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A letter concerning the pension of Gwilym Maeran P. Jones of Oswestry, 1968, and warrants for the payment of dividends on shares, 1976-1977.

Papers deriving from compensation claims for loss of development value or ‘Treasury Scheme cases’ under the Town and Country Planning Acts of 1947 and 1954, dealing mainly with the valuation of claims submitted by the Brogyntyn Estate Company and recommendations for fulfilment of the criteria, 1949-1955. The properties for which compensation was claimed included Brogyntyn mansion and farm, Oerley Hall, The Mount, Brick Kilns, other Brogyntyn estate properties, parts of the Glyn estate including requisitioned land at Harlech Camp, mineral interests such as the limestone quarries at Underhill and Carreg-y-big, Llwyn Sand and Gravel Pits, Foel Wood Sandpit and Sandstone Quarry, Salop, Dorothea Slate Quarry, Nanhoron Quarry, Portmadoc Quarry, and the Sand Pit, Golf Links, Harlech. The papers comprise mainly the official Central Land Board claim forms, schedules of Brogyntyn estate claims, circulars and correspondence between the Inland Revenue District Valuers in Shrewsbury and Bangor, the Central Land Board, Birmingham, E. Pakenham Hamilton of the Brogyntyn Estate Office in Oswestry, Mssrs Yard and Hardcastle of the Estate Office, Pwllheli, Capt. D.E. Anderson, and Durnford and Lee mining engineers, Doncaster.

Abstracts of title to the Brogyntyn and Glyn estates, comprising printed, typescript and manuscript drafts, memoranda and solicitors’ instructions, previously contained in a large envelope labelled ‘Brogyntyn A/Ts’, compiled 1940-1974, recording family settlements, trusts, wills and conveyances, 1878-1964, and identifying the successors to the title as: personal representatives of the late George Ralph Charles, third Baron Harlech, the Brogyntyn Estate Company and William David Ormsby Gore, fifth Baron Harlech; and a typed abstract of a transfer of mortgage on the Rug estate and subscribed with the name ‘Plas Isaf’ and other notes, 1953 (?stray)

Plan of Cefnymaes Farm, Oswestry, for sale by auction, 1939.

Accounts of charges for legal services, payable by the trustees of the Brogyntyn estate to Longueville and Co., 1930-1934; and bills of Bob Parry and Co., Ltd. of Caernarfon, and Whitfield and Ryley of Oswestry and Wem, auctioneers, 1930, 1932.

Waiver by the trustees of Lord Harlech’s settled estates of notice of George Ralph Charles Baron Harlech’s intention to sell to North Wales Power Company Limited a piece of land in the borough of Oswestry, on the east side of the road from Oswestry to Whittington, 1927

Solicitor’s working notes from the office of Longueville and Co. [c. 1924] referring to land sales by Lord Harlech in Leitrim, Ireland, Borth-y-gest, Caernarfonshire, and the site of the ?Heroes Memorial Hall, and to Brogyntyn family settlements and trusts. Other families and individuals include St George, Willding, Ellis Jones, dec., Oswald Fox, Col. Campbell, Venables, J.H. ?Thin and Margarett Baugh, dec.

Acknowledgment by Humphrey Davies Owen to George Ralph Charles Baron Harlech for production of an indenture of conveyance of a piece of land in Borth-y-gest, used by him as a garden, 1924.

Reassignment by Martin Benson Lawford to George Ralph Charles Baron Harlech of a policy of assurance previously assigned to Edward Williams [Vaughan] in 1891 for securing payment of a mortgage on the estate in Leitrim, with a related letter by Lord Harlech attached, 1923.

Arbitration award in accordance with the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1948, for the settlement of claims and differences between William David Ormsby Gore (landlord) and Merioneth County Council (tenant) concerning breaches of the tenancy agreement for Ty Cerrig, Glyn estate, in the parish of Llanfihangel-y-traethau, Merioneth, 1960, together with associated papers, mainly 1958-1961. Ty Cerrig and part of Tynacra were let to Merioneth County Council by the exercise of their compulsory powers to acquire small holdings in 1920. The substantial file contains the counterpart lease of 1921; the tenant’s request for a new lease, 1955; handwritten notes and official statements of the case; a supporting statement by the county secretary of the Merioneth branch of the Farmers’ Union of Wales; reports and specifications; a rental; schedules detailing the valuation of the farm and buildings, the delapidation claim on behalf of the landlord and work to be done; plans of Ty Cerrig; letters from Longueville solicitors, the clerk of Merioneth County Council, county land agent, valuers and architect; notices served on the tenants; bills of costs; instructions to counsel to advise; and a precedent case Edmunds vs Woollacott, Minehead, 1958.

Papers relating to Ty Cerrig, Talsarnau, in the parish of Llanfihangel-y-traethau, and part of Tynacrau, leased to Merioneth County Council by the exercise of their compulsory powers to acquire small holdings in 1920. These farms were acquired in substitution for Tyddyn Sion Wyn. The file contains draft leases by George Ralph Charles Baron Harlech, with schedule and map, 1920-1921; correspondence between the Brogyntyn agent, W.E. Stamer, David Breese of Breese, Jones and Casson, Clerk of the Peace for Merioneth, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1920-1921; notes on the terms of agreement; and an extract from Mr Roberts’s report, 1920

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.

Reports on the rentals and accounts of Lord Harlech’s Brogyntyn estate and Glyn estate for the years 1914-1925, compiled for the estate audits, 1919-1926; and occasional letters to Longueville and Co. from W.E. Stamer of Underhill, Oswestry, 1921-1922.

Sale catalogue of the outlying portions of the Aston estate near Oswestry at the Victoria Rooms, Oswestry, 1918. Photographic illustrations.

Accounts and receipts labelled variously ‘Brogyntyn trust vouchers’ and ‘Lord Harlech - Longueville & Co’s receipts & bills of costs’, dated 1914-1929. Some of the accounts record the sale of lands in Sligo, Leitrim and Westmeath through the Court of the Irish Land Commission, 1914-1923.

Bundle of accounts and receipts labelled ‘Brogyntyn trust vouchers 1914 (Dec.)’ but actually showing Longueville’s legal costs from 1911, billed to the trustees in 1913-1914. Some of the accounts record the sale of lands in Leitrim and Mayo through the Court of the Irish Land Commission, accompanied by affidavits of Baron Harlech and relevant letters

Copy of a notice published in the Dublin Gazette, of an order by the Irish Land Commission to vest the estate of George Ralph Charles Baron Harlech in the counties of Sligo and Mayo in the Congested Districts Board for Ireland, 1911, and memos of the allocation schedule, 1912.

Sale catalogue of lots 71-132, properties in the parishes of Dolbenmaen, Ynyscynhaearn and Beddgelert, sold at Porthmadog town hall and the Royal Goat Hotel, Beddgelert, 13 Sept. 1911, with memoranda of agreement bound into the back of the volume. Photographic illustration of Beddgelert in frontispiece.

Sale catalogue of lots 133-274, properties in the parishes of Llanfrothen, Ynyscynhaearn and Llandecwyn, sold at Porthmadog town hall, 14 Sept. 1911, with memoranda of agreement bound into the back of the volume. Bound by mistake with a cover of the Corsygedol Hotel sale of Sept. 15. Photographic illustration of Borth-y-gest in frontispiece.

Schedules of deeds etc. (mainly counterpart leases) handed over by Longueville to other firms of solicitors, including Lloyd George, in Cricieth, Barmouth, Portmadoc, Dolgellau, Caernarfon and Llanfairfechan at the time of Lord Harlech’s land sales in Caernarfonshire and Merioneth, 1911-1914.