| Description | (counterpart) prior to the MARRIAGE of Richard Brooke, gentleman, s. & h. of Henry Brooke of Norton, esq., with Francisca Posthuma Legh, sister of Richard Legh of Lyme, esq., between (1) the said Henry Brooke, esq., and (2) the said Richard Legh, Thomas Marbury of Marbury, John Arderne of Alvanley and Edward Hyde of Norbury, esquires ----- Henry Brooke will convey to (2) above the MANOR of NORTON with STOCKHAM alias STOCKCOME, the MANORS or GRANGES called ASTON GRANGE and ACTON GRANGE, and the HONOR FEE and MANOR of HALTON, with their rights, members and appurtenances, and Quit Rents, Rents of Assise, Free Rents, Copyhold and Customary Rents and other Rents to the said HONOUR FEE and MANOR of HALTON belonging, and the Castle or Mansion House called HALTON CASTLE and the site thereof in or near a Park in the Town of HALTON, and all other his Manors, Seignories, messuages, lands, tenements, Mills, Chief yearly and Fee Farm Rents, Copyhold and other Rents, Tithes, Free Warrens and fishings, view of frankpledge and other hereditaments in NORTON with STOCKHAM alias STOCKCOME, ASTON, ASTON GRANGE, ACTON, ACTON GRANGE, MOORE, CONGLETON and RUNCORN, or any of them, together with Courts Leet & Baron, Halmote Courts, law Days and other Courts, Services, franchises, etc., etc., as also the MANOR of CUERDLEY, Lancs., with the appurtenances, and also all his messuages, lands, tenements, rents, hereditaments, etc., with their appurtenances in CUERDLEY and RUNCORNE and WIDNEIS in the said Co. of Lancaster, and also all other his Manors, Lordships, Seignories, messuages, Mills, tenements, lands, Tithes, reversions, services and hereditaments with their appurtenances in LANCASHIRE and CHESHIRE, to the Uses of a Fine and/or a Recovery to be suffered. COVENANT that (2) above shall be seized of the following parcels of land, meadow, wood and pasture with their appurtenances (being parcel of the said hereditaments and premises and belonging to the said Capital Messuage or Mansion House called NORTON HALL or the HALL of NORTON as demesne lands and being in NORTON) called the Four High Fields, the Geld, the Sanders heyes, the Great Cryme, the two Little Crymes, the Morleys, Burges Meadow, the Pool Heads, the Sanders Moore, the Salt Pleck, the Shephards Moore, the Simcock High Field, the Marsh Meadow, the Sanders Meadow, the Runckhorne Meadow, the Oxmoores, the Okells Moores, the Seavenacre Meadow, the Silly Rowe Meadow, the Rushcrime Meadow, the Stubbs Meadow, the Savage Meadow, the Four Acre Meadow, the Two acre Meadow, the three acre meadow, the Great Ghorsty Barlowe, the Burges Hill and the Rye Sinte above the Horse Parke, in all 178 acres of the measure there used, and also of 2 messuages, cottages or dwelling houses called Thomas Barlowe's and John Lawton's Houses, and of 3 parcels of land, meadow and pasture called the Tanners Parke in NORTON containing 12 acres and being parcel of the above premises, for the payment to said Richard Brooke of an annuity of £250. Seals, No. 1 missing, Nos. 2 - 4 papered. Parchment. |