| Title | Indenture of Settlement between Benjamin Rawson of Upperthorpe, Sheffield yeoman, second son of Edward Rawson deceased then late of Upperthorpe aforesaid, of the 1st part, John Rawson of Upperthorpe aforesaid yeoman, eldest brother to the said Benjamin, of the 2nd part and Thomas Rawson of Whiston Yorkshire clerk and Malin Sorsbye of Sheffield, gent of the 3rd part: whereby Benjamin Rawson (with the object of carrying out some family arrangement made by his brother for the benefit of Elizabeth Hobson and Martha Rawson his mother, and with the intent to create a family settlement) granted unto Thomas Rawson and Malin Sorsbye the reversion and remainder (when it should happen, after the decease of the said Elizabeth Hobson and Martha Rawson) of a messuage in Dodworth Yorkshire, on the north side of the street there, together with the croft, garden, orchard and foldstead thereunto belonging; and two closes called Foggy Close and Greatwoodside; and one close called Great Broad Inge, with all tithes, to the use of Benjamin Rawson for life, and after his death ; to the use of the heirs of his body ; and in default of issue ; to his heirs and assigns for ever ; and to no other use. There is a covenant by Benjamin Rawson with John Rawson as to reimbursement for repairs, and the settlement is stated to be irrevocable. |
| Description | Date: 3 May in the 22nd year of Charles II, 1670.
Witnesses: Tho Birkbeck, J Darwent, Will Tayler.
Notes : this settlement was effected by lease and release, the lease is missing, but it is referred to in the operative part of the release. There is a memorandum endorsed, signed by all four parties to the release, that if the said Benjamin Rawson should marry " at any time thereafter," he might give his wife a life estate in the settled property |