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Counterpart leases and surrenders relating to Paweston, Cornwall, and miscellaneous papers.

‘Old deeds’ recording several purchases by the Peate family in Pentreclawdd in the parish of Selatyn. The first of these is the purchase of Pentreclawdd Farm by Robert Peate of Bangor Is-coed, from Richard Arthur Tudor of Liverpool, 1865-1873. Earlier deeds for Pentreclawdd include a lease by John Swynarton, merchant tailor of London, to Thomas Hanmer of Porkington, 1606/7; a mortgage by Richard Hanmer to John Thomas of Pentreclawdd, 1647; a deed of sale by John Hanmer and Dorothy his wife, to Anne Thomas and trustees, 1653; a mortgage by John Thomas to Jane Griffiths of West Felton, 1746; probate of the will of John Thomas of Pentreclawdd, 1753; an assignment by the Jeffreys family, beneficiaries of John Thomas, of a legacy in trust for Robert Tudor, 1765; an assignment of mortgage by Robert Tudor and the executors of Jane Griffiths to Sarah Williams, 1766; receipts for legacies under the will of John Thomas received by the Richards family, 1775-1805; a mortgage by Robert Tudor to Margaret Jones, 1817; mortgage by John Jones of Brook Street, Oswestry, executor of Robert Tudor, to John Jones of Foxhall, Oswestry, trustee of Margaret Jones, 1831; copy will of John Jones of Oswestry, gatekeeper, 1824, died 1839; abstracts of title of his son Thomas Jones of Oswestry, 1864-1865; and conveyances by Thomas Jones, 1865, and Richard Arthur Tudor of Liverpool, 1873, and the mortagees, to Robert Peate (Bundle 1); and mortgages by Robert Peate to Edward Rogers and William Payne, and further charges, 1879-1887 (Bundle 2).
The other properties, all in Pentreclawdd, Hengoed and Cross Lanes, comprise two cottages purchased by Robert Peate from the representative of Richard Owen of Glansevern, 1868, and from George Henry Warrington Carew, 1868 (Bundles 3-4); two houses and gardens owned by Robert Edwards of Langollen and Sarah his wife, sold to Thomas Owen of St Martins, 1792, then owned by William Price and Margaret his wife, mortgaged by them, 1811-1817, sold by assignees of the mortgages to John Jones of Oswestry, 1821, and conveyed to Robert Peate, 1862-1863, with an abstract of title of John Jones the elder and younger (Bundle 5); a messuage, malt kiln and lands, owned by Robert Jones of Pentreclawdd, (will dated 1793, proved 1799), mortgaged by his son Robert Jones, 1820-1832 (died intestate 1833), mortgaged by Robert Rees Jones of Great Coram Street, Middlesex, 1844, followed by the sale to Robert Peate, 1849, and mortgages by the Peate family to Philip Jennings of Brighton, 1878-1885 (Bundle 7); and five cottages, comprising one cottage divided into two and three others erected on a piece of land originally conveyed by Robert Jones to his son Cornelius, 1812, mortgaged by Cornelius Jones, 1832, transferred to John Edwards of Oswestry, 1873, conveyed successively to George Daniel Gauge, 1873, William Jackson of Oswestry, solicitor, 1894, thence to Robert Tudor Peate of Marple Bridge, Lancashire, and Samuel Peate of Bangor Is-coed, 1894 (Bundle 9).
There are also mortgages by Elizabeth Peate and her family, of several properties (including Cabbage Hall, Cross Lanes), 1882, 1886-1894 (Bundles 6 and 8)
Several of the bundles include abstracts of title and plans are included with some of the conveyances.

Probate of the will of Dame Ellin Eure [nee Maurice] of Porkington, containing several charitable bequests and the devise of six small dwellings in Willow Street, Oswestry, to the bailiffs and burgesses of Oswestry for housing the poor, 1626.

Letters to Col. William Owen and his wife Mary, 1634-1670. Correspondents of note include Richard Anwyl discussing, among the more common topics, the post of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, other royal appointments and the union of Scotland 1669; George [Griffith], bishop of St Asaph, on appointing a suitable vicar and schoolmaster at Oswestry, 1664; Owen Griffith on hostility to the Dutch, seizure of commodities and a frigate accident in London, 1667; and Robert [Morgan], bishop of Bangor, on a preferment to the living of Llanegan in Llyn, 1669. Other correspondents include Thomas Mackworth, 1663, John Mordaunt, 1655, and Penelope Owen, 1634, and further, general topics are: events in parliament; estate business in Shropshire, Penychen and Hitchin, 1655-1669; sequestration of the estate of Sir John Owen, 1659; the taking of stone from the demolished town walls of Oswestry, 1668; and obtaining a college place for William Owen the younger.

Conveyance of tmt's in Rhysnant and Domgay, co. Mont., 22 March 1647; from Thomas Jones to Mrs Penelope Owen; deed to lead the issues of a recovery by Mrs Lyster and daugters to John Peers, 18 March 1739; deed of settlement on Miss Lyster's marriage with Rev. Lewis Owen and copy of same, 24 & 25 July 1740; [Derwas to Lewis Owen] , [Conveyance of Penbryn bechan, Llandrinio], [23 Aug. 1740]; John Price and others to Mrs Elizth Owen, Release and Copy of same, 26 March 1748 ; Probate of the Will and 2 codicils of Mrs Elizth Owen, 9 Feb. 1758; William Powell to Mr Geo. Lyster release of a m. and lands in Penbryn Vechan, co. Mont., 14 Dec. 1758 ; John Owen to Messrs Hughes & Williams, release to make Tenants to the Praecipe for suffering a Recovery, 18 & 19 June 1767; William Wynne and Devereux Mytton, Demandants, Price Hughes and John Williams, Tenants. John Owen, Vouchee, recovery, 7 Aug. 1767 ; Mr Edwd Edwards to John Owen, release of a tmt in Penbryn Cithan, co. Mont. A copy of same, 29 Sept. 1774; John Owen to Robert Griffiths lease and release making a tenant to the Praecipe for the Recovery of part of his estate, co. Mont., and copy of same, 10 & 11 Feb. 1794; Richard Morhall, Demandant, Robert Griffiths, Tenant, John Owen, Vouchee recovery and copy of same, Spring Session 1794.

Deeds relating to four messuages in Willow Street, Oswestry, bought from Walter Price and others, 1678-1840, 1844. The file includes successive feoffments of a single cottage or burgage and a pew in Oswestry church by Edward Kyffin of Edgerley to Roger Thornes of Kayhowell, 1678, by Edward Thornes of Shotatton and his son Thomas Thornes to Richard Griffiths of Oswestry, 1735-1736, and by William Griffiths to his sister Elizabeth Griffiths, 1739; a purchase deed from Edward Knowles of Denbigh to Nathaniel Price, of three messuages in Willow Street and two pews in the north aisle of Oswestry parish church, 1771; mortgages by Henry Price to William Batterbee of Sutton, West Felton, of four newly erected houses and two pews, 1813, and by Elizabeth Price, Richard Borroughs and other family members to Thomas Price, 1835; the wills (mainly copies) of Roger Thornes of Edgerley, 1679, Nathaniel Price of Oswestry, 1790, William Batterbee of Grimpo, West Felton, 1823, and Henry Price of Oswestry, 1826, proved 1835; a schedule of Henry Price’s deeds, 1678-1827; the declaration of David Price of Oswestry, 1840; extracts taken in 1840 from parish registers of Oswestry and Ellemere recording baptisms and burials of the Price and Burroughs families, 1752-1840; a conveyance by Nathaniel Price to Walter Price of his two fourth parts of the properties, 1840, and the conveyance by Thomas Price, John Clark and Sarah his wife, Edward Vaughan and Sarah his wife, and Walter Price and Ann his wife (nee Clark), devisees under the will of Henry Price, to William Ormsby Gore and his trustee of all four dwelling houses and gardens, 1840

Papers and abstracts relating to Porkington Pools in Selatyn and lands purchased by the Brogyntyn trustees from William Lloyd of Aston, 1686-1822. The file includes a lease by Thomas Lloyd, lord of the manor of Whittington, and family to Sir Robert Owen of Porkington, of land upon the mountain called Llawnt yr Avon Goch, with liberty to enclose 2 acres about Ffynon Wen, to plant trees and to make fish ponds, 1686; a lease by Rev. John Robert Lloyd of Aston to Owen Ormsby and Margaret his wife, 1793; abstracts of title of William Lloyd, 1754-1814, compiled 1822; a coloured plan with explanation of the lands shown, 1822; and copy of a final concord between Thomas Kenyon, plt. and William Lloyd and Louisa his wife, deforcs, 1822

Deeds for the Vron (Fron) and and another messuage with a blacksmith’s shop, called Knotsford in the township of Porkington and parish of Selatyn, purchased from Rev. Richard Venables, 1696/7-1824. They include the post-nuptial settlement of John Davyes of Porkington and Elizabeth his wife (nee Jones), 1696/7; leases by John Davies, 1725, and Elizabeth Venables, 1765; the pre-nuptial settlement of Rev. Richard Venables of Wood Hill, Salop, and Sophia Lister of Tetley, Lincolnshire, 1808; a release from the representatives of the younger children of Rev. Joseph Venables and Elizabeth his wife of their shares in £2800 charged by their mother’s will on the Vron, to the family trustees, Lazarus Jones Venables, Joseph Venables Lovett, George Lister and John Henry Maw, 1823; a release by William Lloyd of Aston to Rev. Richard Venables then of Clyro, Radnorshire, and his trustees, of heriots and chief rents issuing out of the Fron, 1823; extracts (1823) from the parish registers of Oswestry, Selatyn, Ruabon, Chirk, Whittington and St George’s Liverpool, recording baptisms, marriages and burials of the families of Davies, Venables and Lovett, 1697-1822; the affidavit of Thomas Howell of Oswestry, adding that John Venables was ‘very infirm and paralytic’, 1823; reports issued by the High Court of Chancery, as to the purchase from Richard Venables and another from Edward Williams, 1823-1824; and the deeds of sale (lease and release) to the trustees of the marriage settlement of William Ormsby Gore and Mary Jane his wife, 1823, together with a covenant, abstracts of title and a coloured plan

Brogyntyn, 1698-1824, namely Sir Robert Owen of Porkington, 1696, with codicil, 1698, proved 1698; Jane Owen previously of Porkington, then of Wrexham, 1727, with codicil, 1732, proved 1733; William Ormsby of Willy Brooke [Ireland] 1737, proved 1739; Lewis Owen of Wexham, Buckinghamshire, B.D., 1735, with deposition, 1746, and administration, 1758; Margaret Godolphin of Abertanat, 1764; Francis Lord Godolphin, 1764, with codicils, 1764, 1765, proved 1766; William Owen of Porkington, 1762, proved 1767; Francis Owen of Conduit Street, St George’s [London], 1773, proved 1775; William Ormsby of Willowbrooke, Sligo, 1780; Francis Lord Godolphin, with codicil, 1784, proved 1785; Owen Ormsby of Porkington, 1804; Margaret Ormsby of Porkington and of Stanhope Street [London], Middlesex, 1805, proved 1806; Elizabeth Gore of Baker Street Marylebone, 1813, proved 1815, and part of a previous will, signed and dated 1810; and John Owen of Penrhos, Montgomeryshire, 1817, proved 1824. The file also contains the will of Hugh Owen of Woodhouse, Salop, 1764, with an official extract of the will and successive administrations, 1768 and 1773; the will of Sarah Owen of Woodhouse, 1764; and the administration of Humphrey Jones of Machynlleth, 1809.

Deeds relating to lands at Selatyn purchased by the Brogyntyn trustees from Frederick West of Culham Court, Berkshire, and later of Ruthin Castle, Denbighshire, 1707-1827. They relate to two properties in the township of Porkington, namely Pentre David, formerly owned by Thomas Hanmer, and Hen Plassey (or Blassey), formerly belonging to Edward Kynaston of Hardwick. The documents for Pentre David include a deed to lead uses of recovery on the estate of Thomas Hanmer, 1707; the wills of Thomas Hanmer, 1749/50, proved 1752, Austin Leigh of St John, Westminster [nephew of Thomas Hanmer], 1774, and William Leigh of Oswestry, 1805; a conveyance by the descendant of William Leigh’s trustee and by Rev. George Wasey and Anne Sophia his wife, and the other daughters of John Frodsham and William Frodsham [legatees in the will of William Leigh] to Frederick West, 1822; and the affidavit of Alice Davies of Oswestry, former servant to William Leigh, 1827. The deeds for Hen Plassey include the will of Edward Kynaston, 1771, proved 1772; purchase deeds from his brother Roger Kynaston to William Smith of Shrewsbury, 1786, and from the latter to Thomas Whitehurst of Pen y Clawdd, Chirk, Denbighshire, 1796; the marriage settlement of Thomas Whitehurst the younger and Sarah Edwards of Vivod, Llangollen, 1798; a deed of exchange between Thomas Whitehurst and Mary Jane Ormsby, with a bond of indemnity, 1814; assignment of the bond and conveyance by Thomas Whitehurst and Edward Whitehurst to Frederick West, of the fields comprised in the exchange, 1822; and a deed by the same parties for the sale of Hen Blassey Farm and a double pew in Selatyn church, 1822. The deed of sale includes Hen Blassey, other lands in Lower Porkington, Ty Cefn yr Eglwys and fields (named), with plan incorporated, 1827. Other items comprise an abstract of title, 1771-1825; a release by William Lloyd of Aston of two heriots issuing out of Hen Plassey, 1827; and copies (dated 1822 and 1827) of burial records of Mrs Kynaston, wife of Roger Kynaston, 1766, Victoria Kynaston, 1781, Elizabeth Smith, 1788, all in Shrewsbury, Catherine Whitehurst, 1797, and Sarah Whitehurst, 1821, both in Chirk, Rev. Thomas Hanmer of Selatyn, 1749/50, and William Frodsham of Nether Knutsford, 1809.

Miscellaneous deeds and other papers relating to lands belonging to the Brogyntyn estate, situated in Salop, Wales, London and Cornwall 1729-1830. The file contains abstracts of the marriage settlements of William Owen and Mary Godolphin, 1730, and of Owen Ormsby and Margaret Owen, 1776; abstracts of title of William Owen (3) to lands in Salop, Caernarfonshire, Denbighshire and Merioneth, 1626-1728, compiled 1729, of Mary Jane Ormsby to a leasehold messuage in Welbeck Street, Marylebone, with the stables and coach house in Easley Mews, 1760-1806, compiled [c.1810], and of Elizabeth Owen to the estate at Trewylan, Montgomeryshire, 1659-1748, purchased from John Pryce in 1748; attested copies received from Mr Jackson in 1778, of marriage settlements and associated documents of Edward Owen and Meryell Greaves, daughter of Sir Richard Greaves, 1629, Robert Owen and Mary Edisbury, 1651, Edward Owen and Sarah Cotton, 1681, and Edward Owen of Woodhouse, 1730, and an agreement by William Owen of Woodhouse to convey to Thomas Baugh the messuage of Pentre David, Selatyn, 1777; and papers from the termination of the tenancies of William Symons and William Williams on a field called Trecanpraze, Parkan Praze or Park Chapell in the parish of Sithney in the manor of Peventon, Cornwall, implemented by Arundel Rogers, agent for the Brogyntyn trustees, 1828-1830.

Bundle labelled ‘Probates etc.’ containing mainly copy wills of the Godolphin, Owen and Lyster families, 1730-1799, namely Henry Godolphin, Provost of the College of Eton, Berkshire, 1730, with codicil, 1731; Rev. Lewis Owen of Wexham, Buckinghamshire, 1735 (recte 1745), proved 1746; Elizabeth Lyster of Penrhos, Montgomeryshire, 1747, proved 1764; Elizabeth Owen [widow of Lewis Owen], 1752, with codicils, 1753, 1756; Margaret Godolphin of Abertanat, 1764; and Ellen Owen of Porkington, 1796; cases and opinions concerning devises in the wills of Francis Lord Godolphin and Margaret Godolphin to Ellen Owen and Francis Owen, 1793, and a bill to Ellen Owen for legal expenses, 1797-1799. The file also contains the administration of Rev. Richard Hughes of Dolgellau, 1826.

Deeds relating to property settled on the marriage of Owen Ormsby and Margaret Owen, 1730-1793. They include a lease to vest possession of the Brogyntyn estates [part of the marriage settlement of William Owen and Mary Godolphin] 1730, a subsequent mortgage and appointment to Francis Godolphin, trustee, 1737, and a deed for making further provision for the younger children of William Owen, 1761; a receipt by Ellen Godolphin for an annuity, 1736; articles of agreement between Jonathan Lutenor and Thomas Lutenor of Henley Green, Staffordshire, and William Owen of Porkington for making bricks, 1737; an agreement between Margaret Lloyd of Kesail Gyfarch and William Owen of Porkington to settle disputes over a way from Tu Cerrig in the parish of Penmorfa, 1741; a declaration of trust from Francis Godolphin to Mary Owen to fulfil a bequest in the will of their mother, Mary Godolphin, 1762; transcript of a recovery on the Denbighshire estate of Robert Godolphin Owen, 1767; a legal opinion on Sir Thomas Jones’s right to a heriot for premises in the manor of Aston in the county of Salop, 1769; and the marriage settlements of Margaret Owen of Porkington and Owen Ormsby of Willybrook, Sligo, Ireland, both then residing in the parish of Saint George Hanover Square, which include the leasehold property of Margaret Owen at Welbeck Street, London, with a schedule of the contents, 1776; a general release by Thomas Morris and Jane his wife [former housekeeper to Robert Godolphin Owen], 1792; and a release by Ellen Owen to Thomas James Lord Bulkeley for the purpose of severing joint tenancy of the estates of Robert Godolphin Owen, deceased, which had descended to his sisters Ellen Owen and Margaret Ormsby, 1793.

Correspondents include some of Mary Owen's children, and Ann Owen of Ynysmaengwyn on family difficulties and events surrounding a shipwreck in Aberdovey, 1739-1756.

Deed of sale by Humphrey Parry of Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire, to Margaret Godolphin of Abertanat, Salop, of parcels of meadow called Goitre Wen Ucha, Goitre Wen Issa, Brithdir, Werglodd Ucha and Werglodd Issa in Broniarth [Guilsfield] 1740, part of a messuage and lands previously mortgaged in 1737 to Humphrey Parry by John Jones of Broniarth.

Deeds relating to land at Porkington in the parish of Selatyn purchased from the trustees of the marriage settlement of George Henry Warrington of Pentre Pant, 1741-1804. They comprise copies of the post-nuptial settlements of Henry Strudwick and Mary his wife (nee Hanmer) [parents of Mary, wife of George Warrington], 1741, and of George Henry Warrington and Mary Carew, daughter of John Carew of East Anthony, Cornwall, then of North Brooke, Devon, 1796; a final concord, 1796; and deeds of sale by Rev. George Warrington, George Henry Warrington, his eldest son, and their trustees to Mary Jane Ormsby, of two pieces of land called the Big Clover Field and Little Clover Field [part of the Pentrepant estate], with a schedule of deeds incorporated, 1803, and a further deed endorsed, 1804.

Deeds relating to the estate of Edward Richardson, namely the Vron, Porkington, and other properties in the townships of Porkington, Frankton and Ebnal in the parishes of Selatyn and Whittington, comprising the post-nuptial settlement of Edward Richardson and Jane his wife, 1746, and an appointment charging the said estates with £300 for the portions of their younger children, 1772.

Attested copies of deeds relating to the estate of Sarah Owen of Woodhouse in the parish of West Felton. They comprise a conveyance by Sarah Owen to Edward Moreton of Ellesmere in trust for Hugh Owen, of the capital messuage of Woodhouse, Rednall Mill and numerous other properties in Salop and Montgomeryshire, subject to annuities charged thereon for Sarah Owen and Judith Powell the housekeeper, 1747; and a release by Mary Lloyd of Gloucester Street, St George the Martyr, Middlesex, to William Owen (previously Mostyn) of Woodhouse, of part of the estate devised by the will of Sarah Owen from an annuity of £50, 1775

Deeds relating to lands at Llandrinio, Montgomeryshire, 1747-1775. The file includes a mortgage from John Richards of Deuddwr and Martha his wife to Thomas Brown of Sweeney, of a tenement in Penrhynfechan in the parish of Llandrinio, 1747; the marriage settlement of John Richards and Martha his wife, 1747; an assignment of mortgage to Richard Powell of [Welsh]pool, 1750; the transcript of a recovery and a deed declaring uses, 1750; the will of John Richards, 1750; a settlement of David Richards, a foot soldier in Lieutenant Col. William Haviland of His Majesty’s Iniskilling Regiment commanded by Lord Blakney, 1757; releases by David Richards to the purchaser, Susannah Lyster, of a proviso and term of years comprised in the Richards family settlements, 1758; and an exchange between John Owen of Penrhos and Francis Lloyd of Domgae, of lands in Domgae [parish of Llandysilio], comprising Cae Groes, parcels in the common field called Spathadoc Field and in Cae Hen, lands mentioned in the marriage settlement of Edward Lloyd the younger and Jane Lloyd, and Cyffic, 1775; and related bonds.

Deeds relating to The Parados estate in the township of Porkington in the parish of Selatyn, purchased by the Brogyntyn trustees, 1748-1829. The file includes disentailing deeds for the estate of John Hughes of Porkington, followed by a mortgage to Peter Basnet of Wikey, 1748; another mortgage to Richard Meredeth, assigned to Hugh Owen of Woodhouse in trust, 1754; an assignment of the mortgage to William Edwards of Pentrewern, 1760, assignment of the remaining term of years to John Arther of Pentrewern in trust, 1760, and a release by John Hughes and Elizabeth his wife to William Edwards of the equity of redemption, 1763; probate of the will of Richard Hughes of Holborn Bridge, London, 1797; deeds by Richard Boodle and Theresa his wife, surviving daughter of Richard Hughes, Alexander Green Boughton, her son by her first husband, and Richard Edwards [surviving heir of William Edwards] and by Mary Rogers the elder, Thomas Rogers and Mary his wife, for suffering a joint recovery of The Parados estate and a messuage at Pentreclever, 1822; affidavits on the redemption of the mortgage and the title, 1823, 1828; a lease agreement by Alexander Green Boughton of Oswestry, 1824; two mortgages by Alexander Green Boughton, then of Manchester, to John Jones of Oswestry, 1827; a final concord and deed declaring joint uses of the fine, of The Parados to the use of Alexander Green Boughton and of other properties in the parish of St Martin to the use of Thomas Davies of Ruabon, then to his wife, Elizabeth, 1829; official reports, orders, etc. issued by the High Court of Chancery, 1828-1829; a list of deeds, 1829; the deeds of sale by John Jones of Oswestry (mortgagee), Sarah Upjohn (widow of Richard Hughes’s trustee), Alexander Green Boughton and John Hayward (trustee), to the Brogyntyn trustees to be settled to the uses of the settled estates of William Ormsby Gore and Mary Jane his wife, with a plan incorporated, 1829, and assignment of the remaining term of years by John Boodle and Mary his wife (daughter of John Arther) to Septimius Burton in trust for Thomas Netherton Parker and David Pennant, the Brogyntyn trustees, 1829