| Description | LEASE (counterpart) for 3 lives, by Rt. Hon. Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (trustee) to John Wainwright the younger of Helsby, husbandman --- a messuage or tenement with appurts. in HELLESBY [Helsby] wherein the said James Walley now dwells, with all houses, gardens, lands etc: pertaining and 12 cowgates on the late enclosed marshlands in HELLESBY, 1 close containing ½ acre in the Greenes and ½ acre in the New Meadow, all which 12 cowgates, close and ½ acre were in the holding of Alice Challenor; for lives of Richard Banner, son of John Banner of Ftodsham, and of Elizabeth, wife of the said John Wainwright and John their son, at annual rent of 16/-. Cons. £115. Seal: Red, crest, a unicorn's head. Parchment. |