OF PHILIP, FIRST EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. I17 



your pet : having noe present meanes of subsistence some of his 

 friends very lately made enquiry into y^ former settlement made 

 by his Grandfather uppon his deceased Father & upon search 

 found the sayd Deed of bargaine & Sale of the sayd Manner unto 

 your pet : Father. 



Your pet : therefore humbly prayes that his tytle to the sayd 

 Mannor & appurtenances may be referred to your councell to be 

 stated and reported to your honors for your judgment therein. 

 And he shall pray etc 



Phillipp Stanhope. 

 Copied vera ex 



Jo : Leech. 



Deposisons of wittnesses taken before R. M. and G. B. 

 comissioners etc by vertue of an order from the Honorable 

 the comissioners for Compounding etc of the 9'** instant in 

 the case of Phillip Lord Stanhope touching his clayme to the 

 Mannor of Sawly and the soake now void or sequestrated 

 for the Delinquencye of phillip earle of Chesterfeild. Taken 

 at Derby the 16''' of Aprill, 1652. 



Magdalen Greene of Long Eaton in the County of Derby, 

 widow upon her oath saith that William Greene her late husband 

 deceased was sarvant to Henry Lord Stanhope the peticoner's 

 father and did receive the rents ot Sawly and the Soake for about 

 the space of two yeares before the said Henry died wich is about 

 17 years since and saith she hath heard her husband say that he 

 has disbursed of the said Lord Henry money about building and 

 repairing the Mills and house at Sawly about 1500s- and 

 conceived the peticoner was about a yeare old when ye Lord 

 Henry his father dyed And this deptmant further saith that 

 immediately after the death of the said Lord Henry the new 

 Earle of Chesterfield did enter upon the said mannor of Sawly 

 <& the soake & enjoyed the said untill the tymes of sequestration, 

 & this deponent's late husband was imployed as Baylife under 

 him, and this deponent further saith that the name W'" Greene 



