| Title | Indentures ol Lease and Release being a conveyance by mortgagor and mortgagee of a messuage called Holthouse with several closes adjoining, in the parish of Sheffield, to John Bright of Chesterfield gentleman. There is a recital of indentures of lease and release of the 7 and 8 Nov 1705, also of the death and will of the mortgagee William Matthew and the appointment of Fines Matthew of Sheffield his widow, executrix thereof. The following further names of persons and places occur in one or both of the deeds, namely; William Taylor (the son), John Battie, Elizabeth Taylor wife of William Taylor (the father), Joseph Banks, Kitchin Croft, Holt Meadow, Bank Field, Rye Croft, Great Hollins, Little Hollins, Whitefield, Upper Flatt, Nether Flatt, Spring, Farr Milnfield, Narr Milnfield and Wainhouse Croft. |
| Description | Date: 30 Apr and 1 May in the 13th year of Anne, 1714
Witnesses : Tho Heaton, James Bright, Wm Battie.
Notes : there is a grave stone to the memory of Fines Matthew, at the south end of the disused Quaker's Burial Ground at Riggs Road, Stannington from which it would appear that she was a member of the Quaker family of Shaw of The Hills and Brookside, Stannington. See "Notes and Queries" 11th series, volume 5 (Jan-Jun 1912), pages 49, 139 and 395 which is held at the Sheffield Reference and Information Library, Central Library (in the Stack Journals under "N"). |