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Exemplification by Charles [I] of an Inquisition taken at Chesterfield, co. Derby, before Robert Royston esquire, escheator for the county of Derby, on the death of Robert Mower of Millthorpe in the said county, yeoman, by the oaths of John Gregory, gentleman, George Turner, Humphrey Brelsford,...
Conveyance by Richard Wendysley of Calke, co. Derby, esquire, in fulfilment of an agreement with Ralph Blackwall, gentleman, to Henry Blackshawe and Henry Berysforde, gentlemen, of all his moiety of his manor of Wensley in Wensley, co. Derby; and appointment of Thomas Dakyn and John Pole as his ...
Fine or Final Concord levied in Easter term, 2 James I, between John Pott, Roger Roe and Thomas Gesstroppe, gentleman, and Ralph Blackwall esquire, Wennesley Blackwall, gentleman, and Martha his wife, of 14 messuages and lands in Wensley and Darley, and of a moiety of the manor of Wensley, and a...
Release from William Vaus [Vaux], Lord Harrowden, to John Greaves of Beeley, yeoman, and Robert Deane, of Beeley, husbandman, of all his right and title in the manor of Beeley, now in the tenure of Richard Wendesle. Dated as: 24 September, 7 Elizabeth Endorsements: Sealed and delivered in the...
Grant, in performance of certain covenants, by John Greaves and Edward Deane, both of Beeley, co. Derby, yeomen, as contained in a indenture, dated 30 August last past, from the same to Henry Norman of the same place, yeoman, of the 12th part of the manor of Beeley, now in the tenure of the said...
Conveyance by William Buckbert of London, gentleman, Thomas Wolwoodd of the town of Stafford, clothier, and Mary Bismer, of London, silkworker, to Henry Walker of Castern, co. Staff., gentleman, of a parcel of meadow lying in le Pek (the Peak) in the parish of Ashbourne, co. Derby, called Lampho...
Conveyance by Nicholas Allen of Woodhouse in the parish of Youlgreave, co. Derby, gentleman, to Barbara Allen, of the same place, widow, mother of the said Nicholas, a close or parcel of land called the Sare Carre, with all trees, woods and undergrowth lying in the same close, being in the lords...
Grant by Edward Pease and James Wilson to Randall Wright of a messuage and lands in Birchover, co. Derby, lately part of the possessions of the chantry of St Mary at Youlgreave in Birchover, which they held of the gift of King Edward VI by letters patent under the Great Seal, dated at Westminste...
Sale by William Tagg, of Matlock, co. Derby, yeoman, to John Wyggeley of Middleton, in the same county, of a messuage and lands in the parish of Matlock. Dated at Matlock, co. Derby. Dated as: 20 December, 32 Henry VIII Endorsements: Sealed and delivered in the presence of the within named w...
Power of Attorney from John Hemmyngwey and Isabel Otys, widow, kinswoman and heir of Henry Mattloke, to Ralph Gell and Anthony Cley [Clay] of Matlock, to deliver seisin to William Tagge [Tagg] of lands in Matlock. Dated as: 20 June, 26 Henry VIII Endorsements: Tag & Hemmingwey. Matlock.