| Description | LEASE (counterpart) for 3 lives by Rt. Hon. Richard Earl Rivers to Thomas Massye of Netherton, yeoman --- a messuage or tenement with appurts. in NETHERTON, Lordship of Frodsham, wherein the sd. Thomas Massye now inhabits, with 6 cowgates in the Lords Marsh, 6 other cowgates in the Holes and 1 acre in the Miccow Meadow in FRODSHAM, now/late in the holding of the sd. Thomas Massye; for lives of Thomas Massye, son of the lessee, Margrett Cooke, wife of Henry Cooke of Worsley (Co. Lanc.), late Margrett Sumner, and Alice Baylie, daughter of Thomas Baylie, now wife of Robert Eaton of Bartington, yeoman, at annual rent of 19/9, 2 rent capons or 2/- and heriot of best beast or good or £5. Cons. Surrender of former lease and £30. Seal: Red, illegible. Parchment. |