| Title | Quorn: Release by Sir William Yorke of Lessingham Lincs., Dame Katherine Yorke, his wife, relict and administrator of the goods and chattels of William Leeke serjeant at law, deceased, William Sacheveral of Barton, Nottinghamshire, esq., Charles Hutchingson of Owthorpe, Nottinghamshire, esq., and William Cooke of Wymeswold, gent., to George Morton of Quorn, esq., in consideration of £589 15s 8d., of a capital messuage in Quorn known as the Nether Hall late in the occupation of Henry Farnham, gent., now of George Morton, and land adjoining, also Coney Grey Close, 9 acres, a water mill and fulling mill, and two parcels of ground called the Millbrook and the Reedbedd in Quorn, also 6 acres of meadow called Mill Holme or Barrow Holme in Barrow on Soar, and all other premises in Quorn and Barrow on Soar, and all other premises in Quorn and Barrow on Soar purchased by George Morton of Henry Farnham by conveyance dated 25 Aug 1687; also several parcels of arable, lea, meadow and pasture in Walton on the Wolds, Leicestershire, - 1 yard land - late in the tenure of Timothy Hamsley (purchased of J Hemsley): all the premises were subsequently mortgaged by George Morton to William Cooke in trust for William Leeke
30 Sep |