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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D77/1/64/95-105
Former ReferenceD77/5/99,98,96-97,95,94,90,91,92,93
TitleBundle of deeds re land and property in Northampton purchased or inherited by George Gresley of Lullington and Jane his wife (nee Nelson) 1666/7-1677,1854
Date1667-1854
Description(95) Will of Samuel Woollaston, 26 Feb 1666/7
(96) List of lands bequeathed by Rev Samuel Woollaston to Jane Nelson, [c1667]
(97-98) Marriage settlement and counterpart of Jane Nelson of Lullington spinster and George Gresley of Lullington gent., 10 May 1669
(99) Feoffment by bargain and sale by George Gresley and Jane his wife to William Percival of Northampton gardener of a messuage in the Sheep Market in Northampton, two cottages near the Marehould, and seven closes of pasture. Consideration £720, 28 Sep 1675
(100) Feoffment by George Gresley of Lullington gent. and Jane his wife to William Percival of a close (3 acres) without the north gate of Northampton; Jane to retain a life interest in the close. The rents and profitsof the close are to discharge annunities of 50s yearly to the poor of Northampton and 50s yearly to the poor of Thorpe Constantine (Co. Stafford). Recital of feoffment by Gresley to Percival of various lands in Northampton which had been devised to Jane (then Jane Nelson) by Samuel Wollaston and charged with payments as above; and of agreement between Gresley and Percival that the annuities should be charged on one particular parcel of land, 24 Jan 1675/6
(101) Covenant by George Gresley and Jane his wife to James Bales of Northampton cordwainer to levy a fine in the name of one messuage, one garden, one acre land, and six acres pasture in the town of No rthampton, 14 Jan 1677/8
(102) Feoffment by bargain and sale by George Gresley to James Bales of a small pasture close in the parish of St Sepulchre, another small close adjoining, and a third small close in the same parish. Consideration £130, 1 Dec 1682
(103) Feoffment by George Gresley to Priscilla Oldham of Northampton widow of a close (1½ acres) in St Edmund's End and three butts of arable (3 roods) in the common fields of Northampton shooting upon the said close. Consideration £80, 11 Dec 1682
(104) Feoffment by George Gresley and Jane his wife to James Bales of a messuage in the Sheep Market in Northampton and the Delf Close adjoining, another pasture close, with the Sheep Market on the east. Consideration £144, 30 Oct 1677
(105) Note by John Morewood Gresley that this bundle was 'selected from a sackful of deeds at Nether Seile relating to their [George and Jane Gresley] at Northampton', 1854
LevelFile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorGresley family of Drakelow
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