| Title | Indenture of Assignment from Humfrey Cardinall of Humby, Lincolnshire, esquire and Mary his wife to Frauncis Parker of Norton Lees, Derbyshire, gentleman; whereby, after reciting that by a lease dated 1 Nov 1615 from the said Frauncis Parker to his elder brother John Parker all those two 'water corcce Milnes' [water mills] under one roof called the New Milnes in Norton, and 4 acres of meadow and pasture thereto belonging; and all that other water wheele called 'a cutlers wheele'; and all 'waters, watercourses, streames, dammes, wayes, pathes, sutes and soake tolles, customes and services, freedomes, priviledges and libertyes' to the same milnes belonging ; and which the same Frauncis had then lately bought of the said John Parker, were demised for a term of twenty one years at a rent of £20', and that the said John Parker made his will and appointed his wife Mary executor and died [no details given] ; and that the said Mary Parker became lawfully possessed of the said term and did 'take to husband' the said Humfrey ; the said Humfrey Cardinall and Mary his wife assigned unto the said Frauncis Parker, all the premises comprised in the lease for the unexpired residue of the said term. |