14 DENBY OLD HALL AND ITS OWNERS. 



This Robert Wilmot married Dorothy, daughter of Lawrence 

 Shrigley, of Shrigley, co. Chester, and had issue five sons 

 and two daughters. On the death of the eldest son, Robert, 

 the second son, Edward, became heir to the estates. 



Edward Wilmot, D.D., was the incumbent of All Saints' 

 Derby, and married Dorothy, daughter of Sir George Gresley, 

 of Drakelow, Bart. Their children were Robert, Edward, and 

 Dorothy. 



Robert died unmarried, and was succeeded in the Chad- 

 desden estates by his brother Edward. The Denby estate, 

 within a few days after it was purchased by the first Robert 

 Wilmot, had been leased to Vincent Lowe at the rent of jQioo 

 a year, and about the same time the estate, apparently, was 

 disparked. This lease expiring in 1666, Robert Wilmot, 

 grandson of the original purchaser, leased the estate to William 

 Barker for five years, dating from November 1st, 1666. Upon 

 this an action was commenced in Chancery as to the extent 

 of the estate, namely, whether Salterwood was part of Denby 

 Park or was not included in the purchase as being distinct 

 from the park. 



In 1678, 1679, 1680, there was a dispute as to the trustee- 

 ship of lands in Chaddesden, Morley, Breadsall, and Spondon, 

 which lands had been left by this Robert Wilmot to Henry 

 Mellor, of Derby, and George Gresley, of Lullington, as 

 trustees for his brother Edward and his children, and, after 

 them, for the children of his sister Dorothy.* 



Robey. 



Thomas. — Dorothy Wilmot before mentioned married 

 Thomas, son of Robert Roby, of Castle Donington, co. Leicester, 

 and by this marriage the Denby estate passed into the tenure 

 of the Roby family. The Denby branch, which was the elder 

 branch, described themselves as of Denby Park, and adopted 

 the spelling " Robey." 



* Hist. MSS. Commission Report IX. Part II., p. 120b. 



