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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 - Bond in £200 by Henry Sacheverell of Snitterton, esq, to Thomas Gell of Hopton, esq, for payment of £100 2 Mar, 32 Eliz I - 2 Mar [1590]
2 - Oath by Richard Symeson, priest, that he acknowledges Elizabeth I as supreme head of the Church etc - [1588]
3 - Letter - Thomas Cokayne near to Ashbourne Thomas Gell - re an agreement between Gell's nephew Christopher Hurt and the bearer, Mr Hurte's late wife - as Hurt was under age at the time, can the agreement be made now 29 Apr - 1592
4 - Letter - Robert Milward in the Netherlands to Mr Gell - asks about his father's plans for the payment of his debts - asks Gell to get him the Wars of Hannibal in English from the booksellers in St Pauls Churchyard - [late 16th cent]
5 - Bond in £140 by Thomas Gell of Derby, yeoman, to Thomas Gell of the Inner Temple, esq, for the payment of £70 22 Nov - 1654
6 - Lease by Millecent Gell of Hopton, widow, to Charles Hadfielde of the Ridge, in Hope, in accordance with an agreement made by her late husband, Thomas Gell, of a messuage at Hope with lands etc, for 19 years at 21s a year 23 Mar, 37 Eliz I - 1595
7 - Letter - Thomas Knyveton to Thomas Gell re a legal case 16 May - 1588
8 - Letter - John Ferne at Hopton to Thomas Gell at the Inner Temple - the commission from Star Chamber and the Duchy have been executed - Parker has sworn that the lease of lot and cope is his - it might be as well to procure a protection for Tofte so that he may come from Ireland to reveal what he knows 26 Jan 1632/3 - 1633
9 - Letter - John Ferne at Hopton to Thomas Gell - re a court case in the Barmote Court 17 Nov - 1631
10 - Letter - Christopher Hodgeson to [Thomas] Gell - it has been decided that the Earl of Shrewsbury will demand the rent - 8 Feb [1584]
11 - Memorandum that Thomas Gell, brother and heir of Anthony Gell decd, received seisin of his brother's lands from the Queen, by the hand of Thomas Sokford 3 Aug, 25 Eliz I - 1583
12 - Release and quitclaim by Jervase Sacheverell of Okeover [Staffs], gent, to Marmaduke Sacheverell of Boulton, gent, his brother, of all actions etc 28 Apr - 1586
13 - Rental of the lands of Thomas Gell - 1590
14 - Lease by Thomas Gell of Hopton, esq, to Thomas Central of Weston, husbandman, of a messuage and outbuildings at Weston, with 2 crofts and 6 acres land, for 21 years, at 10s a year 6 May, 36 Eliz I - 1594
15 - Certificate of payment of subsidy by Thomas Gell - 1585
16 - Bond in £80 by Henry Wiggley of Middleton, gent, to Thomas Gell of Hopton, esq - whereas Anthony Gell decd bequeathed £250 to be divided between his brothers, sisters and sisters' children, provided that they give bonds that if there be any debts owed by Ralph Gell decd still unpaid, they will pay them - and whereas Henry has received £41-13-4d - to repay such portion of the above said debts as Thomas shall require him 10 Oct, 26 Eliz I - 1584
17 - Extracts from the Inquisition Post Mortem of Thomas Gell 19 Dec, 37 Eliz I - 1594
18 - List of jurors for the Inquisition Post Mortem of Thomas Gell - 1594
19 - Case papers re concealed lands in the Fairfield area 27 Eliz I - 1585
20 - Rough plan of commons in Peak Forest No Scale - [16th cent]
21 - Inquisition re the pasture called Over End als. Blackmere More, at Fairfield - 1585
22 - Depositions - 1585
23 - Survey of Fairfield (Name, number of acres and [?rent] paid) - c1585
24 - Petition of Thomas Dakyn and other inhabitants of Tunstead, Wormhill and Fairfield to the Privy Counsel re Fairfield Chapel - c1585
25 - Case papers - c1585
26 - Royal letter re loan of money to prepare for expected invasion by Spain 6 Jun 31 Eliz I - 1589
27 - Survey of Longe Medowe and Smale Medowe [Bakewell?] 20 Mar, 22 Eliz I - 20 Mar [1581]
28 - Extract from Inquisition Post Mortem of Anthony Gell - 1583
29 - Receipt for payment of crown rent by Thomas Gell - 1575
30 - Order in the case Dean and Chapter of Lichfield v Thomas Gell, as executor of Anthony Gell 8 Jun, 33 Eliz I - 1591
31 - Receipt by Frauncis Hastynges and Dame Maude his wife to Thomas Gell for £10 for arrears of rent at Bakewell 23 May, 15 Eliz I - 1573
32 - Part of a case paper - [16th cent]
33 - Receipt to Thomas Gell for the rent of Bakewell, Tideswell and Hope 4 Nov, 23 Eliz I - 1581
34 - Ambrose Cooke to [Thomas] Gell - recommends the bearer, Mr Gybson, for the post of schoolmaster of Wirksworth 11 Jan 1590/1 - 1591
35 - Sacheverell to his brother in law Thomas Gell - has not been able to get Gell's privy seal yet 18 Jan 1589/90 - 1590
36 - Confirmation by Elizabeth I to Thomas Gell of land pertaining to a chantry in Matlock Church, previously leased to Anthony Gell - viz a house called le Chauntry House (1 bay) in the tenure of Lucy Smethley - a ruined cottage and croft (½ acre) in the tenure of John Norman - a house with 3 acres arable and a parcel of meadow (1 acre) with 2 acres pasture, in the tenure of William Lane - a house with 4 acres arable, 1 acre meadow and 3 acres pasture, in the tenure of Thomas Wood - a house in ruins with 3 acres arable, 1 acres meadow and 1 acres pasture in the tenure of Nicholas Sleightholme - a ruined cottage with ½ acre meadow in the tenure of Humfrey Madder - a croft in the tenure of Ralph Adam (½ acre) - a ruined cottage with ½ acre arable in the tenure of (-) Buntinge - ½ acre arable in le Sowre Greive in the tenure of George Walker - a ruined cottage (1 bay) in the tenure of Elizabeth Simpson - two ½ acre at Marson Leys in the tenure of Nicholas Walker - ½ acre arable in the tenure of Henry Woodward - ½ acre arable at Ravens Clough in the tenure of Anthony Flynte - 1 rood arable in le Diche Landes in the tenure of James Flynte, all at Matlock, for 21 years at 52s 5d a year - [10 Feb 1591]
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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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