'These documents are a wonderful window into early English history' - rare find in library collection from Derbyshire country house

'These documents are a wonderful window into early English history' - rare find in library collection from Derbyshire country house

Rare documents including a letter bearing Bess of Hardwick’s signature and a legal deed signed by a key conspirator in a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth 1, which were kept by a historian in his Derbyshire country house, are going up for auction.