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Collapse D258 - Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth - 1200-1905D258 - Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth - 1200-1905
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Expand 10 - Sir John Gell I (1593-1671), Sir John Gell II (1613-1689), Civil War and various10 - Sir John Gell I (1593-1671), Sir John Gell II (1613-1689), Civil War and various
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1 - "Unto the Comaedians of Cambridge whoe in the acts before the Kinge abused the Lawyers with a falce ignorance in two ridiculus persons. Ignorances the master and dulaum the Clarke John a style student of the Common Lawe wishes a sounder Judgement and a more reverend opinion of their betters." Ms - 17th cent
1-49 - John Gell
2 - Copy deed of settlement by John Gell, esq, upon John Gell his son 26 Jan, 11 Cha I - 26 Jan [1637]
3 - Revocation by John Gell of Hopton, esq, of uses in the above settlement 20 Apr - 1656
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6 - Draft petition of Dame Mary Stanhope late wife of Sir John Stanhope to Parliament against distraint by John Gell and Richard Ward for ship money - 1635
7 - Colonel Sir John Gell's wine bill - c1645
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9 - Petition of Sir John Gell to Parliament for release and pardon. [1 printed petition and 8 manuscript copies] - 1651
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11 - Order of Parliament for Sir John Gell to have a further 3 months liberty - [1652]
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13 - Letter to the Sheriff of Derbyshire re Justices of the Peace who have neglected to take their oaths - 1651
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16 - Letter - John Gell II to his son Philip Gell - the horses and hawks are well but the pigeons have the weevil - advice re marriage - his aunt has a very good opinion of the young lady 22 Oct - 1677
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18 - Bakewell etc accounts [Requires conservation] - Early 17th cent
19 - Draft will of Sir John Gell 18 Aug, 3 Jas II - 1687
20 - Copy petition of Dame Magdalen Tyringham, widow, of Sir Arthur Tyringham - 1649
21 - Depositions etc in the case against Richard Carrier, vicar of Wirksworth and others re lead - 1632
22 - Petition of the Roman Catholics to Parliament asking for toleration - c1650
23 - "England in its Condition briefly and most lively Characterized by way of Essay ......" by John Benson (printed) - 1648
24 - "In Answer to the Earle of Straffords Oration" (printed) - 1641
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26 - Draft mortgage in fee by Thomas Billinge of Elxton [Elkstone] [Staffordshire] to John Gell of Hopton, esq and Thomas Buxton of Carsington, yeoman, for £-, of a mansion or dwelling house at Carsington, with outbuildings etc 17 Cha I - 1641-1642
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29 - Letter - Earl of Essex at Portsmouth (Hampshire) to Sir John Gell, Governor of Derby - the bearer, Mr Thacker, has been released on parole by the royalists, on condition that he obtain the release of Capt Benjamin Baker in return - please release Capt Baker 5 Oct - 1644
30 - Order of the Committee of the House of Commons that there is to be no further examination of witnesses by Sir John Gell 29 Nov - 1645
31 - Petition of Thomas Gell, barrister, to the Bench of the Inner Temple re unpaid debts - c1635
32 - "The 11th and 12th Articles of ye Commons Complaynt against ye Duke of Buckingham, presented to the Lordes and opened by Mr Prime ....." Ms 9 May - 1626
33 - Charges against the Earl of Bristol and his answers - c1625
34 - Speech of Sir John Eliott in Parliament, being the conclusion of the charge [against the Duke of Buckingham] 9 May - 1626
35 - Copy letter of Lady Rich to the Queen, on behalf of her brother, the Earl of Essex - also copy letter from Sir Fulke Grevill to his cousin Grevill Varney - 1609
36 - Case paper John Gell v Thomas Berket - charges Berket with ruining his son William by gambling - c1630
37 - Draft petition of Sir John Gell to Parliament re money expended in the parliamentary cause - c1650
38 - Petition of the Commons to Charles I against the Duke of Buckingham and other evils - c1626
39 - Manuscript book - army and navy estimates (name of ship, tonnage, number of men and guns) - 1668
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41 - Poll tax - summary assessment of Wirksworth Hundred (lists names of assessors and totals for each parish only) - 1678
42 - Instructions to the Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire re questioning Deputy Lieutenants and JPs on their attitude to the penal law - Late 17th cent
43 - Receipt to Sir John Gell for payment of subsidy 14 Nov - 1670
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45 - Copy of letter of the Deputy Lieutenants, Justices and Grand Jury, stating that Sir Robert Coke and Sir Gilbert Clarke have been selected to stand as knights of the shire for Derbyshire - sent by Robert Dale to the constable of Hopton and Carsington, with instructions to inform the freeholders - 17 Mar [1685]
46 - Lease by Anthony Gell of Hopton, esq, to Rycharde Wodde of Kirk Ireton, of a messuage and lands December, 18 Eliz I - 1576
47 - Notes on the services and attendance of Norroy King of Arms at a funeral [wife of Sir John Gell [?] - 17th cent
48 - Address of thanks and obedience Derbyshire Quarter Sessions to Charles II - 1681
49 - Order of Parliament to the Justices of Derbyshire to present recusants 7 Dec - 1640
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1 - Bargain and sale by Anthony Gell of Hopton, son and heir of Rauff Gell decd, and Thomas Gell of Bakewell, gent, to Edmunde Barbur of Ronksley, in consideration of £8, of all their tithes of corn and hay upon the farm called Ronksley, within the herbage of Crook Hill, in Hope 28 Sep, 7 Eliz I - 1565
2 - Rental of lands at Wirksworth, formerly parcel of the lands of John Hulland due at Michaelmas, 4 Hen VIII - 1512
3 - Extracts of court rolls of the manors of Cerne Barton and elsewhere, late parcel of the Abbey of Cerne, Dorset - [1553]
4 - Copy licence of Henry, Earl of Lancaster and Leicester, Steward of England, to Roger Hopton son of Henry Hopton, to grant to the Abbey of Rocester [Staffordshire], 2 messuages, 3½ oxgangs land with a meadow, a messuage called Coffehowse with a tillage of land, 2 acres arable and 12½ acres meadow at Hognaston Dated at Southbourn, 31 Oct, 6 Edw III [1332] - [16th cent]
5 - List of criminals 22 May, 20 Eliz I - 1578
6 - List of grants of Derbyshire manors - [16th cent]
7 - Unidentified assessment of hundreds of Scarsdale, High Peak, Morley and Litchurch in Derbyshire (approx 20 names) - [16th cent]
8 - "A note for Martin Wigfall to London" - [16th cent]
9 - Portion of a draft inquisition (folios 8, 9, & 10) - [16th cent]
10 - Account of corn sown (no place given) - 1581
11 - Copy rental of William Wynfeld at Wirksworth - [1511]
12 - Rough notes on grants of land by William Ferrers, Earl of Derby and others, 4 Feb, 2 Hen VIII - 4 Feb [1512]
13 - Account of [? mylle houses] (list of names) - [16th cent]
14 - Will of Richard Smyth, vicar of Wirksworth - 13 Jun 1504
15 - Muster roll - Wirksworth Hundred [incomplete]. Middleton, Smerrill, Tissington, Dethick, Tansley, Lea, Hopton and Carsington, Parwich, Bradbury, Eaton and Alsop, Middleton, Kirk Ireton, Hognaston, Dunlowe and Ible, Matlock and Mappleton - [16th cent]
16 - Notes on beauty with partial translation into Latin - c1600
17 - Ms verse - 17th cent
18 - Letter - John Full to Raffe Gell at Islington within Middleton - re purchase of timber from Mr Knefton - [16th cent]
19 - Letter [unsigned] to Rawfe Gell at Hopton from a cousin of Gell's wife] - religious matters - [16th cent]
20 - John Tyle to Sir John Gell re money owed to him for lot and cope etc - 17th cent
21 - Examination in a legal case - [16th cent]
22 - Recipe of Dr Burges for medicine against the plague and smallpox - 17th cent
23 - Legal bill - [16th cent]
24 - Notes of deeds - [16th cent]
25 - Letter - Matheu Marshall to Mr Gell - Gell's sister Lowe would like him to come to Alderwasley on Thursday next - 1588
26 - Order to Richard Bland, John Yonge, Mary Platt and Alice Tiler re payment of tithes to Anthony Gell 26 Sep - 1581
27 - Draft will of John Ferne of Wirksworth - 1549
28 - Letter - Richard Blakwall to his cousin Rauff Gell - has written to his cousin Anthony - 1561
29 - Letter - Richard Blakwall to his cousin Rawffe Gell - thanks him for the pains taken for his brother Roland - the King's surveyors of chantry lands will be at Wirksworth shortly 10 Mar - c1560
30 - Portion of case paper re Duchy of Lancaster lands at Matlock - [16th cent]
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Expand 36 - Anthony Gell d. 158436 - Anthony Gell d. 1584
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42 - Conserved fragments of estate plan showing fields (numbered) around house called Bank Top - 19th cent
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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]
Expand 48 - Philip Gell (d 1842), draft deeds, estate and financial papers - 1706-187748 - 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
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Expand 52 - Volume of bound letters and other documents - Late 17th-early 19th cent52 - Volume of bound letters and other documents - Late 17th-early 19th cent
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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]
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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
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UL - Gell of Hopton Hall: unlisted records
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