| Title | Indenture of Bargain and Sale from William Fitzherbert of Norbury, Derbyshire, esquire, Bazill Fitzherbert son and heir apparent of the said William, William Leech of Shipley, Derbyshire, esquire son and heir of Sir Edward Leech knight, heretofore one of the Masters of the High Court of Chancery, Sir John Evelyn of Godstone, Surrey, knight, Richard Hatton of the Middle Temple, London, esquire, and Ambrose Phillipps gentleman, late servant of the said Sir Edward Leech, to Richard Woodrofe of Sheffield, yeoman, of a messuage, farm or tenement with the appurtenances situate within the manor or lordship of Hatherseidge otherwise Haverishiggs [Hathersage], Derbyshire, then or then late in the occupation of John Heald, with several closes |
| Description | The following names of persons and places occur: Croft, Heald Meadow, Thorney, Small Sitch, Ryecroft, Foist Acres, Howridding, Sannyforth Longe, High Lee, Heald Land, Butts, Pingle, John Hough, Broad Half Acre, Broome Half Acre, widdow Syddall, Boothesway, George Eyre, George Smilter, Flaxlands, Broomewood; and also another messuage, farm or tenement situate in Hatherseidge aforesaid, then or then late in the occupation of George Ibbotson, with several closes fully described, in which the following names of persons and places occur; namely, Croft, Blanerowe, Meadow, Thorney, Broadwoods, [ - ]ber Flackhole, Long Halfe Acre, John Greene, George Smilter, Broad Halfe Acre, George Eyre, John Hough, Lossieroodes, Long Lane Syde, Swyne Lands, John Eyre, Mossie Meadow, Thomas Frost, Stannyforth Long, John Ibbotson.
The consideration was £307.
Witnesses: Thomas Buck, Will Simson, Robert Byckerton (?) Ro Rind.
Vellum : one skin, six seals in paper and six signatures.
Notes: the following memorandum is in the margin 'Acknowledged in the Court of Upper Bench by thabove [sic] named Ambrose Phillipps the xxvii daie of November 1655 and desired itt maye be inrolled' ; and endorsed is, 'inrolled before the Lord Protector in the Upper Bench att Westminster of the Tearme of Saint Michaell in the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred fiftye and five.' |