| Description | Date: 12 Jul in the 1st year of James I, 1603.
Whereby, after reciting that Robert Burrowes then late of Ellcliffe aforesaid deceased, did in his lifetime convey unto feoffees, a messauge and an oxgang of land, with the appurtenances, called Ellcliffe ; to the use of the said Johan and Alice his daughters; and that Johan had married the said Hugh Smith, and Alice had married the said Thomas Dent; and reciting the agreement for the partition of the said messuage and land, by the erection of a wall for dividing the same; the said Thomas Dent and Alice his wife granted to Hugh and Johan and the heirs of Johan, all the houses and buildings standing and being on the west side of the said wall; viz., the "ould or auncient dwellingehouse, one barn or lath", containing by estimation three bayes, one smithy, and one stable; the half of a close in which the dwellinghouse stood; one close called Broomefeild ; one other close called Threepeny Medowe; the half of a Little Spring called Littlewood, viz., the half lying towards the east; and a close called Porter Croft, with a cottage at the north end, lying near to a place called Clyff: and the said Hugh Smith and Johan his wife granted to the said Thomas Dent and Alice and the heirs of Alice, all the said houses and buildings standing and being on the east side of the said wall, viz., a messuage then in the occupation of Thomas Sikes; a barne or lath containing one baye; one smithy and a "kilne or kilne-house"; one yard or croft in which the said house and barn stood; the other half of the close in which the house, granted to Hugh and Johan and the smithy and kilne stood; a close called Wheatfield; another called Busky Medowe; the other half of the Spring called Littlewood; and a close called Little Medowe, lying at a place called Crookesmoresyde [Crookesmoor]
Witnesses: Ja Cresswicke, Thomas M[-], Tho Bate, Wm Lee.
Vellum: one skin, one seal missing, the other bears a stag. |