| Description | Mundy of Allestree & Markeaton: draft and copy deeds including wills and abstracts of title 16th-17th Cent, relating to Markeaton, Mackworth, Allestree and other locations. Also includes:
Some accounts and other financial documents: mid-17th century to late-19th century
Documents relating to cases before Court of Chancery, particularly 1684-1687
Manorial court documents: pains: 1708 and 1719; and estreats: 1712
Documents relating to rented property and valuation
Correspondence and Notes
Documents relating to response to the Quota Acts 1795, (requiring the nomination of men for navy service), in the hundreds of Appletree, Gresley, Litchurch, Morleston and Repton
Lines of verse written by Erasmus Darwin as a prologue to Jealous Wife, a play by Francis Munday performed at Sudbury Hall in the 1790s |
| Administrative History | The Mundy family were based at Markeaton, Mackworth and Allestree. The estate had been bought in the early sixteenth century from the Touchet family by Sir John Mundy, Lord Mayor of London 1522-1523, who claimed Derbyshire family connections. His descendants were connected with Markeaton until the early twentieth century. |
| Custodial History | These records were transferred from Derby Local Studies Library (ref. DL10) in June 2001. |