6666 - 6675
'form a collection particularly designed
to assist in a scheme for a general history of Derbyshire, consisting
of Terriers, Court Rolls, Rentals, Petitions, Inventories, Letters,
and other Original Papers ; also copies of Inquisitions, Wills
Charters, Seals, Fines, Decrees, Surveys, Legal Briefs, Cases,
Pleas, Abstracts of Titles, Particulars of Properties on Sale,
Church Notes, Parish Register Extracts, Lists of Sheriffs, Pedigrees,
Grants of Arms. Many of the latter class are in Mr. Wolley's
own hand. They form ten thick folio volumes.' (DASJ Vol XXXVII,
p.132)
Also see:
DASJ Vol XXXVII Jan 1911 Volumes 6666 - 6670
DASJ Vol XXXIV 1912 Volumes 6666 - 6675
6676 - 6680
'Legal Briefs and Cases, Copies of Proceedings in the Court
of Law and Equity, and of Arbitrations, all relating to Mines
and Mining Operations in the County of Derby' (5 large folio
volumes)
(DASJ 1913, p.172)
6681 - 6683
'General, Legal, and Historical Collections relating to the
same subject, three volume folio'
(DASJ 1913, p.172)
6684 - 6686
'Fair Copies of Charters and other Ancient Documents relating
to Derbyshire ; two folio volumes, with an Index of the Contents
of each volume subjoining it.'
(DASJ 1913, p.172)
6687 - 6696
'Abstracts of Titles, Drafts of Wills and of Marriage Settlements,
with copies of Legal Documents, Pedigrees, and Miscellaneous
Memoranda, being further Collections for a General History
of Derbyshire, in ten large folio volumes.'
(DASJ 1913, p.173)
6697 & 6698
"Fair Copies of Charters & other Ancient Documents relating
to Derbyshire ; two Folio , Volumes, with an Index of the Contents
of each Volume subjoined to it."
6699
Is another big book, filled with extracts from old records which
were then either in the Rolls Chapel or in the Tower. The great
majority of these now appear in printed calendars.
6701
This is a thin folio volume of " Derbyshire Church Notes," by
Mr. John Reynolds, of Plaistow, about the year 1750. They
refer to the churches of Alfreton, Beeley, Chapel-en-le-
Frith, Chesterfield, Crich, Darley, Dronfield, Edensor, Elvaston,
Norton, Spondon, Staveley, and South Wingfield. Each account
has been cited in full or in substance in my [i.e. Cox] four
volumes of "Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire".
6702
121 paper folios. On the cover Adam Wolley wrote:
'This MS. seems formerly to have been the commonplace book
of Roger Columbell, of Darley Hall, in the county of Derby,
esquire, who died anno. 1605 ; it was given to me by Mr. Herbert
Greensmith Beard, of Stancliffe Hall, anno. 1792.
"Adam Wolley, junr."
It consists of 121 paper folios, and is chiefly concerned with
poorly written copies or abstracts of deeds, wills, and manorial
notes relative to the Columbell estates at Darley ; the earlier
pages were evidently written by someone older than Roger Columbell,
for they are quite early in the sixteenth century. Towards
the end of the volume it is more of the nature of a household
account book. After the fortieth folio is passed, the book
is occasionally interlarded with quaint receipts or charms,
and with items of expenditure.
(DASJ 1913, p.192)
6703
Catalogued " Transcripts of several Political Tracts and
Pamphlets, 1620-1698, in a Folio Volume." [Cox notes]
As none of these have any connection with Derbyshire, nothing
need to be said here of their contents.
(DASJ 1913, p.197)
6704
214 folios. "Forms of deeds and Miscellaneous Memoranda
in the Handwriting apparently of Mr. Henry Wigley, of Middleton,
in a Folio Volume."
'The contents are generally of a legal character .. Intermingled
with the legal formula are a few distinctive Derbyshire entries
as to actions taken in the local courts at Wirksworth ... entries
made in the latter part of Elizabeth's reign, through that
of James I and during the earlier years of Charles I.' (DASJ
1913, p.198).
6705
A small quarto in the neat handwriting of Mr. John Reynolds, of
Plaistow. It was begun in the year 1750. There are a variety
of scraps of Derbyshire pedigrees. Many of the notes are cited
in "Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire" and "Three
Centuries of Derbyshire Annals" [both by Cox] The historical
events pertaining to the borough of Derby, 1554-1697, appear
in the second volume of Glover's history.
6706
Another small quarto in the handwriting of Mr. Reynolds, of Plaistow,
half blank. The remainder consists of extracts from Thoroton's "History
of Nottinghamshire".
6707
67 folios of memoranda books, written by Mr. John Reynolds of Plaistow.
(DASJ 1913, p.205)
6708
'... an account of Roman coins found in Derbyshire.' (DASJ 1913,
p.206)
Also see: DASJ Volume VII, pp.216-230.
6709
Tithes of Draycott, STS.
6710
Abstracts of Inquisitiones post mortem, from Henry VII
to 44 Elizabeth.
6711
Series of Transcripts of Chartae Antique, temp. Richard
I, John, and Henry III, which used to be kept in the Tower.
6712
Extracts from the Charter and Close Rolls, 1-19 Henry III, relating
to Derbyshire.
6713
Cornish stanneries.
6714
Transcript of chartulary of Tutbury Priory, with extracts relative
to Derbyshire and Staffordshire.
6715
'... printed particulars of Derbyshire estates offered for sale.
(1810-1824)' (DASJ 1913, p.206)
6716
Purely theological. Folio book belonged to William BURTON of Lindley,
LEI, 1623.
6717
Copies of Year books, chiefly of the reign of Edward III.
6718
Concerned with early Latin divinity.
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