PEOPLE: The Spendloves

I feel privileged to have made the acquaintance of local researchers from the Spendlove family of Shottle and district, with whom I've exchanged data. Much of my Spendlove data comes from them. (See Spendlove website.)

There are quite a few vital connections between the Spendloves of Shottle, the Stathams and even the Strutts. These will be posted to the site in due course. For the time being, here is the most important piece of data concerning Geroge Spendlove, grandson of Anthony Spendlove who was under the guardianship of Richard Gratian.

George owned a piece of land in "Belper Field" (Hutfall) which he willed to his neice. Notice that the land is then in the possession of Humphrey LANE, who is identified elsewhere on this site as the son of Henry Lane. He was a Victualler and Innkeeper of Belper. Humphrey Lane was also given a piece of land by the Bridges family to support the "Sick Club" that was held in his house.

WILL OF GEORGE SPENDLOVE OF SHOTTLE, from the Spendlove Website: WILLS LIST
DATED 7th JANUARY 1781. PROBATE GRANTED DERBY 4th MAY 1781

Copied from original Will located in Lichfield Joint Records Office
In the name of God Amen. I George Spendlove the elder of Shottle in the Parish of Duffield in the County of Derby Yeoman being of sound and Disposeing mind and Understanding (Praised be God) Do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner following.
First I give and Devise all that my Freehold piece of land and Appurtenances lying and being in Belper Field in the County aforesaid in the possession of Humphrey Lane to my loving Niece Mary Key of Shottle aforesaid and to her Hiers and Assigns for ever. She paying thereout to my Sister Lucy Key of Shottle aforesaid the sum of Fifty Pounds and to my Brother Job Spendlove of Shottle aforesaid the sum of Ten Pounds. And I also give to my aforesaid Niece a Bed standing in the Parlor with all the furniture thereto belonging and half a dozen Silver tea spoons and all my China.
Also I give and Bequeath the Possession and Tenant right of my Farm in Shottle aforesaid where I now dwell and likewise the Tenant right of the Farm I now hold of Francis Hurt Esquire in Alderwaslee in the County aforesaid with all my Household Goods and furniture of Household standing therein and likewise all my quick and dead Stock and Husbandry utensils. Also all my ready Money Securities for Money Debts oweing to me of what nature or kind soever unto my loveing Nephew George Spendlove son of my Brother Thomas Spendlove and his Heirs and Assigns for ever. He paying thereout to my Brother Thomas Spendlove the sum of Fifty Pounds And to my Sister Mary Hay Wife of George Hay of Critch in the County aforesaid the like sum of Fifty Pounds within twelve months next after my Decease and all my Just Debts and funeral Expenses.
Also I give and Bequeath all my Wearing Apperrel to my Brother Job and Thomas Spendlove to be equally divided betwixt them.
Also I give and Bequeath to my Nephew Anthony Street of Wheatcroft in the parish of Critch one Shilling.
Also I give and Bequeath to my servant Man Thomas Sellers one Guinea. And I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my Brother Job Spendlove and my Brother Thomas Spendlove Trustees of this my Will and earnestly request they will take upon them the execution of the trusts aforesaid.
Lastly I do constitute and appoint my Nephew George Spendlove Executor and my Trustees Job and Thomas Spendlove Executors of this my last Will and Testament and do hereby revoke and make void all other Wills by me at any time heretofore made.
In Witness whereof I have to this my Will sett my hand and Seal the Seventh Day of Jannuary and in the Twenty first year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King George the Third and in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred Eighty One.

Signed Sealed published and declared by the Testator George Spendlove as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who subsribed our names as Witnesses thereto in the said Testators presence and by his direction.

George Spendlove (Seal )
Wm.Robinson
Joseph Vickers
Joshua Dannah

Derby 4th May 1781
Let a Probate of this Will be granted to George Spendlove and Thomas Spendlove two of the Executors a Power being reserved for Job Spendlove the other.They the said George Spendlove and Thomas Spendlove being sworn before me.

Thos White Sur

Undr 100£
Jno. Fletcher
Derby: 4 May 1781
T. Geo:Spendlove
De Duffield 2:E:R:C.Infr. 100£
Mr.George Spendlove's
Will Dated 7th Jan 1781

This land was mentioned in the Strutt archives, because it ended up in the hands of the Strutts, as did all Hutfall Field including "shortlands", our piece of land. Here is the deed referring to Geroge Spendlove's property in Hutfall:

GEORGE SPENDLOVE AND HUTFALL FIELD

Reference: D3772/T13/16/1-25 Creation dates: 1774-1846

Land in the Hutfall Field, Belper (Spendlove - Bowmer - Creswell - Radford - property and Income Tax Commissioners - Strutt)

Jesse Radford was a collector of taxes who died without having accounted for certain sums of money collected. His estate was seized by the Property and Income Tax Commissioners who sold the land in Hutfall Field to Strutt. This land was already mortgaged to Strutt.

Including:

• D3772/T13/16/1-5 Deeds relating to the acquisition of land in the Hutfall Field by George Spendlove, 1774-1778
• D3772/T/13/16/6 Copy of the will of George Spendlove, 1781
• D3772/T13/16/14 Copy of the will of Jesse Radford, 1830, (not proved)
• D3772/T13/18-25 Correspondence and papers relating to the sale of land by the Property and Income Tax Commisioners, 1846

Spendlove Deeds EXTRACTS AS FOLLOWS (for the will, see above.)

(13). 4th oct 1770 Richard Paul Joderell Esq to Mr George Spendlove:

Deed of enfranchisement of a piece of copyhold land in Hutfall Fields - half an acre of meadowland.

(1). 21st March 1774 Deed of Enfranchisement:

of a parcel of land at Belper; and Release of a Chief of Rent of one shilling 2 pence per annum or thereabouts between Richard Paul Jodrell [Lord of the Manor] and Isaac Statham. [NB: of Shottle - the Isaac who is mentioned in the deeds relating to the Unitarian Chapel and our land, Shortlands.]

(2). 25th March 1774 "Leave For Possession"

Five shillings to Isaac Statham "of Shottle, yeoman" paid by George Spendlove, to acknowledge he hath sold three roods of land in Hutfall Fields, in the tenure or occupation of Sarah Sandom otherwise Franks.

(4). 26th March 1774 Release of a piece of land

Isaac Statham to George Spendlove for £57

(4). 3rd April 1777 Surrender document

Mr Thomas Eyre to George Spendlove. Thomas Eyre of Cavendish Bridge, ironmonger, and Choose Factor (shoes?) the son of Varmell?? Eyre. Half an acre of meadow land in Hutfall Field.

1st July 1801 Mr Bowner to Mr Croswell.

1820, Thomas Croswell to Jesse Radford

1846, to John Strutt (see below)

Jesse Radford was Collector of Taxes, who died without having accounted for certain sums of money collected. His estate was seized by the Property and Income Tax Commissioners, who sold the land in Hutfall Field to Strutt. This land was already mortgaged to Strutt.

RICHARD GRATIAN AND ANTHONY SPENDLOVE

As you can learn on other pages, the Spendloves and Gratians intermarried. Mary Gratian, the sister of Richard of Belper, married Thomas Spendlove of Shottle. He died young, leaving her a widow with one small son, Anthony whom she entrusted to her brother's guardianship.

Mary Spendlove (nee Gratian) will as follows:

THE WILL OF MARY SPENDLOVE 1671
ORIGINAL LOCATED IN LICHFIELD JOINT RECORDS OFFICE

I the name of God Amen the three and twenth day of October in the year of our Lord God 1671, I Mary Spendlove of Shottle Park in the parish of Duffield & in the County of Derby, Widow being sick in body butt good & pfect rememberance prasysed be God Therefore do make & ordaine this my last Will & Testament in manor and forme following, vizit ffirst I bequeath my soule to Almighty God my maker hopeing & assuredly trusting to ? Pardon & remission of all my sinns through the ? death & Passion of Jesus Christ my saviour & blessed redemer.
Secondly concerning my body & committ it to the earth from whence it came to be decently buried in the pish yard of Duffield at the discretion of my loveing brother Richard Gration of Belp whome I make Executor of this my last Will & Testament.
Thirdly as concerning all such worldly Goods as it has pleased Almighty God of his goodness to lend me in this transitory life, my will and pleasure in that they be ordered and dispossed of as followeth.
ITEM:
It is my will and desire that Richard Gration shall have all my goods bills lands Cattol and Chattle whatsoever and possession himself of all and singular my goods, towards the bringing up of my sonn Anthony Spendlove until he shall attain and come to his age of ? years, And if it shall please God that he shall happen to die before he shall come to the age of (fourteen?) years, it is my Will is that my Executor shall have all and singular my goods Cattols and Chattels whatsoever hereto for given and be (quashed??).
And further my desire in that if it shall please God of his mercy that my sonn Anthony shall live (4 smudged words) to his age of ? years, then my will is that he shall have and posses himself of all my goods Cattol and Chattels whatsoever given and bequeathed.
ITEM
It is my will that Lucie Chadwick my mother in law (**) shall have the _________________________ during the natural life of the said Lucie ,and if it shall happen that the said Lucie shall die before the ___________ expired that the Executors of Mary Spendlove shall pay unto the heirs or assigns of Lucie Chadwick Ten pounds.
Item
I give unto Lucie Chadwick my best gloves my best stocking and a greene Apron.
Item
I give unto my loving mother Mary Gration my best hatt, Item I give unto (Ellen Pomme)? two yards and a halfe of Clothe, Item I give Elizabeth Bridge one piece of Clothe of foure yards and a halfe, Item I give to Thomas ?? my man five shillings to be paid by my Executors, In witness where of I have sett my hand and seal this daye and year above written.

? Gration Mary Spendlove
Mary ( her mark)
(a cross))Brambly her mark
Robert Cock (a circle)

NOTE: Lucy Chadwicke, Mary's "mother in law" (therefore presumbaly the mother of Thomas Spendlove, Mary's husband?) is also mentioned in the dispute between Anthony Spendlove and RIchard Gratian below, as the wife of Robert Chadwicke. It is possible that she was born Lucy Spendlove - Lucy is a name that runs in the Spendlove family - and subsequently married Robert Chadwicke, or that she is a widow, first married to an unknown Spendlove (and bore Thomas her son) and then remarried. It appears that she and Robert are still alive after the death of Thomas and Mary, when the dispute was taken before the Courts in 1682.

However, later in life Anthony disputed with his guardian, as follows:

The Allegation by Anthony Spendlove against Richard Gratian
transcribed by John Spendlove from original located in PRO
13 ffebruary 1682

To the right Honble ffrancis Lord North and Keeper of the great Seale of England

Humbly -------------------showeth unto your Lordship ye Orato Anthony Spendlove an infant of the Age of ffourteene years and upwards and under the age of one and twenty years by Robert Chadwick and Lucy his wife ye Orato's Guardians and best friends.
That whereas Thomas Spendlove decd ye Orato's Ffather beinge in perfect mind and memory in or about the month of November in the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty nine did make his last Will and testament in and by which hee devised to ye Orato the sum of Twenty pounds to be paid unto ye Orato upon the first day of May next after his the said Thomas Spendlove decease. Twenty pounds more to be paid unto ye Orato within one yeare next after and in his and by his said will appointed that the severall sums of twenty pounds ------ as aforesaid divised to ye Orato should be praised out of his goods and Chattells and putt forth for ye Orato's best advantage and of his said will did make and appoint Mary Spendlove his wife ye Orato's Mother, and ye Orato Executors, as in and by the said will had ye Orato the same to produce more fully and at large would appeare.
And ye Orato furthur showed unto ye Lordship that the said Mary Spendlove shortly after the death of the said Thomas Spendlove in due forme of Law proved the said will and possessed her selfe of all the psonall estate of the said Thomas Spendlove ye Orato's ffather which consisted in ready moneys and money out at --------- ----------- Leases for yeares goods Cattle implements of household and husbandry and the inventory of the same in the whole did amount unto two hundred pounds and upwards.
And ye Orato further showeth unto ye Lordshipp that shee the said Mary beinge possessed as aforesaid and beinge an industrious carefull mother did much improve and increase the said and in or about the month of October which was in the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred seventy one beinge in pfect mind and memory did make her last will and Testament and in and by the said did make and appoint one Richard Gratian her Executor and devised unto him all her goods bills bonds Cattle and Chattells whatsoever in trust for ye Orato, and untill ye Orato should attayne unto the age of ffourteene years and then she appointed that ye Orato should have and possesse the same as in and by the said will had ye Orato the same to produce more fully and at large may appeare.
And ye Orato furthur showeth unto your Lordshipp that ------ the said Mary Spendlove in her life tyme nor the said Richard Gratian or either of them did at any tyme satisfye and pay unto ye Orato eyther of the said summs of twenty pounds and twenty pounds nor any parte of them and that although in October last ye Orato attayned to the age of ffourteene yearse and hoped that the then said Richard Gratian would have given ye Orato a true ------- of the ------and have paid and satisfyed what was due unto ye Orato the same of right belonginge unto ye Orato not only as survivinge Executor of the said Thomas Spendlove his late ffather, but by devise of the said Mary Spendlove his mother.
But now ------it is may it please ye good Lordshippe the said Richard Gratian haveinge possessed himselfe as aforesaid and haveinge an uncon-ionable disire and designe not onely to delay ine whats due to ye Orato and to deprive ye Orato of the same but to apply the same to his owne use ------ the said Richard Gratian most unjustly detayned and keepes all and every the ---------from Ye Orato and refuseth to give ye Orato any ammount of the same or to make unto him any satisfaction and ------------ the houseing belonginge to a ffarme part of the promised to become ruinous and in decay and doth plow and brake up the Lands belonginge to the said ffarme with to impoverish the same and defayced both the said wills and also the severall Inventoryes taken of the said Cattle and Chattells of ye said Orato's Mother after decease to be appraised though the same amounted unto and were well worthe three hundered pounds at the -------- yet hee caused the same to be appraised at under value and now ptends the Inventory of the same did not amount unto two hundred pounds.
All which doings of the said Richard Gratian are against all -------- equity and good cons------- and ---------to ye Orato's appa------- and ruine .In ---------- consideration thereof and for that ye Orato hath noe way or means to -------- himselfe by the comon Lawse of this Land but is onely and pro----ly -------able in the before ye Lordshipp in this honable Court,ye Orato witnessed who could prove the truth of the ---------beinge now eyther dead or in places remote beyond seas in his Majestys service it beinge many years since your Orato's said ffather and mother dyed Soe ye Orato -------- ------------ out the true ------------of the promised now what the same were orded amount unto, but hoped the said Richard Gratian will upon his corporall oath sett forth and discover the truth of the same.
To the end hee may soe doe and may sett forth who ther hee hath not the severall wills of ye Orato's ffather and Mother and the severall inventoryes taken after there severall deceases of there severall goods Cattle and Chattells. And may sett forth in what the same did consist with the true valluse of the same, how much was in ready moneys, how much in moneys out at Interest and in whose hands, how much in goods Cattle and other Chattells Corne and hay and how the same was appraised and by whom and whether att a true vallue or worth order and may be ordered to make and order a true and ---------of the same unto ye Orato, and to deliver up unto ye Orato both the said severall Wills and Inventoryes and all such -------- ------------ and ------------ as ------------- the promised and to make ye Orato -------- satisfaction touchinge the promysed as shall be agreeable to equity and good consionce.
And to the said Richard Gratian may true and perfect Answers make to all and every the ----------- and ye Orato would accordinge to equity and good consionce.

May it please ye Lordshippe to grant unto ye Orato his Maijties most gracious will of Subpena to be directed to the said Richard Grtian showby commandinge him att a ---------day and under a ------ payne ------- --------- committed to be personally appeare before ye Lordshippe in this high and honerable Court to answer to all and singular the --------- and further to stand to and abide such order and desire as this honable Court shall direct.And ye Orato will ever pray et.

Signed by R Johnson

Transcribers Note: It seems very strange that Anthony or indeed his guardians or legal advisers are unaware that his fathers and mothers Wills and Inventories are located at Lichfield in the church court archives as they had to be proved in the church court. It will become even stranger when the reply to this Allegation is read, as Richard Gratian alleges that he attempted to get an official from the church at Lichfield to mediate/negotiate about the Wills. (Richard Gratian's response has yet to be transcribed)    John Spendlove