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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 £8.00 (the price is unchanged in 20 years), 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) £2.50 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 Fd/w (ref 0000)   £10.00

[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 0000)  £10.00 post-free  Not for export

NB Other Sleigh items are available - all are Derbyshire or Staffordshire - ask for details

[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 0000)  £8.00 post-free

[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)  £12.00 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

[Duffield - see Quarndon]

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

[Newbold] Building a Parish
Philip Riden, 1982. 120pp, 16 photo-ills. Subtitled A History of St John the Evangelist 1857-1982. A5, card covers, VG. (ref 4444)  £4.50 post-free

[Quarndon and Duffield] Abstract of Title to a Plot of Land fronting Allestree Lane
This 1938 abstract provides details of owners or occupiers going back to 1906. The property (Allestree Hall etc) was formerly the property of Lord Scarsdale. Typescript on 19 sheets of paper. (ref B140/604)  £4.00 post-free

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)  £10.00   £7.50

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[Windley document]  Letting Agreement for Inn and Mill
This 1874 agreement has been used as the draft for an 1882 agreement, the changes being made in pencil and thus providing additional details for the local historian.  In 1874 Turnditch farmer Henry Jebb leased the properties from John Tempest of Duffield, and in 1882 the new lessee was to be local miller Arthur Bowman.   The properties concerned are described in the document as 'All that messuage, dwelling house or tenement with the outbuildings, stables, yards, garden and other appurtenances and known as the name of the Puss in Boots.....together with the Corn Mill fitted with steam engine and boiler, drying kiln...........'.  The document bears the signatures John Tempest and Henry Jebb though they are crossed through in pencil.   Useful piece of local history in manuscript on paper, 3 sides each approx 9"x15".  (ref 5739)  £12.00 post-free  Not for export

A History of Derbyshire
Gladwyn Turbutt, 1999. 4 A4 size vols, each c480pp inc 30pp of ills. Of north midland counties, Derbyshire is almost unique in never having had a classic county history published on the scale of Nicholls' Leicestershire, Ormerod's Cheshire or Thoroton's Nottinghamshire - indeed the most recent sizeable work on the county was the Lysons' brothers 1817 volume in their uncompleted 'Magna Britannia' series; even the Victoria County History series hasn't seen a volume published for 90 years. Rated by the publishers as satisfying this lengthy omission, it is currently in print at  £120.00 and copies can be ordered via Chapel Books. A descriptive pamphlet is available.

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

A Supplementary Index to the 'Infra' Wills & Admons Now Preserved in The Probate Registry at Chester
The Record Society, 1912. 11pp pamphlet listing c250 wills/admons for the year 1693 not included in The Record Society's vol 18. [Infra in this context means less than £40]. Mainly Cheshire & Lancashire but there are a very few Derbyshire people listed. (ref 0000)  £1.50 post-free

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. Still in print at £25.00, this M copy (ref 8256)  £18.00

Another Copy
F in F d/w. (ref 8265)  £18.00

Further copies can be ordered via Chapel Books @ £3.00 each 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 in loose fitting but still F d/w is available (ref 0000) at £10.00, or a F copy without d/w can be ordered for £8.00 NB this vol is still in print at £20

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)  £3.00 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

Non-Conformist Chapels and Meeting Houses - Derbyshire
Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1986.  Pp31-58 in pictorial card covers, descriptions of 151 buildings, many of which are ill'd (inc 40 photos).  VG copy (ref 1900)  £5.00 post-free

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