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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)
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
1 - "Unto the Comaedians of Cambridge whoe in the acts before the Kinge abused the Lawyers with a falce ignorance in two ridiculus persons. Ignorances the master and dulaum the Clarke John a style student of the Common Lawe wishes a sounder Judgement and a more reverend opinion of their betters." Ms - 17th cent
1-49 - John Gell
2 - Copy deed of settlement by John Gell, esq, upon John Gell his son 26 Jan, 11 Cha I - 26 Jan [1637]
3 - Revocation by John Gell of Hopton, esq, of uses in the above settlement 20 Apr - 1656
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6 - Draft petition of Dame Mary Stanhope late wife of Sir John Stanhope to Parliament against distraint by John Gell and Richard Ward for ship money - 1635
7 - Colonel Sir John Gell's wine bill - c1645
8
9 - Petition of Sir John Gell to Parliament for release and pardon. [1 printed petition and 8 manuscript copies] - 1651
10
11 - Order of Parliament for Sir John Gell to have a further 3 months liberty - [1652]
12
13 - Letter to the Sheriff of Derbyshire re Justices of the Peace who have neglected to take their oaths - 1651
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15
16 - Letter - John Gell II to his son Philip Gell - the horses and hawks are well but the pigeons have the weevil - advice re marriage - his aunt has a very good opinion of the young lady 22 Oct - 1677
17
18 - Bakewell etc accounts [Requires conservation] - Early 17th cent
19 - Draft will of Sir John Gell 18 Aug, 3 Jas II - 1687
20 - Copy petition of Dame Magdalen Tyringham, widow, of Sir Arthur Tyringham - 1649
21 - Depositions etc in the case against Richard Carrier, vicar of Wirksworth and others re lead - 1632
22 - Petition of the Roman Catholics to Parliament asking for toleration - c1650
23 - "England in its Condition briefly and most lively Characterized by way of Essay ......" by John Benson (printed) - 1648
24 - "In Answer to the Earle of Straffords Oration" (printed) - 1641
25
26 - Draft mortgage in fee by Thomas Billinge of Elxton [Elkstone] [Staffordshire] to John Gell of Hopton, esq and Thomas Buxton of Carsington, yeoman, for £-, of a mansion or dwelling house at Carsington, with outbuildings etc 17 Cha I - 1641-1642
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29 - Letter - Earl of Essex at Portsmouth (Hampshire) to Sir John Gell, Governor of Derby - the bearer, Mr Thacker, has been released on parole by the royalists, on condition that he obtain the release of Capt Benjamin Baker in return - please release Capt Baker 5 Oct - 1644
30 - Order of the Committee of the House of Commons that there is to be no further examination of witnesses by Sir John Gell 29 Nov - 1645
31 - Petition of Thomas Gell, barrister, to the Bench of the Inner Temple re unpaid debts - c1635
32 - "The 11th and 12th Articles of ye Commons Complaynt against ye Duke of Buckingham, presented to the Lordes and opened by Mr Prime ....." Ms 9 May - 1626
33 - Charges against the Earl of Bristol and his answers - c1625
34 - Speech of Sir John Eliott in Parliament, being the conclusion of the charge [against the Duke of Buckingham] 9 May - 1626
35 - Copy letter of Lady Rich to the Queen, on behalf of her brother, the Earl of Essex - also copy letter from Sir Fulke Grevill to his cousin Grevill Varney - 1609
36 - Case paper John Gell v Thomas Berket - charges Berket with ruining his son William by gambling - c1630
37 - Draft petition of Sir John Gell to Parliament re money expended in the parliamentary cause - c1650
38 - Petition of the Commons to Charles I against the Duke of Buckingham and other evils - c1626
39 - Manuscript book - army and navy estimates (name of ship, tonnage, number of men and guns) - 1668
40
41 - Poll tax - summary assessment of Wirksworth Hundred (lists names of assessors and totals for each parish only) - 1678
42 - Instructions to the Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire re questioning Deputy Lieutenants and JPs on their attitude to the penal law - Late 17th cent
43 - Receipt to Sir John Gell for payment of subsidy 14 Nov - 1670
44
45 - Copy of letter of the Deputy Lieutenants, Justices and Grand Jury, stating that Sir Robert Coke and Sir Gilbert Clarke have been selected to stand as knights of the shire for Derbyshire - sent by Robert Dale to the constable of Hopton and Carsington, with instructions to inform the freeholders - 17 Mar [1685]
46 - Lease by Anthony Gell of Hopton, esq, to Rycharde Wodde of Kirk Ireton, of a messuage and lands December, 18 Eliz I - 1576
47 - Notes on the services and attendance of Norroy King of Arms at a funeral [wife of Sir John Gell [?] - 17th cent
48 - Address of thanks and obedience Derbyshire Quarter Sessions to Charles II - 1681
49 - Order of Parliament to the Justices of Derbyshire to present recusants 7 Dec - 1640
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50-53 - Thomas Gell
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52
53
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32
33
34 - John Gell (1539-1671)
35 - Various accounts, deeds etc
36 - Anthony Gell d. 1584
37
38 - Correspondence etc
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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
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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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