| Description | Date: 20 Sep in the 4th year of Charles I.
Reciting that the said Francis Hirst had given security to Elizabeth, wife of Gilbert Otes and daughter of the said Henry Hirst, for payment of £40; and to the said Henry Hirst for payment of another £40, and had also undertaken to pay and discharge unto Henry Maunorr a debt of £32 8s Od, for which both Henry and Francis stood jointly bound; and reciting that the said Henry Hirst had levied a fine unto Thomas Cowper of Sheffield glover and William Creswicke of Sheffield cutler, of a messuage and lands known by the name of Broadfeild [Broadfield] in Ecclesall Byreley [Ecclesall Bierlow] in Sheffield, near to a bridge called Heeley Bridge and then in the occupation of the said Henry and Francis Hirst; it was covenanted and agreed that the cognizees named in the said fine should stand seised of the said messuage and lands, to the uses, intents and purposes thereinafter mentioned.
The trusts vary for different parts of the property, and even for different rooms and parts of rooms in the house, the particulars being fully set out, and the description contains the following names of persons and places; namely bay of the Southend, Over Parlor, Neither Parlor, Kitchen, Barne, Raph Roddis, Smithy Standinge, Calfe Leyes, Lathefeild, Milnfeild, Katherine wife of Henry Hirst, Croft, South Croft.
Witnesses : James [ - ]forth, John Rollinson the elder, John Bates.
Vellum : one skin, seal missing. |