Add MS 6700

A thin folio volume, intitled thus at the commencement ‘Breviarium Recordorum Regiorum in Capella Rotulorum et in Turri Londinensi remanentium, de Maneriis, Terris, et Tenementis in Com. Derb. collect. per Nathan Ringros, Gen:’, but containing also collections from various other sources towards the history of Derbyshire, made or copied by Mr Wolley, viz.:

1. The extracts made by Mr Ringros from the records in the Rolls Chapel and Tower, with an index of names of persons and places. pp. 1-113.

2. Extracts from various records relating to the Manors and lands of Tidswell, Dalbury, Ilkeston, Holmesfield, Hourne [Hoon], Hoggeston-Hall, Brakenfield, Wheatcroft, Willington, Bakewell, Staveley, Woodthorpe, Netherthorpe, Hanley, Chesterfield, Brampton, Nether Shatton, Derwent, etc. At the end is this note by Mr Wolley: ‘Mem. All the preceding extracts were copied from a MS Book, formerly the property of Sir Jno. Statham of Wigwall, Knt. which was lent me by Mr Jas. Mander, of Bakewell, Atty at Law. ao. 1790’. pp. 114-117.

3. References to records concerning property in Derbyshire, with the names of the places and possessors, from Henry III to Edward IV, copies from the collections of John Sudbury of Alfreton. pp. 118-123.

4. Extracts from various inquisitions taken at Newark, Nottinghamshire, 19. Hen. VII, relating to the Manor of Lookow, Alfreton, etc., Derbyshire, and Langwith Basset, Nottinghamshire, with a notice of the lands held by Humfrey Stafford in Derbyshire; from the same collections. pp. 124, 125.

5. Remarks on the returns of the gentry of England (see Fuller’s Worthies) made in consequence of an Act of Parliament 12. Hen. VI, with a copy of the Return for Derbyshire. pp. 126-132.

6. List of Sheriffs for the County of Derby from 1140 to 1825, with their arms etc., chiefly copied out of Fuller, with additions and emendations by John Reynolds, of Plaistow, and Mr Wolley; particularly of the Under-Sheriffs from 1766 to 1817. pp. 133-163.

7. Observations on the preceding list, by Mr Reynolds. pp. 164-168.

8. Catalogue of the Bailiffs of the Borough of Derby from 5. Hen. VIII (14513) to 13. Car. I (1637) and of the Mayors, from 1638 to 1698, with historical notes; copied from a parchment roll belonging to Mr W. Fallows, of Derby, and supposed to have been written by one Edward Brooke. pp. 169-183.

9. A list of the names of such persons as were in Commission for Justices of the Peace for Derbyshire, in Michaelmas Term, 1650, with notes by Mr Reynolds. pp. 184-185.

10. A list of the gentlemen residing in Derbyshire, who compounded for their estates during the usurpation of Oliver Cromwell, copied from a book published in 1655. pp. 186-187.

11. Grant from Edward I to Thomas Beck, Bishop of St David’s, of a market and fair on his Manor of Pleasleigh, Derbyshire. Dat. 9 May, 13. Edw. I. p. 188.

12. Notice of fine, Hilary Term, 22. Eliz., between Robert Sitwell, gent., plaintiff, and Thomas Heath, deforciant, of 1/3 of the moiety of the Manor of Palterton. p. 189.

13. Notices relating to the baptisms of the children of Mr William Leak. ibid. [p. 189].

14. Abstracts of title deeds relating to the Manor of Dore. pp. 190-191.

15. Settlement of a yearly rent, issuing out of lands at Dore, by Francis, Lord Deincourt, in trust, for the reparation of a tomb of his ancestors in the church of Sutton in le Dale. pp. 192-193.

16. Abstract of settlement made by Sir Francis Leeke the elder, of Newark upon Trent, of the Manor of Hawton, Nottinghamshire, on his sons. Dat. 5 September, 22. Jac. I. p. 194.

17. Abstract of exemplification of common recovery in Trinity Term, 8. Car. I, wherein John Lawrence and William Allwood were demandants, Thomas Milward Esq. and Francis Curtis, gent., tenants, and Francis Lord Deincourt, vouchee; of the Manors of Sutton in le Dale, Dugmanton alias Duckmanton, Plesley, Dore alias Dower, Scarcliffe, Little Normanton, North Wingfield, and Parkhall, etc., with the Rectories of Hucknall alias Huckenhall, Dugmanton, Tibshelf, Alfreton alias Awferton, and Scarcliffe, the advowsons of the churches of Sutton in le Dale, Plesley, North Wingfield, Morton, Hucknall, Tibshelf, Alfreton, and Scarcliffe, and a moiety of the Manor of Palterton. pp. 194-195.

18. Abstract of bargain and sale from Matthew Kniveton of Woodthorpe, Derbyshire to Francis, Lord Deincourt, of the Manor of Woodthorpe. Dat. 10 March 1635. p. 196.

19. ‘The matters in variance between the Earl of Shrousbury and Sir Francis Leake, Knt.’. pp. 197-201.The following note is added by Mr Wolley: ‘The extracts &c. copied on this and the 13 preceding pages were made from a MS lent me by Mr Daniel Dakeyne, Junr. of Holt House, Darley’.

20. Short account of Blackbrooke, near Chapel in le Frith. p. 202-203.