Catalogue description Portland of Welbeck (1st deposit): Deeds and Estate Papers
This record is held by Nottinghamshire Archives
Reference: | 157 DD/P |
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Title: | Portland of Welbeck (1st deposit): Deeds and Estate Papers |
Description: |
This collection of property deeds and related material largely consists of 16th and 17th century documents relating to Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, with a few items from Gloucestershire, Lancashire, Northumberland, Somerset, Staffordshire, Wiltshire and Yorkshire. Many of the records concern former monastic or church land sold after the Reformation, especially the Welbeck Abbey estates which were originally acquired by Richard Whalley of Screveton but then lost by his family as a result of mounting debts and obtained by the Earl of Shrewsbury in 1584. There is also much documentation of those estates of the Earl of Newcastle which were confiscated by Parliament following his exile abroad during the Civil War and Commonwealth and of his efforts to recover them on his return at the Restoration in 1660. Marriage into the Holles family has resulted in the survival in this collection of a family cartulary of the property of John Holles, 2nd Earl of Clare, compiled in c.1660 (37/1). The industrial development of both the Scarsdale Hundred of north east Derbyshire and Sherwood Forest in north Nottinghamshire during the 17th century is well documented. Lead smelting mills are mentioned in Derbyshire at Barlow (42/10; 43/11), Brampton (53/10; 53/15; 53/25), Lea Bridge (43/25), Linacre (84/3) and Totley (109/1). Iron furnaces or forges occur at Barlow (43/76) in Derbyshire and at Carburton (5/76; 5/83), Clipstone (7/22), and Kirkby in Ashfield (15/61) in Nottinghamshire, the latter principally developed by ironmasters from the West Midlands. Both the lead and iron industies consumed vast quantities of trees to make charcoal or the so-called 'white coal' (kiln dried wood), and numerous documents refer to the felling or leasing of woods for these purposes throughout north east Derbyshire and Sherwood Forest. In addition there are early 17th century coal mining leases, etc., in the Barlow (43/34; 42/69; 59/23), Chesterfield (61/3; 61/26) and Dronfield (70/49-53) areas of Derbyshire. These are complemented by a copy of the Commonwealth taxation survey of Scarsdale Hundred, listing industrial enterprises, of 1652 -1661 (59/21). Several small groups of manorial documents are represented, the most extensive being a good sequence of court books for Mansfield, 1497-1816, etc., (17/2-74) as well as a long and detailed court roll for 1315-16 (17/1). These are supplemented by mediaeval or Tudor custumals of Mansfield and Edwinstowe manors (7/2), Derbyshire lead mining laws (7/2), and Peak Forest (95/10). For Sherwood Forest there are 18th century attachment court and swanimote records (27/3-20), copies of mediaeval perambulations (27/21-24), and an enquiry into depredations of woods in c.1588-59 (27/26). An unusual survival are the detailed records of coroners' inquests in Scarsdale Hundred, 1680-c.1730 enumerating a wide variety of accidental deaths, including road and coal mining accidents (65/1-71). Content Summary: Nottinghamshire DD/P/1 Annesley 154-1669 DD/P/2 Hundred of Bassetlaw (manorial records) 1575-1619 DD/P/3 Bingham 1593 DD/P/4 Blidworth 1812 DD/P/5 Carburton 1579-1729 DD/P/6 Car Colston 1614-1719 DD/P/7 Clipstone (including manorial records) 1556-1794 DD/P/8 Cotham and Sibthorpe 1413-1723 DD/P/9 Dunham (manorial records) 1665-1668 DD/P/10 Edwinstowe 1602-1803 DD/P/11 Egmanton 1692-1698 DD/P/12 Fulwood [Sutton in Ashfield] 1580, 1679 DD/P/13 Gamston [near Retford] 1664 DD/P/14 Gringley on the Hill (manorial records) 1637-1871 DD/P/15 Kirkby in Ashfield (including manorial records) 1446-1780 DD/P/16 Langford 1619, 1621 DD/P/17 Mansfield (including manorial records) 1315-1801 DD/P/18 Mansfield Woodhouse 1640 DD/P/19 Mattersey 1539 DD/P/20 Milnthorpe [Norton Cuckney] 1574-1691 DD/P/21 Newark 1614-1696 DD/P/22 Normanton Grange [Elkesley] 1634-1691 DD/P/23 Norton Cuckney 1625, 1821 DD/P/24 Honor of Peverel 1640 DD/P/25 Rufford 1618-1620 DD/P/26 Screveton, also Cotham and Sibthorpe 1617-1629 DD/P/27 Sherwood Forest: (court records) 1334-1726 : (officers) 1717-1812 : (perambulations and miscellaneous) 1227-1819 DD/P/28 Sookholme 1553-1678 DD/P/29 'Settlements and mortgages of estates of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle' 1619-1675 DD/P/30 'Settlements of estates of Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle' 1655-1692 DD/P/31 Sutton in Ashfield 1534-c.1805 DD/P/32 Sutton cum Lound: Rectory (manorial records) 1734-1936 DD/P/33 Walesby 1688-1708 DD/P/34 Walkeringham 1704-1709 DD/P/35 Warsop 1721 DD/P/36 Worksop 1617-1805 DD/P/37 Miscellaneous 16th C.-1785 Derbyshire DD/P/38 Ashbourne 1602 DD/P/39 Ashover and Tansley 1779 DD/P/40 Bakewell 1576-1672 DD/P/41 Barlborough 1556-1669 DD/P/42 Barlow 1530-1800 DD/P/43 Barlow (leases) 1579-1763 DD/P/44 Barnes [Dronfield Woodhouse] 1630 DD/P/45 Baslow and Bubnell 1366-1594 DD/P/46 Beeley 1608-1641 DD/P/47 Birch Hall [Hayfield, Glossop] 1577-1665 DD/P/48 Blackwell [Bakewell] 1552-1676 DD/P/49 Blackwell (leases) 1612-1681 DD/P/50 Bolsover (including manorial records) 1485-1753 DD/P/51 Bonds for Payment: Miscellaneous 1523-1669 DD/P/52 Boothlow [Hartington] 1628 DD/P/53 Brampton 1528-1766 DD/P/54 Brassington 1641 DD/P/55 Brindwoodgate [Barlow] 1630-1687 DD/P/56 Buxton 1567-1631 DD/P/57 Castleton 1622 DD/P/58 Chelmorton 1578 DD/P/59 Manor of Chesterfield and Hundred of Scarsdale (manorial records) 1511-1790 DD/P/60 Chesterfield 15th C.-1790 DD/P/61 Chesterfield (leases) 1589-1767 DD/P/62 Chinley 1598 DD/P/63 Clowne 1680 DD/P/64 Curbar [Baslow] 1630 DD/P/65 Hundred of Scarsdale, also Nottinghamshire (coroners inquests) 1680-1769 DD/P/66 Cause Hall [Brampton] 1516-1689 DD/P/67 Cowley [Dronfield Woodhouse] 1630 DD/P/68 Crowhole [Barlow] 1630 DD/P/69 Cutthorpe [Brampton] 1544, 1578 DD/P/70 Dronfield (including manorial records) 1388-1672 DD/P/71 Dronfield (leases) 1572-1704 DD/P/72 Duffield 1621 DD/P/73 Dunston [Chesterfield] 1578-1696 DD/P/74 Eckington 1601 DD/P/75 Edale 1625 DD/P/76 Elmton (manorial records) 1601-1698 DD/P/77 Fairfield 1631, 1724 DD/P/78 'Froggatt and Ashton v. Sacheverell', concerning Stoke [Hope] 1670 DD/P/79 Hasland 1635-1778 DD/P/80 Highlightley [Barlow] 1630 DD/P/81 Hope 1595-1666 DD/P/82 Hucklow (Great and Little) 1596-1677 DD/P/83 Kirk Langley 1654-1703 DD/P/84 Linacre [Brampton] 1513-1686 DD/P/85 Litchurch 1455-1655 DD/P/86 Little Longstone c.1570-1665 DD/P/87 Mansell Park [Mugginton] 1589-early 17th C. DD/P/88 Mapleton 1633-1654 DD/P/89 Middleton by Youlgreave 1634 DD/P/90 Newbold 1500-1707 DD/P/91 Newbold and Dronfield early 16th C. DD/P/92 Newbold and Whittington 1658-1764 DD/P/93 Temple Normanton, also Tansley and 'Boothlow' [Hartington] (manorial records) 1524-1625 DD/P/94 Oxcroft [Bolsover] 1562-1688 DD/P/95 Calling Low [Monyash] and One Ash [Youlgreave] Granges; Peak Forest and High Peak 1439-1735 DD/P/96 Phoside [Hayfield] 1552 DD/P/97 Pleasley 1767 DD/P/98 Romeley [Clowne] 1538-c.1660 DD/P/99 Rufford [Brampton] 1630-1687 DD/P/100 Rumbling Street [Barlow] 1630 DD/P/101 Shirecliffe [Dronfield] 1630 DD/P/102 Staveley and Romeley [Clowne] 1435-1660 DD/P/103 Stoke [Hope] 1608-1672 DD/P/104 Stubley [Dronfield Woodhouse] 1630-1639 DD/P/105 Sutton Scarsdale 1665 DD/P/106 Thorpe 1633-1686 DD/P/107 Tideswell 1591 DD/P/108 Tissington 1584-1654 DD/P/109 Totley 1615 DD/P/110 Unstone 1630 DD/P/111 Warsop Park [Pleasley and Shirebrook] 1672-1682 DD/P/112 Windley 1623 DD/P/113 Miscellaneous 1533-1772 DD/P/114 Various Townships 1496-1779 Lancashire DD/P/115 Farnworth 1713 Northumberland DD/P/116 Netherton 1521 Somerset DD/P/117 St Loe Marriage Settlement 1492 Staffordshire DD/P/118 Cheadle 1614-1682 Yorkshire DD/P/119 Hovingham (including manorial records) 1571-1632 DD/P/120 Slingsby 1563-1690 Gloucestershire DD/P/121 Tormarton 1457-1663 Wiltshire DD/P/122 Hundred of Warminster (manorial records) 1430 |
Date: | 1315-1936 |
Related material: |
Related Collections also in Nottinghamshire Archives: Portland of Welbeck (DD/2P) Portland of Welbeck (DD/3P) Portland of Welbeck (DD/4P) Portland of Welbeck (DD/5P) Portland of Welbeck (DD/6P) Portland of Welbeck (DD/7P) Portland of Welbeck (DD/P/CD) Related Collections elsewhere: Further records of the Dukes of Portland can be found in the University of Nottingham Library, the British Library, and other repositories listed in the National Register of Archives. |
Held by: | Nottinghamshire Archives, not available at The National Archives |
Language: | English |
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Physical description: | 85 boxes |
Access conditions: |
Accessible to all holders of a reader's ticket |
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Administrative / biographical background: |
The bulk of these documents relate to properties amassed by Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury ('Bess of Hardwick') in the late 16th century, and subsequently passed down to Sir Charles Cavendish (her son by her third husband) and then to his son Sir William Cavendish, subsequently Earl and 1st Duke of Newcastle. They are supplemented by documents relating to further properties acquired by the Cavendishes. The records descended through the female line to the Dukes of Portland and were held in the Estate Office at Welbeck Abbey until their deposit in the Nottinghamshire Records Office (now Nottinghamshire Archives) in 1950 and 1953 (Accessions 12 and 147). |
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