| Title | Confirmation (?not executed) and counterpart made between 1. Robert Houlden of Aston gentleman and Richard Levis of Beeston, county Nottingham, yeoman and 2. Thomas Catesbie servant to Nicholas Willimott of Grays Inn esquire reciting that on 6 March 23 Charles [1648], the Earl of Dorset, Sir Henry Compton (both now dead) and Margaret Roper granted to Robert and Henry Houlden, Richard Levis and Thomas Roe inter alia the New or Hollowe Close in Weston, that on 10 May 1649 the Earl of Dorset released his estate in premises to some 4 persons, that Henry Houlden on 24 May 1651 released the premises to Levis and Roe, that Roe on 16 February 1651/2 released the premises to Levis, and witnessing that Levis, by direction of Robert Houlden and for 5s paid by Catesbie, confirmed half of the Hollowe Close lately divided into two, as it is now meared out lying on the east end of the Close next to the River Trent, in Weston, in the tenure of Nicholas Willimott and Robert Houlden, the whole close containing 100 acres.
Dated 1 September |