| Description | - Bundle marked with modern label AR/8 and containing x 6 copies of sale particulars for Freehold Estates at Mellor and Marple:
'2nd Edition/ Derbyshire & Cheshire/ Particulars and plans/ of Valuable/ Freehold Estates /situate at /Mellor and Marple/….963acres and 25 perches…for sale at the Palatine Hotel, Manchester…July the 24th, 1867 [Note: Messrs Richardson & Small, Solicitors, Burton on Trent / John Parkin, Estate Agent and Surveyor, Idridgehay near Wirksworth.
The x 6 copies[ very dirty]can be identified by annotations to top, as follows:
- 'Lot 4 contact Slack'
- 'Lot 7 contact ?Ernmott'
- 'Lot 11 contact (Marriott) - contains a blue draft conveyance 'Dated - 1868/ The Devisees in trust under/ the Will of the late Peter/ Arkwright Esq deceased/ to/ John S Marriott Esq/ Dft/ Conveyance of a / plot of land situate in/ Marple in the County of / Chester/ Conson £1050 - 18-0
- 'Lot 13 Wain'
- 'Lot 14 contact/ Swain'
- 'Lot 17 contact (Stott)'- contains a blue draft conveyance 'Dated 5 May 1867/ Messrs Jo Arkwright/ and others/ to/ Messrs Adam Stott/ and John Stott/ Dft Conveyance/ of a farmhouse Closes of/ land and Cottages at Tunstead/ Milton in the Psh of Chapel/ en le Frith on the Co of Derby'
note: the sales particulars appear to be very detailed and contain coloured maps of all of the properties, together with a coloured plan of the mill, drawn by John Parkin Land Agent, Idridgehay. Some annotations noted in the body of the catalogue and a completed contract at the end of each, giving sale agreement. |