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D2375 - Harpur Crewe family of Calke Abbey - [12th-20th cent]
A - Manorial records
B - Ecclesiastical records
C - Charity records
D - Deeds of title and related documents
E - Estate management
F - Family and personal papers
H - Household records
J - Illustrative material
K - School records
L - Legal case papers
A - Legal papers involving assorted types of cases
1 - Legal papers relating to business or contract disputes - [16th cent]
2 - Legal papers relating to debt
3 - Legal papers involving cases of felony
4 - Legal papers involving assorted cases concerning the Harpur family, often miscellaneous in character
5 - Legal papers involving settlement cases
1 - Legal papers involving Harpur family settlement cases
1 - Bond of Jane Harpur of Swarkestone, widow, to her son John Harpur in 1000 marks for performance of covenants in indenture dated 20 Jun 1580 - 21 Jun 1580
2 - Receipts of Jane Harpur for sums of money paid by her son John - 1585-1596
3 - Deed of release by Jane Harpur of Swarkestone, widow, to her son, John Harpur, of all manner of actions, debts and accounts - 13 Apr 1586
4 - Deed of release by Jane Harpur of Swarkestone widow and her younger son Richard Harpur (as executors of the late Richard Harpur of Swarkestone, one of the Queen's Justices) to her elder son John Harpur, of all bedding, household goods and husbandry ware - 15 Jul 1588
5 - Papers relating to settlement of dispute over livestock between John and Richard Harpur after the death of their mother Jane Harpur - 1596-1597
6 - Draft reply of Sir John Harpur, knight, plaintiff to the answer of Richard Harpur, defendant - c1600
7 - Interrogatories and deposition of Sir George Curzon of Croxall, knight, on behalf of Richard Harpur, gentleman, defendant, versus John Harpur, knight, plaintiff, on the marriage settlement of Richard Harpur and Katherine Gresley - 6 Feb 1608
8 - Depositions taken at Repton before Commissioners of the Court of Chancery in the case of Sir John Harpur, knight against Richard Harpur, esquire, relating to dispute over settlement of properties, including Alstonefield and Hemington - 19 Jan 1609
9 - The answer of Richard Harpur, esquire, to the bill of Sir John Harpur, knight - 28 May 1608
10 - Memorandum of questions and legal opinions on the settling of estates in Chellaston, Swarkestone, the manors of Barrow and Arleston, Hemington, Leicestershire, and Cheshire, by Sir John Harpur - 17th cent
11 - Abstract of the marriage settlement of Sir John Harpur and Dame Katherine his wife (30 April 1703), with opinion of Robert Holden - 10 Oct 1715
2 - Legal paper relating to the marriage settlements for the Browne family
3 - Legal paper relating to the marriage settlement for Edward Devereux and Dorothy Hastings
4 - Legal paper relating to the marriage settlement for John Jackson and Jane Moore
6 - Legal papers involving cases of other families
C - Legal papers involving cases relating to Cheshire properties
D - Legal papers involving cases relating to Derbyshire properties
L - Legal papers involving cases relating to Leicestershire properties
N - Legal papers involving cases relating to Nottinghamshire properties
S - Legal papers involving cases relating to Staffordshire properties
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