S6 THE COKE PAPERS AT MELBOURNE HALL. 



been a worthy, upright man, both in his pubHc and private life. 

 To the few extracts relative to Derbyshire, we have added some 

 details of the expenditure of those days. Ed. 



1625, November 17, Trusley. 



Sir Francis Coke to Sir John Coke, knight, one of his Majesty's 



most honourable Privy Council. 



A remembrance of such things as were observed in the houses 

 of Romish recusants and others suspected within the Hundreds 

 of Morleston and Litchurch, Appletree, and Repton and Gresley 

 in the county of Derby, at such times as the houses were searched 

 by the Deputy Lieutenants of the said county for their arms and 

 warlike weapons by commandment from the Lords of his 

 Majesty's most honourable Privy Council in Novr. 1625. 



First, we found no arms save such as belonged to the trained 

 bands, which we caused to be delivered to the captains to be used 

 in training as formerly they had been according to the Lords' 

 letters. I conceive that either the recusants had notice of these 

 letters before they came to us (which in truth they had), and 

 conveyed the arms away, or else that the better sort having had 

 their arms taken from them about ten or twelve years' since, and 

 committed to the then Sheriff's custody had not provided others, 

 but I rather believe the former. 



At Stanley Grange, a house standing alone in Appletree 

 Hundred, the doors were at the first shut against us, but after a 

 little while opened, where we found only two women in the house, 

 who gave us to understand that the Grange House belonged to 

 one Mrs. Vause* as farmer thereof to Mrs. Lewdellt of West 

 Hallam, dwelling within a quarter of a mile of the said Grange, 



* " Mrs. Vause " was the Honourable Anne Vause, daughter of William, 

 third Lord Vause of Harrowden. The simple explanation of all this sleeping 

 provision at Stanley Grange was that it was used as a school for young 

 Romanists, the sons of noblemen and gentlemen. See Churches of Derbyshire, 

 vol. iv., pp. 227, 228. Surely this well-known fact must have come to the 

 cognizance of Sir F. Coke. 



+ Lewdell, thus in the printed transcript, but it must be an error for Powtrell, 

 the celebrated recusant family of West Hallam. See Churches of Derbyshire, 

 vol. iv., pp. 220-223. 



