| Description | Comprising: -
(i) List of court dates, 1498-1556
(ii) Court rolls, 1498-1514, also including courts at Warslow, 1505-1507
(iii) Court rolls, 1524-1555
(iv) Index of places in leases arranged by regnal year, made 16 Dec 1571
The information in the book has been copied at a later date in the 16th century. With regard to the court rolls, they have not been transcribed exactly as they would have appeared in the original, with some re-arrangement of date information. The book is bound in a parchment cover made up from a religious text with coloured initial letters and individual words and passages highlighted in red ink.
Also including D2375/A/S/1/1/2/1 (previously D2375/M/1/3/1)
Draft letter from a dying mother to her son, dictated and written in Swarkestone, written on the reverse of notes about four properties, late 16th century
The draft letter makes references to a "noble man", possibly the Earl of Derby, and relatives in the Needham and Bennet family; the notes refer to an indenture of 28 June 1577 granted by V.M. [Vincent Mundy] to his son H.M, the properties seemingly leased from the Queen, including references to a demesne or hallhouse, Shacklow and the Cawdrey, the last being not held of the Duchy but of the manor of Alton, being the fee of the Earl of Shrewsbury. |