[Manorial documents relating to] Sutton-upon-Darwent [Sutton upon Derwent] etc. - Sir Thomas Fairfax
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Type of record: Archive
Title: [Manorial documents relating to] Sutton-upon-Darwent [Sutton upon Derwent] etc. - Sir Thomas Fairfax
Classmark: BC Yorkshire Deeds/25
Date(s): 1650-1658
Size and medium: 1 volume; 4 manuscript documents; 1 typescript document
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/766640
Description
Comprises:
1) A rental for the Manor of Sutton upon Derwent made for Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, date c.1650.
2) Copy of letters patent containing a list of grants of lands and property to various parties including Thomas Fairfax, date c.1650.
3) Scrap of paper mentioning George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, date c.1650.
4) An indenture of a lease between Sir Thomas Fairfax of Denton of the first part, George Monck of Potheridge, Devon of the second part, Andrew Riccard of London of the third part and William Livesay and John Knight of the fourth part of the manor of Sutton upon Darwent [Sutton upon Derwent], dated 1658. 22 pages. Also a typed document containing a summary of the contents of the indenture.
Biography or history
Robert Clayton (1629-1707) was born in Northamptonshire and moved to London. John Morris (c.1627-1682) was the adoptive son of an Abingdon baker and was elected to a Bennett's scholarship at Abingdon School in 1641. Clayton and Morris were apprenticed to Robert Abbott of Cornhill, London, in the 1640s. Clayton was Abbott's nephew.
When Abbott died in 1658 Clayton and Morris took over the business. They developed it as a merchant bank and also practiced conveyancing, land valuation and estate management. The company was known variously as Robert Clayton and Partner, John Morris and Partner, and Morris and Clayton and Company. Clayton became Lord Mayor of London from 1679-80. He was knighted in 1671. He is buried at St. Mary's, Bletchingley, Surrey. Morris was MP for Bletchingley 1679-82. Sir Robert Clayton was connected to the transatlantic slave trade, the plantations business, and colonialism. From 1658 he owned land in Bermuda and controlled a plantation there until at least the 1690s. Clayton was a principal member of the Royal African Company, a slave trading corporation, from 1672 to 1681. Unlike some of his contemporaries, Clayton is not known to have critiqued the slave trade.
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