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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D231/M/T/27-28
TitleRelease by Leak Okeover of Okeover, esq to Wrightson Mundy of Osbaston, Leicestershire, and John Eardley Wilmot of the Inner Temple, London, for the better securing of the payment of the debts of the said Leak Okeover, in consideration of 10 shillings, of the manor of Okeover and the capital messuage or mansion house there with all parks, messuages, farms, mills, lands, tenements, grounds belonging, all tithes of corn, hay, wool and lamb in Okeover Woodhouse and Swinscoe, all those messuages, farms, lands, tenements and hereditaments in Okeover Woodhouse, Swinscoe, Mayfield, Ilam, Castern [Calton], now or late in the tenure of Henry Ford, John Sellors, Samuel Swynscow [Swinscoe], William Hodgkinson, Samuel Smith, Richard Milward, Thomas Hodkinson, Edward Roobotham and John Wilcockson (annual rent £810 11s 8d), also several quit rents issuing out of certain tenements in Swinscoe; also all that manor or lordship of Atlow and all those messuages, farms, tenements, lands rents, profits and hereditaments in Atlow and Mapleton in the occupation of Thomas Hewson, Edward Carter, John Allcock, Robert Austin, John Hallam, Thomas Oliver, William Chesham, Diana Ryley, Joseph Tunnicliffe, Peter Pearson, Richard Wood, John Tinn, Humphrey Daniel, John Tomlinson, William Cockin, Samuel Smith, Samuel Buntin, Christopher Tomlinson, senior, Thomas Longdon, Andrew Cockin and Richard Harrison (annual rent £513 1s 8d): also all those manors or lordships of Wymeswold and Crackhole alias Crowhole in Wymeswold, Leicestershire, and the capital messuage or mansion house there and all those messuages, tenements and farms in Wymeswold and several quit rents and other rents payable to Leak Okeover in Wymeswold; also all that close in Thorpe-in-the-Clotts (Thorpe-in-the-Glebe), Nottinghamshire called Over Mussels, 12acre by estimation, and part of a close called Hebes Close, 22acre or 18perches; also all that capital messuage in Hardwick, Norfolk with all lands, tenements and hereditaments thereto belonging, and also all that messuage, tenement and farm with its appurtenances in the occupation of Jeremy Wade, 147acre., and also the sheepwalk in Hardwick and North Runton, all that messuage or tenement in Hardwick in the occupation of Nicholas Rightus and all the lands, gardens and hereditaments thereto belonging, 90 acres by estimation; also 4 acres of land in Hardwick; all that land of Leak Okeover's in Middleton, Norfolk, 11acre. by estimation in the occupation of Henry Towers and a messuage or tenement at West Winch, Norfolk, in the occupation of Master Bagg and several parcels of ground in Sech alias Sechee, 25acre by estimation, in the occupation of John Williamson and also two parcels of ground in Sechee next the brook, 4½a. by estimation in the occupation of John Hinn and a small parcel of ground, 1acre by estimation, butting on the common in the occupation of Edward Woodhouse (£499 annual value of Norfolk estate); also all that messuage, farm or tenement called Huntingfield Farm, Huntingfield, Suffolk, in the occupation of Widow Ingate: to be held upon trust with the intent that they with all speed sell and dispose of the premises for the highest possible sum and from the proceeds pay firstly the costs incurred in the execution of the trusts and secondly to discharge all Leak Okeover's debts mentioned in the first schedule (attached) and such of the debts in the second schedule (attached) as shall be found justly due: the surplus to be used to purchase government or real securities at interest, paying the interest annually to Leak Okeover and after his death to his wife, Mary, for life: if any part of the estate not disposed of then the rents and profits to be paid to Leak Okeover and after his death, his wife Mary: further Okeover assigns to Mundy and Wilmot the lease of the rectory of Wymeswold upon trust that it is assigned for the best possible price: also Okeover agrees with Mundy and Wilmot to levy a fine of all the premises before Michaelmas Term.
16 Aug
Date1751
Levelfile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorOkeover family of Okeover
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