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D231 - Okeover family of Okeover - [12th-20th cent]

M - Deeds and estate records - [12th-20th cent]

B - Business

E - Estate Papers

1 - Abstracts of title: Abstract of title of H F Okeover to various manors, messuages and lands at Okeover - c1820

1-178 - Okeover estate

1-498 - Staffordshire and Derbyshire Estate

2 - Abstracts of title: Draft of part of abstract of title of H F Okeover to his estate at Okeover - circa 1830

3 - Rentals: Draft rental. Okeover and Woodhouse? - 1695

4 - Rentals: Fragment of rental of the manor of Okeover - 17th cent

6 - Surveys: Potato ground as measured by Joseph Pegg and James Allin 4 Dec - 1775

7 - Demise - 1327

8 - Writ - 1329

9 - Leases, tenancy agreements etc: Lease by Thomas Okeover of Okeover esq., to Richard Boyse of Okeover of all the "oult ende to ye towne of Okovey" with all the fields that is for to say, reserving the the "nedurende" of 'the town house in Bestii's: gresud (grazed) all yere for to knowle lys Brudes upper after the Brooke to the Mylners Close and so up after Mylners to Brandwode Close and so after to the Coldewall gate and so after the Coldwalle Close to Pynchene Syde to the Wormstall hede and so down after the Wormstall hede down after the head of Zelley and after the head of Zelley to Foxle Clorre down to Kylndale and so after Kylndale Hegge to Kylndale Gate and so down Inde Town with all the messuages and crofts being within the foresaid bounds' : to be held for 9 years at an annual rent of 40 shillings. 29 Sep - 1443

10 - Leases, tenancy agreements etc: Lease by Philip de Okeover, esq., to Thomas Wollow for 20 years of a tenement in Okeover formerly held by Thomas Turner and a fulling mill with two "stockes" in Okeover, and an enclosure called Cornemylne Holme late in the tenure of John Derby and a croft called Walchewoman Croft lying next to Okeover Park: annual rent of 30 shillings - 3 May 1449

11 - Leases, tenancy agreements etc: Lease by Philip Okeover, esq., to Richard Bowes of all the farm that the said Philip took of his grandsire Thomas Okeover and all that tithe and duties that belong to the Chruch of Okeover except a parcel of ground called Kylnerydyng which the parson of Blore holds: for 6 years at an annual rent of 21 marks 22 Jan - 1450

12 - Leases, tenancy agreements etc: Acquittance by William Crosse of Kings Bromley, Staffordshire, of Ralph Okeover, esq., from the payment of £41 due to John Aulcepe [Allsop] of Okeover Woodhouse 18 Jul - 1561

13 - Leases, tenancy agreements etc: Letter of attorney by Rowland Okeover of Okeover, Staffordshire, and Nicholas Okeover of Shirley, Derbyshire, gent., to Humphry Lee of Okeover, gent., and Roger Ryley of Okeover Park, yeoman, to enter and deliver seisin of a messuage or tenement in Okeover Woodhouse in the tenure or occupation of John and Philip Morton with all lands belonging to Philip Morton and Jane Ryley eldest daughter of Roger Ryley: to hold for the lives for the lives of Philip and Jane Ryley 11 Dec - 1604

14 - Leases, tenancy agreements etc: Lease by Rowland Okeover to Richard Milward of Mayfield, husbandman, of two closes in Okeover called the Ewe Pasture and the Smeeth - for 99 years at £17 10s per annum 14 May - 1677

15 - Leases, tenancy agreements etc: Lease by Rowland Okeover of Okeover, Staffordshire, to Richard Milward of Mayfield, husbandman, of a meadow in Okeover called the Ladyholme: for 99 years at £8 for the first year then £10 per annum: £5 per acre additional rent for every acre ploughed 5 May - 1681

16 - Leases, tenancy agreements etc: Counterpart Lease by Rowland Okeover of Okeover, Staffordshire, to Richard Milward of Mayfield, husbandman, of a meadow in Okeover called the Ladyholme: for 99 years at £8 for the first year then £10 per annum: £5 per acre additional rent for every acre ploughed 5 May - 1681

17 - Leases, tenancy agreements etc: Lease by Leeke Okeover of Okeover, esq., to George Wilcockson of Atlow yeoman, of a newly erected messuage house in Okeover called Hall Farm and several closes belonging namely Cow Close, the Meadow, Cow Close, Ox-leasow Wood, Hither Cowclose Pingle, Far Cowclose Pingle, Hanging Cowclose, Halls Pingle Halls Meadow, Mortons Hill, Fern Pingle, Nether Smeeth, Upper Smeeth, Pale Close, the Greaves, Morton's meadow, the Meadow Pingle and Morton's Pingle: the Meadow Pingle and Morton's Pingle: for 21 years at £70 per annum: £5 per annum additional rent for ploughing up more than 12 acres in the last 7 years; spread and use on the premises all hay, straw, compost and dung: keep all the buildings in good repair 27 Jun - 1743

18 - Leases, tenancy agreements etc: Articles of agreement between Leeke Okeover of Okeover, Wrightson Mundy of Osbaston, Leicestershire, and John Eardley Wilmot of the Inner Temple London (trustees) and George Goodwin of Monyash, gent., John Whieldon of Croukston, gent., and Robert Shore of Snitterton, gent., by which in consideration of £2020, Okeover and trustees have sold to Goodwin, Whieldon and Shore all those 230 oaks, 53 ashes, 13 elm or maple trees, standing on a piece of ground called Oxe Leasow in Okeover, and also 190 oak, 20 ash in Peaches Wood in Okeover also 380 oak, 80 ash and 25 elms in Peggs Wood, Okeover, also 73 oak, 87 ash in Okeover Park, 1143 trees in all to be cut down within two years, with a little damage as possible to young trees and verdure 1 Jan - 1752

19 - Leases, tenancy agreements etc: Articles of agreement between Henry Miller of Bristol organ maker, and Leak Okeover of Okeover, esq., for the repair of the organ in Okeover Church 31 Oct - 1755

20 - Leases, tenancy agreements etc: Tenancy agreement between Edward Walhouse Okeover and Thomas Swinscow of Pinchley Okeover: year to year tenancy at an annual rent of £95: messuage, dwelling house or tenement called Pinchley and 112 acres 2 roods 00 perch of land: spread and consume upon some part of the premises all the hay, straw and fodder, dung, compost and manure, raised and gathered upon the said premises: not to cut crop or lop any timber: not to plough or break up more than 15 acres in any one year: not keep in tillage any part thereof more than three successive years, in one of which three years the same to be made and lie in summer fallow and also shall and will sow such land with 12 lbs. of clover seeds at the least or a proper quantity of other proper grass seeds in the third and last years tillage in order to lie for mowing and pasture: tenant pays the land tax. [These are the standard Okeover husbandry covenants and are repeated in all the subsequent tenancy agreements] 21 Mar - 1776

21 - Leases, tenancy agreements etc: Bond accompanying Tenancy agreement between Edward Walhouse Okeover and Thomas Swinscow of Pinchley Okeover: in £190, to abide by the covenants and pay the rent - 1776

22-23 - Leases, tenancy agreements etc: Tenancy agreement between Edward Walhouse Okeover and John Sellers of Cold Wall, farmer, with bond accompanying: year to year tenancy at an annual rent of £133: messuage, dwelling house or tenement called Cold Wall and 128 acres of land: not more than 20 acres to be ploughed in any one year: other husbandry covenants 21 Mar - 1776

24-25 - Leases, tenancy agreements etc: Tenancy agreement between Edward Walhouse Okeover and Henry Ford of Little Park Okeover, with bond accompanying: year to year tenancy at an annual rent of £152: messuage dwelling house or tenement called Little Park and 148 acres of land: not more than 20 acres to be ploughed in any one year: other husbandry covenants 21 Mar - 1776

26-27 - Leases, tenancy agreements etc: Tenancy agreement between Edward Walhouse Okeover and Eld Millward of the Orchards Mayfield, with bond accompanying: year to year tenancy at an annual rent of £160: messuage, dwelling house or tenement called the Orchards and several closes in Mayfield and Okeover 145 acres 2 roods 00 perch: not more than 20 acres to be ploughed in any one year: other husbandry covenants 21 Mar - 1776

28-29 - Leases, tenancy agreements etc: Tenancy agreement between Edwaard Walhouse Okeover and Robert Hardy of Hollywood House, Okeover, with bond accompanying: year to year tenancy at an annual rent of £52: messuage, dwelling house or tenement called Hollywood House and 65 acres of land: not more than 8 acres to be ploughed in any one year: other husbandry covenants 21 Mar - 1776

30 - Leases, tenancy agreements etc: Tenancy agreement between Moreton Walhouse of Hatherton, Staffordshire, surviving trustee of Leake Okeover, John Langton of Clifford Street, Middlesex, lawyer, guardian of Haughton Farmer Okeover, and Robert Fielden of the Inner Temple London, esq., by which it is agreed that Walhouse shall let to Fielden before 25 Dec the capital messuage called Okeover Hall with gardens and pleasure grounds and closes of meadow or pasture called the Far Copy, Middle Copy, the Copy, Grass Copy and Mill Meadow 24 acres 2 roods 14 perches for four years at an annual rent of £45 for the house and outbuildings and £48 for the closes, an additional rent of £10 per acre for any land ploughed and for every acre of meadow mown more than once: further an annual rent of £35 for the use of the furniture and other goods 31 Oct - 1793

31 - Lease for 21 years by Haughton Farmer Okeover to Joseph Tabberer of Sutton on the Hill, yeoman, of a messuage or dwelling house in Mapleton and a water corn mill in Okeover: annual rent of £50 12 Jun - 1799

32 - Leases, tenancy agreements: Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover, and Henry Cox of Half Moon Street, Piccadilly, Middlesex, by which Okeover has let to Cox on a year to year tenancy at £118 per annum rent, Okeover Hall with the garden and pleasure grounds and closes called the Sand Copy, Far Copy, Middle Copy, Barn Copy, Grass Copy, Crabtree Close and Mill Meadow 35 acres 1 rood 28 perches: only the Sand Copy to be ploughed: standard husbandry covenants and additional rent of £51 14s 0d for the use of the furniture and goods 9 Feb - 1801

33 - Leases, tenancy agreements: Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and Richard Rogers of Mapleton, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Rogers on a year to year tenancy of £240 per annum a messuage or tenement in Mapleton and closes called Cote Close, Goats Hole, Near Carlow, Far Carlow, Moor Nether Field, Dove Field, Ox Pasture, Beans Piece, Middle Field, Brickkiln Close, Horse Close, Horse Piece, Piece Gravel Beds, Calf Meadow, Little Mean Close, Little Carlow, Middle Carlow and Great Carlow, 120 acres 0 rood 03 perches in Mapleton and Okeover: additional rent of £10 per acre for ploughing any part of Cote Close, Goats Node Piece, Nether Field, Dove Field, Bean Piece, Middle Field, Brickkiln Close, Horse Close, House Piece, Piece Gravel Beds, Calf Meadow and Little Mean Piece: standard husbandry covenants 14 Apr - 1801

34 - Leases, tenancy agreements: Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and John Hodgkinson of Okeover, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Hodgkinson on a year to year tenancy at an annual rent of £70 18s 1d a messuage or tenement called Lees House and closes in Mayfield and Okeover called Peachwood Lane, Peachwood Leas, House Meadow, Brundwood Lane Pieces, Brundwood Flatts, Jooms Wood, Over White Meadow, Lower White Meadow, Middle White Meadow, Great Priest Close and Barn, Little Priest Close, 77 acres 3 roods 00 perch: only part of Brundwood Flatts and rent for ploughing any of the other closes: standard husbandry covenants 14 Apr - 1801

35 - Leases, tenancy agreements: Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and Thomas Swinscow [Swinscoe] of Okeover, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Swinscow on a year to year tenancy at an annual rent of £112 10s 5d a messuage or tenement called Pinchley House, and closes called Upper Cold Wall, Far Little Lees, Near Lees, Long Lees, Bigs Lees, Far Pinchley, Lower Bassard Meadow, Little Fenham, Upper Bassard Meadow, Pegs Wood, Big Pinchley, Middle Pinchley, Near Pinchley, Bank O' the House, Lime Kiln Close, Bassard Bank, Pegs Bank, Pegs Lee and Nether Cold Wall, 112 acres 2 roods 20 perches: £10 additional rent for every acre of Far Pinchley, Lower Bassard Meadow, Little Farnham, Upper Bassard Meadow, Pegs Wood, Lime Kiln Close, Bassard Bank, Pegs Lee and Nether Cold Wall ploughed: standard husbandry covenants 14 Apr - 1801

36 - Leases, tenancy agreements: Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and Joshua Sellars of Okeover, farmer, by which Okeover has to let to Sellars on a year to year tenancy at £154 3s 8d, a messuage or tenement called Cold Wall House, and closes called Over Holme, Sand Fields, Wood Flatts, Horse Piece, Apes Yard Meadow, Apes Yard, Pale Close, Calf Croft, Wheat Piece, Cold Wall, Crabtree Piece, Far Coldwall, Nether Coldwall and New Meadow 128 acres 0 rood 24 perches: £10 per acre additional rent for ploughing Over Holme, Wood Flatts, Horse Piece, Apes Yard Meadow, Apes Close, Pale Close, Calf Croft, Cold Wall, Crab Tree Piece and New Meadow: standard husbandry covenants 14 Apr - 1801

37 - Leases, tenancy agreements: Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and William Hardy of Okeover, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Hardy on a year to year tenancy at an annual rent of £62 a messuage or dwelling house in Okeover called Hollywood House and closes called Back o' the House, Piece near New Piece, Hollywood Meadow, Far New Piece, Over Lees, Middle Leys, Little Lees, Hog Close, Near Long Hog Close, Far Long Hog Close, Top of Long Hog Close, Bradshaw's Croft, site of the Old House, Hog Slang and Little Hog Close, 65 acres 1 rood 11 perches: £10 per acre additional rent for ploughing Back o' the House Piece, Near New Piece, Hollywood Meadow, Over Lees, Middle Lees, Hog Close, Top of Long Hog Close, Bradshaws Croft, Hog Slang and Little Hog Close: standard husbandry covenants as in D231M/E20 14 Apr - 1801

38 - Leases, tenancy agreements: Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and K Maskery of Okeover, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Maskery on a year to year tenancy at an annual rent of £180 2s., a messuage or tenement called Little Park House and closes called the Eyes (west of the river), the Eyes (east of the river), Big Leys on Further Horse Close, Yerly Meadows, Bushy Close, Big or Near Horse Close, Pingle, Little Horse Close, Pinchley Meadow (with barn), Rye Grass Close, Middle Close, Piece by the side of Kendar Stang, Calf Croft, Little Dyford and Meadow Head, Meadow Head Pingle, Gravel Beds, Nether Dyford (with barn), Over Dyford, Pasture at the House Wood Pingle, and Upper Wood Close, 147 acres 3 roods 25 perches: £10 per acre additional rent for ploughing the Eyes (east and west of the river), Pinchley Meadow, Slang, Calf Croft, Little Dyford and Meadowhead, Meadowhead, Pingle, Gravel Beds, Nether Dyford, Over Dyford, Pasture at the House and Lower Wood Close 10 Nov - 1801

39 - Leases, tenancy agreements: Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and George Gough of Mapleton farmer by which Okeover has let to Gough on a year to year tenancy at a rent of £240, messuage or tenement in Mapleton and closes in Mapleton and Okeover called Cote Close, Gotes Nook, Near Carlow, Far Carlow Moor, Nether Field, Dove Field, Ox Pasture, Bean Piece, Middle Field, Brickkiln Close, Horse Close, House Piece, Piece, Gravel Beds, Calf Meadow, Little Carlow, Middle Carlow and Great Carlow, 120 acres 0 rood 03 perches: £10 per acre additional rent for ploughing Cote Close, Goats Nook, Far Carlow Moor, Nether Field, Dove Field, Ox Pasture, Bean Piece, Middle Field, Brickkiln Close, Horse Close, House Piece, Piece, Gravel Beds, Calf Meadow and Little Mean Piece: standard husbandry covenants as in D231M/E20 - 1803

40 - Leases, tenancy agreements: Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and William Peake of Okeover, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Peake on a year to year tenancy at an annual rent of £80, Lease House and closes in Okeover and Mayfield as in D231M/E34: £10 per acre additional rent for ploughing Peachwood Lane, Lees House Meadow, Brundwood Lane Piece, Other Brundwood Lane Piece, Great Brundwood Flatts, Over White Meadow, Lower White Meadow, Middle White Meadow, Priest Close, Great Priest Close and Little Priest Close: standard husbandry covenants as D231M/E20 in 11 Apr - 1804

41 - Leases, tenancy agreements: Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and Anne Sellars, widow, of Okeover, by which Okeover has let to Sellars on a year to year tenancy at an annual rent of £210, Cold Wall House and farm as in D231M/E36: £10 per acre additional rent for ploughing Holme Wood Flatts, Horse Piece, Apes Yard Meadow, Apes Yard, Pale Close, Calf Croft, Cold Wall, Crabtree Piece (except that part called Rough Piece) and the New Meadow: standard husbandry covenants as D231M/E20 10 May - 1814

42 - Leases, tenancy agreements: Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and W Jackson of Mayfield, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Jackson on a year to year tenancy at an annual rent of £200, a messuage and tenement in Mayfield called Marton Hill and closes in Okeover and Mayfield called Far Great Smeeth, Halstead and Moat, Near Great Smeeth, Little Paddock, Over Paddock, Pale Close, Far Great Smeeth, Halstead and Moat, Near Great Smeeth, Little Paddock, Over Paddock, Pale Close, Far Little Smeeth, Far Middle Smeeth, Far Over Smeeth, Near Over Smeeth, Near Middle Smeeth, Near Little Smeeth, Doctors Pingle, Doctors Croft, Doctors Meadow, Pingle, Cow Close Meadow, Barn Cow Close, Cow Close Wood, Hanging Cow Close, Cow Close Pingle, Two Acres, Milking Hillock, Hall Meadow, Marton Hill Closes and Calf Croft, 117 acres 2 roods 24 perches: £10 per acre additional rent for ploughing Over Paddock, Pale Close, Doctors Pingle, Doctors Croft, Doctors Meadow, Pingle, Cow Close, Cow Close Wood, Cow Close Pingle, Two Acres, Milking Hillock, Hall Meadow, Marton Hill and Calf Croft: standard husbandry covenants as in D231M/E20 10 May - 1814

43 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and Henry Samuel Maskery of Little Park Okeover, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Maskery on a year to year tenancy at an annual rent of £300, Little Park Farm as in D231M/E38 £10 per acre additional rent for ploughing the Eyes (east and west of the river), Pinchley Meadow, Slang, Calf Croft, Little Dyford and Meadow Wood, Meadowhead Pingle, Gravel Beds, Nether Dyford, Over Dyford Pasture at the house and Lower Wood Close: standard husbandry covenants as in D231M/E20 10 May - 1814

44 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and Thomas Swinscow of Okeover farmer by which Okeover has let to Swinscow on a year to year tenancy at an annual rent of £150, Pinchley House Farm as in D231M/E35 £10 per acre additional rent for ploughing Lower Bassard Meadow, Little Fenham, Upper Bassord Meadow, Pegs Wood, Lime Kiln Close, Bassord Banks Pegs, Bank Pegs Lee and Nether Coldwall, standard husbandry covenants as in D231M/E20 10 May - 1814

45 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and William Tomlinson of Okeover farmer, by which Okeover has let to Tomlinson on a year to year tenancy at a rent of £95 per annum, Lees House Farm as in D231M/E34 and D231M/E40 £10 per acre additional rent for ploughing Peach Wood, Bruntwood Flatts, Joans Wood and Middle White Meadow: standard husbandry covenants as in D231M/E20 10 Jul - 1815

46 - Leases, tenancy agreements: Lease by Haughton Farmer Okeover of Oldbury Hall, Mancetter, Warwickshire, esq., to Dame Sarah Caroline Sitwell of Renishaw Hall widow, of Okeover Hall and closes called the Sand Copy, Grass Copy, Middle Copy and New Barn Copy 25 acres 2 roods 26 perches, also sole use of the fishpond in the park, liberty to angle in the Dove and to ride and walk in the park: for 10 years at £141 per annum rent: £10 per acre additional rent for any land ploughed apart from the Sand Copy and £10 per acre for any land mown more than two years in succession: Dame Sarah to pay all tithes and to employ a gardener and assistants to keep the garden in good order: Dame Sarah also allowed the ley grass or summer keep of two or three cows or heifers in Okeover Park 28 Jul - 1818

47 - Leases, tenancy agreements: Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and John Clarke, miller, of Mapleton, by which Okeover has let to Clarke on a year to year tenancy at an annual rent of £70 a messuage or dwelling house croft and garden in Mapleton 1 acre 1 rood 00 perch and all those water corn mills with appurtenances in Okeover 1 Aug - 1820

48 - Leases, tenancy agreements: Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farm Okeover and Grace Hardy of Okeover, widow, by which Okeover has let to Hardy on a year to year tenancy at an annual rent of £83, a messuage or tenement called Hollywood House in Okeover and closes called Back o' the House Piece, Near New Piece, Hollywood Meadow, Far New Piece, Over Lees, Middle Lees, Little Lees, Hog Close, Near Long Hog Close, Far Long Hog Close, Top of Long Hog Close, Bradshaws Croft, site of old Hog Houses, Hog Slang and Little Hog Close, 65 acres 1 rood 11 perches: £10 per acre additional rent for ploughing Back o' the House Piece, Near New Piece, Hollywood Meadow, Over Lees, Middle Lees, Little Lees, Hog Close, Top of Long Hog Close, Bradshaws croft, site of the Old Houses, Hog Slang and Little Hog Close 7 Apr - 1824

49 - Leases, tenancy agreements: Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and William Cooper of Okeover, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Cooper, on a year to year tenancy at an annual rent of £95, Lees House farm in the parish of Okeover and closes called Peachwood Lane, Peachwood Lees House, Meadow Lane Piece, Brentwood Flatts, Joan's Wood, Overwhite Meadow, Lower White Meadow, Middle White Meadow, Great Priest Close and barn and Little Priest Close 37 acres 3 roods 01 perch in Okeover and Mayfield: £10 per acre additional rent for every acre of Peach Wood, Burntwood Flatts, Joan's Wood and Middle White Meadow ploughed: not to take more than three crops of corn in the course of tillage and shall during such course of tillage make a summer fallow for wheat or turnips and shall not take more than two crops of corn or grain upon such lands as shall be fallowed for wheat and one crop of grain upon such land as shall be fallowed for turnips, and shall lay down the same in a clean husbandlike manner with 12 lbs of good clover and other grass seeds and hald a bushel of rye grass upon every acre and keep the same in pasture unbroken for two years 4 Apr - 1825

50 - Leases, tenancy agreements: Contract for sale of timber between Haughton Farmer Okeover and Joseph Brookes of Mapleton, timber merchant, and Thomas Lees of Mapleton, gentleman, by which in consideration of £430, Okeover has sold to Brookes and Lees a parcel of timber on land in Okeover called Far Peggs Wood consisting of 44 elm, 45 oak, 5 maple, 1 alder and 170 ash 10 Dec - 1827

51 - Leases, tenancy agreements: Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farm Okeover and John Yates of Mapleton, miller, by which Okeover has let to Yates a messuage or dwelling house garden and croft at Mapleton 1 acre 1 rood 00 perch and water corn mills with appurtenances and a parcel of pasture or meadow adjoining called Over Holmes or Sellars Holme in Okeover: year to year tenancy, annual rent of £105: £10 additional rent per acre for any part of the close ploughed up 7 Oct - 1828

52 - Leases, tenancy agreements: Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and Thomas Lees of Mapleton farmer by which Okeover has let to Lees on a year to year tenancy at an annual rent of £175, a messuage or tenement called Cold Wall House with barns etc., and closes called Sand Field, Wood Flatts, Horse Piece, Apes Yard Pale Close, Calf Croft, Wheat Piece, Cold Wall, Crabtree Piece, Far Cold Wall, Nether Cold Wall and New Meadow: £10 per acre additional rent for ploughing Wood Flatts, Horse Piece, Apes Yard, Pale Close, Calf Croft, Cold Wall, Crabtree Piece and New Meadow: husbandry covenants 7 Apr - 1829

53 - Leases, tenancy agreements: Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and Thomas Smith of Okeover farmer by which Okeover has let to Smith on a year to year tenancy at an annual rent of £95 Lees House Farm D231M/E49: ploughing and other husbandry covenants 16 Apr - 1830

54 - Leases, tenancy agreements: Tenancy agreement between James Haughton Langston of Sarsden House Oxford, esq., and William Stratford Dugdale of Merevale Hall Warwickshire, esq., trustees under the will of H F Okeover, and Thomas Lees of Okeover, farmer by which Langston and Dugdale have let to Lees on a year to year tenancy at an annual rent of £140. Cold Wall House Farm D231M/E36 and D231M/E41: £20 per acre additional rent for ploughing Lowe Bassord Meadow, Upper Bassord Meadow, Pegs Wood, Lime Kiln Close, Bassord Bank, Pegs Leys and Nether Coldwall: husbandry covenants D231M/E49 30 Apr - 1840

55 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: A note on "the content of the stone work in the from and all the window sills" - [c1750]

56-57 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: An estimate for sundry alterations at Okeover - putting in windows, plastering etc - circa 1760

58 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Memorandum of labour and materials

59 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Memorandum of an agreement between Leak Okeover and Joseph Harlow of Ashbourne, bricklayer, for rebuilding part of Okeover Hall 17 May - 1744

60 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: - circa 1745

61 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Elevation of the West Front of Okeover Hall and plans of one room - circa 1745

62 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Plans and elevations of gatehouses by Joseph Sanderson - 1745-1746

63 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Small plan of fireplace - circa 1745

64 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Plan and elevation of portico - circa 1745

65 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Plan and elevation of part of Okeover Hall - circa 1745

66 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Water colour sketch of fireplace - circa 1745

67 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Large scale drawing of Corinthian cornice - circa 1745

68 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Design - circa 1745

69 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Articles of agreement between Leake Okeover and Joseph Sanderson of St George's, Bloomsbury, builder, by which Okeover agrees to pay to Sanderson £474 10s as soon as the contracts for rebuilding the Hall fulfilled and the work completed - 1745

70 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Estimate by Joseph Sanderson for rebuilding the East end of Okeover Hall £360 with detailed account of work to be carried out 30 Oct - 1745

71 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Sanderson to Okeover accompanying "designs for the middle part in the Italian manner" 1 Nov - 1744

72 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Sanderson to Okeover regarding the "expense of the Venetian side" - circa 1745

73 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Sanderson to Okeover enclosing receipt for silver plate - 5 Feb [1745]

74 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Sanderson to Okeover regarding the "calculation for the ceiling" - 9 Mar [1745]

75 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Sanderson to Okeover regarding the cost of the "little ceiling and the sashes for the windows in the "Temple of Pomona" 27 Apr - 1745

76 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Sanderson to Okeover regarding a disagreement with his cousin John Sanderson 10 May - 1745

77 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Sanderson to Okeover regarding using up the old stone with memorandum for Simon File and the plasterers 11 May - 1745

78 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Sanderson to Okeover regarding furniture for Mrs Hollinshead 2 Jun - 1745

79 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Sanderson to Okeover thanking him for a gift of venison 28 Sep - 1745

80 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Sanderson to Okeover 21 Mar - 1746

81 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Sanderson to John Silvester the joiner at Okeover regarding the supply of materials, the design for the brewhouse, plinths of "siena marble" etc - 1746

82 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Sanderson to Okeover 20 May - 1746

83 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Sanderson to Okeover regarding a chimney piece and grate and Sanderson's absence from Okeover 31 May - 1746

84 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Sanderson to Okeover regarding his account - circa 1746

85 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Sanderson to Okeover mentioning a new design for the South front 8 Jul - 1746

86 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Sanderson to Okeover 12 Jul - 1746

87 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Sanderson to Okeover mentioning that he hopes the outside building will be completed in Oct 16 Oct - 1746

88 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Sanderson to Okeover mentioning altering a chimney piece 25 Oct - 1746

89 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Sanderson to Okeover regarding glazing the skylight on the main staircase at Okeover and the wainscoating at Wymeswold Hall 1 Nov - 1746

90 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Sanderson to Okeover regarding the South front 22 Nov - 1746

91 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Sanderson to Okeover again regarding a design for the south front 9 Dec - 1746

92 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Sanderson to Okeover regarding Okeover's suggestions for alterations to Sanderson's design 27 Dec - 1746

93 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Sanderson to Okeover regarding his account 28 Mar - 1747

94 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from R Sanderson regarding the settling of the account 5 Jun - 1750

95 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Further letter from Rebecca Sanderson (widow of Joseph) regarding the settling of the account 28 Mar - 1750

96 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Rebecca Sanderson to Okeover Mr File wants to settle his demands 27 Apr - 1749

97 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Rebecca Sanderson to Okeover again regarding her account 29 Nov - 1748

98 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Joseph Sanderson to Okeover regarding the valuation of Ashenhurst and Tearsworth Farms near Leek 7 Aug - 1745

99 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Receipt of £7 for work done at Okeover by Joseph Sanderson 24 Feb - 1745

100 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Simon File to Leeke Okeover (file continues the building work after Sanderson's death) mentioning that the larder and the first floor are completed with sketch of gate posts on the back 25 Jun - 1748

101 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Simon File to Okeover regarding timber 20 Jan - 1747/1748

102 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Simon File to Okeover mentioning that most of the roof is up and various other matters 30 Jan - 1748/1749

103 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Simon File to Okeover regarding his estimate for work to be done 13 Feb - 1748/1749

104 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Simon File to Okeover regarding painting the bedrooms 17 Jun - 1749

105 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Simon File to Okeover regarding finishing the dairy 21 Apr - 1750

106 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Simon File to Okeover regarding a sketch of a room and a sale of Mr Poole Booth's timber at Broadlow Ash 12 Dec - 1750

107 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Simon File to Okeover regarding the timber sale at Broadlow Ash and his need for oak and the proportion of the portico 14 Jan - 1751

108 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Simon File to Okeover again regarding Broadlow Ash timber 4 Mar - 1751

109 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Simon File to Okeover he has estimated the carpenters' bricklayers', plumbers', glaziers' and plasterers' work so far as the side of the portico: £192 estimated for the work 12 Mar - 1751

110-111 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Two letters from Simon File to Okeover regarding stone 7 & 28 Apr - 1751

112 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Simon File to Okeover mentioning Robert Bakewell who is making the gates and some timber on Banks Hodgkinson's estate 13 May 1751 - 1751

113 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Part of a letter from Simon File to Okeover regarding sundry work at Okeover including the rails and bannisters for the Westwing and the shortage of stones and bricks

114 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Part of a letter from Simon File to Okeover regarding work in the coachman's stable

115 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Mason's bill for work at Okeover Hall - 1745-1746

116-121 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Six letters from Richard Kay one of the builders engaged at Okeover Hall relating to sundry matters associated with the rebuilding of the Hall - 1748-1749

122-123 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Anthony Berrisford's estimate for the stonemason's work with covering letter - 25 Feb [1751]

124 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: The balance of the bill given in to Leak Okeover by Simon File 23 Sep 1758 - 1758

125 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Days work done for Leak Okeover by Simon File since the bill given in to 23 Sep 1758 - 1758-1759

126 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Memorandum regarding the "old iron work at Derby" (Bakewell?)

127 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: An estimate for the door case

128 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Timber wanted for the church

129 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Notes on lengths [of timber]

130 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Note regarding Mr Fitzherbert's health

131 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Note regarding Butcher and Belcher's bill

132 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Ann File's bill for paint, timber, screws etc - 1762-1763

133 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Simon File to Okeover regarding drawings for further work at Okeover Hall 29 Dec - 1756

134 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Receipt for timber from Simon File 24 Oct - 1757

135 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Small drawing of part of the East wing - circa 1750

136 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Bill for Venetian window and other items - 1757

137 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Simon File's bill for wood 9 Nov - 1757

138 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Simon File to Okeover regarding a drawing of a chimney piece 25 Feb - 1758

139 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Simon File's bill for oak 23 Jun - 1758

140 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Receipt for £20 for "the new building" 13 Jun - 1758

141 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Receipt for £10 - Simon File 23 Sep - 1758

142 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: List of lead, pins, glue and other items paid for by Simon File for Leak Okeover - 1758

143 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Bill for work done by Simon File regarding £300 agreed estimate - 1757

144 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: The balance of the bill given to Leak Okeover by Simon File for work done and materials to 6 Nov 1759 - 1759

145 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Simon File to Okeover regarding window sashes and steps in the flower house - 1760

146 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Estimate by Simon File for rebuilding the south-east end of Okeover Hall 20 Aug - 1756

147 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Day's work done at the Great Dining Room at Okeover by Simon File - 1760

148 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Simon File to Okeover regarding timber for various jobs 11 Mar - 1761

149 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: George Moreton's bill for days work at Okeover - 1759-1760

150 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Balance of the bill given to Leak Okeover by Simon File for work and materials - 1760

151 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: List of wood, paint, nails, etc., delivered to Okeover by Simon File 8 Sep - 1763

152 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Simon File's estimate for the "labour of the wood-work at the Hott House in Kender Garden at Okeover"

153 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Simon File's estimate to take down the Pavilion and build it up again and a room to be built at the back of it to be 14 feet wide and 16 feet long, with small rough drawing.

154 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: File's bill for building work - 1757-1758

155 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Agreement between Simon File and Peter Pearson for Pearson to lay flagging and steps in the Garden House at Okeover 6 Feb - 1760

156 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Letter from Thomas Savill to Okeover mentioning a chimney piece at Okeover 25 Sep - 1760

157 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: John Dawson's estimate for a chimney piece - 1764

158 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Particulars of all day work done for Leak Okeover at Okeover Hall by Simon File, George Morton and Richard Parker from 3 Mar 1745 to Apr 1748 - 1745-1748

159 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Simon File's estimate for laying the Little Parlour Floor 8 Aug - 1753

160 - Rebuilding Okeover Hall 1744-1764: Receipts for iron work (Bakewell ?) - 1759

161 - Other material relating to Okeover Hall: Later plan of part of Okeover Hall by J Potter - circa 1810

162 - Other material relating to Okeover Hall: Design for flower bed at Okeover Hall - circa 1850

163-164 - Accounts: Receipts for Okeover land tax - 1718

165-166 - Accounts: Receipts for Okeover land tax - 1719

167-174 - Accounts: Documents relating to the "Morley affair" including receipts, accounts and quitclaim by George Morley of all actions etc against Leake Okeover - Morley tenant to Little Park Farm - 1739-1749

175 - Accounts: A scheme for a labourer's book - 1734

176 - Accounts: Game book, Okeover - 1905-1938

177 - Okeover Church: Estimate for work carried out by Simon File at Okeover Church - 1759-1760

178 - Okeover Church: Engraving of the interior of Okeover church - 1864

179-180 - Abstract of title and supplemental abstract of title of Messrs. Waterfall and Mellors to a messuage and lands at Swinscoe beginning with release of 20 Jan 1719/1720 between Rt Hon [Right Honourable] Edward Lord Harley and Rt Hon Henrietta Cavendish Hollis Harley his wife, William Lord Vincent Cheyne, Peter Walter, esq., John Morley esq., and Peniston Lamb, gent., reciting that Lamb has agreed with Cheyne, Walter and Morley for the absolute purchase of certain manors, lands, tenements and hereditaments (including the Manor of Swinscoe) for £16400, and ending with the will of William Waterfall 30 Oct 1805 - circa 1811

179-235 - Swinscoe and Woodhouse Estate

181 - Abstract of title of Mr Thomas Hodgkinson to lands in Swinscoe in the parishes of Blore and Mayfield beginning with an extract from the will of Richard Lisett of Wirksworth by which he devised all his messuages, lands tenements and hereditaments, freehold and copyhold to Richard Bagshaw the elder and Richard Bagshaw, the younger, John Machin and John Odingsells Leek of Wirksworth, for 99 years in trust for his kinsman Richard Bruckshaw, Elizabeth Lowe and Dorothy Beighton, and ending with mortgage by Thomas Hodgkinson to John Goodwin Johnson, 17 Jul 1813, of all that messuage or tenement formerly converted into two tenements with appurtenances called the Woodhouses in Swinscoe Woodhouse formerly in the tenure of Philip Peach - 32 acres 3 roods 33 perches by survey - with closes called Croft Hill Meadow, Big Nether, Nether Pingle, Pools, Barn Flatt, barn Flatt Pingle, Little Nether, Wett Close, Wett Close Pingle, and Pool Pingle - 1815

182 - Abstract of title of Mr Thomas Hodgkinson to lands in Swinscoe in the parishes of Blore and Mayfield beginning with an extract from the will of Richard Lisett of Wirksworth by which he devised all his messuages, lands tenements and hereditaments, freehold and copyhold to Richard Bagshaw the elder and Richard Bagshaw, the younger, John Machin and John Odingsells Leek of Wirksworth, for 99 years in trust for his kinsman Richard Bruckshaw, Elizabeth Lowe and Dorothy Beighton, and ending with mortgage by Thomas Hodgkinson to John Goodwin Johnson, 17 Jul 1813, of all that messuage or tenement formerly converted into two tenements with appurtenances called the Woodhouses in Swinscoe Woodhouse formerly in the tenure of Philip Peach - 32 acres 3 roods 33 perches by survey - with closes called Croft Hill Meadow, Big Nether, Nether Pingle, Pools, Barn Flatt, barn Flatt Pingle, Little Nether, Wett Close, Wett Close Pingle, and Pool Pingle but not including the mortage of 17 Jul, 1813 - 1815

183 - Abstract of title of Richard Gould of Ridge in the parish of Sheen, Staffordshire, to land in Offcote and Underwood in the parish of Ashbourne and at Swinscoe Woodhouse, beginning with a mortgage by Thomas Hodgkinson of Ashbourne innkeeper to Richard Gould of Pilsbury, gent., and Richard Buxton of Macclesfield, grocer, dated 3/4 Sep, 1815, of a close in Offcote and Underwood known as Windowfield, 2 acres 2 roods 07 perches, and two closes in Swinscoe Woodhouse called the Croft and Hill Meadow (in Mayfield parish) and a closein Swinscoe called Meadow Pingle (in Blore Parish), together 3 acres 3 roods 02 perches - 1824

184 - Abstract of title of John Gallimore to a close of land called the Netlows in Swinscoe, beginning with a mortgage of 20 Oct 1762 by Daniel Lowndes of Swinscoe, Staff., yeoman, to Ralph Adams of Narrow Dale in the parish of Alstonefield, yeoman, for £200, of a messuage, closes called Blackshaw Field, Home Croft and 1 land and 1½ lands in the Blackshaw Field and 4 pieces in the Town Meadow - 1838

185 - Abstract of title of William Gallimore to an estate at Swinscoe in the parishes of Mayfield and Blore, beginning with an indenture of mortgage of 23 Dec 1766 by Richard Lisett alias Bruchshaw of Shirland to John Hall of Wensley, in consideration of £300, of a messuage and tenement in Swinscoe with all appurtenances then in the occupation of Philip Peach - 1838

186 - Abstract of title of Rev Edward Hodgson, clerk, to several freehold messuages lands and grounds at Swinscoe in the parish of Blore beginning with marriage settlement date 18/19 Mar 1678/1679 on the marriage of John Offley to Ann Crewe - 1844

187 - Abstract of title of John Gallimore to of a messuage, closes called Blackshaw Field, Home Croft and 1 land and 1½ lands in the Blackshaw Field and 4 pieces in the Town Meadow again beginning with Lowndes' mortgage of 20 Oct 1762 - 1844

188 - Abstract of title of Mr Thomas Hodgkinson to an estate at Swinscoe in the parishes of Mayfield and Blore beginning with the will of Richard Lisett of Wirksworth, gent - 1845

189 - Abstract of title of William Gallimore to a messuage and land at Swinscoe in the parish of Blore, beginning with lease and release by Daniel Lowndes of Grindon to Henry Ford of Little Park Okeover, dated 4/5 Apr 1781, of a messuage at Swinscoe close called Blagshaw Field, Home Croft, 1 acre and 1½ lands in Blagshaws Field and four parcels of meadow in Town Meadow - 1848

190 - Abstract of title of Stanley Pipe Wolferston, esq., Rev Paul Belcher and Richard Beaumont Child, esq., to the manor of Mayfield beginning with lease and release 5/6 Apr 1763 by Sussanah Ley of Mayfield spinster to John Williamson of the borough of Stafford and William Greaves in Ingleby, gent., of the manor of Mayfield and ending with agreement of 24 Mar 1848 by which the manor sold to Belcher, Child and H C Bingham - circa 1850

191 - Copy gift by Hugh de Okeover to Roger de Okeover of all that land in Woodhouses which Hewit held except for eight acres which he holds himself in Finhas, namely that messuage which Hewit held and two tofts in the same vill which Siwy and Hathewell held and 46 acres in the field remain to the said Roger; and he grants also to Roger the recognition and the land as part of his inheritance; to be held from Hugh with all usual services and homages and paying a mark of silver for the recognition and an annual rent of 3s and suit of mill at a twentieth of the grain and suit of court Witnesses: Ralph son of Jordan, Herbert de Tissington, William de Coddington, Thorgil de Ilam, Richard de Okeover, William de Stanton, Geoffrey, clerk of Ashbourne, William and Richard de Bentley - [1327-1377]

192 - Rocester Abbey Cartulary - [15th cent]

193 - Further copy of part of the Rocester Abbey Cartulary - [15th cent]

194 - Copy mortgage by John Waterfall of Swinscoe, farmer, to John Goodwin Johnson of Bradbourne, esq., of one six part of a messuage and 30 acres of land in Swinscoe 7 May - 1807

195 - Abstract of feoffment by John Waterfalle of Swinscoe, yeoman, and Mary his wife, William Waterfall, of Ashbourne, baker and Ralph Waterfall of Mayfield, yeoman, Hannah Mellor or Mayfield, widow, John Mellor, yeoman, Charles Mellor, yeoman, John Haywood of Atlow, yeoman, and Ann his wife (nee Mellor), Thomas Mellor of Mayfield, yeoman, and William Mellor of Mayfield, yeoman, to Richard Utting of Okeover, yeoman, of a messuage, tenement or farm at Swinscoe with Homestead 6 acres 0 rood 15 perches, the Netlows 3 acres 0 rood 02 perches, Back of the Hill, 2 acres 3 roods 28 perches, End Croft, 2 acres 3 roods 12 perches, Blagshaw Field 6 acres 2 roods 09 perches, two allotments on Swinscoe Common 9 acres 0 rood 10 perches, also a messuage and croft in Mapleton, 1 acre 1 rood 34 perches, Brown Hay 1 acre 0 rood 15 perches, Butlers Hole 1 acre 1 rood 08 perches, and Upper Hill 1 acre 0 rood 14 perches, to be held in trust by Ulting, one moiety to the use of the three Waterfalls, the other to the use of the six Mellors: the Waterfalls and Mellors to levy a fine of the premises to Utting with the intent of barring all prettended right or title to the property 18 Sep - 1815

196 - Copy covenant for production of title deeds relating to the Netlows, 3 acres 0 rood 03 perches, in Swinscoe: John Gallimore of Mayfield, yeoman, to James Haughton, Langston of Sarsden House, Oxford, esq., and William Stratford Dugdale of Merevale Hall Warwickshire, esq., trustees under the will of H F Okeover 26 Mar - 1839

197 - Copy assignment by John Goodwin Johnson to William Haines of Birmingham, gent., for the remainder of a 1000 years terms the property recited in a mortgage of 23 Dec 1766 by Richard Lisett alias Bruckshaw to John Wall 27 Mar - 1839

198 - Copy assignment by Thomas Wise of Ashbourne, gent., to William Haines of Birmingham, gent., of the remainder of the 500 year term in the mortgage of 20 Oct 1762 by Daniel Lowndes to Ralph Adams and the piece of land in Swinscoe called the Netlows, 3 acres 0 rood 02 perches 26 Mar - 1839

199 - Valuation of the timber on the Swinscoe estate 8 Apr - 1845

200 - Lease by Hugh de Okeover to Richard de Laforde of two bovates of land in Swinscoe namely that which Yvelot held: to be held for 21 years from the feast of St Martin 26 Henry III at an annual rent of 6s 2d for all services except foreign and suit of mill at a twentieth of the grain and suit of court Witness: William de Alditle[ Alderley/Audley] - 1241

201 - Lease by John son of Henry son of Robert del Woodhouses and Lettice daughter of William de Praers to William son of Robert del Woodhouses of three plots of land with appurtenances in Woodhouse, one called le Oldehouseyard and the second called le Parrok and the third called Howeclif: to hold for life at a rent of 13 silver pennies: to revert to John and Lettice and their heirs on the death of William Witnesses: Ralph del Woodhouse, Hugh Asser de Swinscoe, Richard Smith of Mayfield, Henry Avot, William, clerk, and others Friday in Easter Week (24 Apr) - 1332

202-203 - Lease by Adam son of Hawise de Calton to Thomas his son of all his messuages with buildings superstructures and all his lands and tenements with appurtenances in Swinscoe: to be held for life at an annual rent of 20 pence: remainder to Thomas if he survives his father Witnesses: Roger le Deye, Hugh de Bayli, Richard de Calton, Henry de Bayli, Robert de Rampdale and others 12 Feb - 1386

204-205 - Tenancy agreement (with bond) between Edward Walhouse Okeover and Thomas Hodgkinson of Woodhouse, farmer, by which Okeover lets to Hodgkinson on a year-to-year basis a messuage or tenement in Woodhouse and 174 acres of land at an annual rent of £145: not to break up more than 20 acres in any one year: not to keep any part in tillage more than three years successively in one of which three years the same to be in summer fallow, and also shall and will sow such land with 12 lbs to cover seeds at the least or a proper quality of other proper grass seeds in the third and last years tillage in order to lie for mowing and pasture 21 Mar - 1776

206 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Charles Okeover and Samuel Archer of Swinscoe farmer, by which Okeover has let to Archer on a year-to-year basis, several closes of land in Swinscoe namely Long Croft, New Long Croft and the Hill, 19 acres 3 roods 09 perches, at an annual rent of £40: an additional rent of £20 per acre for ploughing up the Hill: in the course of tillage not to take more than three crops of corn from off the said lands and shall during such tillage make a summer fallow for wheat or a fallow for turnips and shall not take more than one copy of corn or grain upon such land as shall be fallowed and shall lay down the same in a clean, husbandlike manner with 12 lbs. of good clover seed and other grasses and half a bushel of rye grass seeds upon every acre and keep the same in pasture unbroken for the two next years 26 Apr - 1847

207 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Charles Okeover and John Chadwick of Mappleton [Mapleton], farmer, by which Okeover has let to Chadwick on a year-to-year basis, several pieces of land at Swinscoe namely Little Flat, Big Flat, Little Upper Flat, Big Upper Flat, Greave Lands, Field Meadow, Upper Close, Lower Close, Back of the Hill, Hill End, Near Hill, Middle Hill, Far Hill, Lime Kiln Hill, Back of the Hill and Lime Kiln Plantations, 89 acres 1 rood 08 perches, at an annual rent of £120, with an additional rent of £20 per acre for ploughing up Little Upper Flat, Big Upper Flat, Greave Lands, Field Meadow, Upper Close, Lower Close, Hill End, Far Hill, Lime Kiln Hill, Back of the Hill and Lime Kiln Plantations: other husbandry covenants 26 Apr - 1847

208 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Charles Okeover and Samuel Archer of Swinscoe, farmer, by which Okeover has left to Archer, land in Swinscoe at the same rent and on the same conditions 23 Nov - 1850

209 - Award following arbitration by Ralph Egerton, Robert Falkhurst, Nicholas Fitzherbert and John de la Wood in a dispute between John, Abbot of Rocester and James and Lawrence Thickness of Balterley regarding two oxgangs of land in Swinscoe and six acres of land in the Woodhouse, one oxgang being the gift of Ralph de Bicklow, the other the gift of a former Abbot of Rocester by the award the two oxgangs awarded to the Abbot for 8d a year rent; James and Lawrence remain in possession of one oxgang together with all its appurtenances and customs including fours wains full of wood from Swinscoe Wood 4 Jul - 1451

210 - Receipt by Rauff Thickness son and heir of Laurence Thickness of Balterley for 4 marks for the rent of Woodhousefrom Robert Lont and Thomas Lont his son . Dated at Balterley Feast of St Edmund (16 Nov) 1 Henry VII - 1485

211 - Power of attorney by Ralph Thickness and his son and heir Laurence Thickness, late of Balterley, to Richard Byton of Mayfield and Edward Wall of Cheadle to deliver seisin of all his lands, tenements rents, services, meadows, pastures and pasturage in Woodhouse and Swinscoe in the fee of Mayfield and Grindon, to Elizabeth lately wife of John Lont of Woodhouse 11 Nov - 1487

212 - Power of attorney from Ralph Thickness of Marston, Staffs, to Thurstan Lont, son of William Lont to take and receive possession of a piece of land called Churchyorde in the fee of Woodhouse lying between the lane leading to Coldwall and a parcel of land called Ugoste, and between a croft called Doide Croft and a croft of the said Ralph's, also of 4 acres of land and 2 acres of land with appurtenances in Woodhouse and Swinscoe, which lie in the field of Swinscoe next to the land of the Abbot of Rocester (the 4 acres), and the 2 acres lie in the fields of Woodhouse next to the enclosure which from ancient time was in the tenure of Richard Coynton - 16 Feb [1490]

213 - Memorandum that Thurston Lont and Elizabeth late wife of John Lont of Woodhouse have paid to Rafe Thickness gent., at Balterley in Staffordshire, 4 marks of money being the rent of the Woodhouse 12 Oct - 1493

214 - Memorandum that Elizabeth Lont late wife of John Lont of Blore Woodhouse and Thurston Lont, heir and executor of John Lont, have paid to Ralph Thickness, gent., at Balterley 4 marks for the rent of Woodhouse 13 Oct - 1495

215 - Order from John Gifford, esq., Sheriff of Staffordshire, to the bailiff of the liberty of the Duchy of Lancaster and John Porter bailiff of the hundred of Totmonslow to take into the hands of the King a messuage, 100 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, 40 acres of pasture, and 10 acres of wood in Woodhouses, claimed by Humfry Okeoverr against Thurstan Lonte and Elizabeth Lonte widow, and to summon the said Thurstan and Elizabeth to appear in court at Westminster within fifteen days from Trinity following, to show why they did not appear there within fifteen days of Hilary as they were summoned to do 8 Apr - 1510

216 - Bond by Joseph Millington of Swinscoe, yeoman and Richard Millington, son and heir apparent of Joseph to Richard Lownds, yeoman, in £100, reciting indenture of the same date between Joseph and Richard Millington and John Lownds, Richard Lownd's trustee reciting to various lands in Swinscoe, the condition being that if Elizabeth Millington should survive her husband Joseph then she shall immediately after his death release and quitclaim all her right to dower in the premises 26 Feb - 1746/1747

217 - Bond by Daniel Lowndes of Swinscoe, yeoman, and Mary Lowndes of Swinscoe, widow, to Ralph Adams of Narrow Alstonfield, yeoman, in £400; to pay £200 to Ralph Adams on or before 20 Apr 1763 - 1762

218 - Bond by Richard Lisett alias Brickshaw of Winster, hosier, to John Wall the elder of Wensley, gent., in £600; to pay Wall £300 plus 4½% interest by 23 Jun 1767 23 Dec - 1766

219 - Articles of agreement between Richard Lisett alias Bruckshaw gent., and Thomas Hodgkinson of Woodhouse, Mayfield, husbandman by which Lisett agrees to sell to Hodgkinson for £750 a messuage called the Woodhouse in the occupation of Philip Peach in the parish of Mayfield together with the Croft, Hill Meadow, Big Nether, Nether Pingle, the Pools, Barn Flatt, Barn Flatt Pingle, Little Nether, Wet Close, Wet Close Pingle, and Poole Pingle, all in Mayfield, and Hill Meadow Pingle and Long Croft in the parish of Blore 2 Jun - 1768

220 - Declaration by Richard Lisett following the purchase from him by Thomas Hodgkinson of a messuage and lands at Swinscoe Woodhouse, agreeing to pay the charges of a further recovery should one be needed 1 Dec - 1768

221 - Further security for £100 on mortgage of 20 Oct 1762 by Daniel Lowndes to Ralph Adams 20 Oct - 1769

222 - Bond by Daniel Lowndes of Swinscoe, yeoman, to Ralph Adams of Narrowdale Alstonefield in £200; Lowndes to pay £100 plus 4½% interest to Adams before 20 Apr 1770 20 Oct - 1769

223 - Bond by Samuel Stubs of Calton, yeoman, to James Stubs, of Mayfield, Staffordshire, and Mary his wife in £20; James and Mary Stubs to peacefully possess and occupy the north part of their messuage for life 1 Nov - 1771

224 - Bond by Thomas Hodgkinson the elder and Thomas Hodgkinson the younger of Woodhouse, to Samuel Stubs in £20; to indemnify Stubs against the dower of Isabel wife of Thomas Hodgkinson the elder 1 Nov - 1771

225 - Further security for £100 on mortgage of 20 Oct 1762 by Daniel Lowndes to Ralph Adams 14 Oct - 1774

226 - Bond accompanying further security for £100 on mortgage of 20 Oct 1762 by Daniel Lowndes to Ralph Adams 14 Oct

227 - Acknowledgement by Mary Kniveton that she has received of Daniel Lowndes a legacy of £50 granted to her by her grandfather Richard Lowndes at Swinscoe 3 Apr - 1781

228 - Bond by Daniel Lowndes late of Swinscoe now of Withington in the parish of Leigh, Staffordshire, to John Alcock, of Marton Hill, farmer, in £500 to carry out the covenants in an indenture of the same date 5 Apr - 1781

229 - Bond by Hannah Mellor of Mayfield widow (lawful guardian of Lydia Mellor an infant) to John Gallimore of Mayfield farmer in £100; Lydia Mellor shall within three months of reaching the age of 21 convey to Gallimore her share in the premises in Swinscoe conveyed by the Mellors and Waterfalls to Gallimore 12 Mar - 1816

230 - Swinscoe Woodhouse tithes: Small bundle of papers relating to Swinscoe Woodhouse tithes - 1847-1853

231 - Swinscoe Woodhouse tithes: Decision of the Assistant Tithe Commissioner on a customary modus for all tithes except corn and hay payable at Easter in the township of Woodhouses (disputed by the Vicar of Mayfield) 11 May - 1846

232 - Swinscoe Woodhouse tithes: Copy of the opening preamble of the Woodhouses tithe rentcharge apportionment award 7 Aug - 1847

233 - Swinscoe Woodhouse tithes: Merger of tithe rentcharge at Woodhouses by Haughton Charles Okeover 16 Apr - 1850

234-235 - Swinscoe Woodhouse tithes: Remarks on the draft apportionment and map and covering letter - 1850

236 - Copy or draft deeds: Schedule of Atlow deeds - 1696/1697

236-318 - Atlow and Bradbourne Estates

237 - Copy or draft deeds: Copy declaration of trust by Leake Okeover and Mary his wife, that the manor of Atlow was demised on the same day to Francis and Thomas Mundy upon trust to secure the sum of £2000 - 1753

238 - "The survey of certain grounds in Atlow belonging to the worshipful Humphray Okeover, esq.," - c1640

239 - Survey and valuation of the estate of Rowland Okeover esq., in Atlow and Snelsdale, giving tenants, field names, acreage, value per acre - circa 1810

240 - Lease by Robert son of Hugh de Okeover to Warin son of David de Atlow of one bovate of land with a croft adjacent and appurtenances in the vill and territory of Atlow namely that bovate which Jordan son of Roger once held, and that croft lying nearest to the croft which Warin held: to hold for life from 24 Aug 1272 at an annual rent of 9s Witnesses: William de Hognaston, clerk, John le Roc de Bradley, Alexander de Hulland, Adam, clerk, of Hognaston - 1272

241 - Demise by Robert son of Robert son of Tholy, with the assent of Denise his wife, to Robert son of Hugh de Okeover, in consideration of 40 silver shillings, of four bovates of land in Bradbourne, which Hugh de Okeover] gave in free marriage with Denise his daughter - [c1275]

242 - Lease by Roger de Okeover, Lord of Atlow to John de Atlow of a messuage and two bovates of land with appurtenances in Atlow: to be held for life at an annual rent of 12d pence to perform suit of his court at Atlow and also suit of mill at the rate of a twentieth of the grain - 31 May 1291

243 - Lease by Roger de Okeover, knight, to William le Parker de Atlow, Isolda his wife and John his son, for their lives, of a messuage with buildings and a bovate of land with appurtenances in Atlow which Hugh son of Bate once held, and five acres of land in the same place, lying in the Underwood: annual rent of 8s 1d., to perform suit of court at Atlow and suit of mill at the rate of a twentieth of the grain Witnesses: John le Eyre de Atlow, Richard de Ible of the same place, John de Brassington of the same place, Thomas le Cailly, Richard son of Roger and others 11 Ju - 1303

244 - Lease by Roger de Okeover to Robert de Brocton of Atlow of a plot of land in Atlow with appurtenances which plot Hugh of Bate sometime held: and the said Robert to build a house 100 feet in length at his own expense, except for the timber, supplied by Roger: to be held for life 2 Mar - 1327/1328

245 - Lease by Roger de Okeover, knight, to Richard Clifton of a bovate of land and an assart with buildings in the vill of Atlow to be held for life at an annual rent of 10s 2d., to perform suit of court and suit of mill at Attelowe Witnesses: John de Atlow, Richard son of Roger, John de Bradbourne and others 25 Jan - 1332

246 - Lease by Roger de Okeover, Lord of Atlow to Isolda ,daughter of Edith de Atlow, and Eleanor her daughter, of a messuage with appurtenances in Atlow which the said Isolda did hold at will: to be held for life and at an annual rent of 12 pence: to perform suit of court at Atlow and suit of mill at a twentieth of the grain Witnesses: William Wildgoose, Henry le Eyre, John Wildy, William le Parker, Robert de Strongeshull [Stramshall], Thomas of Ashbourne 9 May - 1345

247 - Lease by Thomas Lord of Okeover to William le Walyshe of his mill at Atlow with its watercourses and all other appurtenances: for 9 years at a rent of a peppercorn for the first year, then 11shillings a year 24 Aug - 1359

248 - Lease by Philip de Okeover, knight, to Richard Parker and Margaret his wife of two plots of ground in Atlow and two bovates of land and meadow adjacent, one plot called the Drinceplace and the other belonged to John Blore: to hold for the lives of both at an annual rent of 9s 2d Witnesses: William de Weston, Henry Schatergod [Scattergood] and John Parker. 18 Oct - 1388

249 - Lease by Philip de Okeover, esq., to Robert de Kniveton of Underwood, esq., of one pasture called Urlewyk and le Halfield lying in the fee of Atlow, Derbyshire, with all thorns growing in the pasture to be cut and carried away: to be held for 4 years 3 May - 1462

250 - Lease by Martha Okeover of Snelston, widow of Humphrey Okeover, in consideration of £4, of part of Atlow Ridge commonly called the Intack, 53 acres: for 15 years at £4 10s per annum 8 Jun - 1646

251 - Bargain and sale (being part of marriage settlement) by Gilbert Archbishop of Canterbury, Sir John Gell of Hopton, Sir Rowland Okeover of Okeover and Thomas Corbyn of Corbyn Hall, Warwickshire, esq., to Elizabeth Okeover, sister of Sir Rowland Okeover, of a messuage, farm or tenement in Atlowe in the occupation of George Hood: to be held for 99 years at a peppercorn rent provided that Fell, Okeover, Corbyn and the Archbishop pay to Elizabeth Okeover £60 per annum in lieu of her marriage portion and annual maintenance 5 Jun - 1655

252 - Lease by Sir Rowland Okeover of Okeover, knight, to John Tomlinson of Atlow, blacksmith, of a messuage, house, farm or tenement in Atlow in the occupation of John Tomlinson together with closes called the Mirey Meadow, Narrowe Close, Coate Close, Long Leas, Long Lane, the Roundsquare Flatt, Oxe Leasowe Lane, the Wheatcroft, the Croft and the Pingle at the Mill: for 21 years at £16 per annum: all tithes of corn and hay to be carried to Rowland Okeover's tithe barn at Atlow: an additional rent of 40s per acre for ploughing up any land in the final six years of the term more than "four day work of a plough" 10 Apr - 1681

253-254 - Lease and counterpart by Rowland Okeover of Okeover esq., to Rowland Millington of Gibbfield, Henry Higgton of Nether Biggin and Roger Langden of Atlow, husbandman, of several closes in Atlow commonly known as Atlow Ridge 33 acres: for 19 years at an annual rent of £15 10s: £5 per acre additional rent for ploughing any land in the final three years of the term 25 May - 1683

255 - Lease by Rowland Okeover of Okeover, esq., to Rowland Millington of Gibbfield in the parish of Hognaston, yeoman of half of Atlow Ridge, 33 acres: for £19 years at an annual rent of £8 5s: £5 per acre additional rent for ploughing in the final three years of the term 1 Aug - 1704

256 - Memorandum of agreement between Leeke Okeover and Thomas Longden concerning Mill Farm in Atlow: Longden to enter the farm on Lady Day next at an annual rent of £15 on the same terms as in Robert Harrison's agreement 28 Jan - 1726/1727

257 - Tenancy agreement between Edward Walhouse Okeover, esq., and William Bunting of Atlow, by which Okeover has let to Bunting a messuage, dwelling house or tenement in Atlow, and several closes, 50 acres: annual rent £40: year to year tenancy: not more than 10 acres to be ploughed 21 Mar - 1776

258 - Bond accompanying Tenancy agreement between Edward Walhouse Okeover, esq., and William Bunting of Atlow, by which Okeover has let to Bunting a messuage, dwelling house or tenement in Atlow, and several closes, 50 acres: annual rent £40: year to year tenancy: not more than 10 acres to be ploughed 21 Mar - 1776

259 - Tenancy agreement between Edward Walhouse Okeover and William Cockin of Atlow, husbandman, by which Okeover has let to Cockin on a year to year basis a messuage or dwelling house in Atlow and several closes, 49 acres: annual rent £42: not more that 10 acres to be ploughed. Mar - 1776

260 - Bond accompanying Tenancy agreement between Edward Walhouse Okeover and William Cockin of Atlow, husbandman, by which Okeover has let to Cockin on a year to year basis a messuage or dwelling house in Atlow and several closes, 49 acres: annual rent £42: not more that 10 acres to be ploughed. Mar - 1776

261 - Tenancy agreement between Edward Walhouse Okeover amd Johm Tomlinson of Atlow, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Tomlinson on a year to year basis, a messuage dwelling house or tenement in Atlow and several closes, 100 acres; annual rent £78: not more that 20 acres to be ploughed. Mar - 1776

262 - Bond accompanying Tenancy agreement between Edward Walhouse Okeover amd Johm Tomlinson of Atlow, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Tomlinson on a year to year basis, a messuage dwelling house or tenement in Atlow and several closes, 100 acres; annual rent £78: not more that 20 acres to be ploughed. Mar - 1776

263 - Tenancy agreement between Edward Walhouse Okeover and John Tomlinson on a year to year basis, a messuage, dwellinghouse or tenement in Atlow with several closes 29 acres: annual rent of £24: not more than 8 acres to be ploughed Mar - 1776

264 - Bond accompanyingTenancy agreement between Edward Walhouse Okeover and John Tomlinson on a year to year basis, a messuage, dwellinghouse or tenement in Atlow with several closes 29 acres: annual rent of £24: not more than 8 acres to be ploughed Mar - 1776

265 - Tenancy agreement between Edward Walhouse Okeover has let to Longdon a messuage or dwelling house with the corn mill adjoining called Atlow Mill and several closes 21 acres 3 roods 00 perch : year to year tenancy: annual rent of £26 10s not to plough more than 5 acres. 21 Mar - 1776

266 - Bond accompanying Tenancy agreement between Edward Walhouse Okeover has let to Longdon a messuage or dwelling house with the corn mill adjoining called Atlow Mill and several closes 21 acres 3 roods 00 perch : year to year tenancy: annual rent of £26 10s not to plough more than 5 acres. 21 Mar - 1776

267 - Tenancy agreement between Edward Walhouse Okeover and John Johnson of Atlow Winn in the parish of Bradbourne, by which Okeover has let to Johnson on a year to year basis a messuage or dwellinghouse called Atlow Winn and several closes 163 acres 2 roods 00 perch: annual rent of £130. Mar - 1776

268 - Bond accompanying Tenancy agreement between Edward Walhouse Okeover and John Johnson of Atlow Winn in the parish of Bradbourne, by which Okeover has let to Johnson on a year to year basis a messuage or dwellinghouse called Atlow Winn and several closes 163 acres 2 roods 00 perch: annual rent of £130. Mar - 1776

269 - Tenancy agreement between Edward Walhouse Okeover and John Wagstaff of Atlow, by which Okeover has let to Wagstaff on a year to year basis a messuage, dwellinghouse or tenement with several closes 64 acres at Atlow: annual rent £63. Mar - 1776

270 - Bond accompanying Tenancy agreement between Edward Walhouse Okeover and John Wagstaff of Atlow, by which Okeover has let to Wagstaff on a year to year basis a messuage, dwellinghouse or tenement with several closes 64 acres at Atlow: annual rent £63. Mar - 1776

271 - Lease by Edward Walhouse Okeover to Joseph Longdon of Atlow, miller, of a new-built water corn mill at Atlow called Atlow Mill: for 13 years at an annual rent of £6. 11 Mar - 1779

272 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and William Cocking and Richard Cooper of Atlow, farmers, by which Okeover has let to Cocking and Cooper on a year to year basis a messuage or tenement in Atlow together with closes called the Croft, Wheatcroft, Short Greaves, Horse Close, Pingle beyond the Mill, Pingle adjoining John Wagstaff's Pingle, Mean Meadow, Mean Pieee, Brown Nook, Old Nook, Hewson Lane, New Close, Carter Meadow; 48 acres 3 roods 37 perches: annual rent of £50 10s. 8½d: £10 per acre additional rent for ploughing any closes other than Brown Nook and New Close. 14 Apr

273 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and John Wagstaffe of Atlow, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Wagstaffe on a year to year basis a messuage in Atlow and closes called the Barn Yard, Little Barn Yard, Kiln Croft, Whea Stubble, Little Far Piece, Thistley Close, Hook, Far Far Piece, Near Far Piece, Long Close, Lower Close, Nether Middle Field, Near Soon Flar, Far Soon Flat, Bottom Near, Cow Close, Far Soon Flat and barn, Middle Field, Middle Meadow, Far Cow Close, Upper Meadow and Upper Close, 63 acres 3 roods 27 perches: annual rent of £77 1s, 7d: £10 per acre additional rent of £10 per acre for ploughing closes other than the Barn Yard, Cow Close and Upper Meadow. Apr

274 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and Robert Alsop of Atlow, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Alsop on a year to year basis, a messuage or tenement in Atlow and closes called Far Long Meadow, Near Long Meadow, Over Close, Barn Close, Far Piece, Town Wood, Brook Close, Other Brook Close, Horse Piece, Little Horse Piece, Mill Wood, Rough, Garden at the corner of Mill Wood, House Wood, Little Close, Big Close, Little Pond Bit, Over Little Lawns, Lawn, Lower Little Lawns and Far Lawn, 60 acres 1 rood 29 perches: annual rent of £52 14s. 3½ d. : additional rent of £10 per acre for ploughing closes other that the Over Close, Far Piece, Little Horse Piece, Rough, Garden at the corner of Mill Wood, Little Road Bit and Over Little Lawns. Apr - 1801

275 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and William Bunting of Atlow, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Bunting on a year to year basis, a messuage in Atlow and closes cakked the new Close, Far New Close, Alder Carr Pingle, Close Bank, Burnt Wood, Close at the House, Rough Close, Meadow Close, Carr Head and the Moor, 50 acres 0 rood 09 perches: annual rent of £48 10s: additional rent of £10 per acre for ploughing closes other than Burnt Wood, Carr Head and the Moor. Apr - 1801

276 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and Randle Hunt of Atlow, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Hunt on a year to year basis, a messuage in Atlow and closes called the Sheep Wood, Lawn Wood, Little Wood, Holly Wood, Barn Wood (with barn), Near Hick Pits, Far Hicks Pits, Over Winn, Madghill, Bowsbreak, Great Meadow, Little Meadow, Winn Meadow, 163 acres 2 roods 09 perches: annual rent of £149 5s 8d: £10 per acre additional rent for ploughing closes other than Little Wood, Over Winn, Madghill, Bowsback, Little Meadow and Winn Meadow 14 Apr - 1801

277 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and John Garratt of Atlow, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Garratt on a year to year basis a messuage or tenement in Atlow and Closes called Barley Croft, Roods, Rushy Close, First Cote Close, Long Meadow, Close Bank, the New, Old Close Head, Brown Piece, Second Cote Close, Nether Old Close, Cote Meadow, Ridge, Pingle High Croft and Meadow, 57 acres 0 rood 5 perches annual rent of £49 15s 9d: £10 per acre additional rent for ploughing closes other than the Nether part of Long Meadow, Old Close Head, Cote Meadow, Ridge and Pingle 14 Apr - 1801

278 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and William Tomlinson of Atlow, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Tomlinson on a year to year basis a messuage in Atlow and closes called Upper Old Ridge, Little Old Ridge, Lower Old Ridge, Ash Yard Croft, The New, New Breach, Little Lady Field, Humphrey Close, and Great Lady Field, 28 acres 3 roods 39 perches: annual rent of £34 10s 11½d: £10 per acre additional rent for ploughing closes other than Upper and Lower Old Ridge 14 Apr - 1801

279 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and Joseph Longdon of Atlow, miller, by which Okeover has let to Longdon a messuage or tenement and water corn mill in Atlow and closes called Big Mill Hill, Little Mill Hill, New Grub Close, Lawn Piece, Two Pingles, Flax Land and Far Grub Piece, 21 acres 3 roods 05 perches: annual rent of £32: additional rent of £10 per acre for ploughing closes other than Flax Land and Far Grub Piece 14 Apr - 1801

280 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and Joseph Longdon of Atlow, miller, by which Okeover has let to Longdon a messuage or tenement and water corn mill in Atlow and closes called Big Mill Hill, Little Mill Hill, New Grub Close, Lawn Piece, Two Pingles, Flax Land and Far Grub Piece, 21 acres 3 roods 05 perches: annual rent of £32: additional rent of £10 per acre for ploughing closes other than Flax Land and Far Grub Piece but let to Robert Longdon 20 Jun - 1803

281 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and Ellen Garratt at Atlow, widow: a messuage or tenement in Atlow and Closes called Barley Croft, Roods, Rushy Close, First Cote Close, Long Meadow, Close Bank, the New, Old Close Head, Brown Piece, Second Cote Close, Nether Old Close, Cote Meadow, Ridge, Pingle High Croft and Meadow annual rent now £105 10 May - 1814

282 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and William Webster of Biggin, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Webster on a year to year basis, a messuage in Atlow and close called Upper Croft, part Weavers Croft, In Close, Mirey Meadow, Patch, Little Bit, Long Leys, Nether Ox Leasow, Upper Ox Leasow and Nether Winn, 59 acres 0 rood 15 perches: annual rent of £80 only Nether Winn to be ploughed - 1814

283 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and R Alsop of Atlow, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Alsop on a year to year basis a messuage or tenement in Atlow and closes called Far Long Meadow, Near Long Meadow, Over Close, Barn Close, Far Piece, Brook Close, Other Brook Close, Horse Piece, Little Horse piece, Mill Wood, Rough Tarden, Horse Wood, Little Close, Big Close, Little Road Bit at the top of Over Close, Over Little Lawns, Lawn, Lower Little Lawns and Far Lawn, 60 acres 1 rood 29 perches : annual rent £78: £10 per acre additional rent for ploughing closes other that Over Close, Rough Garden, Far Piece, Little Road Bit, Over Little Lawns and Far Lawn. 10 May - 1814

284 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and S Bunting of Atlow, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Bunding on a year to year basis, a messuage or tenement in Atlow and closes called New Close, In New Close, Alder Carr Pingle, Close Bank, Burnt Wood Close, Rough Close, Meadow, Carr Head and the Moor, 50 acre, 0 rood, 09 perches: annual rent of £72: £10 per acre additional rent for ploughing up closes other than Burnt Wood Close, Carr Head and the Moor. 10 May - 1814

285 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and Ann Tomlinson of Atlow, widow, by which Okeover has let to Mrs Tomlinson on a year to year basis, a messuage or farmhouse in Okeover and closes called Upper Okld Ridge, Little Old Ridge, Lower Old Ridge, Ash Yard Corft, New Breach, Little Lady Field, Humphry Close and Great Lady Field, 30 acres 0 rood 09 perches annual rent of £50: £10 per acre additional rent for ploughing up closes other than the Upper and Lower Old Ridge and the Little Lady Field. 10 May - 1814

286 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and John Haywoor of Atlow, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Haywood on a year to yer basis, a messuage in Atlow and closes called the Croft, Wheat Croft, Short Greaves, Horse Close, Pingle, Mean Meadow, Mean Piece, Brown Nook, Old Nook, Hewson's Lane, New Close and Carter Meadow, 47 acres 2 roods, 04 perche: annual rent of £80: £10 per acre additional rent for ploughing up closes other than Horse Close, Mean Piece, Brown Nook and New Close. 10 May - 1814

287 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and William Webster the younger of Biggin, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Webster on a year to year basis a messuage in Atlow and closes called Upper Croft, part Weavers Croft, Far Close, Mirey Meadow, Patch and Little Bit, Meadow Close, Long Leys, Nether Ox Leasow, Upper Ox Leasow, Nether Winn, Cow Croft, Gin Croft, Chapel Croft, Barley Croft, Roods, Rushy Close, Cote Close, part Cote Long Meadow, New Close, High Croft and Mean Meadow, 105 acres 0 rood 22 perches annual rent of £1455: £10 per acre additional rent for ploughing up closes other than Nether Winn, Cote Close, New Close, High Croft and Mean Meadow. 10 May - 1820

288 - Tenancy agreement between Farmer Okeover and William Mellor of Atlow, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Mellor on a year to year basis a messuage in Atlow and closes called the Croft, Wheat Croft, Short Greaves, Horse Close, Pingle, Mean Meadow, Mean Piece, Brown Nook, Old Nook, Hewson's Lane, New Close and Carter Meadow, 47 acres 2 roods 04 perches: annual rent of £80: £10 per acre additional rent for ploughing closes other than Brown Nook and New Close 4 Apr - 1826

289 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and John Tomlinson of Atlow, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Tomlinson on a year to year basis, a messuage in Atlow, and closes called Upper Old Ridge, Little Old Ridge, Lower Old Ridge, Ash Yard Croft, New Breach, Little Lady Field, Humphrey's Close, Old Close, Head Brown Piece, Cole Close, Cote Nethe Old Close, Cote Meadow, Ridge and Pingle, Great Lady Field, Thistley Close, Cow Meadow, Patch with barn, Sandy Field and garden, 60 acres 3 roods 08 perche: annual rent of £116: no closes to be ploughed - 1826

290 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and John Tomlinson of Atlow, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Tomlinson on a year to year basis, a messuage in Atlow, and closes called Upper Old Ridge, Little Old Ridge, Lower Old Ridge, Ash Yard Croft, New Breach, Little Lady Field, Humphrey's Close, Old Close, Head Brown Piece, Cole Close, Cote Nethe Old Close, Cote Meadow, Ridge and Pingle, Great Lady Field, Thistley Close, Cow Meadow, Patch with barn, Sandy Field and garden, 60 acres 3 roods 08 perche: annual rent of £116: no closes to be ploughed except that William Webster of Atlow now tenant and the rent increased to £124 1 Mar - 1832

291 - Tenancy agreement between James Haughton Langston of Sarsden House, Oxon., esq., and William Dilke of Maxstoke Castle, Warwickshire., esq., trustees named in the will of H F Okeover and Robert Longdon of Atlow, miller, by which the trustees have let to Longdon on a year to year basis, several closes in Atlow namely Mill Wood 2 acres 0 rood 30 perches, Rough Garden 1 acre 0 rood 25 perches, Little Close 2 acres 0 rood 32 perches, Big Close 9 acres 0 rood 17 perches., Road Bit 0 acre 0 rood 33 perches, Over Little Lawn 1 acre 0 rood 00 perche, Lawn 3 acres 3 roods 38 perches, Lower Little Lawn, 2 acres 1 rood 11 perches, and Far Lawn, 6 acres 0 rood 24 perches.; annual rent of £36: £20 per acre additional rent for ploughing any of the closes 3 Dec - 1836

292 - Tenancy agreement between the trustees of H F Okeover and William Mellor of Atlow, farmer, by which the trustees have let to Mellor on a year to year basis several closes in Atlow namely Over Close, 3 acres 1 rood 15 perches., Barn Close, 4 acres 1 rood 26 perches., Far Piece, 4 acres 0 rood 24 perches., Town Wood, 2 acres 0 rood 20 perches., Brook Close 3 acres 3 rood 09 perche., Horse Piece, 1 acre 3 roods 07., and House Wood 2 acres 3 roods 19 perches, annual rent of £32: £20 per acre additional rent for ploughing closes other than Over Close, Far Piece and Town Wood 23 Dec - 1836

293 - Tenancy agreement between the trustees of H F Okeover and John Furnyhough of Atlow, farmer, by which the trustees have let to Furnyhough on a year to year basis, a messuage in Atlow and closes called Orchard Oak Close, Old Close Head, New Old Close Head, Near Oak Close, Far Oak Close, Holly Close, Nether Close, Dock Close, Little Germans Meadow, Turnip Close, Close at the end of Richardson's Barn, Page Holme, Tenter Croft, Rye Croft, Other Rye Croft and Croft, High Croft and Little High Croft, 40 acres 2 roods 28½ : annual rent of £85: £20 per acre additional rent for ploughing closes other than Far Oak Close 23 Dec - 1836

294 - Tenancy agreement between James Haughton Longston surviving trustee of H F Okeover and Hannah Johnson of Atlow, widow and Samuel Johnson, farmer, by which Langston has let to the Johnsons, a messuage in Atlow and closes called Sheep Wood, Law Wood, Little Wood, Holly Wood, Barn Wood, Barn Head (with barn), Near Hick, Far Hick, Pits Over Winn, Madgehill, Browsbreak, Great Meadow, Little Meadow and Winn Meadow; 163 acres 2 roods 90 perches: annual rent of £184: additional rent of £20 per acre for ploughing closes other than Madgehill, Great and Little Meadow, and the ploughed parts of Pitts Over Winn, Browsbreak and Winn Meadow 26 Apr - 1838

295 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Charles Okeover and John Webster of Atlow, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Webster on a year to year basis, a messuage in Atlow and closes called the Orchard 0 acre 3 roods 15 perches, Upper Croft 5 acres 0 rood, 00 perche, Part Weavers Croft, 2 acres 3 roods 13 perches., Far Close, 2 acres 0 rood 19 perches., Mirey Meadow 1 acre, 3 roods. 03 perches, Patch 0 acre 2 roods 12-., Little Pit, 0 acre 3 roods 03 perche., Meadow Close, 3 acres 0 acre. 12 perches, Long Leys, 5 acres 3 roods. 08 perches, Mether Ox Leasow, 2 acres 2 roods 13 perches, Upper Ox Leasow 4 acres 1 rood 24 perches, Nether Winn, 30 acres 0 rood 18 perches, Cow Croft, 2 acres 1 rood 28 perches., Gin Croft 1 acre 1 rood 21 perches, Chapel Croft 2 acres 2 roods 38 perches, Barley Croft 1 acre 3 roods 15 perches, Rushy Close 6 acres 3 roods 16 perches, Cote Close 6 acres 3 roods 24 perches, Long Meadow 9 acres 2 roods 00 perche, Close Bank, 4 acres 0 rood 00 perche, Near Close 3 acres 2 roods 05 perche, High Croft 0 acre. 1 rood 24 perches, Orchard 0 acre 3 roods 25 perches, Garden 0 acre 2 roods 29 perches, Tenter Croft, 2 acres 1 rood. 14 perches, Rye Croft 5 acres 2 roods 24 perches, Croft 1 acre 1 rood 16 perches, High Croft and little Croft 0 acre 2 roods 33 perches, Lower Ridge, 2 acres 0 rood 08 perche, Over Ridge 2 acres 1 rood 24 perches and Garden and house 0 acre 0 rood 21 perches, 119 acres 1 rood 11 perches in all: annual rent of £137 15s. 0d.: additional rent of £19 per acre for ploughing closes other than the Orchard, Mirey Meadow, Parch, Little Pit, Meadow Close, Nether Winn, Cow Croft, Gin Croft, Chapel Corft, Cote Close, Near Close, High Croft, Orchard and garden. 17 Mar - 1851

296 - Power of attorney by Henry de Kniveton, knight, to ......de Kniveton his brother to deliver seisin of one ploughland of land in Atlow]called Rouheloweslat to Roger son of John de Okeover Feast of St Mathias (20 July). - 1309

297 - Petition by Thomas Maddock and Richard Maddock to Hon Sir Thomas Awdley, Lord Chancellor, that he initiate legal action against Ralph Oker [Okeover] to make him grant peaceful possession to Richard of a messuage and lands in Atlowe [Atlow] leased to him by Humphrey Oker deceased for 30 years from the death of his father Robert who then occupied them by deed dated 4 October 1536, at an annual rent of 4 marks: after Humfrey's death this propertydescended to Ralph son of Humfrey's son Philip: four years ago Robert Maddock died at which time Richard entered occupation and paid rent for two years or more: then Ralph ordered Richard to void the premises saying that Humfrey at the time of lease held only an estate in tail: however when Richard was fighting in the wars in France, Ralph entered a moiety of the premises and excluded Richard from it, threatening also to turn Thomas out of the other moiety. - [Post 1536]

298 - Bond by Katherin Okeover of Rushall, Staffordshire; widow to Philip Okover in a hundred marks that "she have done noe acte or actes, thinge or thinges but that one surrender made by sayd Katherine unto sayd Philip of the manor or lordshippe of Atlow". - 28 Jan [1573]

299 - Declaration by George ? Massey that he is contended with the division made between Andrew Knyveton [Kniveton], baronet, and Humfrey Okeover esq deceased, of the Ridge Ground between Atlow and Bradley. 22 Oct - 1640

300 - Atlow Church: Appointment by Gervase Mark, prior of Dunstable and the convent there, proprietors of the church of the parish of Bradbourne along with its chapels, of John Nyx to celebrate divine service in the chapel of Attlowe. 3 Nov - 1538

301-302 - Atlow Church: Letter regarding the licence to baptise and bury at Atlow and notes regarding the status of Atlow and Bradbourne. - 1591

303 - Atlow Church: Licence by William Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield to carry out baptisms and burials at the chapel of Atlow. 18 Sep - 1591

304 - Atlow Church: Part of a seventeenth century document relating to the chapelry of Atlow - [17th cent]

305 - Atlow Church: `The case for the chappell of Atlow and tithes thereto belonging'. - [17th cent]

306 - Atlow Church: Memoranda -Wirksworth Court of the Archdeacon - that Atlow should pay 18s to the leads and glassing and bell frame at Bradbourne church i.e. 25 oxgangs of land at 9d. per oxgang. - [17th cent]

307-308 - Atlow Church: Receipts for `pension mondey' from the lordship Atlow. - 1641-1642

309 - Atlow Church: Letter regarding `pension money' by Luke Bacon of Bradbourne 7 Jun - 1642

310 - Atlow Church: Release by Frances Bacon widow of Luke Bacon of Bradbourne of Mrs Martha Okeover of Snelston from all the `pension money' due to her on the death of Luke Bacon. 4 Nov. - 1647

311-318 - Atlow Church: - 1862-1863

319 - Memoranda of an acknowledgement by Richard de Ednaston and his heirs that he holds from Lord Hugh de Okeover and his heirs and assigns for 8 shillings per annum rent for the whole life of Lady Hawys formerly wife of Lord Andrew de Grindon, two bovates of land with appurtenances in the vill of Snelston: if he (Richard) fails to pay the rent, then Hugh de Okeover and his heirs may enter the land and distrain in whatever way they wish the full payment of the rent. Witnesses: Robert de Wensley, William son of Andrew de Grindon, Thomas Meveral, Robert Richer, William de Okeover John Snelston and others. - [mid 13th cent]

319-321 - Snelston Estate

320 - Lease by Adam, forester, of Snelston to William de la Hul of Snelston, of one acre of land with appurtenances in the fee of Snelston lying between Richard de Hildeston's holding and the land which Henry Pees once held, and extending from the land of Adam Edy up to Littelwodebroc: to hold the same at a rent of a red rose for a period of five crops from 1285. Witnesses: John Baule, William de Grendon [Grindon], Henry de Thorp, Robbert le Walour, John le Cuc, clerk and many others. - 1285

321 - The reply of Humphry Oker [Okeover] in a dispute with John Fitzherbert over a piece of ground in Snelston open fields called the Marewales, which was formerly let on a year-to-year tenancy to tenants at will John Dutton and his son Richard by Humphry Oker's ancestors Ralph and Philip Oker: Humphry claims that these lands are his rightful inheritance and that John Fitzherbert has unreasonably ploughed up the barley he has sown on the piece of land concerned. - [c1535]

322 - Abstract of title of Mr Okeover to an estate at Mapleton late Carters and Lowes, beginning with feoffment of 10 October 1654 from Charles, Viscount Mansfield son and heir of Elizabeth, Countess of Newcastle in consideration of £180, to Richard Carter or Williamson of a messuage, farm or tenement with appurtenances in Mapleton called Wainwrights Farm and another farm or tenement called Old House Farm. - 1746

322-383 - Mapleton Estate

323 - Abstract of title of Francis Goodwin, esq., to messuages farms and lands at Mapleton, articled to be sold to H F Okeover, beginning with feoffment of 16 August 1725, by John Newham of Whittington, gent., to George Milnes of Dunston, gent., in consideration of £800, of a messuage, farm and land in Mapleton and Okeover called Goodwins Farm, then in the several tenures of George Williamson alias Carter, Richard Williamson alias Carter and John Alcock: property conveyed to John Goodwin by feoffment of 21 March 1772. - 1802

324 - Abstract of title of Mr John Thompson and his to a piece of land in Mapleton beginning with lease and release of 9/10 October 1805 by H F Okeover to Humphry Thompson of a parcel of land known as the Shoulder of Mutton Piece 3 acres by estimation. - 1818

325 - Abstract of title of Edmund Lamplugh Ireton, esq sole acting devisee, trustee and executor under the will of William Hayne, esq., deceased, to a freehold messuage and land at Mapleton and Okeover, beginning with the will of Margaret Trott of Mapleton, spinster. 4 May 1754 - 1821

326 - Abstract of title Mr Richard Haskey to lands at Mapleton beginning with release of 6 July 1708 by William Alcock and others to Samuel Dickinson of Uttoxeter, of parcels of land in Mapleton called Hollands Crofts and the Brown Hay, and two beast grasses every third year upon the Callow, 1½ beast grasses every two years together and 2½ beast grasses every third year, upon a pasture called Upper Hill and winter pasture every year for 12 sheep upon the Callow and ½ of all brakes belonging to the town of Mapleton. - 1823

327 - Abstract of title of Mr Thomas Lees to messuages and lands at Mapleton and Okeover beginning with probate copy of the will of Margaret Trott of Mapleton spinster 4 May 1754, by which she bequeathed all her messuages, houses, farms, lands, tenements and hereditaments in Mapleton to Elizabeth wife of John Revett of Brandeston. - 1846

328 - Abstract of title of Mr Thomas Lees to messuages and lands at Mapleton and Okeover - 1846

329 - Copy lease and release by John Revett of Brandeston, Suffolk, gent., executor and devisee of Margaret Trott late of Mapleton to Leighton Hayne of Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, gent., in consideration of £3150 of the capital messuage and mansion house at Mapleton in the possession of John Woodhouse and closes called Hall Croft, the Paddock, New Close, Little Piece, Little Cowpasture, Hamberlands, Thornley, Skinner Flatt, new enclosure on the Upper Hill, three new enclosures on the Callow, new enclosure in the Goats Nook, Pingle adjoining the Patch, Pingle, two small pieces next to the Dove, Olivers Meadow, the Holes, a little garden adjoining Mapleton Town Street, now or late in the respective tenures of John Woodhouse, Edward Milward, Richard Williamson, George Silcock, and the executors of Joseph Munnicliffe deceased. 10/11 Sep - 1760

330 - Rental for Church Ley, Mapleton. - 1718

331 - Lease by Roger de Wensley, Lord of Mapleton, to John de Stancliff of the stream Bradeburnebrok belonging to his demesne of Mapleton : if the said John dies within twenty years then his heirs and assigns may hold the streatm for remainder of the twenty years : to be held for life at the rent of a peppercorn, but if said John lives over twenty years rent, the yearly rent to be 6s. 8d. Witnesses: Thomas de Mayfield of Ashbourne, John son of Robert de Mapleton, John de Wensley, Richard Brown of the same place. William clerk and others. Sunday next after the feast of St Denis(13 Oct) 4 Edward III - 1330

332 - Articles of agreement between Rowland Okeover of Okeover, esq and Francis Greensmith of Mapleton, blacksmith, by which Okeover lets to Greensmith the shop in which he lives with appurtenances in Mapleton for three years at 15s per annum. 24 Dec - 1690

333 - Lease by Symon Degge of Derby, gent., to Thomas Williamson of Mapleton, weaver, of a parcel of ground called Townmeadow in Mapleton : for 11 years at £6 10 s for the first year, then £7 per annum : additional rent of £5 per acre for any lands ploughed up : not to mow any land in the last year. 10 May - 1699

334 - Articles of agreement between John Hawkesworth of Compton, Ashbourne, gent., and Thomas Williamson of Mapleton, webster by which Hawkesworth has leased to Williamson a piece of ground called Vickars Meadow in Mapleton with the barn upon it : for 11 years at £7 5s. per annum rent : £5 per acre additional rent for any land ploughed up. 28 May - 1720

335 - Articles of agreement between Joseph Lee of Wem, Shropshire and Samuel Mills of Ashbourne, maltster, by which Mills agrees to pay £31 to Lee for a messuage, tenement or cottage in Mapleton. 27 Apr - 1728

336 - Memoranda that Richard Taylor has sold to Leake Okover [Okeover] for £220 a piece of land lying at the Moor, 5 acres 3 roods 00 perches., lately enclosed out of Mapleton Callow, pingle or meadow called the Flaxpiece in Mapleton, Dovefield, and all that land opposite to the Flaxpiece on the west side of the Dove, also half a mean piece of land lying upon the river, the other half whereof Leeke Okeover recently purchased from the trustees of Baptist Trott and finally a sedgey piece of land lying in the Oldwaters in Mapleton about 1½ acres now in the holding of Thomas Salt. 18 Jan - 1730/1731

337 - Memoranda that Richard Goodin has sold to Leeke Okeover for £160, a piece of meadow land in Mapleton lying in the Mean Piece, also another piece of meadow lying opposite upon the Dove and cour perches of land lying on the river bank to the west of the former piece. 18 Jan - 1730/1731

338 - Memoranda that Richard Williamson of Cheadle Park has sold to Leeke Okeover for £625 his farm in Mapleton in the possession of Anthony Maddock, being of a yearly value of £21. 9 Feb - 1733/1734

339 - Copy Memoranda that Richard Williamson of Cheadle Park has sold to Leeke Okeover for £625 his farm in Mapleton in the possession of Anthony Maddock, being of a yearly value of £21. 9 Feb - 1733/1734

340 - Articles of agreement between George Peach of Stanton Staffordshire, maltster, and Peter Pearson the younger of Mapleton, stone-cutter, by which Peach agrees to convey to Pearson for £35 before 10 August, a messuage, tenement or cottage in Mapleton inhabited by John Sim. 5 Jul - 1735

341 - Lease for 21 years by Richard Williamson of Caulton, Staffordshire, yeoman, to Peter Pearson the younger of Mapleton, mason, of a messuage farm or tenement in Mapleton with two closes called the Old Croft, the Three Lands, Overhill Close and the Laund : annual rent of £16 : an additional rent of £5 per acre for ploughing more than two acres in the final two years of the term : within three years to bring and lay down in the Overhill Close all the materials necessary for the building of a barn of a bay and a half and also a good and convenient farm house in the same closes 10 Oct - 1737

342 - Articles of agreement between George Adamson the elder of Ashbourne, blacksmith, and Leake Okeover, by which, in consideration of £80, Adamson agrees to convey to Okeover before 25 Dec 1738, a parcel of ground, land, meadow or pasture in the north west corner of Mapleton Ryefield, by estimation 2 acres, lately enclosed, purchased by Adamson from John Maddock of Ashbourne, baker and the other part of the parcel adjoining to the lane from Ashbourne to Mapleton, purchased from Richard Godwin and lately received inexchange from Richard Goodwin and lately received inexchange by Goodwin from Rev John Boydell, Rector of Mapleton. 16 Oct - 1738

343 - Bargain and sale by Thomas Williamson alias Carter of Mapleton, weaver, to Leake Okeover, in consideration of securing the sum of £25 10s 0d. now owing to Okeover on the balance of all accounts for rent, of all goods, cattle, chattels, household goods, ware merchandise, implements of household and husbandries, working tools and all lease and personal estate in his dwellinghouse 13 Oct - 1739

344 - Articles of agreement between Richard Williamson of Cheadle, yeoman, and Leake Okeover of Okeover, esq., by which, in consideration of £450, Williamson promises to convey to Okeover a messuage, farm or tenement in Mapleton with closes called New Close, Two Closes called Oldcroft, the Three Lands, the Overhills and the Laund, free of all incumbrances except for a mortgage to John Heath for securing the repayment of £350 and a lease of the premises to Peter Pearson 5 Jun - 1743

345 - Tenancy agreement between Edward Walhouse Okeover and Thomas Hewson of Mapleton, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Hewson on a year to year basis a messuage, dwellinghouse or tenement in Mapleton, and several closes 37 acres in Mapleton: annual rent of £42: not to have more than 7 acres in tillage in any year not any part more than three years successively in tillage, in one of which three years the same to be made and lie in summer fallow and sow such land with 12 lbs of clover seed and at the lease a proper quantity of other proper grass seeds in the third and last years tillage in order to lie for mowing the pasture 21 Mar - 1776

346 - Bond accompanying Tenancy agreement between Edward Walhouse Okeover and Thomas Hewson of Mapleton, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Hewson on a year to year basis a messuage, dwellinghouse or tenement in Mapleton, and several closes 37 acres in Mapleton: annual rent of £42: not to have more than 7 acres in tillage in any year not any part more than three years successively in tillage, in one of which three years the same to be made and lie in summer fallow and sow such land with 12 lbs of clover seed and at the lease a proper quantity of other proper grass seeds in the third and last years tillage in order to lie for mowing the pasture 21 Mar - 1776

347 - Tenancy agreement between Edward Walhouse Okeover and Samuel Dawson of Ashbourne, miller, by which Okeover has let to Dawson on a year to year basis a messuage dwellinghouse or tenement, garden and croft 1 acre 1 rood 00 perche in Mapleton, a corn mill in Okeover and Mill Meadow 4 acres 04 30 perches: annual rent of £42. 21 Mar - 1776

348 - Bond accompanying Tenancy agreement between Edward Walhouse Okeover and Samuel Dawson of Ashbourne, miller, by which Okeover has let to Dawson on a year to year basis a messuage dwellinghouse or tenement, garden and croft 1 acre 1 rood 00 perche in Mapleton, a corn mill in Okeover and Mill Meadow 4 acres 04 30 perches: annual rent of £42. 21 Mar - 1776

349 - Tenancy agreement between Edward Walhouse Okeover and Edward Bromley of Alderwasley, farmer, by which Okeover has to Bromley on a year to year basis, a messuage, dwellinghouse and tenement at Mapleton and closes in Mapleton and Okeover 106 acres 0 rood 30 perches, in the possession of George Taylor: annual rent of £160: not to have many part of the premises in tillage for more than three years successively and in one of the three years to be summer fallowed: not to plough without consent any of the premises except five pieces of land called the Carlows 21s 2 roods 27 perches, two pieces called the Carlows 21s 2 roods 00 perche, and the Bean Piece 5 acres 0 rood 20 perches 29 Nov [later altered and used as a 1779 agreement with the same farmer] - 1776

350 - Tenancy agreement between Dudley Baxter of Atherstone, Warwickshire., gent., receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery of the rents and profits of the real estates of Leake Okeover deceased, and Joseph Rogers of Duckmanton, farmer, by which Baxter has let to Rogers with the consent of Edward Bromley of Mapleton, farmer on a year to year basis at an annual rent of £168 15s 0d the farm at Mapleton: £10 per acre additional rent for ploughing or using for gardening any grass or meadow land 25 Apr - 1795

351 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and Thomas Hewson of Mapleton, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Hewson on a year to year basis, a messuage or tenement in Mapleton and closes called New Close, Far Hill, Middle Hill, Horse Hill, Barn Silcocks Close, Shoulder of Mutton, Lawn Mirey Cote Croft and Goats Close, 37 acres O rood 06 perche: annual rent of £48 7s 9d: £10 per acre additional rent for ploughing New Close, Silcocks Close, Shoulder of Mutton, the Croft and Goats Close: standard husbandry covenants 14 Apr - 1801

352 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and George Gouch of Mapleton, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Gouch on a year to year basis, a messuage or tenement in Mapleton and closes called Cote Close, Goates Nook, Near Carlow, Far Carlow, Moor, Nether Field, Dove Field, Ox Pasture, Bean Piece, Middle Field, Brickkiln Close, Horse Close, Piece, Gravel Beds, Calf Meadow, Little Mean Piece, Little Carlow, Middle Carlow and Great Carlow, 120 acres O rood 03 perche, formerly in the occupation of Henry Summers: annual rent of £240 £10 per acre additional rent for ploughing Cote Close, Goats Nook, Far Carlow, Moor, Nether Field, Dove Field, Ox Pasture, Been Piece, Middle Field, Brickkiln Close, Horse Close, Horse Piece, Gravel Beds, Calf Meadow and Little Mean Piece - standard husbandry covenants 11 Apr - 1804

353 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Charles Okeover and John Swindell of Mapleton, farmer by which Okeover has let to Swindell on a year to year basis four pieces or parcels of land lately purchased of Mrs Lees 9 acres by estimation, all in Mapleton: annual rent of £20 and £20 per acre additional rent for ploughing any of the land 26 Apr - 1847

354 - Power of attorney by Thomas Okeover to Thomas Parfaye to deliver to Richard Boys and Cecily his wife full and peaceful seisin of a pasture called Hewodfeld in the fee of Mapleton 20 Sep - 1456

355 - Power of attorney by Thomas Okeover to Thomas Parfaye to deliver to Richard Boys and Cecily his wife full and peaceful seisin of all his lands and tenements in the fee of Mapleton 22 Sep - 1456

356 - Memoranda of an agreement between William Hancock and Margaret his wife and their son in law Richard Williamson and his wife Margaret: Williamson and his wife has has half of the garden which was sown and half of the apples, when there are any, and the house they dwell in for Margaret's life, if it chance he dies before her, she keeping the name of her husband but not otherwise - circa 1660

357 - Agreement between the freeholders of Mapleton for the regulation of the open fields and stocking of the Callow Pasture 22 Oct 1661, together with a terrier of all the field land in Mapleton belonging to Mr Trott, 10 Mar 1668 - 1661-1668

358 - Bond by George Ferne of Bradbourne to George Timberhill of Draycott in the Clay, Staffordshire, in £20 to carry out the covenants in a feoffment of the same date (feoffment of Nether Houes and Pateman's House, Mapleton) 20 Dec - 1671

359 - Bond by William Alocke of Mapleton, yeoman, and William Alcocke son and heir apparent to Robert Phillips of Mapleton, yeoman, in £9 to keep all the covenants in a deed of the same date 21 Jan - 1670/1671

360 - Receipt by George Eyre to Robert Phillips of Mappleton by the appointment of Edward Pegg of Beaucheiffe, of £16, being the consideration for 2 beast gates and 8 sheep gates in Mapleton, sold by Edward Pegg to Robert Phillips 16 May - 1673

361 - Power of attorney by Edward Pegge of Beauscheiffe, esq., to Humphry Wall of Ashbourne, to enter Mapleton Callow and deliver true and peaceable possession of so much of the said Callow as it proportionable for the keeping of two beasts in summer and eight sheep in winter to Robert Phillips of Mapleton, yeoman 19 May - 1673

362 - Bond by John Maddox of Mapleton to Rowland Okeover in £40 14s Od: to perform the covenants etc., in an indenture of the same date 31 Dec - 1679

363 - Bond by William Williamson of Mapleton mason and Richard Williamson of the same place, webster, to Thomas Williamson of Mapleton, webster in £10, to keep the covenants in an indenture of the same date 24 Sep - 1685

364 - Bond by Francis Greensmith of Mapleton, blacksmith and Richard Williamson to Mapleton, to Rowland Okeover, in £10; to carry out the agreements etc., specified and declared in articles of agreement of the same date 24 Dec - 1690

365 - Bond by William Savage of Dovebridge [Doveridge], yeoman, guardian of the parish church of Dovebridge, to John Williamson of Mapleton, husbandman, Thomas Williamson of Mapleton, weaver and Richard Williamson of Mapleton, husbandman, in £36; the condition being that Savage and Robert Wall of Dovebridge, yeoman, shall cause to be maintained and kept Sara Finney and her child now begotten by the said John Williamson 17 Oct - 1691

366 - Receipt by Richard Williamson to Leake Okeover for £20, being part of the purchase money for theland in Mapleton sold by Williamson to Okeover 2 Jul - 1743

367 - Bond by Joseph Smith to Leak Okeover in £96; to keep all the covenants etc., in an indenture of release of the same date 5 Jun - 1747

368 - Bond by Edward Bromley of Alderwasley farmer, to Edward Walhouse, Okeover in £320; to perform the covenants etc. in articles of agreement of the same date 5 Jun - 1776

369-370 - "Charges of Mapleton Division" - The enclosure of the Overhills and Callow pastures, - giving proprietors number of gates held and proportion of expense to be borne - circa 1730

371-375 - Surveys of land in Mapleton open arable relating to the exchanges between the proprietors preceding the private enclosure of the fields [see Mapleton title deeds 1730-1733] - 1730/1731

376-380 - Summaries of the exchange of lands in Mapleton open arable fields proceeding the private enclosure - 1730/1731

381 - Mapleton tithe hay and corn: tenants and quantity of land in oats and barley, together with the tithe rent paid 10 Jan - 1734/1735

382 - Receipt for Mapleton land tax - 1718

383 - Building account for `Mapleton cottage' - 1863

384 - Abstract of title of Wiliam Gallimore to an estate at Mayfield, beginning with mortgage for 500 years of 12 Aug 1786 by John Greensmith of Mammerton, Longford to Elizabeth Buxton of Compton, in consideration of £600 of a messuage farm or tenement in Upper or Over Mayfield and closes Corn Park, Corn Park Meadow, Woodgate Close, Healds Piece and Lords Piece - 1848

384-401 - Mayfield and Snelsdal Estate

385 - Copy recovery by Robert Strelley, gent., against Thomas Perkins, gent., of 4 messuages, 4 gardens, 62 acres of land, 40 acres of meadow, 50 acres of pasture, and common of pasture for all manner of cattle in Church Mayfield, Middle Mayfield and Upper Mayfield, Swinscoe Woodhouse and Elison 12 Feb - 1766

386 - Survey: A particular of the lands of Philip Okeover and John Cockayne in Mayfield with abstracts from 15th and 16th century deeds: (i) Deed of exchange between John Cockayne and Philip Okeover by which Cockayne exchanged a close in Mayfield and a close between the mote of Snelsdale and Okeover Smeth for a close near Snelston Park 15 Edward (ii) Recovery by Humphry Okeover against Elizabeth Lonte, Joan Lonte and William Lonte of a messuage, 100 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, 40 acres of pasture and 10 acres of wood in Woodhouse and Swinscoe, 6 Henry VIII (iii) Grant by Ralph Thicknes to William Lonte of Stanshope of a parcel of land called Churchyarde in the fee of Woodhouse and 4½ acres of arable land in Swinscoe, 5 Henry VII (iv) Deed of exchange between William Basset and Ralph and Humphry Okover of lands to be included in Blore and Okeover Parks respectively, 5 Henry VII - [late 16th cent]

387 - Agreement whereby in consideration of a payment by Lord William Wyther to William de Venables of 100 shillings and a further payment of £20 and a half a mark at Okeover or Snelsdale, the said William de Venables will give to William Wyther full seisin of two bovates of land in Snelsdale which he holds to Lord Hugh de Okeover according to a deed to that effect which is in the keeping of Thomas Henry of Ashbourne - 5 Aug 1268

388-389 - Tenancy agreement and accompanying bond between Edward Walhouse Okeover and Edward Hodgkinson on a year to year basis, a messuage farm house or tenement called Lees House and several closes, 78 acres, in the parishes of Mayfield and Okeover : annual rent of £60 : additional rent of £5 per acre for ploughing more than 10 acres. 21 Mar - 1776

390 - Additional copy of Agreement whereby in consideration of a payment by Lord William Wyther to William de Venables of 100 shillings and a further payment of £20 and a half a mark at Akove(re) [Okeover] or Snellesdale [Snelsdale], the said William de Venables will give to William Wyther full seisin of two bovates of land in Snellisdale which he holds to Lord Hugh de Akove[re] according to a deed to that effect which is in the keeping of Thomas Henry of Esseburn [Ashbourne]. 21 Mar - 1776

391 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and John Mellor of Mayfield, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Mellor on a year-to-year basis, a messuage or tenement in Mayfield called Rowbotham's House and closes called Tilbourne Lane, Far Lower Netlow, Tilbourne, Little Tilbourne, Corner Pool Close, Nook Well Close, Clarke's Meadow, Cow Pasture, Croft Home Rowbotham's Croft, Riley's Croft, Nether Lower Netlow, Over Netlow, Over Ground, the Sprink, Johnsons Croft, Lower Hollow Croft, Over Hollow Croft, Near Cliff, Big Lime Kiln Cliff, Barn Cliff, Greaves Far Barn Cliff, Clover Cliff and Blower Netlow - all in Mayfield and a parcel of land in Swinscoe Town Meadow, 171 acres 2 roods 30 perches : annual rent of £169 3s. 2d. : £10 per acre additional rent for ploughingcloses other than Little Tilbourne, Over Netlow and Near Cliff. 14 Apr - 1801

392 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and John Milward of Mayfield by which Okeover has let to Milward on a year to year basis, a messuage or tenement in Mayfield and closes called the Meadow Well Close, Pasture Croft, Wood Close, Mill Meadow Furlong, Oliver Meadow, Bye Field, Mean Piece, Beach, Lady Holme, Lower Dry Field, Over Dry Field, Kendar Yerley and Yerley Bottom, 138 acres 3 roods 06 perche., all in Mayfield : annual rent of £174 : £10 per additional rent for ploughing closes other than Bye Field, Over Dry Field and Yerley. 10 Nov - 1801

393 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and Hannah Mellor of Snelsdale, Mayfield, widow, by which Okeover has let to Mellor on a year-to-year basis, a messuage or tenement in Snelsdale and closes called Snelsdale Bank, Bigards Cliff, Little Bigards Cliff, Little Cliff Wood, Lower Wood Close, Upper Wood Close, White Croftr, Little Meadow, Big Meadow, Upper Cover Piece, Lower Cover Piece, Middle Cover Piece, Lower Smeeth, Middle Smeeth, Upper Smeeth and the Other Wood, 97 acres 2 roods 38 perches, all in Snelsdale : annual rent of £120 : £10 per acre additional rent for ploughing closes other than Upper Wood Close, Lower and Upper Smeeth. 10 May - 1814

394 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and Joseph Mellor of Mayfield, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Mellor on a year to year basis the farm in Mayfield except that total acreage now given as 169 acres 2 roods 31 perches : annual rent of £235. 20 Jun - 1821

395 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and William Brown of Tean, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Brown on a year to year basis, a messuage or tenement in Mayfield and cfloses called the Meadow, Well Close, Pasture Croft, Wood Close, Furlong, Oliver Meadow, Bye Field, Mean Piece, Beach, Lady Holme, Kendar and Yerley Bottom, 114 acres 3 roods 34 perches, all in Mayfield : annual rent of £210 : additional rent of £20 per acre for ploughing closes other than Well Close. 3 Apr - 1821

396 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Farmer Okeover and William Cooper of Mayfield, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Cooper on a year basis, the farm in Mayfield as in annual rent of £230 : ploughing covenants as before. 16 Apr - 1830

397 - Tenancy agreement between James Harsden Longston of Sarsden House, Oxford, esq., and William Dilke of Maxstoke Castle, Warwick, esq., trustees under the will of H. F. Okeover, and Samuel Jackson of Snelsdale, Mayfield, by which the trustees have let to Jackson on a year to year basis, a messuage or tenement in Snelsdale, with outbuildings, with closes called Far Close, Wood Close, Wood Hill, the Hill, Little Meadow, White Croft, Big Meadow, Lower Meadow, Lime Close, Bean Close, Little Over Close, Rye Grass Close, Rushy Close, Upper Corn Field, Pool Close, Lower Cornfield, Lower Over Close, Far Ground, Far Wood, Bigards Cliff, Little Cliff, Little Hill and Middle Hill, 100 acres 1 rood 22 perches : annual rent of £120 : £20 per acre additional rent for ploughing closes other than Far Close, Rye Grass Close and Upper Cornfield. 23 Dec - 1836

398 - Tenancy agreement between Haughton Charles Okeover and William Philips by which Okeover has let to Philips on a year to year basis, a messuage or tenement with outbuildings in Snelsdale and closes but acreage given as 95 acres : annual rent £126 : £20 per acre additional rent for ploughing closes other than Far Close, Rye Grass Close and Upper Cornfield : in the course of tillage not to take more than three crops of corn from off the said lands, and shall during the course of tillage make a summer fallow for wheat or a fallow for turnips upon such lands and shall not take more than one crop of corn or grain upon such lands as shall fallowed after making such fallows and shall lay down the same in a clean husbandlike manner with 12 lbs of good clover seed and other grass seeds and half a bushel of rye grass seeds upon every acre and keep the same in pasture unbroken for the next two years : tenant allowed for hay and winter fallow wheat at the expiration of the agreement. 25 Mar - 1855

399 - Writ of Edward I to the Sheriff of Staffordshire to summon a jury to try the case of Roger de Acovere [Okeover] against William de Ipstones, Agnes widow of Thomas Syur and Elizabeth Agnes and Alice her daughters, for unjust disseisin of his common of pasture in Mayfield belonging to his free holding in Okeover. Kenilworth, 23 Nov - 1275

400 - Power of attorney from John Cokain, esq., to John Bailly to grant seisin to Philip Okeover, esq., of a moiety of a close with appurtenances lying between the Meresicche in the parish of Mayfield and the park of Okeover, and between the water of Dove [River Dove] and a close of Philip Okeover, and a parcel of a close between Le Mote de Snelsdale and Okoveremethende, extending from the corner of le Mote de Snelsdale as far as the corner of Snelsdale Park as appears by a ditch made by them. 4 Dec - 1475

401 - Bond by John Gallimore of Mayfield, farmer, to Thomas Ley of Mayfield, esq., that he will pay to Ley before 27 November 1793 £660 and 4½% interest as specified in a mortgage of the same date. 27 May - 1793

402 - Bond by Joseph Thornton of Stanton, mason, Richard Smith of Ellastone, Staffordshire, yeoman and William Thomson of Stanton, mason, to Leeke Okeover of Okeover, esq., in £10 : whereas Joseph Thornton has confessed to taking away from Stanton Moor a parcel of freestone got out of a quarry on Stanton Moor belonging to Leeke Okeover, the condition of this bond is that Thornton does not take away or unlawfully purloin any goods, chattels or personal estate of Leeke Okeover. 12 Mar - 1734/1735

402 - Stanton Estate

403 - Abstract of charters in which Orm de Okeover appears including a grant by Geoffrey, Abbot, and the monks of Burton to Orm of land in Stretton on the same terms as he held it from the Abbot Nigel (after 1114). - [late 19th cent]

403 - Stretton Estate

404 - Abstract of title of John Charles Burton Borough, esq., to an estate called Lower Musden Grange Farm, Ilam, beginning with lease and release of 8/9 February, 1809 by Richard Arkwright of Willersley Castle, esq., and John Port of Ilam, esq., to John Borrow of Derby, esq., in consideration of £5250, of the manor of Musden, Ilam (closes etc. recited). - 1872

404-E425 - Ilam Estate

405 - Purchaser's observations and requisitions on title - Musden Grange Estate - 1872

406 - Abstract of appointment by J. C. B. Borough, esq., of new trustees of settlement 5 Jun 1832. - 1873

407 - Abstract of title of Haughton Charles Okeover esq to the Musden Grange estate, beginning with conveyance by C H W A Reptington of Amington Hall, Warwickshire, esq., and others, to H C Okeover, in consideration of £16,904 11s 1d., of the Lower Musden Grange Estate, 419 acres 0 rood 19 perches (closes etc recited) 25 Mar 1873 - 1874

408 - Copy of medieval grant by the Abbot of Burton of the vicarage of Ilam - 18th cent

409 - Copy royal grant to Sir William Pagett, knight, of all that capital messuage in Ilam with its members and appurtenances, and the rectory and vicarage of Ilam, with the tithes of Ilam, Castern and Stanshope, lately in the tenure or occupation of John Cartlege, and a whole third part of the lands and tenements there lately in the tenure of Ralph Bowerynge and Margaret his wife and all that messuage with lands, meadows and pastures there late in the occupation of Thomas Henson, formerly belonging to the Abbot of Burton; also all that pension of 13s. 4d., arising from the Prior of Grendon, and all and singular the other messuages and tenements in Ilam, Blore, Castern, Grindon and Stanshopeunderlet to John Porte. - [16th cent]

410 - Copy of undated medieval quitclaim by Hugh Okeover to Henry Dyddor of Ilam of lands and tenements in Ilam with all appurtenances except 9 shillings per annum rent and foreign service. Witnesses: William de Ipstones,, Hugh Berforde, William Pusell, Henry de Castern, Thomas Meverell, Robert son of Richard de la Forde and Adam de Ilam. - [16th cent]

411-E412 - Copy lease and release by Joseph Flewitt of Nottingham surgeon and Anne his wife, Thomas Jekyll Rawson of Nottingham, esq., Sarah Needham, widow of Matthew Needham of Nottingham, surgeon, deceased and Richard Arkwright of Cromford, esq., at the direction of John Port the elder of Derby esq., and John Port the younger of Derby. esq., to Charles Vicars Hunter of Lincolns Inn, Middlesex, gent., of the manor or lordship of Ilam, together with the advowson, right of patronage and presentation to the vicarage and parish church of Ilam (details of all messuages, closes etc., recited in full). 1 & 2 Nov - 1803

413 - Attested copy of final concord, Michaelmas 1811, between Gregory Winrow, plaintiff, and Sir Hugh Bateman, knight, and Richard Bateman, esq., deforciants of one fourth part of the manor of Musden otherwise Musden Grange with all appurtenances, and two messuages, four barns, four stables, four cowhouses, 150 acres of land, 200 acres of meadow, 200 acres of pastures, 50 acres of wood and common of pasture for all manner of cattle with appurtenances in Musden alias. Musden Grange. - 1872

414 - Lease by Matilda, lately wife of John Whither de Ilome [Ilam] to Richard Bailley de Stanshope, John Smyth of the same place and Thomas Clarke of the same place, of all her part of a pasture called Ilome More with appurtenances : for 10 years at 13s. 4d. per annum. Witnesses: Ralph Bassett, esq., Humphry Walker and Thomas Richardson. 7 May - 1443

415 - Memoranda of an agreement between John Port of Ilam esq., and John Borrow of Derby esq., by which, in consideration of £250, Port agrees to convey to Borrow the manor of Musden, with promise by Barrow to pay £5000 on 5 April next, to make £5250 in all. 21 Nov - 1807

416 - Case papers in a dispute regarding Ilam Moor : Copy Inquisition Post Mortem on the death of John Porte, reciting that John Porte is seised of the manor of Ilam and 4 messuages, 3 cottages, 4 gardens, 100 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, 60 acres of pasture, 3 acres of wood, 200 acres of moor and 2s. 6d., annual rent with appurtenances in Ilam. 16 Sep - 1574

417 - Case papers in a dispute regarding Ilam Moor : Case paper - "to prove the defendant Philip Oker [Okeover] owner of Ilam Moor, Dovedale and ? Bunster" : brief between Oker and Porte. - [c1579]

418 - Case papers in a dispute regarding Ilam Moor : List of people associated with the case "to prove the defendant Philip Oker [Okeover] owner of Ilam Moor, Dovedale and ? Bunster" : brief between Oker and Porte. - [c1579]

419 - Case papers in a dispute regarding Ilam Moor : Indictment for a riot on Ilam Moor : Humphry Alsopp and Hugh and Henry Titterton. - [c1579]

420 - Case papers in a dispute regarding Ilam Moor : Judgement in disputes between John Porte, plaintiff and Philip Oker and William Jackson, defendants; between Philip Oker plaintiff, and Lawrence Wright, defendant: between Philip Oker, and John Porte, Humphry Alsopp, Hugh Titterton and Henry Titterton, defendants, all concerning the ownership of Ilam Moor. 21 Oct - 1579

421 - Case papers in a dispute regarding Ilam Moor : Memoranda relating to the above disputes. 19 October - 1580

422 - Exemplification of a suit brought by John Porte against Ralph Oker for seizing a cow in Low Close, Ilam, as a distress, the said Low Close, being part of land held by the said John of Ralph Oker's manor of Oker. 16 May - 1582

423 - Declaration by Charles Etches late of Musden Grange, now of New Inns Farm, Thorpe, farmer, relating to tithes on Musden Grange Farm. 12 Mar - 1873

424 - Memoranda of deposit of deeds by H C Okeover as a security for £14,000 borrowed from J C B Borough of Chetwynd Park, Newport, for the purchase of Musden Grange Farm. 25 Mar - 1873

425 - Chancery chief clerk's certificate relating to title to the Musden Grange estate. - 1874

426 - Abstract of title to a freehold estate at Blore, beginning with lease and release of 11 & 12 May 1768 by Samuel Shore of Norton Hall and Urith his wife and Samuel Shore of Bradfield, Sheffield, esq., to John Milnes of Wakefield merchant, in consideration of £4885, of the man or of Blore, Blore Park and the perpetual advowson, right of patronage, nominagtion and presentation to the rectory and parish church of Blore. - 1868

426-E447 - Estate papers regarding H C Okeover and the Blore Park estate - 1844-1869

427 - Blore estate observations and requisitions on title. - 1869

428 - Abstracts of institutions to the rectory of Blore. - 1869

429 - Blore estate vendors and purchaser's replies to observations and requisitions on title. - 1869

430 - Copy deed charging the freehold portion of the Lindridge estate, Leicester, with jointure annuities of £600 and £400, in lieu and substitution for the Blore estate in the county of Stafford : Harrington Offley Shore of Clifton Hall, Ashbourne, and the trustees of the settlement made on his marriage, 8 Nov 1865 8 Aug - 1869

431 - Draft of deed charging the freehold portion of the Lindridge estate, Leicester, with jointure annuities of £600 and £400, in lieu and substitution for the Blore estate in the county of Stafford : Harrington Offley Shore of Clifton Hall, Ashbourne, and the trustees of the settlement made on his marriage, 8 Nov 1865 8 Aug - 1869

432 - Case papers relating to H C Okeover's purchase of the Blore estate: Official copy of bankruptcy proceedings : bankruptcy of Hugh Parker, Offley Shore, John Brewin and John Rogers, bankrupts 17 Jan 1843 - 1854

433 - Case papers relating to H C Okeover's purchase of the Blore estate: Certificate of conformity of all the bankrupts, 28 May 1844 (copy) - 1854

434 - Case papers relating to H C Okeover's purchase of the Blore estate: Copy contract of sale between Offley Shore, esq C H Okeover, esq., for the sale of the Blore estate Dated 4 September. - 1868

435 - Case papers relating to H C Okeover's purchase of the Blore estate: Declaration by Samuel Brewin of Culland Hall relating to the Blore estate and Offley Shore's period of occupation. 3 Jun - 1869

436 - Case papers relating to H C Okeover's purchase of the Blore estate: Copy of Declaration by Samuel Brewin of Culland Hall relating to the Blore estate and Offley Shore's period of occupation. 3 Jun - 1869

437 - Case papers relating to H C Okeover's purchase of the Blore estate: Succession duty account of succession in Harrington Offley Shore of Lindridge House, Desford, Leicester, expectant on the death of Offley Shore. 12 Jun - 1869

438 - Case papers relating to H C Okeover's purchase of the Blore estate: In Chancery - copy further opinion regarding the Okeovers Trust and the Settled Estate Act, 16 Jul 1869 - 1869

439 - Case papers relating to H C Okeover's purchase of the Blore estate: Declaration by Charles Bischoff of 4 Great Westminster Street Buildings, London, gent., relating to the Shore family 12 Aug - 1869

440 - Case papers relating to H C Okeover's purchase of the Blore estate: Further opinion regarding the Okeovers' Trust and the Settled Estates Act - 2 Feb 1869

441 - Case papers relating to H C Okeover's purchase of the Blore estate: Purchaser's further observations and requisitions on title and various replies thereto - Blore estate and the advowson of Blore rectory. 19 Apr - 1869

442 - Case papers relating to H C Okeover's purchase of the Blore estate: Further opinion regarding the Okeover Trust 5 Aug - 1869

443 - Case papers relating to H C Okeover's purchase of the Blore estate: Small bundle of case papers relating to the Blore purchase including copy institutions of the rectors of Blore, 1752, 1786 and 1836, receipts endorsed on the conveyeance of the Blore estate of 27 April 1815, copy receipt clause on the Shore family settlement of 1865 and copy extract from the will of Samuel Walker of Nether Silton, York. - 1869

444 - Case papers relating to H C Okeover's purchase of the Blore estate: Further opinion regarding the Okeovers' Trust and the Settled Estate Act. - 1869

445 - Case papers relating to H C Okeover's purchase of the Blore estate: Schedule of deeds and documents relating to the Blore estate, Staffordshire. - 1869

446 - Case papers relating to H C Okeover's purchase of the Blore estate: Further copies of institutions of rectors of Blore, 1752, 1786 and 1836. - 1869

447 - Case papers relating to H C Okeover's purchase of the Blore estate: Copy of the Blore with Swinscoe tithe rentcharge apportionment award - 1844

448 - Lease for 20 years by Edward IV to Ralph Okeover, gent., with the advice of the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster, of all the lands tenements, meadow and pasture of Broadlow Ash, with herbage and pasturage of the wood of Broadlow, a parcel of the Duchy of Lancaster : annual rent of £9 13s 4d to be paid on Easter Day and Michaelmas 2 Apr - 1474

448-449 - Broadlow Ash estate

449 - Duchy of Lancaster writ directed to Ralph Okeover, gent regarding a grant by the Duchy to Ralph on 25 February 1484/5 of part of the lands, tenements, meadows and pastures of Bradlowe (Broadlow Ash) : now the land etc. has been let to James and Hugh Berdesley 26 Apr - 1485

450 - Kniveton Estate

450 - Lease by Thomas Shaynton [Sheinton] of Farley to Thomas de Okeover of all his land called Les Flates near Kniveton : annual rent of 14s., for 21 years. Witnesses: John Wareyn, Adam Lyghtwod [Lightwood], Richard Bromley 25 Dec - 1411

451 - Covenant between John Cokayn, knight, Thomas Okeover, esq., Alured [Ailred] de Longford, esq., and Thomas Dawkyn, chaplain and John de la Pole de Hartington and Henry de Bothe, esq., by which de la Pole and Bothe agree that, if Nicholas son and heir of Henry Fitzherbert lives to become of age or to be married by them in his minority, then they will pay £40 to Alice, Joan and Elizabeth, sisters of Nicholas, in return for which Cokayn, Okeover, de Longford and Dawkyn grant to de la Pole and de Bothe, the manor of Norbury with advowson of the church of the same place, which they held by gift and feoffment of William Avener and Richard Angers, clerks, for 15 years : after the term of 15 years, the manor reverts to Nicholas Fitzherbert and his heirs. Friday next before Michaelmas (25 Sep), 4 Henry VI - 1426

451 - Norbury

452 - Agreement by which Thomas Okoever, farmer of the church of Duffield, agrees to pay to the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of the Blessed Mary Leye (Leicester), on 24 Jun his arrears of rent for Duffield Church for 8 Henry VI (1430), £6. 17s 3d., and further £42 on 11 Nov in part payment of the rent for 9 Henry VI, £13 6s 8d at Christmas, following £6 13s 4d on 24 Jun following and £15 6s 8d on feast of St Martin (in summer) following. 8 Jun - 1430

452 - Duffield Church

453 - Derbyshire Estate

453 - Seventeenth century transcripts of Okeover deeds relating to the Derbyshire estate beginning with final concord of June 1500 between Richard Kniveton and Joan Kniveton, plaintiffs, and Joan Ireland, deforciant of 4 messuages, 10 virgates of land, 40 acres of meadow, 200 acres of pasture, 20 acres of wood, 50 acres of heath and 50 acres of moor in Yeldersley, consideration 100 marks. With deeds relating to Atlow and Snelston. - 17th cent

454-455 - Tenancy agreement between Edward Walhouse Okeover esq., and Humphry Daniel of Randscliff, Fenny Bentley, farmer, by which Okeover has let to Daniel on a year to year basis, a messuage or dwellinghouse called Randscliff and several closes 193 acres in Fenny Bentley : annual rent of £66 : standard husbandry covenants : bond accompanying. 21 Mar - 1776

454-456 - Fenny Bentley Estate

456 - Book of receipts for tithe rent payments in Fenny Bentley - Edward Hollinshead, minister - 1644-1659

457 - Findern Estate

457 - Receipts for chief rents on Philip Okeover's land at Findern - 1577-1593

458 - Abstract of title of H F Okeover to manors, messuages and lands in Derbyshire and Staffordshire beginning with lease and release of 19/20 November 1691 between Rowland Okeover, Thomas Okeover, his son and heir apparent, Dame Katherine Yorke (formerly wife of William Leeke of Wyneswold and mother of Katherine Leeke), Katherine Leeke, John Thornhagh, William Cook, Sir Thomas Parkyns, John Wilkins, John Bainbrigge and Charles Farnham, being the settlement on the marriage of Thomas Okeover to Katherine Leeke. - circa 1840

458-498 - Derbyshire and Staffordshire estates combined

459 - Okeover estate rental - Calton, Schene (Sheen), Snellesdale [Snelsdale], Coldwell, Mapulton [Mapleton], Okeover and Snelleston [Snelston]. - [early 15th cent]

460 - Rent roll of Ralph Okeover, knight, paid at the feasts of St John the Baptist and St Martin : Snelston, Atlow, Mapleton, Woodhouse, Ilam, Castern, Yeldersley and Okeover 9 Jan - 1488/1489

461 - Rent roll of Ralph Okeover, knight, paid at the feasts of St John the Baptist and St Martin : Snelston, Atlow, Mapleton, Woodhouse, Ilam, Castern, Yeldersley and Okeover 19 Jan - 1488/1489

462 - Rent roll of Ralph Okeover, knight, paid at the feasts of St John the Baptist and St Martin : Snelston, Atlow, Mapleton, Woodhouse, Ilam, Castern, Yeldersley and Okeover - 1488/1489

463 - Rent roll of Humphry Okeover and his son Philip Okeover : Snelston, Atlow, Ashbourne, Mapleton, Woodhouse, Okeover (Humphry), Castern, Snelston, Ilam, Yeldersley (Philip). - [early 16th cent]

464 - Rent roll of Humphry Okeover, paid at the feasts of St John the Baptist and St Martin : rents for farms and chief rents : Snelston, Atlow, Mapleton, Yeldersley, Woodhouse, Ilam, Castern and Okeover. 10 November - 1514

465 - Rent roll of Humphry Okeover, paid at the feasts of St John the Baptist and St Martin : rents for farms and chief rents : Snelston, Atlow, Mapleton, Yeldersley, Wodhouse, Ilam, Castern and Okeover. 19 Nov - 1514

466 - Rental of Philip Okeover : Okeover, Mapleton, Yeldersley, Woodhouse, Findern, Potlock, Ilam and Swinscoe - 1579

467 - Okeover estate rental - Okeover, Mapleton and Mayfield. - 1744-1747

468-469 - Particular of the estate of Humphry Okeover : Okeover, Okeover Woodhouse, Swinscoe, Woodhouse, Mapleton, Atlow and Snelston : brief description of property, rental and some comments. [Two copies] 3 Feb - 1639/1640

470 - Survey of Okeover estates in Okeover, Mapleton, Atlow Mayfield and Fenny Bentley giving tenants' names, field names, acreage and value per acre. - circa 1810

471 - Lease by John Pole of Hartington and John Okeover, senior, to Thomas Okeover, junior of the manor of Okeover with all appurtenances and the manors of Atlow and Snelston and all other lands, tenements, rents and services in Derbyshire and Staffordshire which they hold by feoffment of Thomas Okeover, senior : to hold for the lives of Thomas Okeover senior and junior at an annual rent of £36 4s. 4d. - 2 Feb 1434

472 - Collective tenancy agreement between Morton Walhouse of Hatherton, esq., and several other persons in the occupation of several plots and parcels of real estate late of Leak Okeover in Okeover, Mayfield, Mapleton, Atlow, Bentley, Swinscoe and elsewhere, from 30 Jun 1793, to 5 Apr 1795 only : rents and names scheduled : not to leave in tillage any of the meadow or pasture landnot now in tillage; to summer fallow such tillage land that has borne two crops without being fallowed, to lay down and seed in a proper and husbandlike manner such tillage lands as shall be in the third year of tillage. 25 Mar - 1794

473 - Abstracts of tenancy agreements on Derbyshire and Staffordshire estates - Okeover, Woodhouse, Snelston, Atlow and Mapleton. - [c1590-1620]

474 - Extracts from tenancy agreements 1776-1794 [see under each estate for original agreements] : Okeover, Mapleton, Bradbourne, Atlow, Fenny Bentley, Mayfield and Blore. - circa 1800

475 - Power of attorney by Philip de Okeover, knight, to Thomas de Marchington, knight, John Crecy, rector of Longford, John Wade, rector of Leigh and Thomas de Sheen to receive seisin of certain lands in Callow,Atlow, Snelston, Mapleton, Parwich and Okeover, with all goods and chattels in the same. - 2 Feb 1382

476 - Power of attorney by John Poole of Hartington and John Okeover, feoffees to Thomas Okeover, to Geoffrey Walker to enter and deliver seisin to William Hondford, senior, Robert Hondford and Thomas Alvynton, chaplain, of all manors lands, houses, rents, services, meadows, pastures, pasturage, woods, fish-ponds and water in the counties of Stafford and Derby which they held by feoffment of Thomas Okeover. 1 Nov - 1428

477 - Power of attorney by John de la Pole of Hartington and John de Okeover, brother of Thomas de Okeover, to Geoffrey Walker to deliver seisin to Thomas de Okeover of the manor of Okeover and the vills of Castern, Ilam, Woodhouse and Coldwall in Staffordshire, and Atlow and Snelston in Derbyshire, which they held by feoffment of Thomas de Okeover. - [2 Feb 1429]

478 - Power of attorney by Thomas de Okeover, senior to William del Rowe to deliver seisin to John de la Pole of Hartinngton and John de Okeover his brother of the manor of Okeover and the vills of Castern, Ilam, Woodhouse and Coldwall in Staffordshire, and the manors of Atlow and Snelston in Derbyshire. Wednesday next after the feast of St Agatha (10 Feb) 7 Henry VI - 1429

479 - Power of attorney by John Pole of Hartinngton senior to John Pole of Hartington junior to deliver seisin to Thomas Okeover of Okeover of the manor of Okeover, with all his messuages, lands, tenements, rents and services in the vills of Castern, Ilam, Woodhouse and Coldwall in Staffordshire and the manors of Atlow and Snelston in Derbyshire 25 July - 1439

480 - Power of attorney by Thomas Lockwood to William Sonde, rector of Blore, to deliver seisin to Philip Okeover of Okeover esq., and Thomasin his wife, of all his lands, tenements, rents and reversions in Coldwell, a close called Brendwode, a parcel of land in Woodhouse next Blore, lately in the tenure of Thomas Serle and Robert Lont and 20s. rent arising annually from diverse lands and tenements in Woodhouse and a parcel of land adjacent in Hyllemedowe next to the vill of Woodhouse, also a pasture called Cokshuthill in the vill of Snelston which Henry Smyth, Abbot of Rocester and Richard Falkehurst rector of Kingsley now deceased held by gift and feoffment of Thomas Okeover of Okeover. Witnesses: John Curzon of Kedleston, Nicholas Kniveton of Mercaston, William Basset of Blore esq., Humphry Walker of Castern, gent., and William Taylor of Meynell Langley and others. 20 Dec - 1455

481 - Power of attorney by Philip Okeover of Okeover and Thomasin his wife, of all his lands, tenements, rents and reversions in Coldwell, a close called Brendwode, a parcel of land in Woodhouse next Blore, lately in the tenure of Thomas Serle and Robert Lont and 20s. rent arising annually from diverse lands and tenements in Woodhouse and a parcel of land adjacent in Hyllemedowe next to the vill of Woodhouse, also a pasture called Cokshuthill in the vill of Snelston which Henry Smyth, Abbot of Rocester and Richard Falkehurst rector of Kingsley now deceased held by gift and feoffment of Thomas Okeover of Okeover. Witnesses: John Curzon of Kedleston, Nicholas Kniveton of Mercaston, William Basset of Blore esq., Humphry Walker of Castern, gent., and William Tayllor of Meynell Langley and others. 20 Dec - 1455

482 - Power of attorney by Thomas Okeover, esq to Thomas Duffield to deliver seisin to John Gresley, knight, Walter Blount, Thomas Curzon, John Curzon, Henry de la Pole and Richard Kniveton, esquires, of his manors of Okeover, Atlow and Snelston and his other lands etc. in these places. 6 Oct - 1457

483 - King's writ directed to J Tyndall, knight, Magistrate of the Court of Chancery, Richard Harpur, John Bentley, John Stanhope, and George Fulwood, knights, and Francis Fitzherbert, Lodovic Rowd and Thomas Richardson, esq., justices, regarding a suit pending at Westminster between Anthony Asheley knight, and Rowland Okeover relating to property in Mapleton, Yeldersley and Ilam : since Rowland is incapable of travelling to Westminster without great bodily risk, the justices are authorised to go to them in person to settle the case; reciting final concords between Anthony Asheley plaintiff, and Rowland Okeover and Anne his wife, John Harpur, knight, Walter Bagott and Anthony Bagott deforciants of 4 messuages, 3 cottages, 4 gardens, 4 orchards, 80 acres of land, 150 acres of meadow, 300 acres of pasture, 20 acres of wood, 300 acres of heath and moorland and common of pasture for all manner of cattle with appurtenances in Mapleton and Yeldersley, and 2 messuages, 2 gardens, 2 orchards, 40 acres of land, 30 acres of meadow, 40 acres of pasture, 10 acres of wood, 200 acres of heath and moorland with common of pasture for all manner of cattle in Ilam. 22 Mar - 1609/1610

484 - Arbitration by William, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield in a dispute between William the Prior and the convent of the monastery of Our Lady of Tutbury and Humphry Okeover esq., concerning the following claims of the Prior denied by Humphry: (a) 22s. chief rent claimed by the Prior for all lands which Humphry has in Okeover on the side of the brook there towards Mayfield (b) 12d. rent for the "attachment of the weir" of Humphry's at Snelston Mill. (c) Possession of a parcel of ground near Mathefeld Ryse {Mayfield Rise], enclosed by Humphry's ancestors and called by him Okeover Smith and a parcel of the manor of Okeover and called by the Prior, Mayfield Smith and a parcel of the manor of Mayfield The Bishop awards the rents of the Prior and the parcel of land (Okeover Smeth) to Humphry with an annual rent of 2d payable to the Prior and requires the executors of Rauff Okeover, father of Humphry, to pay to the Prior 23s 4d arrears of rent on 29 Sep following 13 Oct - 1494

485-498 - Correspondence relating to repairs to buildings on the Okeover estate in Derbyshire and Staffordshire including farmhouses and the alms houses in Mapleton - 1724-1743

499 - The estate centred on Hardwick Abstracts: Abstracts of settlements relating to Okeover's Norfolk and Suffolk estates, including schedule of property in Hardwick with rentals as recited in the marriage settlement of Thomas Okeover in 1699, schedule of property in Hardwick and Tilney recited in the settlement of 20 Nov 1739 and schedule of unsettled property in Huntingfield, Bretts Marsh and Bungs Marsh (Suffolk) and Thurlow Marsh (Norfolk), abstracted from a deed of 6 Feb 1727 - circa 1750

499-538 - Norfolk estate

499-583 - Norfolk and Suffolk Estates

500 - Survey of lands of Rowland Okeover in the manor of Tilney alias Bury giving field names, acreage and rental, and distringuishing copyhold land - mid 17th cent

501 - Lease by Thomas Pettus, citizen and draper of Norwich and John Suckelynge of Norwich, baker, to Thomas Gaudy of Gaudy Hall, Norfolk, serjeant-at-law, (reciting lease by the Dean and Chapter of Norwich Cathedral to Robert Twayte of Norwich, yeoman, 9 Apr 1550, of two water mills and houses called the Myllhous and stable in Trows next Norwich and also a piece of meadow, 1 acre, lying in the south part of the water and river of the said mills and a parcel of meadow called the Corner of the Myddowe lying to the west of the mills and also a meadow in Trows called Cellerers Myddowe together with all waters and fishings and liberties of fishing extending from the south end of a certain meadow in Lakenham lately called Cellerers Myddowe with the said mills and from the mills to Trows Bridge; for 80 years at £10 per annum: also reciting assignment of his term in the premises by Robert Twayte to Jane Slaysbury alias Barrett of Norwich, 21 Apr 1550 and a lease by John and Jane Salysbury to Thomas Gaudy of Cellerers Myddowe for 21 years at 46s 8d per annum dated 17 Jan 1550/1: subsequently John and Jane Salysbury sold all their interest in the premises to Sir John Clere who subsequently sold his interest to Thomas Pettus and John Suckelynge of Collerers Myddowe in Trows, Norwich, from the end of the 21 year term of 17 Jan 1550/1 for the remainder of the 80 year term of the original lease of 9 Apr 1550 at an annual rent of 46s 8d., if the water or river which now runs to the said mill be turned by `order of the law' from the course that it now uses, then Pettus and Suckelynge shall have such part or portion of the said meadow let to the said Thomas as shall be convenient and necessary to make a river or water to convey the water to the mill in Trows, allowing part of the rent of 46s 8d 26 Apr - 1555

502 - Lease by Thomas Pettus of Morley, esq., and Elizabeth his wife to John Purte of Morley, yeoman, of all the messuages, lands and grounds of Thomas and Elizabeth Pettus in Hardwick, South Lynn, North Runton [North Runcton] and Middleton [all Co. Norfolk] formerly in the tenure of Thomas Holland namely houses, yards and grounds called Homestalles 12 acres, piece of ground called Nordinges 20 acres, Hanging Close 20 acres, the Fenne 19 acres, Calves Close 6 acres, 13 acres of arable land in Hardwick open fields, Great Twenty Acres Close, 20 acres, close adjacent 6 acres Little Tenne Acre Close, 10 acres, Great Tenne Acre Close 10 acres, Brakey Close 20 acres, Brook Close 19 acres the Marsh 20 acres, piece of ground next to the Marsh 9 acres, 8 acres of meadow in Whitethorn meadows, 12 acres of arable land in Asshly Field, 2 acres of arable land in Middleton West Field, 15 acres of arable land in the Myllfield, Pit Close 7 acres no date the Sheepwalk 50 acres: for 21 years at an annual rent of £110: ear all fodder on the premises, spread all muck and compost on the premises: keep hedges, dykes and drains in good order - 1627

503 - Memoranda that Elizabeth Payne has yielded to Francis Style, gent., quiet and peaceable possession of her mansion house and land now in her use and occupation to the use of Thomas Pettus of Rackheath, baronet, and promises to pay all arrears of rent due to Thomas Pettus at the time of the death of his brother Augustus Pettus, esq - 1663

504 - Articles of agreement between Sir Thomas Pettus, baronet, and Thomas Clifton of Hardwick, gent., by which Pettus has let to Clifton for 11 years at an annual rent of £126 (£130 in final year), tenements with barns, stables, pasture, arable grounds, meadows, marshes and fens in Hardwick now in the occupation of Robert Rudd: keep banks, dikes and drains in good condition: no more to be ploughed than that already in tilth at the time of entry: not to plough the Long Twenty Acre in the final three years of the term 1 May - 1669

505 - Lease by Sir Thomas Pettus of Rackheath, baronet, to William Barker of Hardwick, gent., in consideration of £155, of all those capital messuages with barns, stables, dovehouse, yards, gardens, orchards and all lands and tenements with appurtenances in Hardwick, South Lynn, West Winch, Middleton, North Runton and Sechey, 43 acres 1 roods 35 perches (recited in full in schedule), all of which are now or late in the tenure of William Barker: for 11 years at an annual rent of £201 0s 4d: not to convert to tillage without written consent any pasture land that has not been ploughed in the last two years, penalty of £3 per acre for doing so 20 Oct - 1669

506 - (a) Agreement between George Barker, on behalf of Rowland Okeover, and Richard Chappell of Moulton, Norfolk, yeoman, by which Chappell leases for seven years Bung's Marsh and Thurlow Marsh late in the tenure of Robert Haughton and Robert Gawdy: annual rent of £33: to maintain the outfalls, dykes and drains in tenantable repair 24 Oct 1678 (a) Agreement between Adrian Hart of Norwich on behalf of Rowland Okeover, and Hugh Lawrence of Rackheath, husbandman, by which Lawrence leases for seven years a farm in Rackheath and a meadow in Thorpe in the possession of Richard Gare, including such timber as may be necessary for fencing: annual rent of £17: not to plough or dig any meadow: additional rent of 40s per acre for doing so 12 Jun 1677 - 1677-1688

507 - Unexecuted deed by which Sir Thomas Pettus of Rackheath, baronet, has agreed with Thomas Browne of Norwick, physician, and William Stratford of Burton in the Heath, Warwickshire, that he shall stand seised of the manors and farms of Wilton and Hardwick, situate and lying in Hardwick, North Runton, Middleton, South Lynn, West Winch, Sechey and Saddlebow now or late in the tenure of Robert Rudd: to the use of Sir Thomas Pettus for life and then to the use of his wife Dame Elizabeth Pettus, her heirs and assigns for ever - circa 1675

508 - Articles of agreement between Thomas Okeover of Wymeswold, gent., and Edmund Beales of Wiggonhill St Germans, Norfolk, his agent and Jeremiah Wade of Hardwick, North Runton, by which Beales has let to Wade a messuage in Hardwick with barns, stables and outhouses, one little back piece fenced by posts and rails and also a sheepwalk in Hardwick (120 acres of whole year land and 9 acres of half year land) and 18 acres of field land: annual rent of £85, for 11 years: not to plough anything other than the 18 acres of field, land and the accustomed part of the sheepwalk: £5 per acre additional rent for ploughing other land 22 Sep - 1708

509 - Bond by Thomas Pettus of Rackheath, baronet, to Richard Clarke of Norwich, apothecary, in £1000: to observe the conditions in a deed between the two parties of the same date 1 Nov - 1670

510 - Surrender by George Inkson the younger to Leeke Okeover of all such lands, tenements and hereditaments that he now holds or lately did hold of Leeke Okeover in South Lynn and Hardwick and all tenant right and title hereto, and also liberty for Leeke Okeover or his agents to enter upon the said premises and all goods, cattle and chattels there found and now being lately distrained on for rent and "acreages" of rent due to the said Leeke Okeover at Lady Day 30 Mar - 1738

511 - Case papers - Okeover v Pettus: "The heads of the answer of Dame Elizabeth Pettus to the bill of Rowland Okeover and Elizabeth his wife" - relating to the Norfolk and Suffolk estates in Hardwick, Tilney, Stokesby and Huntingfield - circa 1675

512 - Case papers - Okeover v Pettus: Okeover v Pettus - "The heads of my answer collected by Mr Hubert to Mr Oker's bill - circa 1675

513 - Case papers - Okeover v Pettus: "The heads of the answer of Dame Elizabeth Pettus to the bill of Okeover, Esq., and Elizabeth his wife" - circa 1675

514 - Case papers - Okeover v Pettus: Writ of Charles II addressed to Rowland Okeover and Elizabeth his wife, containing an extract of an order in Chancery concerning matters in dispute between then and Lady Elizabeth Pettus, widow of Sir Thomas Pettus, Sir John Marsham, Robert Haughton, esq., William Stratford, esq., and Sir John Pettus 15 Jul - 1675

515 - Bill of complaint by Leeke Okeover of Okeover, esq., Wrightson Mundy of Osbaston, Leicestershire, esq., and John Eardley Wilmot of the Inner Temple, London, esq., (Okeover's trustees) to Hon Philip Lord Hardwick, Baron of Hardwick (Gloucestershire), Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, against Thomas Beech and William Monk (representatives of William Okeover, younger brother of Leeke Okeover) and John Sherwyn and Samuel Sterrop (surviving acting executors of the will of Sir Thomas Parkyns, one of the trustees named in the marriage settlement of 19/20 November 1699 on the marriage of Thomas Okeover to Katherine Leeke), concerning Leeke Okeover's disposal to Robert Hudson of Red Lyon Square Middlesex, for £10,395, of premises in Hardwick (capital messuage and farm formerly in the occupation of Rowland Okeover, messuage and farm in Hardwick formerly in the occupation of Nicholas Righthouse, 90 acres, parcel of ground in Hardwick 4 acres, formerly in the occupation of John Dann, a parcel of land in Middleton, 11 acres, and several parcels of land in Ashley Fields, Hardwick, 11 acres, formerly in the occupation of Henry Towers, a messuage and farm in West Winch, 45 acres, in the occupation of Mr Bagg, land in Sechey, 25 acres, lying in the marsh abutting West Winch Common formerly in the tenure of John Williamson, two closes of ground, "next the Brooke" 4 acres formerly in the occupation of John Hunn, and a piece of ground in Sechey, 1 acre, butting on the common formerly in the tenure of Edward Woodhouse) limited in the marriage settlement of 19/20 November 1699 on the marriage of Thomas Okeover and Katherine Leeke, first to the use of Rowland Okeover (grandfather of Leeke), then to Elizabeth Okeover (grand-mother of Leeke), then to Thomas Okeover (Leeke's father) and then to be held in trust by Sir Thomas Parkyns of Bunny and William Cooke of Wymeswold to raise the portions of the other sons and daughters of Thomas Okeover (William Okeover and Elizabeth Higginbottom), which trust was duly executed and receipted by William and Elizabether : now Beech, Monk, Sherwyn and Sterrop have conspired to defraud Leeke Okeover by pretending that part of the premises was devised by Rownad Okeover, in his will, to William Okeover, and are thus preventing the sale to Bert Hudson : Leeke Okeover and trustees request that a write to subpoena be direted to Beech, Monk, Sherwyn and Sterrop to appear before the Court to answer the complaint - circa 1750

516 - Case paper - the joint and several answers of Leek Okeover, William Okeover and Rowland Okeover defendants to the information of his Majesties Attorney General and by the relation of James Stephenson - circa 1730

517 - Further case paper the joint and several answers of Leek Okeover, William Okeover and Rowland Okeover defendants to the information of his Majesties Attorney General and by the relation of James Stephenson 28 Nov - 1730

518 - Further case paper the joint and several answers of Leek Okeover, William Okeover and Rowland Okeover defendants to the information of his Majesties Attorney General and by the relation of James Stephenson - 1730/1731

519 - Further case paper the joint and several answers of Leek Okeover, William Okeover and Rowland Okeover defendants to the information of his Majesties Attorney General and by the relation of James Stephenson reciting the marriage settlement of 19/20 November 1699 on the marriage of Thomas Okeover to Katherine Leeke 19 Apr - 1731

520 - Order of the Genral Session of Sewers revoking an earlier decision permitting the commoners of Middleton to construct a tunnel through the Warr Bank, reciting that at a session of sewers held on Wednesday 3 Mar 1693 Rowland Okeover and Richard Bornay presented their petition to the court showing that by a law of sewers to which the royal assent was given given (at Kings Lynn, 20 James I), it was decreed that for conveying the waters of the Lord's several fens and lands of Middleton and Hardwick to a place therein mentioned from a Warr Bank appointed to be made between these lands and the commonds of Middleton, a new sewer should be made to begin in the dyke between the Oakeclose and Lord's fenn at the south end of the fenn and to extend to the ground now Mr Okeover's on the west side of Lord's fenn; the sewer and bank were to be maintained by those lands receiving benefit : and the said Warr Bank and sewer were made and have ever since been maintained accordingly : Okeover and Bornay further complain that the commoners of Middleton had dug up and cut the Warr Bank and caused a tunnel to be placed therein and the south end on the pretence of an order made by the court whereby the waters of the common and thrown into the petitioner's lands contrary to the intent of the law : at further sessions of the court and 11 October 1693 and 25 April 1694, five independent commissioners were of the opinion that the tunnel through the Warr Bank was of great damage to the petitioners' lands in Middleton and Hardwick and was not warranted by the Law of Sewers of 21 James I : the present court (10 October 1694) have therefore decreed that all laws and orders licensing the laying down, placing or containing the tunnel are revoked and that any commoner opening the tunnel shall forfeit £10 for each offence - 1694

521 - Writ by William III directed to Edward Beales gentleman, and William Ely and James Nicholson, his lawful deputies by which Beales is appointed expenditer to collect a rate or acreshott of7d. per acre upon the lands in the townships of South Lynn, Hardwick and Middleton ordered by the Commission of Sewers. 13 Oct - 1699

522 - Order by the Commission of Sewers directed to the Constable of Hardwick that the sum of £1 3s. 6d. is assessed on Hardwick as its contribution to a levy of £23 2s. 8¾d. to be raised by the Hundred of Treebridge: other parishes involved - Tilney cum Islington, Clenchwharton, North Lynn, West Lynn, South Lynn, Middleton, Setchey, West Winch, Pentney, Hardwick, Mintlyn, Gaywood, South Wooton, Pawsey, Leziat and Grimston: the dikereeves (or constable if no dikereeve appointed) to collect the respective portions; to be paid by them to the Clerk of the Court of Sewers on or before 20 August 30 Jul - 1731

523 - Memoranda by Robert Powlers that he has known for 29-30 years that Jeremy Wade, John Hill and Thomas Wrathall had free liberty in and upon a common in Hardwick and North Runton for neat beasts and horses without interruption by any person 7 May - 1741

524 - Bill for clay work done for Mr Farthinge at Tilney Apr 18th to Nov 10th - 1676

525 - Memoranda of work done by John Dobb, Henry Woods and John Makerell in raising the height of the banks of Rowland Okeover: 18 roods in several places at ¾d per rood 12 Sep - 1676

526 - Receipt by Thoms Girling for William Barker's rent for land in West Winch 20 Oct - 1678

527 - Bill for various disbursements on the farm at Rackheath and the meadow at Torpe 23 Oct - 1678

528 - Receipt by William Bacon of Mr Barker of Hardwick for £1 4s. 1½d being the second three months pay of the six granted to his Majesty by Act of Parliament for the disbanding of the army and other uses there mentioned 28 Jan - 1678

529 - Receipt by Robert Pepper of William Barker £1 19s 6d being the quite rent for lands in Hardwick late of Sir Thomas Pettus 20 October - 1678

530 - Various disbursements at Hardwick for scouring drains, sessioning of sewers etc. - 1678

531 - Receipt by George Barker of William Wells and John Wright for making two breaches in the Millriver Bank in Hardwick Fenn - 8 days work at 13s per day 24 Jul - 1679

532 - Disbursements on the farm at Hardwick in Mr Barker's use and receipt for Hardwick land tax - 1679

533 - Receipt by Samuel Horochin of William Barker for £1 4s 1½d being the three first months assessment for the land of Rowland Okeover, senior 12 May - 1679

534 - Farm labourer's bill for mowing and haymaking at Hardwick - late 17th cent

535 - Receipt for land tax on Norfolk estates - 1704-1705

536 - Receipt for land tax on Norfolk estates 30 Mar - 1705

537 - Norfolk estate account 11 May - 1705

538 - Recent money for "sea breaks" - Norfolk 11 May - 1705

539 - 552 - Little Ellingham estate

539 - Survey: Particular of the Manor of Little Ellingham giving description of property, estimated acreage and rent paid - [late 16th cent]

540 - Survey: Terrier of the manor of Little Ellingham giving owner or tenant, abuttments and acreage of each parcel, including also an account of the rights, customs and privileges of the manor - 1643-1644

541 - Survey: A true and just account taken of all timber, trees rollings and stands belonging to the estate of Rowland Okeover in Ellingham Parva [Little Ellingham], (with later additions). - 1676

542 - Lease by Thomas Woodhouse and Susan his wife and Robert Fflinte to Samuel James of Little Ellingham, yeoman, of a close call Coniger, 14 acres, for 31 years at 1d rent 12 Jul - 1602

543-544 - Lease and counyterpart by Thomas Woodhouse and Susan his wife and Robert Fflinte of Little Ellingham, gent., to Samuel James, yeoman, in consideration of an unspecified sum, of a close in Little Ellingham called the Coniger, 14 acres, for 900 years at 1d rent 12 Jul - 1602

545 - Lease by Thomas Pettus of Rackheath, Norfolk, to George Swan of Little Ellingham, yeoman, of a close of pasture called Carmin Close with a certain barn thereupon built, a close called Lister's Wod, a close of pasture and arable called Twelve Acre Close, close of pasture called Sallow Close and 9 acres of arable, now in the occupation of George Swan, for seven years at an annual rent of £40 and a firkin of butter. 24 Jan - 1629/1630

546 - Lease by Thomas Pettus of Rackheath, gent., High Sheriff of Norfolk, to Andrew Beales of Little Ellingham of a piece of meadow or carr grounds, 14 acres in Little Ellingham, close of pasture called Lysters Wood, 14 acres, a piece of land or meadow 1 acre in Little Ellingham within Andrew Beale's close, a piece of meadow one rood; for seven years at £13 per annum to be paid at Rackheath Hall and in five of the seven years a firkin of best butter on All Saints Day 20 Sep - 1632

547 - Lease by Thomas Pettus of Rackheath, esq Sheriff of Norfolk, to William Beales of Little Ellingham, of a piece of meadow or carr ground known as Burnthorne Carr in Little Ellingham, 30 acres, now or late in the possession of William Beales, for seven years at £10 per annum. 20 Sep - 1632

548 - Lease by Thomas Pettus of Rackheath, esq to Thomas Smyth of Little Ellingham yeoman, of a capital messuage in the occupation of Thomas Smyth with all lands, meadows, pastures, feedings and carr ground in Little Ellingham late in the occupation of William Beales, Andrew Beales and John Woodcock, deceased, and a parcel of wood ground called Lysters Wod and five roods of land or pasture, reserving to Pettus all manner of wood and timber, all courts leet, all copyhold lands and the dovehouse: for 5 years at an annual rent of £200 and four firkins of butter: not to break up or convert to tillage any of the pasture ground other than Foxborough and Clampe Closes; additional rent of 40s. per acre for doing so; to lay down part of the closes called Marlepitt Furlong; not to plough for more than three successive years and 30 acres of the arable to be handed over to Pettus at thefeast of the Annunciation before the end of the term: schedule attached being "an indented inventory of all the goods and household stuffe belonging to Thomas Pettus, esq., in the house demised to Thomas Smythe" 1 Oct - 1639

549 - Lease by Sir Thomas Pettus of Rackheath, baronet, to Henry Pretice of Little Ellingham, yeoman, of all the manor house or messuage with barns, stables, malthouses, outhouses, with arable and pasture grounds, carr grounds and feedings belong lately in the tenure of Thomas Smythe and being in Little Ellingham: for seven years at an annual rent of £166, a barrel of buttersweet and three firkins of butter: additional rent of £5 per acre for ploughing land not normally used for tillage 20 Oct - 1649

550 - Articles of agreement between Rowland Okeover of Okeover esq., and John Bennett of Little Ellingham by which Okeover agrees to sell to Bennett the messuage or tenement in Little Ellingham in which he lives and lands belonging on 10 June 1694 in consideration of £146 10 May - 1693

551 - Appointment by ------ (illegible) of Edward and James Beales to receive jointly or severally all sums of money due for a farm in Norfolk called Briths Marsh and for a farm in Suffolk called Huntingfield Marsh - 1701

552 - Receipt by Ralph Sowthe of Great Horwyniseforth Suffolk, husbandman of Ralph Chamberlaine, knight of Geddyng Suffolk, for £80, in payment for the purchase of all those messuages, lands, meadows, pastures, feedings, moors, marshes, wood and underwoods, rents, reversions and hereditaments in Little Ellingham which were once Roger Gromes and after that William Sowthe's father of Ralph 1 Nov - 1570

553 - Power of attorney by Joan, formerly wife of Richard Thorpp senior, burgess of Lynn, deceased, daughter of John Lombe and Elene his wife and sister and executrix of the will of Alice her sister, wife of Thomas Faukys burgess of Lynn deceased, to John Boston, junior, merchant and burgess of Lynn to deliver seisin to William Statham alias Loksmyth burgess of Lynn, Elene his wife, daughter of the said Alice, William Porter, knight, William Priston, Thomas Faukys, clerk, Thomas Hasley, esq., John Byllyng, Alexandra Smyty chaplain, John Wavyn burgesses of Lynn and Hugh Coke merchant, of a wharf with buildings and appurtenances in Lynn in a street called Lathestrete 14 Apr - 1432

553-564 - Kings Lynn Estate

554 - Inventory of such deeds and writings as John Heth of Kings Lynn, esq., has delimited to Robert Page of Kings Lynn, merchant, in the purchase of certain messuages, tenements, warehouses and other hereditaments in Kings Lynn 2 Nov - 1570

555 - Power of attorney by John Heth of Kings Lynn esq., to John Fromkleyne to enter premises called Rolffe Entrie or Millers Entrie and deliver seisin to Robert Page of Kings Lynn, merchant - 1570

556 - Lease by Robert Wadeson of Sedber Yorkshire, merchant, uncle and next heir of Thomas Wadeson late of Kings Lynn, merchant, and Katherine his wife of a messuage, tenement and warehouses with yards, gardens, coleyards, keyes or staths for ships in Kings Lynn, in Lathestreate on the south side of a certain entrie late John Heth's later Robert Page's and now Robert Sisson's called Roffe Entrie or Millers Entrie between the said entrie and a parcel of ground on the north and a parcel of ground late John Drake's now Robert Ladyman's and the fleet called Mares Fleete on the south, and extending in length from the street towards the east to the river of Kings Lynn to the west: for 80 years at an annual rent of £6 13s 4d - 22 Feb [1578]

557 - Bond by Robert Wadison of Sedber, Yorkshire, to Thomas Grave, senior, of Kings Lynn in £40, to observe the covenants etc. in an indenture of the same date 10 Jan - 10 Jan [1581]

558 - Receipt by William Pynder of Kings Lynn of £186 from Katherine Grave, widow, due to him in respect of the sale of a messuage with appurtenances in Kings Lynn in a street called Lathe Street 8 Dec - 1600

559 - Articles of agreement between Henry Violet of Kings Lynn, gent., and Austin Pettus, esq., son of Sir John Pettus, knight, on behalf of himself and Thomas Pettus his son, reciting that Katherine Grave (formerly Violet) mother of Mary late wife of Austin Pettus and grandmother of Thomas Pettus bequeathed £4,000 to Thomas Pettus in her will, by which it is agreed that, as Thomas Pettus is only an infant aged three and for the better discharge of the executors for and concerning the legacy, Henry Violet shall disburse and lay out towards the purchase of lands, tenements and hereditaments the legacy of £4000 and also £300 more such as Sir John Pettus, knight, Thomas Oxburgh, Thomas Atson and Thomas Gibson, esq., shall direct: the lands etc to be assured first to Henry Violet and Grave Violet his son and heir and then to be assured to Thomas Pettus and his lawful issue: a parcel of the lands to the value of £100 to revert to Henry Violet with remainder to Austin Pettus 28 Sep - 1608

560 - Bond by George Inkson of Kings Lynn to Leeke Okeover in £198, to pay £99. 21 Mar - 1737

561 - Letter from Francis Higginbotham to Like Okeover's Kings Lynn tenants who is heavily in debt to Okeover: it is suggested that Inkson's goods be sold and a security made out of his land to settle some of his debts 4 Apr - 1738

562 - Letter from Francis Higginbotham to Leeke Okeover regarding the valuation of George Inkson's goods, with schedule of farm stock etc. The letter also refers to the bill for the Derby-Brassington turnpike road 8 Apr - 1738

563-564 - Land tax assessments for Kings Lynn - 1692-1742

565 - Surveys and rentals: A particular of all the rents for Pettus estates in Suffolk as they were paid at Michaelmas 1632-Huntingfield, Heveningham, Sibton, South Elmham and Rowling - 1632

565-583 - Suffolk Estate

566 - Surveys and rentals: A particular of the messuages and lands lying in St Peters in South Elmham in the farm of William Smith - Lyonell Pitts, surveyor - 1636

567 - Surveys and rentals: Survey of the messuages, lands and tenements lying in several towns and parishes in Suffolk in the possession of Thomas Pettus - South Elmham, Huntingfield, Linstead, Chedeston and Boylands - giving tenants, a description of the property, acreage and rentals - 1636

568(a) - Articles of agreement between Thomas Pettus of Rackheath, esq., and Richard Davye of the parish of All Saints (South Elmham) Suffolk, esq., by which, in consideration of £1155, Pettus has sold to Davye, all those his messuages or tenements, lands and premises in the occupation of William Smyth in the parish of St Peters, South Elmham 8 Mar - 1636/1637

568(b) - Articles of agreement between Thomas Pettus and Edmund Gostlings, yeoman by which, in consideration of £480, Gostlings has sold to Pettus, all his lands, tenements, meadows, pastures and hereditaments whatsoever in Caister St Edmunds, Stoke, Holycrosse and Amringhall, Norfolk 4 May - 1633

568(c) - Articles of agreement between Thomas Pettus of Rackheath, esq and Nicholas Knyvet of Grostwick, by which Knyvet agrees to sell to Pettus the manor of Rushall, Norfolk, for £1600 17 Feb - 1636/1637

568(d) - Memoranda of measurement of land for Mr Pettis of Norwich and John Chandler of Yarmouth regarding land at South Elmham 6 Sep - 1599

569 - Release by Richard Potter of Chediston, and Alice his wife, of his right, title and interest (by reason of dower) in seven acres of copyhold land in Chediston held of the manor of Boylands, to William Smyth of Pakefield, Laxfield, Suffolk - 1658

570 - "Widow Paynes reckoning" (Chediston) 27 Apr - 1666

571 - Case paper relating to the Manor of Boylands - the last opinion of Counsellor Douty - [17th cent]

572 - Notes on Sir John Pettus' rents at South Elmham - [17th cent]

573 - "A note of my lands in Suffolk" - [17th cent]

574 - Memoranda of the timber on each farm at Huntingfield, Suffolk - [17th cent]

575 - Notes on Suffolk rents - 1638

576 - Survey of trees (oaks, ashes, elms) on the South Elmham, Huntingfield, Linstead and Chediston estates - Apr 1636-May 1636

577 - "A note of all the several rents paid out of the house and tenements now let to Richard Tubbe of late John Hynes for the whole year". - South Elmham - [17th cent]

578 - Notes on rents at South Elmham - [17th cent]

579 - Note by Augustine Pettus concerning deeds relating to manors, lands and tenements in Rushall, Chediston Linstead, St James and Huntingfield, discharing his brother Sir Thomas from the same 4 Oct - 1658

580 - James Cornish's bill of disbursements for the farm late Sir Tomas Pettus' at Hungtingfield - Michaelmas to 22 Dec - 1676

581 - Further Huntingfield bill 10 Jun - 1677

582 - "Laid out since 5 Aug 1677" at Huntingfield - 1677

583 - Receipt for Huntingfield quite rent 20 Dec - 1677

584 - Wymeswold: Copy feoffment by Thomas Leake, son and heir of William Leeke, and William Leeke, clerk to Thomas Barrett, William Leeke, junior, Thomas Francke, William Hall, Henry Laser, Richard Blunt, William Fox, Robert Leeke, Godfrey Blunt and Thomas Thompson, of a messuage, croft and 50 acres of land with appurtenances in Wymeswold in the tenure of Thomas Blankbye and a cottage and croft adjoining in Wymeswold in the tenure of Oliver Ball, blacksmith : the true intent is that the feoffees should stand and be seised of the property to the intent that the rents and profits be applied towards amending the highways of the parish and towards the easing and discharging of the poorest of the said parish 23 Apr 1575 - circa 1700

584-657 - Leicestershire Estate

584-660 - Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire Estates

585 - Wymeswold: Copy feoffment by Thomas Barrett to William Leeke, John Fox, Thomas Hickling, William Barrett, Edward Blunt, Thomas Lacer, Robert Franke, John Franke, William Mylher and Richard Fox, all of Wymeswold, of a messuage and ten acres of arable aland in Wymeswold in the tenure of Thomas Blunt and also a cottage with croft and 4½ acres of land in Wymeswold : the feoffees to stand seised of the property so that the rents and profits may be employed towards the amendment of the highway and discharging of the poor of the parish 23 Apr 1575 - circa 1700

586 - Wymeswold: Copy exemplification of final concord between William Gee and Nathaniel Hayton, plaintiffs, and Samuel Ballard, deforciant of the manors of Crowhole and Willoughby, Wymeswold : consideration £320 - 1627

587 - Wymeswold: Abstract of title relating to a messuage and land in Wymeswold [Leicestershire]in the tenure of Edward Blunt, beginning with gift by William Thorpe of Wymeswold to Thomas Spyster of Grimston, Thomas Symson and William Bradman of Wymeswold of all the lands and tenements which he holds by gift and feoffment of Richard Plomer in the vill and fields of Wymeswold 3 Apr 1420 - 1606

588 - Wymeswold: Further abstract of title relating to a messuage and land in Wymeswold in the tenure of Edward Blunt reciting an assignment by Christopher Neall, Thomas Scott, chaplain, Nicholas Coveley of Swynford to John Franke son of William Franke of Wymeswold, William ? Aleylie, Thomas Hummerston, William Tomlinson, William Blounte and Thomas Hutchinson, all of Wymeswold, of all the lands and tenements, rents reversions and services with meadows, pastures paturage and all apuurtenaces in the town and fields of Wymeswold which they hold by gift and feoffment of Joseph Andrewe of Wymeswold along with William Huchinson, John Thomason and William Franke, 31 March 1506 14 Jan - 1606/1707

589 - Wymeswold: Abstracts from an Act to enable Thomas Okeover gent., son and heir apparent of Rowland Okeover of Okeover, together with the said Rowland Okeover to make a jointure and settlement upon the marriage of Thomas Okeover (to Katherine Leeke) and an Act to enable Katherine Leeke an infant under the age of twnety-one to settle and dispose of her estate on her marriage - 1670

590 - Wymeswold: Wymeswold rent account. Lady Day 1714 - Lady Day 1715 - 1714-1715

591 - Wymeswold: Valuarion of all the materials in Wymeswold Hall House belonging to Leeke Okeover, esq - 1744

592 - Wymeswold: Detailed terrier of several farms in Wymeswold belonging to Leeke Okeover, esq., by Samuel Hutchinson, giving tenants, field and furlong names, lengths, breadths and acreage of each parcel - 1716

593 - Wymeswold: Wymeswold field book, giving full details of the tenure, measurements and acreage of every strip in Wymeswold open fields, arranged systematically by field and furlong, surveyed by Samuel Hutchinson - 1716

594 - Wymeswold: Lease by William Blounte of Burton on the Wolds to William Blounte of Wymeswold, his son and heir, in consideration of 40s., of all his messuages and lands in Wymeswold: for 21 years at 26s 8d rent per annum 23 May - 1563

595 - Wymeswold: Lease by Edward Calton of Wymeswold, gent., Margaret his wife and Robert Calton his son and heir to Ellis Wyllymott of Wymeswold, labourer, Margaret his wife and Henry his son, in consideration of £1, of a cottage in Wymeswold late in the tenure of John Wormall together with a small area of land at the backside of the cottage marked out for fencing: to hold for their lives at an annual rent of 2d - 23 Feb [1597]

596 - Wymeswold: Lease by Edward Ballard, gent., to John Hopkyn of Wymeswold and Anne his wife, in consideration of £4, of a cottage in Wymeswold with barns, stable and backside, 1 land of arable in the Arrowe Field ½ acre, 1 land of arable at Mylnhill in the Hardacre Field ½ acre, 1 land of arable at Hall Arse in the Burton Field ½ acre, 2 beast pastures and five sheep commons: to hold for their lives an annual rent of 10s 10 Apr - 1598

597 - Wymeswold: Lease by Philip Rolston of Watnall, esq., and Samuel Ballard of Wymeswold, esq., to William Leeke of Wymeswold, in consideration of £27, of all those several parcels of arable land in Wymeswold known as Myllwong, 8 acres by estimation, and a wong on Stoncliffe Furlong in the Burton Field, 9 acres by estimation, now or late in the tenure of Philip Roston: for 21 years at an annual rent of a peppercorn 21 Jun - 1627

598 - Wymeswold: Lease by Margaret Rolston of Watnall, widow of Philip Rolston, and Samuel Ballard of Wymeswold, gent; to Thomas Timynge of Wymeswold, labourer, of a cottage or tenement in Wymeswold in the occupation of Thomas Timynge, common pasture for three kyne or large beasts and 20 sheep and 1½ acres of arable consisting of ½ acre on Mill Hill in the Hardacre Field, ½ acre on Peaseborrow Hill in the Arrowe Field and ½ acre in the east of Burton Field, and the Doctor Close 4 acres in the Thorpe Field : for 21 years at an annual rent of £5 13s. 4d. 28 Jan - 1627/1628

599 - Wymeswold: Lease by Margaret Rolston of Watnall, widow, and Philip Rolston, her son, and Samuel Ballard of Wymeswold, gent., to Thomas Dickman of Symeswold, tailor, of a close of pasture in Wymeswold called Horseleys Close, 4 acres and three selions of pasture of ley ground in the Burton Field, 1½ acres : for 21 years at an annual rent of 35s. : not to plough any of the enclosure 17 Feb - 1628/1629

600 - Wymeswold: Lease by Philip Rolston and Samuel Bllard, gent., to Robert Palmer of Bunny, Nottinghamshire., miller of a cottage or tenement in Wymeswold, the Blount Close, a parcel of ground at the east end of the cottage, a piece of ground at the west end 3yds × 4 yds and a windmill in the Thorpe Filed together with a place or way called the Sawtree : for 21 years at an annual rent of £4. 13 Sep - 1630

601 - Wymeswold: Lease by William Leeke of Wymeswold and Katherine his wife and William Streete the younger of Halloughton, Leicestershire, to Roger Smith of Edmonthorpe, Leicestershire, of the manors of Crackhole and Wymeswold, purchased from Francis Willoughby, the farm called Tomlinsons Land together with the pasture and meadow belonging in Burton-on-Wolds, for 40 years at a peppercorn rent. 10 Nov - 1632

602 - Wymeswold: Lease by Roger Smith of Edmonthorpe, Leicestershire, esq., to William Leeke of Wymeswold, gent; of the manors of Crackhole and Wymeswold, purchased from Francis Willoughby, the farm called Tomlinsons Land together with the pasture and meadow belonging in Burton-on-Wolds for 39 years 50 weeks at an annual rent of £208 for the first 17 years and £200 for the remainder of the term. 20 Nov - 1632

603-604 - Wymeswold: Lease by William Blunt of Wymeswold, yeoman, to John Hall of Wymeswold, yeoman, of a messuage of tenement in Wymeswold in the occupation of John Hall with all the arable, meadow and pasture land belonging : for 80 years at an annual rent of 8s. : no enclosure to be ploughed except that already in tillage 18 April [2 copies] - 1636

605 - Wymeswold: Lease by William Leeke of Wymeswold, gent., to Isabell Gee of Wymeswold, widow, of a cottage or tenement in Wymeswold in the occupation of Isabell Gee with barn, stable and croft and 1 acre of arable in the Arrowe Field, 1 acre in the Thorpe Field, 1 acre in the Hardacre Field and 3 acres of meadow on Cliff Hill : for 60 years at 46s 8d rent 4 May - 1637

606 - Wymeswold: Demise by William Leeke of Wymeswold, gent., Katherine his wife and Sir Roger Smith of Edmonsthorpe to Jane Smith, daughter of Sir Roger and Edward Smith grandchild of Sir Roger, in consideration of £790 12s 0d of a messuage, tenement, or farm in Wymeswold in the occupation of William Wright together with 41 acres of land (£24 annual value), close called Lillie Croft 13 acres (£13 6s 8d annual value), close called Doctors Close 6 acres (£5 annual value) and a little close ½ rood : for 99 years with remainder to Edward Smith 21 August - 1644

607 - Wymeswold: Lease by William Leeke of Wymeswold, gent., to John Carr of Wymeswold, mason, of a cottage and orchard in Wymeswold together with 4 lands of arable on Hall Ash Furlong in the Burton Field, 1 acre, 4 lands on Branborrow Sick in the Arrowe Field, 1 acre, and 3 lands on Clatheland Sick in the Hardacre Field 0 acre 3 roods 20 perches : for 40 years at an annual rent of 22s until the death of William Leeke and then at an annual rent of 2s. 4 Jan - 1646/1647

608-609 - Wymeswold: Lease by William Leeke of Wymeswold, gent., to Isabell Gee of Wymeswold, widow of property in Wymeswold: for 60 years at an annual rent of 5s. 31 Mar [2 copies] - 1647

610 - Wymeswold: Lease by William Leeke of Wymeswold, gent., to Edward Blunte of Wymeswold, yeoman, of a cottage or tenement in Wymeswold in the occupation of Thomas Gyll with orchard, garden and yards and 1 bay of barn, 6 acres of arable, 2 acres of meadow, common of pasture for 3 cows or heifers and 10 sheep and the Tenter or Dovecote Close in Wymeswold : for 99 years (except for the close which is for 10 years only) at an annual rent of £2 - 2 Feb 1647/1648

611 - Wymeswold: Articles of agreement between William Barrett of Wyneswold, gent., William Shuttlewood of Wyneswold gent., Hugh Blunt, William Fox, Edward Thompson, Edward Blunt, Richard Fisher, Edward Longley (all of Wymeswold) and William Leeke of Wymeswold, gent., by which they agree to improve and inclose Wyneswold Cow Pasture and three out of every twenty acres of their respective estates because of the shortage of hay and pasture in the parish : farmers have found it necessary to joyce out all their milk cows at excessive rates for want of sufficient enclosure, all their pasture lying so far from them that not only do their cattle suffer from going to it, but also adjacent lordships eat up and destroy all or most of it. Dated 11 Feb 1651/1652 - 11 Feb [1652]

612 - Wymeswold: Lease by William Leeke to Thomas Fox the younger of Wymeswold of a messuage or tenement in Wymeswold recently purchased from Edward Blunt containing three bays of building, also a close of pasture called Blunts Close another called Longleys Close in the Burton Field, and 160 acres of arable, meadow and pasture in Wymeswold, together with the Great Barn and Parsonage Yard : for 12 years (Great Barn and Parsonage Yard for three years then from year to year) at an annual rent of £57 1 Apr - 1653

613 - Wymeswold: Articles of agreement regarding the stocking of Wymeswold Commons between William Barratt of Wymeswold gent., William Shuttlewood of Wymeswold, gent., William Burrowes, William Fox, the elder, William Fox the younger, Richard Leake, Joseph Franke, William Franke, Richard Lacer, Richard Fisher, William Hickling, John Burrowes, John Fox, William Blunt, Edward Langley, Joshua Fox, Thomas Corner, Edward Fox, John Blunt, Robert Leeke, Thomas Fox the elder, Thomas Fox the younger, Francis Crutchley, Edward Blunt, William Langley, John Fittens, Robert Franke, Elijah Dores, Edward Bolton, Henry Defraine, William Lacer, of all Wymeswold, husbandmen, William Dickerson, William Corner, Edward Fox, John Leake, William Marshall, Edward Linfield, William Shittlewood, William Tinfield and William Forsoke, labourers, and William Leeke of Wymeswold, gent., by which it is agreed:- (a) that they shall not keep above 9 beasts for every three score acres of arable, ley and meadow belonging to Wymeswold nor above 20 sheep for every 20 acres or arable, ley and meadow, and also all their lambs without dames which shall be brought into commonable places of the fields of Wymeswold shall go into account for old sheep after St James' Day in every year. (b) they shall not keep above six horses for every 60 acres of arable, ley and meadow. (c) that the occupant of every ancient cottage within the said liberties shall keep two beasts or five beasts in ancient commonable places. (d) for every 60 acres of arable there shall be 3 acres thereof. (e) that if any of them shall keep any beasts in tether upon their known grounds in the common fields, then he shall abate of their beasts upon the common pasture and that he shall not keep above two beasts for 60 like acres or three beasts for 80 like acres, and that none of them shall tether any beasts within Wymeswold after 1 August (f) that they shall not tether at large before the harvest be all "inned", nor shall they break any field or common psture withou the consent of the commoners. (g) that all of the parties shall proportionately contribute towards the sufficientditching and scouring of the common cow pasture from Willoughby at or before the 26th March 13 May - 1653

614 - Lease by Joan Streete of Halloughton, Leicestershire, spinster, undertenant of the Masters, Fallows and of Trinity College, Cambridge, to William Leeke of Wymeswold for the residue of a 16 year term granted to her in 1652: annual rent of £4 10s 6¼d and 10 quarts 7 bushels 3 quarts of good merchantable wheat and 14 quarts 4 bushels 1 peck of good merchantable malt of barley. 8 Jul - 1654

615 - Lease by William Leeke of Wymeswold esq., to Nicholas Chamberlaine of Wymeswold of a cottage and close adjoining in Wymeswold with common pasture for two kine [heifers] or other neat beasts and six sheep on the commons of Wymeswold: annual rent of 50s, and an additional rent of 12d (?chief rent) 8 Jul - 1654

616 - Lease by William Leeke to [name illegible], mercer, and Rebecca his wife of a messuage or tenement in Wymeswold with land bedlonging: for 80 years at an annual rent of 50s. Date missing - 1654

617 - Lease by William Leeke of Wymeswold to Thomas Hall of Normanton iuxta [near] Plumtree Nottinghamshire, of a messuage or tenement in Wymeswold lately purchased from Edward Blunt with the great barn standing in the Parsonage Yard, Blunts Close, Horsleys Close and 160 acres of arable, meadow and pasture land in Wymeswold: the great barn to be held from year to year, the remainder for 10 years at an annual rent of £57: not to convert into tillage either if the closes or any hades or grass ground: schedule of land attached. 10 Apr - 1655

618 - Lease by William Leeke of Wymeswld, gent, to William Staveley of Cossington, Leicestershire, clerk, in consideration of £150, of a messuage or tenement in Wymeswold Blunts and Horsleys Closes and 160 acres of arable meadow and pasture in Wymeswold in the occupation of Thomas hall: for 21 years at a peppercorn rent. - 28 Jan [1657]

619 - Wymeswold: lease by William Staveley of Cossington, Leicestershire, clerk, to William Leeke of Wymeswold, gent, of a messuage or tenement in Wymeswold with the great barn standing in the Parsonage Yard, Blunts Close, Horsleys Close and 160 acres of arable, meadow and pasture land in Wymeswold, for 20 years 11 months at an annual rent of £30 - 30 Jan [1657]

620 - Wymeswold: lease by William Sims of Leicester, gent, to William Leeke the elder of Wymeswold gent of all that capital messuage reputed to be a moiety of the site of the manor of Crackhole, Wymeswold late in the tenure of William Leeke, 120 acres of arable, meadow, pasture and grass ground, closes called Hall Close, Bennett Close, three lammas closes, Mussal Close, Arnold Leys and Bennett Grange, moiety of the march Close, a cottage or tenement and 3 acres of arable land in Wymeswold in the occupation of Dorothy Draper, three other cottages, and a moiety of the manor of Cracklehole: to hold for 13 years 11 months at an annual rent of £50 3 May - 1658

621 - Licence by the Masters, Fellows and Scholars of Trinity College, Cambridge, to William Leeke, to underlet the rectory of Wymeswold 10 Apr - 1665

622 - Wymeswold: Lease by William Leeke of Wymeswold to Edward Blunt, Edward Belton and John Borrowes of Wymeswold yeoman of a farm in Wymeswold called the Hall Farm and 120 acres of land, lea and meadow, late in the tenure of William Fox, Richard Leake and Robert Langley: for 9 years at an annual rent of £34: £3 per acre additional rent for ploughing any meadow or pasture land 13 Oct - 1669

623 - Wymeswold: Lease by William Leake of Wymeswold gent., to William Baxter of Wymeswold of a cottage or tenement with little close in Wymeswold now in the occupation of William Baxter: for 99 years at 15s per annum 20 Sep - 1673

624 - Wymeswold: Licence by the Masters, Fellows and Scholars of Trinity College, Cambridge, to William Leeke of Wymeswold sergeant at low, to underlet the rectory of Wymeswold 18 Mar - 1684/1685

625 - Wymeswold: Further licence by the Masters, Fellows and Scholars of Trinity College, Cambridge, to Rowland Okeover, to underlet the rectory of Wymeswold 13 Oct - 1720

626 - Wymeswold: Lease by Leeke Okeover of Wymeswold gent., to Edward Fox of Wymeswold in consideration of £10 of a cottage or tenement in Wymeswold: for 31 years at an annual rent of £3 11 Feb - 1724

627 - Wymeswold: Memoranda of an agreement between Leeke Okeover of Wymeswold esq., and Henry Lacer of Wymeswold husbandman, by which Okeover has let to Lacer several parcels of arable, meadow and pasture ground in Wymeswold 16½ acres, now in the tenure of William Hickling, also a parcel of meadow called New Close, 15 acres, in Wymeswold: for 12 years at an annual rent of £12: permitted to plough 4 acres of leys in the New Close, spreading 4 loads of horse dung per acre 20 Jan - 1728/1729

628 - Wymeswold: Bond by William Barrett of Wymeswold yeoman, to Edward Ballard in £20: that Ballard may occupy a moiety of a cottage and croft in Wymeswold sold to Ballard in a deed of the same date 29 Sep - 1602

629 - Wymeswold: Bond by Edward Blunt of Wymeswold yeoman, to William Blunt, junior, of Wymeswold, yeoman, in £20, to observe the covenants etc., in a deed of the same date 8 Oct - 1612

630 - Wymeswold: Bond by Thomas Hickling of Wymeswold yeoman, to William Blunt, in £20, to observe the covenants in a deed of exchange of the same date 16 Feb - 1612/1613

631 - Wymeswold: Bond by William Leeke of Wymeswold to William Pywell in £50: Leeke as occupier of Willoughby Manor, Wymeswold to appear before the Court of Wards and Liveries at Westminster at Easter 1633 to pay the arrears for the land (Willoughby, a royal manor) 6 Apr - 1633

632 - Wymeswold: Defeasance of a bond between Thomas Fox of Wyneswold and William Barrett of Wymeswold reciting the statute by which William Barrett was bound to Thomas Fox in £240, by which, if Barrett pays to Fox £129 12s 0d by 18 Apr next ensuing then the previous statute shall be void 18 Apr - 1648

633 - Wymeswold: Bond by John Pole of Nottingham esq., to William Leeke of Wymeswold in £120: Leeke and Pole jointly bound in £180 to Marie Greaves of Nottingham 2 Jul - 1653

634 - Wymeswold: Assignment by William Blunt of Wapping, Middlesex, shipwright, executor of the will of Thomas Franke late of Wymeswold to Thomas Barber of London, gent., in consideration of £50, of judgement relating to debts made in the Court of Common Please: Barber also appointed as Blunt's legal attorney - 1671/1672

635 - Wymeswold: Discharge by William Franke the elder, administrator of the goods, chattels and hereditaments of John Frank late of Wymeswold his father, yeoman, to John Blunt of Wymeswold yeoman, in consideration of £13 15s 0d., of a judgement awarded in the Court of Common Pleas to John Franke against William Barrett the younger of Wymeswold for an £80 debt and £7 10s 0d damages and cost of suit, together with bargain and sale of the said judgement 16 Oct - 1673

636 - Wymeswold: Receipt by Samuel Tryst for £390 from William Leeke, being the purchase money for the Over Mussels Close, Thorpe in the Glebe, Nottinghamshire 21 Aug - 1677

637 - Wymeswold: Bond by William Charles of Wymeswold, miller, to William Johnson of Wymeswold, wheelwright, and Robert Wardle of Thurkinson, framework knitter, in £182, to observe the covenants and agreements in a release of the same date 29 Sep - 1713

638 - Wymeswold: Bond by William Henton, senior, of Burton on the Wolds to Leake Okeover of Wymeswold in £10: not to enter the manor of Wymeswold with guns, dogs or nets 26 Nov - 1729

639 - Wymeswold: Bill of complaint in the Court of Chancery by the Master, Fellows, and Scholars of Trinity College, Cambridge, William Pagett, William Blunt and Thomas Hicklinge (on behalf of the other freeholders) against Edward Ballard, gent., for the illegal enclosure by Ballard of lands on which the College and the freeholders customarily had rights of common, namely 4 acres in Horse Leys, Cottage Close 4 acres, Shottle Close 11 acres, Smallings Ley Close 8 acres, Close in Beasts Pasture 3 acres, Garleinge Close 15 acres and Upper Wyllie Croft 7 acres: Ballard ordered to lay the lands open by making 2 gaps each 20 feet wide in each enclosure before 25 Mar 28 Jun - 1613

640 - Wymeswold: Judgement at Wymeswold Manor Court in a dispute between William Crosse and Elias Sores - 1659

641 - Wymeswold: Constitutions, orders and bye laws consented unto and agree upon by the inhabitants of Wymeswold relating to the regulation of the stocking of the open fields and common pastures, including the appointment of overseers of the fields 20 Apr - 1683

642 - Wymeswold: Note by the field reeves regarding the number of beasts and sheep on Wymeswold Commons - circa 1670

643 - Wymeswold: An account of all the buildings that were burnt down to the ground [?in Wymeswold] 6 May - 1655

644 - Wymeswold: William Okeover's account of what is gained by the growing interest and his shaw in the "college lease" (Wymeswold tithes) - 1714-1719

645 - Wymeswold: Detailed inventory (undated) of household goods and furniture in "Madame Margaret and Madame Katherine's rooms" - ?Wymeswold Hall - [18th cent]

646 - Wymeswold: - [18th cent]

647 - Wymeswold: Receipt by John Blunt for £230 from William Leeke, sergeant at law, being the consideration money in an indenture of feoffment 31 Oct - 1681

648 - Wymeswold: Receipt by Daniel Dun for £477 from William Leeke, being part of the £990 consideration in a release of 2 Apr 1673 - 1673

649 - Misterton, Leicestershire: Covenant between William de Venables and Amicia[Amy] his wife and Philip Lovell rector of the church of Hamslape, [Buckinghamshire,] by which de Venables has leased to Philip all his land of Menstreton [Misterton, Leicestershire], with all appurtenances and 10s annual rent for Beruhanger for 12 years at an annual rent of 10 marks: further the said Philip shall not take more than two marks of silver by way of aid at the feast of St Michael from the men of the said William holding virgates of land in Menstreton nor extort any money from them unjustly, and the said Philip shall return the fallow land and the house and gardens at Easter preceding the end of the term Witnesses: Sir Peter le Poter, Lord John de Chetwind, knights, Robert, priest, vicar of Geldesburg, Richard Chamberlain, parson of Luffenhum, William de Haselbech, parson of Wycham, Walter de St. Paul, parson of Misendon, Nicholas de St. Edmund, and others - 1257

650 - Misterton, Leicestershire: Lease by Hugh de Acove(re) [Okeover] to William, clerk, of Munsterdon [Misterton], of a virgate of land with appurtenances in the territory of Munsterdon, which virgate of land Robert Curteys once held: from Michaelmas 1261 for 20 years at an annual rent of 10s Witnesses: William Purfrai of Munsterdon, Robert son of Adam of the same place, Thomas le Frede of the same place, John Caretarius de Ord and Richard Parent of the same place - 1261

651 - Misterton, Leicestershire: Lease by Hugh de Acove(re) [Okeover] to John de Whatham, rector of the church of Lutterworthe, of all his demesne of Menstreton, of which one field lies fallow that year and a messuage of his there with buildings, gardens, curtilages, pastures, waters, fisheries and turbaries and an annual rent of 30 acres which the said John shall pay to Hawys de Sutton, and a moiety of all the profits of his courts in the same town, and the said John is permitted to take what turves he likes for his own farm for burning: to be held for 12 years at an annual rent of 10 marks (to be paid at Okeover) for all customary dues and services except forinsec Witnesses: Richard de Walecote, John Lutterworth, William Purfrei, de Mestreton, Robert de Luceles, William Tysun de Pulteneye, Hugh of the same place, and others - 1263

652 - Misterton, Leicestershire: Lease by Hugh de Okeover to Hawise de Grendon of all his demesne land in Misterton along with a rent of 10s for Buruhanger and seven virgates of land which the customary tenants of Misterton held at an annual rent of 10s.; to be held for 20 years at an annual rent of £7 19s 3d: further the said Hawise has leased to Hugh for 20 years, all lands, rents, villeins and other things she has by right of dower in Snelston, if she can recover the same against William Montgomery; if not she will pay to Hugh 40s additional rent during the 20 year term Witnesses: William Purefrei, Robert Chernel, John Smith, Thomas Hay and others - 1265

653 - Prestwold and other small Leicestershire estates: Lease by Sir Henry Skipworth of Coats, Leicestershire, to William Leeke of Wymeswold gent., of a close of pasture in Prestwold commonly called the Dale Meadow: for 20 years at an annual rent of £25: not to plough any part of the close: not to depasture any sheep or cattle in the common pasture or fields of Burton on the Wolds, Hoton or Prestwold during the term of 20 years - 1631

654 - Prestwold and other small Leicestershire estates: Lease by William Leeke of Wymeswold gent., to Thomas Twinynge of Wymeswold labourer, of the close called Dale Meadow in Prestwold to be held for 18 years at an annual rent of £26 6s 8d 10 Oct - 1632

655-656 - Prestwold and other small Leicestershire estates: Lease and counterpart by Rowland Farmer Okeovwe of Oldbury to Henry and James Garner of a messuage, tenement or farm in Higham, Leicestershire., with all closes belonging for 21 years at an annual rent of £120: additional rent of £10 per acre for every acre in excess of 35 acres ploughed, every acre of meadow or pasture ploughed and every acre sown with woad, rape, hemp or flax: tenants to pay all taxes including the land tax and to erect all such new buildings as may be necessary: 10 qrs. [quarts] of well burnt lime and 8 waggon loads of good rotten dung to be laid on every acre of land broken up in the second year of ploughing: to be laid down again with every third crop using 14 lbs of clover seed and one strike of rye grass per acre: not to have any part of the premises in tillage more than 4 years together and not more than three years together without a summer fallow. - 1779

657 - Prestwold and other small Leicestershire estates: Declaration by Rowland Okeover of Okeover, Staffordshire, gent William Cooke of Wymeswold gent., Thomas Okeover of Wymesmold son and heir of Rowland Okeover and William Busby of Loughborough, stating their interest in a mortgage dated 30 November 1701 for £1000 by William Taylor the elder and younger of Southwell, at the direction of Charles Byerley of Belgrave, Leicestershire, and John Smith of London, merchant, to Rowland Okeover and William Cooke of several closes, lands and tenements in Belgrave, Leicestershire, £600 of the £1000 so lent was part of the money raised by the sale of certain lands, woods and ground mentioned in articles of agreement of 2 February 1698/9 between Rowland Okeover, Dame Katherine Yorke, Katherine wife of Thomas Okeover, John Thornhagh and William Cooke, £150 was part of the proper money of Thomas Okeover and £250 residue was the proper money of William Cooke. 22 Jul - 1702

658 - Feoffment by Christopher Horton of Catton Derbyshire, to Samuel Tryst of Cullworth, Northamptonshire, in consideration of £590 12s)d., of the Over Mussels Close 12 acres, and part of Hebes Close, 22 acres)rood 18 perches, in Thorpe and Wysall, with all appurtenances: currently leased to Gabriel Armstonf for 21 years. 1 Aug. - 1651

658-660 - Thorpe, Wysall and Willoughby, Nottinghamshire

659-660 - Final concord (and counterpart) between John Hough, plaintiff, and William Cooper, deforciant of one messuage, one garden, 83 acres of land, 10 acres of meadow, 20 acres of pasture, 40 acres of furze and heath and common of pasture for all cattle in Willoughby: consideration £120. Hilary term. - 1652

661 - Abstract of title: Supplemental schedule of deeds not found at Oldbury Hall but subsequently discovered and received by the trustees of the late Haughton Farmer Okeover and therefore separately scheduled relating to Oldbury estate. - 1837

661-674 - Warwickshire Estate

662 - Mancetter: Lease by Rowland Okeover of Oldbury to John Villers of Mancetter, Warwickshire, husbandman, of a messuage or tenement in Mancetter, closes in Mancetter called White Fields, Catt Field and Broom Hills, and closes in Oldbury called Hayes Common, Keys Meadow and Harthill Close: for 8 years at an annual rent of £52: an additional rent of £2 per acre for every acre in excess of 27 acres ploughed up: not to be ploughed for longer than three successive years and then to be laid down with 8 lbs, of clover seed and 1 strike of rye grass per acre, applying 8 quarters of lime or 8 wagon loads of muck per acre. 25 Mar - 1846

663 - Mancetter: Tenancy agreement between Rev Edward Eardley Wilmot and James Haughton Langston and William Stratford Dugdale, trusteees of H.F. Okeover, by which Wilmot has let to the trustees on a year-to-year basis, a wood in Mancetter called Purley Park, 50 acres, and a piece of arable land adjoining, 4 acres: annual rent of £50. 25 Mar - 1846

664 - Oldbury: Lease by Rowland Okeover of Oldbury, esq., to Thomas Harrison of Oldbury, husbandman, of a messuage or tenement in Oldbury and closes called Fold Yard, Hempleck, Little Filed, Longfield, Close by the Wood, Watery Close, Broan Close, House Close, Common Close, Pool Meadow, two parts of Barn Meadow, Nether Sleepers, Den Meadow, Nether Sleepers Den, Middle Sleepers Den, Upper Sleepers Den, Holly Hill, New Field, Fatbyes Close, Lime Kiln Close, Ox Pasture, Cow Pasture, Stone Pit Close, Further Hound Leys, Middle Hound Leys, Hither Hound Leys, Home Close and Breath Close: for 7 years at an annual rent of £120: Okeover reserves the right to get clay and stone in the quarry: £5 per acre additional rent for ploughing above 40 acres: not to keep any land in tillage for more than three years successively and then to lay down with 8 lbs. of clover seed and 2 strikes of rye grass, applying 8 wagon loads of much and 6 quarters of lime per acre. 25 Mar - 1741

665 - Oldbury: Lease by Rowland Okeover of Oldbury, esq., to Thomas Harrison of Oldbury, husbandman, of a messuage or tenement in Oldbury with Foldyard and Hempleck and closes: for 7 years at an annual rent of £120: Okeover reserves the right to get clay and stone in the quarry: £5 per acre additional rent for ploughing above 40 acres: not to keep any land in tillage for more than three years successively and then to lay down with 8 lbs. of clover seed and 2 strikes of rye grass, applying 8 wagon loads of much and 6 quarters of lime per acre. 2 Aug - 1748

666-667 - Oldbury: Lease and counterpart by Haughton Farmer Okeover of Okeover, esq., to William Breton, esq, of the capital messuage called Oldbury Hall (with furniture) and several closes late in the occupation of Francis George Smyth in Oldbury and Hartshill, 129 acres 3 roods 31 perches. for 21 years at an annual rent of £100 for the house and £170 for the land: additional rent of £10 per acre for every acre of meadow ploughed or used for gardening, and closes called Hall Croft, Lawrence Close, Hill Side, First Mill Field, Middle Mill Field and the residue of the upland that shall be moved other than once in two years, and for every acre of ploughland sown with hemp, flax or woad; also not to use in tillage the Third Mill Field, Far Steep Hills, Near Steep Hills, Mink Close, Yew Tree Close, Ironstone Close, Stonepit Close and Eight Leys Close for more than thre crops at one course for tillage without laying the same down with 12 lbs of clover, ½ strike of rye grass seed on each acre, and during such tillage to make a summar fallow, ploughing the same thre times, and if turnips own therein, to eat the turnips and the premises with sheep and cattle; not to mow the clover and rye grass after the second year but graze the same until used again. 1 May - 1799

668 - Oldbury: - 1844

669 - Ansley: Lease by John Ludford of Ansley Hall, doctor of Laws, to Haughton Farmer Okeover, of Okeover, Staffordshire, esq., of all those several mines, delphs, beds of coal called the Ryder, Seven Foot and Ell Coal now being under the commons or waste lands of Ansley, with full licence to sink pits and shafts, to dig and win coal, draw levels and make soughs, erect engines and such other buildings as may be necessary and useful: for 21 years at a rent of 1s per ton for all the large and 6d per ton for all the small coal got from the lands of John Ludford: if any of the coal dug during the said term is sold at above 10s 6d per ton for large and 7s 6d per ton for small, then an additional rent of half of the advance in price over and above the 1s and 6d per ton: not to dig for coal under John Ludford's park and to get all the coal in a level if possible; to fill in all shafts from the bottom when worked out and if left open for air to be well protected 1 May - 1802

670 - Bill of costs for the sale of the Oldbury estate - 1865-1866

671 - Oldbury estate sale catalogue: Oldbury Hall and 1063 acres 3 roods 14 perches of land: plan attached: to be sold by Messrs E and H Lumley of Chancery Lane 17 Feb - 1869

672 - Letter from Rev R R Vaughton to Mr Haines regarding the Warwickshire estate 12 Sep - 1842

673 - Oldbury Wood account books - [1760s]

674 - Bill for work carried out for Rowland Okeover by John Thallal and John Chatten, probably at Oldbury - sawing planks for barn and stable, repairing railings etc - 1773

675 - Memoranda of an agreement between Samuel Room of South Street in the parish of St George, Hanover Square, Westminster, carver and Leeke Okeover of Southampton Street, in the parish of St George, Bloomsbury, esq., by which Room agrees to deliver to Okeover before 21 May, a deed being a good and sufficient indenture of a new build messuage or tenement, yard and premises on the south corner of the east side of a certain new street now building called St John Street in the Parish of St Andrew, Holborn, for 3 years and then for the further term of 5, 7 or 11 years: Okeover to be at liberty to quit the premises at the expiration of the first, second, third or fourth term: Room agrees to pay the land tax and disburse all expenses for repairing the common sewers: Okeover agrees to pay a yearly rent of £70 6 Apr - 1758

675-687 - London

676 - Lease by Samuel Room to Leeke Okeover of the house on St John Street, St Andrews, Holborn, for 3 years and then for the further term of 5, 7 or 11 years: Okeover to be at liberty to quit the premises at the expiration of the first, second, third or fourth term: Room agrees to pay the land tax and disburse all expenses for repairing the common sewers: Okeover agrees to pay a yearly rent of £70 22 Aug - 1758

677 - Lease by William Neild of St George, Hanover, sadler and John Bromley of Charing Cross, bridle cutter, to Rowland Farmer Okeover of the parish of St James, Westminster, esq., of all that piece of ground 4 feet wide × 17 feet long with a necessary house built thereon erected with a brick wall about 14" wide and 11ft high: for 7 years at an annual rent of £4 4s 0d 18 Feb - 1777

678 - Lease by James Neild of St James St., in the parish of Westminster, jeweller, to Rowland Farmer Okeover, of all that piece of ground 4 feet wide × 17 feet long with a necessary house built thereon erected with a brick wall about 14" wide and 11ft high: except that the Necessary House has now been converted to an inclosed water cistern with brick wall: for 7 years at an annual rent of £12 12s 0d: plan inset 1 Nov - 1785

679 - Lease by James Neild of Chelsea, Middlesex, esq., to Haughton Farmer Okeover of St James Street, in the parish of Westminster, esq., of all that piece of ground 4 feet wide × 17 feet long with a necessary house built thereon erected with a brick wall about 14" wide and 11ft high: except that the Necessary House has now been converted to an inclosed water cistern with brick wall: for 16 years at an annual rent of £16 16s 0d - 1806

680 - Lease by Haughton Farmer Okeover to Sir George Shea of Arlington Street in the parish of St James, Westminster, baronet, of all that piece or parcel of ground lying in the parish of St James Westminster, being part of H F Okeover's yard, 5' 6" from E to W.: plan inset giving dimensions: for 35 years at an annual rent of £9 12 Jun - 1807

681 - Lease by Haughton Farmer Okeover to Elizabeth Emery of the parish of St George, Middlesex, spinster, of a messuage or tenement in St James Street, being number 49, now or late in the tenure of H F Okeover: for 21 years at an annual rent of £210: tenant to paint the external woodwork with proper oil colours at least once every 3 years: not to allow any trader or businessman to occupy the premises in the following occupations - butcher, slaughterman, tallow chandler, melter of tallow, soap maker, tobacco pipe maker, smith, baker, fishmonger, dyer, distiller, farmer, blacksmith, common brewer, coppersmith, working brasier, pewterer, tin plate worker, cooper, tripe boiler, tripe seller, beater of flax, auctioneer, victualler, vinter, tavern keeper or coffee house keeper without special licence first being obtained from Okeover: Emery also to insure the premises for £2000 against fire 21 Nov - 1808

682 - Lease by Haughton Farmer Okeover to Charles Greenwood, Richard Henry Cox and Charles Hammersley of Craigs Court, Middlesex, of all that messuage or tenement, no 49, St James Street in the parish of St George, Middlesex: for 7 years at an annual rent of £210 12 Nov - 1815

683 - Lease by Haughton Farmer Okeover to Greenwood Cox and Hammersley of all that messuage or tenement, no 49, St James Street in the parish of St George, Middlesex: the house now used as the "Guards Club House": for 3 years at an annual rent of £226: letter from estate agent regarding Okeover's willingness to grant a new lease enclosed 7 Dec - 1822

684 - Further lease by Haughton Farmer Okeover to Greenwood Cox and Hammersley: of all that messuage or tenement, no 49, St James Street in the parish of St George, Middlesex: for 10 years at an annual rent of £275 12 Nov - 1824

685 - Lease by H F Okeover to Hon Horatio George Powys Townshend, Colonel in his Majesty's Grenadier Regiment of foot guards, John Clitherow, esq., Colonel in the Regiment of foot guards and Francis Miles Milman, esq., Lieutenant Colonel in the Coldstream Reginment of foot guards, reciting the previous lease of 49, St James St., and stating that the old building has fallen down and has now been rebuilt at the expense of the Guards, of all that parcelof ground with messuage lately built thereon on the West side of St James Street: for 21 years at a peppercorn rent of 1½ years and then "275 for the remainder of the term" 1 Jul - 1828

686 - Tenancy agreement between Joshua Field of Latchmere House, Ham, Surrey, esq., and Charles Kynock of 60 High Street, Clapham, builder, for all that pience of ground in the parish of Streatham, Surrey, on the west side of Laitwood Rd., Balham, with a frontage of 220 feet for 99 years at a peppercorn rent for the first year and £64 per annum for the remainder of the term: plan attached showing the eight houses to be built there : new separate leases to be granted for each house to be built 18 Feb - 1881

687 - Agreement between Charles Kynock of 28 High Street, Clapham, Surrey, and Miss Maude Okeover of Okeover Hall, spinster, by which Maude Okeover has agreed to lend Kynock £680 with interest at 5% in consideration of which Kynock has deposited with Miss Okeover the agreement of 18 Feb 1881 as a security and also agrees to pay £680 and interest on demand 6 Jul - 1883

688 - Memoranda regarding work done on the Canal bank, Brampton Bank, House and Canal Croft: signed by J Bourne. - circa 1770

688 - Unidentified estate

688-5009 - Other Okeover Family Estate Papers

689 - File relating to the purchase of chief rents secured for properties in Moss Side, Manchester, including sale catalogue with plans and conditions of sale, 24 Jun 1948, schedules of documents relating to the chief rents and copy conveyances. - 1948

689 - Manchester

690 - Cotham Woods (location unknown)

690 - The measure of Cotham Woods 53 acres, 1 rood. 10 perches. - circa 1650

691 - Schedule of deeds relating to the estate of Leeke Okeover, esq., and his representatives in the hands of Edward Leigh at Mr Okeover's death - 1698-1753

691-5009 - Okeover estate in general in all counties

692 - Schedule of deeds relating to estates now of heretofore of the Okeover family found and arranged at Oldbury Hall, immediately after the decrease of Haughton Farmer Okeover and scheduled by order of his trustees. - 1837

693 - Attested copy of a deed to declare the uses of four recoveries of Leeke Okeover's estates in Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and Leicestershire, between Leeke Okeover of Wymeswold son and heir of Thomas Wymeswold, William Busby of Loughborough, gent., and Stephen Husbands of St Andrews, Holborn, Middlesex, by which Okeover has released to Busby all the messuages, cottages, closes, meadows, tenements, hereditaments in Okeover and Okeover Woodhouse (recited in schedule of the indenture of 20 November 1699), and all other Okeover property in Okeover, Okeover Woodhouse and Swinscoe, also all messuages, cottages and lands etc., at Atlow and Mapleton, also the manors of Crowhole and Wymeswold and the capital messuage or tenement at Wymeswold and all other messuages, tenements and lands in Wymeswold, also Over Mussels Close in Thorpe near Wysall, 12 acres and eighteen poles being part of a close called Hebbs Close in Thorpe : to make Busby a perfect tenant of the freehold to the end that four common recoveries may be had and executed before the end of Trinity Term 19 Jun - 1724

694 - Survey and valuations: Calculations of Leeke Okeover's debts and the value of his estates - circa 1760

695 - Survey and valuations: An abstract or short statement of the property of H F Okeover esq 21 Jun - 1798

696 - Defeasance of a recognisance of a debt of £53 6s 8d reciting that Roger de Okover [Okeover], before William de Herle and the Justices in Eyre of the King in Derbyshire, recognised that he owed to Thomas de Eyton, Henry atte Wode and John de Lenton, clerk, executors of the will of Geoffrey Eyton, late canon of the church of St Paul, London, £53 6s 8d., which was to be paid to the executors in six instalments of £8 17s 9¼d. at Midsummer and Martinmas for three years, by which the executors of the will of Geoffrey Eyton concede that Roger de Okeover his heirs and executors may pay to them at a certain mansion near the Old Fishery in London £26 13s 4d in six instalments of £4 8s 10¾d., which will annul the execution of the recited recognisance. Eve of the feast of St James (24 Jul) 4 Edward III - 1330

697 - Bond by Thomas Okovere [Okeover] of Okovere to Ralph of Blore in £100 to observe the covenants in an indenture of the same date 28 Sep - 1439

698 - Receipt for 106s 8d by Robert Fisshdehk, provost and receiver of the collegiate church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Leicester, from Thomas Okeover esq 4 Feb - 1439

699 - Bond by John Cokayn of Ashbourne, Nicholas Montgomery, junior, esq., and Robert Jenkynson of Hertyll to Philip Okover, esq., in 13 marks 4s 5d., payable at Michaelmas 1456 22 Apr - 1452

700 - Bond by John Cokayne, esq., to Philip Okeover esq., in £20, to keep and perform the award made by William Cokayn, Richard Wylson, Richard Hays and Robert Bulols, arbitrators for all manners of trespasses, causes and quarrels between them 17 Apr - 1471

701 - Bond by John, Prior of Tutbury and the Convent there to Humphry Okeover, esq., and Philip Okeover] his son and heir, in £100, to observe the award of Henry Sacheverell and Thomas Cockayn, knights, John Porte, serjeant at-law, and Anthony Babington, esq., arbitrators in disputes between the Prior and Humpbry and Philip Okeover - 10 Jan [1524]

702 - Quitclaim by Humphry Okeover of Okeover to Richard Key of Castern of all actions, complaints, etc., which he has against the said Richard 7 Jul - 1527

703 - Receipt and acquittance by Richard Ensor of Pagetts Bromley, Staffordshire, gent., for 300 marks assigned by Ralph Okeover to the use of his daughter Elen - 31 Jan [1573]

704 - Bond by Christopher Grenewood and Robert Lyghtwood of Bradley, Derbyshire, yeoman, to Philip Okeover in £100 : to pay to Okeover the debts of the late Richard Moor of Woodhouses due to Okeover 5 Dec - 1577

705 - Bond by William Jackson of Stanshope, yeoman, to Philip Okeover, esq., in £200 31 Dec - 1585

706 - Bond by Anthony Brewster of Twyford, yeoman, to Philip Okeover, esq in £200 31 Dec - 1585

707 - Quitclaim by Francis Parker of Bugden, Huntingdonshire, gent., administrator of all the goods, chattels, rights etc., of Henry Parker of Bugden, get., to Rowland Okeover, citizen and merchant taylor of London and Raphe Okeover of Okeover, Staffordshire, esq., of all claims etc., which he had against them - 2 Jan [1595]

708 - Bond by Edward Potterell of Derbyshire gent., and William Bentley of the same place, gent., to Humfrey Okeover in £500, to observe the covenants in an indenture of the same dated 15 Dec - 1631

709 - Bond by Thomas Okeover of Hardwick Norfolk, to Martha Hinton of Lichfield in £1400 : to pay £600 to Martha Hinton - 2 Jan [1693]

710 - Receipts for bonds: (a) Received of Mr Serjeant Leeke a bond of £100 penalty date 16 Apr 1681 from Christopher Park, esq., to Thomas Babington conditioned for payment of £51 10s 0d. (b) Received of Mr Serjeant Leeke a bond of £10 penalty from Thomas Middleton and William Glover to John Morton, esq., conditioned for payment of £5 3s 0d 1 Feb 1668 (c) Received of Mr Serjeant Leeke a bond of £1000 penalty, dated 30 Mar 1668, from Robert Pierrepont, esq., and John Martin to Daniel Sulley, gent., and John Morton, esq., conditioned for payment of £500 (d) Scheduled of other bonds 1633 - 1676 largely payable to John Morton - 1633-1681

711 - Further schedule of bonds - 1685

712 - Declaration by John Thornhagh of Nottinghamshire, and William Cooke of Wymeswold gent., that £250 lent and paid by them to Charles Hutchinson was part of the personal estate of William Like, Serjeant-at-law of Wyneswold, deceased 29 Mar - 1695

713 - Copy bond by Thomas Okeover to Rowland Okeover in £1200 : to indemnify Rowland from all charges he may suffer by reason of his entering into several bonds - 2 Feb 1697/1698

714 - Assignment by Dame Katherine Yorkshire, wife of Sir William Yorke, and formerly wife of William Leeke Serjeant-at-law, and executrix of the will of William Leeke, to Katherine Leeke, only daughter and heir of William Leeke, with the consent of Rowland and Thomas Okeover of £1119 3s 6d towards the payment of a debt of £1286 14s 3¾d 30 Dec - 1699

715 - Discharge by Thomas Okeover of Sir William Yorke and Dame Katherine Yorke (formerly Leeke) from the sum of £107 10s 9d being the balance of an account between Dame Katherine and Katherine Leeke her daughter, now wife of Thomas Okeover - 1700

716 - Quitclaim by Sir William Yorke of Lessingham, Lincs., to Thomas Okeover, gent., heir apparent of Rowland Okeover and Katherine his wife, daughter and heir of William Leeke, of all suits, claims and demands in law or equity concerning any disbursements on the account of the said Katherine, or for any maintenance of her or any of her servants. 22 Aug - 1700

717 - Authorisation by Rowland Okeover for his servant Thomas Lee to receive the rents at Wyck Rissingon, Gloucestershire, now in the use and possession of Ralph Woodward and John Biddle 10 Oct - 1701

718 - Bond by Leeke Okeover esq., and William Okeover of Middle Temple, London, esq., to Catherine Adderley of Weddington, Warwickshire in £700 : the condition that the Okeovers pay to Catherine Adderley £350 by 7 Sep 1722 6 Mar - 1721/1722

719 - Bond by Leeke Okeover and William Okeover to James Sherman, esq., of Higham, Leicestershire, in £200 the Okeovers to pay to Sherman £102 10s Od. by 7 Sep 1722 6 Mar - 1721/1722

720 - Bond by Leeke Okeover to Catherine Adderley of Weddington, Warwickshire, in £700 : Okeover to pay to Catherine Adderley £358 15s Od by 18 Jul 1723 17 Jan - 1722/1723

721 - Bond by Leeke Okeover to Philip Austin of London, vintner, in £300 : Okeover to pay to Austin £150 by 29 Sep 1723 25 Mar - 1723

722 - Bond by Leeke Okeover to Catherine Adderley in £800 : Okeover to pay to Catherine Adderley £400 by 23 Oct 1724 22 Apr - 1724

723 - Bond by Leeke Okeover to Margaret Rudyard of Ashbourne in £200 : Okeover to pay to Margaret Rudyard £100 before 16 Nov 1734 6 May - 1724

724 - Bond by Leeke Okeover to Arthur Allcock of Tamworth, gent., in £2000 : Okeover to pay to Allcock £1000 by 20 May 1735 20 Nov - 1734

725 - Deposition by Thomas Leigh of Carey Street, Middlesex, concerning the accounts of the trustees of Leeke Okeover - circa 1740

726 - Bond by Leeke Okeover and Francis Higginbottom of Ashbourne to Robert Pearle of Brailsford in £400 : Okeover and Higginbottom to pay to Pearle £200 plus 4½% interest on 7 Jan 1743 7 Aug - 1742

727 - Bond by Leeke Okeover and Edward Chester of the parish of St George, Hanover Square, Middlesex, esq., to William Venables of the parish of St Paul, Convent Garden, merchant, in £600 : Okeover and Chester to pay to Venables £300 by 22 Oct 1743 24 Oct - 1742

728 - Bond by Leeke Okeover to Thomas Buck of Sutton Bonnington, Nottinghamshire, in £400 : Okeover to pay to Buck £200 by 18 Jul 1746 18 Jan - 1744/1745

729 - Bond by Leeke Okeover to Thomas Hollinshead of Ashenhurst in £200 : Okeover to pay Hollinshead £100 15 May - 1744

730 - Bond by Leeke Okeover to Robert Holden of Aston, Derbyshire, esq., in £2400 : Okeover to pay to Holden at his house at Aston-on-Trent, £1200 upon 9 May 1746 9 Nov - 1745

731 - Bond by Leeke Okeover to Leonard Fosbrooke of Shardlow in £2000 : Okeover to pay to Fosbrooke at his house at Shardlow £1000 at or upon 27 Dec 1746, and observe all the covenants in an indenture of demise of the same date 27 Jun - 1746

732 - Bond by Leeke Okeover to John Bainbrigge of Walton on the Wolds, Leicestershire, clerk, in £600 : Okeover to pay Bainmbrigge £300 plus interest at 4% on 2 Jun 1753, and to perform the covenants in a release of the same date 2 Dec - 1752

733 - Copy bond by Leeke Okeover to Rev Joshua Harrison of Tetherley, Hampshire; clerk, in £8000: to keep Harrison indemnified from all charges etc., arising from an indenture of 1753, to which he was a party - 1753

734 - Letters of attorney by Katherine Adderley to John Laverick of Elm Court in the Temple, London, to be her attorney and to receive from Leeke Okeover or his agents the principal sum of £658 15s 0d due to her on several bonds 19 Mar - 1753

735 - Petition relating to the financial affairs of Rowland Okeover deceased 16 Dec - 1766

736 - Certificate that Ann wife of John Gallimore produced a lease and release dated 6 Mar 1839, between John and Ann Gallimore and William Haughton Longston and William Stratford Dugdale. 23 May - 1839

737-1927 - Annual bundles of Leeke Okeover's bills and receipts - 1714-1765

1928-1957 - Undated loose bills and receipts - circa 1720-1765

1958-2312 - Sundry of Leeke Okeover bills and receipts pasted into two scrapbooks - 1708-1783

2313 - Principal and interest money due upon bonds and mortgages being part of the estate of Mr Serjeant Leeke deceased and then belonging to his daughter Mrs Katherine Leeke, 30 Dec, 1699 - 1699

2314 - Abstract of Dame Katherine Yorke's accounts 30 Dec 1699 - 1699

2315-1356 - Bundle of Mr Cooke's vouchers and associated papers relating to monies paid on account of Dame Katherine Yorke - 1699-1702

2357 - Personal accounts of Rowland Okeover - 1713-1714

2358 - Rent account of Rowland Okeover, 31 May, 1715 - 1715

2359 - Personal estate account of Leeke Okeover - mortgages, East India stock etc - 1721-1726

2360 - "An account of what money my sisters have had of me since they came down from London, September 1722" [by Leeke Okeover] - 1722

2361 - "An account of what Miss Okeovers have received from their brothers and myself since their coming from London in September 1722" - 1722

2362 - "An account of the receipts, payments and disbursements on the estate of Leeke Okeover esq., in Wymenswold Atlow, Okeover etc" - 1726-1727

2363 - Accounts [of? Leeke Okeover] - 1743-1751

2364 - An account of money received by Leeke Okeover of Mrs Hollinshead for her use and money due from him as administrator of Thomas Hollinshead deceased - 1744-1746

2365 - William Okeover's account with John Mellor - 1745

2366 - Private account between Leeke Okeover and Leigh - 1753-1754

2367 - Calculation of the value of Mr [Leeke] Okeover's freehold and leasehold estates in the counties of Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Leicestershire - circa 1750

2368 - Calculations of the estate and effects of Leeke Okeover, esq., and the state of his debts - circa 1750

2369 - Mrs Okeover's accounts from the last settlement with Rowland Okeover deceased 15 Apr - 1762

2370 - "Mr Okeover's debts as far as I can compute" (? R F Okeover) - circa 1780

2371 - Second schedule referred to by the affadavit of Dudley Baxter containing according to the best of his information, knowledge and belief an account of the specialty debts owing by R F Okeover at the time of his decease - circa 1785

2372-2373 - Accounts between H F Okeover and the Executors of E W Okeover - circa 1800

2374-2385 - Residurary accounts of Charles Gregory Okeover died 1 Aug 1826, consisting of accounts of personal estate, accounts of debts, legacy receipts and associated correspondence - 1826-1842

2386 - Account book of Rev R R Vaughton in account with the Executors of the late H F Okeover - 1836-1859

2387-4406 - Annual bundles of H C Okeover's loose bills and receipts including those of his guardian Rev R R Vaughton. These include estate, personal, legal and household bills - 1840-1860

4407 - H C Okeover's general account book including personal and estate accounts - 1860-1862

4408-4431 - Annual statements of George Hollis and Son in account with H C Okeover including general estate accounts and rentals for Okeover, Atlow, Mapleton, Mayfield, Blore, Wodhouse and Swinscoe - 1860-1873

4432 - H C Okeover's personal account book - 1891-1895

4433-4455 - Bundle of letters to Leeke Okeover - 1722-1749

4456-4565 - Large bundle of estate correspondence consisting chiefly of letters to Leeke Okeover in the 1747-1750 period : 28 Mar 1737 P. Pullyn to Leeke Okeover regarding the disposal of a farm at Huntingfield, Suffolk : correspondence with Thomas Allsop the Leicestershire agent regarding estate affairs at Wyneswold, 1745 - 1749, including a letter 15 Nov 1749 reporting that the cattle at Wyneswold have distemper : 28 Jun 1747 William Stanley to Leeke Okeover regarding votes for Sir Walter Bagot and Mr Crewe (Staffordshire election) written at Ashenhurst : correspondence with Francis Higginbottom regarding a lead mine including a letter of 16 Jan 1748/9 in which Higginbottom states that he "hopes to raise a considerable quantity of ore" and a letter of 5 Oct 1749 in which it is state that the "miners from Matlock are demanding their arrears" : 6 Feb 1748/9 F. Higginbottom to Leeke Okeover regarding the letting of Okeover Mill : 14 May 1748 Higginbottom to Leeke Okeover mentioning William Okeover's death : Apr 1749 Higginbottom to Leeke Okeover regarding the sewers at Hardwick, Norfolk : various correspondence in 1749 regarding Francis Higginbottom's marriage to Elizabeth Okeover, Leeke's sister and Leeke's opposition to it : two letters by Mrs Margaret Okeover, Leeke's wife, to Leeke Okeover while in exile on the Continent in 1751/1752 having fled the country to escape his bad debts - in the first letter, 20 Jan 1751/1752, addressed to Mr Scrimpshaw, the name Leeke Okeover used while in exile, she reports that £2020 has been raised by the sale of timber, that the horses and cattle at Okeover have all been sold and the deer reduced, that it is hoped to see the Norfolk estate, and in the second dated 1 Apr 1752 she reports that it has been suggested that Mr Fitzherbert should lease Okeover Hall for a year while Tissington is being repaired : 25 Dec 1753 letter enquiring regarding the purchase of the Huntingfield Suffolk estate : general correspondence with Christopher Tomlinson the steward at Okeover regarding estate affairs and with Thomas Leigh another of the agents 1753 : 25 December 1754 J Goodwin to Leeke Okeover regarding the conveyance of Bradley (Bradlow) Ash : one undated letter from Simon File, the builder, regarding rebuilding work done at Okeover Hall : 19 Nov 1759 John Chatterton to Leeke Okeover mentioning the repair of the Newhaven turnpike road : many letters with tradesmen regarding payment of debts and supply of goods. - 1737-1756

4566-4685 - Bundle of miscellaneous correspondence - 1734-1751

4686-4697 - Small bundle of miscellaneous correspondence: 29 Oct 1748 Mrs Okeover to Leeke Okeover regarding beasts taken ill : 26 Jan 1751 James Seymour to Leeke Okeover requesting payment of bill for adding a horse and a spaniel to family pictures (note added that Seymour celebrated as a horse painter, b 1702 d 1752) : 22 Apr 1752 Joseph Utting to Wrightson Mundy regarding the upkeep of the Prk pale and the deer while Leeke Okeover was in exile and his wife lodging at Tunbridge Wells : 18 Sep 1753 Thomas Leigh to Leeke Okeover welcoming him back to England : some general estate correspondence with Christopher Tomlinson, steward at Okeover. - 1748-[1750s]

4698-4768 - Bundle of correspondence relating chiefly to the period in 1751-1752 when Leeke Okeover was in exile on the Continent having fled the country to escape his creditors - 1751-[c1759]

4769 - Leeke Okeover's book of copy letters he wrote from his London house to Christopher Tomlinson, the steward at Okeover, Martin Leggett the gardener and others at Okeover, relating to estate matters at Okeover : 9 December 1755, hollow draining in the Park and designing a pond in the Paddock : 1757 Simon File erecting a new building at Okeover and planting chestnuts - [1750s]

4770-4794 - Largely undated correspondence between John Allen at Cambridge and elsewhere and Mr and Mrs Leeke Okeover, for the most part relating to the lease of Wymeswold Thurgaton and Heveningham tithes from Trinity College Cambridge : 15 January 1759 John Allen to Leeke Okeover reporting the death of Wrightson Mundy - [c1740-1760]

4795-4852 - Bundle of miscellaneous correspondence mainly relating to 1758 - 1762 period : 1 Jun 1757 J Revell to Leeke Okeover regarding the surrender of copyhold land in Huntingfield Suffolk : correspondence with the gardener at Okeover Martin Leggett, 1755 - 1765 : 22 September 1760 Samuel Greer to Leeke Okeover regarding the purchase and carriage of pictures from Italy : 24 Dec 1760 Thomas Burgh to Leeke Okeover regarding the illness of Rowland Okeover at Oldbury : many letters regarding financial matters and Leeke Okeover's health - 1749-1765

4853-5008 - Large bundle of estate correspondence consisting of Christopher Tomlinson's letters regarding estate matters at Okeover to Leeke Okeover at his London house : some farm accounts systematically recorded on the back of the letters - 1756-1765

5009 - Letters from John Allsop to Moreton Walhouse regarding "Mr Okeover's claim" 9 Apr - 1800

5010 - Hollinshead and associated families: Leek and Bradnop rental for unnamed estate giving names of closes and some tenants and rents - circa 1700

5010-5118 - Miscellaneous; Staffordshire estate papers

5010-5211 - Other families' estate papers

5011 - Hollinshead and associated families: Lease by Ralph Bagnall of Drenlentres Staffordshire, knight, to John Clyfe of Bradnope, yeoman, in consideration of £8, of the tithes arising from two tenements in Bradnope in the tenure of Ann Ratclyffe and William Watson : for 30 years at an annual rent of 5s 8 Dec - 1565

5012 - Hollinshead and associated families: Power of attorney by John Ashenhurst of Ashenhurst to Ralph Ashenhurst of the Beard Derbyshire to receive a yearly rent of 40s from Richard Greenhall for two messuages in Bradnop with appurtenances leased to Greenhall for 21 years by lease of the same date 1 Jun - 1593

5013 - Hollinshead and associated families: Copy? mortgage by William Folly of the Botham in the parish of Cheddleton, Staffordshire, to John Ashenhurst of Ashenhurst, esq., reciting an indenture of 1 Nov 1658 by which Ashenhurst enfeoffed to Folly several closes in Bradnop : the part of the deed reciting the transaction has been torn off. 2 Aug - 1659

5014 - Hollinshead and associated families: Lease by the Right Hon Walter Lord Aston Baron of Fairfar in the kingdom of Scotland, Benjamin Weston of Ashleyhouse, Surrey, Esq., and Robert Robotham of Grayes Inn, Middlesex, to John Mayatt of Bradnop Lane End, Bradnop, in consideration of 5s., of all that close, heretofore common ground as it is now meared walled forth and inclosed out of the great waste or commons called Moredge in the parish of Bradnop commonly called the Gorstic Knoll or the Blubbs: for 99 years at an annual rent of 2s 19 Apr - 1662

5015 - Hollinshead and associated families: Lease by Elizabeth Moate of Bradnop widow of John Moate, James Moate her eldest son husbandman and Lawrence Moate, younger son to John Horsley of Astonsich Bradnop, yeoman, in consideration of £5, of part of the close heretofore common ground as it is now meared walled forth and inclosed out of the great waste or commons called Moredge in the parish of Bradnop commonly called the Gorstic Knoll or the Blubbs lying southwards towards the common : for 19 years at a peppercorn rent if Thomas and Soloman Mayott brothers of John Mayott live so long 8 Jul - 1668

5016 - Hollinshead and associated families: Lease by Benjamin Joliffe of Corton Worcestershire esq., to Thomas Fernihough of Leek, yeoman, and Jonathan Myatt of Leek, maltser of a messuage, farm or tenement called the Barnfield in the parish of Leek now inhabited by John Hancock and closes called the Two Barnfields, Broom Flatts, two Cattslows, Birchall Croft, the Clewes, the Shields, Calf Croft, Tofts Meadow, two Well Snapes, Dry Snapes, Copes Whitfield and Cornhill Cross and all tithes : for 29 years at an annual rent of £83 : not to plough the Calf Croft or above a quarter part of the arable or "upp land" in any one year : nor shall he plough up any part of the premises for any longer than three years together : 40s per acre additional rent per acre for ploughing any land contrary to these covenants 16 Nov - 1716

5017 - Hollinshead and associated families: Lease by Elizabeth Higginbottom of Cheadle widow (widow of Francis Highginbottom of Leicester and Thomas Hollinshead of Ashenhurst) to John Burnett of Tittesworth, Leek, yeoman, of two messuages in Tittesworth, Leek, called Tittesworth and Throstle Nest with all lands belonging : for 99 years at an annual rent of £105 27 Sep - 1770

5018 - Hollinshead and associated families: Wincle, Cheshire : Lease by Peter Leigh of Winkle Grange to Richard Armett, husbandman, in consideration of £18 10s 0d of a messuage or tenement in Winkle in which Armett now resides with all buildings and land belonging to be held from and after the death of the survivor of Frances Armett, his wife, John and Richard Armett his sons for 60 years : annual rent of 25/8d 20 Jul - 1660

5019 - Hollinshead and associated families: Bond of Edward Hollinshead of London, merchant, to Richard Pagitt of Westminster esq., in £2000: to pay Pagitt £1,050 at various specific times 26 Aug - 1682

5020 - Hollinshead and associated families: Bond of Lawrence Mayott of Warrington to John Standley of Bradnop in £20: Mayott to observe the covenants in an indenture of the same date, conveying land in Pradnop called Gorsey Knowles to J Standly 6 Aug - 1685

5021-5022 - Hollinshead and associated families: Two case papers - Burnett alias Goodwright v D Leigh - relating to Upper Tittesworth and Throstle Nest arising from the fact that Elizabeth Higginbottom was childless by both Thomas Hollinshead and Francis Higginbottom - circa 1774

5023 - Hollinshead and associated families: Notice to quite by Francis Leigh to John Burnett: two messuages and farms called the Tittesworth and Throstle Nest Farms, late part of the estate of Thomas Hollinshead deceased 16 May - 1774

5024 - Hollinshead and associated families: Fragment of deed relating to delivery of seisin of an estate at Ashenhurst

5025 - Hollinshead and associated families: Receipt by Thomas Brodhurst of Bosley Cheshire husbandman and John Arnitt of the Nettlebeds, Winkle from Francis Hollinshead of Gawsworth, esq., the sum of £186 Dated 11 Apr - 1667

5026 - Hollinshead and associated families: Bradnop enclosure: Rental of the manor of Bradnop

5027 - Hollinshead and associated families: Bradnop enclosure: Extract from Court Roll - Court Leet of the Manor of Bradnop 30 Sep - 1631

5028 - Hollinshead and associated families: Bradnop enclosure: Copy quitclaim by Walter Lord Aston, Baron of Fairfar and Sir Richard Weston of Ridgeley, Staffs., knight, to William Rode of Rushton James, Staffs., in consideration of £15, of a messuage in Bradnop in the occupation of Edward Pott with all lands etc. belonging 23 Jul - 1649

5029 - Hollinshead and associated families: Bradnop enclosure: Proposals made to Lord Aston regarding the regulation of the Morrage Common 3 Jan - 1652

5030 - Hollinshead and associated families: Bradnop enclosure: Agreement between the common right holders and Lord Aston by which in consideration that Lord Aston shall debar and hinder all "outmen" or men living without the Manor of Bradnop from taking any benefits of common of and upon the great waste called Morrage and that no more waste ground be enclosed, that Lord Aston shall enclose for his own use twelve score acres 6 Jun - 1657

5031 - Hollinshead and associated families: Bradnop enclosure: Proposal to erect a fence around the Morrage Common, to divide and separate it from the commons of other lordships - circa 1660

5032 - Hollinshead and associated families: Bradnop enclosure: Agreement between Walter Aston of Tixall, Staffs, esq., son and heir of Walter Lord Aston, Baron of Fairfar and the freeholders of the manor of Bradnop concerning trespassing on Morrage Common, Bradnop: any proceeds from suits for trespass on the common to be divided equally between Aston and the freeholders 13 Mar - 1665/1666

5033 - Hollinshead and associated families: Bradnop enclosure: Petition by the commoners (common right holders) to Lord Aston to prevent trespass on the Morrage Common by "outmen" 23 Oct - 1683

5034-5036 - Hollinshead and associated families: Bradnop enclosure: Queries regarding the possession of land on the Morrage Common

5037 - Hollinshead and associated families: Bradnop enclosure: Agreement regarding the enclosure of the Morrage Common - 1685

5038 - Hollinshead and associated families: Bradnop enclosure: Petition by Lord Aston and Thomas Crompton at the Court of Whitehall, for licence to enclose and improve 2000 acres of waste in Bradnop held from the Crown in capite Dated 3 Jan - 1687

5039 - Hollinshead and associated families: Bradnop enclosure: Manor of Bradnop - presentment by the Jury at the Court of Survey and Court Baron held 23 Aug: bounds of the manor recited, schedule of inclosures made and it is also stated that a manor house has not been discovered - 1687

5040 - Hollinshead and associated families: Bradnop enclosure: Articles to be enquired of at the Court of Surveys and Court Baron held 23 Aug - 1687

5041 - Hollinshead and associated families: Bradnop enclosure: Argument against the enclosure - 1687

5042 - Hollinshead and associated families: Bradnop enclosure: Draft answers to Manor of Bradnop - presentment by the Jury at the Court of Survey and Court Baron held 23 Aug: bounds of the manor recited, schedule of inclosures made and it is also stated that a manor house has not been discovered - 1687

5043 - Hollinshead and associated families: Bradnop enclosure: Proposals concerning the enclosure of Bradnop Commons by Thomas Parker an old freeholder - circa 1687

5044-5046 - Hollinshead and associated families: Bradnop enclosure: Agreement (3 copies) for the enclosure of the Morrage (Morridge) Common, Bradnop, between Walter Lord Aston Baron of Fairfar, Lord of the Manor of Bradnop, and the freeholders of Bradnop by which the freeholders receive 1000 acres of the common to their own use and Lord Aston the remainder: four indifferent persons to set out and appoint the various shares in the common: further for the next seven years all public ways leading through the common to be repaired at the charge of Lord Aston and the freeholders 6 Mar - 1687/1688

5047 - Hollinshead and associated families: Bradnop enclosure: Rental of the Manor of Bradnop - 1689

5048 - Hollinshead and associated families: Bradnop enclosure: Court Leet of the Manor of Bradnop held 15 Oct: agreement that each householder and occupier of land (scheduled) should take the office of Heyward of all the commons within the manor - 1691

5049 - Hollinshead and associated families: Bradnop enclosure: Letter from F Hollinshead of Leek regarding the walling of Morrage to part it from the neighbouring commons - ?1696

5050 - Hinton family - the Choristers' House, Lichfield: Licence by the Dean of Lichfield, William Cooke to Symon and John Porter, tenants of the Choristers' House, Lichfield, by lease of 9 Jul, 1594, to underlet 6 Oct - 1609

5051 - Hinton family - the Choristers' House, Lichfield: Surrender by William Hinton, Archdeacon of Coventry to the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield of all his estate or term by virtue of a lease of 12 Oct 1610 by the Dean of Chapter of Lichfield to George Bird of Coventry, yeoman, of the Choristers' House, Lichfield, during the lives of Samuel Hinton, son of William Hinton, Kathleen Hopkins and Richard Rogers 3 Oct - 1627

5052 - Hinton family - the Choristers' House, Lichfield: Certificate that Charles Hinton son of Samuel Hinton of Lichfield, who was apprentices to Francis Powell, citizen and vintner of London, was admitted to the freedom of Lichfield at the time of Sir Richard Brown and Sir Thomas Player - 1661

5053 - Hinton family - the Choristers' House, Lichfield: Surrender by Samuel Hinton, Doctor of Law, of the Close, Lichfield, to William Paule D D Dean of Lichfield, of the reversion and all estate right and title in the Choristers House, Lichfield 24 Jun - 1661

5054 - Hinton family - the Choristers' House, Lichfield: Letters of attorney by the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield to Jeffrey Glazier of the Close, Lichfield, to take possession of the Choristers House and deliver the lease to Samuel Hinton, reciting previous lease of the Choristers House to Hinton for five years at 15s per annum 24 Jun - 1661

5055 - Hinton family - the Choristers' House, Lichfield: Lease by the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield to Samuel Hinton of the Close of the Cathedral Church, Lichfield. Doctor in Law, of the Choristers House in the Close of the Cathedral Church, for 5 years at 15s per annum 24 Jun - 1678

5056 - Hinton family - the Choristers' House, Lichfield: Memorandum of an agreement to repair the fence at the Choristers House between the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield and Martha Hinton 20 Jun - 1692

5057 - Hinton family - the Choristers' House, Lichfield: Agreement between Martha Hinton and Dr Chandler to allow Dr Chandler to enlarge his house by taking in a small slang of ground between the Choristers' House and Dr Chandler's house: Chandler to pay Martha Hinton 1s per year as long as she has any interest in the property - circa 1695

5058 - Hinton family - the Choristers' House, Lichfield: Agreement between Henry Fleetwood of the Close Lichfield, and John Browne of Thornes on behalf of Madam Hinton now of Oxford, widow, by which Browne has let to Fleetwood Mrs Hinton's house in the Close for 3 years at £12 per annum 6 Aug - 1701

5059 - Hinton family - the Choristers' House, Lichfield: Copy lease by Jonathan Kimberley, Dean of Lichfield, to Martha Hinton of Derbyshire, of the Choristers House, Lichfield, for 20 years at an annual rent of 15s 26 Sep - 1713

5060 - Hinton family - the Choristers' House, Lichfield: Notice to Martha Hinton of the expiration of her five years lease of the Chorister's House 28 Aug - 1718

5061 - Hinton family - the Choristers' House, Lichfield: A particular of the goods left by Widow Hinton in her house in Lichfield Close in Mr Fleetwood's possession - 1701

5062 - Hinton family - the Choristers' House, Lichfield: Further note regarding the goods in the Choristers House - circa 1701

5063 - Hinton family - the Choristers' House, Lichfield: Further notes regarding the goods in the Choristers House - 1710/1711

5064 - Hinton family - the Choristers' House, Lichfield: Rent receipt - Michael East of the Cathedral Close Lichfield, to George Murray Canon of Lichfield Cathedral - for 20s for the Choristers House 29 Oct - 1629

5065 - Hinton family - the Choristers' House, Lichfield: Further rent receipt Michael East of the Cathedral Close Lichfield, to George Murray Canon of Lichfield Cathedral - for 20s for the Choristers House 16 Oct - 1641

5066 - Hinton family - the Choristers' House, Lichfield: Rent receipt - receipt for 7s 6d by the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield from Charles Hinton being his rent or the Choristers House 20 Sep - 1675

5067 - Hinton family - the Choristers' House, Lichfield: Further rent receipt for 7s 6d from Charles Hinton for the Choristers House 1 Apr - 1676

5068 - Hinton family - the Choristers' House, Lichfield: Further rent receipt for 7s 6d from Charles Hinton for the Choristers House - 1688

5069 - Hinton family - the Choristers' House, Lichfield: Bill relating to charges for the Choristers House rent, renewal of lease etc - 1713

5070 - Hinton family - the Choristers' House, Lichfield: Further rent receipt for Choristers House 16 Oct - 1713

5071-5074 - Hinton family - the Choristers' House, Lichfield: Receipts for land tax for the Choristers House - 1719-?

5075 - Hinton family - the Choristers' House, Lichfield: Letter from the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield regarding their liability to repair the fence between the Choristers House and the Prebendal House 1 Oct - 1690

5076 - Hinton family - the Choristers' House, Lichfield: Letter from J Browne to Martha Hinton at Derbyshire regarding the lease of the Choristers House 19 Aug - 1713

5077 - Hinton family - the Choristers' House, Lichfield: Letters regarding the renewal of the lease of the Choristers House 7 Oct - 1713

5078 - Hinton family - the Choristers' House, Lichfield: Further letter to Martha Hinton regarding the lease of the Choristers House 19 Aug - 1720

5079 - Hinton family - the Choristers' House, Lichfield: Undated letter by B Gorring to Martha Hinton regarding allowances for "the extra-ordinary charges I have been at about the house" - [early 18th cent]

5080 - Draft deed stating the sale of land in Jul 1702 to Egerton Yates (messuages in Stoke called Brookehouse) was not intended for Egerton Yates but was in trust for Joseph Allen - [early 18th cent]

5081 - "An estimate of Mr Wilson's freehold estate" at Cannock - [18th cent]

5082 - Lees of Bucknall: Lease by John Lees at Batehouse in Bucknall, mason, to Sibilla Clarke of Batehouse, Bucknall, widow, of closes of land, meadow or pasture in Batehouse, Bucknall formerly in the occupation of John Lees: for 40 years: if Lees pays to Sibilla Clarke £4 per annum for life and £6 within one month of her decease to whoever she nominates in her will and £4 to her daughters Ann an Elizabeth, and £8 to another daughter Alice within three years of her decease and if Lees permits Henry Clarke her son to occupy the property at an annual rent of 40s. per annum within six months of her decease then this lease to be null and avoid - 1670

5083 - Lees of Bucknall: Draft final concord between Thomas Gibson and Hampton Allen relating to 10 messuages, 100 acres of land, 50 acres of meadow, 20 acres of wood, 300 acres of pasture with appurtenances in Bucknall and Aberhulme in the parish of Stoke on Trent and Carswall [Caverswall], and Leek

5084 - Lees of Bucknall: Articles of agreement between Edward Sanderson of City of London, whipmaker and Deborah his wife and Joseph Hurlocke of Hackney, yeoman, and Richard his wife and Egerton Yates of Stoke-on-Trent, yeoman, by which Sanderson and Hurlocke agree to assure to Yates before 9 Sep 1702 two messuages called the Brookehouse in Stoke-on-Trent for £260 3 Jul - 1702

5085 - Lees of Bucknall: Extract from a court roll concerning an enquiry into the title to 10 messuages, 100 acres of land 40 acres of meadow, 300 acres of pasture, 20 acres of wood with appurtenances in Stoke-on-Trent, Leek and elsewhere in Staffs - including a note from Jeremiah adey to William Brassington concerning his title to the premises - 1706

5086 - Lees of Bucknall: Case paper: Jeremy Adey formerly of Stoke respondent, Matthew Burton plaintiff, concerning 10 messuages, 100 acres of land, 50 acres of meadow, 20 acres of wood, 300 acres of pasture in Bucknall Eaves, Hulme, Caverswall and Leeke: note to Thomas Gibson that "this declaration that is against me, doth concern the title of diverse messuages, lands, tenements and hereditaments part whereof one in your possession" - circa 1710

5087 - Ford and Ipstones: Draft final concord between Richard Whillock and John Sherratt and John Johnson and Lydia his wife deforciants of 3 messuages, one cottage, 130 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, 60 acres of pasture, 50 acres wood, 60 acres of furze and heath and 60 acres of moor in Ford and Ipstones - [18th cent]

5088 - Ford and Ipstones: Memorandum of a final concord between John Johnson and Lydia his wife, plaintiffs, and William ? Trinney, gent., and Mary his wife, William Johnson and Thomas Fernihough deforciants of 3 messuages, one cottage, 3 orchards, two gardens, 100 a of land, 15 a. of meadow, 60 a of pasture, 40 a of wood, 40 a of furze and heath and 40 a of moor in Ipstones and Leek - [18th cent]

5089 - Ford and Ipstones: Lease by Philip Fernihough of Basford, Cheddleton, yeoman, to Thomas Slacke the elder of Ipstones, yeoman, of a messuage, house or tenement called Shawcoate with all outbuildings, barns etc., now in the possession of Thomas Slacke the elder, also croft lying on the backside of the barn, a close called the Croft, a piece of ground called Shaw Meadow, a close called Fernibanks, a parcel of arable called Cromwitheyes and three great intakes with a barn called Janneyes Barn part of which has been converted in a house, containing by estimation 60 acres, all in Ipstones and now in the tenure of Thomas Slacke the elder: for 99 years at an annual rent of £16 28 Sep - 1702

5090 - Ford and Ipstones: Articles of agreement between Samson Bulkeley of Bradnop, gent., and James Bestwick of Gatam Grange, Staffs., husbandman and Elizabeth Bestwick of Eaton, widow, being a tenancy agreement by which Bulkeley lets to the Bestwicks for his life a messuage in Ecton where Elizabeth Bestwick dwells and Two Smith Closes, Nether Close above the Barn, the Close at the back of the house, Little Bank, the Pingle beyond the Seats, Further Bank, Barn Bottom and Botts Closes: annual rent of £14 25 Mar - 1709

5091 - Ford and Ipstones: Lease by John Mellor of the Whitehouse, Ipstones, yeoman, to Robert Massey of Ipstones, husbandman, of so much of the Rough Close lately enclosed from the great waste called Morrage now in the tenure of Robert Massey as shall amount to the quantity of 10 acres : for 99 years at an annual rent of £1 7s 0d 26 Mar - 1714

5092 - Ford and Ipstones: Lease by Samuel Lander of Hardwick Staffs., gent., to Samuel Goostree of Roostonehole in the parish of Ipstones, yeoman, of a messuage or tenement at Roostonehole and all land belonging for 99 years - 11 Sep 1717

5093 - Ford and Ipstones: Bond by Samuel Hemworth of Burton on Trent and Samuel Seale of Horninglow to Thomas Tideswell and Ralph Tideswell of Ipstones in £500: to abide by the award of Thomas Hollinshead of Ashenhurst, Leek, elected to arbitrate in all actions, quarrels etc. between the said parties - 1 Oct 1729

5094 - Kingsley: Lease by Thomas Hurt [?Hunt] of Shrewsbury, esq., to Richard Heath of Kingsley, Staffs., yeoman, in consideration of £10, of a messuage or tenement in Kingsley and a close in Kingsley called Aftle Foot, for 99 years - 20 Jun 1649

5095 - Kingsley: lease by Francis Smith of Knowle, Staffs., yeoman, to John Berdmore of Bromley, Abbots Bromley, carpenter, in consideration of £8 of a cottage or tenement in Kingsley formerly in the occupation of Thomas and William Berdmore, for 99 years at an annual rent of 5s 6d - 18 Apr 1704

5096 - Kingsley: Lease by John Beardmore of Kingsley, carpenter to John Clayton of Hillhouse, Staffs., yeoman, of a cottage or tenement in Kingsley, leased by Francis Smith to Beardmore, for the remainder of the 99 year term at an annual rent of 2s 6d 10 Oct - 1708

5097 - Stanshope, Alstonefield: Bond by Henry Baylie of Stanshope, Alstonefield, husbandman, to Robert Bosterne of Stanshope, yeoman, in £60, to observe the covenants in an indenture of the same date - 10 Jun 1641

5098 - Stanshope, Alstonefield: Lease by Henry Bailey of Stanshope Alstonefield, husbandman, to Robert Bosterne of Stanshope, yeoman, of a cottage and backside in Stanshope 0 acre 1 rood 00 perche, a parcel of land called the Furlong Botham adjacent 1½ a a parcel of land called Groveside 1 acre 1 rood 00 perche and a parcel called Little Parke ½a., for the life of Henry Bailey at an annual rent of £4., reciting lease of 17 Jun 1638 by Bosterne to Bailey of the same property 10 Jun - 1641

5099 - Stanshope, Alstonefield: Agreement by Robert Bosherne of Stanhope, yeoman, and Elizabeth Baylie, daughter of Henry Baylie late of Stanshope yeoman, deceased, that they will enfeoff to Roger Hunt, esq., and Richard Cantrell of Wetton, yeoman, a messuage in Stanhope in the occupation of Robert Bosterne and a messuage or cottage in the tenure of Thomas Rea and William Walton 12 Jan - 1647/1648

5100 - Spott Yate Farm, Stone [Spot Gate Farm]: Abstract of three deeds relating to Normacott Grange, Stone, Staffs 1732-17?? - [18th cent]

5101 - Spott Yate Farm, Stone [Spot Gate Farm]: Bond by Thomas Cookside of Spott in the parish of Stone, yeoman, to Elizabeth Willatt of Normacott Grange, Stone, in £700, to observe the covenants in a mortgage of the same date 20 Dec - 1732

5102 - Spott Yate Farm, Stone [Spot Gate Farm]: Letter regarding a security by Mrs Willatts on Spott Yate Farm, Stone 5 Jun - 1741

5103 - Copy gift by Hugh de Okeover to Robert son of Robert de Castern of all that land which his father once held in Castern in the fee of the Abbot of Burton: annual rent of 4s Witnesses: Ralph son of Jordan, William de Verdon, Richard de Thorpe, Hugh de Ilam, John son of ?Nigel de Mapleton, William de Castern, Peter de Stanton, Roger de Okeover and others - [13th cent]

5104 - Lease by Lord William Wyther to Juliana once wife of Henry Baset and Robert her son of a messuage with buildings, curtilages, gardens, crofts and superstructures in Chene [Sheen] which Hicholas father of Roger and Ysolda his wife held previously: for 30 years from the feast of St John the Baptist 1281 at an annual rent of 3s do all services except forinsec and suit of court, and also to supply a man at harvest in autumn at Chene Witnesses: Henry de Bradeheved, William son of Philip de Chene [Sheen], Geoffrey de Fowall, Thomas de Ylmendon, Thomas son of Nigell de Chene et al [and others] - 1281

5105 - Lease by John de Sheepy to Thomas Mayfield of Ashbourne of all his meadow which lies below the vill of Upper Mayfield just as the said Thomas held by his earlier demise: for six years from the feast of St Chad (2 Mar) 1336/7 Witnesses: Henry son of Robert del Woodhouses, Ranulph de Snelsdale, Richard Smith of Mayfield, Henry Avice de le Wodehouse, William the clerk and others - 1336/1337

5106 - Lease by Ralph Bassett of Langley, Derbyshire, esq., to Henry Talbot of Milton of a messuage and virgate of land in the demesne of Swyneston, Milton, Staffs: for life at an annual rent of 10s 25 Jul - 1447

5107 - Lease by Nicholas Montgomery to William Stanlow of a pasture called Wintercroftes in the parish of Leigh, Staffs: for 4 years at an annual rent of 23s 4d.: William to uproot all thorns and underwood growing in the two crofts and to plough as much land as had normally been ploughed before 27 Feb - 1461

5108 - Agreement between Gilbert Higgott of Burton on Trent and Dorothy his wife and Thomas Holland of Bond End, Burton, by which Higgott agrees to convey to Holland a messuage, burgage or tenement with a garden and backside in the Borough of Burton on Trent: £70 purchase money 19 Nov - 1720

5109 - Bond to observe agreement between Gilbert Higgott of Burton on Trent and Dorothy his wife and Thomas Holland of Bond End, Burton, by which Higgott agrees to convey to Holland a messuage, burgage or tenement with a garden and backside in the Borough of Burton on Trent: £70 purchase money - 1720

5110 - Lease by Joseph Loxdale of Stafford, gent., to John Stockley of Normacott, yeoman, of a messuage or tenement in Meir in the parish of Stone now or late in the tenure of Ralph Whewell and closes called Leigh Field, Little Coat Croft, Great Coat Croft, Milking Bank, Two Thorney Crofts, the Knowles, the Two Sling Crofts, the Woodfinch, Croft, the Rye Croft, Rye Croft Meadow and the Homage, all in the parish of Stone, and a meadow called Calverhay in the parish of Caverswall: for 41 years at an annual rent of £35 : not to plough in any year above 20 statute acres : additional rent of 40s per acre for any land ploughed in excess of this figure 22 Mar - 1733/1734

5111 - Award by John Weston, John Archard, Thomas Fane and John Bowde, arbitrators chosen to settle a dispute between Sir John Repington and Joan his wife, one of the daughters of John and Agnes Bailley and Robert Hyde and Agnes his wife daughter of Robert and Agnes Wyllis (formerly Bailly), relating to half a burgage in Robe Street Lichfield 27 Apr - 1539

5112 - Quitclaim by Anne Whitehall of Whitehaugh, Staffs., widow and Joseph Whitehall her son and heir to Richard Whitehall of Oldbury, Warwickshire, of all actions etc. against the said Richard 15 Jan - 1632/1633

5113 - Bond by Wingfield, Lord Cromwell of Fradswell Staffs., Earl of Ardglasse and Sir William Russell of Whitley, Wiltshire, baronet, to Robert Mellor of Waterhouses, yeoman in £60: Lord Cromwell to make a further assurance by fine or recovery of premises to Robert Mellor, namely those premises conveyed to Mellor in an indenture of the same date 25 Apr - 1657

5114 - Memorandum by Alan Morton of the numbers, kinds of cattle and periods of occupancy of the cattle he put to agist in the Park of Tholow [? Throwley, Ilam in 16/17 Henry VI] - 1437-1439

5115 - Roll of estreats for Staffordshire, with copy of the King's Warrant to the Sheriff for their collection and delivery at the Exchequer at Michaelmas following. Thursday after Epiphany - 1489

5116 - Petition by the tenants and "bedemen" of Calton to the Lord of Shrewsbury regarding wrongful possession by Nicholas, Lord of Waterfall, of a messuage and lands in Calton and Waterfall granted by William Hobeson of Calton to the use of a priest who should sing mass and do divine service in the chapel of Calton founded by the Earls of Shrewsbury - mid 15th cent

5117 - Draft final section of a final concord relating to land in Staffs.

5118 - Copy letter by Messrs Allen and Bodle to Messrs Baxter regarding the account in a case between Ford and Walhouse 8 Apr - 1800

5119 - Demise by Thomas son of Ralph de Chaddesden to John his brother of all the tenements and rents with appurtenances in Derbyshire which he has held since the death of his father, for the full and complete term of 8 years. Feast of St Michaelmas (29 Sep) Witnesses: John son of Gilbert, William Page, bailiff of Derbyshire, John de Chaddesden of Derbyshire, William le Wyne of Chaddesden, Simon de Cestre [Chester] and others - 1308

5119-5135 - Miscellanous Derbyshire estate papers

5120 - Lease by Joan de Findern, widow of John de Findern to John Mackworth, Thomas Blount, Henry de Kniveton, Henry de Bothe, John de Ireton, John Lathbury, and Thomas Bradshaw, of her third part of the manor of Findern which she holds as dower, namely all the chambers "le parler", "norcere", "pantre", "botre" and "wynseller" on the north part of the hall and a long house "under one roof" which extends in the east towards the Gaytehouse and in the west towards the pool, and 6 acres of arable land in the High field in the Crownest, 4 acres of land in the Middle Furlong, 1 acre in the Gorse, 2 acres above Fartbarrowhill in the Conyngrefield, 3 acres in the Galle, 3 acres above the Blakeneyr, 3 acres above Herdmandole in the Lowwayfield, 2 acres in the Wyttforlonge and 2 acres above the Foulithorne; 3½ acres of meadow in the Gallemedowe, 3 acres of meadow in the Blakmeyr and a plot of land in the Overclose of Pottlocke called Overhenmarshe, 1 parcel of land in Pottloke field which extends north as far as the Lytillwalle Hill, all of which the said Joan holds in dower in Findern and Potlocks (except for the part of the long house called the Werkhouse) : to hold in trust until Robert, son and heir of John de Findern, or, if he dies, the next heir, reaches the age of 21 : annual rent of 24s 5d Witnesses: Alured [Ailred] de Lathbury, Reginald de Lathbury, Henry Wychard, Thomas Mackworth and John Crowker 11 Nov - 1420

5121 - Defeasance of a bond for £40 by Henry de Kniveton, parson of the church of Norbury, to Thomas del Hull of Snelston, Robert del Hull, Walter Tyrry and John Brown, all of Snelston, contingent on the payment by Henry of 37s 4d at four terms in the year for 3 years 15 Aug - 1332

5122 - Deed whereby William de Wyklewode, rector of the church of Bromley in Rochester diocese, Ralph de Shirley knight, Thomas de Swanlond and Thomas Hally, executors of the will of Walter Walderschef [Wadshelf] late citizen of London, have appointed as chaplains to the three chantries of the church of Boylestone, John de Rocester, Richard de Doveridge, and William de Foston. The three chantries were founded by Walderschef/Wadshelf in his will and to support them a bequest of 18 marks of rent was made to the church of Boylestone, 13½ marks annually from the property in Cheap St., London, which Edward II gave to Walderschef/Wadshelf and 60s annually arising from a decorated tavern (taberna depicta) which William le Gauge held in a winestore in London 1 May - 1334

5123 - Power of attorney from John Sacheverell, esq., to Thomas Duffeld and William Cobyn to deliver siesin to Ralph Sacheverell his son and Elizabeth his wife, of all his lands, tenements, rents, reversions and all other appurtenances in the vill and fields of Aston on Trent, Derbyshire 24 Jun - 1450

5124 - Duchy of Lancaster writ instructing Ralph Shirley, steward, of the lordship of Donington, to lease at the next court held within the lordship an area of waste to the yearly value of 8s 4d to Richard Frances in lieu of 8s 4d rent for a parcel of land in the tenure of Frances which for some time has been unoccupied and no rent collected - 1506

5125 - Power of attorney by Samuel Triss of Cullworth, Northamptonshire, to George Lee of Catton, Derbyshire, to [illegible] attournement of Gabriel Armstrong of Rempsone, Nottinghamshire, for certain lands which he purchased of Christopher Horton of Catton and recited in a certain page of an indenture bearing date Aug 1651 - 1651

5126 - Bond by Alexander Taylor to Richard Williamson of Mapleton in £40 : to pay £20 10 Aug - 1700

5127 - Bond by Alexander Taylor of Ashbourne, maltster, and Alexander Taylor junior of Ashbourne to Thomas Williamson of Mapleton in £60 : to pay £30 20 Mar - 1701

5128 - Memorandum of an agreement by which B Col clough has agreed to accept from Leeke Okeover the sum of £2900 for the purchase of Charles Adderley's estate at Ballidon, Derbyshire 17 Jan - 1730/1731

5129 - Bond by Richard Lisett alias Brickshaw of Winster, hosier, to John Wall the elder of Wensley, gent., in £200 : to pay £100 16 Feb - 1767

5130 - Articles of agreement between Sir Matthew Blakiston of Sandy Brook Hall, baronet, and Richard Brown of Ashbourne for the construction of a gardener's cottage at Sandy Brook Hall - 1876

5131a - Death certificate of Nicholas Okeover of Sturston who died on 15 Apr 1578 18 Oct - 1876

5131b - Bond by Francis S[illegible] to John Brigham citizen and grocer of London in £10 7 Dec - 1580

5132 - Memorandum of a suit brough by John Fitzherbert, esq., against Henry Cotes of Snelston, labourer and Thomas Fayrechild, late of Snelston, miller for trespass and damage to trees and grass at Norbury. Hilary Term - 1502

5133 - The answer of Philip Okeover, esq., defendant to the bill of complaint of Michael Fynderne, complainant, concerning lands in the manor of Potlock, Findern, held by Philip Okeover in the right of his wife Margaret, widow of Thomas Fynderne and one of the daughters of William Dethick - [mid 16th cent]

5134 - Receipt by Christopher Horton of Catton, Derbyshire for £590 from Samuel Trist of Cullworth, Northamptonshire Dated 10 Jun - 1652

5135 - Note of distances in the Ashbourne area - circa 1770

5136 - Bond by Erasmus Wynton of Howeton [Houghton] St Giles, Norfolk, gent., and Henry Bretten of Felmingham to Thomas Pettus of Norwich in £160: to observe the covenants in an indenture of the same date 12 Dec - 1573

5136-5144 - Miscellaneous Norfolk estate papers

5137 - Bond by William Castleton of Morley, Norfolk to Martin Sedley in £100: reciting that, whereas Castleton is lawful parson and incumbent of the church or free chapel of Merkeshall [Markshall] Norfolk, in the gift of Martin Sedley, Castleton is not to resign the church to the Ordinary of the Diocese of Norwich without Sedley's consent 1 Nov - 1620

5138 - Lease by Sir Thomas Pettus of Rackheath, baronet, to William Tooke of Shreves in the city of Norwich, gent., of a marsh called Bretts Marsh belonging to the towns of Boyton [Beighton] and Moulton, Norfolk, : for 12 years at an annual rent of £80 12 Aug - 1651

5139 - Receipt for rent at Marketsale [Markshall] Norfolk 5 May - 1608

5140-42 - Land tax receipts for marshes in Beighton and North Burlingham, Norfolk - 1704

5143 - Recipt for assessment money for the churchwardens, overseers and constables of Norwich 10 Mar - 1704/1705

5144 - Land tax receipt for marsh at Beighton - 1705

5145 - Quantities and yearly values of the lands and tithes in Holstead and Tilton, Leicestershire, giving tenants' names, field names, acreage and rent, together with a letter to William Leeke at Wyneswold 1 Apr - 1678

5145-5151 - Miscellaneous Leicestershire estate papers

5146 - Power of attorney by Thomas Bearde of Aylesbury, gent., to Thomas Anynsowe gent., and John Fermor to deliver seisin of a messuage in Ratcliffe Culey, a close, 3½ virgates of land and meadow, part of the Hall Croft and all other lands etc. in Ratcliffe Culey now or late in the tenure or occupation of Thomas Weston to John Parkyns his heirs or assigns 14 Dec - 1552

5147 - Bond by Thomas Bearde to John Parkyns in £60 : to make a good and sufficient lawful estate in fee simple to Parkyns of a messuage in Ratcliffe Culey, a close, 3½ virgates of land and meadow, part of the Hall Croft and all other lands etc. in Ratcliffe Culey 14 Dec - 1552

5148 - Lease by Ralph Burton of Lyndley, Leicestershire, to William Lee alias Leigh of Cunnington, Huntingdonshire, of a capital messuage in Higham commonly called the Farm House and four yard lands belonging and closes called Over Alley, Nether Alley, Burrowes Close and two parcels of furres (furrows) one lying in the field next Lyndley, the other containing 12 lands lying together in the new close near Wykin : for 21 years at £10 per annum 20 Oct - 1606

5149 - Bond by John Smedley of Houghton on the Hill, Leicestershire, to Robert Smalley of Thurnby, Leicestershire, in £240 : to observe all the convenants in an indenture of the same date 12 Aug - 1673

5150 - Lease for possession (being part of Mary Farmer's marriage settlement) by William Boothby of Marston, Leicestershire, esq., and William Wright of Caldecott, Warwickshire, esq., to John Farmer the younger of Oldbury, Warwickshire, esq., of a messuage, tenement or farmhouse in Croft, Leicestershire, two yards lands of arable, meadow and pasture land in Croft, a parcel of ground in Croft called Marston Leys 9 acres and a quarter part of a yard land of arable, meadow and pasture in Stony Stanton, Leicestershire 13 Sep - 1722

5151 - Lease by John Farmer of Oldbury, gent., to Thomas Moore of Higham-on-the-Hill, carpenter, of a cottage in Higham in the tenure of Thomas Moore : for 21 years at an annual rent of 30s. 17 May - 1726

5152 - Ansley Coal: Lease by Samuel Ludford alias Bracebridge of Ansley, Warwickshire, gent., to John Farmer of Baddesley Ensor, Warwickshire, gent., in consideration of £46, of all that post work or "broken work" of coal, being the remainder of a coal delph called the Seven Foot Dole in a common called Ansley Common : for 31 years at a peppercorn rent. 30 April - 1707

5152-5161 - Miscellaneous Warwickshire Estate Papers

5153 - Ansley Coal: Articles of agreement between Samuel Ludford alias Bracebridge of Ansley Hall, Warwickshire, gent., and John Farmer the younger of Oldbury, by which Ludford has agreed to lease to Farmer for 10 years at an annual rent of £50, all those two ranges or pits of coal called the E11 Dole and the Slate Dole lying on the south side of Ansley Common : if all coal got from the foundation which is now sinking then this demise to determine on six months notice : Farmer permitted to erect inns, reckoning houses, shops, barns or stables, but must be removed within 9 months of the determination of the lease 17 Mar - 1721/1723

5154 - Ansley Coal: Lease by Samuel Ludford alias Bracebridge of Ansley, Warwickshire, esq., to John Farmer junior of Oldbury, esq., of a coppice or wood in Ansley standing at the lower end of the grounds of Edward Baker, commonly known as Hill Foot Wood, and several closes being part of a farm in Ansley in the possession of Edward Baker, called Goss Close, Rick Close, Oldbury Close, Broome Close, the Meadow, the Croft, by the house, a cottage now of late in the tenure of Widow Ireland, and also the E11 Coal, Slate Coal and Seven Foot Coal lying in the line leading from Ansley Common to Oldbury, and also the coal on the south side of Ansley Common which lies below the level of the Gin Pit already sunk by Farmer : for 21 years at annual rents of 40s. for the wood, £11. 10s. 0d. for part of Baker's Farm, £3 for the cottage and 6d. per load for every load of coal taken from the premises 7 Feb - 1722/1723

5155 - Four Warwickshire and Leicestershire bonds: (a) Robert Grene to Richard Broughton of Merevale, Warwickshire, in 100 marks : to fulfil all his obligations concerning the bargain and sale of an estate in Oldbury (b) Henry Holte of Oldbury to Thomas Parkyns in £8 : to stand by the terms of a page of an indenture of the same date 1 May 1602 (c) Batholomew Lexton of Hinckley and John Swift of Hinckley to Nicholas Rolfe in £160 : to observe the terms of an indenture of the same date 17 Jan 1608/1609 (d) Robert Grene of Oldbury to Robert Holt of Oldbury in £20 : to observe the covenants in an indenture of the same date, 7 Sep 1568 - 1568-1609

5156 - Bond by William Jeakes of Arley, yeoman and Thomas Smyth of Arley, husbandman, to Richard Wetherill of Oldbury, gent., in £40 : Jeakes indemnifying Wetherill from all manner of suits, losses and damages that may happen by reason of any demand or challenge made by Lawrence Phipps and Anne his wife relating to two tenements in Shustoke called Bulls tenements 25 Oct - 1636

5157 - Two copies of a bond by Thomas Neville of Bidminster Somerset and Ralph Hubard of Ansley Warwickshire, to Ralph Farmer of Baddesley Ensor, gent., in £100, Nevill not to leave England without the consent of Farmer, having been granted annuities of £5, issuing from lands in Allesley Warwickshire, and £10 by Farmer 13 Apr - 1647

5158 - Case paper concerning the rights of a tenant for life : concerning the lease of a coppice, lands and coal by Bracebridge to Farmer 7 Nov - 1728

5159 - Memorandum by Robert Smalley and Caunt relating to lands in Bushby and Marksfield held in trust for them by William Leeke - 1684

5160 - Memorandum relating to deeds of land in Badgley (? Baddesley) and Baxterley purchased by Ralph Farmer.

5161 - Letter from John Farmer to Bracebridge alias Ludford regarding the coal on Ansley Common 27 Sep - 1723

5162 - Summary of Arley parish registers 1606 - 1619 and a note on moduses - circa 1820

5162-5174 - Papers relating to Arley while R.R. Vaughton, guardian of H.C. Okeover, was Rector

5163 - Arley tithes - an account of stock agisted - circa 1820

5164 - Bundle or Arley tithe receipts - 1796-1840

5165 - Lidst of moduses claimed in Arley - circa 1820

5166 - List of churchwardens at Arley - 1826

5167 - List of possible witnesses in a dispute - circa 1826

5168 - Case paper in the dispute regarding Arley tithes - circa 1826

5169 - Deposition of John Clark of Arley farmer regarding Arley moduses - 1826

5170 - Terrier of farms in Arley - circa 1826

5171-5174 - Extracts from Arley parish records - circa 1826

5175 - Abstract of title of Thomas Leake to lands and premises in East Leake - 1659

5175-5188 - Miscellaneous Nottinghamshire estate papers

5176 - Schedule of all deeds and writings sent by William Leake, esq., to Matthew Jenison involving Trinity College Cambridge lands in Thurgaton, Hoveringham and Flintham - 1676

5177 - Survey book of part of the Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire estate of the Rt. Hon. [Right Honourable] Scrope Lord Viscount How, Baron of Cleonelly in Barkstone Plunger and Stathern - by farm, giving tenants names, field names, abuttments and acreages, including individuals strips in the open fields - circa 1706

5178 - Survey book of part of the Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire estate of the Rt. Hon. [Right Honourable] Scrope Lord Viscount How, Baron of Cleonelly in Langar, Barnstone, Granby and Hose: later additions at the back of a table referring to the map of the manors of Barnstone and Langar and also a survey of timber growing in the two manors giving number of trees, dimensions and value - 1706

5179 - Write of seisin by Elizabeth I upon entry sur disseisin en le post of Hilary Term 32 Elizabeth whereby Henry Scrope, Lord Scrope and Margaret his wife are to render without delay to Nicholas Lockwood and William Bowman, gent., the manors of Langar, Barnstone, Statham, Barkstone and Epperstone with appurtenances and 60 messuages, 40 cottages, one water mill, one windmill, 8 dovecotes, 30 gardens, 10 orchards, 2000 a. of land, 1000 a. of meadow, 1000 a. of pasture, 300 a. of wood, 400 a. of furze and heath and £4 rent with appurtenances in Langar, Barnstone, Barkstone and Epperstone 16 Nov - 1590

5180 - Lease by Lady Annabella Howe, widow, to Sir Scroope Howe of Langar her son and heir apparent, of the capital messuage, mansion or manor house called Langar Castle with yards, gardens etc., Langar Park and closes called Harradine Meadow, West Brigg Leas, Foale Close, Pywive Close, Langar Meadow, Little North Field and Lords Close: for 99 years, if Lady Annabella so long lives, at a peppercorn rent 28 Jul - 1685

5181 - Bond by Henry Sacheverell of Ratcliffe-on-Soar to Nicholas Nedeham of Kinoulton in £700: Nedeham to peaceably hold the manor of Gotham which Henry Sacheverell the elder purchased of Anthony Samon of Annesley Woodhouse 27 Jul - 1584

5182-5183 - Bond and counterpart by Nicholas Needham of Clifton, gent., to William St Andrew of Gotham, esq., in £650 to pay £300 on 29 Sep 1612 at Gotham parish church 29 Sep - 1610

5184 - Copy decree by Charles I against William Willoughby son and heir of Gilbert Willoughby 11 Jan - 1627

5185 - Agreement between William Cooper of Willoughby husbandman and John Hough of Clements Inn, Middlesex, to convey to John Wadland and John Wither of Clements Inn a messuage or tenement in Willoughby, Nottinghamshire, in the occupation of William Cooper and three yard lands of arable, meadow and pasture land in Willoughby and Wymeswold: to be held to the use of John Hough only until such time as a recovery is levied against him 26 Mar - 1649

5186 - Bond by Gabriel Armstrong to Elizabeth and Katherine Armstrong in £1700: to observe the convenants in an indenture of the same date 24 Apr - 1649

5187 - Lease by Cecil Cooper of Thurgaton, esq., and Thomas Hodgson of Newark to William Leeke of Wymeswold of the manors and rectories of Thurgaton, Hoveringham and Flintham lease by Cooper from Trinity College Cambridge for 21 years by lease of 11 Dec 1664 3 Nov - 1669

5188 - Bond by Matthew Johnson of Newark and William White of Girton, Newark, to Thomas Hodgson of Newark in £200: to keep Hodgson indemnified in a suit in chancery in Trinity Term and all other suits concerning a lease to Cooper of a messuage or tenement in Thurgaton in the occupation of J Brettle underlet to Hodgson 15 Dec - 1676

5189 - Schedule of deeds of Abraham. Deskerne relating to property in Barking, Eastham and St Buttolph's, Essex, 1639-1665 - circa 1670

5189-5207 - Miscellaneous London estate papers

5190 - Abstract of a particular of the Manor of Hendon - circa 1756

5191 - Lease by Thomas Atkinson of Tunbridge, Kent, gent., to Hugh Watkins, citizen and habadasher of London, in consideration of £5, of a messuage or tenement in the parish of St Buttolph without Bishopgate, London, with one cellar, one kitchen, one parlour, one chamber, a half garrett, one yard now inclosed with a pale containing in length 32 feet and in breadth 14 feet and a garden plot behind the messuage, situated behind or over the backside westward of the messuage called the Bull Head, heretofore in the tenure of John Langham: for 28 years at an annual rent of £4: free liberty to fetch water from the pump in Garland Alley 14 Aug - 1646

5192 - Exemplification of a judgement in the Court of Common Pleas in a case of trespass between William Clayton and Edward Crosse late of London, merchant taylor, Edward Crosse was "attacked to answer" Clayton's plea that he entered premises in the parish of St Buttolphs Bishopsgate by force of arms, demised for three years by Abraham Deskeyne on 1 Oct 1656. Crosse was found guilty of the trespass, Clayton was adjudged to recover the premises and was awarded £9 damages 11 May - 1657

5193 - Quitclaim by Thomas Nicholls of St Martins in the field, Middlesex, to Martha Hinton of all manner of actions, causes of actions, bills, bonds, obligations etc in law and equity against her 18 Feb - 1698/1699

5194 - Lease by Thomas Vickers of Hertfordshire, esq., to Nicholas Chapman of Bishopsgate Street, London, undertaken and carpenter, of a parcel of ground (heretofore a garden or garden plot and stables and coachhouses) in Bishopsgate Street, with racks, managers and eight haylofts over the said erected and standing: for 15½ years and an annual rent of £24: Clapham to erect one other coachhouse at his own costs and charges 9 Nov - 1728

5195 - Lease by Thomas Vickers of London, gent., to Thomas Bayley of East Ham, baker, of a messuage or tenement with barn, stable, and outhouses in certain street called Poor Street in East Ham, also a parcel of meadow or pasture in two closes called Kitchin Field 2 acres 0 rood 20 perches now in the tenure of Thomas Bayley also a parcel of marsh land called Greens Marsh 4 acres in East Ham in the parish of Barking now in the tenure if Stimson Bullmer and a parcel of marsh called Three Acres, 4½a., also in the tenure of Stimson Bullmer: for one year from Michaelmas last to Michaelmas next, the for 21 years at a rent of £12 for the first year then £33 per annum: additional rent for £10 per acre for ploughing any marsh land: the kitchen field to be laid down for pasture with rye grass seed and clover seed 3 years before the expiration of the term: 10 good cart loads of dung or soot to be placed on the Kitchen Field every year 1 Dec - 1731

5196 - Lease by Thomas Vickers of Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, esq., to Nicholas Chapman of Bishopsgate Street, London, undertaker and carpenter, of a piece or parcel of ground with messuages or tenements not standing thereon in a certain alley called Garland Alley in the parish of St Buttolph without Bishopgate, with dimensions as described in a scheme or ground plott annexed: for 21 years at an annual rent of £22: Chapman to build before 25 Dec 1738 at his own costs and charges one range of stabling 70 feet in length and at the same time demolish two old messuages or tenements now standing in the north part of the ground and replace them with three coach houses with doors to the same as described in the scheme or ground plott annexed: 2 plans attached 1 Apr - 1738

5197 - Lease by Thomas Vickers of Hoddesdeon, Hertfordshire, esq., to Thomas lanson of East Ham, Essex, yeoman, of a messuage or tenement with the barn, stables and outhouses and a parcel of ground called the Hoppet in Vicearidge Lane, East Ham, now in the tenure of Thomas lanson, together with two parcels of marsh ground lying together in Greens Marsh, East Ham, 4½ a. now in the occupation of James Smith: for 21 years at £12 per annum for the house ahd Hoppett and £7 per annum for the marsh (for 18 years only): additional rent of £10 per acre for ploughing any marsh 22 Aug - 1738

5198 - Articles of agreement between Thomas Vickers and Nicholas Chapman by which Vickers grants to Chapman right of way through a piece of ground to the south of premises let to Chapman leases by Vickers of the parishioners of St Buttolph and also the parishioners to be allowed to wash their horses at the horse pond and to be allowed the use of water in the yard leased by Chapman 21 Dec - 1738

5199 - Lease by Temple Timson of the parish of St Botolph within Bishopsgate wheeler to Thomas Vickers of Hoddesden, Hertfordshire, esq., of free egress, regress, way or passage with coaches, horses, carts and carriages by and over a yard of his near Garland Alley in the parish of St Botolph: for 20¾ years at an annual rent of £3L further Vickers with the consent of Nicholas Chapman his lessee has leased to Timson the use of the new river or Thomas water as the same is now laid into the said stable yard or ground of Thomas Vickers: for 15½ years at a peppercorn rent: further Timson has free privilege of laying in the stable yard at the common dunghill all the dung and dirt that shall be made on the premises which Timson leases from the Trustees of the parish of St Botolph without Bishopsgate 10 May - 1739

5200 - Copy traverse discharging the tenant in capite Abraham Deskeyne of 3 acres of marsh in West Ham Level being the land of William Wall which was purchased for him [Deskeyne] by Samuel Oates: Candlemas term - 2 Feb 1639/1640

5201 - Case paper - Abraham Deskeyne v the undertendants of Atkinson - relating to property in Bishopgate - 1657

5202 - Answer to Abraham Deskeyne to the bill of complaint of Edward Crosse 3 Nov - 1658

5203 - Paris taxes for premises in the hands of Mr Vickers and Mr East - 1758-1759

5204 - Mr Wares' deductions from the rent of the stables in Bishopgate Street - 1759

5205 - Receipt for poor rate - parish of St Andrews Holborn - 1765

5206-5207 - Two letters from Samuel Commeline, to Mrs Elizabeth Vickers at Hoddesden, 3 Jan 1753 and 17 Jan 1756, regarding the collection of rents for her Bishopgate estate - 1753-1756

5208 - Agreement by which Dame Elizabeth widow of [illegible] Poole deceased in consideration of £500, agrees to cancel and make void all and every judgement, statute and bonds wherein William Stratford stands engaged to her, and further than Stratford shall let to her (as a security) for 21 years at a peppercorn rent closes called Cow Leasow, Apperhill, Overfield and Ox Leasow at Farncote, Gloucestershire Feb - 1685/1686

5208 - Miscellaneous Gloucestershire estate papers

5209 - Lease by Thomas Delves of Dodington, baronet, to Henry Latham of Blakehall, yeoman, in consideration of £425, of a messuage situate in Blakenhall with all barms, outbuildings etc and closes called Barne Meadow, Two Hills, the Moores, Great Marle Field, Little Marle Field, the Clamas, the Two Butts in the Elder Greave, the Old Ditch, the Church Field, the Brun Meadow, the Stubble Croft, Newheye, Newheye Meadow, and the old hills, all in the tenure of Henry Latham, and closes called Broad Field, Towne Field, the Parke, the Plumbarrow, the Townsend, Hungerhill and the Pitts in the tenure of William Steele: to hold during the natural lives of John Latham son of Henry Latham, Mary Steele and Elizabeth Steele daughters to Richard Steele of Bridgner Cheshire, yeoman at an annual rent of 27s 5d 5 Feb - 1678/1679

5209-210 - Miscellaneous Cheshire estate papers

5210 - Appointment of Mary Marsh wife of Peter Marsh of Sutton, Cheshire, gent., that John Stonhewer and Robert Woodhouse shall stand seised in all those messuages, cottages, lands, tenements etc in Sutton in the Manor and Forest of Macclesfield, now in the holding of Peter Marsh surrendered by Edmund Goodall deceased formerly husband of Mary Marsh, Johm Hawkins of Macclesfield, gent., and William Clayton of Macclesfield, gent., to John Stonhewer of Sutton, gent., and Robert Woodhouse of Winkle, yeoman, at Macclesfield Manor Court, to the sole use and behoof of the said Mary 25 May - 1725

5211 - Miscellaneous Shropshire estate papers

5211 - Receipt by Sir Peter de Montfort to Sir Hugh de Okeover on taking over the castle at Bridgnorth with its contents including the ten prisoners in the prison 6 Oct - 1257

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