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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, 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)
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)
1 - Note of the provisions of Ralph Gell's will - 1562
2 - Court of Wards and Liveries - John Curzon and John Gell (his late ward) v John Ferne - Ferne ordered to pay £10 annual instalment of £40 as ordered on 28 November last and to pay £120 due at Christmas or have extent awarded against him - 1616
3 - List of debts owed by Millicent Curzon, wife of John Curzon (mother of John Gell I) - [1619]
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5 - Notes re sale of manor of Netherhall (Suffolk) by Thomas, Duke of Norfolk to Thomas Reynet, confirmed by the Crown after the Duke's attainder - [16th cent]
6 - Probate copy of will of Samuel Hurd of Hognaston, yeoman. Proved at Derby, 7 April - 1718
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13 - Letters patent appointing John Gell sheriff of Derbyshire - 1822
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18 - Bond in £20 by Henry Blackett of Shipley, William Taylor of Edgeknowle, and John Hodgson of Fitche, all of parish of Hamsterley, to Sir William Darcy of Witton Castle, for the performance of covenants in a bargain and sale of even date 27 Jun - 1654
1 - Witton [Co Durham] manor court roll including suit roll of freeholders, farmers and cottagers Oct Endorsed Call book - 1665
2-8 - Witton and Hamsterley, Manor Court rolls (Witton from 1672 only) including jurors' presentments for Hamsterley and fines for Witton, Apr 1677 - 1671-1677
9-10 - Witton manor court rolls - 1707, 1710
11 - Witton manor estreat roll - 1723
12 - Signet letter, Charles II to James Dancy, master of the Studs, re preservation of game within 20 miles of Darcy's house and suppression of poaching - 15 May 1661
13 - Certificate by commissioners for the city of York under `an Act for raising money by a Poll...... for carrying on a vigorous war against France' that Marmaduke Darcy is assessed for the second quarterly payment in the parish of St Michael le Belfreys at £1 1s. and Arthur Robinson, his servant at 1s., both paid. 29 Aug - 1692
14 - Acknowledgement by Sir Marmaduke Wyvill of Constable Burton (Yorkshire), that he consented to the sale of Sedbury by his father Sir William Wyvill, to his cousin Christopher Darcy, as the best means of paying his father's debts, Darcy having paid £3450 and paying £1000 to Mrs Dorothy Dalton of York, £1000 to Roger Crofts of Appleton and £900 to Charles Tanckred of Arden (£6350) - Sir William having died before Sedbury was conveyed to Darcy, Marmaduke undertakes to complete the conveyance when he is 21. 3 Sep - 1684
15 - Account of Christopher Croft to James Darcy for receipts and disbursements at Sedbury - 1703
16 - Account of rents received for the late Lord Darcy at Witton, Hamsterley, Ricknall, [Co Durham] to be settled with William Jessop his administrator - 1732-1733
17 - Bond in £3000 by Christopher Darcy of Sedbury (Yorkshire) eqs to James Darcy of Witton Castle (Co Durham), esq. for the performance of covenants in a pair of indentures of even date. 29 Aug - 1690
19 - Release by Grace, wife of Conyers Darcy of Homby Castle esq. to her husband of all her right to dower in the capital messuage of Middleton George [Co Durham] - 1618
20 - Petition to Thomas, Lord Parker, Lord Chancellor from Sir Ralph Millbanke et al on behalf of the freeholders of the manors of Middleton Tyas and Kneeton (Yorkshire) re common called Gaterley also Gatherley Moore, 20 May - 1718
21 - Lease by William Darcy of Witton Castle, esq. Sir William Bellassis of Murton, knight and Jerrard Salvyn of Cropdale, esq. to John Jerome of Witton, called the Hill, with closes called Hill Pasture, Wheatfield, Wellclose, Lonefield Meadow, Great Hill Field Meadow, Oakfield and Broad Meadow all in Witton, for 90 years at 6d. a year. All places are in Co Durham 8 May 13 Cha I - 1637
22 - Appointment by Dorothy Over of London, widow, of Marmaduke Darcy of Westminster, esq. as her attorney to sue forth a writ for payment of £1000 and £500 due upon penal bonds against Sir William Darcy of Witton Castle, obtained by judgement in King's Bench in 1649. 17 Nov - 1663
23 - Power of attorney by Marmaduke Darcy of Westminster esq to Christopher Croft of Witton Castle, gent., to receive and demand all his usual rents from the manors and granges of Hartforth, Long Moor, Warthcoat and Crakshill, (Yorkshire) an annuity of £100 due from The Rt Hon Conyers, Earl of Holderness and £200 a year due from James Darcy of Witton Castle, at a yearly salary of £5 25 Mar - 1685
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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 - Title Deeds etc
28 - Title Deeds
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30 - Sir John Gell, Thomas Gell
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34 - John Gell (1539-1671)
35 - Various accounts, deeds etc
36 - Anthony Gell d. 1584
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38 - Correspondence etc
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42 - Conserved fragments of estate plan showing fields (numbered) around house called Bank Top - 19th cent
43 - Hopton Receipt Papers
44 - Sir John Gell
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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
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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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