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of Taxes due & payable forth of the premises & likewise well & 

 sufficiently upholding repaireing «S: maintaining all Houses and out- 

 houses upon the premises in good «Sc sufficient Repaire & makeing 

 noe wast of any part of the premises And it is further agreed & 

 the said Henrie Gregson for himselfe & his Assignes doth covenant 

 promise & grant to & witli the said Robert Mellor & Gervase 

 Bennett that for every aker of ground which he the said Henrie 

 Gregson shall plowe up more than what is already imployed in 

 Tillage without license from the said Commissioners or some two 

 of them shall forfeite to the Use of the Commonwealth to be 

 levyed by distress & sale the sume of five pounds. And lastly it 

 is Covenanted & agreed Upon by & betweene the said parties 

 Unto these presents that in Case the said Rents be behind & 

 Unpaid after any of the said termes in which it ought to be paid 

 that then it shall & may be lawful! to & for the said Commissioners 

 into the premises to enter & distraine & the distress there found 

 to take lead drive away & sell Wittness our Hafids & seales 

 Derby May the second 165 1 



Sealed and Delivered in /^ ^^ 



the presence of ( seal j Hen : Gregson " 



W'.' Flint 



BULLOCK, OF NORTON. 



The family of Bullock were settled at Unston, in Dronfield 

 parish, at an early date. In 1572, John Bullock, of Unston and 

 the Inner Temple, purchased from the Denham family a moiety 

 of the Manor of Norton. Eventually, in 1624, his descendant, 

 John Bullock, became, through purchase, sole proprietor of the 

 manor and advowson of Norton, and impropriator of the tithes. 

 He died in 1641, leaving three sons, of whom the two first soon 

 died without issue, the estates coming to the third son William. 

 In the list of knights and gentlemen of Derbyshire, who 

 compounded for their estates in 1655, by a tenth of the total value, 

 occurs the name of William Bullock, of Norton, for ^^40. He 



