| Title | Lease and release by 1) William Fox of Edale p. Castleton, yeoman, 2) William Haigh of Tideswell yeoman, and 3) Thomas Kirk of Shireoaks, p. Glossop, yeoman, Samuel Hudson of Tideswell, butcher, and James Middleton of Wheston, p. Tideswell, yeoman, devisees and executors of will of Richard Swan late of Tideswell, deceased to 4) William Longsdon of Eyam, gent., and 5) Thomas Longsdon of Longston; reciting mortgage in £100 on 12 December 1771 by way of lease for 1000 years by Richard Swan of Tideswell, butcher, to Francis Burton of Tideswell, gent., and bond in £297. 16s. of 5 September 1775 by Swan to Burton to secure loan of £148. 18s. at £4. 7s. 6d. interest per £100 also charged on mortgaged lands; and mortgage in £500 at 4½% by lease and release of 21 and 22 July 1775 by Swan to Fox of land in question; and Swan's will of 12 March 1776; and quitclaim of 6 January 1778 by Elizabeth Swan, widow, of dower. Now to pay debts trustees sell to William Longsdon for £60 part of mortgaged premises, a piece of land called the head of the acre, 3½ roods [rods] in Tideswell adjoining William Longsdon's land on west and road from Tideswell to Mill House dale on east. Burton has assigned term of 1000 years to Haigh who assigns it to Thomas Longsdon to attend the inheritance. 16 and 17 October 1778 |