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Collapse D664 - Stanhope family, Earls of Harrington, of Elvaston: title deeds, estate and family papers - 1607-1908D664 - Stanhope family, Earls of Harrington, of Elvaston: title deeds, estate and family papers - 1607-1908
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1 - Lease for 99 years by William, Earl of Harrington to Charles Roe and Robert Hodson of Macclesfield, gents., Bryan Hodson of Ashburn, Rowland Atkinson of Macclesfield, John Walker of Liverpool, [Lancashire] Joseph Stockdale of St Martin in the Fields, [London] and Cookson Atkinson of Kendal, (Westmorland), gents., of part of Key Green tenement in manor of Basley [Bosley] (Cheshire) with licence to erect works, mill, cut timber, dig clay, build weirs in river Daven, and turn road from Key Green to Linford Bridge. Endorsed with schedule of 221 oak trees with length and cross-sectional areas (to be valued for separate payment). 1 Aug - 1766
1-20 - Estate Papers - Cheshire
2 - Lease for 500 years by William, Earl of Harrington to William Cornthwaite, Richard Broadhurst and Humphrey Swindells, churchwardens and overseers of the poor of Gawsworth, of waste to north-east of Marle Heaps Close, part of Bayley - Ridding tenement with privilege of taking turbary [land with peat] for any houses there. 23 May - 1771
3 - Assignment by Charles, Earl of Harrington to Edward Hawkins and Joseph Cooke of Macclesfield, gents., of Crown lease (25 May 1762) for 31 years of cottage in Wholly Waste in Macclesfield, with 3 acres late enclosed from the waste, other parcels, coal mines and pits, and quarries in the Forest of Macclesfield, and of Crown lease (29 Nov 1765) of Manor and Borough of Macclesfield - 10 Nov 1783
4 - Assignment of lease for 3 lives (7 Aug 1718), by Thomas Percivall of Barley, yeoman, to Peter Filcock of Bosley, husbandman, of Bosley land as in assignment D664M/E5 - 1785
5-7 - Assignment by Peter Filcock to Earl of Harrington of lease for the life of Joshua Booth (surviving life under 1719 lease for 3 lives) of land (field names given) in Bosley - 23 Jun 1786
8 - Lease for 21 years by Earl of Harrington to Matthew, Isaac, Thomas, and John Fawkner of Macclesfield of Gawsworth Old Parks, formerly a plantation. With plan. - 1856
9 - Lease for 21 years by Earl of Harrington to Stephen Smith of Matlock, nurseryman, Danes Moss, Gawsworth (Cheshire) (with plan) - 1856
10 - Lease for 21 years by Earl of Harrington to John Timmins of Macclesfield (Cheshire), boot & shoemaker - part of Danes Moss (with plan) - 1856
11 - Lease for 21 years by Earl of Harrington to Adam Wilde of Macclesfield (Cheshire) Silk throwster - part of Danes Moss (with plan) - 1856
12 - Lease for 21 years by Earl of Harrington to John Hammond of Macclesfield (Cheshire), policeman, Old Black Nursery, Gawsworth (Cheshire) - 1856
13 - Lease for 21 years by Earl of Harrington to Adam Wilde, of Macclesfield, silk throwster of Land formerly part of Danes Moss, near the Rising Sun, with plan. - 1857
14-16 - Lease for 21 years by Earl of Harrington to John Bullock of Macclesfield and Bosley, linen draper, of "Lower House" in Bosley and lands (field names given) of Lower House Farm. Two letters seeking permission for assignment of lease, 1872 - 1857, 1872
17 - Lease for 20 years by Earl of Harrington to Noah Warrington of messuage late built by Noah in Gawsworth. - 1860
18 - Lease for 10 years by Earl of Harrington to Samuel Pearson the younger of Macclesfield, Commanding Officer of the Macclesfield or 8th Cheshire Rifle Volunteer Corps (CRVC) of strip on Danes Moss as rifle practice range for 8th CRVC or the 2nd Cheshire Militia. With plan. - 1861
19 - Lease for 7 years by Earl of Harrington to Alfred Edlmann of Palmerston Buildings, (London) merchant, of 39 acres of Danes Moss with lese to cut peat for his business as a fuel manufacturer in Gawsworth. Endorsed with termination of lease, 1870 - 1869,1870
20 - Lease for 21 years by Earl of Harrington to Thomas Schefield of Bynton near Stockport, surgeon, of 17 acres on Danes Moss. With plan. - 1870
21 - Receipt on behalf of Elizabeth, Katherine, and Mary Rossell, spinsters, for interest on mortgage (16 Oct 1674) by Samuel Staples of Nottingham, (Nottinghamshire), gent. - 1679
21-23 - Estate Papers - Miscellaneous
22 - Lease for 6 years by Earl of Harrington to John Campbell Dickson, gent., of 21 Charing Cross (London) with 9A and 10 Craig's Court With plan. - 1877
23 - Copy plan of Draycott and Wilne townships - (1842) [1912]
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