| Title | Indenture of Settlement, by demise, from John Taylor of the Houlthouse [Holthouse] in the parish of Sheffield yeoman to John Fretcheuile of Hasilbarowe in the parish of Norton (Derbyshire) gentleman and Phillipp Gill of Lightwood in the said parish of Norton (Derbyshire) yeoman, of the houses, buildings, folds, orchards, gardens, etc, being parcel of a messuage called The Hoult House |
| Description | Date 12 Jul in the 8th year of James I, 1610.
"the dwellinge house, hall or firehouse, one parlour, one kitchen, one buttery, one milkhouse, three several chambers over the before menconed roumes, the orchard and gardeines belonging to the said house, the uppermost bay towardes the west of the barne or lath, one stable, one calfehouse, one little cowhouse with the little fodrom belonging to it, the chamber over the said calfehouse, cowhouse and fodrom and the moitye or one half of the fould, viz., that halfe which lyeth next unto the dwellinge house, with all waies, passages and easements necessary and belonginge to any of the said roumes"; and also certain closes called Ley Croft, Little Wood, Narr Hollins, Wheatcroft, Little Okes, Kitchin Croft, Holt Well Meadow (except a "Tannyeard" standing in the side of the same), Rushymedowe [Rushey Meadow], Holme; all which lay near Hoult House aforesaid; for a term of fourscore years, at a pepper corn rent; to the use of Sara wife of the said John Taylor, if she should so long live, and as a jointure for her, if she survived her husband; she paying yearly to the king the rent of 3s due for the premises. Proviso that nothing therein contained was to "barr or hinder" the said John Taylor enjoying the premises during his life; and that if Sara claimed dower in her husband's lands, this deed was to be void and of no effect.
Witnesses: Edward Gill, Robert Browne, Robert Cartwright.
Vellum : one skin, seals missing.
Notes: this is the counterpart signed by the trustees. |