| Description | LICENCE for 31 years by the Rt. Hon. Richard Earl Rivers to Thomas Slyford, William Ricards, Samuel Wickins and John Alberton of London, merchants, and William Mascall of Frodsham, gentleman, to bore, search for and get, coal and other minerals within the Manors of RUNCORNE [Runcorn], HALTON, FRODSHAM, HELSBY, KINGSLEY, BRADLEY, OVERTON, NETHERTON, WOODHOUSE, NEWTON, NORLEY, BARROW, TARRIND (sic.) and HUXLEY, except the demesnes of Rocksavage [Rock Savage], the Park Bridgefield and about an acre in the tenure of Tobias Legross and Joseph Hornby, with licence to sink pits and make any necessary erections etc.; paying the said Earl the prices stipulated for each mineral. Paper. |