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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 - 1380-1940

A - Derbyshire Estates

1 - Abstracts, copy deeds, bonds etc. to support title

2 - Tissington

1 - Leases

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

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

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M - Manorial records - 1606-1911

O - Public office - 1626-1942

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