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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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3 - Particular of the estates of Philip Gell at Hopton. No. on plan, tenant's name and address, extent, value and rent for Middleton, Carsington, Griffe, Hognaston, Kirk Ireton, Callow, Ible, Hopton, Wirksworth and Bonsall - 1807
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9 - Copy charter of Edward VI to found Nuneaton [Warwks] Grammar School 11 May 6 Edw VI Endorsed Wirksworth School and Almshouse, Tideswell School, Nuneaton [Warwks] - 1552
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1 - Notes by John Gell II re arrears of rents due to the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield - c1660
2 - Notes re right of seats in church - c1640
3 - Part of defence against charge re church revenues in Wales and royal possessions - [1649-1650s]
4 - Orders by the Sequestrations Committee for Derbyshire for the augmentation of ministers' salaries 21 Aug - 1646
5 - Brief re tithe dispute between Dean and Chapter of Lichfield and John Gell including list of tithe payers in Hayfield (mentions pestilence) - Post 1663
6i-ix - MS sermons (2), scriptural notes (2), essays (3), prayer, Countess of Essex's suit for annulment of marriage (1613) - 17th cent
7 - Presentments to be made by High and Petty Constables at every Quarter Sessions - 17th cent
8 - Case papers re Hopton tithes - 1782-1784
9 - Hopton poor rate assessments - 1686
10 - Account of Edward Peats as sidesman and overseer of Hopton - 1686
11 - Jury presentment that the highway from Hopton to Derby is in need of repair with note of inspection and certificate "in good repair" - 1686
12 - Papers in a dispute between Hopton and Ashford over the settlement of Sara Greenefeild alias Jones, a vagrant rogue - 1675-1676
13 - Order to John Gell of Hopton, Rafe [Ralph] Poyser and Joane Lumas also known as Poyser of Wirksworth, to appear before the Commissioners Ecclesiastical at Lambeth Palace 13 Oct - 1632
14 - "The reduction of Episcopacie into the forme of Synnodicall government received in auncient churches." - 17th cent
15 - Petition by the inhabitants of Carsington to the Dean of Lincoln for the appointment of Nathaniel Boothouse to the living of Carsington in succession to Malyn Horrobbyn, decd - c1700
16 - Poor rate assessment on clergy by hundred and unidentified assessment - Early 17th cent
17 - Order of the Derby Committee that Hopton, Carsington, Thorpe and Mapleton together shall be charged at the rate of 3 trained soldiers 16 Jul - 1645
18 - Account of Charles Savory, sidesman for Hopton - 1687-1688
19 - Poor rate assessment for Hopton, Apr - 1686
19-35 - Assessments
20 - Assessment for rate to support Margret Grenfild - 1688
21 - Hopton assessment for the repaving of Wirksworth Church, Jul - 1687
22 - Assessment re Margret Grenfild, Nov - 1687
23 - Order by Wirksworth churchwardens to Charles Savory to levy the Hopton proportion of a 20 mark [£6 13s 4d] levy, Jun - 1687
24 - Hopton poor rate - Mar [1685]
25 - Hopton poor rate assessment, Dec - 1683
26 - Receipt for £1 5s 6 ½d from Charles Savory - 1687
27 - Hopton poor rate assessment, Jun - 1683
28 - Hopton poor rate and church rate assessments and overseers accounts - 1683
29 - Hopton assessment for the repair of Wirksworth Church, Oct - 1683
30-31 - Hopton assessments for the repair of Wirksworth Church, Nov - 1676, 1677
32-33 - Hopton poor rate assessment, Jun, Dec - 1682
34 - Order from Wirksworth churchwardens to Mathew Bacon to levy the Hopton proportion of a £20 levy, May - 1682
35 - Hopton assessment for the repair of Wirksworth Church, Aug - 1682
36 - Division of assessment between Sir John Gell and his tenants and note of receipt - 1646
36-40 - Various
37 - Receipt by the vicar of Tideswell for his pension - Mar [1585]
38 - Receipt by the vicar of Tideswell for his pension, Oct - 1577
39 - Sermons preached by Dr Smythe at Cowley upon Mosey at Whityngton College, Oxford - [16th cent]
40 - Copies of letters from Philip Gell to the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield concerning his office as receiver of rents within the jurisdiction of Bakewell Sep 1717 - Mar 1718 with note of accounts passed 1595-1613 - 1717-1718
41 - Carsington church rate assessments Jun 1682, Mar 1682/3, Apr 1700 - 1682-1700
41-48 - Assessments
42 - Carsington poor rate assessments Oct 1693, Sep 1694, Jan 1695/6, Nov 1702 - 1693-1702
43 - Carsington highway rate assessments, Oct - 1693
44 - County rate assessment - Jan [1695]
45 - Assessment for the repair of Wirksworth Church (Hopton?) - Feb [1687]
46 - Carsington tithe corn accounts, Sep - 1704
47 - Carsington poor rate assessment, Apr - 1695
48 - Assessment for the poor and repair of Wirksworth Church, Aug - 1697
49 - Note of synod meeting before dissolution including list of rules (canons) - 1640
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50 - Terrier of lands in Wirksworth - 17th cent
51 - Notes of the payment of tithe ore to Dean and Chapter of Lichfield from 1252-1612 - 17th cent
52 - Letter of the Dean of Lichfield to John Gell asking for money to help make up the deficit due to the great expenses in repairing the cathedral - 1622
53 - Copy order re lease of tithes, 34 Eliz I - 1592
54 - Letters from Richard Brandreth to Francis Burton regarding search for records relating to lead ore in Dean and Chapter of Lichfield's registry, May - 1614
55 - Case for opinion of counsel re lease by Dean and Chapter to Gell and allowance for taxes - 1684
56 - Account of money paid [by Gell?] for rents of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield 1660-1663 - c 1663
57 - Order in the case over tithe lease between Dean and Chapter of Lichfield v Thomas Gell as executor of Anthony Gell, Feb, 33 Eliz I - 1591
58 - Abstracts of deeds between the Dean and Chapter and the Gells, 1534-1550 - [16th cent]
59 - Compotus of John Gell for Bakewell, Hope and Tideswell 1632-1633; endorsed note in court Oct 1666 - 1632-1666
60 - Compotus of John Gell as procurator for Dean and Chapter of Lichfield for Bakewell, Hope and Tideswell 1623-1624; endorsed note in court Oct 1666 - 1623-1666
61 - Draft leases between Dean and Chapter of Lichfield and Gell - 17th cent
62 - Letters from Robert Beake to John Gell re Dean and Chapter rents including reference to debate about elective or hereditary protector Oct [1653] - 1652-1660
14 - `The boke of the tythe': rents 1 May - 2 & 3 Philip and Mary - 1553-1556
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16 - Objections to the election of burgesses for Cirencester [Glos] - 17th cent
17 - Draft indenture between John Curzon of Kedleston and Francis Leake, son and heir of Francis Lord Daynecourt and Nicholas Leake esq, to provide annuity of £100 in payment for £1000 loan - 1641
18 - Copy petition to Sir Thomas Witherington, Speaker of the Commons, by excluded Members of Parliament including names [?signatories] - c 1650
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26 - Title Deeds etc
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Expand 34 - John Gell (1539-1671)34 - John Gell (1539-1671)
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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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Expand 67 - Masque by William Browne written for the Inner Temple and associated correspondence - 1615-196467 - Masque by William Browne written for the Inner Temple and associated correspondence - 1615-1964
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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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