth-y-gest Independent Chapel, 1871; and an acknowledgement for the conveyance of a garden plot, 1924.

Leases mainly by members of the Ormsby Gore family of Brogyntyn, of lead, copper, manganese and sulphur mines, and of slate quarries in the parishes of Llanaber, Llandanwg, Llandecwyn, Llanddwywe, Llanelltud, Llanfihangel-y-traethau and Llanfrothen in the county of Merioneth, 1837-1947. The sites include Bwlch-y-Plwm, Pant y maesudor and Pant-y-Maesydd, 1837-1875, Rhosiger, Farchynys and Sylfaen, 1859-1888, Lletty Fwyalch and Llechwedd Du, 1867-1872, Hafod Ucha, 1872-1873, Rhosydd, 1890-1891, and others. One file (ref. 55/8) contains a lease by Queen Victoria to William Richard Ormsby Gore of coal, metals, metallic minerals and ores, limestone and slate on or under land in the parishes of Llanenddwyn, Llanddwywe and Llanelltud, Merioneth, 1894.

Papers relating to the lease by George Ralph Charles Baron Harlech to Merioneth County Council of Ty Cerrig, Talsarnau, in the parish of Llanfihangel-y-traethau, 1920-1921, and to a subsequent arbitration award, 1958-1961.

Title deeds and other documents relating properties belonging to the Brogyntyn estate in the county of Merioneth, 1706-1912. The most substantial files are for Tygwyn Gamlas, Carreg-y-ro and Ty Newydd in the parish of Llanfihangel-y-traethau, 1818-1911, and for Erw Wen and Lasynys in the parishes of Llandanwg and Llanfihangel-y-traethau, 1872-1908. Others include Lasynys Fach, Garthmawr Hen and Garthmelan, 1706-1852, Glyn woollen factory, 1841-1869, building leases at Beddgelert, 1868-1890, Porkington Terrace, Barmouth, 1871-1877, and the site of a Baptist chapel at Harlech, 1896.

Title deeds for Bank Farm, Guilsfield, 1729-1870, parcels of meadow in Broniarth purchased by Margaret Godolphin of Abertanat in 1740, and for a cottage in Broniarth purchased by William Ormsby Gore of Brogyntyn in 1826, and a few later documents, 1830-1885.

Records of the manors of Broniarth and Deuddwr in Montgomeryshire. They include a description (perambulation) of the manor of Broniarth, 1773, deeds relating to the manor of Deytheur (Deuddwr) which include a description of the boundaries, 1816-1824, rentals of chief rents in both manors, 1823-1894, and chief rent collector’s cash receipts, 1891.

Deeds and documents relating to the Penrhos and Cemmes (Cemais) estates in Montgomeryshire, formerly belonging to John Owen, which descended to Mary Jane Ormsby Gore of Brogyntyn, 1647-1866, and later deeds, 1883-1899. The properties lay mainly in the parishes of Llandrinio, Llandysilio and Cemais.