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The Diary of James Clegg of Chapel-en-le-Frith
1708-55 Part 3
Derbyshire Record Society vol 5, 1981. Pp671-1026 inc 2 indexes.
James Clegg was a dissenting minister. His congregation came from the scattered
hamlets and farms around Chapel-en-le-Frith. He was also a qualified doctor and was
in demand over a wide area as both a preacher and doctor. He was in touch, either in
person or by letter, with a wide cross-section of provincial society. Still in
print at £20.00, this F copy in VG d/w (ref
0000) £5.00 £3.00
[Fox document] Will of William Fox of
Melbourne
This is the copy used to obtain probate. The will is dated 1787 and it is
annotated 'He dyed 26 April 1788'. It mentions his brother Francis, sister Mary and
several other relatives. Although the seal of the probate office survives, the
actual grant of probate is missing. (ref 5422) £15.00 post-free
Not for export
The Diary of Joseph Jenkinson of Dronfield
[Derbyshire] 1833-43
Edited by Kathleen M Battye, Derbyshire Record Society Occasional Paper No 7,
1987. A5 booklet in cream card covers, 95pp inc index, 6 ills inc centrefold map of
Dronfield in 1846 taken from the Inclosure Award. Joseph Jenkinson was born into a family
of hatmakers. His sporadic diaries written in the years 1833 (Dronfield), 1839 (London)
and 1843 (London) supplemented by a series of letters written in 1839 (from London)
provide insights into the life and times of the skilled working class both in London and
the Provinces in the 1830s and 1840s. All this is accompanied by a full introduction and
notes plus appendices. G. (ref 0000) £4.00 post-free
[Pool family of Hullandward] Small Archive of
Family Papers
A collection of about a dozen papers dating from 1793 to 1884. The papers
revolve around two Richard Pool(e)s, one of whom made his mark on a 1793 conveyance of
land in Cowdray's Lane, Duffield (the papers imply he died around 1810), and another who
died in Hullandward in 1872. The papers also concern a John Pool who died 1829/30. Some
original, some copies, but a nice little collection. (ref 7418) £30.00
post-free Not for export
George Sitwell's Letterbook 1662-66
Derbyshire Record Society vol 10, 1985. 301pp inc 2 indexes, 4 ills inc
Sitwell pedigree. For most of his life, George Sitwell was involved in the iron trade and
for upwards of 25 years he was a leading figure in the East Midlands iron industry. The
500 letters copied into the letterbook provide a wealth of information on the operations
of a country ironmaster, his products, consumption of charcoal & other raw materials,
sales locally & nationally. There's also much incidental detail on money-lending,
credit, internal transport, the postal service and the activities of a gentry family
generally. In print at £20.00, this F copy in F d/w (ref 0000) £10.00
[Sleigh document] 1735 Obligation
Bond
A bond, possibly in connection with a mortgage, concerning Thomas Sleigh
of Vicarwood, Mackworth. Manuscript on paper, bears the clear signature
Tho: Sleigh. (ref 7408) £15.00 Not for export
[Sleigh] Small Collection of Papers inc
Solicitors Correspondence
All concern John Sleigh and covers the years 1855-1885. His abodes are
variously shown as Bradborne, Bakewell and Darley, which may indicate more than one John
Sleigh. 29 items in all inc an 1885 postcard in which he very briefly mentions that Alice
(wife??) had broken her collar bone falling down the stairs. All 29 items are very minor
papers. (ref 7411) £10.00 post-free Not for export
NB Other Sleigh items are available - all are Derbyshire or Staffordshire - ask for details
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[Belper Market] Royal Commission on Market
Rights & Tolls - Enquiry Form
This is a contemporary copy of the form completed in 1888 giving details of
the market. The then charge of 9d for every 12' stall had been so 'for 50 years and
upwards', but there is little real historical detail. (ref 5457) £8.00
UK post-free
[Chatsworth] William Senior's
Survey of the Estates of the 1st & 2nd Earls of Derbyshire c1600-28
Derbyshire Record Society vol 13,
1988. 221pp inc 2 indexes, 2 tables, 3 figures, 8 plates. One of the
most extensive and most detailed surveys of a great landed estate (97,000 acres
of which about half lay in Derbyshire, the rest scattered over 10 other
counties) to have survived from this period anywhere in England. This is
of great interest to both family and local historians in that the survey breaks
down each location into acreages and often provides names of tenant farmers etc
- indeed so many people are mentioned the index of names runs to 13pp. We
understand the title is still in print at £20.00 - our VG copy
£8.00
Chesterfield Parish Register vol 1
[1558-1600]
Derbyshire Record Society vol 12, 1986. 192pp inc index. A
transcript of the first part earliest surviving register. Early entries are in Latin
but in this printed version they've been translated into English. We
understand the vol is still in print at £20. Nice copy, F in VG d/w.
(ref 0000) £8.00
Chesterfield Parish Register vol 2
[1601-1635]
Derbyshire Record Society vol 15, 1990. Pp193-417 inc index. A
completion of the transcription of the earliest surviving register, the
pagination following on from vol 1 above. We
understand the vol is still in print at £20. Nice copy, F in VG d/w.
(ref 0000) £8.00
[Church Gresley] Deeds to 33
Talbot Street
These 3 deeds are all dated 1923, though the abstract of title provides
details of prior documents going back to 1902. Principal names are Hall [1902-1913];
Heape [1913-1923]; and Storer [1923]. The group (ref 9/10) £15.00
post-free Not for export
Glover's Derby - The History and Directory of
the Borough of Derby by Stephen Glover
1992 facsimile rep of this 1843 classic. 88+168pp followed by several
pp of adverts. F copy in VG d/w. (ref 3321) £15.00
[Derby] Sale Particulars of Ye Olde Spa
Inne
Printed particulars for the 1933 sale of 'one of the best known and most
frequented Public Houses in the Borough of Derby'. This copy was used to record the
sale of the inn (for £8750) to Strattons Derby Brewery Ltd. A few other associated
papers. (ref 303/19) £10.00 post-free
[Dronfield] Authority for Sale of
Charity Land
This is an 1856 Order signed by the Secretary of the Board of Charity
Commissioners, authorising the local charity The Grammar School of Henry Fanshaw to sell
several plots of land known as Little Stubbing, Far Upper Stubbing, Near Upper Stubbing
and Lower Stubbing totalling 9 acres to local farmer Richard White. Manuscript on
paper, 2 foolscap sides. (ref 21/40) £6.00 post-free Not for export
Eyam Parish Register 1630-1700
Derbyshire Record Society vol 21, 1993. 206pp inc indexes of
places & of names. A printed transcript of the earliest surviving register
down to the end of the 17th century. Eyam was devastated by plague in the
mid-1660s - in the space of 12 months perhaps a quarter of the population died.
We believe the book is still in print at £20. Nice copy, F in VG d/w.
(ref 0000) £8.00
[Gratton document] Fire Insurance
Certificate
This policy, taken out in 1911, covered Rose Cottage. For two shillings,
Elizabeth Coates (of Greengates, Winster) got £100 cover for a year from the
Norwich Union. Printed form with typescript insertions. (ref
G181/18) £4.00 UK post-free
The Building of Hardwick Hall Pt 2 - The New
Hall 1591-98
Derbyshire Record Society vol 9, 1984. 289pp inc index, 7 plates, 4 plans. A
surprising number of craftsmen and others are mentioned in accounts submitted by masons,
carpenters, plasterers, glaziers etc, and the biographical index at the end of the book
lists perhaps 600 of them. In print at £20.00 with d/w, this F copy in bright boards has
lost its d/w and thus is offered at (ref 0000) £7.50
Abstract of Title to Vickar's Meadow,
Mappleton
This is an 1834 abstract drawn up following the death of Robert Millward,
probably in anticipation of a sale of Vickar's Meadow. The abstract gives details of
property deeds going back to 1731 when the land was also known as Peacock's Meadow.
Manuscript on 15 large paper sheets, much water damage to the extent that virtually all
pages have some text missing. Paper is very fragile in places so no examination has been
made to extract the details of the various owners & occupiers over the century which
this document covers. Priced for condition (ref 72/24) at £8.00
post-free Not for export
[Marehay documents] Deeds to
Property
A very useful collection of parchment deeds ranging in dates from 1683 to
1781, concerning 'all those two closes or parcels of land meadow or
pasture.....commonly called or known by the several names of the Pasture
Close and the Upper Close containing by estimation thirteen acres or
thereabouts.....and the lane adjoining to the said closes and lying on the North
side thereof.....'. The 13 acres were acquired in 1683 by William Stocks.
It was to remain associated with the Stocks family for another 75 years - by
which time the lane had become known as Stocks Lane. As early as 1748 an
'occupier' - probably a tenant smallholder - is named as John Wizzall, a
name that over the ensuing years becomes spelled Whisall and eventually Whysall
as the family ultimately (1758) comes to own the land. This important
collection of 11 parchment deeds (ref 466/9) £135.00 post-free
Not for export
[Marehay documents]
Deeds to Property
The imminent sale of property in
Marehay in 1876 prompted an abstract of title to be drawn up. This
document provides details of deeds and documents chronicling transactions going
back to 1830 when local farmer John Whysall mortgaged 'All those three closes
pieces or parcels of inclosed land.....called or known by the several names of
the Far Close the Middle Close and the Little Close containing together by
estimation twelve acres or thereabouts.....the lane called Stocks Lane......
The property appears never to have earned enough for John Whysall to pay off any
of the interest on the mortgage - quite the reverse; what started off as a
£300 debt grew to £800 as he borrowed more and more until the point came where
he forfeited his property which was acquired by Daniel Smith in 1850. The
property was immediately mortgaged again, a debt which over the ensuing years
was variously topped up and transferred through a succession of fresh lenders
until the land was put up for sale at the Royal Oak Inn in May 1876. On
offer here is a collection of deeds and documents, 14 on parchment and 6 on
paper, essentially continuing the story of 466/9 above. (ref 466/7)
£135.00 post-free Not for export
[Newhall document] Draft
Mortgage
This is the draft copy of an 1870
mortgage involving local draper William Elverson and a house, shop &
outbuildings on a small plot of land on the West side of the highway from
Swadlincote to Burton upon Trent. A very scrappily written document (as
all drafts tend to be) on 6 paper sheet with a 7th as the covering sheet.
A bit grubby o/w ok. The chances are the formal (signed) copy hasn't
survived. (ref 7412) £5.00 post-free
Not for export
A Seventeenth Century Scarsdale Miscellany
Derbyshire Record Society vol 20, 1993. 192pp inc index, 5 ills,
pedigree of the Wheatcroft family of Ashover. Three aspects of north-east
Derbyshire: A series of rating assessments for Scarsdale Hundred 1652-62, The
Autobiography of Leonard Wheatcroft of Ashover, The Accounts of Chesterfield lead merchant
Lawrence Oxley. Still in print at £20.00, this F copy in F d/w (ref 0000) £8.00
William Woolley's History of Derbyshire
Derbyshire Record Society vol 6, 1981. 57+276pp inc 48pp of indexes, 5 ills inc
Woolley/Sanders pedigree. This hitherto unpublished early 18th century history
provides brief genealogical and topographical details for each town and village.
Nice clean copy, F in VG d/w. We understand from the DRS web-site that this
particular title has recently gone out of print. (ref 0000) £12.00
Derbyshire Feet of Fines 1323-1546
Derbyshire Record Society vol 11, 1985. 190pp inc a 40+pp index. Full
summaries of all 675 fines from 1323 (where an earlier [1890s] publication left off) to
the end of the reign of Henry VIII, this provides valuable info dating from the two
centuries before parish registers - a period for which there is little else in print.
This vol is currently in print at £20.00. F copy in F d/w. £8.50
A Derbyshire Armory
Maxwell Craven, Derbyshire Record Society vol 17, 1991. 205pp inc index of
places, main contents are alphabetical by surname. This first comprehensive dictionary of
Derbyshire coats of arms contains some 2500 entries. £25 when published,
now in print at £20, this M
copy (ref 8256) £13.00
Another Copy
F in F d/w. (ref 8265) £13.00
The Derbyshire Papist Returns of 1705-6
Richard Clark, Derbyshire Record Society, 1983. Bright blue card covers enclosing
52pp inc index. Very useful background intro precedes returns from 177 parishes
effectively giving us a county-wide census of Catholics from a time when there are almost
no other official records. £4.50 UK
post-free
The Derbyshire Gentry in the Fifteenth Century
Susan M Wright, Derbyshire Record Society vol 8, 1983. 287pp inc index, 3
ills. The first full-length scholarly study of any aspect of medieval Derbyshire - a time
when the county had no major lay or ecclesiastical landowner, and thus the local gentry
dominated politics and society. There is much here for the family historian. A F copy
though without d/w can be ordered for £8.00 NB this vol is
still in print at £20 + p&p
Derbyshire Pedigrees
Dr Richard Clark, Derbyshire Record Society, 1984. A5 booklet in yellow card
covers, 36pp, contents alphabetical. A comprehensive index of the Derby Local Studies
Library's collection of pedigrees of families with Derbyshire connections, widely
recognised as being among the best such collections in England for a town its size. The
booklet should be on the shelf of all serious Derbyshire family historians. New
copy. (ref 8238) £4.00 post-free
The Derbyshire Returns to the 1851 Religious
Census
Derbyshire Record Society vol 23, 1995. 76+238pp inc index. As part of the
1851 census, returns were made for each church, chapel & other places of worship, of
the age, size, denomination and seating capacity as well as details of numbers of
worshippers. Invaluable background material for the local historian. Published at £30 and
now in print at £20, this F copy in F d/w (ref 0000) £10.00
Derbyshire Tithe Files 1836-1850
Derbyshire Record Society vol 22, 1995. 69+173pp inc index. The 1836 Tithe
Act provided for the commutation of tithes previously paid in cash or in kind into a
rent-charge on land. The parish by parish details shed light on farming conditions and
show how the rent-charge was calculated. Published at £30 and now in print at £20.00,
this F copy in F d/w (ref 0000) £12.00 £8.50