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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]<center>[b]SIR GEORGE PECKHAM - [/i]Asset Stripper[/i][/b]</center> Sir George Peckham, of Denham, Bucks. was leasing Stanley Grange in 1610. He paid £8000 for Shipley and the Valuation of that era describes the property as having 2000 acres and 29 tenants. The Park and the Demesne (I.E. the Hall, its gardens and paddocks) being worth £550. Woodland was worth £4000 and coal deposits were valued at £3000. The main motives behind Sir George's purchase seem to have been profit. Less than 9 years later, he tried to sell the estate for £11000 to Sir John Mitchell of Sussex, a Master of Chancery and husband of Mary Strelley, sister of the late Sir Philip Strelley. Before the sale was finalised, Sir John learnt that Sir George had cut and sold some of the wood on the estate. Once AGAIN, the Courts were called into action and the matter was put to arbitration by Sir John in 1619. The Chancery proceedings for May 1620, record that the decision was for the price to be reduced by £2000, but the sale must have been called off and so ended what might have been a last attempt by the old Strelley Family to re-acquire Shipley. The records of a FURTHER Court case, in 1624, show that Peckham then sold even more of the wood. One of the questions put to the witnesses was; "Did they (Sir George and his wife Bridget) on February the 20th, 1623/4 sell to Vallemon Nicholson all manner of oaks and ashes on the ground known as Shipley Park and all other kinds of woods growing..... and were they felled with crab apples and hollies. Also oaks and ashes on Coneygrey Hill and Willow Meadow?". Interestingly, in 1631, when Sir George was called to give evidence in ANOTHER court case, over the boundary between Shipley, Cotmanhay and Ilkeston Commons, he admitted to having cut and sold the wood. On 26th of May, 1628, Sir George Peckham and Dame Bridget, his wife, succeeded in selling Shipley to Sir Edward Leche, the price now having fallen to £6100! We do not know what profit Peckham had made from his sales of timber. But from Shipley he moved to Nottm., dying on 23/07/1635. Azzabuv.[/quote]
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Azzabuv

This message was updated on 9/10/2005 7:31:25 PM by Azzabuv

Shipley History
replied on: 1/9/2005 12:29:30 PM

SIR GEORGE PECKHAM - Asset Stripper
Sir George Peckham, of Denham, Bucks. was leasing Stanley Grange in 1610. He paid £8000 for Shipley and the Valuation of that era describes the property as having 2000 acres and 29 tenants.
The Park and the Demesne (I.E. the Hall, its gardens and paddocks) being worth £550. Woodland was worth £4000 and coal deposits were valued at £3000.

The main motives behind Sir George's purchase seem to have been profit. Less than 9 years later, he tried to sell the estate for £11000 to Sir John Mitchell of Sussex, a Master of Chancery and husband of Mary Strelley, sister of the late Sir Philip Strelley.
Before the sale was finalised, Sir John learnt that Sir George had cut and sold some of the wood on the estate.
Once AGAIN, the Courts were called into action and the matter was put to arbitration by Sir John in 1619.
The Chancery proceedings for May 1620, record that the decision was for the price to be reduced by £2000, but the sale must have been called off and so ended what might have been a last attempt by the old Strelley Family to re-acquire Shipley.

The records of a FURTHER Court case, in 1624, show that Peckham then sold even more of the wood.
One of the questions put to the witnesses was; "Did they (Sir George and his wife Bridget) on February the 20th, 1623/4 sell to Vallemon Nicholson all manner of oaks and ashes on the ground known as Shipley Park and all other kinds of woods growing..... and were they felled with crab apples and hollies. Also oaks and ashes on Coneygrey Hill and Willow Meadow?".
Interestingly, in 1631, when Sir George was called to give evidence in ANOTHER court case, over the boundary between Shipley, Cotmanhay and Ilkeston Commons, he admitted to having cut and sold the wood.

On 26th of May, 1628, Sir George Peckham and Dame Bridget, his wife, succeeded in selling Shipley to Sir Edward Leche, the price now having fallen to £6100!
We do not know what profit Peckham had made from his sales of timber. But from Shipley he moved to Nottm., dying on 23/07/1635.
Azzabuv.

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