| Description | ... to the intent that the manours Capital messuages landes … may entirely remaine contynue and be established in the blood and issue male of John Darley or his daughter Mary, wife of Barnard Ellis, and not be devided amonge females wch in licklyhood may alienate the same into much strange bloode, and by such particion and alienacion breed strife, ruyne, and confusion of the whole," and out of his love to the wife and daughter of Francis Darley his son lately deceased, John Darley granted to Richard Darley, Barnard Ellis and Henry Leadbeater, his manor and capital messuage in Kilnhurst, and his real estate in Rawmarshe [Rawmarsh], Overhaughe, Swinton and Hooton Robert [Hooton Roberts], and houses, lands and tenements in the city of York with appurtenances to the following uses - for the use of himself and his wife Alice during their lives; on their death, the real estate in York to the use of Mary his daughter, with remainder of the whole estates to John Ellis, son of the above Mary and his eldest male heirs with remainder to his brothers Robert Ellis, Christopher Ellis, and Edmond Ellis and their male heirs in succession; a sum of 600 marks to be raised out of the profits of the estates and divided equally between Alice, Anne and Edeth daughters of his son John Darley, and annuities of £5 to be paid to them and one of £10 to their mother Lucye Darley.
Date: 21 Mar in the 14th year of James I, 1616 |