II. ORDINATION OF THE SOUTH CHAPEL IN BIRKIN CHURCH. [From the Dodsworth MSS., XCII., 88.] ORDINATIO CANTARIE BEATE MARIE DE BYRKYNE. In quodam cartulario in capella S'ce Will'm sup' pontem use in civitate Ebor vltimo Maij 1647. Cujus titulus talis est Liber siue Registrum memorandor' ciuitat' tangent' in hoc volumine irrotulator t'p'e Joh'is de Gisburne maioris d'ce civitatis incepte & facte ao r.r. Edwardi tertij post conquestu' Anglie quadragessimo quinto. Sciant p' et fut' quod ego Joh'es Everingham dedi, concessi, et hac p' carta mei confirm' Deo et beate Marie et domino Ade Broun capell' perpetuo et eius successoribus in ecclesia de Birkyn, eborum diocesis divina celebrant' pro anima domini Roberti de Everingham quondam Rectoris ecclesie de Birkyn, et pro anima Ade de Everingham de Byrkyn, Joh'is de Everingham et Beatricis uxoris ejus et Lucie uxoris Ade Everingham de Birkyn, Thome de Everingham, rectoris eccl'ie de Birkin et animabus antecessorum et heredum meorum et omnium fidelium defunctorum unum messuagium et unam bovatam terre continentem novem acras terre, et unam prati parcellam bovate predicte cum pertinen' in Byrkyn. Que quidem messuagium, terram et pratum, predictus Adam Broun quondam tenuit ad terminum vite sue, et viginti septem acras terre in Palystokking, et triginta quinque acras terre in Thomstokking ex parte boriali, sicut jacent pro certas bundas et metas, quatuor acras prati in le Stokking in Smethale inperpetuum. Habend' et tenendum omnia predicta tenementa, cum pertinen', cum libero introitu et exitu, sine contradictione alicuius Deo et beate Marie, et dom' Ade capell' perpetuo, et successoribus suis, in predicta eccl'ia de Birkyn divina in ecclesia de Byrkyn celebrantis de me et heredibus meis inperpetuum, in puram et perpetuam elemosinam etc. Hiis testibus, D'no Rob'to de Stapiltun, D'no Rob'to de Raygate, D'no Wil'lmo de Clarel, militibus, Thoma Dayvill, Joh'e de Lascy, etc. Datum apud Byrkyn die d'nica prox' ante festum beate Thome Apostoli, a° r. r. Edwardi tertii secundo. [2 E. 3.] Abstract of the Leeds Manor Rolls, 1650-1666; Probably made at the time for the Steward's use, A copy of a MS. presented to the Society by Ro: Myers Jo: Horne Edmond Jennings Rob: Jackson Marm: Hick Eliz: Walker widdow Mannor of Leedes At a Court held for the Mannor of Leedes the Twelfth day of August 1650 John Wadsworth surrend's all his Interest & Terme of yeares unexpired of and in one House in wch he then lived scituate & being att ye bridgend To Rob: Miers undr ye yearly Rent of 4s. to be paid to ye ov'seers of the Highwaies Att a Court held the 22 September 1650 Jame Rid surrend's one peice of ground on Woodhouse Moore conteyning in length 32 yardes & in breadth 12 ffor a wooll hedge to John Horne & his heires ffor evr Att a Court held ye 9th Octob❜ 1650 Wilm Jennings aft his Death surrendrs ye Reu'con of the upp' parte of an Howse & Kitching in ye occupačon of Alice Glove To Edmond Jennings his sonne & his heires Ann Bynnes surrend's one Cottage in the occupacon of Roger Dixon scituate in Leedes to Robert Jackson & his Heires Att a Court held ye iiij Novembr 1650 John Eamondson surrend's a messuage & ye app'teñnces thereto belonging on the Milln Hill To Marmaduke Hick gent' & his heires ffor evr John Walker and Ann his wiffe surrend' ye ffifth pte of one Close of Pasture lying nere Little woodhouse called ye Hall crofte in the occupacon of Alexandr Smith To Elizabeth Walker widdow & hir heires ffor evr George Brown & Robert Ingram Edward Kent Henry Gibbons Stephen Walker & Matthew ffoster Att a Court held ye 13 January 1650 Edward Hoopes surrend's Three Cottages on the Millnhill in his owne & Henry ffearnley's occupacon to Geo: Browne & Rob Ingram & their heires ffor evr Att a Court held ye 24 ffebruary 1650 Robte Harryson surrend's all that his house or Tenem1 called ye Newhouse scituate in Leedes Woodhouse wth the app'teñnces To Edward Kent & his heires ffor evr Att a Court held ye 17 March 1650 Mary Lambert widdow surrend's one pcell of land of ye Lords waste nere the Pasture bridge1 conteyning in length 14 yardes and 5 yardes in breadth in Leedes to Henry Gibbons & his heires ffor evr Arthur Dovers was ffound to die seized of one Close of land being Coppyhold called Gallowhill Close conteyning Infranchised two acres and an halfe & that he gave the same to Stephen Walker & Matthew Fost' according to his last Will & Testamt & their heires. Fran: Thorpe Richard Thorpe Mr Gilbert Tho. Dundrdale Grace Metcalfe Att a Court held ye 9 June 1651 Richard Thorpe surrend's one Cottage on the Millnhill in the occupacon of ffrancis Thorpe To him the said Francis Thorpe his heires ffor evr ffrancis Thorpe surrend's one cottage on the Milln hill in the possession of Hellen Th. . . . widdow & now in the occupacon of him the said ffrancis To Richard Thorpe and his Wittm Chambrs and Edith his wife Edmond Cowp' and Hellen his wife John Cowpr and Margaret his wife and Isabell Cowp spinster surrendrs all their fow ptes of all the Closes lying in the North pte of Pomffrett Layne in Knowstropp ffeildes called Sype landes, Stony landes, Pitt close, Wilhew close & Whynney pitte & one Cottage scituate att the Crosse Greene To Gilbte Cowp' of Knowstropp & his heires ffor evr Att a Court held ye 11th day of August 1651 Wm Crofte and Issabell his wife surrend one Cottage scituate on the Woodhouse Ridge & a Barne & a pcell of land there conteyning in length 30 yardes & in breadth tenn yardes To Thomas Dund'dale & his heires ffor evr Att a Court held ye 24° Novembr 1651 Wilm Geim of Worsbrough surrend's Two Cottages on the Milln hill now in the occupačon of Samuell Burtwisle To Grace Metcalfe widdow & her heires for evr (1) See Thoresby's Ducatus Leodiensis, p. 102. |