| Description | LEASE (counterpart) for 3 lives, by Rt. Hon. Thomas Earl Rivers to John Wright of Helsbye, yeoman -- a messuage or tenement with appurts. in HELSBYE [Helsby] late in the possession of Henry Harpur, a close containing about 3 acres formerly enclosed from the wastes of Helsbye called the Greenes, ½ acre in the New Meadow and 12 cowgates on the improved waste grounds called the marsh; for lives of Mary Lynaker wife of John Lynaker of Kewardley (Co. Lanc.), yeoman, Martha Hearne spinster, her daughter, and Edmund Birch of Alvandley schoolmaster, at annual rent of 22/5. Cons. £130. Seal: Red, illegible. Parchment. |