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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
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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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1-6 - Title Deeds
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1 - Gift by John Wolstoncroft, chaplain, to brother Robert Wolstoncroft of a burgage in Bakewell 3 May 4 Hen VIII - 1512
2 - Gift by John Geyllot, dean of Bradfeld, [Bradfield, Yorkshire] to Thomas Shawe, Richard Bromhed and Ralf Warde of Bradfeld, of land with buildings between waters of Stene and Bradfield Lee and butting onto lane through Chandrell Cloghe with annual payment of 2d to John Morwod of Okes, in trust to the use of Briann Gellot, Thomas Gellot of Old Bothe and George Gelot of Bradfeld Witnesses; Joan Spone, Henry Bromhed and John Morwood Dated at Bradfeld, Vigil of St Bartholomew, 13 Hen VIII [23 Aug] - 1521
3 - Lease by Wyllyam Glossop of the Graunge Felde [Grangefelds] to Thomas Whalley of Whitweke [Whitwick, Leicestershire] to Rauffe Gell of barn and close called Halle Close at Wirksworth, for 14 years at 20s annual rent Annunciation, 29 Hen VIII [25 Mar] - 1538
4 - Lease by Henry VIII through Court of Augmentations to Ralph Gell of tithes of corn and hay at Mackworthe [Mackworth] and Morton, previously belonging to Derley [Darley] Abbey for 21 years at £10 per year 2 Mar 31 Hen VIII - 1540
5 - Lease by the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield to Rauff Hethcote of Hope and his son Wylliam of Hall Croft at Hope, with 2 houses and a barn on it, with hedges and ditches on both sides of Pekesarse, and land called the Ruddyng, for 40 years at 31s 8d annual rent, 10 May 36 Hen VIII - 1544
6 - Gift by Thomas Morton of Spowthouse [?in Bradfield, Yorkshire] and Richard Morton to Agnes Cotterell of messuage called Thornhouse [?in Bradfield, Yorkshire] 24 May 2 Edw VI - 1548
7 - Conveyance by bargain and sale by Earl of Shrewsbury to Rawf Gell of 2 parcels of wood in Crich Chase, and permission to cut down wood, for consideration of £17 8 Jul and 3 Philip and Mary - 1555
8 - Lease by Earl of Schrowsbury to Rauff Gell of cottage and lands called Wyllersley [Willersley] in Cromford for 21 years for consideration of £100 at £5 annual rent 3 Jun 2 and 3 Philip and Mary - 1556
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7 - Receipt by Sir John Williams, Treasurer of the Court of Augmentations, for £11 2s received from Raffe Gell 3 Aug 38 Hen VIII - 1546
7-25 - Various
8 - Schedule of debts owed to Robert Bultan - [early 16th cent]
9 - Inquisition post mortem of William Poole, taken at Nottingham re tithes of hay at Kimberley Grey, Kimberley Cunntlowe and Watnowe Cauntlow and 1 messuage, 2 cottages and 3 bovates at Kirkby in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire 29 Oct 22 Eliz I - 1580
10 - Honour of Tutbury receipt book including payments made - 1580
11 - Copy of the roll of the Session of Parliament concerning the cause of the Scottish Queen [Mary, Queen of Scots] and copy of letter from Elizabeth I to Sir Amias Pawlett [Mary's gaoler] - 1586
12 - Draft will of Thomas Babington of Dedych [Dethick], with some medieval manuscript music in binding 10 Nov - 1558
13 - Letter- `GS' [Gilbert Earl of Shrewsbury] to Godfrey Foliambe [Foljambe] High Sheriff of Derbyshire, John Manners, Robert Eyre, and Anthony Gell JPs re the service of training of shot in Derbyshire - 5 Apr 1579
14 - Vocabulary of legal terms - [16th cent]
15 - Survey of lands? Sep 6 Eliz I - 1564
16 - Copies of letter of Sir Charles Cornwallis to James I, during his imprisonment in the Tower about parliament business 1614; letter written by Mr Thomas Arundell (now Count Arundell) to his father; letter written by Count Arundell to Sir Francis Walsingham; letter written by Francis Throgmorton to Sir Thomas Weekes, Clerk to the Council; letter sent by James I to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London upon his first coming to the crown 1603 - 17th cent
17 - Copies of The state of a secretary's place and the perill by the Earl of Salisbury; letter from Sir Walter Rawley ?[Raleigh] to the King before his trial; letter from Sir Walter Rawley to the King after his condemnation - 17th cent
18 - Appointment by William Earl of Newcastle, Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire (during the minority of William Earl of Devonshire) of John Gell as a deputy lieutenant of the county 20 Aug - 1638
19 - Account of money received by the Committee for Sequestrations 9 Aug - 1648
20 - Chancery order summoning witnesses in the case John Gell v Thomas Ellis and others 31 Aug - 1664
21 - Letter of moral advice to unnamed person - 17th cent
22 - "Mr Gell and the ministres plaint" against [?miners] - 17th cent
23 - List of the commissioners for the four subsidies granted to the King - 1663
24 - Volume of arithmetical exercises [?of Sir John Gell] - 17th cent
25 - Notebook in Latin and Greek [?of William Gell, son of John Gell] - 17th cent
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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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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