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Account books, loose accounts and receipts deriving from administration of the estates of Brogyntyn (Porkington), and Llanddyn, 1634-1852, [1882?], showing the income from rents, other profits and the usual outgoings for chief rents, tithes, taxes, poor rate, other dues and charity; disbursements for repair and maintenance of buildings, purchase and carriage of commodities, sale of livestock, employees' wages, agent's travelling expenses and subsistence.

Bills and receipts from the North Wales and Shropshire estates, mainly for foodstuffs, wines, beer, fabrics, haberdashery, clothing, shoes, repairs to household utensils, medicines and veterinary treatments purchased by Owen Wynn, 1662, Madam [Susanna] Godolphin, 1703-1705, Richard and Mary Clayton, 1708-1727, Arthur and Mary Owen of Brymbo, 1725-1739, 1750, and other members of the Owen and Ormsby-Gore families, 1714-1878.

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.