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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)
1 - Medieval deeds including court case 1786 - [1247]-1360
2 - Various - [1624-1812]
3 - Particular of the estates of Philip Gell at Hopton. No. on plan, tenant's name and address, extent, value and rent for Middleton, Carsington, Griffe, Hognaston, Kirk Ireton, Callow, Ible, Hopton, Wirksworth and Bonsall - 1807
4 - Various
5 - Various
1 - Charge to the Grand Jury at Quarter Sessions - address to jury outlining their duties and responsibilities - list of crimes and their punishments - c1624
2 - `The Mischief That falls on the Freeholders of England, By the Absolute Prohibition of Exporting Wooll, With Reasons for a Limited Exportation of it. Printed - post 1760
3 - `The Case of the Makers of Vinegar' - against an additional excise duty. Printed - Late 17th cent
4 - `The Great Inequality of Charging Public Assessments by Taxes upon Land' - including assessment of how some benefited from `the late Rebellion'. Printed - Post 1660
5 - Petition of Charles Howard for patent to tan leather without using oak bark. Printed - 17th cent
6 - `The Case of the Persons interessed in the Rent and Fine payable for and in respect of the Coal-Meters' - regarding addition of three sea coal meters in London. Printed - Post 1660
7 - Case of Lady Tyringham re her estate in Ireland lost in the rebellion - c1650
8 - Note in Italian - 17th cent
9 - MS prose and poems - 17th cent
10 - Plan of Linners, Malkins Farm, Callow Moor 18 × 22 cm (2 sheets) - 1812
11 - Calculations re shafts - 19th cent
12 - Survey of lands at Hopton giving full name and area - 19th cent
13 - Bill for legal expenses incurred in case against miners - possibly over right of tithe to lead - 17th cent
14 - Court order re lands in Hognaston - 1607
15 - Draft letter with thanks for book - 17th cent
16 - Poem on ship beginning `From Katherin Docke there launcht a pinke' - 17th cent
17 - Survey of Robert Burdekin's, John Borkin's and Thomas Hall's farms in Hope giving full names and area - 18th cent
18 - Pedigree of Anchitol Grey - 18th cent
19 - Fragment of will leaving bequest to poor of Carsington and Hopton - [17th cent]
20 - List of numbered words, possibly key to cypher - 17th cent
21 - Draft of bargain and sale of lands in Leicester [Leics] - 17th cent
22 - Memo re lease of site of smelting mill at Wirksworth - 18th cent
23 - Old Wellford in Sir Thomas Perry's time. - [18th cent]
24 - Totals of sheep grasses on Hopton Moor - 18th cent
25 - Pedigree of Stafford of Botham - 19th cent
26 - Draft heading for subscription list for a New Free School at Buxton [no names] - 1790
27 - Draft petition of Thomas Bagshaw re rights of grazing for inhabitants of Tunstead, Wormhill and Fairfield in Greene Farfield - Early 17th cent
28 - Petition of Sir Edward Vernon, Mathew Cradock and other tenants of the manor of Marchington, [Staffs] re its purchase - 17th cent
29 - List of reasons why manor of Marchington [Staffs] should be granted to its tenants - 17th cent
30 - Tideswell Theatre Playbill, `Romeo and Juliet and the Mock Doctor, or a Dumb Lady Cur'd' Printed - 1807
31 - Letter - Thomas Hillyard to Mrs Blower - asking for her patronage for Tideswell theatre with a list of plays - 19th cent
32 - Description of `an Antique Bust in cornelian' with the inscription `Ignota Nota' found at Welbeck - 1792
33 - Copy letters including Mons. Mowhine to Mons. Balzac upon his presenting him with his book "The Princludinge" and discussion of the old true religion - 17th cent
34 - MS verse and prose on natural history, science and medicine - 17th cent
35 - Petition re Buxton School - 1789
36 - Evidence against Sir John Gell re his use of soldiers to tamper in an election in Charlesworth(?) c 1645 - [mid 16th cent]
6 - Ship Money - 1677-1678
7 - Various
8 - Various
9 - Copy charter of Edward VI to found Nuneaton [Warwks] Grammar School - 11 May [1552]
10 - Depositions and draft indenture regarding bankruptcy of William Bradley including references to Kedleston - 1677-1679
11 - Information in Duchy of Lancaster court against John Wigley for inclosing Marten Ashgreen at Wirksworth belonging to the Queen and to Mr Gell - [mid-late 16th cent]
12 - Various
13 - Various, including assessments (D258/7/13/19-35, 41-48) and Tithes and church property (D258/7/13/49-62)
14 - `The boke of the tythe': rents 1 May - 2 & 3 Philip and Mary - 1553-1556
15 - Tithes and church property
16 - Objections to the election of burgesses for Cirencester [Glos] - 17th cent
17 - Draft indenture between John Curzon of Kedleston and Francis Leake, son and heir of Francis Lord Daynecourt and Nicholas Leake esq, to provide annuity of £100 in payment for £1000 loan - 1641
18 - Copy petition to Sir Thomas Witherington, Speaker of the Commons, by excluded Members of Parliament including names [?signatories] - c 1650
19 - Tithes and church property
20 - Mining Papers
20 - Mining Papers
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
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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