Catalogue description Articles of agreement (counterpart)

Sir Archibald Grant of Castleton, baronet, Richard Bagshaw of the same, esquire, John Shalcross of Shalcros, esquire, Alexander Radclyffe of Fox Denton (Co. Lancashire), esquire, John Wright of Eyam, gentleman, and Francis Potts of Castleton, tailor, partners in Odin Mine, with William, Duke of Devonshire and his lessee, Samuel Rotherham of -Field (parchment damaged), gentleman. Agreement concerning the working of Odin Mine which was originally discovered in Castleton, but its workings spread into Peak Forest thereby giving the late Duke of Devonshire, father of the present duke, claim to a Lord's Meer.