| Description | ... a croft called Smithy Croft adjoining; and a close called Over Dawefeild in Fulwood, then in the occupation of the said Lawrence, to secure the repayment in lead, of a sum of £12 then advanced by the said John Bright ; such advance being upon condition "that if the said Lawrence Hall his heirs or assigns or any of them doe well and truly paie and deliver or cause to be well and truly paid and delivered unto the said John Bright his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns two foothers of good pure and merchantable Peake leade, in and upon the fower and twentith [24th] daie of June next ensueing the daie of the date heareof att or wthin the now smilting [smelting] house or leadmilne [lead mill] of the said John Bright (called the Boalehill Smilting House)" [Bolehill] situate in Sheffield "by the usual and accustomed waightes of the same smilting house wthout fraude or further delay," then the mortgage was to be void and ended etc. The covenant for title includes Helen, the then wife of Lawrence Hall the elder, who was apparently then living.
Date: 22 Mar in the 18th year of James I, 1620.
Witnesses : Robert Bright, John Hadfeilde, Lawrence Hall [probably the elder].
Vellum : one skin, seal missing.
Notes : a fother or foother generally means a cart load of anything, but a foother of lead would mean some specific weight well understood at the Boalehill Smilting House. At the present day a fother of lead usually is 19 ½ cwt., see "Oxford Dictionary."
Smeltings Farm overlooks Bolehill, and backs to the Ringinglow Road, at the top of Hangram Lane. |