MACKWORTH : ITS CASTLE AND ITS OWNERS. 5 



daughter of Henry Hall, of Gretford, her mother's sole heiress. 

 She was buried 20th September, 1620. The said Sir Thomas was 

 interred 22nd March, 1625-6. 



Sir Thomas left issue (inter alia), Sir Henry Mackworth, of 

 Normanton, baptized at Gretford 22nd October, 1598, died 24th 

 August, 1640, buried at Empingham. He married Mary, daughter 

 of Robert Hopton, of Witham, County Somerset. Buried nth 

 February, 1692-3, "Plusquam nonagesima." This lady afterwards 

 became the wife of Sir Thomas Hartopp, Knight, of Normanton 

 (husband of Mary, 7th May, 1649). He was of Burton St. Lazarus, 

 Leicester, and left issue by another wife. 



By Sir Henry Mackworth, her first husband, she had issue : — 



Sir Thomas Mackworth, of Normanton, Bart., eldest son and 

 heir; buried at Empingham ist December, 1694. 



This gentleman sold his ancestral estate at Mackworth, with the 

 Castle &c., to Sir John Curzon in 1655. 



The last of the Baronets of this ancient line was Sir Henry 

 Mackworth, who died about the year 1803, in the Charter House, 

 London, upon the Poor Knight's Charity, when the title became 

 extinct. 



For the following notices of the Curzon Estates in Mackworth 

 and Markeaton, we are obliged to the courtesy of the Right 

 Honourable Lord Scarsdale, who has generously permitted the 

 writer of this article to make the necessary abstracts from his 

 documents for this work. 



Some portion of the Curzon Estate, comprising 64 acres of land 

 &c., in Mackworth and Markeaton, belonged to Michael and Jone 

 Baggaley, by whom it was sold or alienated to John Agard, in the 

 year 1599. 



On I St March, 1627, certain premises at Markeaton were leased 

 for 21 years to George Sitwell, of Renishaw, Gentleman, and 

 Robert Walker, of Markeaton, Gentleman, by William Frances, of 

 Derby, and Margery his wife, and John Agard, of Derby, skinner, 

 at the yearly payment of j^^, payable to the said William Frances. 

 This property is defined as " All those three cottages in Markeaton, 

 sometime in the tenure and occupation of Richard Scopstake, 



