| Description | LEASE (counterpart) for 3 lives, by Rt. Hon. Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (trustee) to John Wainwright of Helsby, yeoman --- a messuage, cottage or small tenement with appurts. in HELSBIE [Helsby] wherein the said John Knowles now dwells and closes called the backside, 1 acre in the ground called the Greenes, ½ acre in Blackeley and 2 cowgates in the late enclosed Marsh all in HELSEBIE aforesaid; for lives of John Knowles of Helsby, yeoman, the said John Wainwright and Mary Wainwright, his daughter, at annual rent of 5/-. Cons. £28. Seal: Red, crest, a unicorn's head. Parchment. |