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Lancashire 1-100


Ü	Lancashire 101-200

Date

Source

Lot No.

Text

Surnames

1640

Bloomsbury 23 Nov 2000

Laud (William, Archbishop of Canterbury, executed, 1573-1645)Grant to Nicholas Assheton, ffourth Sonne of Sr Ralphe Assheton of Whalley in the County of Lancaster Baronett", of the "Parsonage of Whalley with all the right members and appurtenances thereof... And all those his Chappells of Padiham, Cliderowe [Clitheroe], Colne, Burnley, Bowland..." and appointing as his attorneys John Crumbock and Robert Cunliffe, Ds. "W: Cant.", manuscript on vellum, 26 lines, lacks seal, folds, slightly soiled, 250 x 420mm., 22nd January 1640. Estimate: £200 - 300. Sale price: £460 + 15% buyer commission.

***Sir Ralph Assheton (1579-1644), was created a baronet on 28th June 1620 and leased the parsonage of Whalley from Archbishop Abbott, valued at #2000 and with a yearly rent of #247 13s 3d. On 4th September 1635 his successor, Archbishop Laud sued Assheton in the courts of Exchequer and High Commission for the return of the property "wherefore the tithes, profits, and other emoluments of the said rectory ought not to be sequestered and applied to the payments of fit stipends or salaries to the curates, and to the repair... of the churches in that parish" (CSP). Assheton submitted, was fined #300 in the court of High Commission, and then ordered to pay #1600 for a new lease of 21 years and surrender up his former lease, part of which he had already paid. The rent was increased by #60 a year; in all Assheton had lost about #3000. This information was used as evidence by the parliamentary commissioners in the trial of Laud. Sir Ralphe Assheton of Whalley belonged to a branch of the Assheton's of Middleton. In 1635 he appeared in court charged with "incest with Alice the wife of John Kenyon and Joan Whiteaires her niece, and of a long continued adultery with Elizabeth Holmes". Assheton was a cousin of an earlier Nicholas Assheton (1590-1625), a diarist of Lancashire country life and was related to William Assheton (1641-1711), divine and chaplain to James, duke of Ormonde.

Laud

Assheton

Crumbock

Cunliffe

Kenyon

Whiteaires

Holmes

1669, 1860

Bloomsbury 23 Nov 2000

Bowes (Francis, of Witherslack, Westmoreland) & Thomas Tompson, of Claughton, Lancashire)Indenture agreement to sell a "mansion and dwelling house and cottage situate in Claughton", D.s., manuscript on vellum, dockets on verso, 42 lines, folds, slightly soiled, lacks wax seal, 284 x 395mm., 11th March 1669 ; Victoria (Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901) Letters Patent to Thomas Dennis, for "improvements in the construction of Iron buildings or glazed structures for horticultural or other uses", printed document with manuscript insertions on vellum, 2pp., engraved decoration, ruled in red, Great Seal appended, housed in a metal skippet, broken with loss, 510 x 742 & 450 x 600mm., 11th April 1860; and 15 others including 6 documents relating to Crown Court & Duke's Court, St. James's, Westminster, v.s. (17). Estimate: £150 - 200. Sale price: £130 + 15% buyer commission.

Bowes

Tompson

Dennis

19th century

Dominic Winter 8 Mar 2001

484

Large quantity of vellum indentures, 19th c., relating to a number of large estates, mainly in the Greenhalgh area in Lancashire, a number having attached schedules and maps, providing considerable information for local historical and genealogical research. More than 50 separate items in all.

18th-20th century

Dominic Winter 11 Apr 2001

394

Archive of more than sixty vellum manorial documents 18th-20th c., relating to the Manor of Ightenhill and Forest of Penole which appears to have been within the manorial boundaries. (60+) £100-150

1894

Dominic Winter 11 Apr 2001

404

Oldham, Lancashire. Collection of inventories, valuations and sale catalogues, etc. c. 1894, including an inventory of the pictures, works of art, articles of virtue etc belonging to Charles Lees of Werneth Park, Oldham 1894; the valuation of the estate of Dame Sarah Lees of Werneth Park Oldham; typewritten lists of properties from these two estates to be appropriated to various beneficiaries, and a few other printed catalogues , sale particulars etc. which appear to be related to the same estate. Lees was one of the most fabulously wealthy of the Lancashire mill owners and this group of documents, and will doubtless provide considerable new information on his collections. Lees was a man of taste in the true Victorian tradition amassing works of art by all the leading contemporary British artists as well as examples by leading overseas painters. Artists represented include: Marcus Stone, Leighton, Poynter, Millais, Gainsborough, G F Watts, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Crome, Frith, Sir Thomas Laurence, Constable and many more. £70-100

Lees

1817

Dominic Winter 11 Apr 2001

410

Prisoners. Printed 'Calendar of all the Prisoners in the New Bailey Prison, Salford Manchester' 22pp, large folio, 22nd January 1817, listing all prisoners in the prison on that date, their crimes, and the length of time they were condemned to serve, minor damage to the final leaf, affecting a few words, and slight fraying at edges, but in generally good condition. A rare and remarkable document, providing a considerable insight into social history at this time, long before the welfare state. Included in the list are prisoners aged just 10 years old, and some of the crimes seem ludicrous by today's standards such as 'selling unstamped almanacks', 'wilfully drawing off water from a canal lock' 'wilfully leaving open a lock gate' being 'an incorrigible rogue' - for which the punishment was 1 year imprisonment and being privately whipped the day before discharge - 'being and rogue and vagabond found wandering abroad, having no visible means of gaining a livelihood, and there is even one prisoner whose crime was 'bastardy before birth'. It is also a sobering thought that in those days 'leaving an apprenticeship' was a crime carrying a punishment of 3 months in solitary confinement. (1) £70-100

1746

Dominic Winter 16 May 2001

441

Lancashire Church Pews. Manuscript document on vellum 1746, granting authority from the Lord Bishop to erect and build a loft or gallery in the church at Saddleworth, specifying its length, the rights to selling the pews and other matters, together with two other vellum documents granting pews in Oldham Church. Documents of this nature from such an early date rarely appear on the market. The practice of selling the right of occupancy in a church pew might seem strange today but in the 18th c. at a time when everyone was expected to attend church and the services were of enormous length with sermons lasting hours on end, it was obviously advantageous to secure a comfortable seat. Gallery pews were particularly sought after as clandestine deliveries of food and wine could be easily arranged during the service

17th-20th century

Dominic Winter 16 May 2001

442

Quantity of vellum and paper documents 17th-20th c., mainly relating to the Greenhalgh area including agreements, one for supplying water to an inn, plans, sales and auction particulars, awards, a recovery document of 1770, a marriage document of 1698 and various indentures including two with attached maps of land on the Greenhalgh Estate.

1707

Dominic Winter 25 July 2001

347

Church Pews. Manuscript document on vellum, April 3rd 1707, granting authority from the Archbishop of York to build a gallery in the Parish Church at Northmeols in Lancashire, granting also the rights to sell these seats, some staining to parts of the document affecting a few words, together with a document of 1778 granting a seat in Macclesfield Church.

17th-20th century

Dominic Winter 25 July 2001

351

Liverpool. Archive of documents 17th-20th c., all relating to the lineage of Lawrence Durning Holt, former Lord Mayor of Liverpool, providing considerable detail of his ancestry, involving the lines of the Holt, Durning and Needham families, who had interests in Nottinghamshire, Herefordshire, Liverpool and elsewhere, including a rare 18th c. will, indentures, birth certificates of various members of the families, armourial book plates, copies of family trees, a 19th manuscript entitled 'My Memoirs', by one of the members of the family, a 1950's cyclostyled pamphlet entitled 'A History of the Durning and Holt Families' , photocopies of letters and documents etc. Lawrence Durning was a Liverpool shipowner and a partner in Alfred Holt & Co from 1908-1953. He was Lord Mayor of Liverpool 1929-30 and Trustee of the National Maritime Museum 1937-44.

Holt

Durning

Needham

19th/20th century

Dominic Winter 25 July 2001

352

Liverpool. Group of eight documents on paper 19th/early 20th c., relating to sale of properties in Liverpool and nearby areas, including one of 1835 relating to Old Hall Street, a large conveyance of a number of properties at Ashton on Mersey, dated 1821, and documents relating to houses and shops in Old Hall Street, Edmund Street and Ormond Street, Liverpool.

1595

Dominic Winter 29 Aug 2001

374

Manchester. 'A note of all the evydences of the landes late Thomas Wyllot gent decessed, taken at Manchester the IIIIth April, 1595', manuscript written in a fine chancery hand on a large sheet of paper approx. 16" x 12", in excellent condition An important local history document. The manuscript lists all the land ownership of Thomas Willott in and around the Manchester area during the Elizabethan era providing considerable new information on late Tudor Manchester which was at that time largely a rural area. Willott is known to history and there is a note of his land holding in Willan (MUP 1980) p32 which records that 'On April 10th 1572 the Court Leet recorded that Thomas Willott, gent, had bought from Robert Shaw, gent 'certayn classes or landes' which Shaw had purchased ...near Newton Lane...Willott paid forty marks , or œ26 13/4d for the property'

Wylott

Shaw

1860

Dominic Winter 29 Aug 2001

385

Oldham Privies. Remarkable indenture on vellum dated 1860, granting Edward Jackson and his family the right to use privies and ashpits in Sack Street, Oldham, manuscript indenture written in a fine legible hand in good condition but not executed. Scarce. The document elaborately sets out the fact that '...Andrew Schofield has erected commodious privies and ash pits sufficient to afford accommodation to his own tenants and others...' he now leases use of the facility to the Jackson family (who are allindividually named) for the yearly rental of one guinea. The document also sets out Schofield's redress if the Jackson family fail to pay the rent. The document was, in the event not finally executed. Remarkable as it may seem today to have a document leasing out the right to use a toilet, in the mid- 19th c. when the rapidly expanding population had no mains sanitation and very few dwellings had any toilet facilities at all, the building of more formal facilities was a considerable advance. Many believe the single greatest achievement of the Victorians was the development of the mains drainage and sewer systems , which are still the backbone of modern sanitation, thus ridding this country of the horrors of typhoid, typhus and cholera etc.

Jackson

Schofield

1793

Dominic Winter 3 Oct 2001

262

Bolton alehouse and brewery. Large multiple sheet vellum indentures dated May 21st 1793, detailing the sale of the 'Unicorn' alehouse in Bolton-le-Moors, together with its brewhouse, pumps and well, with a colour wash map showing the extent of the property A fascinating document charting the heritage of modern day Bolton. At this time, Bolton was considerably smaller than it is today, and was known as Bolton-le-Moors to differentiate it from other places such as Bolton-le Sands. The Unicorn alehouse referred to in this document was situated in Bradshawgate - a road which still exists today, but there is no public house there now

19th century

Dominic Winter 3 Oct 2001

313

Collection of more than 20 vellum indentures, early 19th c., dealing with a variety of legal issues affecting land and property throughout Lancashire The documents detail mineral rights and mining, fishing rights, supply of water for a steam mill, the sale of the Manor of Accrington, shares in a manor, cotton spinners and other issues.

1595

Dominic Winter 3 Oct 2001

318

Manchester. 'A note of all the evydences of the landes late Thomas Wyllot gent decessed, taken at Manchester the IIIIth April, 1595', manuscript written in a fine chancery hand on a large sheet of paper, approx. 16" x 12", in excellent condition An important local history document. The manuscript lists all the land ownership of Thomas Willott in and around the Manchester area during the Elizabethan era providing considerable new information on late Tudor Manchester which was at that time largely a rural area. Willott is known to history and there is a note of his land holding in Willan (MUP 1980) p32 which records that 'On April 10th 1572 the Court Leet recorded that Thomas Willott, gent, had bought from Robert Shaw, gent 'certayn classes or landes' which Shaw had purchased ... near Newton Lane ... Willott paid forty marks, or #26 13/4d for the property'.

Wylott

Shaw

1776

Dominic Winter 12 Dec 2001

454

Auction. Manuscript list of prices realised for the sales of 'sundry household goods &c belonging to the late Martha Wainwright, by Thos. Forrest', dated May 24th 1776, written in a neat, legible hand on 7pp large folio, in fine, unblemished condition, together with a 1p, folio, obligation bond relating to Wigan, Lancs An interesting manuscript which provides considerable detail on the domestic goods and chattels of ordinary folk. The list, which also mentions the names of some of the purchasers, probably refers to a sale in the Manchester area (2)

Wainwright

Forrest

18th century

Dominic Winter 12 Dec 2001

463

Blackburn, Lancashire. Manuscript copy of entries from the Blackburn parish records, 3pp, large folio, 18th c., recording the entries for the Yate (or Yates) family from about 1600 to about 1714, listing births, marriages and deaths of each member of the family which seems to have been prolific in terms of numbers and very much a part of the fabric of Blackburn society throughout the 17th and 18th c. (1)

Yate(s)

1591

Dominic Winter 12 Dec 2001

477

Fine manuscript document on vellum dated 1591, being a land transaction for a large area of meadows and land in Leavenshulme, now a prosperous suburb of Manchester, written in a chancery hand on a single sheet of vellum with fragment of original pendant seal still attached by original vellum tag, some dusting in folds but in overall good condition approx 47x29 cms A rare and attractive document which will doubtless provide new information on Elizabethan Manchester long before the coming of the industrial revolution which was to make the city what it is today (1)

18th century

Dominic Winter 12 Dec 2001

501

Group of eleven documents on vellum early 18th c., all relating to property transactions in what are now popular suburbs of Manchester, documents have usual dusting and browning to outer surfaces but all in good legible condition A good group of documents providing local historians and genealogists with new information on the development of 18th c Manchester, before the industrialised city started to grow. Places mentioned include Chorlton cum Hardy, Levenshulme and Burnage in Withington

1863

Dominic Winter 30 Jan 2002

322

Brewery. Large multiple sheet indenture dated November 16th, 1863, detailing the merging of two brewers, one based in Liverpool and the other based in Flint, and listing the many conditions for the merged brewery, public houses, wages of workers, insurance details etc. A fascinating document detailing an early merger of brewing interests between E P Jones and Jonothan Brookes to form a brewery called 'Jones and Brookes' and obviously having a considerable area of the North West and North Wales.

Jones

Brookes

18th century

Dominic Winter 7 Mar 2002

224

Manuscript copy of entries from the Blackburn parish records, 3pp, large folio, 18th c., recording the entries for the Yate (or Yates) family from about 1600 to about 1714, listing births, marriages and deaths of each member of the family which seems to have been prolific in terms of numbers and very much a part of the fabric of Blackburn society throughout the 17th and 18th c.

Yate(s)

1690s

Dominic Winter 7 Mar 2002

227

Manuscript list of names on two sheets of vellum, c 1690s, listing all those persons of Salford, Lancashire, who had promised to send money to the 'King's Most Excellent Majesty' for the 'defence of his kingdom and religion', written in neat chancery hand, some scuffing to the vellum but almost entirely legible, both leaves approx 58x17cm A fascinating and historic document which will doubtless yield considerable new information on the population of Salford at the time of the Glorious Revolution. Having outsted his father-in-law James II, William found himself plagued by rebellions at home, threats of Jacobite invasion (culminating in the Battle of the Boyne) and eventually in 1691, war with France over the future of the Spanish Netherlands - a war which was to last six long years and to cripple him financially. The present document therefore records just one example of how the Orange Monarchy desperately tried to finance itself against a background of corruption at home, a wary House of Commons, unwilling to vote too much into the King's hands, and warfare which was constantly draining his depleted finances. Of particular interest are references to the Trafford family.

Trafford

1660

Dominic Winter 7 Mar 2002

245

Near contemporary copy of an Order of the Militia Commissioners for Manchester of May 1st, 1660, manuscript on paper, some weakness where originally folded, otherwise in fairly good order, with a manuscript letter to verso, 2pp 4to. The order requires the Constables of Butterworth to provide four musketeers and two pikemen with arms at Manchester on May 8th at the house of Commissioner Greene. It is subscribed by eight named people, and also contains a note of the soldiers to be produced by Hundersfield (? Huddersfield), Spotland, and Castleton. The date is significant as at this time the country was awaiting the imminent arrival of Charles II to return to his throne at the Restoration.

1818

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FOUR SMALL documents drawn up in and around 1818 on PAPER. Handwritten and on they gives details of receipt form Henry Chapman and Thomas Howarth executors of the last will and testament of John Chapman of PILKINGTON in the Parish of Pretwich in the County of Lancaster (2) also Bill of Exchange or Bearer note for £55 from James Chapman and a small incomplete note dated 1796 to pay £50 from a John Hay. there are three firm strike revenue stamps on these documents

Chapman

Howarth

Hay

1822

Dominic Winter 15 May 2002

449

Remarkable paper indenture dated September 21st 1822, concerning the disposal of the estate of a bankrupt brewer called Richard Parkinson who at the time of this indenture was in prison for debt in Lancaster Castle, detailing the sale of his public house and brewhouse called 'The Highgate', together with furniture, brewing utensils, stock in trade, etc. The address of the hapless Parkinson is given as 'in prison'. At this time, debt was a criminal offence and those falling behind often ended up in gaol. Further research will doubtless reveal an intriguing story behind this document!

Parkinson

1367

Dominic Winter 15 May 2002

450

Fine quitlclaim on vellum from the reign of Edward III dated 1367, relating to Duxbury, Adlington and Chorley, paid by freeholder in lieu of services to Hugh de Standisse, 11 lines written in a clear legible chancery hand, some dusting but perfectly legible, with a perfect pendant seal in red wax attached by original vellum tag, 95x230mm. Of considerable interest to the genealogy of this area of Lancashire and also of considerable American interest. Hugh de Standisse was clearly a forefather of the Standish family of Duxbury, one of the main claimants as the family of Miles Standish, the leader of the Pilgrim Fathers in 1620, and who founded the township of Duxbury in Massechusetts. There has been centuries of speculation as to whether Standish came from the Duxbury area of Lancashire (though this is now largely accepted) but this present document provides further proof that the family had land holdings in the area some 300 years before Miles Standish departed for America. Documents from such an early date are now becoming scarce on the market.

Standisse

1849

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A document drawn up in and around 1849 on PAPER. GIVING DETAILS OF THE ADMINISTARTION OF THE ESTATE OF GOWTHER BUTTERWORTH LATE OF NOCK IN CRAMPTON IN THE PARISH OF PRESTWICH CUM OLDHAM IN THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER. ISSUED BY THE ARCHDEACONARY OF MANCHESTER. there is A WAX WAFER SEAL FOR THE ARCHDEACONARY OF MANCHESTER on this document WITH A FIRM STRIKE REVENUE STAMP. WRITTEN AND PRINTED ON ONE SHEET OF BRITTANIA SHEILD WATERMARKED BOND PAPER

Butterworth

18th/19th century

Dominic Winter 26 Jun 2002

502

Collection of twenty mainly multiple sheet vellum indentures, 18th/19th c., relating to the sale of various estates including Shepley Hall, Walton, Heywood, Preston, with a number dealing with the early development of Bolton

1777-1785

Dominic Winter 2 & 3 Oct 2002

893

Extensive archive of twenty-nine manuscript letters and documents concerning the estate of Richard Edensor of Congleton, recently deceased and its disposal, 1777-85, documents written in various legible hands on paper in fine condition, 150pp, folio. This archive has only recently been discovered and provides extensive information on the Eccles and Clifton areas in what is now Greater Manchester. Of particular interest are the documents relating to the Eccles Parish Tythes which include an extensive 13pp Rental giving the names of tenants and details of land, property and rents with landlords listed including the Duke of Bridgewater (of canal fame). Places listed include: Worsley, Barton, Pendleton, Pendlebury, Monton, Tildesly, Little Houghton, Eccles, Irlam, Davyhulme, Swinton, Lostock, Cross Bank, Bromhurst and Bent Lane. There is also an extensive 24pp large folio mss copy of a Bill in the Court of Chancery relating to Coal Mines in Clifton dated 1780, a similar 32pp document being a copy of the sale of the same mines in 1785, and also a Rental for the Clifton Estate at Talk.

Edensor

c1570

Dominic Winter 2 & 3 Oct 2002

894

Gaoler's Warrant. Highly unusual vellum indenture, c. 1570, being the grant of Lancaster Gaol by Sir Edmund Trafford, Sheriff of Lancashire, to Hamlet Groom, written in Latin and English on a single sheet of vellum, somewhat creased, but not affecting the legibility of the document, signed by various parties to the base, small portion removed from bottom right hand corner, probably contemporary for security purposes, 415x310mm. Scarce. A fascinating document from the reign of Elizabeth I appointing Gunn Gaoler with details of his duties.

Trafford

Groom

c1570

Dominic Winter 2 & 3 Oct 2002

931

Scarce obligation bond, c. 1570s, written in both Latin and English on a single leaf of vellum in an attractive legible chancery hand, a little creasing, and a little dusty, signed by all parties, one with his mark only, original vellum seal tag, lacking seal, 255x145mm. Obligation bonds (i.e. individual agreements between two or more people) from such an early period rarely appear on the market. This particular example, involves a John (?)Linar of Lancashire Bagot.

Linar

1846-1877

Dominic Winter 2 & 3 Oct 2002

966

Silk Mills. Important group of indentures, 1846-1877, all relating to the establishment of a silk mill in Cheadle, Staffs, including conveyance and lease documents, mortgages, abstract of title etc., documents on paper and vellum. The documents tell the whole story of the setting up of the silk mill at a place which in 1846 was known as Petty Mires. The story continues through to 1877 when the business, then operated by Durrant and Co., transferred its interests to Phillips and Kay, of Manchester.

1881

Dominic Winter 5 Nov 2002

427

Presentation testimonial to Richard Guest, the retiring first president of the Leigh Literary Society, 1881, MS, four leaves with two-page testimonial in a copperplate hand incl. hand-illuminated first page, final two pages with signatures of fifteen committee members, a.e.g., contemp. morocco gilt, a little rubbed, slim 4to

Guest

17th-19th century

Dominic Winter 11 Dec 2002

425

Collection of more than 50 vellum manorial documents, 17th-19th c., all relating to the manors of Colne and Forest Pendle. The area in question, near Burnley, is known worldwide for the notorious trials of so-called witches in the seventeenth century.

1855

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ASSIGNMENT OF LEASEHOLD PREMISES IN THE PARISH OF LLANDULAS IN THE COUNTY OF DENBIGH, NORTH WALES - 1855. Assignment of a mortgage term dated 12th June 1855, between Robert Roberts of the Old Bank, City of Chester and William Crosley of 16 Westbourne Park, Middlesex, Civil Engineer of the one part, and Henry Steel of Liverpool, Manager of the Liverpool United Gas Light Company of the other part. Mortgage of all that parcel of land called Hugh Goch Ucha lately part of a farm called Glanrafon belonging to Robert William Wynne in Llandulas county of Denbigh and an other small piece of land bordered Easterly on land belonging to the Lord Bishop of Bangor, and Southerly on land owned by William Crosley deceased. Includes a detailed description of the land, details of Robert Wynne's family and ages, and recitals of a number of previous indentures relating to the land. The three page document also has a second indenture written on the back dated 1860 between Henry Steel and a Mr or Mrs E Humphreys. Very good condition 3 page vellum written in English. Three signatures and red wax seals. 57 by 72 cm.

Roberts

Crosley

Steel

Wynne

Humphreys

1813

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Offered is this one page vellum document dated 17 March 1813. It measures 18 inches long by 25 inches wide. It deals with the lease for a year of a spinning factory land and messuages in Gratnix Street ? Manchester. It is between a Mr Joseph Dunkerley and Mr Charles Fletcher and Peter Fletcher. It retains the original blue revenue stamp and two red wax seals with the signatures of Joseph Dunkerley.

Dunkerley

Fletcher

1834

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An 1834 Court document for the Forest of Pendle. Apppears to mention surrender of Copyhold Closes of meadow and pasture etc. Mentions field names and people's names etc.

1595

Dominic Winter 9 Apr 2003

342

Manchester. Fine manuscript document evidencing the lands of the late Thomas Wyllot, taken at Manchester the 4th April, 1595, written in a fine chancery hand, consisting of 37 lines on a large sheet of paper, listing all the land owned by Thomas Willott in and around Manchester, approx. 16 x 12" (41 x 30cm). reference to Willott's land holding is made in Willan's "Elizabethan Manchester", pub. MUP, 1980, p.32, which records that "On April 10th 1572 the Court Leet recorded that Thomas Willott, gent, had bought from Robert Shaw, gent 'certayn classes or landes' which Shaw had purchased... near Newton Lane... Willott paid forty marks or #26 13/4d for the property".

Wylott

Shaw

1904

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Document, between The Reverand Joseph Nunn to The Rector of St Thomas Ardwick, of conveyance of a plot of land with eight cottages thereon situate in North Street Ardwick City of Manchester.Stamped by The Supreme Court of Judicature.Dated 26th August 1904.Also stamped The Solicitors Law Stationary 22 Chancery Lane London WC. Signed, sealed and delivered by Salomonson & smith Solicitors 40 Brazennose Street Manchester.

Nunn

1794

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Indenture dating from 1794 and was for the sale of a property in Dale street, Liverpool. it was between William Gibson of Liverpool and Thomas Shepherd of Lancaster.The property was sold for a grand total of £1710.00 which was a lot of money in them days. The indenture measures 35" wide by 28" high and has 3 wax seals at the bottom, a blue customs stampat the left hand side and a large wax seal at the top. It is in good condition for its age with the usual fold creases.

Gibson

Shepherd

1367

Bloomsbury 13 Dec 2002

Quitclaim relating to Duxbury, Addington and Chorley, paid in lieu of fees to Hugh de Standisse, manuscript on vellum, in Latin, 11 lines, folds, some surface wear, slightly stained, wax seal, 95 x 230mm., 10th June 1367.

Standisse

1826?

Bloomsbury 13 Dec 2002

Downes (Thomas, of the Parsonage, St. Marys, Manchester) Note book, manuscript, 34pp., 5 drawings or watercolour sketches, 2pp. of an advertisement pasted down, original boards, manuscript on upper cover, 8vo, 12th April 182[?6]. *** Includes a sketch of Telford's Menai Bridge.

Downes

19th century

Dominic Winter 29 Jan 2003

386

Collection of 20 large multiple sheet indentures 19th c., all relating to the Colne and Pendle areas near Burnley Of particular interest are those for the sale of two cotton mills of Albert Mill and Fourbridge Mill, complete with steam engines, steam looms, engine house, balers, etc.

1799

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Indenture - Land in Chorlton Row Lancs 1799. Unusual printed copy Indenture concerning land in 'Chorlton Row bounded on one side by the Kings Highway from Garratt Hall to Rusholme' near Manchester in Lancashire dated 25th May 1799. The principal names referred to are Samuel Clowes Esq the Younger of Broughton, John Gore Booth late of Salford, Sir Gore Booth, Thomas Hewitt Gent of Ardwick, William Hawkes of Chorlton Row and Benjamin Luke Winter. Paper, 20" x 12", 2 pages, good condition.

Clowes

Booth

Hewitt

Hawkes

Winter

1866

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A LARGE OLD DOCUMENT FROM THE MANOR OF COLNE -LANCASHIRE DATED 1866. APPEARS TO BE A WILL OF SOME KIND - NAMES MENTIONED - HARGREAVES, TAYLOR, MOORE, MYERS, SHARP, PHILLIPS, HARTLEY, BROADHURST, GREENWOOD AND MANY MORE.

Hargreaves

Taylor

Moore

Myers

Sharp

Phillips

Hartley

Broadhurst

Greenwood

1876

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1876 ANTIQUE VELLUM COURT BARON DOCUMENT. THE HALMOT COURT OF THE MOST NOBLE WALTER FRANCES DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH AND QUEENSBURY, MANOR OF ACCRINGTON NEW HOLD LANCASHIRE HELD AT HASLINGTON. SURRENDER AND ASSIGNMENT. HENRY WILLIAM ASHWORTH OF UNDERWOOD NEAR SLACKEHEADS IN NEWCHURCH IN THE FORST OF ROSSENDALE IN THE SAID COUNTY OF LANCASTER, MILL MANAGER AND GEORGE SHEPHERD OF THE SAME PLACE COTTON BROKER TRUSTEES AND EXECUTORS OF THE WILL OF ANN SHEPHERD LATE OF WATERBARN IN THE SAID FOREST - PLOT OF LAND CONTAINING DWELLING HOUSES AND OTHER BUILDINGS SITUATE AT LOWER TUNSTEAD IN THE SAID FOREST. THIS DOCUMENT IS ON ONE SHEET OF FOLDED VELLUM; SIZE 29 X 24 INCHES.

Ashworth

Shepherd

1897

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1897 ANTIQUE VELLUM INDENTURE DOCUMENT. BETWEEN JAMES FOSTER AND JOHN WILLIAM FOSTER OF BLACKBURN IN THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER AND MARY PATEFIELD OF BLACKBURN. INDENTURE OF LEASE AND ASSIGNMENT OF A PLOT OF LAND AND TWO DWELLING HOUSES ERECTED THEREON SITUATE AND NUMBERED 21 AND 23 RIPON STREET BLACKBURN. THIS DOCUMENT IS ON ONE SHEET OF FOLDED VELLUM; SIZE 29 X 24 INCHES, WITH THREE MONOGRAM RED WAX SEALS AND ONE EMBOSSED REVENUE STAMP PLUS SMALL SURVEY MAP.

Foster

Patefield

1797

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1797 ANTIQUE HALMOT OR BARON COURT MANORIAL DOCUMENT MANOR OF FOREST OF TRAWDEN WITHIN THE MANOR OF COLN, INTHE COUNTY OF LANCASTER. Document drawn up in 1797 The Baron Court of the Most Noble Henry Duke of Buccleuch and the Right Honorable Edward Earl of Beaulieu of their Forest of Trawden. Be it Remembered that in consideration of the sum of one Hundred pounds to Matthew Oddie of Coln in the County of Lancaster, Gentleman, doth well and truly paid by James Wilson of Trawden in the said county Shopkeeper. All that parcel of land called or knowen by the name of Higher Little Meadow or Shaw Bank.

Oddie

Wilson

1823, 1872

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1823 AND 1872 TWO ANTIQUE PAPER DOCUMENTS RELATING TO REQUISTIONS OF TITLE. TWO Documents drawn up on PAPER. Hand written the first gives details of THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THOMAS GENT OF PRESTON IN THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER, TAILOR & DRAPER AND THOMAS MUNDAY OF PRESTON A MACHINE MAKER. BEING FOR THE PURCHASE OF A DWELLING HOUSE IN WALTON STREET PRESTON. TWO DOCUMENTS OF INTEREST TO THE MUNDAY FAMILY OF LANCASHIRE. THE SECOND DOCUMENT BEING A REQUISTION OF TITLE CONCERNS DECLARATIONS OF PROOF FOR THE MARRIAGE AND DEATH OF THOMAS MUNDAY - AGNES SARAH MUNDAY - FANNY ELIZABETH MUNDAY - JOHN MUNDAY WITH FOUND RESPONSES. GUARANTEED ORIGINAL AND IN GOOD CONDITION SIZE 15 INCHES BY 13 INCHES ON ONE SHEET OF FOLDED IPING WATERMARKED PAPER DATED 1818 AND ONE SHEET OF FOLDED A. GOWANS & SONS WATERMARKED PAPER FOR 1866.

Gent

Munday

1864

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1864 ANTIQUE VELLUM INDENTURE MONKS COPPENHALL IN THE COUNTY OF CHESTER. TITLE DEED CONVEYANCE OF 3 PLOTS OF SITUATE AT MONKS COPPENHALL IN THE COUNTY OF CHESTER. BETWEEN THE TRUSTEES OF MR RICHARD EDLESTON DECEASED (HENRY BLAKEMORE OF MANCHESTER IN THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER, EDWARD HOUNSUM GRIFFITHS OF NANTWICH IN THE COUNTY OF CHESTER, STATIONER - THOMAS BOWER OF HANKELOW HALL IN THE COUNTY OF CHESTER AND MR JOHN HARDING OF MANCHESTER TO ROBERT PRESTON NIXON OF MANCHESTER. LANDS CONNECTED WITH DAVIY HOUSE FARM AT MONKS COPPENHALL - DOCUMENT OF INTEREST TO LOCAL HISTORIANS - HAND COLOURED SURVEY MAP - FIVE WAX SEALS AND TWO EMBOSSED REVENUE STAMPS. GUARANTEED ORIGINAL AND IN GOOD CONDITION SIZE 28 INCHES BY 24 INCHES ON TWO SHEETS OF VELLUM.

Edleston

Blakemore

Griffiths

Bower

Harding

Nixon

1819

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1819 ANTIQUE BARON COURT MANORIAL DOCUMENT FOREST OF PENDLE. Document drawn up in 1819 THE HALMOT COURT OF THE MOST NOBLE ELIZABETH DUTCHESS DOWAGER BUCCLEUCH AND QUEENSBURY OF HER FOREST OF PENDLE - SURRENDER AND ASSIGNMENT ELLIS DUCKWORTH OF RIDGET ING WITHIN ROUGHLEE BOOTH IN THE FOREST OF PENDLE IN THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER NAD MARY DUCKWORTH OF THE SAME - HENRY WILKINSON OF PASTURE WITHIN BARROWFORD BOOTH AND WILLIAM HEAP OF PARK HILL WITHIN BARROWFORD- LIST OF LANDS AND HOUSES, BARNS AND A SHOP HELD IN THE MANOR. GUARANTEED original AND IN GOOD CONDITION on ONE SHEET of VELLUM. FRAMING SIZE 23 INS X 17 INS - WITH ONE EMBOSSED REVENUE STAMP.

Duckworth

Wilkinson

Heap

1819

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7th June 1819 ANTIQUE VELLUM INDENTURE WALTON STREET PRESTON. MORTGAGE BY DEMISE FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS FOR SECURING £80 AND INTERST OF A DWELLING HOUSE IN WALTON STREET PRESTON - BETWEEN ROBERT WESTMORE OF PRESTON IN THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER, SILVERSMITH AND JEWELLER AND WILLIAM THOMPSON OF PRESTON. TWO NICE WAX SEALS WITH EMBOSSED REVENUE. GUARANTEED ORIGINAL AND IN GOOD CONDITION SIZE 31 INCHES BY 24 INCHES ON TWO SHEETS OF VELLUM.

Westmore

Thompson

1892

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A document dated 30th November 1892. It is in overall excellent condition,espcially for its age. On the front it says "Miss Anne Jedder & Others to Mr William Westhead. Convegance of perpetual yearly ground rents of £1,,0,,2 1/2 and £1,,3,,3 1/2 issuing out of hereditaments Nos 21 21a and 22 High Street & Nos 23 23A 24 & 24A High Street,Preston in the county of Lancaster. Contains a schedule dating back to 1847.

Jedder

Westhead

1791

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A document dated 1st May 1791. It is in overall excellent condition,espcially for its age. On the front it says "Mr Robert Turner to Mr James Buckley Lease of land & premises at Whitecroft within Oldham in the County of Lancaster.."

Turner

Buckley

1804

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A document dated 25th April 1804 . It is in overall excellent condition,espcially for its age. On the front it says "Mr Henry Hampson to Mr John Moors Counterpart demise of land in Openshaw for 900 years. Yearly Rent £7,,15."

Hampson

Moors

1866

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Manuscript Dated 9th August 1886. "SETTLEMENT OF FURNITURE IN CONLEMPLATION OF THE MARRIAGE BETWEEN HOWARD JOSEPH WALFORD ESQRE & MISS LUCY A STRAUS, SPINSTER. ALSO MENTIONS ERNEST LEOPOLD WALFORD AND LIONEL DAVID WALFORD. THE MARRIAGE WAS SOLEMNIZED AT PARK PLACE SYNAGOGUE CHEETHAM HILL ROAD MANCHESTER ON THE !"TH DAY OF AUGUST 1886." It is in overall excellent condition,espcially for its age.

Walford

Straus

1848

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1848 ANTIQUE VELLUM CONVEYANCE DOCUMENT. THIS DOCUMENT WS DRAWN UP IN 1848 BETWEEN CHARLES BUCK OF WELLINGTON IN THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET, GENTLEMAN - THOMAS SPENCER OF HETHERSALL IN THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER, YEOMAN OF THE SECOND PART AND PETER CATTERALL OF PRESTON, GENTLEMAN. WITH TWO EMBOSSED BLUE REVENUE STAMP AND ONE WAX SEAL . FOR ALL THOSE THREE SEVERAL CLOSES OF LAND SITUATE AT DILWORTH IN THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER FORMERLY CALLED OR KNOWN BY THE SEVERAL NAMES OF THE BARN FIELD, THE UPPER MEADOW AND THE LOWER MEADOW, THE BARLEY CROFT. GUARANTEED ORIGINAL AND IN GOOD CONDITION - SIZE 30 INCHES BY 24 INCHES ON ONE SHEET OF FOLDED VELLUM.

Buck

Spencer

Catterall

1796

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1796 LAND DOCUMENT FOR COLNE – LANCASHIRE. COURT DOCUMENT RELATING TO A PIECE OF LAND IN COLNE - LANCASTER DATED 12th October 1796. LOVELY CONDITION FOR IT'S AGE. THE COURT WAS JUDGED BY NOBLE HENRY DUKE OF.............AND EARL OF.............

1839

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1839 ANTIQUE VELLUM LEASE DOCUMENT. THIS DOCUMENT WAS DRAWN UP IN 1839 BETWEEN EDWARD TOMLINSON OF BIGGINS IN THE COUNTY OF WESTMORLAND, GENTLEMAN - RICHARD PILKINGTON OF PRESTON IN THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER, GENTLEMAN, AND WILLIAM ORMEROD PILKINGTON OF PRESTON, GENTLEMAN AND JOSEPH WALKER OF PRESTON GENTLEMAN. WITH ONE EMBOSSED BLUE REVENUE STAMP AND THREE WAX SEALS . FOR A MESSUAGE AT LONGTON IN THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER WITH BARN, STABLE AND APPURTENANCES AND CLOSES OF LAND CALLED MOOR GROUND, THE LITTLE MEADOW, THE CROFT AND BROWNHILLS ETC. GUARANTEED ORIGINAL AND IN GOOD CONDITION - SIZE 20 INCHES BY 26 INCHES ON ONE SHEET OF FOLDED VELLUM.

Tomlinson

Pilkington

Walker

1902

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1902 ANTIQUE VELLUM COURT BARON SURRENDER DOCUMENT. THIS DOCUMENT WAS DRAWN UP IN 1902 WHEN DOCUMENTS OF THIS KIND WERE BECOMING LESS COMMON - IN THIS CASE THE LORD OF THE MANOR WHO WOULD NORMALLY HAVE POWER OVER THE COURT HAS BEEN REPLACED BY THE CLITHEROE ESTATE COMPANY LIMITED AS THE 'LORD OF THE MANOR OF ACCRINGTON' IN THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER. SIGNED BY THE STEWARD OF THE COURT. WITH REFERENCE TO AN INDENTURE BETWEEN ARTHUR INGRAM ROBINSON OF CLITHEROE CASTLE IN THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER - OLIVER BRANWOOD HARGREAVES OF HASLINGTON, A SECOND LIEUTENANT IN HIS MAJESTY'S EAST LANCASHIRE REGIMENT AND JOHN HOYLE HARGREAVES OF BIRKDALE NEAR SOUTHPORT, CIVIL ENGINEER. FOR A PARCEL OF LAND SITUATE IN HASLINGDEN AND FORMERLY KNOWN BY THE NAME OF PACK BARN FIELD. GUARANTEED ORIGINAL AND IN GOOD CONDITION - SIZE 20 INCHES BY 15 INCHES ON ONE SHEET OF FOLDED VELLUM.

Robinson

Hargreaves

1784

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APPEARS TO BE A LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT FOR THOMAS MIDGLEY, GENT MANOR OF FOREST OF TRAWDEN LANCS 1784. Inquisition.

Midgley

1723

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1723 ANTIQUE VELLUM FFEOFFMENT BUTTERWORTH LANCASTER. BETWEEN JOHN DAWSON OF BUTTERWORTH IN THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER, YEOMAN, SURVIVING TRUSTEE OF JOHN HILL LATE OF HAYLAND HEAD WITHIN BUTTERWORTH - JOHN HILL OF WOLLSTENHOLME WITHIN SPOTLAND (ROCHDALE) IN THE SAID COUNTY OF LANCASTER. ALL THAT MESSUAGE AND TENAMENT WITH APPURTENTS CALLED HAYLANDS HEAD, IN BUTTERWORTH IN THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER. WITH FOUR RED WAX SEALS AND THREE EMBOSSED REVENUE STAMPS - A NICE DOCUMENT WRITTEN IN BOLD SECRETARY HAND. GUARANTEED ORIGINAL AND IN GOOD CONDITION SOME STORAGE WEAR TO OUTSIDE FOLD - SIZE 28 INCHES BY 22 INCHES ON ONE SHEET OF FOLDED VELLUM WITH EMBOSSED REVENUE STAMPS.

Dawson

Hill

1803

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LARGE OFFICIAL LAND TAX DOCUMENT, ISSUED 1803, SIGNED BY EDWARD FOLKES ESQUIRE AND JAMES BOLD MAYOR OF LIVERPOOL, WITH THERE OFFICIAL STAMPS. ISSUED TO A TRAVERS VAUGHAN OF DUBLIN, DEALINGS WITH COTTAGES AND LAND IN ROCHDALE. NICE STOUT RAG PAPER NO FOXING, LARGE PRINTED CREST READABLE ATTRACTIVE COPPER PLATE SCRIPT. 3 HORIZONTAL FOLDS ONE VERTICLE ONE SMALL HOLE, SLIGHTLY RAGGED EDGES. IDEAL FOR FRAMING OR REASEARCH MEASURES ONE FOOT 8 INCHES BY ONE FOOT FOUR INCHES. OFFICIAL PRINTED SCRIPT ON REVERSE, 24TH JUNE 1803.

Folkes

Bold

Vaughan

1858

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1858 TWO ANTIQUE DOCUMENTS. MEMORANDUM DEED OF AGREEMENT DRAWN UP IN 1858 WITH DOCUMENT OF FURTHER CHARGE BETWEEN MR JAMES KAY OF INGLEWHITE WITHIN GOOSNARGH IN THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER, YEOMAN AND JOHN BICKERSTAFF OF PRESTON, GENTLEMAN. FOR LAND CALLED THE MAIN, OR TWO CLOSES, NEXT INGLEWHITE. EACH DOCUMENT CONTAINS ONE EMBOSSED REVENUE STAMP. GUARANTEED ORIGINAL AND IN GOOD CONDITION WITH DUSTING TO OUTSIDE SURFACE - SIZE 28 INCHES BY 22 INCHES ON ONE SHEET OF FOLDED PAPER WITH G.C. & Co WATERMATKED PAPER FOR 1856 AND SECOND DOCUMENT ON ONE SHEET OF FOLDED E. TOWGOOD WATERMATKED PAPER FOR 1856.

Kay

Bickerstaff

1858

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1858 ANTIQUE PAPER MARRIAGE SETTLEMENT. PAPER COPY DRAWN UP IN 1858. MR WILLIAM JONES OF GREAT CORAM STREET LONDON, GENTLEMAN AND MISS CAROLINE DAVEY OF TUCKINGMILL IN THE COUNTY OF CORNWALL AND MR SIMON DAVEY OF ROUEN FRANCE, MERCHANT AND CHARLES DAVY OF SUTTON LANCASHIRE, MERCHANT. The deed then sets out the investments and property with detail on land holdings AND the estate of THOMAS DAVY DECEASED. THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS much detail for the Davy family of Cornwall on the marriage of Caroline Davy. GUARANTEED ORIGINAL AND IN GOOD CONDITION - SIZE 13 INCHES BY 16 INCHES ON EIGHT SHEETS OF FOLDED SMITH AND ALLNUT PAPER WATERMARKED FOR 1851.

Jones

Davey

1830

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Indenture 1830 Preston. Between Thomas Meadows of Preston clogger and John Harrison of Preston Spirit merchant dated 17/9/ 1830 in very good condition.

Meadows

Harrison

1777-1834

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ANTIQUE MIX OF EPHEMERA including a LETTER, a RECEIPT, a WILL, a solicitor's bill and a Notice to Quit. This mixture consists of several items including... A handwritten receipt dated Liverpool 30th July 1816 for £2 being payment for a plot of land ........... A copy (torn in half across the centre fold) of part of a will dated 1777 ....... A notice "To the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Corwen in the County of Merioneth...." that they are required to take notice that on the 1st May they must quit the "messuage tenement or dwelling" which they now occupy and apparently lease from Mary Davies. A letter, in poor condition, dated Liverpool May 17 1816 addressed to "Dear Marey" from her father........ What appears to be a copy of the will dated 1777 of William Maurice (copy of part of which is already listed above) with various comments added in another hand dated 1818 ...... A bill to Mr.Edward Lloyd for various legal services carried out in October 1834 for a total of £7 : 7 : 2 Size. The papers are various sizes.

Condition. As well as the usual folding creases, most of the items have tears, are dustmarked and condition is not good.

Davies

Maurice

Lloyd

1827, 1831

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Lancs - Indenture relating to a Dye Works with buildings, steam engine, shafts, gearings, vats, boilers etc in Hulme Lancashire dated 1st November 1827. This is a seven page handwritten 'true' copy made on 19th September 1831, paper, 16" x 13", revenue stamps on each page. Names mentioned include Caleb Radcliffe Bury of Manchester Drysalter, Richard Blackwell of Manchester Manufacturing Chemist, Michael Holt and Richard Holt bankrupts, George Gardner and James Collier Harler of Manchester Drysalters.

Radcliffe

Blackwell

Holt

Gardner

Harler