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the said Commissioners into the premises to enter and distraine 

 & the distress there found to take leave drive away and sell. 

 Given Under our Hands & Scales this eighth day of March 1650 

 Seiled and delivered in the presence of 



W* Flint /'''~^\ W"* Couse 



Seal. 1 



Edw. Clarke V^ / Robert Ashton." 



MERRY, OF BRISLINGCOTE. 



When James Blount, sixth Lord Mountjoy, became involved 

 in pecuniary difificulties about the year 1560, he sold the 

 manor and advowson of Barton Blount (more usually then 

 termed Barton Park), together with other parts of the family 

 estate, including Brislingcote, in Winshill township, a farm 

 at Kniveton, and other property at Sutton-on-tlie-Hill and 

 Stanton-by-Bridge, to one John Merry, gentleman and merchant, 

 of London. John Merry was succeeded by his son Henry, 

 and subsequently by his grandson, Sir Henry Merry. Sir 

 Henry was followed by a son of the same name, and after- 

 wards by a grandson John. John Merry took the Royalist 

 side, and hence suffered sequestration. John and Anne Merry 

 died without issue, and his only sister and heiress brought 

 the property to the family of Simpson. The Merrys were for 

 the most part staunch to the Roman faith, and in consequence 

 suffered materially. Their names appear on various Recusant 

 Rolls throughout the reigns of Elizabeth and of her Stuart 

 successors. The Derbyshire estates of the Merry family were 

 compounded in 1655, for the sum of ;^i,64o, being a tenth 

 of their total value. 



"Derb. SS. 



Whereas the Estate reall & personall of John Merry of 

 Brissingcoate in the County of Derby Esq' for his delin- 

 quency against the parliament & by the authority of the 



