| Description | Title deeds and related papers re estates in Church Lawton, Alsager, Barthomley, Odd Rode, and Balterley, Tunstall and Woolstanton (Staffordshire), etc 16th century - 19th century; deeds of settlement, mortgages, assignments 18th-19th centuries; leases including salt works and coal mines, 18th - 20th centuries; estate maps and plans 19th century; papers re suits in Chancery including Lawton v Lawton, Lawton v Ford, Lawton v Wicksted, Brown v Lawton, Lawton v Campion 19th century; rentals 19th - 20th centuries; correspondence and papers of Maude and Tunnicliffe, solicitors, re Lawton family affairs; correspondence and papers re settlement of affairs of RCM Lawton and Miss EL Lawton 20th century; map of lands in Yorkshire [incomplete] 18th century; Royal grant of house, Manor, township and advowson of Church Lawton, with all lands and tenements, rights and privileges as previously held by the Abbey of St Werburgh, 1541; court rolls 1541-1860 (not a complete series); accounts of John Lawton as bailiff of the Manor 1422-1425; estreats of fines 1557-1700 (not a complete series); settlement bond of Robert Rowbothom and Margaret his wife on settling in Congleton, 1654; letter from Mariana Percy Lawton to Mr Wilbraham re security for loan to John Lawton, 1861; Title deeds and related papers re estates in Church Lawton, Alsager and Barthomley, and Tunstall and Woolstanton (Staffordshire), 15th-20th centuries, including deeds of settlement, 17th-18th centuries, lease to coals at Wolstanton, 1821, and probate copies of wills of Charles Bourne Lawton, 1860 and John Lawton, 1864; IPM of Sir John Savage of Rocksavage, 1527; papers re suits in Chancery: Lawton v Lawton, Lawton v Ford, Brown v Lawton, 19th century; inventory of plate at Lawton Hall, 1886; correspondence and papers re Lawton Cheshire estates and Lawton pedigree, 19th century |