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D144 - Derbyshire title deeds and associated papers, various properties in Derbyshire - 17th-19th cent

1-6 - Marriage settlement of Mary Harrison and William Grettorex of Quarndon, involving Richard Moore of Derby trustee, of close and lands [named] in liberty of Allestree formerly property of John Harrison, 1702; conveyed to son Joseph Grettorex of Lincoln, fellmonger, 1728; and sold by Greatrix to Jacob Wall of Allestree, blacksmith, for £150, 1728 - 1702-1728

7 - Lease for 21 years by John Knowles of Southwark Surrey, Spanish leather dresser, to John Ward of Derby, maltster, of Stewards Hallow, close in Alvaston, for £40 yearly and £5 more yearly for each acre tilled - 1716

8-9 - Provisional assignment to George Stone, farmer; and assignment to Stone and John Wildblore Caunt by Commissioners in bankruptcy of Thomas Plackett of Breaston, butcher, of freehold estate at Breaston - 1817

10 - Bargain and sale by Francis Cooke of Trusley, esq., to William Fowler of Dalbury Lees, yeoman, of part of messuages and lands in Burneston sold to Cooke by Sir Thomas Gerrard of Etwall knt., for £280 provided by Cooke and £120 provided by Fowler - 1599

11 - Final concord between John Smith, plaintiff, and Joseph and Elizabeth Cockeram and Robert and Ann Middleton, deforciants, over lands in Chaddesden, £60 - 1723

12 - Deed declaring the uses of a fine between Thomas Haughton of Derby and members of Bateman family, of 7 messuages and other messuages and lands in Chesterfield to use of William Bateman of Derby and brother John Bateman of Ashbourne as tenants in common; ll acres pasture in Mickleover lately purchased by Haughton from Edward Holden of Littleover and w. Elizabeth to use of Haughton; messuage in Mickleover to use of Haughton in trust for Holden; messuage on Nuns Green, Derby, lately purchased from Elizabeth and Mary Bateman, daughters of George Bateman late of Derby, dec., to use of William Adams of Derby, wheelwright - 1730

13-14 - Final concord between Richard Wright, plaintiff and William Parker, deforciant, over 2 messuages and lands in Church Broughton, £160, 1759; with deed for 2 other messuages and lands valued at £3,650 and all goods assigned to John Burton of Sudbury and John Hudson of Derby by Commissioners in bankruptcy of William Parker of Church Broughton, dealer and chapman, 1760 - 1759-1760

15-17 - Leases for 21 years by Sir Phillip Stanhope of Bretby, to John Wheatley of Dale, husbandman, of closes, parcels of Little Hay Grange or Piggins Grange, parish of Dale, yearly rents £13 6s. 8d., and £14, 1615; and lease for 18 years by Mary Ballington of Derby, widow to Thomas Wheatley of Dale Abbey of other parcels of Little Hay Grange, yearly rent £4, 1639 - 1615-1639

18 - Deed to lead the uses of a fine between John Maulton, the elder, of Dalbury Lees and son John, Josiah Wood of Matlock, framework knitter, George Bradbury of Dalbury Lees, Samual Brough of Carsington, clerk, William Fowler of Langley Meynell, and William Blood of Lees, carpenter: Brough and Fowler to hold Maulton's messuage and closes in Dalbury Lees to uses of a settlement of 1714 following marriage of John Maulton, the younger and Elizabeth, daughter of Josiah Brough; Wood's property in Matlock lately purchased from John Woolley to use of Wood; and Bradbury's property in Dalbury Lees to use of Blood, new purchaser - 1714

19-20 - Release by Thomas Palfreman of Tutbury, Staffordshire, and John Reeve of Melbourne, executors of will of John Houldin late of Findern, to John Houldin son and heir of messuage in Findern (except a cottage lately appurtenant), and lands in Littleover and Mickleover, 1669; with mortgage in £80 by lease for 1000 years by Holden to Richard Fisher of Normanton next Derby of 3 closes in Findern, 1674 - 1669-1674

21 - Feoffment by Dame Anne Ferrers of Tamworth Castle, Staffordshire, and others, to John Mellor the elder, of Alsop in the Dale, with messuage, lands, common pasture, and rents and services in Hognaston - 1634

22-23 - Feoffment by William Taylor of Carsington of John Toplis of Cawlow [Calow] with 6 acre close in Kirk Ireton [boundaries recited], £46, 1676; and lease for possession by Walter Buxton of Lee Hall and second son John to John Toplis of Calow and Thomas Toplis of Kirk Ireton, baker, of twelfth part of Hanson Grange, parish of Thorpe, and of mill at Alstonfield, Staffordshire, 1685 - 1676-1685

24-26 - Deed to declare uses of a fine by Richard Clark of Kirk Langley and Benjamin and Margaret Fitchell of Winshill to John Moore of Kirk Langley of land in Kirk Langley 1745; with assignment by William Shaw of Derby to Richard Clarke of Kirk Langley, turner on payment of £21. 19 s by John Parker of bond in £40 of 1714 by William Mountford of Vickerwood, p. Mackworth, Rowland Mountford of Coxbench, [p.Holbrook] and John Parker, to use of Parker, 1717; and bond in £72.10s by Edward Elcock of Derby, innholder, to Richard Clark of Kirk Langley, maltster, for repayment of debt of £36 5s. 1748 - 1717-1748

27 - Bargain and sale by Richard Sheldon of Nottingham to William Jerrom of Long Eaton, framework knitter, and Robert Smedley of Nottingham, scrivener, of cottage in Long Eaton in trust for Jerrom; £70 - 1796

28 - Lease for possession by Thomas Wagstaffe of Cromford, miner, to Hannah Wragg of… Matlock, spinster, of… meadow called Masson… in Matlock. [Part of deed only] - 1761

29 - Feoffment by Clare Clay of Arleston, wid., Joseph Clay of Merribour [Merrybower, p. Sinfin and Arleston], and Thomas Clay of Zinphin [Sinfin], of Thomas Adams of Ockbrook with cottage in Ockbrook [bounds recited], £11 - 1690

30 - Assignment by Peter Needham of Derby, cordwainer, to Robert Willmott of Chaddesden in trust for William Cooper of Ockbrook of remainder of 500 year term in lands in Ockbrook, with closes and open field [boundaries recited], mortgaged for £60 by Robert Smedley of Ockbrook in 1711, £60 - 1712

31 - Final concord between John Porter and Henry Merry, plaintiff, and Thomas and Hannah Stables, Humphrey Porter, Humphrey Gooch, Joseph and Elizabeth Adams, Richard Moore, and John and Rebecca Tatam, concerning 2 messuages, 1 cottage, orchard and land in Ockbrook and Derby, £100 - 1723

32 - Mortgage in £300 by lease for 100 years by Isaac Fryarson of Ockbrook to Edward Harrison of Borrowash of messuage and land in Ockbrook - 1732

33 - Final concord between John Baxter, plaintiff and Richard and Elizabeth James, deforciants of 2 messuages and lands in Ockbrook, £120 - 1737

34-36 - Marriage settlement of William Woodward of Stanton by Dale and Sarah Evans of Draycott, widow, daughter of Alpheus Burgin, trustees John Harrison of Derby and Edward Hancock of Dale Abbey, of lands in Ockbrook, Draycott and Kinoulton, Nottinghamshire, [details given], with possessory leases by Sarah to Harrison - 1794

37 - Lease for 21 years by William Coke of Trusley to Alice Fryar of Brookwell, p. Pinxton, widow, of messuage in Pinxton reserving mineral rights, competent sum and £8 5s. Yearly rent - 1712

38 - Assignment by John Thompson of Long Whatton, Leicestershire, to Thomas Taylor of Sandiacre of remainder of term in mortgage for £50 by lease for 1000 years of 1693, by John Hill of Sandiacre, tailor, and his wife Sarah, sister and heiress of Bartholomew Williamson, of messuage in Sandiacre, £54 5s - 1706

39-41 - Possessory lease by John and Sarah Hill of Sandiacre to Elizabeth Hickling of Nottingham, widow, of 2 messuages in Sandiacre, 1730; with assignment of mortgage by bargain and sale by Elizabeth Hickling to John Sherbrooke of Nottingham, for £163 14s. to Elizabeth and further £56 6s. to John and Sarah 1733 - 1730-1733

42-44 - Lease and Release between John Worner of Stanton by Dale, Farmer and William Posnett of Stanton by Dale, Farmer for two closes at Sandiacre by way of mrotgage security for securing £450 plus interest - 4-6 Apr 1810

45-46 - Bargain and Sale with Conveyance by William Posnett of Stanton by Dale, butcher, to Henry Wells of Nottingham, of close in Sandicare to secure payment of annuity or rentcharge of £25 yearly to William Woodward of Stanton by Dale, for £183 3s. 3d. paid by Woodward - 14-15 Jan 1811

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