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- 1744-1800. (Creation)
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1 vol. (69 ff.)Several pages damaged and faded, with reduced legibility, stabilised in modern binding.Damaged, faded, stablised in binding
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Outsize volume in modern binding containing manuscript and printed poems, songs, ballads, riddles, letters, concert programmes, notices and press cuttings, 1744-1800, and the remains of an account book of labourers and haymakers working for Robert Godolphin Owen at Porkington, 1770. Among the literary material there are poems to Sir Watkin Williams Wynn upon his second birthday, 1751, and upon the Act of Union, 1800; memorials to Mr Mytton and the rector of Hordley, 1765; a personal letter in verse by Mary Owen to Margaret Godolphin [1730x1766]; letters to an unknown addressee concerning the history of Valle Crucis, 1773, to Owen Ormsby on Irish estate business, 1785 and to William [Owen?] on family relations [early 18th cent]; a list of well-wishers' contributions upon the birth of Mrs Ormsby 's daughter, 1781; a poem on the marriage of George Prince of Wales to Caroline of Brunswick, 1795; and a poem entitled A Picture of Porkington addressed to Mrs [Margaret] Ormsby, 1797.
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Mainly English, some French, small proportion of Italian and Latin.
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Cover of the account book endorsed '[....]wis Warehouse Oswestry Shropshire'.
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Preferred citation: PQH1/3.
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- Brogyntyn Estate (England and Wales) -- Accounting. (Subject)
- Brogyntyn Estate (England and Wales) -- In literature. (Subject)
- Valle Crucis Abbey (Wales) -- History. (Subject)
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 -- Marriage. (Subject)
- Ormsby, Owen, d. 1804 -- Correspondence. (Subject)
- Williams-Wynn, Watkin, 1749-1789 (Subject)
- Owen family, of Brogyntyn, Clenennau, and Glyn -- Correspondence. (Subject)