| Description | There is an index at the back of the volume. Documents D809/A/PI/432-546 are believed to have been all found loose in D809/A/PI/431 when it was deposited, many of them being copies by Reverend J M Gresley
For copy, see Microfilm M 863. Contents, with folio numbers:
f1 List of the rectors of Seales (1226-1939)
f3 Notes on ordinations 1915, 1951
f21 Survey of Moor Meadow by Robert Hewitt, 1710
f23 Lease by Henry Holland to John Eaton, of a barn at Netherseal with sundry lands, for 15 years at £16 17s a year, 1709
f25 Notes re purchase of corn for the poor 1767, and receipt of a bequest of £50 by Rebecca Johnson, to the poor, fatherless and motherless children, 1745
f29 Notes on the house of the Appleby Family of Appleby (Leicestershire)
f33 Pedigree of the owners of Osbaston (13th - 17th cent)
f35 Lease by Thomas Price to Christopher Johnson of a messuage at Netherseal, for 99 years at £5s 10s and 2 capons a year, 1651. Notes of sales of land at Netherseal, 1659
f37 Notes on the Coronation festivities at Netherseal, 1838
f41 Notes re sale of Mortimer property 1774-1785
f43 Pedigree of Mortimer (17th - 19th cent)
f45 Notes re purchase of Four Oaks by Dr Gresley, 1778 (see D803 M/E)
f47 Valuations of estates of Rev W Gresley 1792 and 1809.
f49 Correspondence re building a bridge across the River Mease, 1738
f53 Notes re sale of land at Netherseale, 1843, 1841 and lease of land by Sir George and Thomas Gresley to Richard Green, 1625
f55-56 Lease by Sir George Gresley and his sons to William Newbold of a messuage, farm and lands 1625
f57 Notes re Joseph and Thomas Wilkes and the Ashby Canal, 18th cent
f61 Notes re a salt spring at Donisthorpe, 1792
f69 Settlement upon the marriage of Ambrose son of William and Elianor Mather and Elizabeth, daughter of Bartholemew Farmer, 1607
Grant by Bartholemew Farmer to Edward Farmer, Francis Shenton, Gregory Kent and Bartholemew Farmer, of all his lands at Ratcliffe Culey, Little Sheepy, Sibston, Appleby, Overseal and Netherseal, in trust, 1624
f70 Farmer family deeds, 1625
f71 Particulars of Farmer's lands at Overseal, 1621, 1622
f73 Will of Mrs Grace Bennett of St Martin in the Fields (Middlesex), 1730
f75-76 Case at Leicestershire Assizes Gresley v Toone re tithes (c 1835)
f77 Notes re tithes at Boothorpe, 1767-1822
f78-81 Petition to parliament by the parishioners of Netherseal, against their parson, Zachary Johnson who had "cawsed the communion Table to be elevated and sett up Altarwise" repositioned the pulpit, etc (c.1650)
f83 Letter from William Coombes to Rev Dr Gresley re a cottage in Seal Wood, 1773
f89 Arbitration by Robert Burdet, over dispute between Thomas Gresley and the Almshouse Trustees, 1709-1747
f93 Rent receipts of Thomas Gresley, 1654, 1697, 1655
f95 Survey of lands bought of William Mathar by Marian Gresley, 1617
f96 Rental (for Gresley lands?) mid 18th cent
f99 Articles of agreement between Gilbert Norwood and Walter his son, on settling his goods and chattels, undated
f105 Letter from Lee Gresley to his father, Thomas Gresley re smallpox at Netherseal, 1708. Letter from Mrs Elizabeth Lee to her son-in-law Thomas Gresley re smallpox at Netherseal, 1708.
f107 Note by Mr Dyot, re inclosing at Overseal, c1623. Agreement to inclose the Water Field and Far Field at Netherseal, 1674
f109 Agreement re cottages erected upon Netherseal Pastures, 1698
f111 Agreement re rights of pasture in Overseal and Netherseal, 1727
f113 Case for opinion re tithes at Overseal, 1767
f115 Notes re boundary between Netherseal and Overseal, 1788, sale of land, 1843, and rent receipt, 1772
f119 List of rectors, (12th - 17th cent)
f121 Charter of John de Newenham, including reference to parson at Seal, 1361
f123 Memorial inscription of Zachary Johnson, rector, 1669
f125-131 Memorial inscriptions in Netherseal church, 1657-1820
f135 Netherseal churchwarden's accounts, 1737
f137 Licence from the Bishop of Lincoln to Thomas Gresley to enlarge his garden, 1710
Vestry resolutions re alterations to the church, undated
Memorandum on Donisthorpe sittings in Netherseal Church, 1776-1777
f139 Notes re pews etc, 1655-1840 |