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D258 - Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth - 1200-1905
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9 - Thomas Gell
10 - Sir John Gell I (1593-1671), Sir John Gell II (1613-1689), Civil War and various
11 - Various, 18th - early 19th century
12 - Various, 17th century
13 - Title deeds and other papers
14 - Various, 18th-19th century
15 - 17th Cent Printed Material
16 - Title deeds and other papers
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23 - Title deeds and other papers
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25 - Miscellaneous legal, financial and other papers
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26 - Title Deeds etc
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28 - Title Deeds
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34 - John Gell (1539-1671)
35 - Various accounts, deeds etc
36 - Anthony Gell d. 1584
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1 - Note from Raffe Gell to Anthony Gell at Hopton - encloses money - also concerning searches re lands of Wirksworth, Derby, Hognaston, Leicester and Rocester (Staffordshire) - [16th cent]
2 - Letter from Raffe Gell to Antony Gell [his son] at Clements Inn - he is to go to Billingsgate and enquire about the price of lead and send him word, etc - [16th cent]
3-10 - Letters from Raffe Gell to Anthony Gell at Clements Inn - [16th cent]
11 - Letter from Anthony Gell at Clements Inn to Raffe Gell his father, at Hopton - asks to be sent money - includes account of his expenditure [incomplete] - [16th cent]
12 - Note from Raffe Gell to William Jacson - desiring him to take a sealed box to Master Rolston or his son Anthony Gell - [16th cent]
13-15 - Letters from Richard Blakewell to his cousin Anthony Gell at Clement's Inn - [16th cent]
16 - Order re will of Richard Blakewell, to the executors to relinquish their interest in certain lands in Derbyshire to Anthony Gell, 24 Jan - 1569
17 - Part of letter from Thomas Cokayne to Anthony Gell at Hopton re rent 8 Oct - 1567
18 - Letter from John Manners to Anthony Gell - thanks him for the gelding - the commission about the smelting houses is to open at Bakewell on Monday next - 1 Aug 1581
19 - Note from James [-] at Swarkestone to Anthony Gell at Hopton on his having written to Lea of Maffield 15 Jul - 1582
20 - Note from Earl of Shrewsbury to Anthony Gell re election of a coroner for Derbyshire 4 Jul - 1583
21 - Letter from John Steffinson to Anthony Gell - suggests a possible marriage for Gell to the daughter of Lady Leveson 12 Jul - [16th cent]
22 - Account of Anthony Gell as feodary for Derbyshire for the Court of Ward - 1559
23-25 - Accounts of Mr Gell as feodary - 1573-1576
26 - File of miscellaneous documents, copy deeds etc, relating to Anthony Gell as feodary for Derbyshire for the Court of Wards - c1570-1592
27 - Accounts of Mr Gell for John Lord Sheffield's lands in Derbyshire at Measham, Wellesley, Pinxton, Wellesthorpe, Blackwell, Normanton, Langton, Risley and Ilkeston - c1580
28 - Evidence of Margret Barton of Tideswell, widow, re the lands of Robert Blacwall of Litton, her grandfather 27 Mar - 1580
29 - Order of Anthony Gell JP for the arrest of Thomas and Dorothy Shall of Brampton 27 Aug, 17 Eliz I - 1575
30 - Order of Anthony Gell JP for the arrest of George and Rychard Lynley of Rowsley 4 Mar 18 Eliz I - 1576
31 - File of legal notes, examples of sheriff's returns, letters of attorney, etc with draft land of William Hickenson to Anthony Gell, 1579 - [16th cent]
32 - Order of Privy Council to the Sheriff and Justices of the Peace of Derbyshire as commissioners for the muster 27 Apr - 1578
33 - Privy Council instructions to commissioners for the muster for Derbyshire - [16th cent]
34 - List of names (jurors?) for High Peak, Wirksworth and Repton and Gresley Hundred (part only, damaged) - [16th cent]
35 - Draft quitclaim from Anthony Gell to Thomas Webbe and Thomas Skynner of messuages, cottages and land at Wirksworth, Middleton, Hopton, Carsington, Ible, Ashleyhay, Idridgehay, Griff and Brassington - [16th cent]
36 - Unidentified note concerning "Kyn" sent north to the receiver of the note, giving physical descriptions of two men - [16th cent]
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3 - Inventory of the goods and chattels of the recently deceased Agnes Fearne of Wirksworth [incomplete], made 4 Nov - 1574
4 - Expenses laid out by Agnes Ferne of the goods of Ralph Gell her father - c1570
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11 - Royal order to Ralf Gell to provide one able man with horse and arms to be sent to Newcastle for the guarding of the realm against the French who are transporting great powers into Scotland 25 Dec, 2 Eliz I - 1559
12 - "A Very Fruteful and Pleasant Booke Called the Instruction of a christen woman, made firste in latyne, by the right famous clerke mayster Lewes Wives, and tourned out of latyne into Englishe by Rycharde Hyrde" Printed in Fleet St London, by Henry Wykes - the title page bears the name "Row[land] Dale 1591" and the initials "E G" [Emma Gell née Beresford, 2nd wife of Ralf Gell?] - 1557
13 - Copy of a letter sent by Justice Clarke of Scotland to Sir Archibald Douglas, Scots Ambassador to England, in answer to a letter of Douglas's 24 Oct - 1587
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19 - Epitome of Ralf Gell's will dated 12 Aug 1562 - [16th cent]
20 - Inventory of all coined money, silver plate, leaded blackwork, slag and other goods and chattels, late the property of Rauff Gell of Hopton, decd 7 Jun - 1564
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22 - Will of Thomas Wigley [?] [very badly damaged] [7 sheets] (photocopy) Feb 9 Cha I [1634] - 1634
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28 - Petition of Robert Throkmorton to the Archbishop of Canterbury asking for the release of one Glover from the Archbishop's prison in London 26 Jul, with the Archbishop's answer 22 Aug - [16th cent]
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30 - Lay subsidy assessment for Repton and Gresley Hundred - 1603
31 - Assessment of Hartington on lands and goods by named individuals - Early 17th cent
32 - Rental of Richard Blakewall for one year from 28 Feb 34 Hen VIII - 1543-1544
33 - Honour of Tutbury accounts - 17th cent
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36 - Petition of Wyllyam Rowsley, to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster about Wyndlonds, Over Haddon Easter 26/27 Hen VIII - 1534
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42 - Book of manuscript receipts [re Lord Sheffield's lands] 17 Eliz I - 22 Eliz I - 1574-1580
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47 - Instructions for the Queen's steward, receiver, surveyor and woodward in every county - [16th cent]
48 - Inquisition re lead mining in le Dale by Wirksworth 21 Sep 5 Ed VI - 1551
49 - Commonplace book in tooled leather cover including legal notes, rentals for Bakewell 29 Hen VIII [1537-38], purchases for beasts - [16th cent]
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38 - Correspondence etc
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42 - Conserved fragments of estate plan showing fields (numbered) around house called Bank Top - 19th cent
43 - Hopton Receipt Papers
44 - Sir John Gell
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46 - Staffordshire estate papers, 19th century - 1834-1879
47 - Unidentified plan showing part of the course of a waterway, marked at points with numbers, and the dates 20 Aug and 22 Aug. Scale not given. Dimensions approx 150cm x 130cm - [19th Cent]
48 - Philip Gell (d 1842), draft deeds, estate and financial papers - 1706-1877
49 - Log book of the Cutter Yacht Albatross from the port of Cowes, Isle of Wight to any port or ports her owner may think proper, wind and weather permitting' [to Scotland] - 18 May-29 Aug 1836
50 - SIR WILLIAM GELL (1777-1836)
51 - Various
52 - Volume of bound letters and other documents - Late 17th-early 19th cent
53 - Printed Pamphlets
54 - Isabella Thornhill - c1850-1870
55 - Pedigrees and other papers
56 - Gell Family Papers Series A-D
57 - Family Papers
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63 - Number not used
64 - Boer War (largely Henry [Harry] Anthony Chandos-Pole-Gell) - 1899-1902
65 - Henry [Harry] Anthony Chandos-Pole-Gell (1872-1934) and other material
67 - Masque by William Browne written for the Inner Temple and associated correspondence - 1615-1964
68 - Pedigrees - 19th cent
69 - Plans - 1711-1828
70 - Manor of Holland p Wirksworth and Lands Grant [temp Q Anne] to Philip Gell of Hopton [outsize parchment deed, badly damaged by damp, partly illegible]
71 - Isabella Thornhill, nee Gell (1800-1878): diary - 1863-1875
72 - `Catalogue of the library at Hopton Hall' Arranged by size of volume: folio, quarto, octavo Duodecimo, `sixteens and twenty-fours' Title, edition and date of publication Folio paper vol, in slip case - ?17th cent
73 - Gell of Hopton Hall: family seal dies - late 19th cent
UL - Gell of Hopton Hall: unlisted records
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