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D239 - FitzHerbert family of Tissington - [16th-20th cent]

BOX - FitzHerbert family of Tissington: box-listed records - [18th-20th cent]

E - Estate records

M - FitzHerbert of Tissington: records - [12th-20th cent]

E - Estate records - 1380-1940

1 - Bond in £32 by William FitzHerbert of Tissington esq. to Raph Wright of Tissington gent. to observe conditions of bargain and sale of even date - 20 Nov 1656

1-71 - Tissington

2 - Bond in £640 by William Froggatt sen. of Ashbourne yeoman, and his sons William, Thomas, and Adin to Robert Smith and Robert Fletcher of Tissington yeoman - to support D239 M/T 123-124. Dated 16 August - 1671

3 - Bond in £300 by Anthony and Thomas Goodwin of Haddon husbandmen to John Greaves of Whitwell clerk - to support D239 M/T 69. Dated 3 July - 1676

4 - Bond in £60 by John Ensor of Tissington yeoman and Richard Ensor of Ilam clerk to Humphrey Manyfould of Ashbourne yeoman - to support D239 M/T 89-90 - 4 Mar [1684]

5 - Bond in £495 by Robert Smith and William Smith of Tissington yeomen to Robert Hayward of Carsington gent. - to support D239 M/T 128-129. - 1 Feb [1687]

6 - Bond in £20 by William Wallnanke of Tissington husbandmen to Thomas Ward of Shirley Lodge yeoman - to support D239 M/T 92-93. Dated 30 Mar - 1692

7 - Abstract of the title of Samuel Hayward, 1652-1701 - 1711

8 - Bond in £200 by Thomas Fletcher of Tissington yeoman to Dorothy Wood of Ashbourne spinster - to support D239 M/T 54. Dated 9 May - 1705

9 - Receipt from Thomas Taylor and Mary his wife, executrix and devisee of Dorothy Wood her sister, to William FitzHerbert for £105 12s 6d due upon the mortgage of the Backmoore: Dated 24 June - 1712

10 - Receipt from Hugh Bateman to John and Robert Goodale, executors of Robert Goodale, of £2 10s paid to Bateman's wife on a purchase made from Bateman of lands of the deceased in Tissington. - 2 Jan [1721]

11 - Receipt from Thomas Gisborne to William FitzHerbert for interest on loans - 1741

12 - Bond in £1200 by William FitzHerbert of Tissington esq. to Thomas Gisborne of Derby esq. Dated 25 Mar - 1748

13 - Copy of a common recovery by William FitzHerbert against Thomas Gregg: as D239 M/T 115. Dated 25 November - 1749

14 - Bond in £1400 by Brooke Boothby of Ashbourne Hall esq. to William FitzHerbert of Tissington esq. Dated 22 June - 1752

15-16 - Bond in £400 by William FitzHerbert to Brian Hodgson of Buxton gent. Dated 5 August 1756; receipt dated 12 December - 1756-1766

17 - Bond in £200 by William FitzHerbert to Richard Mellor of Wirksworth surgeon - Dated 31 November - 1757

18 - Release and quitclaim by Thomas Bedford of Ashbourne gent. to William FitzHerbert. Dated 4 October - 1763

19 - Bond in £600 by William FitzHerbert to Hugh Bateman of Derby esq. Dated 5 October - 1770

20 - Bond in £800 by William FitzHerbert to Ann Brothwell of Derby spinster to secure to Ann an annuity of £40. Dated 12 June - 1773

21 - Bond in £4800 by Samuel Haslam of Woodeaves in Tissington gent. to Rev. John Griffith of Handsworth (co. York) - to support D239 M/T 423-424. Dated 5 April - 1775

22 - Authorization from George Buckston to William FitzHerbert to pay interest on mortgage to Dr. Beridge. Dated 12 October - 1780

23 - Bond in £400 by William FitzHerbert to Ann Brothwell of Derby spinster. Dated 25 Mar - 1781

24 - Draft assignment of a term in trust by William Etches to William Philip Perron - 1781

25 - Valuation of the lives of William and Mary Etches - 1766-1781

26 - Bond in £410 by Daniel Dalrymple of Burton-on-Trent gent. to William Osborne jun. of Ashbourne gent. - to support D239 M/T 248-249. Dated 20 October - 1787

27 - Draft lease and release by Thomas Greensmith to Sir William FitzHerbert of a messuage and garden in Tissington - 1788

28 - Bond in £30 by Thomas Greensmith to Sir William FitzHerbert - to support D239 M/T 169-170. Dated 29 Jan - 1788

29 - Draft lease and release by Thomas Edensor and Maud his wife to Sir William FitzHerbert: Dated 4/5 April - 1789

30 - Bond in £1200 by Thomas and Edward Edensor to Francis Johnson - to support D239 M/T 187-188. Dated 4 June - 1788

31 - Abstract of title of John Goodale - 1790

32 - Copy of common recovery - 1791

33 - Copy of release: with abstract of same - 1791

34 - Abstract of title of the late William Roe to a messuage and lands in Parwich - c.1804

35 - Abstract of title to lands at Tissington sold by the Ensors to Henry Hayward - 1809

36 - Abstract of title of the Ensors to lands in Tissington - 1809

37 - Abstract of title of William Osborne to land in Tissington - 1811

38 - Bond in £8000 by John Cooper of Mathfield (co. Stafford) to Joseph Strutt of Derby esq. - to support D239 M/T 440-441. Dated 9 April - 1810

39-45 - Abstracts of title to lands of James Osborne with bond by Osborne to Sir Henry FitzHerbert - 1819

46 - Abstract of title of William Hayward to lands in Tissington - 1819

47 - Bond in £2000 by William Smith of the Bent in Tissington farmer and Sir Henry FitzHerbert to Thomas Maskery of Norbury gent. Dated 6 April - 1822

48 - Bond in £1520 by William Smith to Sir Henry FitzHerbert. Dated 10 October - 1828

49 - Bond in £2000 by Sir Henry FitzHerbert to Anna Maria Ensor of Stapenhill widow - to support D239 M/T 291-292. Dated 11 October - 1831

50 - Abstract of title of Charles Hill et al. to lands in Tissington - 1837

51-57 - Copy parish register entries, etc. of members of Ensor family relating to - 1770-1837

58 - Observations and requisitions on title, as D239/M/E/50 - 1837

59-60 - Abstracts of title to the Hollington and Green Moor Pastures - 1831

61-63 - Pedigree of the Goodwin family (1746-1847) with copies of parish register entries (1746-1806), and abstracts of title to lands in Tissington - 1848

64 - Abstract of title of Mrs Mary Brownson to a close in Parwich sold to John Goodwin Johnson - 1853

65 - Abstract of title of Martha Elizabeth Goodwin Johnson et al. to lands in Tissington - 1872

66-67 - Abstracts of title of Frances Fayrer to lands in Parwich and Tissington - 1874

68 - Abstract of title of the devisees for sale under the will of John Goodwin Johnson to a rentcharge in Tissington - 1878

69 - Abstract of title of George Finney to the Green Moors - 1878

70 - Abstract of title of Charles Etches to closes in Tissington - 1900

71 - Abstract of title of Rev. John Phillips to a rent-charge - 1903

72 - Bond in £40 by John and Thomas Milward to John Hampson - to support D239 M/T 492-493. Dated 24 April - 1700

72-116 - Fenny Bentley

73 - Abstract of the title of John Allcock to the Pasture Topps - 1738

74 - Summons to Edmund Buxton to appear before the barons of the Exchequer. Dated 24 November - 1775

75 - Copy certificate of burial of Sir William FitzHerbert at Tissington - 1791

76 - Bond in £80 by William Greatorex to Thomas Hemsworth: Dated 27 April - 1795

77-78 - Bonds in £4000 and £1,999 by Richard Beresford to Rev. Richard Lickorish - to support D239 M/T 559. Dated 6 June - 1803

79 - Abstract of title of Richard Beresford to an estate at Fenny Bentley - 1815

80-85 - Abstracts of title to an estate in Fenny Bentley, abstracts of leases, and schedule of title deeds, purchased by Sir Henry FitzHerbert from Richard Beresford - 1821

86 - Abstract of title of lands sold by Anna Maria Ensor and William Ensor to Sir Henry FitzHerbert - 1824

87 - Bond in £2976 by Sir Henry FitzHerbert to Anna Maria Ensor of Stapenhill widow and William Ensor of Tissington yeoman - to support D239 M/T 594-595. Dated 25 Mar - 1825

88 - Copy parish register entries relating to Buxton family - 1834

89 - Abstract of title of Joseph Woolley to a messuage and croft - 1835

90-94 - Abstracts of title to to an estate of John Buxton in Fenny Bentley - 1838

95-96 - Declaration concerning pedigree of the Bateman family - 1839

97 - Abstract of title of William Hunt to premises at Fenny Bentley - 1847

98-99 - Abstracts of title to lands of the late Richard Milward - 1849

100 - Chancery order appointing John Carrington jun. a trustee of the will of Richard Milward - 1852

101-112 - Copy parish register entries of Morton family, and abstract of title to a messuage and premises in Fenny Bentley - 1854

113 - Abstract of title to a messuage etc - 1854

114-116 - Succession duty accounts and abstract of title, three messuages and Gilman's Croft - 1868-1869

117-118 - Extracts of letters of administration of the estate of Randolph Ralph Adderley - 1855-1856

117-158 - Thorpe

119-124 - Abstracts of title, requisitions, opinions etc., Adderley estate - 1869

125 - Sale catalogue of freehold estate, manorial rights etc., plan, and statutory declarations - 1869

126-135 - Extracts from parish registers etc. relating to the Adderley family - 1869

136-141 - Abstracts of title etc. to beastgates in Thorpe Upper Pasture - 1854-1873

142-143 - Abstracts of title to the Dog and Partridge - 1873

144-150 - Abstracts of title, requisitions, etc. to beastgates in Thorpe Upper Pasture - 1878-1879

151-153 - Abstracts of title to a beastgate and sheepgates in Thorpe Upper Pasture - 1875-1879

154-157 - Conditions of sale and abstracts of title to beastgates in Thorpe Lower Pasture - 1880-1881

158 - Abstract of title to beastgates in Thorpe Upper Pasture - 1881

159 - Mr Ferrer's case concerning his title to Bradbourne and Lea Hall purchased by Sir Humphrey Ferrers - 1673

159-181 - Lea Hall and Bradbourne

160 - Bond in £7000 by John Ferrers to Samuel Swan - to support D239 M/T 778. Dated 10 September - 1673

161 - Receipt from Thomas Nicholls and Joseph Heath for £10 received from Samuell Swann, being a rent payable to the poor of Tamworth under the will of Sir John Ferrers. Dated 27 December - 1768

162 - Abstract of deeds, relating to the title of the Lea Hall estate, 1673-1730 - 1788

163 - Memoranda of descendants of Samuel Swann; undated

164 - Contract for redemption of land tax on an estate in Tissington and Lea, the property of Samuel Swan. Dated 25 April - 1799

165 - Bond in £6000 by Samuel Sanders to Gilbert Maltby - to support D239 M/T 821-822. Dated 19 Mar - 1831

166-174 - Abstracts of title etc. to the manor of Bradbourne - 1818-1837

175-179 - Drafts of D239 M/T 773-778 - 1837

180-181 - Abstract of title to lands in Kniveton and Bradbourne - 1893

182-194 - Abstracts of title to the Bagshaw estates in Chapel-en-le Frith - c.1719

182-197 - Chapel-en-le Frith

195 - Opinion on title of Mr Bagshaw;

196-197 - Quitclaims of Percival Haslam et al. to William FitzHerbert arising out of estates in Chapel-en-le Frith - 1744-1756

198-200 - Abstract of title of Mr Bagshaw to estates in Atlow, Wensley, and Tideswell - c.1719

198-205 - Atlow, Wensley, Tideswell

201 - An abstract of the estate of William FitzHerbert at Darley, Atlow, and Tideswell - 1744

202 - An account of old writings and deeds to be delivered to George Wall, purchaser of an estate in Wensley - 1749

203 - Draft abstract of deeds to be engrossed and to be annexed to a deed of conveyance from William FitzHerbert to George Wall - 1749

204 - Articles of agreement between William FitzHerbert of Tissington esq. and Daniel Taylor of Tideswell sadler whereby FitzHerbert will convey to Taylor the reversion of freeholds in Tideswell. Dated 12 October - 1749

205 - Draft mortgage in fee of Atlow Farm by William FitzHerbert to Thomas Evans of Derby ironmonger. Consideration £800. Dated 19 July 1766. Release dated 3 August 1773 - 1766-1773

206-210 - Melbourne

206-210 - Miscellaneous papers concerning title of John Pegg of Melbourne and Francis Goodale - 1834-1847

211-13 - Abstracts of title - 1835

211-214 - Calton (co. Stafford)

214 - Copy decision of assistant tithe commissioner for Calton and Blore - 1842

215 - Copy of a final concord between Robert FitzHerbert and Dorothy his wife and Francis FitzHerbert and Ann his wife of the one part and John and Thomas Gell of the other of land in Weston Underwood.

215 - Weston Underwood

216 - Lease for 21 years terminable on death by Sir Thomas Cokayne of Ashbourne and Dorothy his wife to Robert Balle of Tissington husbandman of a messuage and appurtenances. Consideration £20. Rent 26s 8d. Timber and mineral rights reserved. Dated 10 October - 1582

216-240 - Leases

216-5277 - Tissington

217 - Lease for 21 years by Edward Cokayne of Pooley (co. Warwick) to Thomas Ball of Pooley yeoman of two messuages in Tissington, one from 25 March 1605, the other from 25 March 1606; rent for both 36s. Timber and mineral rights reserved. Lessee to keep a hound. Dated 29 March Endorsed: "And the sayd Thomas Ball doth covenante and promys to doe to his sayd maister true and faithfull service and not to departe from his sayd maister without his maister's good will and consent first had and obtayned" - 1597

218-219 - Lease and counterpart for 21 years from 25 March next by Rachel FitzHerbert of the parish of All Saints, Derby widow, and William FitzHerbert of Tissington esq. to William Smith of Hollington End in the parish of Thorpe yeoman of the following closes in Tissington, containing in all 81 acres 1 rood 10 perches: Hollington Hedge, the Little Harlow, the Nearer Darfield, and the Rushey Cliffe. Rent £36 10s. (£26 to Rachel, £10 10s to William). Lessee to pay £5 a year for every acre ploughed over and above the 6 acres in Nether Darfield for the first 16 years, and thereafter £5 for every acre ploughed over and above 4 acres. Lessee to retain from his rent £3 a year for 4 years in consideration of a barn built by the lessee upon Darfield. Timber rights reserved. Dated 11 November Endorsed: (1) In consideration of £15, Smith gives up his right to Upper Darfield, 29 December 1753; (2) Smith surrenders remaining term in consideration of sum of £3 3s. 10 October 1760 - 1745

220 - Lease for 21 years from 25 March last past by William FitzHerbert of Tissington esq. to John Hardy of the Brookwood in Tissington farmer of the Further Dorfield otherwise South Dorfield, and Gravener Croft adjoining, and a parcel of land called Park Irons adjoining the Brookwood. Timber rights reserved. Rent £33 10s. Dated 25 March - 1746

221-222 - Lease and counterpart for the natural life of the lessee and his two sons John and Francis Millward from 25 March next by Rachel FitzHerbert of Derby widow and William FitzHerbert of Tissington esq. to Robert Millward of the Shaws, Tissington, yeoman of a farmhouse called the Shaws together with the following closes: the Great Shaw, Fletchers Pingle, Nether Furney Cliffe, Over Furney Cliffe, Middle Pingle, Furney Pingle, Bilberry Bank, Middle Meadow, Chicken Meadow, Hullands Half, Flackett Botham otherwise Upper Backett, Highway Pingle, the Town Meadow, the Bull Slack, Upper Back Moor, and the Freeholders Furney Cliffe, containing in all 237 acres 1 rood 31 perches. Rent £117. Timber rights reserved. No date - 1750

223 - Agreement between William FitzHerbert and Edward Edensor that Edensor shall take on lease for 21 years from 25 Mar 1752 the farm now in the tenure of Thomas Gould - 3 Mar [1751]

224 - Lease for 21 years from 25 March last past by Rachel FitzHerbert of Derby widow and William FitzHerbert of Tissington esq. to Thomas Fletcher of Tissington butcher of a messuage in Tissington with a garden and stable, the Goslands, the Nether Fields, and Applebys Croft. Rent £26. Dated 3 July - 1754

225 - Counterpart of a lease for 21 years from 25 Mar last past by William FitzHerbert of Tissington esq. to Edmund Buxton Goodwin of Tissington yeoman of the Back Moor containing 170 acres, reserving to the lessor access to Dovedale and a stable near the Dove. Rent £52 14s. Lessee not to plough more than 3 acres in the first 3 years of the term; lessee to enclose at his own expense two new brecks, each of 8 acres, and each enclosed with a wall, and each spread over with six cart-loads of lime to an acre, each cartload to contain at least 20 strikes; when the two new brecks have been prepared, the lessee is to plough a piece of land called the Old Breck containing about 8 acres and to lime it in like manner; when the Old Breck has been ploughed 3 years, the lessee may not have ploughed in any one year more than one of the brecks, which are to be tilled 3 years in rotation. If the lessee pastures sheep of persons not resident in or not holding land in Tissington, the lessor is to be entitled to the customary payment of 1d a sheep and ½d a hogg. Lessor to have the right to enclose 1 rood of land adjoining the stable. Dated 6 May - 1755

226-227 - Lease and counterpart for 21 years from 25 March last past by Rachel FitzHerbert of Derby widow and William FitzHerbert of Tissington esq. to Thomas Callon of Ashbourne tobacconist of North Darfield (60 acres) with a barn thereon. Rent £20. Dated 2 May - 1758

228 - Counterpart of a lease for 21 years from 6 April next by William FitzHerbert of Tissington esq. to John Latham of Tissington yeoman of Daykins Croft, Hollington Hedge, and Rushey Cliffys, containing 14 acres in all. Timber and mineral rights reserved. Rent £12 10s. Dated 19 November - 1761

229 - Lease for 21 years from 6 April next by William FitzHerbert of Tissington esq. and Rachel FitzHerbert of Derby widow to John Latham of Tissington yeoman of the Narlow, the Crofts, the Middle Backmoor, Pipers Pingle, containing in all 87 acres. Rent £41. Lessor or his son to have the right to re-occupy the Crofts at a reduction in rent of £12. Dated 11 Mar - 1763

230 - Assignment of a lease for remainder of term of 21 years by Elizabeth Milward, executrix of the will of William Milward of Bent in the parish of Tissington yeoman, her late husband, to Robert Milward of the Shaws, Tissington, of the Bent Farm containing 47 acres 2 roods 10 perches, reciting lease of 23 Mar 1752 from Rachel FitzHerbert widow and William FitzHerbert esq. to William Milward at a rent of £81 15s. Robert is to hold the lease in trust for Elizabeth, and if she dies, then in trust for her son William. Dated 14 Jan - 1763

231-232 - Lease and counterpart for 21 years by William FitzHerbert of Tissington esq. to John Hardy of Tissington husbandman of the house now occupied by Hardy and the following parcels of land, containing in all 95 acres, and 17 perches: Upper Higgen, Nether Higgen, Over Pingle, the Eln Close, Nether Pingle, the [ ] Close, the Three Day Math Close, the Near Knowl Close, the Far Close, the Bean Close, Park Iron Close, the Codlow, and the Neather Darfield. Timber and mineral rights reserved. Rent £73. Dated 5 April - 1766

233-234 - Lease and counterpart for 21 years from 5 April last past by William FitzHerbert of Tissington esq. to Robert Smith of Tissington Miller of a water corn mill. Rent £6. Dated 10 September - 1766

235 - Lease for 21 years from 5 April last past by William FitzHerbert of Derby esq. to Joseph Gibbs of Tissington husbandman of a messuage and the following parcels of land in Tissington containing in all 106 acres 2 roods: the Callow Close, the Over Meadow, the Wood in two Parts, the Bean Close, the Nether Meadow, the Over Crabtree Close, the Nether Crabtree Close, the Thistley Close, the Brown, the Well Pingle, the Nook Pingle, the Hole Brooks in six parts, the Nether Copys, the Middle Copys, and the Far Copys. Timber and mineral rights reserved. Rent £100. Lessee to deliver annually to lessor one cartload of Denby coals. Dated 26 September - 1767

236 - Lease for 99 years terminable on death by William FitzHerbert of Tissington esq. to John Millward of the Shaw, Tissington, farmer of property as in D239/M/E/221-222. Rent £149. Dated 5 April - 1773

237 - Rough draft of D239/M/E/236 - 1773

238 - Memorandum of an agreement whereby John Latham for and on behalf of William FitzHerbert has let to John Ensor of Tissington farmer all that farmhouse and land which Ensor now rents from the lessor, containing in all 358 acres 3 roods 21 perches. The lease to run from year to year at a rent of £305. Dated 16 October - 1773

239 - Lease for 21 years by Sir William FitzHerbert of Tissington Bt. to Francis Hardy of Tissington farmer of a water corn mill. Rent £13. Dated 7 April. Endorsed: rent reduced to £7 on account of ruinous state of the mill - 1787

240 - Rough draft of D239/M/E/239 - 1787

241 - Draft rental - 1654

241-245 - Rentals and Surveys

242-243 - Mr FitzHerbert's rental for a year's rent payable half-yearly at Michaelmas 1734 and Lady Day 1735, including rents in Fairfield, Bentley, Sheen, and Longnor - [1735]

244 - Particular of the Tissington estate - [18th cent]

245 - Valuation and survey of the Tissington estate - [c1770s]

246-270 - Half-yearly rentals, Michaelmas and Lady Day, with estate accounts - 1771-1785

246-271 - Rentals and accounts of John Latham, Steward.

271 - Volume of Tissington rents reserved, arranged alphabetically - 1771-1790

272-308 - Rentals - 1791-1809

272-389 - Rentals of Francis and John Bereford, Stewards and agents.

309-389 - Rentals of John Beresford - 1809-1833

390-425 - Rentals and accounts for the Derbyshire and Staffordshire estate of Sir Henry FitzHerbert - 1834-1857

390-425 - Rentals and accounts of John Cruse, agent.

426 - Draft Tissington rental - Early 19th cent.

426-428 - Miscellaneous rentals

427 - Particular and proposed rental of an estate in Bentley and Tissington purchased from Mr Irving by Sir Henry FitzHerbert - 1846

428 - John Brealey in account with Sir William FitzHerbert for one year's rents due from the Derbyshire and Staffordshire estate - 1887

429-439 - John Beresford's accounts: 1805-6, 1808-09, 1809-17 - 1805-1817

429-1636 - Accounts and vouchers to account

440-659 - John Beresford's vouchers to account: 1802-4, 1806-7, 1820, 1823 - 1802-1823

660-1636 - John Cruso's vouchers to account - 1834-1857

1637 - "The disbursements of the fines paid and to be paid, the 11 of May next" - 1654

1637-2123 - Estate Bills and receipts

1638 - "Beane money disbursed", 1658, "Part of next Lady Day rents received aforhand and disbursed", 1659; "A breviat of this last halfe yeare's expence in the house and stables", 3 April 1656; "Account of the beastgates and sheep-gate on Hollington...", 1655-56; "Michaelmas rents and the payments for the Windmill Field disbursed", 1655; "Michaelmas rents disbursed", 1655; "Beanes dried, sold, and for seed", 1655-56 - 1655-1659

1639 - Estate accounts - 1668-1670

1640-1697 - Bills and receipts, including work on the school and Tissington Hall, bills for garden seed, for work on the Bent Farm, for the carriage of hounds from Ireland, and for blacksmith's work - 1772-1775

1698-1857 - Bills and receipts, including work on Back Moor Barn, John Smith's barn, painting Tissington Hall, a new house at Gorsey Gate, Sharplow Dale House, and work done in and about Tissington Hall - 1776-1782

1858-1953 - Bills and receipts, including work on the chancel roof, the purchase of saplings, expenses of attending mules on a journey to London, and expenses of building a stable - 1783-1790

1954-61 - Receipts for a rent charge from Trough's pasture - 1772-1777

1962-66 - Receipts for interest paid to John Edensor on a mortgage of £600 - 1772-1777

1967-1998 - Receipts for interest paid to George Buckston on a mortgage of £1200 (1772-80) and for interest paid to John Beridge on a mortgage of £3000 (1780-91) - 1772-1791

1999-2028 - Receipts for interest paid to William Etches on a mortgage of £600 - 1772-1791

2029-2066 - Receipts for interest paid to Richard and Martha Mellor on a mortgage of £1500 - 1772-1791

2067-2096 - Receipts for interest paid to Thomas Evans on a mortgage of £2000 - 1772-1789

2097-2106 - Receipts for salary paid to John Latham - 1786-1791

2107-2111 - Receipts for payments to James Redfearn for care of the nursery fences - 1787-1791

2112-2115 - Receipts for interest paid to Francis Johnson - 1789-1791

2116-2123 - Receipts for rent received from Francis Hardy - 1780-1786

2124-2161 - Tissington and country bills and receipts - 1803-1807

2124-4153 - Nineteenth century bills and receipts

2162-2180 - Bills and receipts for draining the Shaws - 1815-1817

2181-2410 - Tissington and country bills and receipts, including work at Bent Farm 1822-23 - 1819-1829

2411-4147 - Tissington and country bills - 1830-1857

4148-4153 - Odd bills - 1859-1889

4154-55 - Day labour - 1808-1822

4154-4162 - Account books

4156 - Day labour - 1813-1821

4157 - Day labour - 1847-1851

4158 - Day labour; Carpenter and bricklayer - 1849-1858

4159 - Sadler's account - 1851

4160 - Carter's account book - 1851-1855

4161 - Work in churchyard - 1853-1854

4162 - Stock and dairy produce sold - 1872-1893

4163-4177 - Miscellaneous correspondence - 1749-1788

4163-4636 - Estate correspondence

4178-4187 - Correspondence from Francis Beresford to William FitzHerbert - 1778-1780

4188-4189 - Two letters from Anthony Maynard at Chesterfield to Sir William FitzHerbert: Dr Denman is disposed to let Sir William have the Shaws by purchase or exchange, though he prefers the latter. Dated 8 & 29 June - 1789

4190-4196 - Correspondence from Lady Sarah FitzHerbert to Francis Beresford - 1793-1794

4197-4200 - Correspondence connected with the projected leasing of Tissington Hall: Francis Beresford to Lady Moslyn and others - 1794

4201-4305 - Estate correspondence of John Beresford, including many draft or copy letters from Beresford to Sir Henry FitzHerbert. The greater part of the correspondence dates from 1820 and includes: - Correspondence related to the projected purchase of the Woodeaves farm from Mr Cooper, 1820 (D239/M/E/4203-09) - Correspondence with Samuel Harding, surveyor and land agent, concerning a reduction of rents on the Tissington estate, 1821-22 (D239/M/E/4214-30) - Correspondence relating to the purchase of land in Fenny Bentley from the Ensor family, 1825-26 (4238-51) - Beresford to Sir Henry FitzHerbert commenting on Tissington rent day, the low price of cheese, and the consequent unfavourable trading at the Ashbourne and Derby cheese fairs (1 April 1826: D239/M/E/4252) - Correspondence relating to the purchase of a tenement in Tissington from Mr Carrington, 1827 (D239/M/E/4259-61) - Beresford to Sir Henry FitzHerbert, reporting that Ellen Smith wishes to retire as schoolmistress of Tissington; William Hand's wife has proposed her lame daughter as a suitable successor, 20 Feb 1827 (D239/M/E/4262-63) - Beresford to Sir Henry FitzHerbert, reporting on the Tissington rent day; "your principal tenants have unfortunately been reduced to the necessity of buying hay, which, the price being from £11-£12 a ton, is most ruinous to them" 31 Mar 1827 (D239/M/E/4266) - Correspondence concerning the responsibilities of tenants to maintain their property and to consume hay and straw on the premises, 1828 (D239/M/E/4274-80) - Correspondence relating to paying off the mortgage on the Bentley estate 1828 (D239/M/E/4284-88) - 1805-1829

4306-4393 - Estate correspondence of John Beresford, including letters relating to William Allsop and the termination of his tenancy, and letters and papers relating to a dispute with William Hayward over the payment of various bills - 1830

4394-4434 - Estate correspondence of John Beresford, including letters relating to the purchase of Hollington Pasture, and letters relating to the conveyance of the Audley minerals sold by Charles Meynell to Sir John Boughey - 1831-1833

4435-4534 - Estate correspondence of John Cruso, including: - 1833-1857

4535-4542 - Correspondence from James Hardy, bailiff of Tissington, to Sir Henry FitzHerbert, including: - Work has started on draining the Shaws; seeks advice on whom to employ - "if it was not for your kind attention to the welfare of Tissington, more than two-thirds of the Tissington labourers would want relief at this time". 8 November 1816 (D239/M/E/4535) - Reports on progress of draining the Shaws and a dispute over the best method of proceeding, 28 November 1816 (D239/M/E/4536) - Rainwater has penetrated the roof of the Hall and damaged the dining-room. 20 December (D239/M/E/4537) - Encloses an account of masons' work; the drought continues. 11 June 1818 (D239/M/E/4540) - The hay harvest has been completed successfully; the repairs to the chancel have been finished. 5 August 1819 (D239/M/E/4541) - 1816

4543-4625 - Miscellaneous estate correspondence - 1816-1894

4626-4636 - Miscellaneous correspondence - 1891-1902

4637-4678 - Seventeenth and eighteenth century papers, including Agreement between William FitzHerbert of Tissington esq. and Richard and John Edensor of the same place, yeoman, by the arbitration of Rowland Okeover of Okeover (co. Stafford) and Henry Buxton of Bradbourne, whereby the Edensors are to pay William FitzHerbert £6 13s 4d on 12 October next and to release and confirm to him by Michaelmas next all lands under dispute in Windmill Field in Tissington, notwithstanding a lease made by the commissioners for sale of delinquents' lands to John Edensor, Robert Bosterne, and Thomas Mellor. Dated 10 August 1658 (D239/M/E/4637) 1658 Survey of lands in Tissington (D239/M/E/4638) 1722 List of title deeds delivered up by William FitzHerbert to Mr Twigg as security for £1200. Dated 2 Jan (D239/M/E/4641) 1749/50 John Beighton's bill for surveying and mapping lands in Tissington (D239/M/E/4643) 1765 Case with counsel's opinion in a dispute between William FitzHerbert and Edmund Buxton Goodwin over a lease held by the latter (D239/M/E/4647) 1777 Draft minutes of a meeting of the proprietors of Tissington Pasture (D239/M/E/4650) 1788 `A method of draining land', undated (D239/M/E/4670) Plan of Bowlow Plantations, undated (D239/M/E/4671) - 1658-1800

4637-4775 - Estate Papers

4679-4775 - Nineteenth century papers - 1801-1893

4776 - "Henry" accounts kept by Augusta FitzHerbert - 1849-1850

4776-4777 - Stock

4777 - Stock slaughtered (notebook) - 1872-1879

4778-4781 - Deputations: Henry Hand (1783); William Johnson (Parwich 1820); William Johnson (1837) - 1783-1837

4778-4781 - Gamekeeper

4782-4783 - Assessments for Tissington and Lea - 1785-1797

4782-4793 - Land Tax

4784-4793 - Papers relating to the redemption of land tax by Sir Henry FitzHerbert - 1805-1806

4794-4845 - Correspondence and papers relating to the allowances of coal and cash given to Mary Spencer by Sir Henry FitzHerbert - 1838-1847

4794-4848 - Mary Spencer

4846-4848 - Wills of Robert Spencer of Tissington blacksmith (1826) and of Mary his widow (1839) - 1826-1839

4849-4854 - Papers relating to Thomas Slater of Sudbury and his claim to his father's estate in Philadelphia, U.S.A - 1820-1823

4849-4854 - Thomas Slater

4855-67 - Account of money disbursed to the poor - 1767-1777

4855-4868 - Tissington Poor

4868 - Coals delivered to the poor - 1813

4869 - Order of the Committee for Compounding with Delinquents that the tithes within the fields of Tissington, sequestered from William FitzHerbert of Tissington, valued at £55, be settled by William FitzHerbert for the maintenance of the minister of Tissington. Dated 12 May - 1649

4869-4915 - Tithes

4870 - Note of a modus for Highway Flatt; undated

4871 - Appointment of Richard Holland as collector of tithes - 1808

4872 - An account of tithes - 1809

4873 - Note from Richard Holland to Sir Henry FitzHerbert - 1837

4874 - Note on Tissington tithes - 1845

4875 - Parson's tithe paper - 1849

4876-4898 - Receipts for a reserved rent issuing out of the tithes of Tissington, payable by the FitzHerberts 1725-37, 1772-91 - 1725-1791

4899-4915 - Receipts for two moduses paid to the vicar of Bradbourne - 1772-1791

4916-4937 - Easter Dues

4916-4937 - Lists of Easter dues - 1808-1848

4938 - Glebe terrier - 1735

4938-4977 - Curacy

4939-4949 - Letters and papers relating to the interregnum on the death of Charles Caspar Graves - 1787

4950-4977 - Receipts of Charles Caspar Graves for his salary as curate of Tissington - 1772-1787

4978 - Apprenticeship indenture of Thomas Hand of Tissington to Christopher Hampson of Ashbourne baker - 1730

4978-5011 - Parish

4979 - Rates and several duties charged upon houses and windows within the liberty of Tissington and Lea - 1762

4980 - Assessment made for the use of Thomas Fletcher, constable of Tissington and Lea - 1779

4981-5000 - Receipts of the parish clerk for his salary - 1779-1790

5001 - Articles of agreement of the Tissington Association for the Prosecution of Felons - 1786

5002 - Appointment of guardians of the poor for the united parishes of the Alstonefield Union - 1820

5003 - Tissington census return - 1821

5004-5006 - Extracts from electoral registers for Tissington, Eaton and Alsop, Thorpe, Fenny Bentley, Newton Grange - [c1832-1840]

5007 - List of names, undated

5008 - Tissington poor rate survey - 1838

5009 - Tissington poor rate survey - 1839-1840

5010 - Rules of the Tissington band - 1852

5011 - Order to the parish clerk and sexton of Tissington not to allow any non-residents to be buried in Tissington churchyard, nor to permit any graves or vaults of brick or stone to be built - 1852

5012 - Deed of trust and assignment of estate and effects by Edward FitzGerald late of Warmley (co. Hertford) and now of London esq., and Sarah his wife, to George FitzGerald of Rockfield Lodge (co. Mayo), now residing in London, reciting: - 1770

5012-5095 - Tissington Hall

5013 - Will of Edward FitzGerald. Dated 14 May - 1770

5014 - Marriage licence of Edward FitzGerald of the parish of St Ann, Westminster, and Sarah FitzGerald, formerly Wood, of the same parish. Dated 21 Feb - 1764

5015 - Appointment of George Robert FitzGerald as ensign in the 26th regiment of foot. Dated 28 Feb - 1766

5016 - Price of commissions fixed by the Board of General Officers - 1766

5017 - Appointment of George Robert FitzGerald as lieutenant in the 69th regiment of foot. Dated 5 November - 1766

5018 - Admission of George Robert FitzGerald to the liberties and franchises of the city of Dublin. Dated 4 Feb - 1768

5019 - "The oath to be ministered unto every freeman of the city of Dublin" - 1768

5020 - Accounts of Lt. FitzGerald in the 69th foot - 1768

5021-5028 - Correspondence from George FitzGerald to his wife Jane - 1776

5029 - Advice from Mrs Jane FitzGerald "for my angel George while away from me" - 1776

5030 - Lines written by George FitzGerald to his wife Jane

5031-5044 - Bills of George and Jane FitzGerald - 1770-1777

5045 - Copy of a memorandum of an agreement made between Francis Beresford, on behalf of William FitzHerbert, and George Robert FitzGerald concerning a lease for 3 years to FitzGerald of Tissington Hall and adjoining lands at an annual rent of £102 10s. Dated 5 May - 1775

5046-5047 - Draft notice from William FitzHerbert to George Robert FitzGerald of his intention to distrain upon FitzGerald's goods at Tissington to secure arrears of rent - 1780

5048-5049 - An account and valuation of divers articles belonging to George Robert FitzGerald, late of Tissington. Dated 3 December - 1781

5051 - List of fixtures of Mr FitzGerald - 1781

5052-5053 - List of things missing in Tissington Hall on 29 March 1781, listed in an inventory of 1775 - 1781

5054-5056 - Bill of sale of the property of George Robert FitzGerald made between William FitzHerbert and John Latham - 1780

5057 - John Latham's account with George Robert FitzGerald - 1780

5058 - Draft of the oath to be administered to the appraisers of goods under distraint - 1780

5059 - Declaration by John Latham of FitzGerald's arrears of rent - 1782

5060 - Catalogue of the library of George Robert FitzGerald left at Tissington - 1785

5061 - Thomas and John Egerton from London to Sir William FitzHerbert; the books contained in the list (D239/M/E/5060) would probably fetch £130-£140 at auction. December - 1785

5062-5063 - Printed list of books put up for auction by Thomas and John Egerton with annotations. Dated 13 December, with covering letter, 20 December - 1785

5064-5065 - Valuation of old liveries belonging to George Robert FitzGerald - 1785

5066-5081 - Correspondence, including Jane FitzGerald from Dublin to John Latham at Tissington; if Mr FitzHerbert has another tenant in mind, she and her husband will happily leave, but with great regrets. Dated 8 July 1779 (D239/M/E/5066) George Robert FitzGerald from Ireland to Francis Beresford at Ashbourne, intends visiting Tissington very soon to settle his account. Dated 9 June 1780 (D239/M/E/5067) Letters and papers concerning an attempt to draw a bill on George Robert FitzGerald in Dublin (D239/M/E/5069-5073), 1780 Letters from Lady Mary FitzGerald to William FitzHerbert concerning her son George (D239/M/E/5074-5077), 1780-81 Copy of a letter sent to William FitzHerbert about George Robert FitzGerald whose troubles began when he assaulted his father, for which he was fined £1000 and imprisoned for 3 years; he broke out of gaol and barricaded himself inside his own home; on the approach of the military he fled to Dublin where he was betrayed for a reward of £300. Dated 22 December 1781 (D239/M/E/5078) - 1779-1781

5082 - Papers relating to the tenancy of the Hall by Matthew Bloxham:- Lease for 5 years by William FitzHerbert of Tissington esq. to Matthew Bolxam of Ilam (co. Stafford) esq. of Tissington Hall etc. Annual rent £80. Schedule of contents. Dated 5 April - 1781

5083 - Memorandum of agreement as D239/M/E/5082. Dated 22 November - 1780

5084 - Note of what Mr Bloxham bought off Mr FitzGerald on taking the Hall

5085-5088 - A list of articles missing and broken in the schedule annexed to D239/M/E/5082 - 1785

5089 - A list of things belonging to Mr Bloxam which, if sold, may be purchased for Sir William FitzHerbert

5090 - The smith's bill with Mr Bloxham - 1781-1785

5091-5095 - Letters from Matthew Bloxham to Sir William FitzHerbert - 1782-1785

5096 - Inventory and valuation of all the household goods of William FitzHerbert at Tissington. - 10 Feb [1744]

5096-5102 - Inventories

5097 - Inventory of the household furniture now in Tissington Hall - 30 May 1775

5098 - Copy of D239/M/E/5097 with an inventory dated 22 December - 1778

5099 - Inventory of jewels purchased for Lady FitzHerbert at her marriage and to continue as heir looms - 8 Aug 1791

5100 - List of Sir Henry FitzHerbert's plate - 1806

5101 - List of silver under the care of the butler - 1848

5102 - Notebook containing list of linen, 1848; lists of glass, plate, china, and linen, 1858-64, and a list of silver from Lord St Helens, 1839 - 1839-1864

5103-5152 - Bills and receipts for the construction of the new offices at Tissington Hall - 1810-1813

5103-5152 - Building accounts

5153-5161 - Agreements and receipts for wages - 1778-1780

5153-5271 - Servants

5162-71 - Receipts for wages - 1786-1790

5172-5271 - Receipts for wages - 1819-1857

5272 - Valuation of kitchen garden and pleasure ground at £22 a year - 1778

5272-5277 - Miscellaneous

5273 - Wine book - 1836-1850

5274 - Sketch of grate for garden pond - [19th cent]

5275 - Plan of new gate piers and gate in the Avenue - 1813

5276 - List of paintings loaned by Sir William FitzHerbert to the National Exhibition at Leeds in 1868 - 1867

5277 - Analysis of water from Tissington Hall - 1900

5278-5280 - Particulars of the Bentley estate purchased by Sir Henry FitzHerbert from Mr J Beresford, and of the Burton Almshouse land let therewith - c.1822

5278-5310 - Rentals etc.

5278-5386 - Fenny Bentley

5281 - Particulars of the Bentley estate - 1830

5282-5283 - Notes by John Beresford on the old and new rents - 1830

5284-5310 - Rentals of the Bentley estate - 1822-1833

5311-5313 - Accounts of Thomas Sale's mortgage of Mr Lomas's land in Bentley - 1712-1719

5311-5369 - Estate papers

5314 - Bond in £100 by Robert Lomas of Compton in the parish of Ashbourne, tanner, Joseph Hayne of Derby gent., and George Hayne of Wirksworth gent., to Rowland Okeover of Okeover (co. Stafford) - [1713]-[1720]

5315 - Directive of Ann Sales to Thomas Stubbs and Richard Waterfall to pay their rent to William FitzHerbert, which rent was hitherto due to the late Robert Lomas. Dated 7 November - 1719

5316 - J. Alsopp to William FitzHerbert. Dated 28 or 29 Mar - 1719

5317-5318 - Bills - 1738-1745

5319-5320 - Copies of glebe terriers with extracts relating to tithes - 1682-1755

5321 - Question to counsel, with opinion, on the endowment of the vicarage of Fenny Bentley - 1777

5322-5325 - Receipts for rent due from William FitzHerbert to Francis Beresford - 1774-1790

5326-5327 - Case papers, Langley v. Buxton - 1778

5328-5334 - Agreements by tenants to hold land in Bentley - 1822

5335 - Memorandum of an agreement made between William Ensor of Tissington yeoman and Anna Maria Ensor of Stapenhill widow of the one part and Sir Henry FitzHerbert of the other whereby William and Anna Maria agree to convey to Sir Henry three closes of land in Fenny Bentley containing 12 acres 2 roods 17 perches; consideration £1515. Dated 21 July - 1824

5336-5346 - Notices to quit and other papers - 1830

5347 - John Martin from Ashbourne to Sir Henry FitzHerbert; the deed of conveyance of the three houses at Bentley has been duly executed. Dated 4 July - 1834

5348-5353 - Papers relating to the conveyance of land by the trustees of the late John Buxton to Sir Henry FitzHerbert - 1837-1838

5354-56 - From of agreement for Rev. George Howard of Fenny Bentley to have access over a farm - 1844

5357 - Robert Thorncastle, acting trustee of the Burton Almshouses, to Sir Henry FitzHerbert; the borough is anxious to consolidate its Bentley estate by exchange. Dated 14 December - 1847

5358 - Plan and particulars of land in the parish of Fenny Bentley belonging to the trustees of the Burton Town Lands, Lady Paulet's charity - 1847

5359-5362 - Correspondence and accounts relating to building work - 1844

5363-65 - Papers relating to lands of Richard Millward in Bentley put up for auction - 1849

5366 - Letter from the Poor Law Board to Sir Henry FitzHerbert about the sale of parish land in Fenny Bentley. Dated 10 Feb - 1849

5367 - Extract from a codicil to the will of the late Mrs Barnes of Bentley Cottage - 1879

5368 - Extract from the will of Rev. Jer. Barnes of Bentley Cottage - 1883

5369 - Plan of Richard Beresford's estate - [18th cent]

5370 - Note of annual subscriptions to the Sunday School - 1834

5370-5386 - Day and Sunday School

5371-72 - Receipt for annual subscription by Sir Henry FitzHerbert - 1837-1838

5373-5374 - Abstracts of Sunday School accounts, 1842-47, and receipt for subscription - 1848

5375 - Accounts of Day and Sunday School - 1856

5376-5377 - Plans of proposed new school building - 1855

5378 - Copy of bill for building new school - 1858

5379-5386 - Correspondence about the legal ownership of the school - 1888

5387-5395 - Papers relating to a dispute and its settlement over the manor of Lea between William FitzHerbert and Lord Townshend, including bonds to observe decision of arbitrator, decision of arbitrator in favour of William FitzHerbert and release from Lord Townshend of all claims - 1778

5387-5402 - Lea Hall

5396 - Copy plan of the Lea Hall estate - 1842

5397-5400 - Papers relating to tithe communication - 1844-1852

5401 - Plan of Mr Sanders' estate, Lea Hall - 1842

5402 - Plan of an estate in Lea Hall sold by auction - 1872

5403-5413 - Conditions of sale, particulars, and plan of a freehold estate in Thorp to be sold on 31 December - 1868

5403-5423 - Thorpe

5414 - Particulars and rental of an estate in Thorpe purchased by Sir William FitzHerbert from the trustee under the will of the late R. T. Adderley - 1869

5415 - Copy of conditions of sale of a cowgate - 1879

5416 - Abstract of title to property in Thorpe - 1889

5417-5420 - Particulars of freehold land to be sold, with other papers relating to the sale - 1889

5421 - Valuation of land in Thorpe - 1852

5422 - Rules and regulations relating to the stocking of Thorpe Upper and Lower Pastures - 1886

5423 - Agreement between Sir William FitzHerbert and Messrs. Sydney Evershed and George Poyser concerning a footpath onto the Upper Pasture - 1893

5424-5427 - Particulars and plan of freehold estates to be sold by auction on 13 June - 1836

5424-5461 - Bradbourne

5428-5432 - Conditions of sale and opinions on title - 1836-1837

5433-5458 - Solicitors' correspondence - 1836-1837

5459 - Copy of Bradbourne glebe terrier - 1786

5460 - Apportionment of tithe rent charge - [c1840-1850]

5461 - Notice to discontinue use of water course - 1845

5462 - Lease for 21 years from Lady Day last past by William FitzHerbert of Tissington esq. to Robert Longden of Barnes in Fairfield yeoman of that tenement in Fairfield called the Barnes together with the Long Pingle, the Pingle next the House, the Hay Pingles, the Little Pingles beyond the Hay Pingles, the Broad Close, the field above the Clover Close, the Clover Close, the Three Furfields or Dale Closes, the Lane, the Little Eyes, Nunn Slack, Puglive End, the Brook Close, the Hay Close, the Calf Pingle, the Rushy Close, Pike Lowes, Tom Thorn Close, the Nether Pasture, the Over Pasture with Turner Lodge Meadow, and the Rough Piece, containing in all 734 acres 1 rood 36 perches. Rent £171. Longden to apply 200 horse loads of lime to the land, and is not to plough more than 10 acres a year without licence. Dated 18 November - 1766

5462-5474 - Chapel en le Frith

5463-64 - Lease and counterpart for 21 years by William FitzHerbert of Tissington esq. to Peter Cottrill of Marple (co. Chester), farmer, of Green Fairfield Farm with lands as in D239/M/E/5462. Rent £210. Timber rights reserved. Lessee not to plough land in certain named closes after the first 5 years of the term, not to plough more than 16 acres in any one year, and to plough no more than 12 acres a year in the last three years. Dated 25 Mar - 1774

5465 - Surrender of D239/M/E/5463-64. Dated 17 Jan - 1787

5466

5467 - A survey of the king's and tenants' common - by Samuel Hutchinson - [c1713]

5468 - A survey of the demesne belonging to the Ridge Hall, property of Thomas Bagshaw - by Samuel Hutchinson - [1713]

5469-5470 - Draft title deeds - 1719

5471 - Solicitor's bill for William FitzHerbert for passing a common recovery on an estate in Chapel en le Frith - 1739

5472-73 - Correspondence about a proposed sale of William FitzHerbert's land at Fairfield to the duke of Devonshire - 1787

5473A - Bundle of correspondence, receipts, with valuation relating to Green - c.1780

5474 - Note on the use of forest measure (later 17th century)

5475 - Survey of the demesnes of Mote [Mott] Hall, property of Thomas Bagshaw - by Peter Barker of Darley - 1676

5475-5477 - Atlow

5476 - Map of the Mott Farm - [late 17th-early 18th cent]

5477 - Terrier of the Mott Farm - by Richard Smith the measurer - c.1700

5478-5487 - Sale catalogues: Newton Grange and Fenny Bentley (1795), Ilam (1809), Ashes Farm, Fenny Bentley (1827), three messuages in Fenny Bentley (1834), Osmaston, Ashbourne, Doveridge, Bradbourne etc. (1844), Hartington, Biggin, Brassington, etc. (1855), Tissington, Fenny Bentley, Parwich, etc. (1872), Thorpe (1873), Tissington (1879), Calton (co. Stafford) and Tissington (1903) - 1795-1903

5478-5539 - General

5488-5513 - Solicitors' bills for conveyances, family settlements, etc. FitzHerbert family - 1778-1868

5514-17 - Forms of lease, 19th century

5518 - Plan and elevation of cottage;

5519 - Elevation of haybarn at Swanwick - 1789

5520 - Note on price of coal from Derbyshire collieries - c.1800

5521-22 - Unidentified estate plans; nineteenth century

5523 - List of Derbyshire properties purchased by Sir William FitzHerbert - [c1890]

5524 - Particulars and conditions of sale of lands in Brassington and Fenny Bentley - 1849

5525 - Plan of Milne Close Groves, near Wensley (co. Derby) - 1688

5526-5539 - Miscellaneous draft deeds, mainly non-FitzHerbert - 1686-1754

5540 - Bond in £40 by Thomas Tidy of Wotton carpenter to Christopher Wood of Newdigate yeoman to support D239 M/T 994. - 6 Mar [1675]

5540-5548 - Tanhurst: Tidy estate (Wotton, co. Surrey)

5540-14211 - Surrey and Kent

5541 - Bond in £200 by George Worsfold of Dorking yeoman and Thomas Nye of Ockley farmer to George Nye of Abinger blacksmith to support D239 M/T 995-996. Dated 6 December - 1676

5542 - Receipt and discharge in £100 from George Worsfold and Thomas Nye to George Nye to support D239 M/T 995-996 and D239/M/E/5541. Dated 6 December - 1676

5543 - Arbitration award in a dispute between Henry Spooner of Wotton yeoman and Ann Worsfold of Abinger widow. Dated 4 June - 1696

5544 - Release by Henry Spooner to Ann Worsfold of all actions etc. - 30 Jan [1696]

5545 - Bond in £200 by George Nye of Abinger blacksmith to Henry Rogers of Epsom yeoman to observe the conditions of D239 M/T 1001-1002. Dated 22 Mar - 22 Mar [1704]

5546-47 - Promisory notes from Miles Dudley to Henry Rogers - 1713-1719

5548 - Bond in £20 by Daniel Carpenter of Wotton husbandman to Henry Rogers of Epsom yeoman to support D239 M/T 1003. Dated 25 Mar - 1727

5549 - Bond in £200 by John Longhurst of Wickland yeoman to Robert Elliott of Shalford yeoman - 1 Jan [1690]

5549-5555 - Wicklands or Weeklands (Ockley, co. Surrey)

5550 - Receipt and discharge in £100 from Shadrack Tayler of Ewhurst clerk to Robert Elliott of Shalford yeoman - 1 Jan [1690]

5551 - Bond in £200 by John Longhurst of Ockley yeoman to Thomas Sharpe of Compton yeoman to support D239 M/T 1040. Dated 8 October - 1692

5552 - Bond in £600 by Edmund Mitchell of Capel yeoman and John Mitchell his son to William Blundell of Fetcham maltster to support D239 M/T 1043-44. Dated 28 May - 1709

5553 - Notes on John Longhurst's mortgages - 1710

5554 - Agreement between Robert Moore of Fetcham maltster, John Jeater of Dorking maltster, and Thomas Lee of Dorking bricklayer, executors of the will of William Blundell of Fetcham maltster, of the one part, and Edmund Mitchell of Capel yeoman and John Mitchell his son, of the other part, whereby the executors agree to reconvey to the Mitchells the Wickland estate in Ockley within 3 years on the payment of £675 12s 6d. - 26 Feb [1713]

5555 - Release by Thomas Lee of Dorking bricklayer to Susannah Lee of Dorking spinster of all actions etc. - 4 Jan [1732]

5556 - Bond in £200 by Edmund Mitchell of Capel yeoman and John Mitchell his son, Mary Bax of Capel widow, Mary and Joan Bax of Capel spinsters (daughters of Mary), Richard Bax of Capel yeoman, and Edmund Mills of Wotton yeoman, to Robert Moore of Leatherhead maltster, John Jeater of Dorking maltster, and Thomas Lee of Dorking bricklayer, to secure to Moore, Jeater, and Lee peaceable possession of lands in Abinger. - 17 Mar [1715]

5556-5563 - Burkets or Burchets (Abinger, co. Surrey)

5557 - Copy probate of Edmund Mills of Cockshott in Wotton yeoman. Leaves his lands in the parish of Abinger to his son Edward in tail male. Will dated 25 November 1738. Proved 30 May - 1749

5558 - Copy probate of Edward Mills of the parish of St Margaret, Westminster, butcher. Will dated 2 May - 1770

5559 - Affidavit to the authenticity of D239/M/E/5558. Dated 14 December - 1774

5560 - Receipt for legacy under will of Edward Mills - 1776

5561-62 - Receipt for legacy under will of Edward Mills - 1785

5563 - Receipt for legacy under will of Edward Mills - 1787

5564 - Bond in £800 by Francis Charman of Guildford yeoman to Rev. William Bannaster of Guildford clerk to support D239 M/T 970. Dated 31 October - 1740

5564-5574 - Tanhurst (Wotton, co. Surrey)

5565 - Bond in £1200 by Francis Charman to John Chitty of Hascomb and William Chitty of Shalford yeomen to support D239 M/T 971-972 - 8 Mar [1743]

5566 - Bond in £1400 by Francis Charman to John Laker of Wisborough Green (co. Sussex) gent. to support D239 M/T 974-975 - 8 Mar [1744]

5567 - Affidavit of Francis Charman, supporting D239 M/T 977-978, stating that the premises are free of all incumbrances etc. Dated 20 October - 1747

5568 - Bond in £240 by Francis Charman to John Walsh of Hatton Garden (co. Middx.) esq. to support D239 M/T 977-978. Dated 20 October - 1747

5569 - Bill of sale by Amy Walsh of Hatton Garden (co. Middx.) widow and John Walsh of St. George, Hanover Square (co. Middx.), executors of John Walsh deceased, to John Strange of Cavendish Square (co. Middx.) esq. of the goods and chattels of the late John Walsh at Tanhurst. Consideration £3720. Dated 29 July - 1765

5570 - Bill of sale by John Strange to Luke Scrafton of Grosvenor Square (co. Middx.) esq., of goods and chattels at Tanhurst. Consideration £4000 (to include purchase of freehold: see recital in D239 M/T 983). Dated 31 Jan - 1767

5570A - Copy opinion on Richard Scrafton's abstract of title to an estate at Wotton - 1773

5571 - Attested copies of release and assignment by William Philp Perrin to Thomas Dring of Westminster gent. of Tanhurst, Leithers and Winterfield for securing £2500 on mortgage for the residue of a term of 2000 years. Dated 11 October - 1777

5572 - Bond in £5000 by William Philp Perrin to Thomas Dring to support D239/M/E/5571. Even date - 1777

5573 - Assignment of insurance policy by Perrin to Dring as additional security. Dated 31 October - 1778

5574 - Assignment of a bond in £5000 by Thomas Dring to John Isaac of Charminster (co. Dorset) esq. Dated 19 July - 1793

5575 - Draft abstract of lease and release by William Hamilton of Tottenham (co. Middx.) to William Philp Perrin of land in Abinger as in D239 M/T 940-941. Consideration £3000; together with an assignment of a term in trust. Dated 1 August - 1794

5575-5576 - High Ashurst (Abinger, co. Surrey)

5576 - Copy release and assignment by William Philp Perrin to George Lord Macartney of 22 acres 2 roods and 20 perches at High Ashurst. Consideration £475 18s. Dated 14 April - 1796

5577 - Copy bargain and sale by Charles Tryon of Bulwick (co. Northampton) and others to Henry Barwell of Lyons Inn (co. Middx.) gent. of estates in cos. Middlesex, Kent, Surrey, and Essex, to suffer a common recovery. Dated 6 June - 1705

5577-5581 - Leith Hill Place (Ockley, co. Surrey)

5578 - Copy deed for discharging Mr John Tryon's lands in Surrey from an annuity of £10. Dated 17 November - 1724

5579 - Copy covenant for production of title deeds between Rt. Hon. Brownlow earl of Exeter and Richard Dixon Skrine of Bath (co. Somerset) esq. on the purchase by Skrine of the manor of Colly Weston (co. Northampton). Dated 19 June

5580-5581 - Draft conveyance by Maria Thompson of Leith Hill Place widow and Isaac Thompson of the city of London merchant, devisees in trust and executors of the will of Harry Thompson deceased (late husband of Maria) to William Philp Perrin of the parish of St. Mary-le-Bone (co. Middx.) of Leith Hill Place. Consideration: a deposit of £1500 and a further sum of £8558 2s 11d invested for the vendors in the purchase of £17,876 1s. 3 per cent bank annuities. Dated 20 Jan - 1798

5582-5559 - Surrey abstracts (Perrin)

5582-5583 - Abstracts of title of Richard Dixon Skrine and Henry Skrine his son to the Leith Hiss estate, down to its purchase by Harry Thompson in 1778. (Richard Dixon Skrine married Elizabeth Tryon; the abstract includes a pedigree) - 1797

5584-5586 - Abstracts of title of Harry Thompson to Leith Hill Place; 1664-1773 - c.1797

5587-5588 - Abstract of the conveyance to William Philp Perrin on his purchase of the Leith Hill estate - 1798

5589-5591 - Abstracts of title of George earl of Macartney and William Philp Perrin to an estate called Parkhurst in the parish of Abinger, 1651-1799 - c.1800

5592 - Abstract of title of William Philp Perrin to leasehold lands called Burchetts and to a freehold called Burchetts and Tanners in the parishes of Wotton and Abinger, 1596-1775 - 1806

5593 - Abstract of title of William Philp Perrin to freehold estates called Tanhurst, Leithers, and Winterfields in the parish of Wotton, 1604-1774 - 1806

5594 - Abstract of title of William Philp Perrin to an estate called Weeklands and Burchetts in the purchase of Ockley and Abinger - 1806

5595-5597 - Abstracts of title of William Hamilton and William Philp Perrin to an estate called High Ashurst (Abinger), 1689-1793 - 1794

5598-5599 - Abstract of mortgage of the Leith Hill estate by William Philp Perrin to William Wilberforce of Old Palace Yard, Westminster, esq. for securing £10,000 - 1803

5600 - Abstract of title of Sir Henry FitzHerbert Bt. to Leith Hill Place, High Ashurst, and Parkhurst, and to an estate at Lenham (co. Kent) - 1824

5600-5605 - Surrey Abstracts (FitzHerbert)

5601 - Abstract of mortgage by Sir Henry FitzHerbert to John Mansfield in £10,000 of estates in D239/M/E/5600 - 1824

5602 - Draft mortgage as in D239/M/E/5601 - 1824

5603-5605 - Schedules of title deeds and writings relating to the estates of Sir Henry FitzHerbert mortgages as above - 1824

5606 - Abstract of title to the Leith Hill Place estate (Lot 1) - 1827

5606-5631 - Abstracts etc relating to the sale of the Surrey estate by Sir Henry FitzHerbert

5607-5608 - Additional abstracts of title to the Leith Hill Place estate - 1828

5609-5610 - Opinions and observations on the title to the Leith Hill Place estate - 1828

5611 - List of title deeds to be delivered to the purchaser of the Leith Hill estate - 1828-1829

5612 - Draft affidavit of John Hoare of Ockley bailiff of the Leith Hill Place estate - 1828

5613 - Draft instructions for a bill in Chancery by Sir Henry FitzHerbert against John Smallpiece, prospective purchaser of the Leith Hill Place estate - 1828

5614 - Abstract of title to the Tanhurst estate (Lot 2) - 1827

5615 - Observations on title to the Tanhurst estate - 1828

5616 - List of title deeds to be delivered up on the completion of the Tanhurst estate - 1828

5617-5618 - Abstract of title to the Parkhurst estate (Lot 3) - 1827

5619 - Additional abstract; the Parkhurst estate - 1827

5620 - List of title deeds to the Parkhurst estate to be delivered up on the completion of the purchase - 1828

5621 - Abstract of title to a farm called Wicklands (Lot 4) - 1827

5622-5623 - Queries and observations on the title to Wicklands - 1827-1828

5624-5626 - Instructions for obtaining letters of administration of the unadministered effects of George Naldrett, limited to a term of 1000 years in a messuage and lands called Wicklands - 1827

5627 - Abstract of title to Sheep Green in Wotton (Lot 5) - 1827

5628 - Queries and observations on title to Sheep Green - 1827

5629 - Abstract of title to High Ashurst

5630 - Abstract of marriage settlement of Sir Henry FitzHerbert respecting jointure in bar of dower - 1828

5631 - Volume containing copies of the conveyances of the portions of the Surrey estate - 1828

5632-5634 - Draft and copy reconveyance by John Mansfield et al. to Sir Henry FitzHerbert of estates in Abinger, Ockley, and Wotton mortgaged by Sir Henry in 1824 - 1828

5632-5648 - Sir Henry FitzHerbert's mortgage of his estate in Kent on his sale of the Surrey estate

5635-5637 - Draft and copy mortgage by Sir Henry FitzHerbert to John Mansfield of his estate at West and East Farleigh (co. Kent) to secure £10,000 - 1828

5638-5640 - Draft and copy assignment of two terms of 1000 years each in certain estates in Kent belonging to Sir Henry FitzHerbert in trust for better securing £10,000 to John Mansfield - 1828

5641-5643 - Draft deeds of covenant for production of title deeds - 1828

5644-5645 - Schedule of title deeds relating to the mortgaged estate in Kent - 1828

5646 - Instructions to draw up mortgage - 1827

5647 - Draft memorandum to be endorsed on mortgage - 1828

5648 - Statement to be submitted to the executors of Sir James Mansfield - 1828

5649 - Copy release and conveyance by William Philip Perrin of several estates in Surrey and Kent to trustees to secure annuities of £1000 clear value - 1806

5649-5657 - Annuities

5650-5651 - Copy grant of an annuity of £200 charged upon estates in Kent and Surrey by William Philip Perrin to Sarah Hinde of the city of London widow - 1806

5652-5654 - Agreement for the sale and purchase of rent charges, copy deed of appointment of receiver of rent charges, and copy of particulars of estates charged with annuities - 1806

5655 - Abstract of grants of annuities by William Philp Perrin - 1827

5656-5657 - Draft reconveyance by trustees to Sir Henry FitzHerbert of property conveyed by William Philp Perrin to secure certain annuities - 1827

5658 - Extracts of title deeds relating to High Ashurst (Abinger), Hen VII - Chas. II - [late 17th cent]

5658-5665 - Schedules of Deeds etc., Surrey (Perrin)

5659-5661 - Schedule of title deeds of William Philp Perrin to freehold and leasehold estates in Abinger and Wotton - 1775

5662 - Schedule of title deeds of William Philp Perrin - 1790

5663 - Memorandum of sundry deeds left by William Philp Perrin - 1804

5664 - Receipt for deeds received by solicitor - 1803-1810

5665 - Schedule of deeds and papers belonging to William Philp Perrin - c.1810

5666-5667 - Abstracts of title of Richard Groombridge and William Philp Perrin to an estate in Lenham, 1695-1799 - c.1800

5666-5676 - Kent Abstracts of Title

5668 - Continuation of D239/M/E/5667 - c.1801

5669 - Abstract of title of William Philp Perrin to an estate in Lenham - 1803

5670 - Abstract of title of John Bunnett to an estate in Lenham - 1815

5671-5674 - Abstracts of title of Sir Henry FitzHerbert to estates in West Farleigh and Yalding prior to the mortgage of the estate - 1827

5675-76 - Opinion on D239/M/E/5671-72 - 1827

5677 - Memorandum of an agreement between Francis Chapman of Wotton yeoman and John Laker of Wisborough Green (co. Sussex) gent. whereby, as Charman is indebted to Laker in the sum of £700 (see D239/M/E/5566) with £70 interest, and as Laker is determined to bring an ejectment for possession of premises mortgaged as in D239 M/T 974-975 (Tanners, Leithers, and Winterfield), Charman now agrees to attorne tenant to the said Laker from Lady Day last past at an annual rent of £45 for 3½ years. Dated 22 May - 1746

5677-5697 - Leases: Surrey

5678 - Lease for 3½ years from Lady Day last past by John Laker to Francis Charman of two messuages and lands called Tanners or Leithers (150 acres) and a messuage and six closes (26 acres) called Winterfield. Rent £45 a year. Dated on June - 1746

5679 - Lease for 21 years by Elizabeth Rouzier of Dorking widow to Luke Scrafton of Wotton esq. of a messuage and land (170 acres) in Abinger called High Ashurst. Rent £40 a year. Dated 17 December - 1767

5680-5681 - 3ease for 99 years by William Philp Perrin of Bloomsbury esq. to Sarah Cayley of Wotton widow of lands as in D239/M/E/5678 with all household goods, implements etc. Schedule of contents of houses and stables. Rent £110 a year. Dated 1 Mar - 1775

5682 - Lease for 21 years by Edmund Elkins jun. of Guildford maltster to John Egleton of Ockley farmer of four closes in Abinger called Green Meads (20 acres). Rent £8 a year. Dated 20 November - 1775

5683 - Lease for 21 years by William Philp Perrin to William Oakley of Abinger husbandman of a messuage and lands called Little Burketts in Abinger and Wotton. Rent £25 a year. Dated 7 October - 1777

5684 - Lease for 99 years or for as long as lessee resides at Parkhurst by Sir Frederick Evelyn of Wotton Bt. to George Earl Macartney of 2 acres of land in Abinger. Rent £1 a year. Dated 28 November - 1787

5685 - Memorandum of an agreement between William Philp Perrin of Farley (co. Kent) esq. and Edward Boreman of Ockley gent. whereby Perrin will lease an estate and messuage in the parishes of Ockley and Wotton, the land (parcels given) containing in all 156 acres 3 roods 12 perches from Lady Day next for one whole year at a rent of £200. Dated 22 Mar - 1809

5686 - Draft of D239/M/E/5685 - 1809

5687 - Articles of agreement made between William Philp Perrin and Edward Boreman on Boreman's application to quit his farms called Leith Hill Farm and High Ashes, and part of Tanhurst Farm in consideration of a debt from Boreman to Perrin for rent, and a further sum of £723 16s 4d on two promisory notes, whereby Perrin agrees to Purchase from Boreman all fixtures, corn, stock etc. Dated 30 September - 1815

5688 - Draft memorandum of an agreement between William Philp Perrin of Farley (co. Kent) esq. and Edmund Johnson of Abinger yeoman whereby Perrin agrees to lease to Johnson High Ashes farm for one year from Michaelmas last past. Rent £58. Dated - - 1816

5689 - Instructions to draw up D239/M/E/5688 - 1816

5690 - Draft memorandum of an agreement between William Philp Perrin and John Alexander Ogilvie of Tanhurst esq. whereby Perrin agrees to lease to Ogilvie Tanhurst house and closes (20 acres) for one year from Christmas Day last past. Rent £80. Dated - December - 1818

5691 - Memorandum of an agreement between Sir Henry FitzHerbert of Tissington Hall Bt. and Edmund Lomax of Lincolns Inn (co. Middx.) esq. whereby Sir Henry agrees to lease to Lomax the mansion house and grounds called Parkhurst for a term of 7 years from 5 April next. Rent £75. Timber rights reserved. Dated - Jan - 1823

5692-5693 - Memorandum of an agreement between William Clutton on behalf of Sir Henry FitzHerbert and Charles Willard of Beeding (co. Sussex) whereby Clutton agrees to lease to Willard Birchetts farm in Abinger and Wotton (121 acres). Rent £60. To hold from year to year. Dated 20 May - 1823

5694-5695 - Draft and fair copy agreement between Sir Henry FitzHerbert and Edmund Lomax whereby Sir Henry leases to Lomax the exclusive right of sporting over the manor of Abinger for a term of 3 years from 1 September last past. Rent £25. Dated 13 December/1 Jan - 1823-1824

5696-97 - Copies of D239/M/E/5695 - 1823-1824

5698 - Lease by Jane Shrimpton of West Farleigh to William Turner of East Farleigh yeoman of a messuage in East Farleigh called Cold Harbour together with 5 acres of land planted with hops and fruit trees for a term of 15 years from Michaelmas next. Rent £9. Dated 20 September The original has been used as a draft lease by John Brewer Davis of West Farleigh esq. to Richard Latter of East Farleigh yeoman of the same premises for a term of 15 years at a rent of £10 10s. Dated 13 October 1773 - 1759

5698-5704 - Leases: Kent

5699 - Lease for 21 years from Michaelmas next by Sir Philip Boteler Bt. to Edward Prebble of East Barming husbandman of a messuage in East Barming. Rent £3 10s. Dated 6 May - 1765

5700 - Promisory note found in D239/M/E/5699 - 1778

5701 - Draft memorandum of an agreement between William Philp Perrin of Farleigh esq. and Clement Taylor of Linton Lodge in the parish of Linton gent. whereby Perrin agrees to lease to Taylor Grants Farm in the parish of Farleigh with 94 acres 2 roods and 26 perches of land to hold for a term of one year from 25 Mar next. Rent £300. Dated 21 Mar - 1809

5702 - Memorandum of an agreement between William Philp Perrin and Thomas Walker of Wyarton in the parish of Boughton esq. whereby Perrin agrees to lease to Walker Farleigh House and grounds with lands totalling 34 acres 9 perches to hold for one year from 24 June next. Rent £250. Dated 8 May - 1809

5703 - Memorandum of an agreement between Edward Driver of New Bridge Street, London, on behalf of Sir Henry FitzHerbert and Thomas Weeks of Leverton Street (co. Kent) whereby Driver agrees to lease to Weeks a cottage at Leverton Street together with various parcels of land and meadow (18 acres 35 perches). Rent £33. To hold from year to year. Dated 5 October - 1824

5704 - Articles of agreement made between Sir Henry FitzHerbert of West Farleigh Bt. and John Walne of Lenham and James Hatch of Ulcombe, farmers, whereby Sir Henry agrees to lease to Walne and Hatch Lower Ham Farm (144 acres) in Lenham and Harrietsham, to hold from year to year. Rent £150. Dated 17 October - 1827

5705 - West Farleigh cottage rents - 1820

5705-5713 - Rentals: Kent

5706 - West Farleigh cottage rents - 1828

5707 - List of tenants and rents, West Farleigh - 1839

5708 - List of tenants and rents, West Farleigh - c.1850

5709 - Volume of weekly tenants and rents - 1851-1856

5710 - Volume of weekly tenants and rents - 1858

5711-5713 - Rent accounts of Sir William FitzHerbert Bart., 1892, 1895, 1896 - 1892-1896

5714-5873 - Kent estate bills and receipts - 1771-1774

5714-11289 - Estate and household bills and receipts (Perrin)

5874-5970 - Kent estate and household bills and receipts - 1772-1773

5971-6005 - Kent blacksmith and other estate bills and receipts - 1773-1774

6006-6092 - Kent estate and household bills and receipts - 1775-1776

6093-6151 - Kent estate and household bills and receipts, including blacksmith, carrier, and day labour - 1775-1776

6152-6161 - Kent bills for malt, oats, barley etc. supplied by John and Thomas Miller - 1772-1778

6162-6175 - Kent estate and household bills, including running accounts of doctor, blacksmith, and day labour - 1775-1778

6176-6274 - Kent estate and household bills and receipts - 1778-1779

6275-6366 - Kent estate and household bills and receipts - 1777-1779

6367-6387 - Kent estate and household bills and receipts, including running accounts of builders' labourer

6388-6400 - Kent estate and household bills and receipts, including running accounts of doctor, painter, builders' labourer - 1778-1780

6401-6506 - Kent estate and household bills and receipts - 1779-1780

6507-6644 - Kent grocers' bills (1772-79), John and Thomas Normington) - 1772-1780

6645-7006 - Kent butcher's bills, Mr. Wall's running weekly accounts - 1772-1779

7007-7166 - Kent and Surrey estate and household bills and receipts, including building and carpentry at West Farleigh - 1775-1781

7167-7266 - Kent estate and household bills and receipts - 1780

7267-7326 - Kent estate and household bills and receipts - 1781-1782

7327-7439 - Kent estate and household bills and receipts - 1781-1782

7440-7517 - Kent estate and household bills and receipts - 1782-1783

7518-7586 - Kent estate and household bills and receipts - 1783-1784

7587-7823 - Kent weekly butchers' bills (Wall and Tanner) - 1780-1784

7824-7856 - Surrey estate bills and receipts - 1781-1785

7857-8050 - Kent estate and household bills and receipts - 1784-1785

8051 - Receipt - 1786

8052-8054 - Kent estate bills and receipts - 1792

8055-8129 - Surrey estate and household bills and receipts - 1794

8130-8156 - Kent estate and household bills and receipts - 1794-1795

8157-8213 - Surrey estate and household bills and receipts - 1795

8214-8398 - Surrey and Kent estate and household bills and receipts - 1794-1796

8399-8486 - Kent estate and household bills and receipts - 1794-1795

8487-8556 - Surrey and Kent estate and household bills and receipts - 1797

8557-8577 - Surrey butcher's bills and receipts - 1796-1797

8578-8702 - Kent estate and household bills and receipts - 1798

8703-8791 - Surrey estate and household bills and receipts - 1798

8792-8850 - Kent estate and household bills and receipts - 1799

8851-8930 - Surrey estate and household bills and receipts - 1799

8931-8988 - Surrey estate and household bills and receipts - 1799-1800

8989-9160 - Kent estate and household bills and receipts - 1799-1800

9161-9229 - Surrey estate and household bills and receipts - 1800

9230-9292 - Surrey estate and household bills and receipts - 1799

9293-9359 - Kent estate and household bills and receipts - 1801

9360-9426 - Surrey estate and household bills and receipts - 1800-1801

9427-9643 - Surrey estate and household bills and receipts - 1801-1802

9644-9672 - Kent estate and household bills and receipts - 1801-1802

9673-9750 - Surrey estate and household bills and receipts - 1802

9751-9815 - Kent and Surrey estate and household bills and receipts - 1802-1803

9816-9924 - Surrey estate and household bills and receipts - 1802-1803

9925-9977 - Surrey estate and household bills and receipts - 1803

9978-10028 - Surrey estate and household bills and receipts - 1803

10029-10149 - Kent estate and household bills and receipts - 1801-1804

10150-10258 - Surrey estate and household bills and receipts - 1804

10259-10388 - Surrey estate and household bills and receipts - 1804-1805

10389-10447 - Surrey estate and household bills and receipts - 1804-1806

10448-10555 - Surrey estate and household bills and receipts - 1804-1806

10556-10578 - Kent estate and household bills and receipts - 1806

10579-10648 - Surrey estate and household bills and receipts - 1807

10649-10750 - Surrey and Kent estate and household bills and receipts - 1807

10751-10837 - Surrey estate and household bills and receipts - 1808

10838-10917 - Surrey estate and household bills and receipts - 1808

10918-11011 - Kent estate and household bills and receipts - 1808-1809

11012-11026 - Surrey estate bills and receipts - 1809

11027-11104 - Surrey estate and household bills and receipts - 1813

11105-11288 - Surrey estate bills and receipts - 1814-1819

11289-11306 - Surrey blacksmiths running accounts - 1816-1821

11307 - Notebook of household accounts, West Farleigh (co. Kent) kept by William Philp Perrin - 1771-1772

11307-11320 - Household and estate account books (Perrin)

11308 - Kent housekeeping account book - 1794-1803

11309-11310 - Kent housekeeping and estate account books - 1804-1809

11311 - Kent gardener's cash account book (for labour) - 1794-1803

11312 - Tanhurst (co. Surrey) estate account book, cash received and disbursed - 1794-1803

11313 - Surrey gardener's cash account book - 1800-1806

11314 - Surrey housekeeping account book - 1801-1807

11315 - Surrey estate cash account book - 1809-1812

11316 - Surrey estate account book for day labour - 1809-1812

11317 - John Hoare's account book for the Surrey estate - 1812-1819

11318 - John Hoare's account book for the Surrey estate - 1819-1820

11319-11320 - Two housekeeping account books of William Philp Perrin, location uncertain 1789-1793, 1803-1807 - 1789-1807

11321-11362 - Kent quit rents: receipts and associated papers, including - Particular of certain lands held of the king's manor of East Farleigh and quit-rents due therefrom, together with diagram of lands concerned, (D239/M/E/11325-26) - An account of quit-rents claimed from William Philp Perrin, 1775 (D239/M/E/11348-49) - 1731-1777

11321-11582 - Miscellaneous bills and receipts (Perrin)

11363-11428 - Surrey quit-rents: receipts for rents paid - 1778-1819

11429-11478 - Surrey: receipts for tithe, poor rate and land tax - 1791-1798

11479-11500 - Receipts and associated papers relating to the assessed taxes charged on the Surrey, Kent, and London property of William Philp Perrin - 1798-1799

11501-11514 - Surrey property tax assessments - 1806-1808

11515-11521 - Solicitors' bills for purchases of land by William Philp Perrin in Surrey - 1795-1802

11522-11548 - Accounts for hops sold on behalf of William Philp Perrin - 1772-1784

11549-11561 - Bills for hoops - 1797-1803

11562-11582 - Miscellaneous and undated estate bills and receipts - c.1777-1804

11583-11867 - Surrey estate bills and receipts (FitzHerbert)

11583-11867 - Surrey estate bills and receipts - 1820-1828

11868-11869 - Account books of John Hoare, bailiff: 1820-23, 1823-27 - 1820-1827

11868-11869 - Surrey estate account books (FitzHerbert)

11870-11962 - Kent estate and household bills and receipts - 1820-1889

11870-11962 - Kent estate bills and receipts (FitzHerbert)

11963-11967 - Samuel Driver from Southwark to William Philp Perrin with lists of shrubs and flowers for the gardens at West Farleigh, and with recommendations for their planting and lay out - 1773-1774

11963-12103 - Estate correspondence and associated papers: Kent (1773-1810)

11968-11976 - Correspondence from solicitor (T. D. Punnett of Maidstone) and counsel (Mr Sharpe of Lincoln's Inn) to William Philp Perrin on Perrin's purchase of land in West Farleigh - 1778

11977-11993 - Henry Miller from West Farleigh to William Philp Perrin, reporting on West Farleigh affairs - 1778

11994-12010 - Miscellaneous correspondence, including correspondence relating to the bankruptcy of Elizabeth Hammond, one of Perrin's tenants (1794) - 1783-1794

12011-12020 - Correspondence mainly from Thomas Jones at West Farleigh to William Philp Perrin in London reporting on household and estate matters, and enclosing lists of bills paid and to be paid - 1795-1796

12021 - A. H. Dyne from Town Malling to William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst (co. Surrey), with a proposal made to Clement Taylor's creditors. Taylor had run up debts exceeding £25,000. (For Taylor, see further below: ) 11 November - 1796

12022-12036 - Thomas Jones from West Farleigh to William Philp Perrin: household and estate matters, including elevations for a new hay barn (D239/M/E/12024-25) and correspondence on West Farleigh assessed taxes - 1797-1798

12037 - George Burr, solicitor, from Maidstone to William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst (co. Surrey) on [Richard Groombridge's intended sale of land. 9 October - 1798

12038 - A. P. Driver to William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst; has just heard that Mr Groombridge has sold his Mount Castle estate for £800 exclusive of timber; expects to set out for Ireland shortly to look over an estate of Lord Courtney in co. Limerick which measures about 100,000 English acres, but a great deal is mountain. 9 October - 1798

12039-12047 - Thomas Jones from West Farleigh to William Philp Perrin, reporting on household and estate matters - 1798-1799

12048 - Edward Charlton from West Farleigh to William Philp Perrin, enquiring about the land tax assessments on Perrin's property. 24 August - 1799

12049 - John Barnes from Old Broad St., London, to William Philp Perrin: Perrin's certificate and contract for the redemption of land tax has not been left at the appropriate office in Lincolns Inn Fields. 21 September - 1799

12050 - Thomas Jones from West Farleigh to William Philp Perrin. 30 December - 1799

12051 - Francis ? Briddleton to A. P. Driver: has decided not to proceed with a proposed exchange of land with Mr. Perrin. 31 Mar - 1800

12052 - Mrs. Priscilla Style to William Philp Perrin offering herself as a tenant for West Farleigh: "as I have but a very small income and a very large family, I shall be particularly obliged to you to let me have it upon as easy terms as you possibly can ...". 14 July - 1800

12053 - A. P. Driver to William Philp Perrin: Mr. Boyce and the Groombridges have agreed with Perrin for the purchase of their estate, including timber, for £4300. 6 November - 1800

12054-12055 - Thomas Jones from West Farleigh to William Philp Perrin - 1800-1801

12056 - Richard Groombridge to William Philp Perrin, with an account of hop-poles sold. Jan - 1801

12057 - Request for payment of arrears of quit-rent owed to the duke of Leeds. 3 Feb - 1801

12058 - Thomas Gregory from Clifford's Inn to William Philp Perrin: he and Mr. Bunnett have finished the purchase from the Groombridges; has received a letter from Mr. Widden's attorney about a supposed mistake in the purchase money to be paid for Widden's Farm. 24 Feb - 1801

12059-12063 - Thomas Jones from West Farleigh to William Philp Perrin, reporting on household and estate matters - 1801-1802

12064-12066 - General correspondence - 1802-1803

12067-12069 - Thomas Hart from Dorking (co. Surrey) to William Philp Perrin: property tax at West Farleigh. 8 December - 1803

12070 - William Round to William Philp Perrin: has learnt from his uncle, John Amhurst, that Perrin is desirous of purchasing the West Farleigh estate of his late uncle, Stephen Amhurst; suggests Perrin contacts his uncle's solicitor; cannot foresee any difficulties. 23 December - 1803

12071-12075 - Richard Groombridge to Thomas Bunnett and William Philp Perrin, reporting on West Farleigh estate matters - 1803-1804

12076-12088 - Correspondence from Thomas Jones and Richard Groombridge at West Farleigh to William Philp Perrin on estate and household matters - 1803-1806

12089-12103 - General estate correspondence, including letters from Clement Taylor to Thomas Bunnett about the proposed sale of the Amhurst estate (see D239/M/E/12070), and about Taylor's accounts with Perrin - 1807-1810

12104 - E. Fulham to William Philp Perrin: the estate at Crondal (co. Hants.) has been sold to a Mr. Maxwell. 28 September - 1773

12104-12274 - Estate Correspondence and associated papers: Surrey (1773-1809)

12105 - Richard Scrafton from Marseilles to William Philp Perrin: is inclined to part with Tanhurst but not at the price Perrin suggests; will not go lower than £4700. 1 October - 1773

12106 - Sarah Cayley from Tanhurst to William Philp Perrin; is surprised that Perrin has not yet received a reply from Scrafton; thinks it best not to press him too far at present for fear he increases his price. 11 October - 1773

12107 - Richard Scrafton from Marseilles to William Philp Perrin; apologises for the delay in replying; refers Perrin to his earlier letter (D239/M/E/12105) for his terms. 22 October - 1773

12108 - Copy of William Philp Perrin's reply to Richard Scrafton's letter of 1 October (D239/M/E/12105) : will give Scrafton £4700 for Tanhurst, to include house furniture and farm stock; and will also take the coppice at High Ashurst at a just valuation. 17 November - 1773

12109 - Richard Scrafton from Marseilles to William Philp Perrin; clarifies his definition of the "stock" to be included in the purchase price. 2 December - 1773

12110-12111 - Draft letter from William Philp Perrin to Richard Scrafton; suggests payment by bond in £2000 and a deposit of £2700. 24 December - 1773

12112-12113 - Richard Scrafton from Marseilles to William Philp Perrin; suggests entering into an agreement for the sale and purchase of Tanhurst; would prefer all the purchase price to be paid at one time. 13 Jan - 1774

12114 - Copy of a letter from William Philp Perrin to Richard Scrafton; has had difficulties in procuring an abstract of title prior to entering into an agreement, will pay the purchase price at one go if needs be. 21 Feb - 1774

12115 - Richard Scrafton from Marseilles to William Philp Perrin. 8 Mar - 1774

12116 - Richard Scrafton from Paris to William Philp Perrin: the agreement seems acceptable. 27 April - 1774

12117 - Richard Scrafton from South Lambeth to William Philp Perrin: hopes the respective solicitors will now bring things to a conclusion; proposes to visit Tanhurst to direct affairs there. 22 May - 1774

12118 - Richard Scrafton from South Lambeth to William Philp Perrin: has endeavoured to hurry Perrin's solicitor; suggests Mrs. Cayley should have valued the woods on High Ashurst Farm, as well as the stock. 13 June - 1774

12119 - Richard Scrafton from South Lambeth to William Philp Perrin: Mrs. Cayles refuses to value the crops on the ground; hopes that Mr. Davidson might arrange this when he visits Tanhurst on Perrin's behalf. 24 June - 1774

12120-12122 - Sarah Cayley from Tanhurst to William Philp Perrin; had understood that she was to remain tenant of the house and ground at the current rent. Perrin laying out £300 to put everything in order. 29 June - 1774

12123-12124 - William Philp Perrin to Sarah Cayley; clarifies his proposals for letting Tanhurst and the High Ashes; proposes to visit Tanhurst with Mr. Driver of Kent Street Road "who has surveyed as much land and timber as most men in the kingdom" in order to value the timber. 5 July - 1774

12125 - William Philp Perrin to Sarah Cayley (copy): 30 July - 1774

12126 - John Smith Budgen from Dorking to Duncan Davidson (agent for William Philp Perrin); is selling his estate (73¾ acres) near Tanhurst. 31 August - 1774

12127 - Sarah Cayley from Tanhurst to William Philp Perrin. 3 September - 1774

12128 - Copy of a letter from William Philp Perrin to John Smith Budgen: will give Budgen 900 guineas for his land if Budgen agrees to put the repairs in hand, or £900 if not. 12 September - 1774

12129 - Samuel Hall from Dorking to William Philp Perrin: despite all his efforts he has been unable to persuade Elizabeth Rouzier to assign her lease. 13 September - 1774

12130 - Richard Scrafton to William Philp Perrin: the deeds should finally be ready at the end of the week; asks if Perrin wants to receive an assignment of the insurance policy which Scrafton has on Tanhurst. 20 September - 1774

12131 - Sarah Cayley from Tanhurst to William Philp Perrin: will be pleased to see Perrin at Tanhurst; many of Scrafton's things are in too ruinous a state to be included in an inventory; should she pursue Budgen on Perrin's behalf? 24 November - 1774

12132-12137 - Miscellaneous estate correspondence - 1775-1778

12138 - Sir William FitzHerbert to William Oakley at Tanhurst, asking him to bring to London the particulars of the lands rented by Oakley, and by Oakley and Mr. Perrin together. 7 April - 1785

12139 - John Ewen from Abinger to Nathaniel Newnham, reporting on the circumstances surrounding the valuation of a horse for Mr. Perrin. 19 Jan - 1793

12140 - Notification that the mortgage in £2500 on Mr. Perrin's Surrey estate is transferred to John Isaac of Charminster (co. Dorset) esq. 19 July - 1793

12141-12143 - A. P. Driver to William Philp Perrin: Mr. Nicholl's valuation of his timber at High Ashes is far too high at £3000; a figure of £2000 would be nearer the mark - 1793

12144-12148 - Miscellaneous estate correspondence - 1795-1796

12149 - Lord Macartney from Parkhurst to William Philp Perrin; seeking Perrin's consent to Macartney's plan to enclose his land around Parkhurst. 20 June - 1796

12150-12158 - Correspondence concerning purchases of land by William Philp Perrin - 1796-1797

12159-12167 - William Oakley from Tanhurst to William Philp Perrin, reporting on estate matters - 1797-1798

12168-12174 - Thomas Dyke to William Philp Perrin: valuation of crops etc. at Leith Hill Place - 1798

12175 - Thomas Hart from Dorking to William Philp Perrin: has entered into a contract for the redemption of Perrin's land tax. 21 Feb - 1799

12176-12177 - John Richardson from Ashtead to William Philp Perrin: assessed taxes. 18 July - 1799

12178 - Thomas Gregory from Clifford's Inn to William Philp Perrin, commenting on a transaction between Sir Frederick Evelyn, lord of the manor of Wotton, and Lord Macartney 2 October - 1799

12179-12274 - General estate correspondence, consisting mainly of Elizabeth Simmonds, Richard Sayer, and William Oakley reporting from Tanhurst and Parkhurst on household and estate matters, and of solicitors' correspondence concerning a projected purchase of Farless Green Farm - 1800-1809

12275-12276 - To William Philp Perrin: will bring up Davidson & Graham's Jamaica accounts; recommends speedy attention to the business of the rent at Maidstone - a day or two's delay may make some hundred pounds of difference. 10/18 November - 1797

12275-12430 - Correspondence of Thomas Bunnett (ironmonger, Borough, London)

12277 - To William Philp Perrin: has received safely the bill for £150. The weather has been exceptionally mild. 8 December - 1800

12278-12279 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: reports on the conditions of sale of Mr. Sheppard's farm. 11/14 April - 1801

12280 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst with order for groceries. 22 April - 1801

12281 - To William Philp Perrin at Cheltenham: has sent a garden engine to Leith Hill; it cost 7 gns. and has only one wheel because the ground there is so uneven. Has written the last part of his letter with a silver pen fixed in a pencil case - "it is very handy and saves mending". 11 May - 1801

12282 - To William Philp Perrin at Cheltenham: reports on letters received from West Farleigh and Tanhurst. Also a note to her "cousin" from L. Bunnett, hoping that Perrin is better for taking the waters. 19 May - 1801

12283-12284 - To William Philp Perrin at Cheltenham: has received £300 on account from Davidson and Graham; reports on how he proposes to divide this between West Farleigh and Surrey. 25/6 May - 1801

12285 - To William Philp Perrin at Rhayader (co. Radnor): met with Mr. Driver at Lenham on 5th June; have left orders at West Farleigh for no beer to go out of the house without the knowledge of Thomas Jones or his wife: "we found that the key of the celler was free to Groombridge as well as Jones"; Groombridge is to sleep at his own house but may keep his bed over the stable; work at Parkhurst is requiring £20 a week. 15 June - 1801

12286 - To William Philp Perrin at Rhayader: Mr. Sheppard is now ready to negotiate with Perrin for the sale of his Surrey property; the value is about £2400 exclusive of the life interest which is worth £200-300, has heard that West Farleigh has a good crop of grass. 20 June - 1801

12287 - To William Philp Perrin at Rhayader: is forwarding Perrin £100 in cash and notes, and has sent a similar sum to Tanhurst; no ship has arrived from Jamaica, the markets are very dull; hopes that Lord St. Helens' favourable reception means peace may soon materialize. 24 June - 1801

12288 - To William Philp Perrin at Rhayader: reports on progress of the building works in Surrey; fears a poor corn harvest; will try his luck in the Irish Lottery, and will buy tickets for Perrin as directed. 29 June - 1801

12289 - To William Philp Perrin at Rhayader: is glad that the £100 and the lottery tickets arrived safely; his own building goes on - "as is always the case when you get into the hands of carpenters and bricklayers". 4 July - 1801

12290 - To William Philp Perrin at Rhayader: six out of 40 hogsheads of sugar have been sold so far; is glad to hear that Perrin intends to take the land at [West Farleigh] back into his own hands; advises him to do this at Michaelmas so as to leave the tenants little chance to misuse the land; when Mr. Driver last went into Surrey he found Coleman's daughter in a very bad way, either from the dropsey or something else - "in plain English he thought she was big with child. Perhaps you may have heard she is and wish for her to be marry'd before the child is born"; Bunnett has been approached by his partner who wishes to take £5000 out of the trade to go into banking. 9 July - 1801

12291 - To William Philp Perrin at Rhayader: has now discovered that Coleman's daughter has been married two months, and is pregnant; reports on the progress of work at Parkhurst and Tanhurst; "Mrs. B. Says you are a pretty set of folke in Surry. She desires you will ask Molly if children come so soon after marriage in Wales". 14 July - 1801

12292 - To William Philp Perrin at Rhayader: reports on roofing work at Parkhurst; all is well at West Farleigh, most of the cows have calved. 21 July - 1801

12293 - To William Philp Perrin at Hotwells, nr. Bristol: Coleman's daughter has been delivered of a girl; Bunnett's house has so far cost £885; 2 acres of land will be prepared for Perrin's experiment, but the oats must be ploughed deep or the frost will kill them. 10 August - 1801

12294 - To William Philp Perrin at Bristol: 22 August - 1801

12295 - To William Philp Perrin at Bath: is sure that Perrin would save a large sum by taking all the land at Farleigh into his own hands; Bunnett would happily manage such a concern. 1 September - 1801

12296 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst (co. Surrey): 9 September - 1801

12297 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: asks about the valuation of fixtures at West Farleigh, will forward Perrin the books as requested. 21 October - 1801

12298 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: a bill drawn on a man called Lawrence has not been honoured; Groombridge has sold some horses at Maidstone; advises selling the old hay at West Farleigh; hops fetched £3 18s 0d. a cwt. 11 November - 1801

12299 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: another bill has not been honoured. 14 November - 1801

12300 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: is glad to hear that Perrin is improving the access roads around Tanhurst and Leith Hill; has managed to find the £5000 for his partner. 1 December - 1801

12301-12303 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: someone has killed one of his ewes in cruel circumstances; has posted a reward to no avail. Two bills attached. 8 December - 1801

12304 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: Mr. Driver has bought the Farless Green estate for 2000 gns. Frances Bunnett to William Philp Perrin: reports on the flowers to be seen in bloom along the Kings Road; intends reading "The Arabian Knights". 20 Feb - 1802

12305 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: will visit West Farleigh and endeavour to settle the exchange of land with the Amhursts. 27 Feb - 1802

12306 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: the final arrangements over Farless Green have been settled; has informed Mr. Graham [Perrin's West India Merchant] of the 50 hogsheads of sugar being made on the Blue Mountain plantation - 5 Mar 1802

12307 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: Clement Taylor and Stephen Amhurst intend to settle their rent account for West Farleigh; wants to know how much rent they have paid since 1793 when Clement Taylor last paid any rent. 23 April - 1802

12308 - To William Philp Perrin at Overton (co. Hants.): Taylor has paid £100 on account, Amhurst nothing, though he hopes to pay interest next week; Taylor does not want to yield up possession of all his land, but Bunnett feels that Perrin should insist on his so doing. 1 May - 1802

12309 - To William Philp Perrin at Cheltenham: 15 May - 1802

12310 - To William Philp Perrin at Cheltenham: repairs on Clement Taylor's farm in West Farleigh should not be much more than £400; gave Thomas Jones a lecture about the beer "for on looking at his account [we] found there was nearly as much ale as table beer and he says the reason is people will not be satisfy'd without ale. The master workman, he says, never will come without they both eat and drink"; too much wine is being drunk there too. 4 June - 1802

12311 - To William Philp Perrin at Bristol: 11 June - 1802

12312 - Letter to William Philp Perrin at Rhayader (co. Radnor) - 19 Jun 1802

12313 - To William Philp Perrin at Rhayader: 9 July 1802. A note from Frances Bunnett: "our house [at Lewisham] looks prettier and prettier every day; the garden is to be called Little Parkhurst, the house Little Tanhurst..." - 1802

12314 - To William Philp Perrin at Rhayader: is glad that William Sutherland [Perrin's plantation overseer at Blue Mountain] has arrived safely; hopes Perrin will see both him and Mr. Laing before they return to the West Indies; hopes Perrin will not be the loser on his 12 hogsheads of sugar being washed overboard. 16 July - 1802

12315 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: considers himself badly used by Mr. Graham who has refused to forward him £100 for Perrin. 29 July - 1802

12316 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: incloses the numbers of the lottery tickets his family has bought with Perrin. 31 July - 1802

12317 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 5 August - 1802

12318-12320 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: encloses papers on assessed taxes; imagines that Clement Taylor may not be so unwilling to give up his farm at West Farleigh now that the hops are likely to be so poor. 7 August - 1802

12321 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 18 August - 1802

12322 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: land at West and East Farleigh is to be let by auction. Perrin may be interested. 7 September - 1802

12323 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: has visited West Farleigh to investigate the land which is to be let. 25 September - 1802

12324 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 30 September - 1802

12325 - Richard Groombridge sen. from West Farleigh to Thomas Bunnett: 14 Feb - 1803

12326 - Thomas Bunnett to William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 8 Mar - 1803

12327 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: Stephen Amhurst has offered Perrin first refusal of his house and land at West Farleigh; the wood would be a useful purchase. 18 April - 1803

12328 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 16 July - 1803

12329 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 20 July - 1803

12330 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: reports a coaching accident involving his wife but fortunately no injury was done; he himself has decided to give up keeping a carriage. 5 August - 1803

12331 - Frances Bunnett to William Philp Perrin at Bristol: is glad to hear a favourable report of his Jamaican concerns; "Unkle is now a downright farmer and we like farmers' wives; to be shure, we are rather a little humdrum but Aunt says when you come to town she intends to shake it off and be as gay as ever". 26 August - 1803

12332 - Sir John Shaw to Thomas Bunnett would be grateful for the loan of Mr. Perrin's small house at West Farleigh for his adjutant. 4 September - 1803

12333 - Thomas Bunnett to William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: passes on Sir John Shaw's request for a house. A note from Frances Bunnett: "we are almost burned up with drought but comfort ourselves it cannot last long as they say all the low countrys are to be inundated to keep out the French ...". 10 September - 1803

12334 - Sir John Shaw to Thomas Bunnett; returns thanks to Mr. Perrin for the loan of a house at West Farleigh. 27 September - 1803

12335 - Richard Groombridge to Thomas Bunnett: the purchase of Taylor's effects will cost about £350, chiefly for hop-poles. 13 October - 1803

12336 - Richard Groombridge to Thomas Bunnett: Stephen Amhurst's estate at West Farleigh is to be sold. 26 November - 1803

12337 - Thomas Bunnett to William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: is not able to give any satisfactory account of Stephen Amhurst's affairs at West Farleigh. 17 December - 1803

12338 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: Perrin is to have first refusal of the Amhurst estate which consists of some 300 acres plus timber. 19 December - 1803

12339 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 10 May - 1804

12340 - To William Philp Perrin at Langold near Worksop (co. Nottingham): suggests a plan to deal with Oakley who claims his demand against Perrin is nearly £2000. 9 August - 1804

12341 - To William Philp Perrin at Rhayader (co. Radnor): 23 September - 1804

12342 - To William Philp Perrin at Cheltenham: 3 November - 1804

12343 - To William Philp Perrin at Cheltenham: 29 December - 1804

12344 - To William Philp Perrin at West Farleigh: thinks that Oakley should become tenant of the whole of High Ashes Farm, though the farm house and buildings require more attention; if he does have it all, it will reduce Perrin's debt to him very quickly; makes suggestions for leasing Leith Hill and Parkhurst. 13 December - 1805

12345 - To William Philp Perrin at West Farleigh: 21 December - 1805

12346 - To William Philp Perrin at West Farleigh: 22 Feb - 1806

12347 - To William Philp Perrin at West Farleigh: has been summoned to the assizes at Maidstone as a juror, "but you know I am not a fit person being totally deaf in one ear and I hope this will excuse me" - 7 Mar 1806

12348 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: hopes Perrin's face is better, is glad to hear his sugars sell well at Bristol. 30 August - 1806

12349 - To William Philp Perrin at Rhayader (co. Radnor): 5 September - 1806

12350 - To William Philp Perrin at Rhayader: has received a bill from Ballachey (solicitor) for £481 which is far too extravagant: £300 will be nearer the mark. 13 September - 1806

12351 - To William Philp Perrin at Rhayader: 23 September - 1806

12352 - To William Philp Perrin at Rhayader: 13 October - 1806

12353 - To William Philp Perrin at Rhayader: is happy to find that the hurricane did not touch Perrin's Jamaican plantations; Groombridge is going to Tanhurst to see how the hops fare; would have gone too but was delayed by receiving not £3000 as expected from the Ordnance but only about £300. 20 October - 1806

12354 - To William Philp Perrin at Rhayader: has examined Mrs. Simmonds cash book at Tanhurst from beginning to end - it is substantially correct. 7 November - 1806

12355 - To William Philp Perrin at Rhayader: mooring claims and buoys are now laid down at Falmouth but it is doubted if Falmouth will become a favourite port; Miss Matilda Manning's brother-in-law is under arrest in the King's Bench for debt; Bunnett's new farm bailiff is doing well. 22 November - 1806

12356 - To William Philp Perrin at Rhayader: 5 December - 1806

12357 - To William Philp Perrin at Overton (co. Hampshire): 23 December - 1806

12358 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: [27] Jan - 1807

12359 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: hopes to visit Perrin shortly. 19 Jan - 1807

12360 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 6 Feb - 1807

12361 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: has sent off the tooth-powder, Mr. J. Tyrrell, a Maidstone ironmonger, has gone bankrupt, owing Bunnett's firm over £2000. 16 Feb - 1807

12362 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: Bunnett's neighbour, Mr. Young, would like to view Perrin's timber with a view to purchasing. 21 Feb - 1807

12363 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 3 Mar - 1807

12364 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 7 Mar - 1807

12365 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 17 Mar - 1807

12366 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 31 Mar - 1807

12367 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 14 April - 1807

12368 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: has not sent any cucumbers or asparagus as the former are 2s. each, and the latter 24s. a hundred. 20 April - 1807

12369 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 25 April - 1807

12370 - Thomas Bunnett to William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: the crops look well; hears a good account of the hops in Kent. 6 May - 1807

12371 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 13 May - 1807

12372 - T. Carr, solicitor, to Thomas Bunnett: neither he nor Perrin should delay further in putting in an answer to the bill filed by Mr. Willey. 25 May - 1807

12373 - Thomas Bunnett to William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: encloses D239/M/E/12372 for immediate attention. 26 May - 1807

12374 - Richard Groombridge from Tanhurst to Thomas Bunnett: Mr. Coleman at Leith Hill has used Groombridge very badly, suspecting him of prying; Coleman is angry with Mr. Perrin for letting Groombridge manage the hops. 29 May - 1807

12375 - T. Carr from London to William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: begs him to return his answer to Willey's bill. 1 June - 1807

12376 - T. Carr from London to William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 8 June - 1807

12377 - Thomas Bunnett to William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 13 June - 1807

12378 - Richard Groombridge from West Farleigh to Thomas Bunnett: complains of Jones' unhelpful attitude. 24 June - 1807

12379 - Thomas Bunnett to William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: the dry weather has greatly damaged the crops. 11 July - 1807

12380 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 18 July - 1807

12381 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: is glad to hear such favourable reports of West Indian affairs, the house in Dorset St. [London] has dry rot; hopes he will give it up and live with them when in town. Such an arrangement would save Perrin £300-£400 a year. 18 July - 1807

12382 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 3 August - 1807

12383 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 15 August - 1807

12384 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 22 August - 1807

12385 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 24 August - 1807

12386 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 4 September - 1807

12387-12388 - To William Philp Perrin at Aberystwyth: encloses a letter from Richard Van Heythuysen, solicitor. 29 September - 1807

12389 - To William Philp Perrin at Aberystwyth: 10 October - 1807

12390 - To William Philp Perrin at Rhayader (co. Radnor): 17 October - 1807

12391 - To William Philp Perrin at Overton (co. Hants): 24 October - 1807

12392-12393 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 4 November - 1807

12394 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 4 November - 1807

12395 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 10 November - 1807

12396-12401 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 14 November - 19 December - 1807

12402 - Lydia Bunnett to her cousin, William Philp Perrin, and a note from Thomas Bunnett. 21-22 December - 1807

12403-12404 - Thomas Bunnett to her cousin, William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 24 December - 1 Jan - 1807-1808

12405 - To her cousin, William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: hopes the bad weather has given Perrin time to go through all the household and estate accounts; should receive his wine soon; "Mrs B desires me to say that in future she will not agree to my drinking more than a pint at dinner and two or three glasses at supper and that you must follow the example ...". 16 Feb - 1808

12406-12407 - To her cousin, William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: has spent the money doing Perrin's accounts; has tackled Driver about his "enormous" commission of 5 per cent, but had the door shut in his face for his pains. 22 Feb - 1808

12408 - To her cousin, William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: will send Perrin the post - "you will recollect it is madeira and sherry mix'd as you desired"; cannot do anything about Driver's commission until he receives specific instructions. 5 Mar - 1808

12409-12410 - To her cousin, William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 12/19 Mar - 1808

12411 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: the Marlborough packet has arrived at Falmouth with mail from the West Indies; a French privateer has been captured, but London knows nothing of the 98-gun "London" being beached or wrecked; hopes Perrin has now received his spectacles; everywhere is covered with snow - cannot recollect it being colder all winter. - 25 Mar 1808

12412 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: is sending Perrin mourning clothes - on the death of Henry Gally [Knight]. 13 April - 1808

12413-12416 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 21 April - 24 May - 1808

12417 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: the house in which Perrin is interested at Parsons Green will cost £350 - 350 gns. a year to rent; the inventory includes everything save linen; Perrin could always let the land. 31 May - 1808

12418 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: the proprietor of Parsons Green wants a premium of 1500 gns in place of rent in advance; Bunnett has offered £1300 but has received no answer; "I am sure I don't know where the money is to come from should my terms be accepted but as you seemed so desirous of having the house, I will do my utmost to procure it". 7 June - 1808

12419 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: some one has got the house at Parsons Green. 9 June - 1808

12420 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 13 June - 1808

12421 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: has heard that the Spanish admiral at Cadiz has invited the English to take possession of the French fleet, and that the southern provinces of Spain have declared war on France; arrangements are now in hand to close down Perrin's house in Dorset Street once a new tenant is found. 1 July - 1808

12422 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: encloses a note on building a new oasthouse; the weather is unseasonable for Brighton; whence he and his wife are bound. 28 July - 1808

12423-12425 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 30 July - 6 September - 1808

12426 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: "I am sorry to hear you are likely to want more money because I am fearfull unless you put some of my plans in execution that you will call on me for assistance and I really don't know how to spare any money ...". 7 September - 1808

12427 - To William Philp Perrin at Godstone (co. Surrey): "I am sorry you should think either Mrs. B or myself deprived you of the house at Parsins Green; as for my part I never in my life try'd to obtain anything more than I did that". 10 September - 1808

12428-12429 - To William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 14-16 September - 1808

12430 - Henry Davidson from Bank, London, to Thomas Bunnett

12431 - John Jones to Perrin in London: "I received a letter from Messrs. Davidson and Graham with instructions to draw upon them for thirty pounds; my money was thirty guineas and had been due for more than six years, which if I had received in full was but little to what I expected from you after so many promises that you repeatedly made that you would take care and do for me, and that I should not leave you but go and live with you at Kent or where ever you would go to, and was likewise promised by Sir Wilheim FitzHerbert and Mr. Davidson many and many times that if I took care of you that they would see me well rewarded for my attention and care of you. Good sir, you cannot have forgot what you said to me the 1st of Jan 1791 (that being the time I was forced from you by Mr Jacobs, seemingly much against your inclination) that you should not stay long at Clapton, and wished to know where I would be that you might see me when you left there, and many times did you say that Molly should be your house keeper ... but, Oh my God! what did I suffer when at Tanhurst, after a journey of more than two hundred miles to see the gentleman that I had done so much for, turn his back upon me ...". 4 April - 1794

12431-12449 - Correspondence from John and Mary Jones at Rhayader (co. Radnor) to William Philp Perrin

12432 - Mary Jones to Perrin in London: acknowledges receipt of £10. 16 July - 1798

12433 - John Jones to Perrin at Tanhurst: has had a carding and spinning machine set up at Rhayader; his father has unfortunately taken most of their furniture; hopes Perrin can help them in their predicament. 15 July - 1799

12434 - John Jones to Perrin at Tanhurst: has heard from Mr. Bunnett of Perrin's provision for their future "for which I return you ten thousand thanks". 29 July - 1799

12435 - John Jones to Perrin in London: "we had great rejoicing here upon the news of peace, bonfires, illuminations, music etc. for the greatest part of the night"; since the peace, the price of all kind of stock has dropped greatly. 17 October - 1801

12436 - John Jones to William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: his wife has bought the Blacksmith's Field for £45; have had heavy falls of snow, now mostly thawed. 14 November - 1801

12437-12438 - John Jones to William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: 15 Mar - 22 April - 1802

12439 - John Jones to William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: enclosures details [now lost] of an estate for sale in Radnor; "as you have often talked of making a purchase ...". 25 September - 1802

12440 - John Jones to William Philp Perrin in London: wonders what Perrin's reaction will be to the chancellor of the exchequers proposed new taxes. 23 June - 1803

12441 - John Jones to William Philp Perrin at Tanhurst: nothing has been done around Rhayader for the defence of the country; the harvest is in and fairly abundant, save for potatoes; presumably affected by the long drought; "water was never known so scarce as it has been this summer; the shortage of fodder has made butter and cheese dear. 30 October - 1803

12442 - John Jones jun. to his god-father, Perrin at Tanhurst: volunteers are now being raised, "but not before our `Great People' received a severe reprimand from the Lord Lieutenants. A note from John Jones sen: has had a visit from a Swansea man intent on starting a newspaper to be called "The Cambrian"; "I believe [this] will be the first ever printed in the Principality". 1 December - 1803

12443 - John Jones sen. to his god-father, Perrin at Tanhurst in London: the wet winter has been very bad for the sheep - 2 Feb 1804

12444-12449 - John Jones sen. and his son to Perrin - 1804-1810

12450-12451 - William Philp Perrin to Lord St Helens, Sir Henry FitzHerbert, Henry Davidson, and Thomas Bunnett: commits to them the management of his affairs, "finding that in the present state of my health, it is essential to my ease and comfort to contract my establishment and to relieve myself as much as possible from the pressure of business". 17 November - 1808

12450-12634 - The trusteeship of the estate of William Philp Perrin

12452 - Minute book of meetings of trustees (kept by Messrs. Jones & Green, solicitors to Lord St. Helens and Sir Henry FitzHerbert) - 1808-1818

12453-12479 - Draft minutes, memoranda, and resolutions of trustees - 1808-1819

12480 - Notebook containing a rental of the West Farleigh estate (c.1813); the accounts of Jones and Green, then Green, Pemberton, and Crawley, with the trustees for the rents of the estates in Kent and Surrey, 1813-19; the accounts of William Oakley, Edward Boreman, and Sir Samuel Romilly with the trustees, 1812-16 - 1812-1819

12481 - Notebook containing cash account of Jones and Green, later Green, Pemberton, and Crawley, solicitors, and receivers of the Surrey and Kent estates of William Philp Perrin, and then of Sir Henry FitzHerbert - 1813-1828

12482 - Summary account of William Philp Perrin with his trustees - 1809-1818

12483-12513 - Accounts of Jones and Green, later Green, Pemberton, and Crawley, receivers of the Surrey and Kent rents, with the trustees of William Philp Perrin and then with Sir Henry FitzHerbert as executor and heir of William Philp Perrin - 1813-1827

12514-12543 - Accounts, bills, and receipts submitted to the trustees of William Philp Perrin - 1810-1820

12544 - Letter book of the trustees of William Philp Perrin - 1809-1820

12545-12552 - Correspondence from Jones and Green to Lord St. Helens as trustee of William Philp Perrin - 1808-1815

12553-12583 - Correspondence from Thomas Bunnett at West Farleigh (co. Kent) to Lord St. Helens: management of Kent and Surrey estates - 1812-1815

12584-12607 - Correspondence to and from Lord St. Helens as a trustee of William Philp Perrin - 1808-1819

12608-12618 - Miscellaneous correspondence of the trustees of William Philp Perrin - 1809-1811

12619-12634 - Miscellaneous papers and memoranda of the trustees of William Philp Perrin consisting mainly of versions of a particular and valuation of freehold estates of William Philp Perrin in Surrey and Kent proposed as security for £10,000, 1810 - 1810-1812

12635-12704 - Correspondence addressed to Messrs. Jones and Green, or individual trustees of William Philp Perrin, from Surrey, mainly from John Hoare, bailiff at Leith Hill - 1813-1815

12635-12962 - Surrey estate correspondence, continued

12705-12757 - Correspondence addressed to Messrs. Jones and Green, or individual trustees of William Philp Perrin, from Surrey, mainly from John Hoare, bailiff at Leith Hill including letters from G. K. Rusden to Sir Henry FitzHerbert and vica versa on the consumption of hay on Rusden's farm, and letters from John Hoare - 1816-1817

12758-12814 - Correspondence addressed to Messrs. Jones and Green, or individual trustees of William Philp Perrin, from Surrey, mainly from John Hoare, bailiff at Leith Hill - 1818-1819

12815-12845 - Correspondence addressed to Messrs. Green, Pemberton, and Crawley, or to Sir Henry FitzHerbert - 1820

12846-12962 - Correspondence addressed to Messrs. Green, Pemberton, and Crawley, or to Sir Henry FitzHerbert - 1821-1826

12963 - A particular and valuation of the Surrey estate of Sir Henry FitzHerbert Lot 1: Parkhurst, High Ashes, Green Meads Lot 2: Tanhurst, Birketts Lot 3: Wickland Farm Lot 4: Leith Hill Place and farm - 1827

12963-13262 - Correspondence and other papers relating to the sale of the Surrey estate in 1827

12964-12971 - Sale catalogues of the Surrey estate of Sir Henry FitzHerbert, including John Smallpiece's contract of purchase for Lot 1 (Leith Hill Place and Farm) for £15,500 inclusive of timber; same for Lot 2 (Tanhurst and Birketts) to Edmund Lomax for £6500 exclusive of timber; same for Lot 3 (Parkhurst etc.) to Lomax for £6000 exclusive of timber; same for Lot 4 (Wickland Farm) to John Innes for £1600; same for Lot 5 (Timber) to William Hudson for £300 - 1827

12972-12980 - Sale catalogues - 1827

12981-12983 - Pedigree of Sir Henry FitzHerbert on the part of his mother with copies of certificates and affidants - 1827

12984-13014 - Certificates of baptism etc. and affidavits of Lydia Bunnett and Lord St. Helens - 1827

13015-13022 - Office copies of judgments and satisfactions acknowledged and of warrants of attorney to enter satisfaction in cases of debt involving William Philp Perrin - 1827-1828

13023-13046 - Miscellaneous papers - 1827

13047-13068 - Solicitors' and valuers' fees, and accounts of sums to be paid by purchasers - 1827-1829

13069-13190 - Correspondence between the purchasers and their solicitors and Green, Pemberton, and Crawley acting for Sir Henry FitzHerbert, and between Green, Pemberton, and Crawley and Sir Henry FitzHerbert - 1827

13191-13262 - Correspondence between the purchasers and their solicitors and Green, Pemberton, and Crawley acting for Sir Henry FitzHerbert, and between Green, Pemberton, and Crawley and Sir Henry FitzHerbert - 1828-1829

13263-13299 - Correspondence addressed to Green, Pemberton, and Crawley and to Sir Henry FitzHerbert - 1827-1829

13263-13299 - Surrey estate correspondence cont.

13300-13325 - Estate correspondence addressed to Messrs. Jones and Green, then Green, Pemberton, and Crawley, receivers to the trustees of William Philp Perrin - 1809-1820

13300-13542 - Kent estate correspondence cont.

13326-13345 - Estate correspondence addressed to Messrs. Green, Pemberton, and Crawley or to Sir Henry FitzHerbert, including - Edward Driver to Sir Henry with a detailed report on a proposed exchange of land at Lenham. 21 July 1824 (D239/M/E/13331) - 1821-1829

13346-13417 - Estate correspondence as above, including - 1821-1829

13418-13461 - Correspondence of Thomas Tollhurst, bailiff at West Farleigh, to Sir Henry FitzHerbert, including - 1821-1834

13462-13500 - Correspondence from Thomas Tollhurst to Sir Henry FitzHerbert - 1835-1858

13501-13542 - Later nineteenth century estate correspondence - 1860-1902

13543 - Bond in £360 by Mary Grant of West Farleigh widow to James Westbrook of East Malling yeoman. Dated 31 October - 1777

13543-13656 - Estate papers and memoranda (Perrin): Kent

13544 - Bond in £1000 by William Philp Perrin to William Tilden of Wateringbury yeoman. Dated 11 July - 1778

13545 - Bond in £40 by Henry Chessman of West Farleigh blacksmith to William Philp Perrin. Dated 19 June - 1784

13546 - Bond in £10,000 by Thomas Bunnett of the Borough, ironmonger, to William Philp Perrin. Dated 25 August - 1810

13547 - Authorization from Frances Perrin to Sir William FitzHerbert Bt. and Duncan Davidson to discharge "all my son's servants at Farleigh immediately and to dispose of all the stock there in such manner as they think most proper". London, 26 December - 1784

13548 - Memorandum of an agreement between Frances Perrin mother and acting attorney of William Philip Perrin, and Robert Gamber of Hanover Square (co. Middx.) esq. for the leasing of West Farleigh house for one year at a rent of £150. Inventory attached. Dated 24 Mar - 1785

13549 - Memorandum of an agreement between Frances Perrin mother and acting attorney of William Philp Perrin, and Clement Taylor of Maidstone esq. of Grants Farm at West Farleigh for one year at a rent of £60, with power of attorney to Taylor to receive rents (schedule appended). Dated 24 Mar - 1785

13550-13558 - Inventories of William Philp Perrin's mansion at West Farleigh, together with an inventory of the conservatory and hot-houses, and catalogue of books - 1784-1785

13559-13564 - Correspondence addressed to Sir William FitzHerbert about William Philp Perrin's affairs at West Farleigh - 1785

13565-13575 - Bills and other papers - 1785

13576 - Notebook containing list of sums received by Mrs. Perrin from Kent and by Messrs. Davidsons and Graham - 1785-1793

13577-13578 - Inventory of household goods of Benjamin Blackburn. West Farleigh, and appraised to William Philp Perrin - 1775

13579-13582 - Inventory of household goods of Mary Grant, with inventory of farming goods etc., her account with William Philp Perrin, the appraiser's bill, and bill of sale of goods by Mary Grant to Perrin - 1778

13583-13586 - Inventories of goods of Mrs Hammond at the Chequers, West Farleigh - 1794

13587 - Survey and valuation of farms in Lenham and Harrietsham, belonging to Mr Groombridge - 1798

13588 - Inventory of household goods of the late William Hammond at the Chequers, West Farleigh - 1784

13589 - A list of the poor of the parish of West Farleigh - 1775

13590 - A list of the poor of the parish of West Farleigh (?) - 1783

13591 - List of Mr Perrin's tenants - 1804

13592-13593 - Certificate of redemption of land tax - 1798

13594-13596 - Agreement for purchase of land in Lenham by William Philp Perrin - 1800

13597-13608 - Insurance policy and receipts for premiums on property in Lenham - 1804-1815

13609-13626 - Miscellaneous papers - c.1770-1816

13627-13656 - Bills, receipts, and papers concerning the financial affairs of Clement Taylor with William Philp Perrin - 1795-1809

13657 - Copy will of Richard Groombridge of Hunton (co. Kent) blacksmith. Dated 10 June - 1742

13657-13695 - Records of the Groombridge family

13658 - Lease for 41 years from Michaelmas last past between John Carney of Reading (co. Berkshire) esq. and Jane his wife to Richard Groombridge of West Farleigh blacksmith of a smithy and garden. Rent £7 and five loads of dung. Dated 15 October - 1737

13659 - Agreement between Richard Groombridge of West Farleigh and Thomas Rumsey of Mereworth whereby Rumsey will quit the premises he holds in Mereworth as tenant of Groombridge on receiving two months notice. Dated 9 October - 1794

13660 - Bond in £40 by Richard Groombridge of Hunton (co. Kent) to John Amhurst of East Farleigh esq. to support mortgage - 10 Feb [1699]

13661 - Bill of sale by John Boys of Feston (co. Kent) carpenter to Richard Groombridge of West Farleigh yeoman of all stock in trade, goods and chattels etc. Consideration £150 - 1794

13662 - Bill of sale by Benjamin Groombridge of Lenham victualler to Richard Groombridge sen. of West Farleigh gent. of all goods and chattels etc. Consideration £300. Dated - April - 1801

13663 - Bond in £600 to support D239/M/E/13662. Even date - 1801

13664 - Apprenticeship indenture: William Groombridge jun. of West Farleigh to Richard Groombridge of the same blacksmith. Dated 16 Jan - 1766

13665 - Notice to quit tenancy directed to Mary Groombridge and Richard Groombridge in Yalding. Dated 20 Feb - 1788

13666 - Inventory of Thomas Forster's shop goods and iron appraised by Richard Groombridge et al. Dated 23 December - 1736

13667 - Inventory of goods and chattels of Richard Groombridge of Yalding appraised to Sir John Shaw of Eltham Bart. Dated 13 October - 1788

13668 - John Groombridge serving with 32nd regiment of foot on Corfu to his parents: writes to say that he regrets the long silence; he left home to join the 32nd in Mar 1816; describes Corfu. 25 October - 1817

13669 - Mr. J. Hosmer from Wateringbury to Richard Groombridge at West Farleigh has broken the glass cylinder of his electrical machine; would Groombridge be prepared to part with his "which perhaps may not be of much use to you?". 4 May - 1819

13670 - Letter to Richard Groombridge blacksmith [for sending to England] from Van Dieman's Land [Tasmania] describing his life there: "tell all wild young men to mind what they are about ... for no one knows what people under goe as prisoners in this country ..." - 26 Aug 1838

13671-13684 - Groombridge family bills and receipts - 1744-1801

13685 - Bank book - 1788

13686 - Order of Quarter Sessions discharging Richard Groombridge from the office of constable of the Upper Half hundred of Twyford on account of infirmity. 27 October - 1715

13687 - An assessment of repairing Yalding parish church. - 14 Mar [1729]

13688 - Account of the surveyors of the highways of the upper division of the hundred of Twyford, with lists of those who have worked and of defaulters - 1754

13689 - Solicitors bill to Richard Groombridge and the parish of Yalding, 1759; settled - 1761

13690 - "A Memorandum Boock of the Exspence of the Poor of West Farleigh" Overseer, Richard Groombridge - 1778-1779

13691 - Appointment of Richard Groombridge as surveyor of the highway in West Farleigh - 1785

13692 - Overseers' of the poor of West Farleigh, account and memorandum book, Richard Groombridge, overseer - 1794-1795

13693 - Part of overseer's account - 1795

13694 - Ready reckoner

13695 - "An act of repairing and widening the road ... from ... Wadhurst to ... Pullen's Hill ... and from Pullen's Hill ... to West Farley ..." - 1765

13696-13711 - Miscellaneous papers, including - Amount of rental in Kent, 1813 D239/M/E/13706 - Account of cash expended on repairs, 1814-15 D239/M/E/13707 - Particulars of freehold estates in Kent belonging to William Philp Perrin, 1816 D239/M/E/13710 - Disbursments for repairs, 1818-19 - 1812-1819

13696-13813 - Kent estate papers etc (trustees of William Philp Perrin; and FitzHerbert)

13712-13759 - Notices to quit tenancies - 1828-1858

13760 - Notes on yield and price of hops, by Sir Henry FitzHerbert

13761-13764 - Notes on repairs to cottages at West Farleigh and work to be done about the estate - 1821-1822

13765 - Cottage rents - 1821

13766-13767 - Memoranda on repairs - 1822-1823

13768 - Admeasurement and valuation of work to be done at Ham Farm, Lenham - 1830

13769 - Valuation for rent of John Philpot's farm in West Farleigh - 1830

13770 - Valuation for rent of John Philpot's farm in West Farleigh - Mrs. Charlton - 1830

13771 - John Walne's rent account; 1828-32 - 1832

13772 - Sir Henry FitzHerbert's notes on West Farleigh tithe apportionment - 1843

13773 - Plan of farm buildings, Ham Farm, Lenham - 1844

13774-13776 - Copy of separate assessment for the poor rate of Sir Henry FitzHerbert's land in East Farleigh - 1847

13777-13778 - Sale catalogues - 1821-1862

13779 - Draft or copy memorandum of an agreement between Sir William FitzHerbert Bart. and Aretas Akers-Douglas about an exchange of land - 1883

13780 - Notice to Sir William FitzHerbert to lop overhanging branches - 1885

13781-13782 - Specification and estimate of repairs, Ranters Hall Farm, West Farleigh - 1887

13783-13789 - Specification and estimate of repairs, Ranters Hall Farm, West Farleigh with bills for work in hand - 1887-1888

13790-13792 - Specification and estimate of repairs, Ranters Hall Farm, West Farleigh - 1887

13793 - Plan of land - [c1860-1890]

13794 - Account of day-work undertaken by horses on the Kent estate - 1851-1858

13795-13813 - Miscellaneous estate papers - 1820-1847

13814 - Rules and orders of the work-house at Coxheath

13814-13817 - Miscellaneous

13815 - Sketch of Lord Barham's park gate at Teeston (co. Kent) - 19th cent.

13816 - Sketch of coat of arms depicted on a marble shield erected to the memory of Mrs. Jane Brewer in West Farleigh church - 1853

13817 - County rate - 1849-1850

13818 - Copy of draft conveyance of Yalding Free School estates in pursuance of an order in Chancery of 25 July 1842 - 1845

13818-13832 - Yalding School

13819 - Draft affidavit on the matter of Yalding Free School - 1844

13820 - Notes on the history of Yalding School and its trusteeship (William Philp Perrin acted as trustee 1779-89) - c.1843

13821 - Draft abstract of title of the school estates - [c1843-1844]

13822 - Rev. R. R. Warde from Yalding to Sir Henry FitzHerbert, asking if Sir Henry would be good enough to execute a deed as executor of Mr. Perrin who never declared his formal resignation as trustee. 11 Jan - 1843

13823 - Sir Henry FitzHerbert to his solicitor, Edward Leigh Pemberton, seeking advice as to the trusteeship. 25 Jan - 1843

13824-13832 - Solicitors' correspondence - 1843-1845

13833 - Rev. Robert Stevens to Sir Henry FitzHerbert: "my long wished for object is at length accomplished: our school is built". 7 November - 1845

13833-13837 - West Farleigh National School

13834 - Projected income and disbursements - 1845

13835-13836 - Rev. Robert Stevens to Sir Henry FitzHerbert. 17 November - 1845

13837 - School accounts - 1855

13838 - Notes on title to land - [late 17th cent]

13838-13977 - Estate papers and memoranda (Perrin): Surrey

13839 - Bond in £200 by John Longhurst of Ockley (co. Surrey) yeoman to William Didlesfold of Hascomb yeoman. Dated 9 October - 1699

13840 - Note of the growth of coppices on High Ashurst Farm - 1777

13841 - Legal paper - 1787

13842-13846 - Lists of plants at Parkhurst (property of Lord Macartney) - 1789

13847-13848 - Lord Macartney's insurance policy on Parkhurst and premium receipt - 1787-1788

13849 - Sale catalogue - 1794

13850 - Registration of John Hoare as gamekeeper to Harry Thompson esq. at Leith Hill Place. 26 August - 1794

13851-13852 - Valuation of timber etc. at Leith Hill, lately purchased by William Philp Perrin - 1797

13853 - Inventory of part of the household furniture, fixtures, and garden utensils, the property of the late Henry Thompson taken at Leith Hill Place and appraised to William Philip Perrin. 22 December - 1797

13854-13856 - Registrations of John Hoare as game-keeper at Leith Hill Place - 1797-1798

13857-13858 - Plans of Mr. Perrin's house at Tanhurst - 1794

13859-13866 - Valuation of articles on Leith Hill Place Farm and bills and receipts etc. on its purchase by William Philp Perrin - 1797-1798

13867 - Schedule of William Philp Perrin's land in Surrey for which a certificate of the amount of land tax charged is required - 1798

13868-13869 - Inventory of the furniture and effects of Lord Macartney at Parkhurst, valued to William Philp Perrin - 1799

13870 - Note of tithes and taxes charged on Parkhurst - 1799

13871 - Particular and valuation of the timber at Parkhurst - 1799

13872 - Minute of vestry decision to rate Parkhurst at £50 a year - 1800

13873-13937 - Vouchers to account for work done on the Surrey estate - 1800

13938 - Inventory of household items at Tanhurst - 1801

13939 - List of workmen at Parkhurst - 1801

13940 - Valuation of Green Mead in the parish of Abinger - 1802

13941 - Articles of agreement for sale of the Farless Green estate: James Foster to Samuel Driver for William Philp Perrin - 1802

13942 - Opinion on suitability of the Surrey estate for a mortgage of £10,000 - 1803

13943 - Shepherd's account book - 1798-1809

13944 - Particulars of timber at Tanhurst and Parkhurst - 1807

13945 - Plan of Wicklands Farm - 1807

13946 - Estimate of repairs at Wicklands Farm - 1808

13947 - Oak timber felled and sold - 1809

13948-13951 - Thomas Coleman's account with William Philp Perrin - 1798-1809

13952 - Plan of cottages to be built at Leith Hill

13953-13977 - Miscellaneous papers - 1764-1808

13978-13979 - Particular and valuation of an estate in the county of Surrey belonging to William Philp Perrin, by A. P. Driver - 1808

13978-14244 - Surrey estate papers (trustees of William Philp Perrin; and FitzHerbert)

13980 - Particular and valuation of Tanhurst and Leith Hill (and copy) - 1814

13981-13984 - Estate plans: Parkhurst, High Ashes, Green Meads Leith Hill Tanhurst, Birchetts, Wicklands the whole estate - c1808

13985-13994 - Statements of rent due from Sir Samuel Romilly to the trustees of William Philp Perrin - 1814-1818

13995-14020 - Statements of account between Edward Boreman and the trustees of William Philp Perrin for rent due from Leith Hill, minutes of trustees, valuation and inventory of Boreman's farm, etc. - 1809-1815

14021-14043 - Minutes and memoranda of trustees relating to Surrey estates - 1813-1820

14044-14055 - Miscellaneous accounts - 1812-1819

14056-14062 - Notices of assessments under Property Acts - 1812-1813

14063-14121 - Miscellaneous bills and receipts - 1808-1816

14122 - Estimate of repairs required at Leith Hill - 1816

14123 - List of things to be left at Parkhurst - 1817

14124 - Appraisement of High Ashes Farm - 1819

14125 - Report by John Hoare on estate matters - 1819

14126-14127 - Statement of arrears at Mr. Perrin's decease - 1820

14128-14166 - Estate papers, including sale catalogues, farm valuations, and notices to quit - 1820-1823

14167-14210 - Estate papers - 1824-1827

14211-14244 - Miscellaneous estate papers - [c1820]-1827

14242-14362 - Reynolds - Gally Knight

14245 - Acquittance from Robert Butler of Gray's Inn esq. and Roger Jackson of London gent. to William Lord Willoughby (in £800) and Sir William Ellis, serjeant-at-law, (in £1200) in a total of £2000 for an indenture of assignment (D239 M/T 1093). Dated 20 May - 1672

14245-14257 - The manor

14245-16275 - Warsop

14246 - Acquittance from Sir William Ellis, J.C.P., to Roger Jackson of London gent. in £1200. Dated 25 June - 1675

14247-14252 - Bonds made between Henry Gally Knight and Edward Miller Mundy and Alleyne Lord St. Helens (executors of the estate of Knight's father) for successive mortgages on the Warsop estate - 1815-1832

14253 - Draft abstract of securities between Henry Gally Knight and Lord St. Helens - post-1823

14254 - Schedule of deeds and papers belonging to Henry Gally Knight and left with Messrs. Green, Pemberton, and Crawley, solicitors - 1823

14255 - List of mortgages charged on the Warsop estate, 1815-23 - 1823

14256 - Solicitors' instructions to counsel to draw up new mortgage - 1832-1833

14257 - Note of stock sold

14258 - Bond in £60 by Christopher Snoden of Cuckney gent. to George Eyre of Warsop tailor to support D239 M/T 1173-74 - 5 Jan [1683]

14258-14271 - Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

14259 - Certificate of marriage of John Mandevile and Elizabeth Laws at St. Leonard, Shoreditch (co. Middx.) on 29 Mar 1700 (with D239 M/T 1463) - 1710

14260 - Bond in £500 by William Godber of Pleasley Hill in the parish of Mansfield yeoman to Daniel Newton of Warsop to support D239 M/T 1225-1226. Dated 18 April - 1700

14261 - Schedule of John Wass's writings, 1599-1714 - c.1714

14262 - Letter of attorney by David Askey of Warsop yeoman to Thomas Ashton jun. of East Markham gent., John Farrer of Mansfield apothecary, William Chambers of Mansfield inn-holder, and John Thompson of Warsop baker (jointly or severally) to surrender at Mansfield court baron all his lands etc. to Richard Lloyd of Southwell gent. and William Andrew of Southwell esq. in trust to perform the last will etc. or other disposition of Samuel Lowe of Southwell esq. and to attend a proviso in an indenture tripartite of even date (D239 M/T 1185). Dated 30 October - 1716

14263 - Bond in £260 by John Wasse of Warsop gardener to Daniel Newton of Warsop yeoman to support D239 M/T 1297-98 - 8 Jan [1729]

14264 - Articles of agreement made between William Whitehead of Mansfield gent., and Nathan Newton, Daniel Newton, and John Ufton for conveyance of Whitehead of copyhold and freehold hereditaments in Warsop. Consideration £1088. Dated 15 June - 1732

14265 - Articles of agreement made between Richard Tomlinson of Eakring yeoman and Daniel Newton of Warsop yeoman - 11 Jan [1733]

14266 - Bond in £240 by Richard Tomlinson to Daniel Newton to support D239 M/T 1268-69. - 22 Mar [1733]

14267 - Bond in £50 by Edward Thorman of Edwinstowe gardener to Daniel Newton of Warsop gent: Dated 4 April - 1735

14268 - Abstract of William Wylde's title to Nettleworth manor (with D239 M/T 1679) - 1748

14269 - Abstract of Robert Kerchevall's title to his estate in Warsop - 1785

14270 - Schedule of deeds and writings in the hands of Rev. Charles Plumptre and John Newton with their respective undertakings to produce the same in order to support the title of the purchaser, John Duckmanton - with D239 M/T 1349-50 - 1785

14271 - Copies of copyhold admissions and surrenders, Daniel Cowley to James and John Newton, in 1767 - 1785

14272 - Abstract of title to George Green's "White Swan" public house - 1808

14272-14279 - Nineteenth century

14273 - Abstract of title of William Cutts to Sandy Lane Close in Warsop, sold to William Bradley - 1809

14274-14275 - Abstracts of title of William Wylde to copyhold lands in Warsop - c.1815

14276-14277 - Notices from William Wylde and Eliza Sutton Wylde to the steward of Warsop manor court. 23 April - 1816

14278 - Extracts from Warsop parish registers, 1720-72 - 1816

14279 - Extract from the will of John Heaton relating to the devise of trust estates. Will dated 3 Jan 1817 - 1818

14280-1 - Schedule of deeds - 1819

14280-14283 - Osborne - Gally Knight

14282 - Observations on title - 1819

14283 - Bond in £300, against any claim of dower, by David Osborne of Ollerton hairdresser to Henry Gally Knight. Dated 5 May - 1819

14284 - Schedule of title deeds etc. relating to an estate in Warsop and one in Little Steeping (co. Lincoln) belonging to Mr. John Hawksley and in mortgage to James and Joseph Naylor for £1300 - 1811

14284-14287 - John Hawksley

14285 - Promisory note from John Hawksley to Henry Gally Knight in £112 7s - 1818

14286 - Abstract of John Hawksley's mortgage deed to James and Joseph Naylor, 1811 - 1821

14287 - Abstract of John Hawksley's mortgage deed to Francis Vickers and Richard Parsons, 1816 - 1821

14288 - Copy memorandum of agreement made between John Duckmanton of Warsop yeoman and John Horncastle of Carlton gent. on behalf of Henry Gally Knight, for sale of land by Duckmanton. Consideration £3945. Dated 28 Mar - 1821

14288-14337 - Duckmanton - Gally Knight

14289 - Open Field lands in Warsop belonging to John Duckmanton - 1821

14290 - Part of the parish of Warsop belonging to John Duckmanton and sold to Henry Gally Knight - 1823

14291 - Note accompanying D239/M/E/14290 - 1823

14292 - John Duckmanton's lands in Warsop at the time of inclosure in 1818 - 1821-1823

14293-14295 - Abstracts of title - c.1823

14296-14301 - Observations, opinions, on title - 1822-1823

14302 - Extract from Warsop enclosure act - 1823

14303 - Schedule of deeds required - c.1823

14304 - Account of open field lands as shown on the abstract - c.1823

14305 - Notes on abstract of title - c.1823

14306 - Minutes prior to the completion of business - [c1823-1825]

14307-14309 - Copies of wills of John Thompson of Warsop baker (1726/27), Nathan Newton of Warsop gent. (1759), and John Newton (1810) - c.1823

14310-14311 - Parish register extracts - 1822

14312-14331 - Solicitors' correspondence - 1821-1825

14332-14334 - Fair copy abstracts of title - 1821-1823

14335-14337 - Affidavits; and bond to indemnify against dower - 1825

14337-14339 - Abstracts of title - 1827

14338-14342 - Exchange of land with duke of Portland

14340 - Award of Mr. William Baily upon an exchange of estates between the duke of Portland and Henry Gally Knight. Dated 1 August - 1817

14341 - Notes on abstracts of title - 1823

14342 - An act for confirming and establishing the settlement made by William Henry Cavendish Scott, Duke of Portland on his wife Henrietta Scott, now duchess of Portland - 1820

14343-14345 - Abstracts of title of Henry Reynolds - 1827

14346 - Observations on abstract of title - 1827

14347-14348 - Copy agreement for sale, and particulars of the estate - 1826-1829

14349-14351 - Affidavits - 1829

14352-14362 - Parish register extracts - 1829-1830

14363-14369 - Abstracts of the title of Nathan Jackson and Miss Ann Newton - 1827

14363-14417 - Jackson and Newton - Gally Knight

14370 - Case for opinion of counsel - 1830

14371-14376 - Observations and opinions on title - c1827-1829

14377 - Office copy of Mary Newton's certificate of contract for redemption of land tax, 1799 - 1831

14378 - Extracts from land tax assessments, 1794-1827 - c.1830

14379-14380 - Copies of Mary Newton's claims under the Warsop Inclosure award - c.1830

14381 - Copy terrier of property to be included in the sale, 1826 - c.1830

14382 - Copy of the probate copy of the will of Matthew Heath of Warsop Park gent. dated 1788, proved 1790 - c.1830

14383-14395 - Affidavits - 1829-1832

14396-14404 - Parish register extracts and pedigrees of the Heath family - c.1830

14405-14408 - Copies of the probate copies of the wills of William Wilson (1788), Thomas Wilson (1799), William Wilson (1806), and John Clay Wilson (1828) - c.1830

14409-14417 - Affidavits, parish register extracts, and pedigree relating to the Wilson family - c1830-1833

14418 - Particulars and conditions of sale - 1847

14418-14424 - Crooks - FitzHerbert

14419 - Abstract of title of Elizabeth Crooks - 1847

14420 - Certificate of acknowledgment of deeds by married women - 1847

14421-14423 - Extracts from parish registers - 1847

14424 - Solicitor's bill - 1847

14425-14428 - Conditions for sale - 1849

14425-14479 - Robinson - FitzHerbert

14429-14435 - Abstracts of title of William Robinson - 1849

14436-14443 - Requisitions on title - 1849

14444-14454 - Affidavits and declarations - 1849

14455 - Certificate of contract for redemption of land tax, 1799 (copy) - 1849

14456-14457 - Copies of claims made on enclosure, 1818 - 1849

14458 - Warsop inclosure act - 1818

14459 - Schedule of allotments awarded to William Robinson sen. under the inclosure act - 1821

14460 - Schedule of title deeds - 1830

14461 - Copy deed of covenant for production of title deeds - 1849

14462 - Receipt - 1785

14463-14464 - Particulars and valuation of William Robinson's estate with plan - 1849

14465 - Handbill - 1849

14466-14474 - Solicitors' correspondence - 1849

14475-14479 - Miscellaneous papers - 1849

14480 - Abstract of title - 1867

14480-14485 - Featherstone & Blythman - FitzHerbert

14481 - Letters of administration of the goods of Mary Betney - 1829

14482 - Statutory declaration - 1846

14483 - Notice from William Wood, mortgagee, to Sir William FitzHerbert - 1868

14484-14485 - Extracts from parish registers - 1846

14486-14488 - Court roll extracts - [late 19th cent]

14486-14489 - Miscellaneous

14489 - Draft copyhold surrender and admission - 1919

14490 - Lease for 21 years from Michaelmas last past by Eleanor, dowager countess of Rutland to Thomas Tabaram of Warsop gent. of a cottage and croft adjoining the George in Netherthorpe (rent 2s.); a toftstead, croft, half an oxgang, a long dole and a short dole in Downe meadow (rent 4s.); a croft, half an oxgang, and a piece of a croft in Appleton (rent 4s 6d); two wasted tofts against the George (rent 4s 8d); 2 acres called Cote Buttes (rent 20d); a toft wasted with fire (rent 11d); 2 acres in Appleton (rent 8d); 1 acre 1 rood in Cokmerbreke (rent 5d); a croft called Burned Grene (1 rood), rent 8d; a close in the Railes (rent 8d); ½ acre next to Burned Grene (rent 12d); a piece of ground called Burned Grene (rent 12d). Consideration of £10 paid by lessor to release her from any future injurious claims. Dated 19 November (Formerly FW47) - 1543

14490-14553 - Leases

14491 - Lease for 21 years from 25 March last past by Rawff Denman of Drayton (co. Nottingham) and Elizabeth his wife to Eleanor, dowager countess of Rutland, of the sheep walk in Warsop, namely a dwellinghouse, a sheepcote, a great close, a small close; and all closes adjoining within a ring or pale, late in the tenure of Francis Leek kt. Rent £4. Consideration £11. Bond in £20 by Denman in further assurance. Dated 12 April (Formerly FW48) - 1546

14492 - Lease for 60 years from Michaelmas last past by Eleanor dowager countess of Rutland, and her son Henry, earl of Rutland, to John Leeke esq., servant to the earl, and Margaret Paston his wife, natural sister of the countess, of the manor of Warsop. Timber rights reserved. Rent £17 16s 1½d, to countess for life, then to the earl. Dated 22 December - 1551

14493 - Lease for 19 years from Michaelmas last past by Edward earl of Rutland to John Sydnam of Warsop esq. and Matthew Chambers of Mansfield haberdasher of the timber in Warsop Hay. Lessees to leave standing double the number of samplers and standards required. Rent £13 6s 8d. Dated 13 December - 1583

14494 - Surrender of lease as in D239/M/E/14492 by Henry Leeke of Warsop esq. to Roger earl of Rutland and Thomas Screven, servant of the earl. Warranty to exclude those leases made by Leeke. Consideration £480. Dated 15 June - 1597

14495 - Lease for 21 years from 25 March last past by Roger earl of Rutland to Edward Parker of Scarcliffe (co. Derby) yeoman of that part of a parcel of woodland called Burnedale. Rent 18s - 20 Mar [1605]

14496 - Lease for 6 years from Michaelmas last past by William Kitchen of Warsop yeoman to Thomas Meakyn of Bilsthorpe husbandman of a cottage and croft in Warsop. Rent 30s. After the end of the term, William Kitchen and Joan his wife shall enjoy for their natural lives the hall and parlour in the cottage, and housing for one cow, and as much corn as shall grow on 3 roods at a rent of 13s. 4d, while Thomas Meakyn and Margery his wife have the use of the remainder of the premises, and failing issue, then to the use of Francis son of William Kitchen for ever. Consideration £45. Dated 28 October - 1613

14497 - Lease for 3 years from 25 March last past by Francis earl of Rutland to John Jepson of Warsop yeoman of fishing rights in Warsop. Rent 10s. Lessee to deliver yearly two dozen trout. Dated 14 July - 1624

14498 - Lease for three natural lives by George earl of Rutland to John Cooke of Warsop yeoman of two messuages and two oxgangs of land in Warsop. Timber rights reserved. To hold for life of lessee and his sons John and Francis. Rent £14 13s 4d and two hens and two capons when demanded. Consideration £60. Dated 29 June - 1638

14499 - Lease for three natural lives by George earl of Rutland to John Deverell of Warsop gent. of a farm etc. in Warsop; timber rights reserved. To hold for lives of lessee, Jane Deverell and Roger Wood, both grandchildren of the lessee. Rent £2 3s. Consideration £160. Dated 29 June - 1638

14500 - Lease for three natural lives by George earl of Rutland to Thomas Byron of Warsop gent. of a messuage and an oxgang of land; timber rights reserved. Rent £5. Consideration £20. Dated 29 August - 1638

14501 - Lease for three natural lives by George earl of Rutland to Ralph Dabney of Warsop labourer of a cottage and 3 acres of land. Timber rights reserved. Rent £1 6s 8d. Consideration £5. Dated 29 August - 1638

14502 - Lease for three natural lives by George earl of Rutland to Ann Jepson of Warsop widow of a messuage and oxgang of land in Warsop. Timber rights reserved. Rent 21s 4d. Consideration £55. Dated 29 August - 1638

14503 - Lease for 21 years by William Willoughby of Hunsdon (co. Hertford) esq. to John Foxe of Warsop gent. of several parcels of land in the Hough Field, Church Field, Neather Field, together with the Brecks in the town fields, an acre of meadow, and a messuage in Market Warsop. Rent £37 6s 8d. - 24 Mar [1657]

14504 - Lease for 21 years from 25 March last past by William Willoughby to Ann Hearinge of Warsop widow of a cottage and croft in Warsop, 3 acres in Hough Field, 1 acre in Church Field, 1 acre in Neather Field, 1 acre in the Moore, ½ acre in the Hagg, and two cowgates in Burndale Leas. Rent 29s. - 18 Feb [1660]

14505 - Lease for 21 years from 25 March last past by William Willoughby to Samuel Hearinge jun. of Warsop of a messuage, Meadow Close (4 acres), the Far Hough Close (1 acre 3 roods), the Moore Close (3 acres). Timber and mineral rights reserved. Rent £10. - 18 Feb [1660]

14506 - Lease for 21 years from 25 March last past by William Willoughby to Richard Pease of Warsop husbandman of a messuage in Warsop and the More Close (6 acres). Timber and mineral rights reserved. Rent £11. Lessee to grind corn at Warsop mill. - 18 Feb [1660]

14507-14508 - Lease for 21 years from 25 March next by William Willoughby to Cornelius Clarke of Chalthorne gent. of the manor house of Warsop, Hall Orchard, the Pickhills, Sower Meadow, and the herbage only of a piece of wood called Colliers Spring. Rent £30. (and copy). Dated 19 October - 1664

14509 - Lease for 99 years from Michaelmas last past by William Willoughby to John Hall of Knaith (co. Lincoln), servant to William, and Ann his wife, of a messuage, half an oxgang of land, the Carr Ground, and Hopp Yard both containing 25 acres. Rent 14s - 13 Jan [1665]

14510 - Agreement by George Fothergill of Warsop clerk to pay to Roger Wood or Jane Deverell for life or for a term of 99 years, 1d a year and the taxes of a pound rate if demanded, as set out in a lease of the New Close in the Hough. (Formerly FW50) - 23 Mar [1670]

14511 - Lease for 21 years from 25 March last past by William Lord Willoughby to Samuel Herring of Warsop yeoman, John Normanton of Warsop yeoman, and Elizabeth Gilby of Warsop widow of all that parcel of ground in Warsop called Highwoods. Timber rights reserved. Rent £18. Dated 2 August - 1670

14512 - Assignment of a lease(D239/M/E/14503) for residue of term of 21 years from Michaelmas last past by John Fox of Warsop gent. to John Cooper of Mansfield Woodhouse yeoman. Dated 13 December - 1671

14513-14514 - Lease for 21 years from 25 March last past by William Lord Willoughby to Francis Walker of Warsop innholder of the Broad Croft (5 acres). Rent £5. Dated 4 May - 1672

14515 - Grant for life by William Lord Willoughby to John Hall his servant of an annuity of £20 issuing from a farm in Warsop now in the tenure of Francis Cooke. Consideration £60. Dated 5 December - 1672

14516 - Lease for 21 years from 25 March last past by John Bainbrigg of Warsop gent. and John Hall of Knaith (co. Lincoln) gent.,trustees of the manor of Warsop under the last will and testament of William Lord Willoughby, to John Foxe of Warsop gent. of the parcels of land in Warsop called the Burndalls. Lessee to prepare the land for tillage, meadow, or pasturing, but shall not keep in tillage more than 60 acres in the last 3 years of the term. Rent £30. - 6 Jan [1674]

14517 - Lease for 21 years by Sir Ralph Knight to Thomas Willey and Henry Wass both of Warsop limeburners of the Crosland Stone Quarries in Warsop. Rent £4. Dated 30 August - 1675

14518 - Lease for two lives by Sir Ralph Knight to Francis Cook of Warsop yeoman of two messuages and two oxgangs of land in Warsop. Timber rights reserved. Rent £14 13s 4d. Dated 17 December - 1675

14519 - Lease for 3 years by Sir Ralph Knight to John Cooper of Warsop husbandman of the fishing and fowling in Warsop. Rent 20s. Dated 29 September - 1675

14520 - Lease for 19 years by Sir Ralph Knight to John Fox of Warsop yeoman of two tenements and two oxgangs of land, and Pearsone Close. Rent £8. Timber rights reserved. - 14 Mar [1676]

14521 - Lease for 21 years by Sir Ralph Knight to Samuel Smith and his mother Elizabeth Smith, both of Warsop, of one cottage and three closes: Hill Close, Appleton Close, and Breck Close. Rent £5. - 17 Mar [1676]

14522 - Lease for 21 years by Sir Ralph Knight to Richard Taylor of Wallingwells of a close called Storks. Rent £7. Dated 12 December (Formerly FW51) - 1682

14523 - Lease for 21 years by Sir Ralph Knight to Henry Portwood of Warsop husbandman of a cottage and croft, ½ acre in the Hag, and Yards End Close. Timber and mineral rights reserved. Rent £1 18s 4d. Lessee to grind corn at Warsop mill. Dated 20 September - 1677

14524 - Assignment of lease (D239/M/E/14516) to secure £60 by John Fox to William Wharton of East Retford gent. Dated 29 October - 1677

14525 - Lease for 21 years by Sir Ralph Knight to John Furmey of Warsop labourer of a cottage and yard adjoining. Rent £1. - 23 Mar [1678]

14526 - Lease for 21 years from 25 March last past by Sir Ralph Knight to John Pease of Warsop husbandman of one cottage, one close adjoining, a close on the other side of the street, ½ acre in each of the four town fields, and one and a half cowgates in the Burndelayes. Rent 1s. Timber and mineral rights reserved. Lessee to grind corn at Warsop mill. - 1 Mar [1679]

14527 - Lease for 21 years by Sir Ralph Knight to John Stones of Warsop cooper of the Rayle Close, Yard End Close, Pale Close, Appleton Close, Breck Close, and the Carr Close, containing by estimation half an oxgang of land. Timber and mineral rights reserved. Lessee to grind corn at Warsop mill. Rent £4 10s. Dated 20 August - 1678

14528 - Lease for 21 years from 25 March last past by Sir Ralph Knight to Samuel Herring of Warsop husbandman of the farm in which Herring now lives, and the land which belongs to the farm of John Pease, except for the house and outbuildings, and the lands contained in D239/M/E/14526. Timber and mineral rights reserved. Lessee to grind corn at Warsop mill. Rent £20 10s. - 1 Mar [1679]

14529 - Lease for 21 years from 25 March next by Sir Ralph Knight to Richard Herring of Warsop labourer of a cottage, two beastgates in Burnedelayes, ½ acre in Hough Field, ½ acre in Church Field, ½ acre in Nether Field, ½ acre in the Hag Field, a yard adjoining the cottage, and a little close adjoining Nether Field. Timber and mineral rights reserved. Lessee to grind corn at Warsop mill. Rent £1 9s. Dated 18 December - 1680

14530 - Lease for 21 years from 25 March next by Sir Ralph Knight to John Rawson of Warsop labourer of a cottage and a yard, ½ acre in Hag Field, and ½ acre in the Moore Close. Timber and mineral rights reserved. Lessee to grind corn at Warsop mill. Rent 6s. Dated 18 December - 1680

14531 - Lease for 21 years from 25 March next by Sir Ralph Knight to Frances Cartwrite of Warsop widow of a messuage and half an oxgang of land. Timber and mineral rights reserved. Lessee to grind corn at Warsop mill and to keep a hound or spaniel if required. Rent £5. - 27 Jan [1681]

14532 - Lease for 21 years from 25 March last past by Sir Ralph Knight to George Milnes of Warsop labourer of land as in D239/M/E/14529. Timber and mineral rights reserved etc. Rent £1 10s. Dated 20 September - 1682

14533 - Lease for 21 years by John Knight esq. to William Wass of Warsop cordwainer of a feoffer of land (3 acres lying in several fields); two little crofts containing ½ acre; ½ acre in Ridgway Field; 1 rood in the same, being a butt, ½ acre in Neare Oak Field; 1 acre 1 rood in Stonebridge Field. Lessee to grind corn at Warsop mill and to keep a hound if required. Rent £2 3s 4d. - 10 Mar [1684]

14534 - Lease for 21 years by John Knight esq. to Francis Jepson of Warsop husbandman of a half-oxgang of land. Lessee to grind corn at Warsop mill, to provide a draft horse if required, and to keep a hound if required. Rent £8. - 3 Feb [1685]

14535 - Lease for 21 years by John Knight esq. to Thomas Taylor of Warsop miller of a feoffer of land and a little cottage. Rent 20s. - 20 Mar [1685]

14536 - Lease for 21 years by John Knight esq. to Daniel Houldsworth of Warsop weaver of a feoffer of land and a cottage. Rent 20s. - 20 Mar [1685]

14537 - Counterpart of D239/M/E/14536

14538 - Lease for 21 years by John Knight esq. to Richard Taylor of Wallingwells esq. of those parcels of land called Collyars Spring and the Lords Stubbing together with sporting rights. Rent 40s. Dated 15 November - 1688

14539 - Lease for 7 years by Sir Ralph Knight to Richard Taylor of Wallingwells of a close called the Storks. Rent £7. Dated 12 December (Formerly FW52) - 1682

14540 - Lease for 12 years from 25 March last past by John Knight esq. to Joseph Dickinson, Samuel Herring, Daniel Newton, and Thomas Justice all of Warsop husbandmen of the farm called Burns. Timber rights reserved. Rent £35. Dated 1 April - 1686

14541 - Lease for 21 years from 25 March last past by John Knight esq. to William Rollin of Sookholme blacksmith of the messuage called Burndalls. Lessee to build two new bays on to the building in the first 4 years; to convert to grass any meadow ploughed within 4 years of the end of the term, or to pay 40s. a year for each acre ploughed; to sink a new well; and to provide a stone for the new building; to pay poor and church rates; and to keep a hound as required. Rent £30 for first four years; £35 thereafter. Dated 2 April - 1690

14542 - Lease for 6 years by John Knight esq. to Patrick Brady of Warsop yeoman of the piece of ground in Warsop called the High Wood. Rent £15. Dated 20 September - 1692

14543 - Lease for 21 years from 25 March last past by Isaac Knight to Henry Davy of Church Warsop husbandman of a messuage and 19½ acres in the town fields; Rough Close; Hough Close; one gate in Burndaleyes, one other messuage and 23 acres; Burndaleys Close; Cartar Lane Close; Robinson Parke; the Little Rough Close; Sower Meadow Close; and the Moare Close. Rent £12 15s 4d of which an annuity of £1 15s 4d is to be paid to James Watkinson. Dated 1 September (Formerly FW53) - 1702

14544 - Lease for 21 years from 25 March next by Isaac Knight esq. to Elizabeth Cartwright of Warsop widow of a messuage in which Elizabeth now lives, and two little crofts abutting on the Carr Lane; one close called Butt Lane Close; Soulkholme Bridge Close; Calfe Close; Stone Bridge Close; Nettleworth Close; Yard End Close; and 33 acres 1½ roods of arable; and two doles of meadow in Sower Meadow. Rent £10. - 1 Feb [1706]

14545 - Lease for 21 years from 25 March next by Isaac Knight to Daniel Houldsworth of Warsop weaver of one feofer of land and a little cottage. Rent 20s. (Formerly FW54) - 20 Mar [1706]

14546 - Lease for 21 years from 25 March last past by Isaac Knight to William Hurst of Eakring husbandman of a messuage in Warsop and lands as in D239/M/E/14544. Rent £10. Dated 10 June (Formerly FW55) - 1708

14547 - Leave for 3 years from 25 March next by Elizabeth Knight of Langold (co. York) widow to William Shipman of Warsop gent. of the house in which Shipman now lives together with the Near, Middle, and Farr Pickles; Aple Orchard; Hall Orchard; Flatt Meadow; and the Three Pingles (now two). Rent £30. Dated 17 March (Formerly FW56) - 17 Mar [1722]

14548 - Lease for 21 years from 2 Feb next by Faith Clerkson of Mansfield spinster to John Hall of Mansfield maltster of a messuage and appurtenances in Mansfield Woodhouse. Rent £28 - 1 Dec 1723

14549-14550 - Lease for 11 years by Elizabeth Knight widow of Isaac Knight, and Ralph Knight her son (an infant) to Nathan Newton of Warsop yeoman of a messuage, various closes, and parcels of open field arable. Rent £102 18s. - 20 Feb [1732]

14551 - Lease for 10 years from 25 March next by Joseph Taylor of Dore (co. Derby) to Nathan Newton of Warsop yeoman of a messuage in Warsop, the Home Yard, Carr Meadow, Butt Lane Close, Little Appleton, Breck Close, and 1 rood in West Croft. Rent £5. Dated 9 November - 1736

14552 - Lease by Hercules Clay of Sookholme to Hugh Herringshaw of Castor (co. Lincoln) of a water corn mill in Warsop; Little Carr; Mawking Yard; a kitchen and room over; and a cowhouse. Rent £10 10s. Dated 4 July (Freehold belongs to the duke of Portland) - 1777

14553 - Lease for life by Henry Gally Knight to Edward Greaves of Nettleworth esq. of the manor of Nettleworth (parcels given). Rent £465 16s 7d. Dated 25 Mar - 1819

14554 - Abstract of lease by John Knight - as D239/M/E/14540 - 1690

14554-14556 - Leases: miscellaneous

14555 - `An abstract of all leases of land at Warsop', 1543-1711 - c.1712

14556 - Memorandum of a lease by Dickinson Knight to Daniel Newton (Formerly FW57) - 1727

14557 - Terrier of an oxgang leased by George earl of Rutland to William Whitehead, 29 August 1638 (copy) - c.1720

14557-14570 - Leases: terriers of farms

14558 - Terrier of half an oxgang leased by George earl of Rutland to Francis Lupton and assigned to William Whitehead, 29 August 1638 (copy) - c.1720

14559 - Terrier of Daniel Newton's farm - [c1700-1710]

14560 - Terrier of the houses and lands of Francis Clayton. Dated 31 December - 1721

14561 - Terrier of farm in Warsop leased by Ralph Knight to William Whitehead - 1725

14562 - Copy of D239/M/E/14561 - 1725

14563 - Terrier of two oxgangs now in the possession of Daniel Newton. Dated 9 April - 1728

14564 - Terrier of land in the possession of Richard Jackson, Francis Peacock, and others, formerly of Daniel Newton; and terrier of land in possession of William Fetherston, Francis Pecock, John Parson, and others, formerly of William Whitehead - 1735

14565 - Fair copy of part of D239/M/E/14564 relating to Whitehead's land - 1736

14566 - Terrier of the Highwood in the possession of John Davy - [1738]

14567 - Terrier of Elkslow Hill Breck - 1737

14568-14570 - Miscellaneous terriers

14571 - Warsop rental (formerly FW82) - 1380

14571-14663 - Rentals and surveys

14572 - Rental of Philip de Roos in Warsop and Shirebrook (formerly FW83) - [15th cent]

14573 - Rental of the earl of Rutland in Warsop (formerly FW84) - 1542

14574-14586 - Rentals, accounts, lists of arrears etc., Warsop and North Leverton (formerly FW85-92) - 1681-1692

14587 - Notebook containing Warsop rental, 1692-94, and North Leverton accounts, 1691-99 (formerly FW93) - 1691-1699

14588-14597 - Rentals, accounts, lists of arrears etc., Warsop and North Leverton for c.1690-1723 (formerly FW94-103) - c.1690-1723

14598-14638 - Warsop rentals, Michaelmas and Lady Day (formerly FW104) - 1721-1741

14639-14657 - Lists of Mrs. Knight's Warsop rents, with bills for repairs (formerly FW106) - 1730-1738

14658-14660 - Warsop rentals (formerly FW107-108) - 1743-1744

14661 - Undated rental of Warsop, North Leverton, and Langold and Letwell (co. York) (formerly FW105)

14662 - Valuation of the estate of Ralph Knight, lord of the manor of Warsop; field names, acreage, land use, value per acre, rent. Dated 3 July (formerly FW118) - 1722

14663 - Abstract of quantity and annual value of an estate in the parish of Warsop belonging to Henry Gally Knight - [c1820-1830]

14664-14683 - Lady Day and Michaelmas rentals for Kirton, Walesby and Willoughby, and Warsop - 1850-1856

14664-14683 - Yearly rentals of Sir Henry FitzHerbert

14684-14685 - Nettleworth

14684-14685 - Rental and account - 1906-1907

14686 - Valuation of the liberty of Hodsock (formerly FW119) - [18th cent]

14686-14690 - Hodsock

14687 - Particular of the Hodsock estate (formerly FW120) - [18th cent]

14688 - Particular of the Blyth and Hodsock estate (formerly FW121) - c.1800

14689 - Particular of Mellish estate in Hodsock (formerly FW122) - c.1800

14690 - Survey book of the township of Hodsock (formerly FW125) - c.1836

14691-14776 - Summary accounts, with note of expenses (formerly FW109) - 1755-1803

14691-15523 - Accounts

14777-14786 - John Horncastle, agent for the Warsop estate in account with Sir Henry FitzHerbert - 1849-1857

14787-15523 - John Horncastle's vouchers to account 1849-51 1853-54 1854-55 1851-52 1855-56 1856-57 1852-53 - 1849-1857

15524 - Lease for 16 years from 25 March next by John Thornhagh jun. of Fenton (co. Nottingham) esq. to Reynold Beeley, Richard Holte, Richard Frith, William Noble, Henry Wright, Edward Cooke, and John Taylor of Warsop yeomen of the parcels of ground called the Burnes, with a house; Broade Croft; and the sheepwalk. appurtenant in Warsop. Rent £20 10s. Dated 30 November Endorsed: the lease was produced at the examination of evidences in a dispute between William Willoughby esq. and John Digby et al. - 1602

15524-15559 - Disputes over the sheepwalk and assarts in Sherwood Forest

15525 - Depositions concerning Warsop sheepwalk. Dated 14 May - 1622

15526 - Verdict of jury of court of survey and court baron of Warsop enquiring into the right in the manor of Francis earl of Rutland. Dated 29 Mar - 1623

15527 - Particular of chambers assart in Sherwood Forest as declared in the swainmoot of the liberty of Warsop. Dated 9 June (Formerly FW33) - 1627

15528 - Report of a jury empanelled by the earl of Rutland, lord chief justice in eyre and chief warden of Sherwood Forest, on Chambers Assart in Warsop. Dated 15 October - 1627

15529 - Francis, earl of Rutland, to Daniel Unwyn, bailiff of the manor of Warsop. Warrant to admonish those tenants who seek to ignore the general agreement of the inhabitants of Warsop to lay open Chambers Assart. Dated 20 June - 1629

15530 - Testimony given in a court baron that the lords of Warsop have a sheepwalk, with notes on disputes over commoning (formerly FW62) - c.1633

15531 - Petition from the inhabitants and tenants of Warsop to George, earl of Rutland, seeking an extension to their right in a breck in the forest. (formerly FW63) - c.1633

15532 - George, earl of Rutland acceeding to the petition as in D239/M/E/15531. (formerly FW64) - 1 Mar [1633]

15533 - Abstracts of evidences touching Sherwood Forest - 1639

15534 - Presentment made in the Sherwood Forest swainmoot, held at Mansfield. (formerly FW34) - 1648

15535 - Case concerning the right of common in the manor of Warsop - 1654

15536 - Notes on William Willoughby's claims in the manor of Warsop - 1657

15537 - Extract from pleas of the forest, temp. 1335 - 1657

15538 - Pleas of the forest held at Mansfield (formerly FW35) - 1663

15539 - The claims of William Clarkson of rights, commons, and profits in the forest of Sherwood - 1663

15540 - Copy mandate to the king's escheator north of the Trent, temp. 1292 - 1664

15541 - William Willoughby's claim to the liberties of the manor of Warsop in Sherwood Forest - 25 Feb [1664]

15542 - Petition of inhabitants of Church Warsop for a breck. Dated 6 Jan 1675 - 6 Jan [1676]

15543 - Agreement between Sir Ralph Knight, lord of the manor of Warsop and the freeholders and tenants of Warsop for the latter to take in a breck in the sheepwalk for 7 years - 31 Jan [1676]

15544 - Lease for 7 years by Sir Ralph Knight to the freeholders and tenants of the manor of Warsop of the sheepwalk. Dated 11 Feb - 11 Feb [1676]

15545-15555 - Miscellaneous papers - [17th cent]

15556 - Breviate of case in the King's Bench concerning common of pasture in Warsop sheepwalk - 1733

15557 - Letter concerning dispute over Warsop sheepwalk - [1735]

15558 - Opinion of defence counsel on the dispute over Warsop sheepwalk - 1736

15559 - Copy of judgement in the King's Bench for the plaintiff, the earl of Rutland, in a plea of trespass, 1623/24 - 19th cent.

15560 - Account of Warsop chief rents - 1686

15560-15574 - Chief Rents

15561 - Particular of Warsop chief rents - 1707

15562 - Receipt for chief rent paid by Isaac Knight (formerly FW112) - 1714

15563-15573 - Receipts for chief rents - 1733-1743

15574 - Chief rent book for the manor of Nettleworth (formerly FW36) - 1781

15575-15576 - Inventory of William Willoughby's goods in Warsop Hall (formerly FW154-155) - 1664

15575-15579 - Warsop Hall

15577 - Inventory of Mr. Knight's goods. Dated 25 Jan (formerly FW156) - 1699/1700

15578 - Copy of an inventory of 1694 (formerly FW157) - 1699

15579 - Account of all the heirlooms belonging to Warsop Hall (formerly FW158) - 1707

15580 - Bond in £200 by Henry Leek of Warsop and Francis Fowleiambe of Aldwark (co. York) to Roger earl of Rutland, to support the earl's title in a messuage and all appurtenances in Warsop now in the occupation of Thomas Spurr. Dated 9 June (formerly FW49) - 1597

15580-15609 - Seventeenth and eighteenth century papers

15581 - Warrant to the gamekeepers of Thorney Woods to deliver to Francis Thorpe one doe of the season From Nettleworth, 3 November - 1638

15582 - Mandate to certain tenants of Roger Wood to pay their rent to Sir Ralph Knight. Dated 16 April (formerly FW67) - 1686

15583 - Letter from Samuel Lowe at Southwell to John Knight in London. 11 April (formerly FW68) - 1688

15584 - Bond in £60 by Thomas Sheppard of Warsop cooper to Henry Askey of Sookholme yeoman. Dated 11 December - 1668

15585 - Copy of `Goods cryd at Warsop Fair', 1703 (formerly FW76)

15586 - Account of day labour on the Warsop estate (formerly FW148) - [1707]

15587 - Account of day labour on the Warsop estate - [1708]

15588 - Particulars of evidences relating to a house and croft in Warsop purchased by Isaac Knight from William Brown - 1706

15589 - Account of day labour (formerly FW149) - 1708

15590 - Petition of the inhabitants of Warsop to Dickinson Knight that the mill dam might be cleansed (formerly FW71) - [c1710-1720]

15591 - Charges of building a barn - 1720

15592 - Particulars of the lands of John Newton intended to be sold - c.1720

15593 - Lease for 21 years by John Neale of Mansfield Woodhouse esq. to Daniel Newton jun. of Warsop yeoman, of various lands in Warsop. Rent £18. Dated 26 November - 1722

15594 - Receipt - 1728

15595 - Opinion of counsel as to the claim by Warsop people to build cottages on the waste without the consent of the lord of the manor - 1728

15596 - Bond in £24 by Joseph Mussen to Dickinson Knight. Dated 5 August - 1732

15597 - Copy of an account of all those at pay for stands in Warsop Fair 1734 (formerly FW75)

15598 - Statement that certain parcels of land in Warsop have been assessed to tax, contrary to the claim of inhabitants of Sookholme (formerly FW72) - 1734

15599-15600 - Notes on the ownership of Elston Hill Breck, ploughed up by Nathan Newton, and claimed by Him to belong to the dean and chapter of Southwell rather than to Ralph Knight (formerly FW70) - c.1735

15601 - Terrier of the land of William Wood - 1736

15602 - Notes on the ownership of Elsley Hill Breck (formerly FW73) - 1737

15603 - Release and quitclaim by Samuel Herring of Warsop yeoman, Daniel Newton of Warsop gent., and Nathan Newton of Warsop yeoman to Dickenson Knight of all future claims on the will of Deborah Newton, late mother of Daniel and Nathan, and grandmother of Samuel, of which will Dickenson Knight was sole executor. Dated 30 November - 1737

15604 - Solicitor's bill - 1738

15605 - Plea in the case of Nathan Newton plaintiff against John Davy et al. in a plea of trespass - 1739

15606 - Bill of sale of household and farming goods and stock, John Parson of Warsop farmer to Ralph Knight of Langold esq. Dated 6 September - 1743

15607 - Counsel's opinion on Ralph Knight's lease against John Mosley; rector of Warsop, who has been digging limestone on his glebe - 1750

15608-15609 - Case and counsel's opinion on a devise of lands - 1759

15610 - List of leases and entry fines (formerly FW161)

15610-15629 - Undated seventeenth and eighteenth century papers

15611 - Notes on assarts made in the fourteenth century (formerly FW162)

15612 - `A note of the several parcels of writings and papers belonging to the manor and estate of Warsop' (formerly FW164)

15613 - List of freeholders, rents, etc.

15614 - List of freeholders, rents, etc. (with tenants of Lord Oxford)

15615 - Account of the land in Alsoow Breck

15616 - Sketch plan of Sour Meadow

15617-15629 - Miscellaneous

15630-15635 - Gamekeepers' deputations (formerly FW40-45) - 1708-1723

15636-15643 - Notes on the enclosures, and tenants in the Burndelays (formerly FW168) - 1689-[c1740]

15636-15643 - The Burndelays

15644-15647 - Notes on rents (formerly FW114-115) - c.1745

15644-15647 - Rents

15648-15821 - Bills of complaint, briefs, case papers, affidavits, depositions etc. in a protracted suit in Chancery between Elizabeth Knight widow and Dickinson Knight against William Whitehead in a dispute over the ownership of intermixed parcels of lands in Warsop - 1721-1731

15648-15821 - Knight v Whitehead

15822 - Transfer of lease by Pendock Neale of Tollerton esq. to Ralph Knight of Langold (co. York) esq. of a messuage and lands in Warsop and Sookholme which the chapter of Southwell leased to the trustees of John Neale in 1729 to hold for the life of John, Pendock his son, and Pendock son of Richard Neale clerk, and for the life of the longest liver. Consideration - a part of the full sum of £9800. Yearly rent £1 10s 8d (to Southwell). Dated 24 May (formerly FW58) - 1758

15822-15823 - Southwell Chapter Lands

15823 - Lease for three lives by the chapter of Southwell to John Knight of Langold (co. York) esq. of the chapter farm (terrier given). Rent £1 10s 8d. Dated 16 December (formerly FW59) - 1773

15824 - Warsop assessment - 1689

15824-15842 - Land tax and other assessments

15825-15839 - Warsop land tax assessments 1699 1716 1723 1729 1732 1706 1717 1727 1730 1733(2) 1707 1720 1728 1731 - 1699-1732

15840 - Warsop income tax assessment - 1806-1807

15841 - Statement of land tax redeemed in the parish of Warsop - 1818

15842 - Warsop (Nottinghamshire) land tax assessment - 1845

15843 - `An act for inclosing lands in the parish of Warsop...' - 1818

15843-15847 - Warsop Inclosure

15844 - Later nineteenth-century copy of the particulars of claims sent in under the Warsop Inclosure Act

15845 - Later nineteenth-century copy of extracts from the Warsop inclosure act to show how commons were dealt with

15846 - Typescript extracts from the Warsop inclosure award of 26 May 1825 showing all the allotments made to Henry Gally Knight ...

15847 - A survey of the parish of Warsop with a valuation made by the commissioners for the inclosure: by George Sanderson, Mansfield - 1833

15848-15849 - Counterpart of a lease for the term of the incumbency of the lessor by Rev. Samuel Martin, rector of Warsop, to Henry Gally Knight of the Warsop glebe as set out in the accompanying schedule containing in all 628 acres 0 roods 29 perches. Yearly rent £988 6s 6d. Dated 18 May (Copy made in 1858) - 1825

15848-15864 - Warsop Glebe

15850-15851 - Warsop glebe terriers: 1777 and 1781 - 1777-1781

15852-15854 - Terrier of lands in Warsop glebe - 1807

15855 - Statement of Warsop tenants who hold of Henry Gally Knight, the rector of Warsop, and the dean and chapter of Southwell - c.1817

15856 - Memorandum of an agreement between the Rev. Samuel Martin and Henry Gally Knight concerning the inclosure of commons and waste, the commutation of tithes, and the exchange of lands. Dated 23 October - 1817

15857 - List of lands belonging to the rectory of Warsop supposed on lease to Henry Gally Knight - c.1817

15858 - Schedule of Warsop glebe lands - c.1820

15859 - Draft memorandum of an agreement to exchange lands between Henry Gally Knight and Rev. Samuel Martin. Dated 11 Jan - 1820

15860 - Valuation of standing timber on lands given in exchange by Henry Gally Knight - 1821

15861-15863 - Schedule of lands in Warsop to be exchanged under the terms of D239/M/E/15859 - 1823

15864 - Schedule of lands belonging to the rector of Warsop to be let to Henry Gally Knight (D239/M/E/15852-64 formerly FW21) - c.1825

15865-15885 - Bills, receipts, and notes of expenses for the repair of the water mill (formerly FW151) - 1821-1823

15865-15962 - Warsop Mill

15886-15929 - Letters and papers relating to the partnership of Samuel Shippam and Emanuel Burrows, tenants of Warsop mill, and the bankruptcy of Burrows, including - Inventory of machinery and stock belonging to Emanuel Burrows previous to his partnership with Samuel Shippam (formerly FW132), c.1828 D239/M/E/15886 - Copy of bill for machinery etc. put into Warsop mill, c.1826 D239/M/E/15887 - Samuel Shippam's account with the partnership, 1828-36 D239/M/E/15888 - Emanuel Burrow's account with the partnership, 1828-36 D239/M/E/15889 - Copy of an estimate of the improvements made by Emanuel Burrows on the property of H. G. Knight esq., 1837 D239/M/E/15891 - Copy of Burrows' statement on the state of the partnership, 1837 D239/M/E/15892 - Correspondence of John Horncastle, agent to Henry Gally Knight, with his copies of letters from Burrows, to Knight etc., on the mill, and more particularly on Burrows' bankruptcy, 1831-37 D239/M/E/15893-15919 - Bill of intended sale of bankrupt effects, 1836 D239/M/E/15920 - Notice from Samuel Shippam that he has purchased two fields of barley, etc., late in the occupation of the assignees of Emanuel Burrows and which were to have been sold by auction, 1837 D239/M/E/15921 - John Horncastle's notes on the partnership of Burrows and Shippam (D239/M/E/15928) - 1828-1837

15930-15939 - Correspondence concerning the tenancy of the mill, including - Anon to Henry Gally Knight: "I wright to infor[m] you that if you let Warsop mill remain in thee Shippam famely i will bur[n] it ... down to ground befor this day six months ...". 5 September 1842 D239/M/E/15930 - Copy of John Horncastle's letter to Charles Shippam rejecting him as a tenant for the mill. 27 September 1842 D239/M/E/15931 - Copy of John Horncastle's letter to Thomas Shippam with the terms on which he may become tenant of Warsop mill. 29 September 1842 D239/M/E/15932 - Thomas Shippam to John Horncastle accepting the tenancy of the mill 8 October 1842 D239/M/E/15935 - Particulars and valuations of the water corn mill D239/M/E/15936-38 - Machinery claimed to belong to Mr. Shippam D239/M/E/15939 - 1842

15940-15956 - Correspondence and papers relating to the tenancy of the mill in 1848, with the release of the premises by Thomas Shippam and the accession of the new tenant, James Turner - 1848

15957-15962 - Correspondence and papers relating to James Turner's enforced relinquishing of his tenancy in 1859 - 1859

15963-15974 - Correspondence and papers relating to the making of a new rate (formerly FW79) - 1835-1837

15963-15975 - Warsop Rate

15975 - Warsop vestry notice book - 1834-1836

15976-15987 - Correspondence and papers relating to the erection of the new school funded by Henry Gally Knight and Rev. Samuel Martin (formerly FW159) - 1840-1842

15976-15987 - Warsop school

15988 - Articles of agreement (copy), made between William Henry Cavendish Scott, duke of Portland, and Henry Gally Knight to exchange the Portland estate in Sookholme for Knight's estate in Mansfield Woodhouse. Dated 14 Mar (formerly FW22) - 1817

15988-15990 - Exchanges

15989 - Memorandum of an exchange of land in Warsop between Henry Gally Knight and Francis Hall. Dated 22 December (formerly FW23) - 1840

15990 - Memorandum of an exchange of land in Warsop between Henry Gally Knight and Francis Hall, with sketch map of property. Dated 7 July (formerly FW24) - 1841

15991-16012 - Farm valuations (Warsop and Kirton)

15991-16012 - Farm valuations and particulars (formerly FW123-124, 126-131, 133-136) - 1819-1861

16013 - Notes of the terms of a lease by William Wylde to Edward Greaves of Nettleworth of the manor of Nettleworth to hold for a term of 15 years from 25 March 1803. Specified timber rights reserved; mineral rights reserved. Rent £366 11s 0d. (first 5 years); £413 9s 3d (second 5 years); £436 17s 11d. (last 5 years). Dated 15 April 1803. Memorandum of a bond between Greaves and Wylde to support an agreement whereby Greaves will take a life lease at the end of the 15 years term

16013-16091 - Nettleworth

16014 - Particular of the Nettleworth estate, according to a valuation of 1675 - 1749

16015-16016 - Notes on Mr. Wylde's estate in Nettleworth - [18th cent]

16017-16020 - Particulars and valuations of the Nettleworth Hall estate, purchased by Henry Gally Knight from William Wylde - 1805-1816

16021 - Note of lands in Nettleworth held by Edward Greaves - c.1816

16022 - Note of money due from Knight to Wylde - 1816

16023-16024 - Solicitors' bills - 1816

16025-16026 - Note and plan of General Hall's estate in Nettleworth - c.1820

16027 - Sketch plan of Nettleworth Hall estate - 1824

16028 - Particular of Nettleworth Hall estate, the property of Henry Gally Knight - 1824

16029 - Particular of Nettleworth Farm, let to Matthew Beard - 1824

16030 - Receipt in £578 16s 11d. for timber by E. A. Greaves from Henry Gally Knight - 1824

16031 - Valuation of what the executors of the late Edward Greaves are entitled to receive for tillages, fixtures, etc. of Henry Gally Knight or his incoming tenant - 1825

16032-16042 - Correspondence over the putchase of the estate and subsequent tenancy arrangements, etc. - 1817-1824

16043-16058 - Correspondence between Mrs. Greaves, outgoing tenant, and Major Thomas Bilbie, the new tenant of Nettleworth Hall, and John Horncastle, agent to Henry Gally Knight - 1830-1833

16059 - Thomas Bilbie to Henry Gally Knight. 25 Jan - 1836

16060-16075 - Correspondence between Thomas Bilbie and John Horncastle: Nettleworth estate matters - 1841-1843

16076-16091 - Letters and papers relating to the termination of Thomas Bilbie's tenancy including particulars and plans of the farm attached to Nettleworth Hall, valuation of tenant right, rent calculations, and gamekeeper's deputation - 1850-1852

16092 - Account of the rise in Warsop rents, 1750-1809 - c.1803

16092-16121 - Miscellaneous estate papers

16093 - Bond in £735 by John Newton of Bulwell House esq. to Thomas Smith of Cuckney wheelwright. Dated 29 June - 1812

16094 - Notes on crop rotation, 1814-15 - 1815

16095 - Notes on the division of church expenses between Warsop and Sookholme (formerly FW78) - 1830

16096 - Unidentified farm plans, Warsop - [c1840-1850]

16097 - Solicitor's bill - 1849

16098-16099 - Lists of applicants for garden allotments in Warsop (formerly FW61) - 1849

16100 - Plan of garden allotments with tenant's name pencilled in - 1850

16101 - Lands in the parish of Warsop occupied by Henry Reynolds - [c1840-1850]

16102-16103 - Booklets containing sketches of the estates of Sir Henry FitzHerbert in Warsop and Kirton - c.1850

16104-16106 - Warsop and Kirton memoranda - 1850

16107 - Warsop shooting district as proposed to be let to Rev. J. R. Holden - 1850

16108 - Plan of lands in Warsop in the occupation of the late Thomas Bowler and Jeremiah Radford - 1857

16109-16110 - Solicitors' bill and receipt (formerly FW152-153) - 1860-1863

16111 - Rough notebook of Richard FitzHerbert: notes on rents and acreages, copy letters, rough survey of the manor, etc. - c.1861-1877

16112 - Report on restoration work required at Warsop church by Arthur W. Blomfield architect. Inside are written estimates of costs and a list of subscriptions - 1876

16113 - Faculty for restoring Warsop church - 1876

16114 - licence to hold services in the mission room during restoration work - 1876

16115 - List of deeds from Tissington Hall - 1894

16116-16117 - Historical notes on the Knight family - c.1894

16118 - Newspaper reports of a meeting of Warsop U.D.C - 1901

16119 - Newspaper cutting: harvest thanksgiving at Sookholme

16120 - Newspaper cutting: score of cricket match, Hugo FitzHerbert's XI v. William FitzHerbert's XI

16121 - Looseleaf folder containing typescript notes on Warsop - [c1940]

16122-16128 - General correspondence - 1806-1807

16122-16303 - Estate correspondence

16129-16131 - Francis Bagshaw to John Cruso, solicitor, at Leek (co. Stafford): sale of Bagshaw's share of Francis Featherstone's farm in Warsop. 6 May - 1814

16132-16133 - John Cruso to John Horncastle sen. and Henry Gally Knight - 1819-1826

16134-16139 - Henry Gally Knight to John Horncastle: Warsop matters and Major Bilbie's tenancy of Nettleworth Hall - 1831-1832

16140-16148 - Correspondence concerning the purchase by Sir Henry FitzHerbert of land in Warsop from Mrs. Crooks - 1847

16149-16205 - General estate correspondence - 1847-1858

16206-16220 - Later nineteenth-century correspondence - 1863-1901

16221-16274 - Correspondence of John Horncastle, agent to Sir Henry FitzHerbert, consisting largely of letters to Sir Henry detailing the day-to-day administration of the estate, and including plans of Nettleworth Hall D239/M/E/16229-16232, sketch of lands belonging to William Robinson D239/M/E/16236, a list of the annual subscriptions in Nottinghamshire made by the late Henry Gally Knight, notice of auction of contents of Firbeck Hall, late home of Henry Gally Knight D239/M/E/16252, sketch of the parish of Warsop, 1850 D239/M/E/16258, sketch of manors within the parish of Warsop D239/M/E/16264-65, copies of letters written by Horncastle anonymously to the Nottinghamshire Journal on the price of corn and the movement of rent D239/M/E/16268-70 - 1848-1850

16275-16303 - Correspondence of John Horncastle to Sir Henry FitzHerbert - 1851-1857

16304 - Note of land claimed to have been given to Kirton church by Thomas Faireeven, temp. Richard 1 - [16th cent]

16304-16348 - Kirton, Boughton, Walesby, & Willoughby

16305-16307 - Copies of grants to Blyth Priory in Boughton, with note on lands and their values in Boughton - [16th cent]

16308 - Memorandum on price of a ream of paper - [16th cent].

16309 - Bond in £100 by Alexander Nevill of South Lenton esq. to Edward Thurland of Gamston esq. Dated December 8th - 1525

16310 - Agreement concerning title to Boughton Grange to be sold to Michael Clerkson. Dated 2 July - 1544

16311 - Note of final concord - land in Walesby, Willoughby, and Kirton - 1555

16312 - Inquisition before the excheator in Yorkshire about Clerkson lands in Goulthorpe (co. York) - 1598

16313 - Proceedings in the Queen's Bench between Robert Ingham and John Eastwood in a plea of trespass in the manor of Kirton and Willoughby - 1599

16314 - Receipt in £5 13s 8d. by George Markham to Richard Parkinson, servant to Markham's cousin, Elizabeth Clerkson, widow of Michael Clerkson, under an award made between Markham and the late Michael Clerkson in a dispute over a yearly rent. Dated 1 December - 1615

16315 - Kirton rent receipt - 1623

16316 - Terrier of lands in Kirton, part of the jointure of Ester Clerkson - [17th cent]

16317 - Abstract of writings to a farm bought by John Clerkson from Jane Bachelor in 1673

16318 - Similar abstract for Robert Ingham's farm bought by William Clerkson in 1620-25

16319 - Similar abstract for purchases in Walesby in 1698

16320-16321 - Grant of rights of common to inhabitants of Walesby following complaint in Chancery. Dated 18 May - 1700

16322 - Memorandum of an exchange of lands in Walesby between William Wombell of Walesby, and John Kitchin. Dated 3 October - 1718

16323 - Receipt - 1725

16324-16330 - Walesby farm terriers - 1736/1737

16331 - Affidavit concerning identity and ownership of East Moor Close - 1736

16332 - Receipt - 1745

16333 - Letter of attorney from John Clerkson of Gray's Inn esq. to John Gladwin of Mansfield gent., to surrender to the use of Ralph Knight of Langold (co. York) esq., a messuage in Mansfield Woodhouse, and other lands, copyhold of the manor of Mansfield. Dated 4 July - 1755

16334 - Opinion of counsel on the case of Thomas Lee jun. to lands devised by Thomas Rawood - c.1770

16335 - Estate account - 1771

16336 - Map of the estate of Henry Gally Knight in Kirton, Boughton, Walesby, and Willoughby - 1816

16337-16339 - Map of the estate of Sir Henry FitzHerbert in Kirton, Boughton, Walesby, and Willoughby - 1856

16340 - Part of map of Kirton - c.1856

16341 - Lease for 12 years from 25 March last past by Isaac Knight of Langold (co. York) esq. to Robert Ellis of Billing (co. Lincoln) husbandman of 40 acres of meadow or pasture in North Kine (co. Lincoln). Rent £13 6s 8d. Dated 24 June - 1715

16342 - Particulars of the Lincolnshire estate - 1722

16343 - Note of rent due from Robert Ellis - 1723

16344 - Notes on arrears of rent - 1722-1724

16345-16347 - Rentals - 1725-1727

16348-16373 - Letters and papers relating to the purchase by Henry Gally Knight of John Hawksly's land at Little Steeping (formerly FW170) - 1815-1826

20455-20790 - FitzHerbert Plantations-Barbados

21489-21513 - Correspondence from Josias Jessop to Sir Henry FitzHerbert - 1820-1822

24113-24405 - Numbers not used

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