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Archive Reference / Library Class No.Q/UBOX/21
TitleBox 21 - Miscellaneous and Stray documents
Date[early 17th cent]-1913
Description- Final Report of the County Record Committee, 16 Jun 1882 (23 pages). C R Colvile, chairman [Further copy at STRUTT/P/9]
- Reports of Standing Joint Committee on County Buildings and Lock-ups, Jan 1911 (26 pages) and Jan 1924 (18 pages)
- Minutes of Quarter Sessions, Oct 1824-Jan 1831 (original manuscripts reinforced and bound within modern hard covers)
- Return of numbers of prisoners held at Chesterfield and Tideswell Houses of Correction, 31 Dec 1818

Envelope labelled Scheme for establishment of a County Association for Derbyshire [See also D504/114/8]
- Typescript report of meeting held at Devonshire House, Piccadilly, London 21 Oct 1907 (25 pages)
- Act of Parliament: Territorial and Reserve Forces Act, 1907
- Model Scheme for Establishing a County Association, 1907
- Provisional Notes on the Formation and Functions of County Associations: 1907
- Related notes, drafts and correspondence, 1907

Appointment of coroners
- Reginald William Sale of Derby appointed coroner of Hundred of Appletree by William Henry Greaves-Smith of Ford Hall, Chapel en le Frith, 3 Apr 1913
- Frank Edwin Moult of 16 Iron Gate, Derby appointed Deputy Coroner of Hundred of Appletree by Reginald William Sale, Coroner, 9 Apr 1913

- Broadsheet/poster giving names of justices who on 8 Nov 1971 formed the last Panel of Justices prior to the abolition of Quarter Sessions
- Proposed Rules of the Derbyshire Rifle Association and notice of meeting to promote the formation of a County Rifle Association, 1 Feb [1861]
- Summary of provisions for formation of a Volunteer Rifle Corps, Duke of Devonshire, 25 Jul 1859

Accounts: debit to Corns. [Cornelius] Brough, being expenses in the execution of several late Acts of Parliament
- Army and Navy, attending general meeting and petty sessions; printing and issuing orders to overseers, Dec 1796
- expenses in relation to provisional cavalry, Jan-Jul 1797
- expenses in relation to supplementary militia, Nov 1796-May 1797

Oaths
- Brooke Boothby of Ashbourne Hall: duties in relation to Customs, 12 Jan 1762
- Anthony Lax, clerk of the peace: confirms not receiving money in respect of nominations or appointments, 11 Jan 1774
- Philip Gell, sheriff: confirms not receiving any benefit in respect of parliamentary election, 25 Nov 1822
- Joseph Hopkinson of Stretton, farmer: faithful execution of office, surveying messenger and gauger, 19 Feb 1836
- Sir Henry John Joseph Hunloke, sheriff: oath specified for relief of Roman Catholic subjects, 26 Feb 1840

- List of Townships and Hamlets in Hundred of High Peak, with number of headboroughs in each township, 2 Nov 1772
- List of Townships and Hamlets in Hundred of High Peak, with number of constables and headboroughs in each township, undated [c1772]
- Request by Martin Topham for ale house licence for Edward Woodiwisse and Robert Beardsley of Wirksworth [mid-17th century]
- Declaration by residents of Shottle about good behaviour of Thomas Woods of Shottle in relation to ale house licence [mid-17th century]
- Document about brewing licence for Richard Middleton of Horsley [mid 17th century]
- Unidentified, names William Clarke, mayor of Chesterfield: perhaps relates to an ale house licence, 3 Sep 1633. Latin
- Oath by Richard ? of Fenny Bentley; taken by Edward Manlove re “much drinking and tippling” by Thomas Goodale, ale house keeper, and his wife Millicent, 13 Jul 1650
- Petition of many inhabitants of Stanley re John Holland allowed drunkenness and Sunday drinking at his ale house. Pencil note “1665”
- Petition of Jonathan Hardy of Shipley, labourer seeking an order for return of a bed and other goods seized on a pretext by Henry Godkin, constable, 17 Apr 1683
- Conviction certificate of Samuel Gamble of Winster for selling ale without a licence. Witness Samuel Waterhouse of Winster, miner, 25 Mar 1757
- Applications for a licence to brew and sell ale: 1. Thomas Rowbotham of Scropton and Margery his wife [?17th century], 2. John Hodges of Belper, 22 Mar 1650
- Unidentified [early 17th century] (2 items). Latin/English.

Papers related to settlement between Derbyshire County Council and Derby Borough Council in relation to land at Old Uttoxeter Road, Derby, the site of Rowditch Barracks (1 bundle)
- War Department: certificate of authority for sale of militia barracks, 30 Mar 1885
- Abstract of title to former militia barracks, 1887
- Certificate of contract for redemption of land tax, 3 Feb 1887, with plan of land at Old Uttoxeter Road, Derby
- Conveyance and release of the Near Conduit Close, Old Uttoxeter Road, Derby, with plan
- Related correspondence, 1888-1890
- Draft conveyance of land north-west of Old Uttoxeter Road, 19 Apr 1890, with plan
- Requisitions on title and answers, 21 Aug 1889
- Deed of release and indemnity, 4 Feb 1891
- Letter from Wynne, Holmes and Wynne, 40 Chancery Lane, London to C S B Busby, Derby, recommends a firm of parliamentary agents in relation to possible opposition by Derbyshire County Council to extension of Borough of Derby, 25 Nov 1889

- Estimates/tenders for construction of new police stations: Matlock Bridge, Apr 1893 (8 items), South Normanton, Mar 1895 (6 items), Ashbourne, Aug 1895 (9 items), Clowne, Aug 1900 (8 items)
Extent1 box
LevelFile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorDerbyshire County Quarter Sessions
FormatDocument
AcknowledgementsWith thanks to Roger Jennens for box-listing, February 2026.
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