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D258 - Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth - 1200-1905

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9 - Thomas Gell

10 - Sir John Gell I (1593-1671), Sir John Gell II (1613-1689), Civil War and various

1 - Letter - Bridgett Wylloughby to her daughter, Mrs Elizabeth Gell [wife of Sir John Gell I] - if the weather had not been so bad, she would have sent for her as arranged - 17th cent

2 - Answer of Walter Rawley [Sir Walter Raleigh] to charges against him - copy, c1600 - [c1600]

3 - Manuscript verse - `A Dream in Rhine' - 17th cent

5 - Executorship account of `LC' [a male of Holmesfield], giving details of legacies - 1653

6 - Letter - Thomas Parker at Hopton to Henry Buxton - asks him to sign the enclosed papers and return them. 3 Jan 1665/6 - 3 Jan [1666]

7 - Copy feoffment by George Savage of Eckington, yeomen, to Henry Wigfall of Renishaw, esq., of a close known as Fox Brooke Pingle at Eckington and a close called Townehead Pingle with 6 selions at Eckington - 9 Mar [1649]

1 - Parliamentary diary of John Gell [II] - 5 Feb [1659]-21 Mar [1659]

2 - Parliamentary diary of John Gell [II] - 23 Mar [1659]-8 Apr 1659

3 - Letter - Thomas Stubbinge at Whittington to Sir John Gell [II] at Hopton - will give him an account of receipts and payments as soon as he is able. 9 Apr - 1677

4 - Printed poem - "To his Worthy Friend M Thomas Heyrick on his Ingenious Poems." - [17th cent]

6 - List of Acts [of Parliament] already decided upon, sent to John Gell - 1620

7 - Letter - Antony Gell to Adam Balguy - asks him to pay his tithes, otherwise he will be excommunicated - c1580

8 - Letter - R Sacheverell to Sir Phillipp Gell - would be pleased to hear what Mr Bagshaw thinks they should do - thinks an Act of Parliament will be their best way - 22 Mar [1693]

9 - Letter - Phillis Packer to her son-in-law, John Gell [II] at Hopton - his father has received the £100 - has had a letter from Mrs Hoby - the child is very ill - thinks a coach will be the best way to convey the child to Hopton - has been to see their friends who are imprisoned by the army - Major General Browne was arrested this morning. 12 Dec - 1648

10 - Letter - J Kimberley at Lichfield to Sir Philip Gell at Hopton - is unable to meet him on Tuesday as he has been seized with gout. 3 May - 1718

11-12 - Constables' presentments of landowners in Dethick, Tansley, Lea and Eaton and Alsop with valuation of their estates for [?militia assessment] - 1715

13 - Names of Captain Fitzherbert's troop, mustered at Ashbourne - 1690

14 - Tax demand on John Gell of Hopton - 1625

15 - Elton militia assessment - 1715

16 - Articles of high treason committed by John, Earl of Bristol against Charles I - 17th cent

17-18 - Compotus rolls of George Murrey for Bakewell, Hope and Tideswell - 1629, 1631

19-20 - Assessment on landowners at Mapleton and Thorpe for disbanding the army - 1680

21-22 - List of names and [amount of assessment] - 1680

23 - Appeals against [land] tax assessments - 1705

24-25 - Land Tax Assessments of Wirksworth Hundred - 1705-1708

26 - Copy letter of Anthony Bacon, mentioned in the arraignment of the Earl of Essex, with copy of the Earl's answer - 1600

27 - Petition of William Rowland of Derbyshire to the King re pre-emption of lead ore - c.1640

28 - Letter - R Heath to William Rowland - has heard that he is engaged in smelting lead - there will be need of a discreet man to buy the lead from the miners under the pre-emption contract with the King - asks him to be prepared to act in this capacity. 28 Aug - 1629

29-30 - Petition, with draft, to the King re draining of lead mines at Tersall and Raventarre - 17th cent

31 - Letter - George Pole to Sir John Gell - his uncle Rolston asks that the meeting at Derby be postponed until Tuesday fortnight (3 April) as he is ill with a bruise. 24 Mar - c.1680

32 - Letter - German Pole to Sir John Gell - asks Gell to send him the duplicate of the draft agreement. 6 Apr - 1677

33 - List of horses and men for the militia - Wirksworth Wapentake - 1715

34 - Reasons concerning the taking of the custom or duty of 20s. per fother or sum on lead paid to the Queen - [early 18th cent]

35 - Petition of the inhabitants of Wirksworth to be allowed to elect two members of parliament - [c1660s]

36 - Barmoot court held at the Moot Hall, Wirksworth order - "George Vickers, Robert Spencer and John Mather to keep Ralph Poyser companie at a ground and neare of ground lying [?] in Barly Flat in [Wirksworth]" - 1658

37 - Letter - B Leacroft at London to Philip Gell at Hopton - exhibitions have not engaged him much except Mr Copley's picture. 16 Jul - 1781

38 - The severall accompts of Col Sir John Gell ...... and of his brother Lt Col Thomas Gell ...... Published to cleare their innocency from false imputations. Printed. London, 1644 - 1644

39 - Letter - Luke Whittington, Mayor of Derby, to Sir John Gell at Hopton - has heard from the Mayor of Chesterfield that Sir Francis Roade and others mean to petition the King - there is to be a meeting at Derby on Monday next - 24 Mar [1642]

40 - [Number not used]

41 - Petition to Parliament by Versaminus de Platamore, a Greek who was taken prisoner by the Turks - asks for a brief to collect money for the ransom of his wife and children - c.1650

42 - Letter - A[mbrose] Warren to Sir Philip Gell - 15 of the Spanish were taken or sunk - it is thought that the Spanish ambassador will be suspended - Captain Byng had £1000. 16 Sep - 1718

43 - N.B. [Nathaniel Boothouse] to Sir Philip Gell - includes a copy of the committee order re the Bill for preventing multiplicity of vexatious suits and for settling and ascertaining the tithes of lead ore - the House adjourned until Wednesday - hopes old Edward Hutchinson will be able to give evidence - hopes that many of their adversaries will not attend. 17 Apr - 1701

44 - Accounts for Mistress Gell, 1644 - 1645

45 - Instructions in the election of an MP for Derby - Thomas Gell and Capt Meller - c. 1645

46 - Letter - Joseph Sulley to Sir John Gell - Mr Rolleston is unable to wait upon him this week owing to indisposition. 15 Sep - 1676

47-48 - Letter - Sir Robert Byron to Sir John Gell, Governor of Derby - has obtained travel pass (enclosed) issued by Ferdinando, Lord Fairfax, to Sir Richard Byron to travel from Newark to Ireland via Chester - requests one from Gell. - 20 Mar [1645]

49 - Account of lead and shot exported from England, 1698-1704, with custom paid - 1704

50 - Letter - James Howe at Leghorn to Philip Gell in London - has received the case of pictures from Rome and despatched them on the "Prince Edward" - has received two brace of pistols for Gell, what should he do with them - 10 Jan [1750]

51 - Petition of Phillipp Marston and other Yorkshire gentry to the King against the insupportable burden of military expenditure levied upon Yorkshire - 1640

52 - Articles of instructions to be enquired and executed by virtue of His Majesty's commission, re the accounts of sheriffs, justices of the peace, etc - c.1680

53 - Letter - The Earl of Rutland to Sir John Gell - asks Gell to be at Haddon on Monday to discuss parliamentary matters. 24 Jun - 17th cent

54 - Request to Sir John Gell to meet the commissioners enquiring into exactions from the dissenters, at Nottingham. 24 Apr - 1688

55 - Letter - Lancelot Rolleston at Watnall to Sir John Gell at Hopton - asks to be paid the £200 Gell owes him. 20 Oct - 1677

56 - Letter - John Ferne to Thomas Brograve at Rolleston - asks Brograve to put in a word with Mr [Thomas] Gell, the Receiver [of the honour of Tutbury] so that he may be restored to his place again. 6 Nov - 1646

57 - Copy order to the Sheriff of Derbyshire to reimburse John Gell, late sheriff, the £40 or £50 he paid out of his own pocket towards furnishing a ship of 350 tons. 20 Dec - 1635

58 - Letter - W Dikenson to Sir John Gell - the Commons have voted to supply the King's occasions of money - the Duchess of York continues ill and the Prince of Orange has not yet come to court. 29 Oct - 1670

59 - Order of [-] Danby of Whitehall Treasury Chambers re poll tax and taxing of servants for wages received. 16 Apr - 1678

60 - Letter - Hugh Bateman at Derby to Sir John Gell - was not in London last term but sent his servant Thomas Alsoppe. 15 Jun - 1677

61 - Letter - Hugh Bateman at Derby to Sir John Gell - has instructed Mr Sergeant Newdigate and Mr Sergeant Willmott in the case wherein Mr Rolston is plaintiff against Gell and Mr Pole as executors of George Pole decd. - has spoken to Mr Edge about Gell's and Mr Pole's answer to Thacker's bill - 13 Mar [1676]

62 - Letter - Ralph Edge at Gloucester to Sir John Gell - has settled a new issue and jury with Mr Rolston's attorney - 20 Feb [1677]

63 - Letter - Joseph Sulley at Nottingham to Sir John Gell - Mr Edge promised to enter an appearance to writ - asks him to appoint a common pleas attorney so that appearance can be entered. 23 Nov - 1675

64 - `Prudent Silence. A Sermon Preached in Mercers Chappel ...... Shewing, The Great Sin and Mischief of Destroying Kings in 1648'. Printed - 1660

65 - Letter - Ralph Edge at Clements Inn to Sir John Gell at Hopton - Mr Rolston and his counsel put off the action from day to day until Mr Sully could come to town - the court has ordered a new trial. 28 Nov - 1676

66 - Unexecuted agreement between John Gell of Hopton, colonel, and John Bowring of St Margret's Westminster, whereas as Gell has presented a petition to Parliament for pardon of a sentence of treason against him and, being in restraint, cannot manage the petition himself and has entrusted the same to Bowring, that if Bowring shall obtain the pardon without a fine, then Gell will pay him £300. 1 Apr - 1652

67 - Order of the Committee for Appeals and Regulating the Excise, upon reading the petition of John Gell for relief against Edmund Hewett and John Thorowgood, subcommissioners of the excise, and others who seized 8 whetstones of lead from his smelting mill at Wirksworth, that the subcommissioners are to consider the petition and the rights thereof. 2 May - 1655

68 - Petition of John Gell to the Committee for Appeals and Regulating the Excise against Edmund Hewett John Thorowgood, Edward Hopps als. Peate and - Blodworth who broke into his smelting mill at Wirksworth and seized 8 whetstones of lead, claiming them to be a debt due to them from one John Molanus - 22 May 1655

69 - Letter - John Manners to Mr Gell - puts himself forward as a member of parliament for the county - Late 17th cent

70 - Petition (draft) of Sir John Gell to the Committee of Indemnity - c.1650

71-72 - Manor of Wirksworth - list of 29 cottages, with owners names "erected and encroached upon the wastes belonging to the [Wirksworth] manor" - ?1695

10 - Orders of the Committee [of Sequestrations], sitting at Derby re Edward Coke, Mr Sheriff and Samuel Sleigh - 17th cent

11 - `Englands appeale to ye Parliament' re affairs in Europe. (MS Volume) - 17th cent

13 - Letter - Edward Willughbye at Wollaton to his sister, Elizabeth, wife of Sir John Gell I - asks her to godmother to his daughter - the christening will be on Tuesday or Thursday of Whit week. 1 Jun - 17th cent

14 - [Petition of Sir John Gell] - c.1650

15 - Poems [?in the hand of Sir John Gell] - Mid 17th cent

17 - Warrants of Commissioners for putting into execution an Act for raising money by a poll or otherwise [to fund a war against the French] - 17th cent

18 - Verse satire against "ignorant prowde gallants" by John Fag - c.1630

21 - Notes on claims by Mr Carpenter to land in Derbyshire by virtue of a lease of all incroached and concealed land in the Duchy of Lancaster - 17th cent

22 - List of papers lent by Sir John Gell to John Slack - [1676]

23 - Gathering of folios containing (i) Copy articles of agreement between Sir Thomas Brooke to Sir Thomas Burton - in consideration of £1000, Brooke will convey unspecified lands to Burton. 2 Nov 17 Jas.I (ii) Copy articles of agreement between Sir Thomas Burton and Sir Thomas Brooke - whereas Burton has lately purchased of Brooke, a close called Scoborrowe (2000) with 2 adjoining meadows, at Lubenham (Leics.) and the rectory of Foxton (Leics.) for £1900, and whereas Brooke owes £1000 to Dame Elizabeth Denton to secure which Brooke leased the premises in Lubenham to her - Burton is to pay £1000 of the purchase money to Dame Elizabeth and the lease to be assigned to him. May 18 Jas.I (iii) Copy articles of agreement between Dame Elizabeth Denton and Sir Thomas Burton for the assignment of lease as above. May 18 Jas.I - 1619-1620

24 - Despatch from Sir Kenelme Dygbie [Kenelm Digby] regarding naval action against Venetian and French vessels at Scanderon (Iskanderuneh, Turkey) in which he was victorious - 18 Jun 1628

27 - Receipt by Launcelott Rolston of Hucknall Torkard (Notts) esq, for £5 received from George Chaworth of Annesley, (Notts) under the will of Henry Chaworth of Annesley, decd. - 19 Mar [1611]

28 - Drafts of a letter, "to my Lordship" re "my daughter Gell", [written by ?Sacheverill Gell] - 1595

30 - Release and quitclaim by Sir John Gell to Thomas Viscount Fanshawe of all actions, causes etc. 6 May - 1671

31 - Draft indenture between William Sacheverell of Barton (Notts), and Francis Stringer of Sutton upon Lound (Notts) and John Newton of Hatterthorpe (Lincs) for augmenting the provision of Sacheverell's children upon the marriage of Sir John Newton's daughter in the marriage settlement - 1688

37 - Draft conveyance by Edwarde Waringe of London, gent, and Frances his wife (daughter and heir of Thomas Boydell decd) to Robert, Earle of Salisbury, Lord Treasurer of England, in consideration of £800 .......... [incomplete] - 1608

41 - Order of the Derbyshire Committee for Sequestrations that their solicitors shall give the heads of charges against Sir Edward Coke to his solicitors with copies of the examinations of witnesses - the charge to be heard at Chesterfield at the Talbot Inn on Tuesday next. 13 Aug - 1646

42 - Compotus of John Gell as sheriff of Derbyshire - 1636

43 - Admission in Wirksworth manor court of George Buxton to a parcel of land at Ireton Wood known as Gibriddinge (4 acres) of which his father George Buxton, died seised. Fine 2d. 20 Oct, 17 Jas I - 1619

44 - Evidence in the case of Attorney General, at the relation of Edward Loure, against William Storer and others re the manor of Alderwasley - c.1630

45 - A falconer's bill - 1663

47 - `A true account of all draughts and horses as came the latter beane day, all such draughts as have brought coals for the use of Mr John Gell and all such horses which brought coals for Mr John Gell, by John Gretrax' - 1647

48 - Draft charter of Charles I to the town of Derby - 1639

49 - Copy surrender by Henry Buxton of Bradbourne, with Richard and Henry Buxton, son of German Buxton, decd (executors of the said German) of a close at Ireton Wood called Gibriddinge (4 acres) to the use of John Gell the younger. 18 Oct - 1653

50 - Charge of foot raised at Bakewell, for High Peak Hundred, with lists of names - 7 May 1660

51 - Petition of Sir John Gell to Francis, Lord Guildford, Lord Keeper of the Seal, re land at Winterton (Lincs) - 1684

55 - Bargain and Sale by Valence Sacheverell of Newhall, in Sutton Coldfield (Warwks), esq, to Sir John Gell of Hopton, in consideration of £290, of all woods and underwoods upon closes known as Over Pitties, Colliskar and Leekar at Wirksworth, except all hedgerows and all oak trees or saplings in Colliskar and Leekar. 5 Apr 23 Cha I - 1647

57 - Case paper: Humfrey Cleaton v Dean and Chapter or Lichfield, re tithes at [?Hope] - c.1665

58 - Lead account book, Bakewell area - [c1586]

60 - Fragment of a draft deed concerning Francis Lowe - [17th cent]

64 - Receipt by Dean and Chapter of Lichfield for £23 12s 9d. received by the hand of Thomas Bolte from Thomas Gell, Receiver of Bakewell, Hope and Tideswell - 2 Mar [1565]

65 - Copy examination of Richard Lloyd of the Inner Temple re Sir Edward Bathurst. 6 Oct - 1648

66 - Instructions by W Michell for the payment of his debts after his death. 21 May - 1662

67 - MS. book in French [appears to be on legal matters. Several of the pages are headed "Glous."] - 17th cent

68 - Depositions re Thomas and Faith Wigley (alias Durant) re their marriage in the house of William Lister at Chesterfield `about 20 years ago' - 17th cent

69 - Rental of land belonging to John Gell of Hopton, esq., being all out on lease for 16 years except one farm [in later hand - `given upon the marriage of his son'] - 17th cent

71 - Arraignment of John Williams at the bar of King's Bench re a book entitled "Balaams Asse" written by him - 1619

72 - Copies of letters from [Sir Walter Raleigh] in Guiana to his wife, one dated 1617 - [17th cent]

73 - Answer of John Gell, esq., to the bill of complaint of Sir Alexander Ratcliffe re Ratcliffe's sister (Gell's second wife) - 2 Nov 1652

74 - Information of John Gell against John Ferne - 17 Apr 1608

75 - Draft letter by the justices of Wirksworth Wapentake re the oath of protestation - 21 Mar [1642]

76 - `A certificate of what has been done upon the poll money.' - 1641

77 - Notes `concerning holiness of apparel.' - 17th cent

78 - `Questions re the state of Bohemia and King Ferdinand.' - c.1620

79 - Specimen precepts, warrants etc. to forbid ales and wakes, for peace, etc - c1600

84 - Royal patent appointing Sir John Gell sheriff of Derbyshire. With wax seal. 8 Nov, 24 Cha II - 1672

87 - Honour of Tutbury: fee farm rents - 17th cent

89 - "Bookes and friends are better receavd by waight then number" and "Love that observes formality is sealed rather in the braine then in the hart" - short essays, pp 9 and 10 of MS volume [torn out] - 17th cent

90 - Reckoning of Raventor Grove [lead] - 1655

11 - Various, 18th - early 19th century

12 - Various, 17th century

13 - Title deeds and other papers

14 - Various, 18th-19th century

15 - 17th Cent Printed Material

16 - Title deeds and other papers

23 - Title deeds and other papers

25 - Miscellaneous legal, financial and other papers

26 - Title Deeds etc

26-45

28 - Title Deeds

34 - John Gell (1539-1671)

35 - Various accounts, deeds etc

36 - Anthony Gell d. 1584

38 - Correspondence etc

42 - Conserved fragments of estate plan showing fields (numbered) around house called Bank Top - 19th cent

43 - Hopton Receipt Papers

44 - Sir John Gell

46 - Staffordshire estate papers, 19th century - 1834-1879

47 - Unidentified plan showing part of the course of a waterway, marked at points with numbers, and the dates 20 Aug and 22 Aug. Scale not given. Dimensions approx 150cm x 130cm - [19th Cent]

48 - Philip Gell (d 1842), draft deeds, estate and financial papers - 1706-1877

49 - Log book of the Cutter Yacht Albatross from the port of Cowes, Isle of Wight to any port or ports her owner may think proper, wind and weather permitting' [to Scotland] - 18 May-29 Aug 1836

50 - SIR WILLIAM GELL (1777-1836)

51 - Various

52 - Volume of bound letters and other documents - Late 17th-early 19th cent

53 - Printed Pamphlets

54 - Isabella Thornhill - c1850-1870

55 - Pedigrees and other papers

56 - Gell Family Papers Series A-D

57 - Family Papers

63 - Number not used

64 - Boer War (largely Henry [Harry] Anthony Chandos-Pole-Gell) - 1899-1902

65 - Henry [Harry] Anthony Chandos-Pole-Gell (1872-1934) and other material

67 - Masque by William Browne written for the Inner Temple and associated correspondence - 1615-1964

68 - Pedigrees - 19th cent

69 - Plans - 1711-1828

70 - Manor of Holland p Wirksworth and Lands Grant [temp Q Anne] to Philip Gell of Hopton [outsize parchment deed, badly damaged by damp, partly illegible]

71 - Isabella Thornhill, nee Gell (1800-1878): diary - 1863-1875

72 - `Catalogue of the library at Hopton Hall' Arranged by size of volume: folio, quarto, octavo Duodecimo, `sixteens and twenty-fours' Title, edition and date of publication Folio paper vol, in slip case - ?17th cent

73 - Gell of Hopton Hall: family seal dies - late 19th cent

UL - Gell of Hopton Hall: unlisted records

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