Collections for a History of Staffordshire, Volume 18

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Houghton and Hammond, 1897
 

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Page 4 - ... usual feasts of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and St. Michael the Archangel...
Page 4 - Fourneys and of 1 1 messuages, 100 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, 100 acres of pasture, 10 acres of wood, and 13*. ifd. of rent in Ulverston and Little Urswyk. John and Katherine remitted all right to Christopher and his heirs, for which Christopher gave them 6o//.
Page 68 - Laurence was seised in fee of 3 messuages, 3 gardens, 3 orchards, 60 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, 60 acres of pasture, 20 acres of wood...
Page 64 - ... exhibited a bill of complaint against the said Grace and Robert, alleging that Hugh Hy-ndeleye, brother of the said Gilbert, was seised in his demesne as of fee, of one capital messuage called Hindeley Hall, in Aspul, in the parish of Wygan [Wigan], and also of 20 messuages, 500 acres of land, 40 acres of meadow, 60 acres of pasture, 10 acres of wood, 20 acres of turbary, and 40s. rent, with appurtenances in Aspul], Hyndeley [Hindley], Pemberton, Ince, and Parre, in the county of Lancaster, and...
Page 6 - Lincoln] ; 20 messuages, 10 cottages, 20 tofts, a water-mill, 20 gardens, 20 orchards, 500 acres of land, 200 acres of meadow, 500 acres of pasture, 100 acres of wood, 40 acres of furze and heath, 500 acres of marsh and 40?.
Page 26 - August, 1395]. Between John, son of Roger de Croft, of Yeland Redman, plaintiff, and Nicholas, son of John de Croft, of Dalton, knight, and Ellen, his wife, deforciants of a messuage, 85 acres of land, 10 acres of meadow, 20 acres of pasture, 10 acres of wood, and 30 acres of turbary in Yeland Redman. Nicholas and Ellen remitted all right to John and his heirs, for which John gave them 100 marks.
Page 34 - Miles gave them 40/*'.1 67. At Lancaster, before John Kyngesmil and Humphrey Coningsby, justices, on Monday the Vigil of St. Bartholomew the Apostle, 23 Henry VII. [23rd August, 1507]. Miles Gerard, esquire, demands against Ralph Worsley and Ellen, his wife, 20 messuages, 300 acres of land, 100 acres of meadow, 200 acres of pasture, 20 acres of wood, and 100 acres of turbary in Wygan, Liverpole, and Derby [West Derby]. Ralph and Ellen vouch to warrant William Sourbytts, &c. Miles shall recover his...
Page 36 - Eccleston, appertaining thereto and usually occupied therewith ; 4 other messuages, 4 cottages, 8 gardens, 8 orchards, 40 acres of land, 10 acres of meadow, 20 acres of pasture, and...
Page 57 - Curtys was likewise seised of 2 messuages, 30 acres of land, 6 acres of meadow, 20 acres of pasture, and 5 acres of wood in Walthamstowe Tonie and Highambensted, co.
Page 13 - Benet for having forcibly entered into a messuage, 100 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, 20 acres of pasture and 6 acres of wood of the said Richard, John, Robert, Thomas and John in Byslegh, Clyssale and Througham, co.

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