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Lease from Edward Cockayne, of Pooley, co. Warwick, esquire, to Nicholas Tomblinson (Tomlinson) of Great Clifton, co. Derby, husbandman, the messuage or tenement in Upper Mayfield, co. Stafford, in which George Hill now dwells, and all the lands belonging thereto; annual rent, 10s. Dated as: 6...
Certificate (with blanks for name and date) granted by Thomas Gregson, bailiff of the honor of Tutbury, to the recipient, being a resident within the duchy of Lancaster and freed from all mannor of tolls. Dated as: 173- [day, month and year left blank]
Appointment by Nicholas [Leke, 4th] earl of Scarsdale, of Anthony Hurt of Wirksworth, co. Derby, gentleman, to be Lieutenant in the Company of Trained Foot Soldiers raised within the said county by Henry Vernon, esquire, as Colonel, and of which Ralph Burton, gentleman, is Captain. Dated as: 1...
Lease from Sir Henry Sawchevell, knight, of Morley, co. Derby, to Thomas Alen 'of the Wodhowses' in the same county, yeoman, of a piece of meadow called Warnergrove lying within the meadows of Stanton, now in the holding of Richard Hally, to hold from the feast of the Annunciation of Our Lady ne...
Will and Testament of John Greaves the elder, of Beeley, co. Derby, gentleman - I commend my spirit into the hands of Almighty God that gave it and my body be buried in the chancel of Beeley - First, to the poor of Beeley, 20s. to be distributed by my executors at the day of my death - to the ch...
Grant, in trust, by Barbara Allen of Woodhouse, parish of Youlgreave, co. Derby, widow, to Nicholas Gilberte of Kniveton, co. Derby, gentleman, and James Whitehall of Clements Inn, co. Midd., gentleman, of a messuage called Woodhouse, which she had for her life of the gift of George Allen, gentl...
Lease from Denys Berysford, gentleman, to Ralph Gell of Hopton, co. Derby, gentleman, of his lordship or manor of Birchover, co. Derby, and of his lands lying in the town and fields of Birchover, Elton and Winster, in the said county, for 21 years; covenants of distraint, and to repair; annual r...
Sale, for 20 marks, by William Tagg, of Matlock, yeoman, to John Wyggeley, of Middleton, yeoman, of messuages and lands in the parish of Matlock, and all evidences concerning the same. Dated as: 3 September, 32 Henry VIII Endorsements: William Tag's Bargain & Sale.
Bond, in £30, by William Tagge, late of Matlock, John Alsop late of Hognaston and Ralph Gell, late of Carsington, co. Derby, yeomen, to Richard Wigley of Middleton, that the above William Tagg and his heirs will make to the said Richard and his heirs a sufficient estate in law of a certain messu...
Lease, for 30 years from the feast of St Bartholomew, 1549, by John [Bourchier], abbot of the monastery of 'Our Lady of the medowez' of Leicester and the convent of the same, to Henry Barth, husbandman, of the tithes of Birchover, in as large manner as John Columbell, now tenant to the same, d...