Il6 SEQUESTRATION OF DERBYSHIRE ESTATES 



By the Commissioners for Compounding etc 9° Aprilis 1652 

 Upon the petition of Phillip Lord Stanhope* only sone and 

 heire of Henry Lord Stanhope deceased (a copy whereof is here- 

 unto annexed & attested by our Register). It is ordered that it be 

 referred to the Commissioners for Sequestrations in the severall 

 Countyes of Darby & Leicester to peruse the sayd petition &: 

 examine the matter & contents thereof with witnesses on oath for 

 proofe of the petitioners deed whereby he claymes the premises 

 mentioned in the sayd petition & certifie the true state of the case 

 & proofes with the cause & tyme of Sequestration & from whom 

 the said premises were first sequestrated & what else they know 

 materiall in the businesse to us sealed upp with all convenient 

 speed. And it is referred to M' Readinge to Examine the peti- 

 tioners tytle & slate & report the case to us. 



Edw : WiNSLow Ja : Russell 



Will"' Molins Ric : Moore 



To the Honor^^'^ Com"^<= for Compounding etc 

 The humble petition of Phillip Lord Stanhope only sonne & heire 

 of Henry Lord Stanhope deceased 

 Sheweth 



That the Mannor & Soake of Sawly with the appurtenances 

 in the County of Darby & Leicester upon good and valuable 

 considerations was sold by Phillip Earle of Chesterfeild unto 

 Henry Lord Stanhope your pet : father dec'' as by Deed inrolled 

 dated 14 June 1633 will appeare & your pet : sayd father enjoyed 

 the same untill the tyme of his death. That your petitioner 

 being an Infant at the tyme of his death Phillipp E. of C. his 

 grandfather through y= neglect of your petitioner's mother his 

 Guardian re-entered uppon the sayd Mannor by reason whereof 

 since the late warrs the same hath beene sequestrated as 

 belonging to your pet : grandfather for his delinquency, That 



* Heni-y Lord Stanhope, eldest son of the first Earl of Chesterfield, died in 

 1634. His only surviving son, by Catherine, eldest daughter and co-heiress 

 of Thomas Lord Wotton, was Philip, this petitioner, who succeeded his grand- 

 father in the earldom, and died in 1713. 



