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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.

Documents relating to 12, Grosvenor Crescent, coach house and stables (12, Grosvenor Crescent Mews), Pimlico, Middlesex, 1871-1895. The file includes an agreement by Robert John Waller, builder, with Major William Richard Ormsby Gore of Tetworth, for a lease with power of purchase, and specifications of painter’s works and fixtures for the house, 1871; a draft memorial of lease, 1872; a schedule of deeds, 1868-1895; a statement of moneys due on completion of purchase, 1895; demand notices and receipts for rent, taxes, rates and insurance, 1894-1895; and a letter from [the Marquess of] Winchester, relating to the sale and mortgage, 1895.

Miscellaneous papers relating to family settlements and trusts of the Ormsby Gore family of Brogyntyn, 1871-1935. They include the following appointments: William Kenyon Slaney as a new trustee under the will of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore, 1871; William Edward Oakley, William Robert Maurice Wynne and Thomas Longueville to be trustees of the settlement of Lady Harlech’s fortune made on her marriage with John Ralph Baron Harlech, dec., 1879; Ian Murray Heathcoat Amory to be a trustee of the marriage settlement of Hugh Fourth Earl Fortescue and Emily Countess Fortescue (nee Ormsby Gore) in place of Albert Edward Wilfred Count Gleichen, 1907; and Hugh Earl Fortescue as a new trustee of the will of William Richard Baron Harlech, 1908. The file also contains an appointment of settled funds by William Richard Baron Harlech and George Ralph Charles Ormsby Gore, 1895; a surrender and conveyance by William Richard Baron Harlech to George Ralph Charles Ormsby Gore of a life interest in property in Ireland, 1895, supplemental to the settlement of 1881; a release by George Ralph Charles Baron Harlech and the younger children of William Richard Baron Harlech to Lord William Frederick Ernest Seymour for the receipt of dividends from investments, 1905; a charge of £3000 on the settled estates in Salop and Merioneth upon the marriage of William George Arthur Ormsby Gore and Lady Beatrice Cecil, 1913, and release of a rent charge issuing out of the same, 1926; a disentailing assurance, 1915; an appointment of investments by George Ralph Charles Baron Harlech and his son William George Arthur Ormsby Gore, 1926; and a further disentailing assurance, 1935.

Account of Bennett Brothers of Liverpool, general ironfounders, kitchen fitters and plumbers, for fixtures and fittings in the study, bathroom, water closet and other rooms at Brogyntyn Hall, before and after the fire, 1871-1875.

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.

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.

Documents relating to Dee Side and other hereditaments in Bangor Is-coed, Flintshire, belonging to Catherine Bentley, in mortgage to the trustees of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore, dec., 1870-1897. They include a schedule of deeds, 1821-1869, compiled 1870; a valuation, 1879, printed particulars with a plan, 1879, conditions of sale with manuscript additions, 1879, and letters to the trustees and to Longueville solicitors, requesting foreclosure of the mortgage, 1897.

Memorial to be registered at the Irish Registry for Deeds of the reconveyance of the Derrycarne estate, Ireland, to William Richard Ormsby Gore, 1870, mortgaged by William Ormsby Gore in 1855 and assigned to Mary Ann Harriet Kingscote and Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote in 1862; and a schedule of deeds, 1852-1870.

Claim submitted to the Equitable Insurance Office after the death of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore, 1870.

Will of Mary Jane Ormsby Gore of Porkington, 1866, proved 1869, annotated with registration of the probate at the Principal Registry of the Probate Division of the High Court of Justice, Ireland, 1879.

Appointment of Stephen Donne of New Square, Lincolns Inn, Middlesex, to replace his father (also named Stephen Donne) as trustee of the will of the late John Edwards Donne of No. 2 Powis Place, Great Ormond Street, deceased, 1869, part of whose personal estate was converted into money and invested in mortgage on the lands of Sir Robert Williames Vaughan in Merioneth in 1858

Account of Longueville and Co.’s charges connected with the sale and conveyance from Lord Harlech and his trustees to the Oswestry Local Board of the site of a new reservoir, 1869-1876, and letters from Longueville to the town clerk, 1877.

Lease by John Ralph Ormsby Gore of Porkington to Robert Jones of two pieces of land forming part of Clenennau Mill lands in the parish of Penmorfa, Caernarfonshire, including a covenant to build a house thereon, with plan incorporated, 1869, and counterpart; a lease to Isaac Watkin of the water corn grist mill of Clenneny, 1873, and notice by Robert Evans to Isaac Watkins of the termination of his lease, 1888.

Abstracts of the title of the trustees of William Ormbsy Gore to land in the township of Trefor Ucha in the parish of Llangollen, Denbighshire, including Cefnyfedw Farm, 1796-1844 , 1796-1870, 1802-1823, 1856-1861 (mostly incomplete)

A press cutting from the Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald relating to the Corporation of Cricieth [1869] and a letter to Mr Gore by W.W.E. Wynne concerning the right to Cricieth Castle [pre-1875]

Porkington (Brogyntyn) estate vouchers, 1868-1869. Includes bills for repairs at Llanddyn Hall and Rose Cottage, 1868; and interior decorating at No. 3 Porkington Terrace, 1869.

Bundle of vouchers containing two packets relating mainly to the Cemmes (Cemais) and Penrhos etates in Montgomeryshire, belonging to Mary Jane Ormsby Gore, both labelled ‘February 1st 1868 to Jan’y 31st 1869’. Includes bills for repairs and new buildings at the Penrhos Arms, Cemais, Tynrhos, Darowen, the Braich, Meifod, Penrhos Hall, the Pool Cottage and the park wall [Porkington]

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.

Lease (counterpart) by Mary Jane Ormsby Gore to William Thomas, builder, of a piece of land, heretofore part of Sygyn Issa Farm in the parish of Beddgelert, Merioneth, incorporating a covenant by the lessee to build nine houses, with plan in margin, 1868, together with a draft lease by William Thomas, 1869, letters by William Thomas requesting permission to sell the leasehold properties in Sygyn Terrace, Porkington Street, and draft licences to assign the leases, 1869-1890.