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D255 - Ray family of Heanor Hall - 18th - 19th cent

1 - Mortgage in fee by William Coke of Trusley esquire, to Joseph Rogerson of Derby clerk, and George Wilmot of Derby, baker, for £500, £3392 and £608, of a messuage tenement and farm in Alsop en le Dale, Newton and Fenny Bentley in the occupation of John Johnson; messuage, tenement and farm with all lands belonging in Dalbury, otherwise Dalbury Lees, in the occupation of Troth Hind widow, two closes in Dalbury called Little Ruckhill and Ruckhill Meadow in the occupation of Robert Bakewell; messuage or tenement with hereditaments in Burnaston in the occupation of Henry Ford; messuage, tenement and land in Burnaston in the occupation of John Salt; messuage, tenement and farm in Trusley in the occupation of Robert Martin; messuage, tenement and farm in Trusley in the occupation of Anne Tetloe; messuage or tenement and farm in Trusley in the occupation of John Taylor; messuage or tenement and farm in Trusley in the occupation of Robert Eaton; messuage or tenement and farm in Trusley in the occupation of Robert Bakewell; messuage or tenements in Trusley in the occupation of William Dobb, John Johnson, John Willot and Gerard Walker; also a moiety of a messuage or tenement, farm and land belonging in Fenny Bentley in the occupation of Samuel Smith: redeemable on the payment of £500 with interest to Abraham Crompton on 27 February next ensuing, and £3392 and £608 to Abraham Crompton on 8 April next ensuing, 7 April - 1717

1-49 - John Sutton's Pinxton Collieries

2 - Deed to lead to uses of a fine between D'Ewes Coke of Longford esquire, and Frances his wife, Francis Sheldon of Abberton Worcestershire esquire, and John Barneby of Brockhampton Herefordshire - 3 Apr 1723

3-4 - Mortgage for £950 by D'Ewes Coke of Trusley and Frances his wife to Robert Fletcher of Smalley of property as in D255 M/B 2, provided that Coke will assure to Fletcher all the mines, veins, delphs and lymphs of coal and collieries of D'Ewes Coke and Frances his wife in Pinxton, Kirkby, Brookhill and South Normanton, 5 April - 1728

5 - Copy deed of partition between Edward Wilmot of Spondon esquire, and Catherine Cassandra Isabella his wife (daughter of William Coke) and D'Ewes Coke of Suckley, Worcestershire esquire, and Ann his wife (also one of the daughters of William Coke), reciting that the estate of William Coke has descended to his two daughters who are desirous of making a partition, by which Wilmot and his wife receive the Trusley, Dalbury and Burnaston Estates and a moiety of the coal under any of William Coke's land in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, while D'Ewes Coke and Ann his wife receive the Pinxton Estate, a moiety of the manor of South Normanton, land at Alsop en le Dale, Compton and Burnaston, a moiety of a messuage and land at Fenny Bentley, a moiety of the advowson of Pinxton church and a moiety of the coal under William Coke's Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire estates, - (23 Apr 1731)

6 - Revocation and appointment of uses of a fine by D'Ewes Coke of Suckley, Worcestershire esquire, and Frances his wife by which premises in Alsop en le Dale, Fenny Bentley and Compton are limited to the use of John Ward of Queens College, Cambridge, William Chaney of Derby, Doctor in Physick and Thomas Allestree of Alvaston esquire, (new trustees), in trust to sell the same to pay off the debts of Robert and William Coke at the time of their deaths and all such debts contracted by Frances Coke before her marriage paying the residue to D'Ewes Coke: the residue of the property in Pinxton, Brookhill, Kirkby and Burnaston (except coal) to the use of trustees for 500 years to the use of the D'Ewes Coke for life, then to the use of Frances his wife, then to the use of the trustees for preserving the contingent uses, namely to the use of D'Ewes Coke, son of D'Ewes Coke by Frances Coke, and his sons, then to the use of Ballidon Coke and then to the use of the other sons of D'Ewes and Frances Coke in order of seniority and their male issue - 19 Apr 1732

7 - Conveyance (labelled `grant of coles') by D'Ewes Coke of Suckley Worcestershire esquire, to Robert Fletcher of Heanor gent, of all those moieties in all manner of mines, veins, delphs and lymphs of coal and collieries both hard and soft under all the premises, late the estate of William Coke - 11 Apr 1732

8 - As D255 M/B 7, 7 April - 1733

9 - Assignment by Robert Fletcher of Smalley to Leonard Fosbrooke of Shardlow esquire, of D'Ewes Coke's mortgage for £950 to Fletcher [D255 M/B 3-4], 11 April - 1733

10 - Survey of parts of Pinxton and Kirkby in Ashfield, giving acreages, close names and tenants; `old' and `new' survey acreages given. - c1733

11 - Articles of agreement between Robert Fletcher of Heanor gent, and D'Ewes Coke of Suckley, Worcestershire gent, by which Coke agrees to pay Fletcher £1340 for reconveyance to him of his moiety and fourth part of the Pinxton and South Normaton coal 9 April - 1741

12 - Mr Hodgkinson's proposals to work Pinxton Colliery - nd [18th cent]

13 - Power of attorney by William Fletcher of Owlgreaves, Heanor gent, Robert Fletcher of Edensor, carpenter and joiner, Goodere Fletcher of Heanor gent, and Edward Green Fletcher of Heanor gent, to Anthony Tissington of Alfreton Common, gent, to receive all rents and profits from property in Heanor and elsewhere in Derbyshire which were the estate and inheritance of Goodere Fletcher of Heanor deceased, except all coal mines and delphs, 24 April - 1777

14 - Extract from mortgage of William Fletcher's shares of certain estates and collieries to E M Mundy for £150, 19 April - 1781

15-16 - Mr Sutton's proposals to lease Pinxton coal for 21 years at £130 per annum (for Coke's and Wilmot's share) or £90 per annual for Coke's share only. - c1785

17 - An estimate of getting coals at Pinxton for one year when foundation is completed by John Sutton: expected sale 3000 loads at 11 s per load. - c1785

18 - Copy agreement between John Sutton of Kirk Hallam gent, and F B Wilmot of Spondon esquire, by which Wilmot agrees to let to Sutton a moiety of a thick bed of hard coal at Pinxton and Brookhill for 21 years at £20 per acre, 18 April - 1785

19 - An account of cash laid out or sunk at Pinxton up to 8 October 1785 by John Sutton - sinking and borings at various points, stock of coal unsold, building a brickkiln, tools and engines, implements. - 1785

20 - Some observations on Pinxton Colliery by Samuel Fletcher: where he believes "a foundation can be made, lifting water at easy expense, position of deep level and putting down an engine at great expense". - 1783

21 - An account of what John Sutton paid for the Pinxton coal - c1786

22 - John Sutton's further calculations of the value of Pinxton coal. - 1786

23 - Memorandum regarding Mr Sutton's lease from F B Wilmot of Spondon of a moiety of the Pinxton coal. - 1786

24 - Memorandum regarding the Pinxton engine - 1786

25-26 - Value of Pinxton coal described as "my share" - 1786

27 - Memorandum regarding interest involved in the Pinxton purchase. - 1786

28 - Memorandum to be laid before Mr Coke at Chesterfield: Mr Sutton's proposals relating to the closes under which the Top Hard coal lies. - 1786

29 - Agreement between John Sutton of Heanor gent, and Rev D'Ewes Coke of Brookhill Hall, by which Sutton agrees to convey to Coke all the mines, veins, or delphs of coal in South Normanton, also a moiety of the mines in Pinxton and Kirkby in Ashfield which were purchased by him from the executors of the late Robert Fletcher deceased who purchased the same of the late D'Ewes Coke [see D255 M/B 7-8] it is further agreed that Coke shall have the fire engine erected for the purpose of unwatering the said coal at such a price as the said John Sutton paid for the same and also all bricks, timber and materials belonging to the said John Sutton on the Bank 4 April - 1786

30 - Award of Anthony Tissington, having taken upon himself the settling of the price or value to be paid by Rev D'Ewes Coke to John Sutton for the purchase of collieries under certain closes and waste grounds in Pinxton, Kirkby and South Normanton, by which he orders that Coke pays to Sutton £2,600 15 April - 1786

31 - Schedule of deeds relating to coal mines in Pinxton, Brookhill, Kirkby and South Normanton up to 1773 - [18th cent]

32 - Notes on Pinxton coal - [19th cent]

33-34 - Further abstracts relating to Pinxton coal - c1830

35 - Schedule of title deeds and writings as delivered to Mr Hall for securing £4000 upon three mortgages of the late Mr Sutton's estate. - 1833

36 - Short abstracts of Coke deeds - c1838

37 - Newspaper notice advertising the sale of coal at South Normanton and Pinxton near the Mansfield and Pinxton railway and the canal. - [19th cent]

38 - Copy letter from John Sutton to F B Wilmot asking him to execute a lease - 1784

39 - Letter from Coke to Sutton urging him to get the agreement from Wilmot - 1785

40 - Further letter from Coke to Sutton regarding the Wilmot lease - 1785

41-42 - Letter from Sutton to Coke and reply: Sutton has been upset by his reception at Brookhill Hall - 1785

43-44 - Letter from Coke to Sutton and reply: Coke is willing to give £2000 for the coal providing Sutton will indemnify him from the Wilmot lease; also willing to take bricks, coals and timber on the ground and the engine at prime cost. - 1786

45 - Letter from F B Wilmot to Sutton asking Sutton to meet him at Pinxton - 1786

46 - Letter from Coke to Sutton regarding the appointment of Mr Tissington as "referee" for the valuation of Sutton's Pinxton colliery - 1786

47 - Letter from Anthony Tissington to Sutton accompanying his award - 1786

48 - Letter from Coke to Sutton regarding the deeds to Pinxton coal - 1787

49 - Letter from Coke to Sutton regarding Sutton's offer to him of coal in the Pinxton neighbourhood - 1796

50-51 - Lease and release by Henry Hunter of Kilburn esquire, and John Manley of the Middle Temple esquire, his trustee to Joseph Barber of the Bushes, Denby farmer and Edward Ward of Derby gent, his trustee, in consideration of £550, of the Twelve Acres Close 11a 2r 21p in Kilburn, late in the tenure of Elizabeth Radford now of Thomas Langton, 7 and 8 April - 1834

50-96 - John Ray's Kilburn Colliery

52-53 - Lease for possession and mortgage in fee for £400 by Joseph Barber of Kilburn farmer, to John Curzon of Derby esquire, of a close in Kilburn called Twelve Acres Close, 11a 2r 21p with a messuage, barn and cowhouses built there by Joseph Barber: redeemable on the payment of £400 and 5% interest by 2 April 1834, 1 and 2 April - 1834

54 - Deed of further charge for an additional £70 on the premises in D255 M/B 52-53: Joseph Barber to John Curzon, 3 April - 1837

55 - Appointment of new trustees by Ann Sheldon, wife of Joseph Sheldon of Holbrook joiner, by which William Holbrook the younger and Thomas Brown appointed, reciting release by John Curzon to John Long and others of the Lower part of the Twelve Acres Close to the use of Ann Sheldon, 24 April - 1859

56 - Release by John Ray of Heanor Hall esquire, to John Long of Horsley Woodhouse gent, in consideration of £150, of part of the Twelve Acres Close, 2 acres by estimation, reserving to Ray all mines and minerals, 15 April - 1853

57 - Settlement to payment for coal under land at Kilburn reciting agreement by Martha Rice of Kilburn widow, and Gervas Rice, to sell to John Ray all the coals under closes in Kilburn called the Room Close and the Meadow by Bottle Brook, North Field, Middle Field, Far Field and Oakley Pingle 18a 2r for £45 per acre; £300 to be paid before 25 April 1830; remainder of purchase money to be paid on 25 April 1836, the day on which the younger child of the late Richard Rice attains the age of twenty-one: £572 agreed as a settlement figure, 1 April - 1831

58 - Agreement between Jedediah Strutt of Belper esquire, and John Ray, by which Strutt agrees to sell to Ray 25 acres of coal under eight closes in Horsley Woodhouse called Great Hansack, Norman Slack Field, Bacons Closes, Hill Top Close, Bottom Meadow, Old Pasture and Noons Close at a cost of £70 per acre; additional sum of £4 per acre for surface damages; land damaged for the purpose of sinking the pit not to exceed 1 acre; permission to get clay for making bricks, 25 April - 1839

59 - Memorandum of an agreement between Charles Vicars Hunter esquire, and Henry Fotheringham Hunter esquire, and John Ray of Heanor Hall esquire, for the lease by Ray of the Kilburn bed of coal under land at Kilburn: lease to be for 15 years from 7 April 1845 and to comprise all the coal belonging to the Messrs Hunter under lands numbered as follows in the parish survey of Kilburn made by John Bromley 354-361; 342-343, 201, 207, 225-231, 234-236, 260 and 262-263; rent of £70 per acre; minimum rent to be paid for not less than 5 acres yearly, 7 April - 1844

60 - Agreement between Charles Vicars Hunder and Henry Fotheringham Hunter and John Ray for an extended lease by Ray of Messrs Hunter's coal at Kilburn from 26 April 1848 - 1848

61 - Memorandum of agreement between Joseph Bourne and Son of Derby, stone bottle manufacturers, and John Ray of Heanor Hall, by which Bourne leases to Ray for 25 years, Bottles Meadow, 3 roods, for the purpose of a railway to Ray's colliery - 30 Apr 1856

62-63 - Memorandum of an agreement between Henry Fotheringham Hunter of Kilburn and John Ray by which Hunter agrees to let to Ray for 15 years from 25 April 1861 all the Kilburn bed of coal under lands belonging to Hunter numbered 196, 200, 241, 248, 249, 251, 255, 256, 257, 258, 261, 262, 263, 268, 292, 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, 316, 317, 322, 323, 324 and 378 (63a 2r 15p) on Bromley's map of Kilburn; annual rent of £70 per acre; not to work any coal within 70 yards of the mansion house or 40 yards of any building on the Hunter estate, 30 April (with copy) - 1861

64 - Lease by Henry Wilmot Sitwell of Stainsby House, Smalley, to John Ray, of the Kilburn bed of coal under several closes in Horsley (except the coal under Stainsby House, pleasure grounds etc) - 6 Apr 1862

65-66 - Lease (and draft) by George Henry Strutt of Belper esquire, to John Ray for 25 years of the Kilburn bed of coal under Strutt's lands in Kilburn, numbered 278, 279, 319, 320, 269, 270 and 271 on Bromley's plan, 13a 2r 14p; annual rent of £70 per acre; not to sink any pits or erect any buildings, 15 April - 1863

67 - Copy agreement between William Hunter of Kilburn, gent, Francis Burton of Nottingham gent, and Rev George Henry Ray of Heanor Hall: for 13 years from 25 April 1873, to comprise all the Kilburn bed of coal lying under the lands of William Hunter numbered 240, 250, 252, 253, 254, 286, 287, 288, 238 and 237 on Bromley's parish survey (plan attached); £85 per annum rent, 11 April - 1873

68 - Lease by Robert Sacheverel Sitwell of Morley esquire, and Robert Sacheverel Wilmot Sitwell of Stainsby House esquire, to Rev G H Ray of Finghall Rectory, clerk, for 22 years, of all the Kilburn bed of coal under freehold and copy- hold land in Horsley and Horsley Woodhouse (scheduled); not to mine coal within 33 yards of any building; to build a railway or tramway to the railway at Coxbench; rent of £20 per acre for every acre of copyhold coal worked and £120 per acre for freehold coal; additional rent of £4 per acre for surface damages. - 1874

69 - Draft deed modifying Kilburn coal lease by Rev G H Ray to Thomas Henry and George Small, relating to Ray sub-letting to the Smalls the coal in Kilburn he leases off the Hunters and Wilmot Sitwell at Kilburn and Horsley, 11 April - 1874

70 - Abstract of deeds and writings relating to certain hereditaments and premises at Kilburn beginning with feoffment of 15 April 1626 by William Johnson to Thomas Garton, for £80, of closes in Kilburn - c1810

71 - Notes on Lord Scarsdale's title to lands at Denby - c1835

72 - John Curzon's bill to John Ray mainly relating to a plan and valuation of coal at Denby - 1837

73 - Notes on Kilburn coal - c1840

74 - Abstract of title of Messrs Smith and Eley as trustees for sale to land in Kilburn belonging to Joseph Barber deceased - c1850

75 - Certified copy of the burial of John Barber of Strype Farm, Denby, 8 April 1843: copied 5 April 1852 - 1852

76 - Abstract of title of John Ray to land at Kilburn beginning with the will of Philip Dormer, Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 4 April 1772 - 1853

77 - Notes on closes and acreages and "coal reserved to Mr Ray" - c1855

78-79 - Case papers relating to damages to cottages by coal workings at Horsley Woodhouse belonging to William Richardson of Kiddesley Park, including W S Smith's (surveyor) report on the damages (£36) and a copy of the mining agreement between Richardson and Ray (10 April 1863) by which Ray leased coal underlying 6 cottages and gardens in Horsley Woodhouse - 1867

80 - Inventory and valuation of machinery and materials at Kilburn Colliery late the property of John Ray deceased (valued at £4529 15s) - c1868

81 - Undertaking by T H and G Small to return deeds to Rev G H Ray on demand following their purchase of Kilburn Colliery, 25 April - 1876

82 - Notice of assignment of mortgage of Kilburn Collieries by T H and G Small to G H Ray to W G Cursham of Wilford and Edward Gayler of Belper, Doctor of Medicine, 8 April - 1891

83-85 - Fire insurance policies on Kilburn Colliery, Colliery Manager's house and two cottages and domestic offices, giving detailed inventories of buildings, fixtures and equipment - 1886

86-88 - Case papers relating to the liquidation of the Kilburn Colliery Ltd - c1893

89-95 - Correspondence between John Curzon and John Ray regarding the purchase of Lord Scarsdale's coal at Langley, Loscoe and Denby - 1836-1839

96 - Letter from W S Smith to John Ray regarding the damages to Richardson's cottages at Horsley Woodhouse - 1867

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