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Brogyntyn cash book labelled ‘Porkington receipts and payments book’, April-June 1845, also showing rents received by Mr McKie and costs of labourers since 14 January 1845.

Draft Porkington (Brogyntyn) rental and account for the estates in Salop, Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire for one half year ending Lady Day 1846.

A bundle of miscellaneous papers of the Brogyntyn estate, 1829-1846. It includes printed sale particulars of the Drenewydd estate in Oswestry and Whittington, 1829; lease agreements by William Ormsby Gore and Mary Jane his wife, for Grouse Lodge, Paddock Cottage, Nant Ucha and Pant Glas in the parish of Selatyn, Brick Kiln land in Oswestry and Selatyn, a blacksmith’s shop at Cefn Broniarth and property at Brithdir Coch, Guilsfield, and Haughton Farm [Llandysilio], Montgomeryshire, Gayfron Issa and parts of Llanddyn Farm, Llangollen, with occasional plans, 1832-1846; an agreement with Charles Thaxter of Pattingham for a brick and tile factory at Drenewydd, 1846; an agreement for the purchase of two houses in Selatyn from Joseph Griffiths of Wrexham, subject to a brick-making lease to John Beard, 1840; bills and receipts, mainly for building repairs at Maesgwyn [Broniarth], 1844; acreages of lands of Thomas Howell, John Parry and lands in Oswestry, 1845; a valuation of ?Wern Wen; letters to and by William Ormsby Gore, Longueville and tenants or their representatives, 1840-1842; schedules of fixtures at The Mount, indoors and outside [1842]; the petition and accounts of Edward Lawrence of Big House Farm, Whittington, 1843-1845; references for potential tenants and servants at Brogyntyn and the Blue Bell public house, 1845-1846; and papers relating to the value of goods at the White Lion, Oswestry, distrained against Robert Hughes for rent due to William Ormsby Gore, including an agreement for sale to Charles Craighill and depositions as to the grain claimed by Samuel Drury, 1846.

Form of agreement for farm from year to year, and three agreements by William Ormsby Gore for leases of Pentre David, Middleton Farm and Old Port in the parishes of Oswestry, Selatyn and Whittington, 1846.

A miscellaneous bundle apparently relating to the amendment of errors in the rentals and accounts of the Brogyntyn estate, 1834-1847. It includes several memoranda and statements of errors headed ‘Porkington Rental’, 1844-1847; the account of Edward Lloyd, 1834-1845; a letter from Mr Drinkwater of Shrewsbury about payment for a carriage road, 1836; Thomas Hill’s valuation of damage to crops by game at Old Port Farm, 1843; a bill of Thomas Pemberton for straw, 1845; and Porkington arrears lists for rents due on Lady Day 1846.

Lease by William Ormsby Gore of Porkington, Mary Jane his wife and John Ralph Ormsby Gore to John James of Borth, Caernarfonshire, of part of a farm called Borth in the parish of Ynyscynhaearn, for building two houses thereon, with plan incorporated, 1847.

Agreements by William Ormsby Gore for lease or surrender of properties in the counties of Montgomeryshire and Salop, 1837-1847. The properties include Cefn Broniarth in the parish of Guilsfield, houses sub-let by Martha Alexander of Garddlin, Big House Farm in the parish of Whittington, and three houses and a brickyard at Porkington in the parish of Selatyn. The file also contains letters to and by William Ormsby Gore, 1845-1846, one of which relates to the lease of Oerley Hall; and Mr McKie’s list of arrears.

Conveyance to the trustees of William Ormsby Gore and Mary Jane his wife, from the trustees of the will of John Bonnor of Brynygwalie, Denbighshire, of allotments in Cyrnybwch or Gowry Bank, Selatyn, incorporating a plan and schedule, 1848, with an abstract of title of the testator’s son, Richard Bonnor Maurice Bonnor, 1784-1848.

Papers relating to the Penrhos and Cemmes (Cemais) estates in Montgomeryshire, formerly belonging to John Owen, which descended to Mary Jane Ormsby Gore, 1788-1848. The file may have been compiled for the purposes of a mortgage by William Ormsby Gore and Mary Jane his wife to Samuel George Pechell, Richard Grose Burfoot and Jonathan Bullock in 1828, with later additions, 1830, 1848. The contents include a copy of an Act for enclosing the commons within the manors of Streetmarshal (Ystrad Marchell), Tirymynech and Deytheur (Deuddwr), 1788; a book of reduced maps of the Penrhos estate with acreages and valuations, 1796, and loose maps, 1827; lease agreements for Tanyglanney, Galltybibilfa, Dolyscelog and Cammes mansion in the parish of Cemais, 1802-1814, and a lease of Penrhos, 1824; rentals of the Penrhos estates in the manors of Broniarth and Deuddwr, 1828, and part of the Cemais estate, 1830; a copy of the burial record of John Owen at Trinity Chapel (1823); a valuation of Penrhos by Thomas Kyffin; pedigrees of Penelope Owen of Abertanat and of the descendants of Sir Robert Owen of Porkington; schedules of deeds; abstracts of title to the Penrhos and Cemmes Bychan estates, and queries; an abstract of the Deuddwr award of 1799 as an additional abstract of the title of Mrs Ormsby Gore to the Penrhos estate; solicitors’ accounts and correspondence, 1828; and an agreement by William Ormsby Gore and Mary Jane his wife with Richard Grose Burfoot and Jonathan Bullock with respect to the interest on the mortgages and the continuance of the securities for the term mentioned, 1848.

Miscellaneous bundle of letters and papers relating to management of the Brogyntyn estate, 1841-1848. The letters, mainly to William Ormsby Gore and Longueville and Co., are from Robert Grindley, John Hayward of Oswestry, the Misses Lyon and William Mckie, concerning tenancy matters and properties at Big House Farm, Whittington, Oerley Hall and Drenewydd, a valuation at Cae Eithin and applications to open another stone quarry adjoining Portryddyn [Llanfihangel-y-Pennant], with some copies of replies, 1841-1846. The file also contains a lease agreement by William Ormsby Gore for the Keepers Fields in the township of Porkington in the parish of Selatyn, 1846; a printed form of agreement 184[?]; a valuation of lands in Whittington agreed to be exchanged between William Ormsby Gore and R.H. Kinchant, 1848; accounts of Thomas Hughes and others for building a new church at Penrhos, a farm house at Carnbwl, and estate work at Drenewydd, Pant Glas and Llangollen, with relevant agents’ letters, 1844-1846; an agreement by Jonathan Jones to build piggeries and a stable at the White Lion Inn, Oswestry, 1846; a bill of William Vaughan for ironmongery, 1846; a valuation of Drenewydd and delapidations by Frederick Wehnert, architect, 1843; notices served on John Jones, draper, at Llangollen, and on representatives of the late Edward Thomas of Myddelton, Oswestry, 1846; and an extract of the letters of administration of Patrick Jones of Llangollen, 1818, taken from the records of the Consistory Court of St Asaph, 1848.

Transfer by Mary Owen to Methusalem Jones of the lease of land with three cottages erected thereon called Dopog in the parish of Ffestiniog, Merioneth, previously part of the farm of Tan y Grissiau, 1850, originally leased by William Ormsby Gore of Porkington, Mary Jane his wife and John Ralph Ormsby Gore to the said Mary Owen in 1844

Lease by William Ormsby Gore of Porkington, Mary Jane his wife and John Ralph Ormsby Gore to William Williams of Portmadoc, Caernarfonshire, of part of a farm called Borth-y-gest in the parish of Ynyscynhaearn, for building one or more houses thereon, with plan in margin, 1851.

Petition to the High Court of Chancery for the replacement of William Ormsby Gore as trustee of the will of General John Despard of Swanhill, Salop, with related papers including an affidavit, acknowledgements, an undertaking by James W. Freshfields, copies and minutes of court orders, and letters to Longueville and Co. 1853-1854.

Conveyance of two cottages and a piece of land in Willow Street, Oswestry, purchased in parts of one eighth and seven-eighths by the trustees of William Ormsby Gore and Mary Jane, his wife, from the trustees of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn of Wynnstay and his mortgagee, Margaret Dowager Lady Willoughby de Broke, 1854. Incorporates plans and schedules of deeds, 1773-1853

Papers relating to unspecified freehold properties in Caernarfonshire in mortgage to the late Ellis Williams, 1854. The file contains a copy of Mr Surman’s charges upon reconveyance to William Ormsby Gore, a list of title deeds of the property to secure the mortgage, 1686-1832, letters and telegrams by and to Longueville and Co. and to William Ormsby Gore.

Journal of W.R. Ormsby Gore, 2nd Lord Harlech of the 13th Light Dragoons, 10th May to 1st September 1854, containing a detailed daily record of his voyage to the Dardanelles during the Crimean War, describing places visited on the way and life in camp on arrival. There are remarks on Lord Cardigan, Lord Raglan, other officers, soldiers and local inhabitants. The journal concludes a few weeks before the regiment’s involvement in the Charge of the Light Brigade.

Volume entitled ‘Mrs and Mrs Ormsby Gore’s trust’ (2 copies) containing statements of various sales and purchases made by the trustees of William and Mary Jane Ormsby Gore under Act of Parliament of 1821 and under the will of Ellen Owen, 1804-1842, and by the trustees of the marriage settlement of John Ralph Ormsby Gore, 1848-1858.

Surrender by Caroline Low of Richmond Place, Dublin, and Edward Sutton Low to William Ormsby Gore of leases of one third part of the town and lands of Gulladuff called Denahoes Gulladuff in the Barony of Carrigallen, Leitrim, Ireland, 1788, and the other two thirds of Gulladuff, 1790, all previously leased to Nathaniel Low, with a release from rents and covenants, 1859.

Will of William Ormsby Gore of Porkington, MP, made 1853, with codicils, 1854 and 1856, proved 1860.

Wills and executors’ accounts of various members of the Owen and Ormsby Gore families of Brogyntyn, of their Maurice ancestors, and of the Godolphin and Lyster families who were linked to them by marriage. The files contain the wills of Dame Ellin Eure, 1626, miscellaneous Owen, Ormsby Gore, Godolphin and Lyster family members, 1698-1826, William Owen, 1767 (Watermark 1804), Ellen Owen, 1802, Margaret Ormsby [1806], and William Ormsby Gore, 1860.