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D258 - Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth - 1200-1905
1 - Title deeds including lead ore tithe - 1549-1872
2 - Title deeds
3 - Title deeds
4 - Accounts
5 - Accounts (D258/1), Philip Gell (1775-1842) (D258/5/2-6)
6 - Philip Gell (1775-1842)
7 - Various including Medieval deeds (D258/7/1), Ship Money (D258/7/6) and Other Assessments (D258/7/13/19-35, 41-48), Tithes and church property (D258/7/13/49-D258/7/19) and Mining papers (D258/7/20)
8 - Correspondence Christian-Gell re lead ore (D258/8/1) and Various papers (D258/8/2-56)
9 - Thomas Gell
10 - Sir John Gell I (1593-1671), Sir John Gell II (1613-1689), Civil War and various
11 - Various, 18th - early 19th century
12 - Various, 17th century
13 - Title deeds and other papers
14 - Various, 18th-19th century
15 - 17th Cent Printed Material
16 - Title deeds and other papers
17 - Quarter Sessions (D258/17/1-9), Business - Canals and railways (D258/17/10), Miscellaneous/Various (D258/17/11-29, 33-44), Correspondence (D258/17/30-31), Philip Gell correspondence including Cromford Canal (D258/17/32, 45)
18 - Manor of Hope (D258/1), Title Deeds (D258/18/2-3, 14-19, 21-34), Ashbourne Lectureship (D258/18/4), Estate papers (D258/18/5-D258/18/7/1-4, 30-38, D258/18/8), Wirksworth School (D258/18/7/5-29), Manors of Hopton, Carsington, Wirksworth, Hognaston, Middleton by Wirksworth and Hulland (D258/18/9-13), Assessments (D258/18/20), Miscellaneous printed items (D258/18/35-38)
19 - Various (D258/19/1-30, D258/19/31/24-33, D258/19/32-34), Ashbourne lectureship (D258/19/31/1-23)
1 - Various
2 - Various
3 - Various
4 - Depositions taken at Ashbourne in case between, 1) Robert Heyward gent, and Thomas Manley gent, and 2) Philip Gell, esq and others, relating to Carsington lands, Aug 36 Cha II - 1684
5 - Papers in case as D258/19/4/1, Oct - Nov 36 Cha II and nd - 1684
6 - Depositions taken at Ashbourne in case, 1) Thomas Goodread and William Hand, clerks, and 2) Philip Gell, Baronet, relating to Ashbourne lectureship - Jan [1693]
7 - Case paper, Dean and Chapter of Lichfield versus Gell esq relating to tithes with reference to Bakewell, Hope and Tisdeswell, not dated - [?16th cent]
8 - Observations by the Reverend Mr Pegge on the Stanton Moor urns and druidical temple in a letter to Major Rooke, read to the Society of Antiquaries 2 Nov 1785, illustrated, (printed) - 1785
9 - Proposals for publishing by subscription the works of the Reverend Joseph Bingham including The Antiquities of the Christian Church, (printed) - ?early 19th cent
10 - His Majesty's Declaration to all His Loving Subjects Touching The Causes and Reasons That moved Him to Dissolve The Two last Parliaments, 8 Apr, (printed) - 1681
11 - The Freeman's oath of the Hamborough Company, (printed) - ?17th cent
12 - Treatise entitled `The theater of the world Wher there is made an ample discourse of the miseries of man, together with the vices that reign at this day in all the estates of the earth' - 17th cent
13 - Draft petition of Tisley Crofts, one of the Queen's maids of honour, for power to compound with those who have enclosed land without licence and stocked it with deer and rabbits (conies), the compositions to be shared between her and the King - 17th cent
14 - Case that dignities of the King's writ of summons to Parliament descend to females where there is sole heir ...... and judgement - ?17th cent
15 - Defence of the minister who held 3 great offices, treasurer, secretary and [?master of] the wards - 17th cent
16 - "An advertisement to his Sacred majestie" ?intended as a preamble to a petition, not dated but possibly addressed to James I after the gunpowder plot - ?1605-1625
17 - Copy of part of a deed endorsed `Part of Sir Humphrey Bradburn's will and settlement of his estate upon his 4 sons and 3 daughters' - [16th cent]
18 - Papers in a case involving Sir John Meldram, and concerning a patent and Sir Kenelm Digby, not dated but date Jun 5 Ch [1629] is referred to - 17th cent
19 - Double page endorsed `The boke of tenures', first page headed `Derb' [Derbyshire], listing family names, description of property, rents and manors, and regnal year [date property was granted] - [16th-17th cent]
20 - Page of notes including names, subject not evident. (damaged) - [16th-early 17th cent]
21 - Copy of part of writ to the receivers (Royal officials] of Derbyshire (damaged) - [16th-early 17th cent]
22 - Part of letter re tithe at Tunstead, Meadow, Gretrax [Greatrakes] and Wormhill - 17th cent
23 - List of law cases - 17th cent
24 - Case for opinion re unlicensed inclosures used as parkes - 17th cent
25 - Notes re militia for Colonel Milward at Snitterton [from John Gell II] - 17th cent
26 - Pages 17-32 of a Treatise on Divine Meditation, (printed) - 17th cent
27 - Part of receipt from Bailiff of the Earl of Shrewsbury to ...... [of] Hopton for £5 for one ...... of Willersley, reign of Elizabeth - [late 16th cent]-1603
28 - End and external address of letter from her daughter to Lady Bridget Willoughby at Wollaton [Nottinghamshire] - 17th cent
29 - Receipt from Edmd ?Loyde to Sir John Gell for £3 15s, Dec - 1676
30 - Notes ?for an opinion relating to manor of Dale and including Jo' Gravener and Fabian Hickes, in French - 17th cent
31 - Ashbourne lectureship (D258/19/31/1-23), Various (D258/19/31/24-33, D258/19/32-34)
32 - Lists of documents in "Bundle 1" of Gell Manuscripts with related latter from Charles Bowles to Mrs Chandos-Pole-Gell - 16 Nov 1901
33 - Various
34 - Various
20 - Various (D258/20/1-11, 30-66), Title deeds and leases (D258/20/12-29)
21 - Various (D258/21/1-20, D258/21/45/7-8, D258/21/46/1-7), Philip Gell (1723-1795) Correspondence (D258/21/21-24, D258/21/46/8-35), Yorkshire Quarter Sessions (D258/21/25), Estate papers and accounts 18th cent (D258/21/26-D258/21/45/6),Philip Gell (1723-1795) Various (D258/21/47/1-34), Various 16th-19th cent (D258/21/47/35, D258/21/48-66)
22 - Parish Account Books (D258/22/1-3), Various, 16th-19th century (D258/22/4-23)
23 - Title Deeds and other papers (D258/23/1-19/5), Correspondence 16th-early 18th cent (D258/23/19/6-26, D258/23/20-22)
23 - Title deeds and other papers
24 - Sir Philip Gell (D258/24/1-5, D258/24/30-47, 49-54), Ashbourne Lectureship (D258/24/6), Various (D258/24/6/27, D258/24/7-8, D258/24/11-29), Wirksworth Hundred Tax Assessments (D258/24/9-10), Fagg v Gell (D258/24/48)
25 - Miscellaneous legal, financial and other papers
26 - Title Deeds etc
27
28 - Title Deeds
29
30
31
32
33
34 - John Gell (1539-1671)
35 - Various accounts, deeds etc
36 - Anthony Gell d. 1584
37
38 - Correspondence etc
39
40
41
42 - Conserved fragments of estate plan showing fields (numbered) around house called Bank Top - 19th cent
43 - Hopton Receipt Papers
44 - Sir John Gell
45
46 - Staffordshire estate papers, 19th century - 1834-1879
47 - Unidentified plan showing part of the course of a waterway, marked at points with numbers, and the dates 20 Aug and 22 Aug. Scale not given. Dimensions approx 150cm x 130cm - [19th Cent]
48 - Philip Gell (d 1842), draft deeds, estate and financial papers - 1706-1877
49 - Log book of the Cutter Yacht Albatross from the port of Cowes, Isle of Wight to any port or ports her owner may think proper, wind and weather permitting' [to Scotland] - 18 May-29 Aug 1836
50 - SIR WILLIAM GELL (1777-1836)
51 - Various
52 - Volume of bound letters and other documents - Late 17th-early 19th cent
53 - Printed Pamphlets
54 - Isabella Thornhill - c1850-1870
55 - Pedigrees and other papers
56 - Gell Family Papers Series A-D
57 - Family Papers
58
59
60
61
62
63 - Number not used
64 - Boer War (largely Henry [Harry] Anthony Chandos-Pole-Gell) - 1899-1902
65 - Henry [Harry] Anthony Chandos-Pole-Gell (1872-1934) and other material
67 - Masque by William Browne written for the Inner Temple and associated correspondence - 1615-1964
68 - Pedigrees - 19th cent
69 - Plans - 1711-1828
70 - Manor of Holland p Wirksworth and Lands Grant [temp Q Anne] to Philip Gell of Hopton [outsize parchment deed, badly damaged by damp, partly illegible]
71 - Isabella Thornhill, nee Gell (1800-1878): diary - 1863-1875
72 - `Catalogue of the library at Hopton Hall' Arranged by size of volume: folio, quarto, octavo Duodecimo, `sixteens and twenty-fours' Title, edition and date of publication Folio paper vol, in slip case - ?17th cent
73 - Gell of Hopton Hall: family seal dies - late 19th cent
UL - Gell of Hopton Hall: unlisted records
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