| Description | Abstract of 99 yr, lease by Thomas Roby of Derby Park and trustees to John Fletcher of Stainsby House Horsley of coal in Robey's land at Denby - with leave to enter to sink pits, stack or coke/lime, make bricks, erect engines, dismantle, drain etc, rents reserved 2/- per slack of hard coal then laid dry, 1/- per stack of hard coal afterwards, 6d, per stack of soft coals which required to be laid dry before gotton. Measures of stacks according to the custom of the county - covenants for measuring, reinstating land etc Dated 18 Apr 1726;
Copy counterpart lease for 25 years by George Woolley of Ripley to Thomas Fletcher of Codnor and Robert Wood of Swanwick of all and singular the mines, veins, beds and delphs of hard and soft coal situate and lying within and under certain closes at Stoneyford near Codnor Park, containing 29 acres - liberty to sink and make sharft, erect engines, whimseys and gins and make carriage roads and rail roads, to erect dwelling houses for workmen etc. etc Rents £120 per acre of hard coal and £60 per acre of soft coal, 10 Apr 1815 |