KENYON OF PEEL

DDKE/1. Clerkship of the Peace

DDKE/2. Court of Quarter Sessions

DDKE/3. Shrievalty and assizes

DDKE/4. Lieutenancy and militia

DDKE/5. Duchy of Lancaster, including Blackburn hundred markets and fairs, and the Thieveley lead mines

DDKE/6. Parliament

DDKE/7. Recusancy

DDKE/8. Lancashire Jacobite Plot

DDKE/9. Correspondence

DDKE/10. Law-suits

DDKE/11. Accounts, bills and receipts

DDKE/12. Bonds and letters of attorney

DDKE/13. Wills and inventories

DDKE/14. Surveys, rentals and plans

DDKE/15. Accrington

DDKE/16. Ainsworth

DDKE/17. Ashton-under-Lyne, Haughton and Openshaw

DDKE/18. Aspull

DDKE/19. Astley

DDKE/20. Bedford tithes

DDKE/21. Billington

DDKE/22. Bolton-le-Moors

DDKE/23. Burnley church and school

DDKE/24. Bury

DDKE/25. Castleton

DDKE/26. Chorlton

DDKE/27. Clitheroe

DDKE/28. Cuerden, Walton, Clayton and Farington

DDKE/29. Davyhulme and Barton

DDKE/30. Deane parish

DDKE/31. Denton, Heaton, Kenyon and Sharples

DDKE/32. Dinckley

DDKE/33. Droylsden

DDKE/34. Eccles

DDKE/35. Entwistle

DDKE/36. Furness

DDKE/37. Gorton

DDKE/38. Gorton, Droylsden, Openshaw, Salop, Cheshire and London

DDKE/39. Haigh

DDKE/40. Halliwell

DDKE/41. Heaton

DDKE/42. Hulton, Little

DDKE/43. Little Hulton and Tyldesley

DDKE/44. Little Hulton and Worsley

DDKE/45. Hulton, Tyldesley, Worsley and Astley

DDKE/46. Hundersfield, Rochdale and Butterworth

DDKE/47. Ince-in-Makerfield, Aspull, and Hindley

DDKE/48. Irlam

DDKE/49. Great and Little Lever and Middleton

DDKE/50. Manchester

DDKE/51. Oldham, Crompton, Royton and Chadderton

DDKE/52. Pemberton

DDKE/53. Pendleton

DDKE/54. Preston (elections)

DDKE/55. Prestwich

DDKE/56. Royton

DDKE/57. Salford

DDKE/58. Standish-with-Langtree

DDKE/59. Trafford

DDKE/60. Turton

DDKE/61. Tyldesley-with-Shakerley

DDKE/62. Walkden Moor

DDKE/63. Walton-le-Dale

DDKE/64. Warrington

DDKE/65. Whalley

DDKE/66. Wigan - election papers now with Lord Kenyon, 1981.

DDKE/67. Worsley

DDKE/68. Various townships (single documents only)

DDKE/69. Rigby estates in Lancashire and Wales

DDKE/70. Cheshire

DDKE/71. Cumberland

DDKE/72. Derbyshire

DDKE/73. Hertfordshire

DDKE/74. Shropshire

DDKE/75. Cheshire and Flint

DDKE/76. Staffordshire

DDKE/77. Wales

DDKE/78. Westmorland

DDKE/79. Yorkshire

DDKE/80. Isle of Man

DDKE/81. Religion, miscellaneous

DDKE/82. General miscellaneous

<span class="wrapper"><p>Printed sources:- Historical Manuscripts Commission 14th Report, Appendix, Part IV.</p> <p>"Kenyon v. Rigby: The struggle for the Clerkship of the Peace in Lancashire in the seventeenth century", by J.J. Bagley, M.A., Transactions of Historic Society of Lancashire &amp; Cheshire, volume 106.</p> <p>The Thieveley Lead Mines 1629-1635, edited by R. Sharpe France, M.A., Lancashire &amp; Cheshire Record Society, volume 102.</p></span>

Deposited by the Right Honourable the Lord Kenyon, 5th Baron of Gredington, near Whitchurch, Shropshire, in August 1951.

Lord Kenyon's ancestors - the Rigbys and Kenyons of Peel Hall in Little Hulton - were in effect hereditary Clerks of the Peace for Lancashire, between 1589 and 1780.

From 1589 to 1663 the Lancashire clerkship of the peace was in the hands of the Rigbys, passing in the latter year to Roger Kenyon of Parkhead in Whalley, who had married Alice, the daughter of George Rigby of Peel in Little Hulton. That property, later known as Kenyon Peel Hall, descended to the present Lord Kenyon. Roger Kenyon was governor of the Isle of Man, M.P. for Clitheroe, and receiver-general of the Duchy of Lancaster. Lloyd Kenyon, Lord Chief Justice, was created Baron Kenyon of Gredington in 1788.

It should be stated that the present collection is additional to that published by the Historical Manuscripts Commission in its 14th Report, Appendix IV.