| Description | LEASE for 3 lives, by Rt. Hon. Thomas Earl Rivers to Henry Harpur of Norton, yeoman -- a messuage or tenement with appurts. in HELSBY now in the possession of the said Henry Harpur, with a close containing about 3 acres formerly enclosed from the wastes in HELSBY called the Greenes, and 3 other parcels of land containing ¾ acre formerly also enclosed from the Greenes, 2 acres in the New Meadow and 12 cowgates in the improved waste grounds called the Marsh in HELSBY aforesaid; for lives of the said Henry Harpur, Thomas Horne his grandchild and Edmund Birch of Alvendley, schoolmaster, at annual rent of 22/5. Cons. £48. Seal and signature cut away. Parchment. |