OF PHILIP, FIRST EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. II3 



Thomas Packington William Paryter Richard Evans & Ed- 

 ward Burton all those 3 inclosed groundes called the 3 padocks 

 parcells of the Mannor of Horsley in the County of Derby, & 

 all those now inclosed groundes lately severed from Horsley Parke 

 there divided into two Inclosures, & one house or tenement 

 in the tenure of Robert Swayne two barnes & all other build- 

 ings standing on the premises under the rent in the said lease 

 mentioned, The benefitt of which lease was intended & declared 

 as well by the sayd Earle your Petitioners Father as by the sayd 

 Trustees to be to the use of your Petitioner, as by the syd 

 Lease & declaration under their hands & scales apf)eareth. 



The Premises appearing to bee & really & bona fide for 

 your Petitioners provision education & iyvelyhood as is afore- 

 sayd, The Petitioner humbly prayeth the said Deeds may bee 

 allowed, notwythstanding any sequestration of his sayd Fathers 

 estate, & that he may receive the rents yssues & profittes 

 of the premisses henceforth during the said lease and the 

 Arreares due by virtue thereof, the petitioner having nothing else 

 for his mayiUenance education & subsistence 



Thus he shall daily pray etc 



Alexander Stanhope. 



Copia vera ex** 

 T Bayley. 



Depositions of witnesses taken the July iij° 165 1 before R. M. & 

 G. B. commissioners of Sequestrations for the county of 

 Derbyshire by vertue of an order In the Ho : of Commons 

 for Compounding etc the 29 of May 1651 upon the petition of 

 Alexander youngest sonne of P. E. of Chesterfeilde. 



Henry Harris of Droitwich in the county of Worcester gent 

 aged 58 or thereabouts maketh oatli that he did see the deed now 

 shewed unto him bearing date 18 April 1645 sealed and delivered 

 by Tho Packington & to his best remembrance it is about 11 

 yeares since but is Certayne it was a litle befor the war broke 

 forth but knows nothing of the reasons nor anything of the uses 

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