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Collapse D648 - Mellor, Chesterfield: title deeds, 14th-18th cent; Honour of Tutbury: custumal, 16th cent, and other papers - [1350]-1744

D648 - Mellor, Chesterfield: title deeds, 14th-18th cent; Honour of Tutbury: custumal, 16th cent, and other papers - [1350]-1744

1 - Gift by Alice daughter of Robert Wayfer of Chesterfield to William Lorimer of Chesterfield, chaplain, of a messuage and adjacent curtilage in Hallywellgate [Holywell Street] between the messuage once of Robert de Hulme on one part and the messuage once of Robert Doraunt on the other and a curtilage burgage in Tapton Lane on the east between a toft of Adam Pycard on one part and a toft formerly of John de Plumley on the other - [29 Nov 1350]

2 - Gift by Adam Horne, chaplain, of Chesterfield to Paul Cutie and Matilda his wife of a messuage and burgage with buildings and curtilage with appurtenances lying in the town of Chesterfield in an old market place in a certain place called Tapton Lane between the messuage once of Adam, son of Thomas de Tapton, on the north and the messuage once of Adam, son of Thomas de Tapton, on the north and the messuage once of John Wete on the south, one head abutting on the highway and the other on the tenement of Robert de Lenna - [11 Jan 1374]

Expand 3 - Mellor deed and transcript - [15th-20th cent]

3 - Mellor deed and transcript - [15th-20th cent]

4 - Letters of attorney by Thomas Lege senior to surrender to the steward of the court of St John of Jerusalem in England at Chesterfield two shops within the butchers’ quarter of Chesterfield formerly held by surrender and gift of Thomas Hervy and which were lately in the possession of Henry Hervy and once held by Roger Grymbald to the use of John Wudwarde, alderman of Chesterfield, Hugh Cluworthe of the same place, George Hethcot of the same place, Thomas Hethcot of the same place, Alan Crosland of the same place, Richard Asshe and John Wudwarde junior and their heirs and assigns. 1 Jul 23 Hen VIII - 1 Jul [1531]

5 - Feoffment by Nicholas, Lord Deincourt, commonly called Earl Scarsdale, Lancelot Lake of Cannons, Middlesex, and Thomas Leeke of Grayes Inn, Middlesex to John Alwood of Chesterfield, and Anne his wife of all that messuage and farm commonly called Cutholme lying in Brampton together with 49 acres - 1 Apr 1656

6 - Rent roll, probably Chesterfield area - [14th cent]

7 - [Manorial] Customary book for the Honour of Tutbury with duties of the various officers of the honour - 1591-1592

8 - Agreement between several of the inhabitants of Chesterfield to raise a fund for the rewarding of persons “making discovery of the offenders in stealing horses and sheep in and around Chesterfield” - 28 Mar 1744

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