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D1269 - Hanson Grange: Thorpe Parish, Derbyshire and Alstonefield, Staffordshire - 1641-1760

1 - Copy probate of Walter Buxton of Nether Bradbourne, yeoman. 1) All testator’s messuages, lands, etc at Thorpe and Alstonefield being part of Hanson Grange with all his lands at Bradbourne [field names given] to testator’s sons Thos, Samuel and Richard. 2) To testator’s daughter Sarah Buxton £100 on condition she does not marry Richard Bennett [if she does marry Bennett she is to have only 1 shilling]. 3) Monetary bequests to testator’s children Martha (£100), Edmund, John and Walter (1 shilling each) and Jane wife of Thos Tompkinson (1 shilling). 4) To testator’s wife all his household goods in his house at Nether Bradbourne while she remains a widow. 5) If testator’s widow remarries, goods to be divided equally amongst testator’s children unless widow pays £50 equally amongst them. 6) To each of testator’s grandchildren 20 shillings. 7) Residue of testator’s personal estate to Thomas Samuel and Richard Buxton. Date of will: 19 Sep 1696. Date of probate: 16 Oct 1696. - 1696

2 - Draft abstract of title of Mr. Bludworth to Hanson Grange estate - 1641-1662

3 - Copy probate of John Kirkland of Ashbourne, yeoman. 1) Testator to be buried in Ashbourne Church near wife of his kinsman Thos Kirkland. 2) To testator’s wife Mary all his freehold estate at Ashbourne Green for life with remainder to his kinsmen Thos Henshaw, Thos Lovett and Samuel Lovett sr of Ashbourne. 3) To testator’s wife all his plate, linen, his clock, furniture of a room and his best feather bed, blankets and hangings (excluding his silver tankard). 4) To his kinsman Thos Kirkland of Chartley, Staffordshire all money lent to Jn Mellor of Ashbourne, innholder. 5) To Jn Kirkland, son of Thos Kirkland, testator’s silver tankard marked ‘JK’. 6) To testator’s kinswoman Ann Lovett of Ashbourne, spinster, £20. 7) To William Lovett, son of Samuel Lovett, £10 to put him apprentice. 8) To Jn, Samuel, Joseph, Elizabeth and Mary, children of Samuel Lovett, £5 each. 9) Other monetary bequests including 20s to poor of Ashbourne and 10s to poor of Offcote and Underwood. 10) Testator’s house in John St. Ashbourne, called the Black Swan, house at Dovehouse Green divided into 2 dwellings, moiety of house in Market Place, moiety of houses in Church St, all in Ashbourne, to testator’s kinsmen Thos Henshaw, Thomas Lovett and Samuel Lovett. 11) Residue of testator’s personal estate to his wife Mary, Thomas Henshaw, Thos Lovett and Samuel Lovett sr. Date of will: 25 Jan 1743/44. Date of probate: 24 Apr 1744. - 1744

4 - ‘An Act for sale of settled estate of Wrighton Mundy in Leicestershire and also for settled and unsettled estates in Derbyshire’ (printed) - 1756

5 - ‘An Act for dividing and enclosing common fields etc. in Mackworth, Derbyshire’ (printed) - 1760

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