24 INVENTORY OF ROBERT MARPLES. 



Heathcote, clerk, John Greaves, and Elihu Hodkyn, plaintiffs, and 

 Francis Willoughby, gent., and Mary his wife, Robert Jarvis and 

 Mary his wife, and Elizabeth Marples, spinster, defendants ; of one 

 messuage, 30 acres of land, 3 acres of meadow, 28 acres of 

 pasture, and common of pasture for all cattle in Barlborough. 



Fine Hil. 36 and 37 Car. II., Derby (1685.) — Between John 

 Renshawe, gent., Henry Bradley, and Francis Marples, plaintiffs, 

 and Thomas Spencer and Elizabeth his wife, William Marples, 

 John Heydon and Susan his wife, and Henry Lowe, defendants ; 

 of one messuage, one garden, 22 acres of land, 2 acres of meadow, 

 3 acres of pasture, and of the 16th part of the Manor of Darleigh, 

 and other premises in Darley, Bridgetown, Barlborough, and 

 Staveley. 



Fine Trin. 2 Jac. II, Derby (1687.)— Between John Kirke, 

 gent., plaintiff, and William Marples and Hellen his wife, 

 defendants ; of premises in Barlborough. * 



Hannah Marples, widow and administratrix, died in November, 

 1676, and on the 20th March, 1685-6 William Marples, of Barl- 

 borough, the eldest surviving son, took out letters of administration 

 of the goods of Robert Marples, deceased, " unadministered by 

 Hannah Marples, his mother, likewyse deceased." The surety to 

 this bond was Francis Parkes, of Higham, co. Derby, gentleman. 



As, during the great rebellion, the Earl of Kingston was on the 

 side of the Royalists, and was, indeed, slain in the service of the 

 King, we may be sure that Robert Marples espoused the same 

 cause, and it is a matter of history that most of those who followed 

 the king suffered in their estate. A notable example of this, was 

 Colonel Wm. Bullock, of Norton Hall, whose monument in the 

 church of Norton declares how his estate was almost frittered 

 away by the civil wars. I think it probable that the estate of 

 Robert Marples suffered in the same way. At all events, it is not 

 easy to understand upon any other supposition why, after his 

 death, his family should have so soon sold their inheritance. 



* I have little doubt that, by the fine passed in 16S7, the house in which 

 Robert Marples lived was conveyed. Possibly this John Kirke was one of the 

 Kirkes of Anston. 



