| Title | Deed to levy a fine between John Kyrke of Burton on the Wolds, yeoman, and William Ballard of Wymeswold, gent., Robert Blount of Walton on the Wolds, parson, and Edward Blunt of Wymeswold, yeoman, by which Kyrke agrees to levy a fine to Ballard, Blount and Blunt, of all that messuage in Burton on the Wolds called Jordans Moor with all lands, etc., belonging, together with a third part of another messuage and lands in Burton on the Wolds and Wymeswold called `Mallories Lane'; also a cottage in Burton late in the occupation of James Pratte now of Robert Brett; also a moiety of a close in Burton called Wolleyes Close; also all that messuage or tenement in Burton with lands, etc., belonging, late in the tenure of Robert Swann, husbandman, purchased of William Stoke of Colshill, Warwickshire, esq., deceased; also a messuage or tenement in Burton in the tenure of John Meason; also one third part of a cottage and croft in Burton late in the tenure of James Brown with all lands, etc., belonging in Burton, Prestwold and Wymeswold, purchased of Thomas Smith of Colshill, gent., and Margerie his wife; also all those lands and tenements now in the tenure of John Kyrke and John Meason which heretofore were given for the perpetual maintenance and sustenance of a priest to celebrate and sing mass and dirge in the church of Prestwold, reputed to be taken as charity lands, purchased of William Shipman of London, gent., and Richard Simkin of Leicester, yeoman: to the use of Kyrke for his natural life, then after his decease, apart from the tenements and lands in the possession of Swan and Meason, to the use of John Kyrke his son and his lawful male heirs his third son and his lawful male heirs; and in default of issue to the use of his eldest son Hugh Kyrke and his lawful male heirs: the holdings in the occupation of Swann and Meason after the death of John Kyrke senior, to be held to the use of Joshua Kyrke, the third son, and his lawful male heirs; and in default of issue to the use of John Kyrke, the second son, and his lawful male heirs; and in default of issue to the use of Hugh Kyrke, the eldest son, and his lawful male heirs
10 Apr |