| Title | Family settlement between John Byram, gent., of Dalbury Lees and Dorothy his wife and William Parker of Parwich, gent., and Thomas Levinge of Stenson, Derby, gent., by which in consideration of £400 paid by Parker to Nicholas Hurt (Parker has mortgaged a farm in Tissington to Hurt) and that Byram and his wife will be party to a fine of a messuage and certain lands in Dalbury Lees, it is agreed that John Byram shall stand seised of all that capital messuage or farm called Fulwood in Hulland, lately purchased by Byram from Thomas Baynebrigge, and also all that parcel of the park reputed to belong to the farm and divided from it by a lane from Ashbourne to Hullands, containing about 55 acres [full details of bounds], lately purchased of Sir John Ferrars, and a moiety of all those closes in Ashbourne, Fenny Bentley and Kniveton called Ramscliffe, Ramscliffe Meadow, Ramscliffe Spring, Riddings, Riddings Park Spring and Riddings Park, purchased of Sir Humphry Ferrars knight: to the use of John Byram and Dorothy his wife for 70 years and after the decease of the survivor to the use of John Byram the younger his heirs and assigns. 2 Jun. |