| Description | Date: 6 Aug in the 15th year of James I, 1617.
By Samuel Casson esquire eschaetor of Yorkshire, and by the oath of George Lovell, Henry Miller, John Grainger, Christopher Pawson, Richard Hall, Richard Lambert, Edmund Taylor, William Emerson, William Popleton, John Bussie, Richard Johnson, Leonard Sudgden and Edward Wightway, who testified that John Darley on the day before his death was seised of the following properties: the manor and capital messuage of Kilnehirste, consisting of 3 other messuages, 2 cottages, 2 crofts, 1 water-mill, 1 dovecot, 3 gardens, 3 orchards, 200 acres of land, 100 acres of meadow, 150 acres of pasture, 30 acres of wood, 90 acres of moor and heath, and common of pasture for all animals, with appurtenances in Kilnehirste, Rawmarshe, [Rawmarsh], Overhaught, Swinton, and Hooton Robert [Hooton Roberts] (Yorkshire); 2 messuages, 1 garden in Connistreete [Conet Street] in the city of York then in the tenure of Margaret Stephenson and Margaret Latham widow, 1 close of pasture at Beanehilles in the city of York.
The return recites the indenture JC/900/172 and will JC/900/173, and gives the date of John Darley's death 23 Mar 1617. The manor of Kilnhurst was held from George Chaworth esquire, as of his manor of Raumarshe, in free socage at a rent of 6s yearly, and the property in York in free burgage of the King. Alice, Anne, and Edith Darley, daughters of Francis Darley deceased, were co-heiresses of John Darley, being aged four, three, and one and a half years and more at the time of his death, and Alice Darley his wife was living at Kilnhurst. |