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D135 - North East Derbyshire especially Tapton near Chesterfield. Slater family papers, and others - 1615-1856

M - Records - 17th-19th cent

E - Estate papers - 1638-1785

1 - Copy of D135/M/T/1 - 1638

2 - Extract of recovery by George Jones against Sir Charles Skrymsher and Hester his wife of premises as T6 - 1682

3 - Articles of agreement between Sir Charles Skrymsher and Thomas Gladwin, for sale to Gladwin of Durant Hall with Closes known as Duffcoate Close, Dobcrofte, Great Meadow, Little Meadow and Leaste Meadow (total 22a), in the tenure of Thomas Hatfield, in consideration of £1500 - 1701

4 - Articles of agreement between Sir Charles Skrymsher and Thomas Gladwin for the sale to Gladwin of Tapton Hall etc - 1701

5-6 - Copies of T8-9 - 1701

7 - Schedule of title deeds to Bailey Smithy alias Ricket's Mill - 1652-1771

8 - Agreement between Thomas Pike and Adam Slater, for sale to Slater, as in T47-48 - 1781

9 - Abstract of title of William Ward to land to Tapton called the Sidlins, purchased of John Fidler, 1702-1762 - 1762

10 - Schedule of deeds relating to Gowl Close and part of Oldfield - (1754-1771)

11 - Schedule of Godfrey Heathcote's title deeds to Old Field Farm at Tapton - (1637-1739)

12 - Lease by William Downes to Hugh Croft, of premises at T74, for 20 years at £3 pa - 1716

13 - Bond in £86 by Hugh Crofte to William Downes for performance of covenants - 1700

14 - Warrant of attorney by Hugh Croft to Charles More, Thomas Gill and John Lyndley, to receive judgement for £60 in favour of William Downes - 1700

15 - Bond in £150 by Elizabeth Gardiner to Adam Slater, to indemnify Slater against a rent charge of £3 pa., payable to the overseers of Chesterfield - 1765

16 - Bond in £800 by Thomas Brailsford of Seanor and Henry his brother, and German Pole of Radbourne, for the repayment of £424 - 1668

17 - Lease by Robert, Earl of Scarsdale, to Thomas Brailsford of Seanor, gent., of a close called Seynor Lockoe, formerly parcel of Lockoe Common, p North Wingfield (6a), a close called Kettlecroft by Seynor (4½a) adjoining the Croft, and a selion (½a) in Coalpitt Close, North Wingfield, for 21 years at £7 7s pa - 1699

18 - Articles of agreement between Thomas Brailsford of Seynor and his trustees, and Cornelius Farr of Welbeck, Nottinghamshire for the sale in consideration of £1700, of Seanor Hall and appurtenances, 3 closes called Pittfeilds and 2 messuages at Seanor - 1704

19 - Assignment of lease (as in E17) by Thomas Brailsford to Cornelius Farr - 1705

20 - Authorisation to Cornelius Farr, by parties as in E18, to pay to Lydia Allwood, widow, Mary Hacker, widow, William Frogatt and Thomas Bright, out of the £1700 consideration money, certain sums due upon mortgages assigned to him - 1705

21 - Lease by Thomas Gladwin of Tupton, esq., to Anne Morley of Tibshelf, widow, of all tithes of corn and grain arising upon all the lands of her ancient farm at Tibshelf and upon a close (6a) belonging to the cottage of John Smith, collier, for 21 years at £1 4s 6d pa - 1671

22 - Copy lease by Sir Charles Skrymshere of Norbury and Dame Esther his wife, to John Allwood of Chesterfield, tanner, of a mansion house and orchard called Tapton Hall and closes called Hall Close, Dove Coat Close, Kings Orchard Pingle, Well Close, Fallows Close, the Wood, Little Broome Close, Great Broome Close, Bryery Close, Nether Pingle, Upper Pingle, Long Clease, Browns Clease, Wolstenholmes Close and 2 parcels of land called the Two Butts for the lives of John Allwood and of John and Thomas Allwood his sons, at £27 10s pa - 1689

23 - Copy lease by John Highlord of London, esq., and Elizabeth his sister, to Thomas Denning, citizen and salter of London, of a piece of land with 3 messuages thereon, on the north side of Crutched Friars parish of St Olave, Hart St., London (44½ ft x 118 ft) and a parcel of land being the underpart of a messuage adjoining the above premises(9ft x 54 ft) for 70 years at a pepper corn rent for the first year and £40 pa thereafter. Denning to demolish the buildings within one year and erect new houses according to the specifications for second or third rate buildings under the Act for Rebuilding the City of London - 1698

24 - Lease by Thomas Slater of Chesterfield, apothecary, to Joseph Bowering of Northedge, Ashover, husbandman, of a barn of 6 bays with part of a close and closes called Bridgfield, Tow Brookes, Stubbings, Little Ranger, Great Ranger, Langley Close, Two Lower Acres and Little Meadow (21a) at Northedge, for 11 years at £10 5s pa - 1701

25 - Lease by Francis Bagshaw of Chesterfield, tallow chandler, to Esther Watkinson, of a tenement of 2 bays at Chesterfield, with land (3r 24p), lying between St Mary's Gate Street and the Hipper Brook, with part of the garden (25 yds long), for 16 years at £2 16s pa - 1724

26 - Lease by Stephen Fox of Thorpe Salvin, Yorkshire, yeoman, to George Key of Chesterfield, innholder, of a parcel of land at Newbold called Lockoe Ford Meadow (3a), lying near Lockoe Ford Lane, for 21 years at £3 5s pa - 1730

27 - Lease by Samuel Clarke of West Bromwich, Staffordshire, esq. to Adam Slater of Chesterfield, apothecary, of a dwelling house on the east side of the Market Place in Chesterfield, for 21 years at £6 5s pa - 1738

28 - Lease by Cornelius Farr of Bolsover, esq., to Thomas Lowe of Horsleygate, parish of Dronfield, yeoman, of a copyhold messuage and farm at Holmesfield, with closes known as Barber Field, Cowpitt, Wellfield, Dalefield, Clay Flatts, Upper Turncroft, Nether Turncroft, New Close, Horsleygate, Townfield, Square Town Field, Little Townfield, Lidyate Townfield, Great Hobfield, Square Hobfield and the three Little Hobfields(total 71a), for 21 years at £46 pa - 1749

29 - Lease by William, Duke of Devonshire, to Adam Slater of Chesterfield, of several closes at Tapton known as Little Intake (1a 1r), Wheat Hill (2a 2r 2p), a dole in the Meane Intake (3r 18p), a dole in the West Lands (3a 2p), a dole in Cawsey Close (1a 1r) and a dole in Crow Lane Close (1r), for 20 years at £8 pa - 1771

30 - Lease by Nicholas Smythe of Condover, Shropshire, esq., (lessee of the rectory of Chesterfield, and its glebe and tithes) to Adam Slater of Chester- field, esq., of a close called Little Gold Close (1a 22p), Upper Pingle (2r 34p), doles within Little Intake (1a), Nether Pingle (29p), Great Wheat Lands (2r 13p), Great Sidlins (1a), Little Wheat Lands (1a 2r 13p), Fynners Croft alias Tapton Hall Croft (1r 15p) and Oak Close (2r 2p) for 19 years at £8 10s pa - 1785

31 - Accounts of Cornelius Farr for rents received and money disbursed on behalf of Mr Lydy Milward - 1718-1730

32 - Articles of agreement between Thomas Slater of Chesterfield, apothecary, and Henry Harvey of Walton, husbandman, and John Ellis of Whitting- ton, husbandman. Harvey and Ellis to pay Slater £24, Slater to sell to Harvey and Ellis all coal they can get within 4 years from 1a land in a close called Silver Ice, all rubbish to be carried away - Harvey and Ellis to have liberty to burn coal, coke or cinders nearby - 1716

33 - Bond in £56 by William Clay of Hillhouses yeoman, to George Taylor of Chesterfield, gent., for the performance of covenants in a bargain and sale - 1650

34 - Bond in £100 by Brailsford Hill of Chesterfield, saddler, and Daniel Hill his eldest son, to Adam Slater of Chesterfield, esq., to indemnify Slater against claims to dower by Elizabeth, wife of Brailsford Hill, in premises sold to Slater - 1774

35 - licence by Henry Raynes, vicar-general to Richard, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, confirming a seat in Chesterfield parish church to Isabel Brailsford and Dorothy, wife of John Revell - 1733

36 - Release by Agnes Milnes of Chesterfield, widow of William Milnes, to John Kay, husband of Elizabeth her daughter, in consideration of an annuity of £64, of all her dower in the estate of William Milnes - 1773

F - Family deeds - 1710-19th cent

T - Title deeds - 1615-1808

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