Copy will of Robert Toplis of Heanor, gent; an undivided moiety of seven closes in Long Eaton (an allotment in Cramflatt Field under Long Eaton enclosure award) 72 acres 1 rood 18 perches bequeathed to the uses expressed in a surrender to Sawley Manor Court dated 17 April 1757, namely to the use of the heirs of Mary his late wife (Thomas Hopkins of Long Eaton, esquire); all his messuages, cottages, closes, tithes, hereditaments and real estate in Heanor bequeathed to his son Charles Toplis and his heirs; a messuage and tanyard in Newthorpe, Nottinghamshire, to William Toplis his grandson; £500 to his son Charles Toplis; £600 each to his daughters Ann wife of George Oldham, Dorothy wife of Benjamin Drawwater, Elizabeth wife of Charles Antill and if any of them should pre-decease him the money to be shared equally among her children; £1100 to his daughter Rebecca (altered to £600 by codicil dated 3 April 1792 following her marriage); £100 to his grandson Robert John Toplis 9 April 1790