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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
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
1 - MS. book of copies of royal charters, inquisitions barmoot court roll etc. re mining customs, 1287-1549 - 17th cent
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2-3 - Copy charter of confirmation by Henry VIII of a charter of Henry III to the burgesses of Derby 10 Jul, 3 Hen VIII [1511] - [17th cent]
3 - List of deeds re. Wirksworth, Hen. VIII - Eliz I - 17th cent
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5 - Copies of deeds temp. Edw III and Ric II and terrier of lands in Sowthewood - 17th cent
6 - 16th century copy lease by Sir John de Holonde, the knight to Nicolas Spenser of Middleton by Wirksworth, husbandman, of 26 acres of land at Middleton, with 2 small gardens in the town, for 80 years at 11s ½d a year - 1347 (16th cent)
7 - Copy letters patent of Edward I granting Knights Fees of the honour of Peverel in Essex, Hertfordshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, to his mother Queen Eleanor. 1274 - [16th cent]
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10 - Bond in £10 by Ralph Hethcote of Chesterfield, bell founder and Thomas Bett, his servant, to John Gell of Hopton, yeoman, and John Fierne of Workesworth, mercer, that a third bell provided by Hethcote for Wirksworth Church is of good tone and in tune with the other bells. 25 Aug, 2 Hen VIII - 1510
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13 - Copies of appointments of Burgesses to represent Derby in Parliament - [16th cent]
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15 - Court of Arches document re Kniveton - 1586
16 - Rental of freehold and bond land held by William Wynfelde and Ralph Gell at Wirksworth. 4 Feb, 2 Hen VIII - 4 Feb [1511]
17 - Rental of lands at Hopton - c1600
18 - Copy rental of the lands of John de Holand [Hulland] at Wirksworth, Middleton and Hopton. Wednesday after the Annunciation, 8 Hen V [27 Mar 1420] - [17th cent]
19 - Copy inquisition re tithes at Bakewell, Hope Chapel en le Frith and Tideswell, appropriated to the priory of Lenton. 1272 - [17th cent]
20 - Rental of the lands of John Gell at Bakewell - 1538
21 - Draft petition to Sir Ambrose Cave, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, re lead mines at Wirksworth - [16th cent]
22 - Case paper re Manor of Langham, Essex - 1575
23 - Account of the customs of the manor of Horeston [Horsley and Horeston], including references to Horsley, Kilburn and Woodhouse - [15th cent]
24 - Lay subsidy assessment, Morleystone and Litchurch Hundred - 1601
25 - Rental of the Rode Serves at Wirksworth. 13 Hen VIII - 1521-1522
26 - MS. verse, temp. Jas I - 1603-1625
27 - Notes of orders and directions to be observed by all sheriffs, under-sheriffs, gaolers, coroners, escheators, bailiffs of liberties, clerks and other ministers re. fees, oppression etc, temp Wm I - 21 Hen VII - [16th cent]
28 - MS. volume of estate accounts for Palmesforth [Pampisford, Cambs?] and Gadburgham [?] temp. Richard III, and copies of deeds - [c1500]
29 - List of livings in the gift of the Duchy of Lancaster, in Staffordshire and Leicestershire - c.1650
30 - Copy answer of Henry, Earl of Lancaster to Pro Warranto inquisition. [c.1340] - [16th cent]
31 - Copy proceedings in Parliament re the petition of Edmund Rood, son and heir of Thomas, Lord Rood. 1 Hen VII - 1485
32 - Copy writ to the sheriff of Derbyshire re appointment of Reginald de Legh and William de Meynill to inquire into the mineral liberties of the Peak. 28 Apr, 16 Edw I [1288] - [17th cent]
33 - Case paper - Queen v. Henry Bourne et al. re intrusion into lands at Matlock - c1577
34 - Terrier of the Fichyttes Felde - [16th cent]
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36 - Account of the descent of estates in Wiltshire - [c1500]
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23 - Title deeds and other papers
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25 - Miscellaneous legal, financial and other papers
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26 - Title Deeds etc
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28 - Title Deeds
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34 - John Gell (1539-1671)
35 - Various accounts, deeds etc
36 - Anthony Gell d. 1584
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38 - Correspondence etc
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42 - Conserved fragments of estate plan showing fields (numbered) around house called Bank Top - 19th cent
43 - Hopton Receipt Papers
44 - Sir John Gell
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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
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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
Horace John Rylands (1886-1961) of Bakewell, First World War soldier
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