Hugh Sleigh

1594. March 6.—Court of John Manners, esq. Mr. William Roffenton and Martha

his wife, mentioned as surrendering lands to Hugh Sleigh. Robert Mower, of Milnethorpe, and Joane his wife named.

(based on date probably this Hugh Sleigh or possibly his father)

NOTES FROM "THE BOOK OF RECORD" FOR THE INHABITANTS OF HOLMESFIELD, DERBYSHIRE.

BY CHARLES JACKSON.The following genealogical notes are from the original MS., " The Book of Record for the inhabitants within the Mannor and Lordship of Holmesfield, Anno Dom: 1588," in the possession of Charles Thorold, Esq., of Welham, near Retford, in Nottinghamshire. Holmesfield is a chapelry in the parish of Dronfield (from which place it is two miles distant), in Derbyshire. It belonged to the Deincourts till the reign of Henry VI., when it passed to the Lovells, and from them to Sir John Savage, from whose descendants it was purchased by an ancestor of the Duke of Rutland.