| Description | <head>Scope and Content</head><p>William Drake of Bernard-nolds wyke cotes (sic) agrees to allow Joseph Holdroyd of Stumpcross in Northowrome yeoman, Adam Tayler of the Lower Halley Green in Northowrom, clothier and Isaack Wilson of Shibden in Northowrom, carpenter, to open, drain, sink, sough and dig for coals in ground belonging to several messuages in Shibden, called the Fold, Stumpcross, Lower Halley Green and Upper Halley Green; for 21 years at £5 p.a. for the first 10 years and £6 p.a. for the last 11 years. Agree not to make unnecessary spoil and destruction. Permission for Drake or his deputy to go down into the pitts to see how the work is managed and driven on.</p> |