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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 - Draft deed between Sir Phillip Gell and Francis Gell re land and property in Wirksworth - c.1695-1702
2 - Copy deed between Sir John Gell, and William Sacheverell and William Eyre re lands in Hulland, Carsington, and Wirksworth (Lincs) - 1687
3-4 - Draft petition of Sir John Gell to Francis, Lord Guildford, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal re land at Winterton (Lincs) (2 copies) - c.1684
5 - Feoffment by Sir Philip Gell to Thomas Cheaney of Ashford in the Water gent, in consideration of £70 of a close (3 acres) upon Nether Moor Lands in the West Feild at Monyash, now known as Moore Close with appointment of Thomas Bagshaw of Bakewell, esq, and Francis Mosley clerk to Bagshaw, as attorneys for livery of seisin. 1 Mar 1717/18 - [1718]
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1-2 - Schedule of land at Middleton, comprised in a deed of 3 Edw II [1309-1310] (2 copies) - 17th cent
3 - Interrogations to be administered to witnesses on behalf of Sir Philip Gell in his case v Anne Rossell, widow, and others re property in Wirksworth - 1702
4 - List of witnesses examined in Gell v Rossell - 1702
5 - Draft release to follow lease by Anne Rossell of Wirksworth, widow, (eldest daughter of Henry Wigley of Wigwall decd), John Stathem of Sidswall, gent, and Bridgett his wife (2nd daughter) and Michael Burton of Holmesfield esq, and Mary his wife (3rd daughter) to William Soresby of Chesterfield, yeoman, in consideration of £260, of a land and property in Middleton by Wirksworth 6 May - 1708
6 - Queries re land at Middleton [hand of Sir Philip Gell] - c.1710
7 - i) Petition of John Statham of Wigwall esq to William, Lord Berkeley, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, for the renewal of leases of the coal mine within the manor of Wirksworth, of the goods and chattels of felons in the Honour of Tutbury, of plaster pits at Castle Hey Parke (Staffordshire), of the fishery of the Wye and divers cottages and encroachments ii) Lord Berkeley to William Bellamy, auditor of the northern parts of the Duchy of Lancaster. Request to prepare a particular of the farms mentioned in Statham's petition. 21 Nov iii) List of cottages with names of [occupiers or owners] and encroachments within the Forest of Needwood and in Wirksworth - 1712; 18th cent
8 - Letter Thomas Bagshaw to Philip Gell: please add the enclosed to the papers about the sheepwalk. 19 Apr - 1703
9 - Letter Thomas Bagshaw to Sir Philip Gell: sends Rippon's mortgage with the account, encloses particulars of the 3 farms at Middleton that are granted by Mrs Rosel and others to Soresby. 3 May - 1709
10 - Letter Thomas Bagshaw to Philip Gell: Mr Statham sent his clerk this morning with the fine acknowledged by all parties, refused to receive the £80, sends the drafts for Gell's perusal, cannot fathom the purpose of Soresby's earnest pressing - 1709
11 - Account of what tenants there are in Middleton belonging to Sir Philip Gell and Mr Slack - 25 Feb [1698]
12 - Copy release to follow lease by Mary Wigley als. Slack (widow of Henry Wigley of Wigfall), Anne Rosell of Wigwall widow (eldest daughter of Henry), John Statham of Tideswell and Bridgett his wife (2nd daughter) and Michael Burton of Wirksworth and Mary his wife (3rd daughter) to Adam Soresby of Chesterfield yeoman, in consideration of £200, of land and property at Middleton. 2 Oct - 1701
13 - Copy letter Philip Gell to Paul Brooks: discharges Brooks from fishing in the brook running near the common called Middleton Wood, known as Iven Brook, from felling timber on the common, from hunting conies and from entering the common for any purpose other than to tend his commmonable cattle, upon pain of legal action. 19 May - 1794
14 - Rough notes of manor court proceedings - [16th cent]
9 - Ms copy of the Bakewell enclosure bill - 18th cent
10 - Part of a ms copy of a bill for raising £100,000 from the Jews - c1700
11 - Ms copy of `An Act for Raiseing the Summe of One Hundred Thousand Pounds upon the Jews' - c.1700
12 - `The Case of the Jews Stated' Printed with ms notes by Sir Philip Gell - [1689]
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14 - Deposition of John Kellsall of Mayfield, (Staffordshire), clerk, and others re the Ashbourne lectureship - 1659
15 - The answers of John Buxton, one of the defendants to the information of Sir George Treby, Attorney General, at the relation of Thomas Goodread, vicar of Ashbourne, and William Hand of Ashbourne clerk, re the Ashbourne lectureship - 1658
16 - Draft deed of settlement by Sir Philip Gell - 1709
17 - Complaint by Sir John Gell to Francis, Lord Guildford, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, re land in Carsington - c.1685
18 - Deed of covenant and grant from William Greggorie of Hopton, yeoman and Alice his wife, and Rowland Mosely of Hopton, miner and Katherine his wife, to John Greatrex of Derby, dyer and William Kayes of Hobknowle in the parish of Wirksworth, gent; in consideration of £5, of a messuage, little house, garden and close of land (1 acre) called Bridgegate in Hopton. 22 Jul 1659 - 1659
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24 - Volume of rent accounts for the Hopton estate in Derbyshire - 1731-1738
25 - Final concord (2 copies) between John Gell plt and Thomas Spencer, John Spencer and Anne Spencer, widow, of 1 messuage, 5 cottages, 6 gardens, 8 acres of arable, 4 acres of meadow, 8 acres of pasture, 8 beastgates in Middleton Wood and common of pasture at Middleton by Wirksworth. Consideration £60 3 weeks of Michaelmas [20 Oct] - 1659
26 - Exchange between John Gretrakes of Hopton, yeoman, and Thomas Stepull of Hopton, Stepull to have a selion of land in Holestonnstedfeld at Hopton upon le Brecke, between the lands of Stepull east and west and a selion in Overfeld called Halfe Acres, between the land of Ralf Gell gent, east and Stapull west, extending south to the land of John Rollesley; Greatrakes to have a selion in Holetonnsted called Bryggeyate between the lands of James Coughen west and the King east and a selion in le Overfeld called Thartehouses between the lands of Gretrakes east and west and butting south on the land of John Rollesley Witnesses: Ralf Gell of Hopton, Thomas Eyton, Ralf Eyton, Henry Glossop of Workesworth etc Dated at Hopton, 8 Mar 1 Edw VI [1547] - 1547
27 - Lease by John Gell of Hopton, esq, to Thomas Wigley of Middleton by Wirksworth, esq, of a close or pasture ground called Orme Leas in Wirksworth, for 10 years at a peppercorn p.a. 6 Aug 16 Jas I [1618] - 1618
28 - Lease by Philip Gell of Hopton esq, to Thomas Evans of Derby, ironmonger, and George Evans of Bonsall (his brother), of a smelting mill at Wirksworth known as Middle Mill, late in the possession of John Willcockson, with all buildings etc, for 7 years at a peppercorn for the first 2 years and £10 p.a. thereafter - 23 Mar [1751]
29 - Letter from Thomas Bagshaw to Sir Philip Gell at Hopton, hopes he has laid hold of £200 or 260 more for Gell, it may not be amiss to lay the exemplification of the bill answer and depositions in Gell's evidence 2 Jun - 1710
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30 - Quarter Sessions order re a cottage built in Aug by George Bradwall of Middleton by Wirksworth, upon Middleton Common 8 Oct 12 Wm. III - 1700
31 - Particular of the rectories and parsonages (except advowsons) of Ashbourne and Wirksworth, held in lease from the Dean of Lincoln for 3 lives [gives names of tenants and rentals] - c.1740
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34 - Pencil notes on various fields at Carsington - 19th cent
35 - Pages 161-174 of Salomon's "Oeconomicks" [printed] - 17th cent
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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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