6 MACKWORTH : ITS CASTLE AND ITS OWNERS. 



Edward Smalley, and Robert Mitchell, and now in the occupation 

 of Edward Wylcockson, Hugh Wright, and Mitchell Ladior." 



By deed dated 3rd February, 1653, Sir John Curzon, Knight 

 and Bart., purchased 215 acres of land in Markeaton and 

 Mackworth, with houses and tenements appertaining thereto, from 

 Henry Frances, Gentleman, and Mary his wife. 



On the 5th of December, 1653, Sir John Curzon, of Kedleston, 

 Bart., for the sum of ;^i,ooo, purchased from Henry Frances, the 

 estate in Mackworth, called Bower Ground, lying in the Townsfields 

 in the liberties of Markeaton and Mackworth, and four-fifths of a 

 messuage called "The Crosse House," which said house is in the 

 possession of John Baynbridge, and is near adjoining Markeaton 

 Mylne, and four-sixths of three cottages in Markeaton, now in the 

 occupation of Edward Wilkinson, John Machin, and Thomas 

 Gilman ; all of which heretofore was the inheritance of Thomas 

 Agard, deceased, late brother to him the said Henry Frances. 



From the preceding it would appear that John Agard, of 

 Markeaton (living 1599), left two grandchildren, Thomas Agard, 

 skinner, of Derby, and a daughter the wife of Henry Frances, 

 who, on the death of his wife's brother Thomas, came into posses- 

 sion of the Agard Estates, and who shortly afterwards disposed of 

 them to the Curzons. 



The principal and most interesting of the Mackworth documents 

 however, is the deed of conveyance of the Castle and Manor of 

 Mackworth,* from Sir Thomas Mackworth Bart., to Sir John 

 Curzon, Bart., of which the following is an abstract : 



"By Indenture tripartite, dated 1 6th June, 1655, Sir Thomas 

 Hartopp of Barton Lazar, in County Leicester, and Dame Mary 

 hi? wife, Sir Thomas Mackworth of Normanton, in County 

 Rutland, Bart., son and heir apparent of the said Lady Mary, 

 John Knight of London, Gentleman, and Richard Corney of the 

 same, Gentleman, of the first part : 



* Among the Curzon Documents is a receipt dated nth February, 1653, 

 fiom Sir Thiomas Maclcworth to Sir John Curzon, for the sum of ;^I,300, 

 purchase money for the manor of Mackworth and lands there. — Signed in the 

 presence of John Bernard, Francis Crane, Francis Curzon, Joseph Taylor. 

 By Thomas Mackworth. 



