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D664 - Stanhope family, Earls of Harrington, of Elvaston: title deeds, estate and family papers - 1607-1908

M - Records - 17th-20th cent

E - Estate records - 17th-20th cent

F - Family records - 17th-20th cent

T - Title deeds - 17th-20th cent

1 - Covenant to levy fine between Ambrose Phillips of Grayes Inne, [London] and Anthony Kecke and Henry Kemple of the Inner and Middle Temple [London] respectively, of Booth Hall, late part of Hills farme, Sawley, all late enfranchised copyhold of Sawley Manor, and land and property in Holland [Duffield, Ashbourne] copyhold of Holland Manor, and of Kings and Longs Leys in Turneditch. 1 Feb - 1663/1664

1-13 - Sawley

2-3 - Mortgage by bargain and sale by Francis Lockow of Sawley, yeoman to William Draper of Hemington (Leicestershire) gent., of land and property in Wilsthorpe (in Sawley) 5, 6 Jun - 1684

4 - Release by William Draper of land and property in Wilsthorpe (Sawley) from Anchitill Gray of Risley esq. 23 Jul - 1691

5-6 - Lease and release by Francis Lockow to Anchitill Gray of land in Wilsthorpe, Sawley. 24, 25 Jul - 1691

7 - Release (following lease) by George, earl of Warrington, William Wrighte of Caldicott (Worcestershire) esq., and Harry and Mary, earl and countess of Stamford to Charles Stanhope esq. of Elvaston, of land and property, recites Act Parliament (20 George II) to sell part of Stamford's estates free of incumbrances. 21 Aug - 1747

8 - Surrender by Clerk of Shardlow Board of Guardians under lunancy order on William Warrener of Sawley, of 2 cottages in Sawley Main Street, and admittance of Sawley Workingmen's Co-operative Society. 30 Nov - 1883

9 - Surrender by Frances Lancashire, once of Ockbrook now of Bedford, [Bedfordshire] widow, of 6 messuages at Trent Lock, Sawley, and admission of William Tingle of Trent Lock, Sawley, boat bulder. 1 Feb - 1881

10-11 - Conditional surrender of 3 cottages at Sawley by Thomas Gollin of Castle Donnington, [Leicestershire] moulder, and Fanny Gollin (formerly wife of William Emery of Ashby Road, Loughborough, [Leicestershire] butcher) to William John Woolley of Loughborough, gent, with surrender to Sawley Workingmen's Co-operative Society Ltd, and power of attorney. - 1885-1888

12-13 - Surrender by Thomas Walters of Sawley, licensed victualler, of the near and far Slade (2 closes) at Trent Lock; admittance of Marshall Wood of Kilburn, licensed victualler, now of Navigation Inn, Sawley, to Alma Davis of Peartree Road, Derby, tinman - 1888-1889

14-16 - Bargain and sale of land and property in Great Wilne, by Sir Nicholas Wilmot, serjeant-at-law at Anthony Forman of Great Wilne, yeoman (1676); lease for possession by Anthony Farmer, husbandman, to William Statham of Burrowash, yeoman (1685); bond to keep covenant in bargain and sale same date, Farmer and Statham (1685) - 1676, 1685

14-74 - Draycott and Wilne

17 - Bond between William Lovatt of Wilne Mills yeoman and John Thacker, of Chellaston, yeoman, to keep covenants in articles of agreement, 23 Sep

18-22 - Deeds regarding cottage and close at Great Wilne mortgaged by Elizabeth Bryan, widow (daughter of William Statham of Burrowash) and son Thomas, yeoman (1742/3); assignments of mortgage (1750, 1756); lease and release of equity of redemption to John Jeffs of Shardlow, stone-cutter (1756). - 1743-1756

23 - Agreement between John Lovatt Thacker, gent., of Draycott, Joseph Thacker, miller, of Wiln Mills, Sarah Tillard, widow, late of Wirksworth now of Barnwell (Cambridgeshire), Thomas Arnott of Draycott, and William of Wilstropp, co-partners in cotton mill at Wiln Mills under agreement (1 Jan 1793) to divide profits from new bridge at Wiln Mills according to their shares in partnership [Recites agreement, [10 Oct 1793] to Rev Charles Holden of Aston of Trent regarding erection of bridge at new site including approach road over Holden's land. Joseph Thacker is to hold former rolling and slitting mills for 9 years at £33 a year, to maintain road from bridge to these mills and for 6d a year to take any number of wagons or carriages over bridge - 31 Jul 1797

24 - Articles of co-partnership between John Lovatt Thacker of Wilne Mills, gent., Thomas Thacker Robert Thacker, and John Thacker, of Wilne, cotton spinners, William Eaton, of Willstrope, cotton spinner, and Thomas Arnott of Draycott, cotton spinner, agreeing to carry on cotton manufacturing business as John Lovatt Thacker & Co. for 21 years; John Lovatt Thacker conveys to John Curzon of Derby, cotton mill, former sheet lead rolling mill and 13 houses on the Green or the yard, at Wilne Mills, on trust for partnership. Expenses of maintenance weirs, dams, etc shared partnership and Thos and Robert Thacker corn millers; provisions for use of power at low water levels. Recites lease of cotton mill (10 Oct 1803) by Earl of Harrington to Lovatt Thacker for 21 years after surrender of earlier lease (5 Apr 1782) for 26 years 16 Jan - 1804

25-30 - Deeds regarding property at Great Wilne (Jeffs-Hunt-Bullock-John Lovatt Thacker & Co) - 1804-1820

31-34 - Deeds regarding Wilne Lane End, Draycote Close (copyhold), allotted to John Thacker by Enclosure Commissioners, under will of Thomas Arnott conveyed via Alphaeus Thacker to Nathaniel Curzon of Breedon on the Hill [Leicestershire]; plan of freehold close by John Smedley. - 1812

35-36 - Admission of John Jerom Slater of Hazlebeach (Northamptonshire), grazier, under will of Mary Jerom of Nottingham, (Nottinghamshire) to cottage, messuage and croft, enclosure in late Barkfield and Cowpasture, Draycott (2 copies). - 1813

37-54 - Deeds regarding Bank field and Pasture Close, Draycott (Slater - Trowell - Coxon - Watson) - 1813-1883

55 - Release by Thomas Thacker's executor's heir etc. of warehouse in All-Saints and St Martin, Leicester [Leicestershire] to use of partnership in Wilne Mills cotton factory under articles of 2 Oct 1813 giving shares in mill for residue of 21 years from 21 May 1808. 3 Jan - 1826

56-57 - Lease and release by the heirs of Thomas Jowett of Draycott, yeoman, to Charles, Earl of Harrington of the Little Holme meadow adjoining the Derwent in Draycott to use of 1804 family settlement. - 1838

58 - Assignment by Thomas Draper of Stanton by Bridge, veterinary surgeon and cotton spinner, to Thomas Draper the younger of Wilne Mills, cotton spinner, of his share of Wilne Mills cotton mill, with earl of Harrington's consent. 14 Dec - 1838

59 - Deed of co-partnership in cotton mill at Wilne Mills between Henry Tillard and Thomas Draper the younger, 15 Dec 1838; enclosement of Draper's purchase of Tillard's moiety from his executors, 1 Sep 1843. - 1838,1843

60 - Covenant to produce title deeds to Wilne Hall, sold by Edward Anthony Holden of Aston upon Trent esq. to Thomas Draper younger of Wilne Mills, 28, 29 Nov - 1839

61 - Release by John Curzon of Derby to James Stevenson Soresby executor of Thomas Draper the younger of Draycote Close and 3 tenements later 5 messuages, in Great Wilne discharged of mortgage of £1500 to Ann Curzon: the Leicester warehouse has been sold to John Platt of Leicester, coal merchant. - 1848

62-63 - Conveyance by devisees of Frances Draper, spinster, of their share of Wilne Hall and land, in Great Wilne, to trustees to sell and divide proceeds, 18 Nov 1870; conveyance by trustees, Jane Elizabeth widow of John Draper of Repton, farmer; Thomas George Draper of Derby, engineer, Elizabeth Draper of Derby spinster, Catherine Mary Draper of Derby, spinster, Susannah Draper of Wirksworth, spinster, to Charles Wyndham Earl of Harrington, of land and property at Wilne Hall in Little Wilne, and part of Draycott Close at Wilne Lane End, 3 Nov 1871. - 1870-1871

64-68 - Deeds regarding Middle Bank Field, Draycott. (Coxon - Hollingsworth) - 1880-1899

69-74 - Deeds regarding Far Bank Field, Draycott. (Coxon - Hollingsworth) - 1880-1900

75 - Copy bargain and sale by John Stanhope esq of Elvaston to James Osborne of Elvaston of New Close in Goaty Field, Elvaston, sheepcroft in Kirkashfield, Thulston and Walker Close in Alvaston and Boulton. 25 Apr - 1681

75-90 - Elvaston

76 - Copy will of James Osborne, of Elvaston, yeoman - 1685

77 - Mortgage by demise by Thomas Davy blacksmith, son of late Henry Davy blacksmith of his land and property at Elvaston to Isaac Osborne of Alvaston, yeoman. - 1698

78-87 - Deeds regarding The sheepcrofts, Elvaston (Osborne-Wallis-Beaker-Briggs-Stanhope) - 1743-1808

88-90 - Charge by Leicester Fitzgerald, Earl of Harrington of expenses of tithe commutation on his land in Elvaston (with schedule of occupiers and quantities) 1854; assignment rent charge to John Curzon (1855) and release by Curzon's executors (1872). - 1854-1872

91-120 - Alvaston and Boulton

91-120 - Deeds regarding land in Alvaston and Boulton alias Bowton, and on Swynfen Moor (Sacheverell-Longford-Stanhope) - 1695-1750

121-122 - Leases for 10 years of Borrowash Mills (water corn mill and lace thread mills) by Earl of Harrington to John Harrison Towle of Draycote, lace thread manufacturer, Henry Neville Towle of Wilne Mills, gent., Arthur Wells of Nottingham, [Nottinghamshire] gent., Mary Hannah Towle of Draycote, spinster, recites 7 year lease of 1856 to John Towle, deceased - 1861, 1872

121-122 - Ockbrook

123 - Assignment of mortgage by Sir Erasmus Phillips of Pickton (Pembrokeshire) and his wife Katherine, 2nd daughter of Edward Darcy of Newhall, to Henry Watten and Michaell Ashley of Houghton (Nottinghamshire), gents., (2 Jun 1681) of share of manors of Newhall, Stanton Ward, Heathcote, advowson of Hartshorne, manors of Great Ashtead (Surrey) and Curdworth or Cudworth (Warwickshire), and rectory of Cudworth to Hon. Alexander Stanhope of St Pauls, Covent Garden, (Middlesex) 19 Nov - 1689

123 - Various

124 - Royal Letters patent granting Edward Fitton of Gawseworth esq., the manors of Gawseworth, Siddington, and Basseley and appurtenances. 16 Nov - 1616

124-142 - Title deeds - Cheshire

125 - Settlement following marriage of Sir Edward Fitton and Dame Jane, sister of Sir John Trevor, covenanting to levy fine and suffer recovery of manors of Basseley, Aldford, Gaworth and Sidington, giving life estates to Edward and Jane - 1634

126 - Bargain and sale of manors of Gouseworth, Siddingham, Bouseley, Alford or Oldford, Wimbleslowe, by Sir Edward Fitton to uses as D664M/T125, then to Charles Gerrard esq. eldest son of Sir Charles Gerrard of Halsall (Lancashire) ... (remainders to other relatives) ... to William son of Alexander Fitton of Awnie (Limerick), Ireland. - 1634

127 - Exemplification of Chancery Decree in Charles Lord Gerrard (son of Penelope sister of Sir Edward Fitton deceased) v William Fitton and others. Recites bill of complaint (Easter 1661), above limitation of uses (1634), will of Sir Edward reciting the limitation and making Charles, Lord Gerrard, his heir. Decree awards Fitton lands to Charles, and void deed poll (Nov 1641) bought by defendants. 27 Oct - 1663

128 - Chancery Order dismissing bill of review by Alexander Fitton against Charles, Earl of Macclesfield (formerly Lord Gerrard) over Fitton inheritance. - [1685]

129-130 - Lease and release by Sir John Hobart (heir of surviving trustee) to Elizabeth Lady Dowager Mohun (widow of Charles Lord Mohun devisee of Charles, Earl of Macclesfield) of Manors of Gawsworth, Bosseley, Luddington, Aldford or Oldford, Wymbleslow (Cheshire), Hallsall, Downe Holland (Lancashire), with appurtenances in Wimlesley, Westerfield or Whisterfield, Churton (Cheshire), various rents and tithes, and military ground in St Martins in the Fields [London]. Recites Chancery Decree (15 Apr 1706) following failure to suffer recovery after deed to make tenant to precipe (24 Apr 1683) - 11 May 1715

131 - Release by Peter Minshall (heir of Thomas Minshall heir of Jane Minshall co-heiress of Sir Edward Fitton) to Hon, Charles Mordaunt, administrator of estate of Elizabeth Lady Mohun of Minshall claim to Fitton inheritance (recites Chancery Decrees 1685, 1687 etc.) 23 Jun - 1727

132-135 - Settlement by William Stanhope, Privy Councillor, of Gawsworth manor house, manor park, 23 farms, turbary on Gawsworth Moss, and 2 messuages in Boseley, on himself for life with remainders in tail male to first son William, second son Thomas, etc. - 1727

136-141 - Lease and release by Alice, Jane, Catherine, and Margaret Minshull and John and Elizabeth Semple of 2 farms and water corn mill at Gawsworth, to trustees to pay certin Minshull amenities, remainder to William, Lord Harrington (1733); agreement by Ward and Harrington to share Minshull charges on their Cheshire purchases (1733); Release by Peter Minshull of his Cheshire farms and mill to Ward and Harrington (1737/8); receipts. - 1733-[1738]

142 - Adjustment of title to land sold by Harrington trustees to North Staffordshire Railway Company (12 Apr 1848) in Bosley in the parish of Prestbury, (Cheshire). - 1856

143 - Deed to lead to uses of fine between Charles Stanhope, Baron Harrington and his wife Dorothy, and Sir Lyonell Tollemache, Baronet of Helmingham, (Suffolk) and his wife Elizabeth, countess of Dorset, and Thomas Woodfine and Symon Weale, to realize agreement to build brick wall between Stanhope House near Charing Cross and Tollemache's house adjoining Stanhope House on the south. 1 Jun - 1664

143-171 - Title Deeds-London

144-146 - Mortgage by bargain and sale (release following lease) of Stanhope House by Charles and Dorothy Stanhope, Orlando Gee of London, esq., and Edward Ball, citizen and ironmonger to Sir Nicholas Strode of the Inner Temple, 1665; mortgage by demise for Bartholemew Beale, Auditor of the Prests, 1670/1; Assignment of latter mortgage by Beale's widow to George Pitt of Stratfield Sea, Southampton, (Hampshire) 1674. - 1665-1674

147-148 - Bargain and sale by Lady Dorothy Stanhope to Joseph Cragg of Westminster esq. of Stanhope House for £2650; subsiduary deed by Cragg undertaking to pay £1050 residue of £2560 when lease by vendor surrendered to him. - 27-28 Jan [1680]

149 - Lease for 20 years by John MacCullock of Chiswick, Middlesex, esq. to Thomas Stanhope of Elvaston of messuage and grounds abutting south on St Paul's Walk, Chiswick at an annual rent of £57 10s - [1728]

150 - Lease for 7, 14 or 21 years by Charles, Duke of Grafton to Charles Stanhope of St James, Westminster, of messuage at the southwest corner of Park Place, late in the posession of Earl of Sussex, rent £150. - [1731]

151 - Mortgage by Samuel Clarke of St George's, Hanover Square (who has purchased Park Place house from Duke of Grafton's trustees) to Samuel Parmenter of Basinghall Street, London, gent. - 1742

152-169 - Assignment of lease to Stanhopes, subleases, mortgages, regarding 23 & 25 Gilbert Street, St George, Hanover Square. - 1829-1880

170 - Appointment of Herbert Henry Walford as receiver for property in St Mary Abbots, Kensington (schedule) mortgaged by Earl of Hemington to Thomas Alexander Pakenham, captain, R.N. on same date. - 1874

171 - Transfer of mortgage (10 Apr 1876) of 6 Hereford Gardens, St George, Hanover Square by Edward Stanhope, Member of Parliament as executor of the original mortgages, Lord Longford. - 1892

172 - Inspeximus (27 Aug 1633 from Chancery rolls of Inquisition Post Mortem (8 Apr 1336)) of John le Latymer. In Surrey he has no lanch as tenant in chief of King, but holds manor of Nobright [Norbury?] as of the manor of Lageham from John-de Ifeld and his wife Margaret for service of 1d. John de Ifeld only has right to Lageham manor for life of Margaret, mother of John son of John de Lageham. Lageham manor has capital messuage and garden, worth nothing after deductions, 100 acres of arable (16s 8d), 5 acres of meadow (5s), 10 acres of woods (10d), 13s 4d rent, 2s court perquisites. John Le Latymer also held jointly with wife Johanna (still alive) and son Edmund, messuage, 40 acres of land, 3 acres of meadow, 40 acres of wood, 20s rent in Crawestoke, Surrey (valued at 13s 4d), as of the Honor of Gloucester, of Hugh Baudele [or Bandele] for service of 1lb of pepper. John le Latymer also held jointly with wife Johanna messuage, 60 acres of arable, 2 acres of meadow in Shene, (Surrey) from Archbishop of Canterbury for 17s a year valued at 20s above that rent. Nearest heir is John son of John le Latymer aged over 26. 1633 copy. Also copy inspeximus of Inquistion post mortem of Robert Latymer (9 Jul 1366) holding nothing of the King but seised of messuage at Craustack, Woking (Surrey) (worth nothing after deductions), 48 acres of arable (20s a year), 10 acres of meadow (13s 4d), 12 acres gorse and furze (6s 8d) 20s rents, 40 acres of wood of which one third to be cut every 16 years, worth 5s per acre if well enclosed and pruned for two years and then lying as a copse - this all held by right of wife Johanna as of Prince of Wales manor of Purebrigh [Pirbright, Surrey] for 2s., 1lb. of pepper, and suit of court. Heir is Robert son of Robert Latymer aged more than 6, in royal wardship. Exemplification at request of Christopher Hobson. (copied 1633) - 1633

172-182 - Title Deeds - Various

173 - Declaration of uses by Dame Jane, Viscountess Valentia, wife of Sir Francis Annesley under deed (13 Sept 1650) to lead to uses of fine between Sir Francis and Dame Jane, and William Stanhopp of Linby, (Nottinghamshire), esq., and John Stanhopp, of Manor and rectory of Thorganby, (Yorkshire) Now to use of trustees to raise £560 for Dame Katherine Hutchinson, sister of Jane, and then to pay for the education of Francis and Jane's children, then the property to the children in tail male. - [1660]

174 - Appointment by Dame Katherine Hutchinson, widow, of Nottingham (Nottinghamshire) and Charles Hutchinson of Milne field Intake, next Colston, Hall close (where the Old Hall stood), little close before the doore - Plowd plott; Wolds platt, various messuages, lands and enclosures in Goatham and Owthorpe, (Nottinghamshire)., to Sir Allen Apsley, Knight, of St Martin in the fields, Middlesex for residue of term of 500 years. Recites appointment of manor and rectory of Owthorpe or Overthorpe to Sir Francis Boteler and Alexander Stanhope (7 Dec 1671). - 1672

175 - Conveyance by Frances, Lord Holles, executor of Denzill, Lord Holles and William, Lord Byron of manor of Newstead, (Nottinghamshire) to Charles Hutchinson and Robert Milner of Owthorpe, (Nottinghamshire)., so that William Stanhope of Shelford (Nottinghamshire) who has paid £1240 to Francis, Lord Holles at the direction of Lord Byron, should recover £5000 at 5% in mortgage of same date. - 23 Feb [1683]

176 - Agreement by Sir William Stanhope of Shelford, (Nottinghamshire)., let with Elizabeth, Katherine and Mary Rossell of St Giles in the Fields, Middlesex, spinsters to re-assign his interest in Manor of Bulwell, (Nottinghamshire) to them on repayment of £372. 25 May - 1688

177 - Bargain and sale of equity of redemption in messuage, the Leas, the Ree Croft, Little & Great Long Ridding, Hall Flatt, Lady Hay, Densye meadow, 1 acre in Spelgrave, in Draycott in the Clay, (Staffordshire), mortgaged by demise for 500 years (13 Apr 1672) to Alexander Stanhope of the Inner Temple, [London] by George Vernon of Sudbury, to James Sykes of Bugworth, (Leicestershire), yeoman - 18 Feb [1691]

178-179 - Lease, with plan, for 800 years by George Eyre Brooks of East Cowes Park, Isle of Wight and Paul Kneller Smith of Rivershall Place, near Kelvedon, (Essex) to Charles Moreing of Green Street, Grosvenor Square, (London), architect of land on intended Albert Grove [road] in East Cowes Park alias Great Shamblers, Whippingham, Isle of Wight - 31 Mar 1843

180-182 - Covenants to produce title deeds to lands in Caldecott and Stilton, (Huntingdonshire), Ancaster, (Lincolnshire), and Honington Estate, (Lincolnshire), by Charles, Earl of Harrington following sale of Washingley Hall, Washingley and Ogarston manors, land in Washingley, Caldecott, Stitton, Folksworth, Denton (Huntingdonshire) and Sutton (Northamptonshire) to trustees for Earl of Harrington, on same date. 3 Oct - 1859

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