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D231 - Okeover family of Okeover - [12th-20th cent]

M - Deeds and estate records - [12th-20th cent]

B - Business

E - Estate Papers

F - Family - 14th cent-c1950

M - Manorial - 1345-1728

O - Public Office

1 - Appointment by Richard Welbeck, esq., of Humphry Okeover as Chief Seneschal and Supervisor of all his lands and holdings within the demesne of Ashbourne in the Park and elsewhere in the County of Derbyshire, at an annual salary of 13s 4d 26 Nov - 1499

1-9 - Appointments

2 - Appointment of Ralph Oker [Okeover] as Sheriff of Staffordshire 9 Nov - 1564

3 - Appointment of Humfry Okeover as Sheriff of Derbyshire 6 Nov - 1631

4 - Appointment of Leeke Okeover as Deputy Lieutenant in the Derbyshire Militia 2 Nov - 1745

5 - Appointment by Rowland Farmer Okeover of Oldbury, High Sheriff of Warwickshire, of a bailiff for the Hundred of Hamlingford 12 Feb - 1782

6 - Appointment by Edward VII of Haughton Ealdred Okeover as a member of the Fifth Class of the Royal Victorian Order 1 Feb - 1901

7 - Appointment by Sir Samuel Morland, Robert Huntington, William Forth and Richard Kingdon, Commissioners and Governors for the management of His Majesties Receipt of Excise, of John Brock, Ralph Hollinshead and William Challoner as Subordinate Commissioners and Deputies in the City and County of Chester 23 Aug - 1670

8 - Appointment by H C Wise, Sheriff of Warwickshire, of a bailiff for the Hundred of Hamlingford 12 Feb - 1780

9 - Royal grant of the office of Clerk of Ordnance to Robert Ward, at a salary of 2s per day 14 Jun - 1811

10 - Declaration by Thomas Gresley knight, late Sheriff of Staffordshire, and Ralph Oker [Okeover], the present Sheriff, that Gresley has delivered to Oker (a) two writs of exigent, one for the suit of George Stanley against John Galway, clerk, late of Lichfield, the other against John Gesling, yeoman of the parish of High Offley [Staffordshire]at the suit of William Lowe, (b) three writs of right at the suit of William Basset, esq., against Alexander Falowes of Butterton and Henry Berysford [Beresford] of Asheholme, another at the suit of William Basset against John Stubbs and Thomas Baumford of Butterton, the third at the suit of Thomas Kanden against John Porter, smith, of Abbots Bromley, (c) the bodies of John Turner, Robert Barne, Robert Lumals, Edward Lumals, James Lumals and Nicholas Staynton, prisoners in the King's gaol, for a suspected felony, (d) a writ of Recordere Facere Loquelam at the suit of John Coton against Thomas Sapperton - 6 Dec 1490

10-20 - Other papers

11 - Bond by Ralph Oker [Okeover] of Oker to Edward VI in £300, for the last payment of a subsidy levied upon the inhabitants of the Hundred of Totmonslow (Staffordshire) 25 Apr - 1547

12 - Letters patent of Queen Elizabeth instructing all persons in Staffordshire, to support Ralph Oker lately appointed Sheriff of Staffordshire 15 Dec - 1563

13 - Letters patent of Queen Elizabeth instructing all persons in Staffordshire, to support Ralph Oker lately appointed Sheriff of Staffordshire 9 Nov - 1564

14 - Royal writ directing Ralph Oker, esq., late Sheriff of Staffordshire, to hand over to John Wrottesley esq., the new Sheriff, all writs, memoranda etc., relating to the Shrievalty 16 Nov - 1565

15 - Letters patent of Queen Elizabeth instructing all persons in Staffordshire, to support Ralph Oker lately appointed Sheriff of Staffordshire: instructing all persons in Staffordshire to support Philip Okeover, lately appointed as Sheriff 22 Nov - 1582

16 - Quietus roll of Philip Okeover as Sheriff of Staffordshire - 1585

17 - Compotus roll - acquittance to Philip Okeover for the payment of £219 0S 8d., being the fifteenths and tenths in the hundreds of Totmonslow and Peryhill, Staffordshire 25 Jan - 1588/1589

18 - Letters patent of James I declaring Henry Barber and John Adams to be rebels 11 Jul - 1608

19 - Summons to Rowland Okeover to appear at the Leete for the Hundred of Totmonslow, Staffordshire 9 Oct - 1662

20 - Quarter Sessions order to the Constables and Thirdbarrows of Loughborough by Leeke Okeover relating to the theft of pewter from a house in Loughborough - circa 1720

21 - Legal bill - 1781

21-144 - R F Okeover as Sheriff of Warwickshire

22 - Quit roll of R F Okeover as Sheriff of Warwickshire - 1782-1783

23 - Long roll for Barlickway Hundred, Warwickshire 26 Apr - 1782

24 - Warrants to the keepers of gaols in Warwickshire [blank forms] - [18th cent]

25 - Sheriff's warrant to the bailiff of each Hundred to cause to come before the Justices all writs of Assizes, Jurats etc., all jurors (as specified), and all J.P's, Chief Constables, coroners, stewards and bailiffs of liberites to be there with their rolls [blank forms] - [18th cent]

26 - Sheriff's warrant to the bailiffs to levy money for damages on the goods of John Bates 12 Jun - 1781

27 - Sheriff's warrant to the keeper of the Gaol to take George Roberts 14 Jul - 1781

28 - Sheriff's warrant to take Acock Dolphin 12 Jan - 1782

29 - Sheriff's warrant to the keeper of the County Gaol and his Bailiffs to levy several sums of money on the goods of the people specified - 1782

30 - Assignment by Robert Child, Sheriff of Warwickshire, to Henry Wynn of Bordesley, victualler, in consideration of £25 6s 9d., of all the goods, chattels and effects of Henry Wynn, following a writ of Fieri Facias 3 Apr - 1765

31 - Assignment by Thomas Fisher, Sheriff of Warwickshire, to Thomas Woodroffe, in consideration of 5s., of all his goods, chattels and effects, following a writ of Fieri Facias - [18th cent]

32 - Copy bond by Thomas Greenaway to H C Wise, Sheriff of Warwickshire, by which Greenaway indemnifies Wise from all processes, writs and warrants directed to the Sheriff of Warwickshire, and all fines and amercements - [18th cent]

33 - Certificate of no felons goods by H C Wise. Dated 7 Feb. Also affadavit at the foot of a bill of cravings (expenses claim), and the manner of conducting a bill of cravings, (probably notes for R F Okeover's guidance) - 1781

34 - List of cases - [18th cent]

35 - Bond on the appointment of William Roe as keeper of the County Gaol 11 Feb - 1782

36 - Bond by the Bailiff of Hemington Hundred to R F Okeover to execute all warrants, precepts, processes and commandments in his term as Sheriff - 1782

37 - Case paper, Mr Geast's opinion regarding a bill of sale 13 Apr - 1782

38 - An inquisition taken at the dwelling house of Thomas Jackson, the "White Lyon", Bedworth, regarding the ownership of goods and chattels in the house of John Odams 15 Apr - 1782

39 - Inquisition taken at Warwick. 26 Apr - 1782

40 - Inquisition taken at Warwick. Several persons named in schedule [missing] has not any goods or chattels within any bailiwick at the time of their respective deaths, nor can the jurors or sheriffs find or discover who are their heirs, executors or administrators - 1782

41 - Return to Sessions process. Michaelmas [6 Oct - 25 Nov] - 1782

42 - Inquisition at Warwick to enquire into the goods, chattels, lands and tenements of people dead or missing indebted to the King 8 Nov - 1782

43 - Inquisition on writ of enquiry taken at the dwelling-house of Joseph Jervis known by the sign of the Old Red Lyon in Atherstone 12 Nov - 1782

44 - Case Murray v Rann - order to the Under-sheriff to preremptorily bring into court the body of the defendant 23 Nov - 1782

45 - Affadavit by Thomas Grimes a Sheriff's Officer regarding the poverty of Edward Goldingay of Kenilworth, a poor musician 25 Nov - 1782

46 - Sentences of all the criminal prisoners tried at Warwick, 22-25 Mar 1782 - 1782

47 - Exchequer - Crown v Plumb. Deposition by Richard Harrison of the Borough of Warwick, maltster, Sheriff's Bailiff, stating that by virtue of a warrant from R F Okeover, he has made a diligent search and inquiry for the goods and chattels of Edward Plumb, Richard Plumb and William Hain of Little Wolford: £20 to be levied on the goods of each as Edward Plumb failed to appear before the General Quarter Sessions at Warwick in a matter of bastardy as by recognisance 27 Nov - 1782

48 - Case paper - Bunney v Oadams - 1782

49 - Fines at Easter and Michaelmas Sessions - 1782

50 - Court of Common Pleas - Spilsbury v Charles Wills, clerk. Notice to the Sheriff of Warwickshire to return the Writ of Capias ad respondendum issued between the parties 21 Aug - 1783

51 - List of jurors at the Summer Assizes - 1779

52 - Special jury for the Hundred of Hemlingford 8 Aug - 1780

53 - Jury at Warwick Assizes 21 Mar - 1782

54 - Grand Jury for [unspecified] hundred 21 Mar - 1782

55 - Grand Jury for Warwick Assizes 21 Mar - 1782

56 - Grand Jury for Warwick Assizes 21 Mar - 1782

57 - Grand Jury, Crown Jury, Special Jury, Sessions Jury and Traverse Jruy for Kineton Hundred 9 Apr (Lent Assizes) - 1782

58 - Grand and Traverse Jury for Knightlow Hundred 29 Mar - 1782

59 - List of jurors for the next sessions 2 Apr - 1783

60 - Grand and Traverse Jury for Barlickway Hundred for Easter Sessions 1782 9 Apr - 1782

61 - List of jurors at the Inquisition held at Bedworth on 15 Apr 1782. - 1782

62 - Grand and Traverse Jury. Easter sessions - 1782

63 - List of jurors. Lent Assizes

64-65 - Memoranda - circa 1782

66 - Memorandum to the Foreman of the Jury in a case regarding the goods and chattels in the dwellinghouse of John Odams of Bedworth - 1782

67 - Memorandum - circa 1782

68 - Memorandum to Mr Giles, seal engraver - circa 1782

69 - Memorandum - circa 1782

70 - Letter to the Undersheriff at Atherstone concerning the warrant to summon the Jury - circa 1782

71 - Letter from William Harard to R F Okeover, The Committee appointed by the growers of wool in Lincolnshire have sent to the Sheriff of each County a copy of their resolutions, asking for support in petitioning Parliament for leave to bring in a bill for the exportation of raw wool 4 Mar - 1782

72 - Letter regarding the Oadams case. S Oadams of Tamworth has a bill of sale of his brother's effects of which he was in possession, but the Sheriff's Officer under an execution sued out by virtue of a judgement under a warrant of Attorney has suggested some difficulty about his right of proceedings to sell under his security and claims a power of taking the goods under the Sheriff's warrant - 1782

73 - Letter from Mr Baxter the Undersheriff regarding the Odams case 13 Apr - 1782

74-75 - Circular from Whitehall to the Sheriff of Warwickshire, concerning the giving of County names to the several regiments of Infantry in his Majesty's service, with photocopy 19 Jul - 1782

76 - Letter from R Geast regarding the goods of Guy Knowles 29 May - 1783

77 - Letter regarding the Undersheriff's profits 15 Aug - 1785

78 - Fragment of a list of payments - [late 18th cent]

79 - R F Okeover's claim for expenses - 1780-1781

80 - Receipt for payments to Sheriff's men 3 Mar - 1780

81 - Joseph Bailey's bill - Lent Assizes 20 Mar - 1782

82-83 - Receipts for bell ringing during Assizes 23 Mar - 1780

84 - Bill for payment of trumpeters at Lent Assizes and horse hire 23 Mar - 1780

85 - Receipt for fee for attending Assize Session 28 Apr - 1780

86-99 - Sheriff's bills and receipts - 1782-1783

100-110 - Receipts for the tenths paid to the Sheriff by various Warwickshire parishes - Birmingham, Bedworth, Churhover, Newbold upon Avon, Bilton, Snitterfield, Arrow and Lekewotton - 1782

111-114 - Bills for wines and spirits while R F Okeover Sheriff - 1782-1783

115-125 - Further Sheriff's bills and receipts - 1782-1783

126-127 - Lists for Sheriff's expenses - circa 1782

128-131 - Further Sheriff's bills - 1782

132 - Bill for charges incurred in supporting prisoners condemned at Lent Assizes - 1782

133-134 - Claim for expenses incurred in the course of R F Okeover's duties as Sheriff, being the "cravings" of R F Okeover as allowed by Lord John Cavendish - 1782

135-138 - Further Sheriff's bills - 1782-1783

139 - Note from Moore to Baxter (Undersheriff) concerning the account for the Assizes 20 Mar - 1783

140 - Pinter's bill - 29 Apr 1783

141 - Receipt by Dudley Baxter, Undersheriff, for £21 5s 0d from the Receiver of Fines at the Alienation Office, being the sum total of `post fines' charged upon the Sheriff of Warwickshire in his account with the Exchequer 17 Jun - 1783

142-143 - Further Sheriff's bills - 1783

144 - Writ of discharge to R F Okeover to deliver to his successor as Sheriff, John Neale, the appurtenances together with the roles, writs, memoranda and all other things, belonging to the office of Sheriff of Warwickshire 10 Feb - 1783

145 - Writ of James I to William St Andrew of Gotham, appointing John Hacker, esq., collector of a loan of £13 6s 8d levied on the County of Nottinghamshire 20 Jun - 1612

145-151 - Miscellaneous papers

146 - Compotus roll of Sir Thomas Pettus, Sheriff of Norfolk - 1631-1632

147 - Agreement between Edward Wilson of Cannock esq., and Walter Noel of Hilcot, Staffordshire, by which Noel agrees to find and provide for 12 sheriff's men a good suit of cloths of the same sort of cloth and colours as Edward Wilson, nominated as Sheriff of Staffordshire, has already affixed; also to entertain and feed them during the course of the Assizes to provide clothes for the trumpeter, tobacco and various meals: for providing these services Wilson pays Noel, nominated as Undersheriff, £40 29 Jan 1727/8 - [1728]

148 - Order by the Justices to the Constable of Belton, Leicestershire, to bring before the Justices the Overseers or the Poor of Belton to answer a charge of refusing to receive a poor family 31 Jan - 1728/1729

149 - Order by the Justices to the Constables of Derbyshire regarding the keeping of greyhounds, setting dogs, hays, lurchers, gunds, tunnels, nets and other engines to kill and destroy game and fish, following complaints by Meynell, Beresford and others 2 Jul - 1730

150 - Parliamentary vote 1732: lists of Members of Parliament "for and against the Excise" - 1732

151 - Bond by Philip Gell of Hopton, esq., William Taylor of Lea, yeoman, William Maskery of Norbury, yeoman, Thomas Hudson of Scropton, yeoman, John Hurd of Ashbourne, yeoman, George Jackson of Scropton, yeoman, William Buxton of Bradbourne, yeoman, Charles Ensor of Throwley, gent., William Smith of Mayfield, yeoman, and Samuel Bakewell of Cratemarsh, yeoman, to Anthony Bradley of Hallfield, cheesefactor, Thomas Chawner of Sudbury Wood, gent., and Joseph Bradley of Bradbourne, yeoman, in £500, to obey, fulfil and keep the award of Leeke Okeover and Edward Wilmot of Duffield, arbitrators, in a dispute between the two groups 9 Nov - 1754

P - Maps and Plans

T - Title Deeds

Z - Miscellaneous

UL - Okeover family of Okeover: unlisted records

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