Description | Indenture of lease for a year by (1) Gervase Sleigh, of Broad Meadow, parish of Sheen, Staffordshire, son and heir of Ralph Sleigh also of Broad Meadow, gent, deceased, Elizabeth Sleigh, widow of Ralph, and Thomas Endon of Horton, Staffordshire, gent (devisees of the will of Ralph Sleigh) to (2) Robert Burdett of Bramcote, Warwickshire, esq, Robert Wilmot of Osmaston near Derby. esq, and Henry Dyson of Leicester, esq, field, yeoman (trustees and guardians of Sir John Harpur of Calke, infant aged about 8, son of Sir John Harpur late of Calke, deceased) Dated 6 Jan 3 Jas II 1687 [by modern reckoning 1688] |