| Administrative History | Ownership of the minerals under the Zouch estates in Heanor, Codnor, Loscoe and Langley was separated from the surface estates as early as 1596. Some of the surface estates, which eventually came to the Marquis of Ormond and were sold in 1824 after his death, were bought by Edward Miller Mundy. William Jessop bought the coal despite a prior claim by Mundy and Charlton to the minerals. This claim was investigated in a Chancery case in December 1839 brought by E M Mundy and Thomas Broughton Charlton against Francis Wright and William Jessop, partners in the Butterley Iron Company.
Thomas Howitt had acted as agent for Mundy and Charlton from 1797 to 1812, following his father William who had been agent from 1778 to 1797. |