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Records of the Brogyntyn estate, home of the Ormsby-Gore family, Barons Harlech, 1296-1951. They include estate papers and deeds, legal papers, financial papers, family papers and county administration papers of the Ormsby-Gore family, their ancestors, the Maurices and the Owens of Clenennau, the Wynns of Glyn and others, such as Anwyl of Park, Clayton of Lea Hall, Godolphin of Abertanat, Lyster of Penrhos, Mostyn of Nant, and Vaughan of Corsygedol. The three main estates represented in the collection are Brogyntyn, Clenennau and Glyn, the latter constituting a major addition to the existing North Wales holdings of Sir Robert Owen upon his marriage to Margaret Wynn in 1683. The documentation also covers other, subsiduary estates acquired by marriage or inheritance, namely Llanddyn, Sylfaen, Ystumcegid, Nant, Cemais, Penrhos, Abertanat and properties in the west of Ireland. The record types include title deeds for lands in Caernarfonshire, Merionethshire, Flintshire, Denbighshire, Montgomeryshire, Shropshire, elsewhere in England and Wales, and in the Irish counties of Westmeath, Leitrim, Sligo, Mayo and Roscommon, 1296-1838; rentals, accounts and other papers associated with estate administration, [1380s]-1951; manorial records, 1429-1804; household management papers, 1662-[c. 1949]; legal and arbitration papers, 1410-1834; financial papers such as mortgages and accounts, 1492-1876; family settlements, probate records and trusts, 1485-[c. 1862]; private letters, 1582-1950; papers relating to family interests, [14th cent.]-1951; personal papers of family members, 1672-1945; royal appointments and honours, 1795-1948; central government papers, 1581-1887; county administration papers, 1518-1904; and administration records of the church, schools and charities, 1598-[1876x1904]. Other component parts of the archive are the Clenennau Letters and Papers, which combine personal correspondence with the civil and military administration of Caernarfonshire from the late sixteenth to late seventeenth centuries. Additional records, comprising Lord Harlech's Game Books (3 volumes), 1882-1933, a journal kept by W. R. Ormsby Gore of the 13th Light Dragoons, May-September 1854, two manuscript catalogues of plays, 1815, and a manuscript catalogue of the library at Porkington, 1809, were acquired in March 2017.
The Brogyntyn (Longueville) group comprises deeds and documents relating to the Brogyntyn estate, 1607-1977, deposited by Longueville Gittins solicitors who provided professional legal services to the estate.

Accounts, bills and receipts of the Maurice family of Clenennau, 1560-1620, Tanat and Godolphin of Abertanat, 1573-1767, miscellaneous individuals, [16 cent., last quarter]-1680, Conway of Nant, 1578-1630, Wynn of Glyn, 1582-1691, various members of the Owen family of Clenennau and Porkington, 1612-1711, the estate of Sir Robert Owen deceased, 1698-1725, William Owen and family, 1710-1798, Richard Clayton of Lea Hall and Brymbo, 1719-1720, Mary Owen, 1765-1783, John Owen of Penrhos, 1765-1816, Robert Godolphin Owen, 1768-1796, Owen and Margaret Ormsby, 1776-1796, and the Ormsby-Gore family, 1797-1876. Many of them relate to marriage portions, legacies, annuities, investments, funeral expenses and legal costs.

Receipts to Thomas Conway of Nant for instalments of the marriage portion of his daughter, Elizabeth, to Thomas Owen, 1578 and 1580, to Harrie Conway for £3, 1616, and to Lucy Conway for rent due on the lands of Margaret Conway, ward of the King, 1630.

Accounts, 1710-1798, which include William Owen 's expenses for the creation of burgesses at Criccieth and in performance of his sheriff 's duties at the Great Sessions of Merionethshire, 1712-1713; legal expenses incurred in preparing petitions to Parliament following irregular election procedures in the borough of Caernarfon, 1713, and in the case between Margaret Lloyd of Cesail Gyfarch and Griffith Parry, 1734-1742; receipts for two assignments of judgement formerly made to Ellen Owen, deceased, 1726, money for the maintenance of Lewis Owen at Oxford, 1725-1726, annuity payments to Arthur Owen, 1727-1735, a diamond ring and a gold watch, 1730, and payment of £260 due by bond, 1767; accounts for land purchases in [Selatyn], 1743 and Trewylan, 1748, shaving and hairdressing Capt. Owen, 1765, and the purchase of ale for bell-ringers on the birthday of Henry Owen of Porkington, 1754; and papers relating to annuity stock investments of [William] and Ellen Owen, 1759-1765, 1784-1798.

Mortgage for £600 of Llanddyn, other lands and a water mill in Langollen, Denbighshire, and of properties in Llanbedr, Llanfrothen and Llanenddwyn, Merionethshire, by William Owen to Sarah Whyte of Plasnewydd, Denbighshire, 1674, and a further mortgage for £1000 of the same premises, 1675, with a seven year lease from the mortgagee back to William Owen in each case, and counterparts of all documents.

Mortgage for £100 of Ty Shion Lake? and lands belonging to it in Porkington by Sir Robert Owen to Ellen Owen to secure indemnity against a bond, 1682.

Mortgage for £2400 of the Ystumcegid estate, Caernarfonshire, by Sir Robert and Dame Margaret Owen to Sir Robert 's sister Ellen, with a bond and receipt, 1687; a further mortgage for £1200 by Dame Margaret Owen and Ellen Owen to Humphrey Humphreys, Bishop of Bangor and Owen Hughes of Beaumaris, trustees appointed by the will of Dr William Lewis D.D. for the management of money bequeathed for charitable use, 1700; a bond and a fine relating to an obligation of William Owen upon coming of age to convey his interest in the estate to his mother 's mortgagees, 1703, 1707; and the eventual reconveyance from Margaret Lloyd of Cesail Gyfarch, daughter of Humphrey Humphreys, 1734.

Deeds relating to various loans advanced to William Owen by members of the Godolphin family, 1737, comprising a mortgage for £2000 of Dolbenmaen, Caernarfonshire, to Francis Godolphin, preceded by a demise of the same for £1000 to Ellen Godolphin and her redemise to W.O. to secure an annuity of £60; and defeasance of a deed for securing £1000 by means of charging William Owen 's estates in Shropshire, Caernarfonshire, Denbighshire and Merionethshire with £2000 payable to Francis Godolphin.

Bonds, a defeasance of statute staple, etc., relating to various payments by and to William Maurice of Clenennau, 1584-1616, John Owen of Lyme Regis, 1596-1600 and Elen Eure, 1622.

Bonds and acknowledgements by and to William Wynn of Glyn, 1609-1620, Evan Wynn, 1661, Robert Wynn, 1667-1685 and Elizabeth Wynn of Llwyngriffri, 1687, primarily concerning payments owed to other members of the family. The file also contains a letter of attorney authorising Moris ap Robert Wynn to receive debts owed to Ieuan ap Howell of Landecwyn, 1608.

Wills and other probate records of the families of Anwyl of Park, 1600-1700; Godolphin of Abertanat and Baylies, 1725-[c. 1862]; Vaughan of Corsygedol and Talhenbont, 1606, 1636; and Wynn of Glyn, Sylfaen and Ystumcegid, 1563-1691.

Includes entailing deeds of lands in Dolbenmaen, Llanystumdwy, etc., by John ap Meredudd, 1485, and of the Clenennau estates in Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire by Moris ap John ap Meredudd and Eliza ap Moris, 1511-1526; marriage settlements and associated documents of Robert ap Ieuan ap Morgan of Harlech and Lowrye vch Gruffith Lloyd [grand-daughter of Eliza ap Moris], 1561, Gaynor vch Moris and Robert Sonlley, 1568-1572, and of Robert ap Gruffyth Lloyd ap Eliza [grandson of Eliza ap Moris] and Elyn vch Moris, 1574.

Includes an agreement between William Owen of Porkington and his sisters for the occupation of Constable 's Hall, 1626, and assignments of the lease of crown lands in Penychen to Ellin and Penelope, 1627, 1642; deeds associated with the surrender by Ellis Maurice to John Owen of Tyddyn Mawr yn y Pennant, Penyfed, 1626/7; a letter of attorney by William Owen empowering his brother, John, to take possession of lands in Penyfed originally leased to their mother, Ellen Eure, 1629; post-nuptial settlements of William Owen and his wife, Mary, 1630/1, 1637; and family trust settlements by Sir John Owen of the Clenennau estate, lands in Denbighshire and Shropshire, Rhedynogfelen and Gest, 1633/4, 1663.

Release of William Owen of Porkington by his cousin, Mary Tannat, from debts owed to her and her sisters, in connection with execution of family wills, 1675, and a quitclaim by Katherine, widow of William Owen, to her son, Sir Robert Owen, of lands devised to her by the will of her husband, with bond, 1679/80.

Marriage settlements of William Ormsby of Willowbrook, co. Sligo, Ireland, and Hannah, daughter of Owen Wynne of Heaselwood, 1743, with later notes, 1780; and of Thomas George Jacques of Lotherton, co. York, and Elizabeth Frances, daughter of William Gore of Bath, 1806; and grant of an annuity by William Ormsby-Gore to his son, William Richard Ormsby-Gore, 1839.

Marriage settlements, other family settlements and associated documents of Owen of Ystumcegid, 1516-1612, and Robert [Wynn] ap John, Moris ap Robert Wynn and family, 1544-1607, [1649], William and Robert Wynn and family, 1611-1657, and Owen Wynn, 1661-1683, all of Glyn.

Includes an entailing deed of the Ystumcegid estate, 1516, and several marriage settlements of the ancestors of Catherine Owen of Ystumcegid, namely her great-great grandparents, Owen ap John Owen ap Meredudd and Lowry, daughter of Madog ap Ieuan ap Gruffith, 1531, stipulating a dowry of cattle; her grandparents, Owen ap John Owen and Anne, daughter of John Lewis of Chwaen Wen, 1584; and her parents, Robert Owen and Lowry, daughter of William Glynne of Dinlle, 1612.

Trust and [dower?] settlements for Robert [Wynn], son of John ap Ieuan ap Rees of Llanfihangel-y-Traethau and his wife, Catherine vch Eliza ap Moris, 1544; marriage settlements of Moris ap Robert Wynn of Glyn and Marselie vch Cadwalader, 1578, stipulating a dowry of livestock; of Moris 's sister, Mary, and Edward ap Robert of Taltreuddyn, 1585; and of his daughter, Katherine, and Evan ap Robert of Festiniog, with associated documents, 1578-1607; and an agreement for provision of dower to his mother, Catharine vch Ellis [ap Moris], 1592.

Includes a bond for the delivery to William Wynn of a deed for Glyn, almost certainly connected with settlement of the estate at the time of his father 's death and of his own marriage to Catherine, daughter of William Lewis Annwyl, 1611; the marriage settlements of Robert Wynn of Glyn and Catherine, daughter of Robert Owen of Ystumcegid, 1624, 1637; subsequent family deeds giving them undivided title to most of the Ystumcegid estate, 1647, and ensuring financial provision for their younger children and for the younger children of William Wynn, 1649, 1653; assurance of payment in lieu of a legacy to Lowrie, daughter of Jane, widow of Hugh Tudder of Egryn and sister to Catherine Owen, 1647/8; and the marriage settlements of Elizabeth and Lowry, daughters of William Wynn, 1652-1657.

Settlements of four sets of families related by marriage to the Owens of Brogyntyn, namely Clayton and Griffith of Lea Hall and Brymbo, 1704-1709, Godolphin, 1733, Hanmer of Pentre-pant, 1620-1656, and Lyster and Derwas of Penrhos, 1665-1703.