| Title | Lands in Clay Lane, and near Woolley Mill:
Copy conveyance by Samuel Rooth of Chesterfield tanner, Matthew Thomas Hopkinson of Woodthorpe in the parish of North Wingfield farmer, and William Clay of Shirland Park esq. to William Marriott of Newmarket in the parish of North Wingfield framework-knitter, reciting:
1/ Will of John Marriott of Newmarket framework-knitter (6 Jan. 1814) devising freehold hereditaments on Woolley Moor, and leasehold lands described below, to Thomas Stanley senior and Jeremiah Rooth to hold in trust for wife Elizabeth, and then to sell for the benefits of sons, Joseph, John, and William.
2/ Deaths of Stanley and Rooth, whereby the trusteeship has descended to Samuel Rooth and Matthew Thomas Hopkinson.
3/ Lease by William Stevenson to John Milward of Clay Lane (30 May 1734) of one third-part of a messuage and outbiidings, and of the Little Meadow, the Croft, and the two Worrow Meadows, to hold for term of 207 years at a rent of 15s.
4/ Will of William Stevenson (9 July 1744), and other deeds and writings whereby William Clay has become seised of one third-part of the premises on reversion of the term of 207 years.
5/ Various assignments by which John Marriott became possessed of the lease
- of the reversionary interest (for £35 paid to Clay) of and in and also possession of a messuage, the Barn Close or Croft (1 acre 1 rood), the Far Close (2 acres 27 perches), the Pit Hills (one acre 3 roods 18 perches), the Garden near Pit Hills (10 perches), the Pingle (13 perches), the Meadow (1 acre 1 rood), and the Far Meadow (1 acre 1 rood 5 perches), lying at or near Newmarket in the township of Clay Lane; and a piece of land at Woolley Moor near to Woolley Mill, lying in Morton parish, called Marriotts Patch; and of one undivided third part of lands as in the recited lease. Consideration £500. Dated 8 August |