| Description | Lease for a year from the said William Pownall, William Rathbone and Thomas Whittle (trustees), to the Rev. Thomas Wilson of Great Deans Yard in the city of Westminster, D.D. and one of the prebendaries of the Cathedral Church of St. Peter, Westminster, of all that manor or lordship of Woodchurch with the rights and appurtenances, all that cottage with the garden and two crofts in Woodchurch called Rathbones and which border upon the common lands there and containing 1 ac. 0r. 1p.; all that capital farm house and outbuildings etc. in Woodchurch called Murreys; all that other large and substantial farm house and outbuildings etc. in Woodchurch called Orreds; all that dwelling house etc. in Woodchurch called Robinsons; all those fields, closes or parcels of land in Woodchurch called the Orchard (2r. 25p.), the Lower Sand Field (13a. 3r. 12p.), the Ash Hollins (7a. 3r. 21p.), the New Hey (4a. 3r. 30p.), the Acres and Crooked Loons (part late Murrey and part late Orred now lying together) containing together 18ac. 0r. 30p., the Corn Wood (23a. 3r. 36p.), the Crook Loons Hey (9a. 3r. 21p.), the Big Hoole (15a. 1r. 14p.), the Landican Meadow (6a. 1r. 28p.), the lower part of the Great Meadow (7a. 0r. 22p.), the middle part of the Great Meadow (4a. 2r. 0p.), the higher part of the Great Meadow adjoining the Town Meadows (6a. 2r. 12p.), one third part (the whole into three equal parts to be divided) of the Town Meadow (1a. 1r. 4p.); also one other third part in the said Town Meadow subject to an exchange every alternate year with Sir Rowland Stanley, Bart., for the residue of the same meadow, which part contains 1a. 1r. 4p.; the meadow called Orreds (13a. 0r. 28p.), the part of late Orreds Meadow in Upton (2r. 26p.), the Swine Croft late Murreys (12a. 0r. 38p.), the part of the Swine Croft late Murreys in Upton (1r. 33p.) the Fearney Brow (10a. 0r. 10p.), the Grass Wood (18a. 0r. 10p.), the Wood (6a. 3r. 38p.), the Greens (14a. 1r. 20p.), the Heath Hey (5a. 0r. 31p.), and Rowsons Croft (2r. 16p.); all then or late in the possession or occupation of the said John Crookhall, his undertenants or assigns. |