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D231 - Okeover family of Okeover - [12th-20th cent]

M - Deeds and estate records - [12th-20th cent]

B - Business

E - Estate Papers

A - Derbyshire and Staffordshire Estate

B - Norfolk and Suffolk Estates

C - Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire Estates

1 - Leicestershire Estate

584 - Wymeswold: Copy feoffment by Thomas Leake, son and heir of William Leeke, and William Leeke, clerk to Thomas Barrett, William Leeke, junior, Thomas Francke, William Hall, Henry Laser, Richard Blunt, William Fox, Robert Leeke, Godfrey Blunt and Thomas Thompson, of a messuage, croft and 50 acres of land with appurtenances in Wymeswold in the tenure of Thomas Blankbye and a cottage and croft adjoining in Wymeswold in the tenure of Oliver Ball, blacksmith : the true intent is that the feoffees should stand and be seised of the property to the intent that the rents and profits be applied towards amending the highways of the parish and towards the easing and discharging of the poorest of the said parish 23 Apr 1575 - circa 1700

585 - Wymeswold: Copy feoffment by Thomas Barrett to William Leeke, John Fox, Thomas Hickling, William Barrett, Edward Blunt, Thomas Lacer, Robert Franke, John Franke, William Mylher and Richard Fox, all of Wymeswold, of a messuage and ten acres of arable aland in Wymeswold in the tenure of Thomas Blunt and also a cottage with croft and 4½ acres of land in Wymeswold : the feoffees to stand seised of the property so that the rents and profits may be employed towards the amendment of the highway and discharging of the poor of the parish 23 Apr 1575 - circa 1700

586 - Wymeswold: Copy exemplification of final concord between William Gee and Nathaniel Hayton, plaintiffs, and Samuel Ballard, deforciant of the manors of Crowhole and Willoughby, Wymeswold : consideration £320 - 1627

587 - Wymeswold: Abstract of title relating to a messuage and land in Wymeswold [Leicestershire]in the tenure of Edward Blunt, beginning with gift by William Thorpe of Wymeswold to Thomas Spyster of Grimston, Thomas Symson and William Bradman of Wymeswold of all the lands and tenements which he holds by gift and feoffment of Richard Plomer in the vill and fields of Wymeswold 3 Apr 1420 - 1606

588 - Wymeswold: Further abstract of title relating to a messuage and land in Wymeswold in the tenure of Edward Blunt reciting an assignment by Christopher Neall, Thomas Scott, chaplain, Nicholas Coveley of Swynford to John Franke son of William Franke of Wymeswold, William ? Aleylie, Thomas Hummerston, William Tomlinson, William Blounte and Thomas Hutchinson, all of Wymeswold, of all the lands and tenements, rents reversions and services with meadows, pastures paturage and all apuurtenaces in the town and fields of Wymeswold which they hold by gift and feoffment of Joseph Andrewe of Wymeswold along with William Huchinson, John Thomason and William Franke, 31 March 1506 14 Jan - 1606/1707

589 - Wymeswold: Abstracts from an Act to enable Thomas Okeover gent., son and heir apparent of Rowland Okeover of Okeover, together with the said Rowland Okeover to make a jointure and settlement upon the marriage of Thomas Okeover (to Katherine Leeke) and an Act to enable Katherine Leeke an infant under the age of twnety-one to settle and dispose of her estate on her marriage - 1670

590 - Wymeswold: Wymeswold rent account. Lady Day 1714 - Lady Day 1715 - 1714-1715

591 - Wymeswold: Valuarion of all the materials in Wymeswold Hall House belonging to Leeke Okeover, esq - 1744

592 - Wymeswold: Detailed terrier of several farms in Wymeswold belonging to Leeke Okeover, esq., by Samuel Hutchinson, giving tenants, field and furlong names, lengths, breadths and acreage of each parcel - 1716

593 - Wymeswold: Wymeswold field book - 1716

594 - Wymeswold: Lease by William Blounte of Burton on the Wolds to William Blounte of Wymeswold, his son and heir, in consideration of 40s., of all his messuages and lands in Wymeswold: for 21 years at 26s 8d rent per annum 23 May - 1563

595 - Wymeswold: Lease by Edward Calton of Wymeswold, gent., Margaret his wife and Robert Calton his son and heir to Ellis Wyllymott of Wymeswold, labourer, Margaret his wife and Henry his son, in consideration of £1, of a cottage in Wymeswold late in the tenure of John Wormall together with a small area of land at the backside of the cottage marked out for fencing: to hold for their lives at an annual rent of 2d - 23 Feb [1597]

596 - Wymeswold: Lease by Edward Ballard, gent., to John Hopkyn of Wymeswold and Anne his wife, in consideration of £4, of a cottage in Wymeswold with barns, stable and backside, 1 land of arable in the Arrowe Field ½ acre, 1 land of arable at Mylnhill in the Hardacre Field ½ acre, 1 land of arable at Hall Arse in the Burton Field ½ acre, 2 beast pastures and five sheep commons: to hold for their lives an annual rent of 10s 10 Apr - 1598

597 - Wymeswold: Lease by Philip Rolston of Watnall, esq., and Samuel Ballard of Wymeswold, esq., to William Leeke of Wymeswold, in consideration of £27, of all those several parcels of arable land in Wymeswold known as Myllwong, 8 acres by estimation, and a wong on Stoncliffe Furlong in the Burton Field, 9 acres by estimation, now or late in the tenure of Philip Roston: for 21 years at an annual rent of a peppercorn 21 Jun - 1627

598 - Wymeswold: Lease by Margaret Rolston of Watnall, widow of Philip Rolston, and Samuel Ballard of Wymeswold, gent; to Thomas Timynge of Wymeswold, labourer, of a cottage or tenement in Wymeswold in the occupation of Thomas Timynge, common pasture for three kyne or large beasts and 20 sheep and 1½ acres of arable consisting of ½ acre on Mill Hill in the Hardacre Field, ½ acre on Peaseborrow Hill in the Arrowe Field and ½ acre in the east of Burton Field, and the Doctor Close 4 acres in the Thorpe Field : for 21 years at an annual rent of £5 13s. 4d. 28 Jan - 1627/1628

599 - Wymeswold: Lease by Margaret Rolston of Watnall, widow, and Philip Rolston, her son, and Samuel Ballard of Wymeswold, gent., to Thomas Dickman of Symeswold, tailor, of a close of pasture in Wymeswold called Horseleys Close, 4 acres and three selions of pasture of ley ground in the Burton Field, 1½ acres : for 21 years at an annual rent of 35s. : not to plough any of the enclosure 17 Feb - 1628/1629

600 - Wymeswold: Lease by Philip Rolston and Samuel Bllard, gent., to Robert Palmer of Bunny, Nottinghamshire., miller of a cottage or tenement in Wymeswold, the Blount Close, a parcel of ground at the east end of the cottage, a piece of ground at the west end 3yds × 4 yds and a windmill in the Thorpe Filed together with a place or way called the Sawtree : for 21 years at an annual rent of £4. 13 Sep - 1630

601 - Wymeswold: Lease by William Leeke of Wymeswold and Katherine his wife and William Streete the younger of Halloughton, Leicestershire, to Roger Smith of Edmonthorpe, Leicestershire, of the manors of Crackhole and Wymeswold, purchased from Francis Willoughby, the farm called Tomlinsons Land together with the pasture and meadow belonging in Burton-on-Wolds, for 40 years at a peppercorn rent. 10 Nov - 1632

602 - Wymeswold: Lease by Roger Smith of Edmonthorpe, Leicestershire, esq., to William Leeke of Wymeswold, gent; of the manors of Crackhole and Wymeswold, purchased from Francis Willoughby, the farm called Tomlinsons Land together with the pasture and meadow belonging in Burton-on-Wolds for 39 years 50 weeks at an annual rent of £208 for the first 17 years and £200 for the remainder of the term. 20 Nov - 1632

603-604 - Wymeswold: Lease by William Blunt of Wymeswold, yeoman, to John Hall of Wymeswold, yeoman, of a messuage of tenement in Wymeswold in the occupation of John Hall with all the arable, meadow and pasture land belonging : for 80 years at an annual rent of 8s. : no enclosure to be ploughed except that already in tillage 18 April [2 copies] - 1636

605 - Wymeswold: Lease by William Leeke of Wymeswold, gent., to Isabell Gee of Wymeswold, widow, of a cottage or tenement in Wymeswold in the occupation of Isabell Gee with barn, stable and croft and 1 acre of arable in the Arrowe Field, 1 acre in the Thorpe Field, 1 acre in the Hardacre Field and 3 acres of meadow on Cliff Hill : for 60 years at 46s 8d rent 4 May - 1637

606 - Wymeswold: Demise by William Leeke of Wymeswold, gent., Katherine his wife and Sir Roger Smith of Edmonsthorpe to Jane Smith, daughter of Sir Roger and Edward Smith grandchild of Sir Roger, in consideration of £790 12s 0d of a messuage, tenement, or farm in Wymeswold in the occupation of William Wright together with 41 acres of land (£24 annual value), close called Lillie Croft 13 acres (£13 6s 8d annual value), close called Doctors Close 6 acres (£5 annual value) and a little close ½ rood : for 99 years with remainder to Edward Smith 21 August - 1644

607 - Wymeswold: Lease by William Leeke of Wymeswold, gent., to John Carr of Wymeswold, mason, of a cottage and orchard in Wymeswold together with 4 lands of arable on Hall Ash Furlong in the Burton Field, 1 acre, 4 lands on Branborrow Sick in the Arrowe Field, 1 acre, and 3 lands on Clatheland Sick in the Hardacre Field 0 acre 3 roods 20 perches : for 40 years at an annual rent of 22s until the death of William Leeke and then at an annual rent of 2s. 4 Jan - 1646/1647

608-609 - Wymeswold: Lease by William Leeke of Wymeswold, gent., to Isabell Gee of Wymeswold, widow of property in Wymeswold: for 60 years at an annual rent of 5s. 31 Mar [2 copies] - 1647

610 - Wymeswold: Lease by William Leeke of Wymeswold, gent., to Edward Blunte of Wymeswold, yeoman, of a cottage or tenement in Wymeswold in the occupation of Thomas Gyll with orchard, garden and yards and 1 bay of barn, 6 acres of arable, 2 acres of meadow, common of pasture for 3 cows or heifers and 10 sheep and the Tenter or Dovecote Close in Wymeswold : for 99 years (except for the close which is for 10 years only) at an annual rent of £2 - 2 Feb 1647/1648

611 - Wymeswold: Articles of agreement between William Barrett of Wyneswold, gent., William Shuttlewood of Wyneswold gent., Hugh Blunt, William Fox, Edward Thompson, Edward Blunt, Richard Fisher, Edward Longley (all of Wymeswold) and William Leeke of Wymeswold, gent., by which they agree to improve and inclose Wyneswold Cow Pasture and three out of every twenty acres of their respective estates because of the shortage of hay and pasture in the parish : farmers have found it necessary to joyce out all their milk cows at excessive rates for want of sufficient enclosure, all their pasture lying so far from them that not only do their cattle suffer from going to it, but also adjacent lordships eat up and destroy all or most of it. Dated 11 Feb 1651/1652 - 11 Feb [1652]

612 - Wymeswold: Lease by William Leeke to Thomas Fox the younger of Wymeswold of a messuage or tenement in Wymeswold recently purchased from Edward Blunt containing three bays of building, also a close of pasture called Blunts Close another called Longleys Close in the Burton Field, and 160 acres of arable, meadow and pasture in Wymeswold, together with the Great Barn and Parsonage Yard : for 12 years (Great Barn and Parsonage Yard for three years then from year to year) at an annual rent of £57 1 Apr - 1653

613 - Wymeswold: Articles of agreement regarding the stocking of Wymeswold Commons between William Barratt of Wymeswold gent., William Shuttlewood of Wymeswold, gent., William Burrowes, William Fox, the elder, William Fox the younger, Richard Leake, Joseph Franke, William Franke, Richard Lacer, Richard Fisher, William Hickling, John Burrowes, John Fox, William Blunt, Edward Langley, Joshua Fox, Thomas Corner, Edward Fox, John Blunt, Robert Leeke, Thomas Fox the elder, Thomas Fox the younger, Francis Crutchley, Edward Blunt, William Langley, John Fittens, Robert Franke, Elijah Dores, Edward Bolton, Henry Defraine, William Lacer, of all Wymeswold, husbandmen, William Dickerson, William Corner, Edward Fox, John Leake, William Marshall, Edward Linfield, William Shittlewood, William Tinfield and William Forsoke, labourers, and William Leeke of Wymeswold, gent., by which it is agreed:- (a) that they shall not keep above 9 beasts for every three score acres of arable, ley and meadow belonging to Wymeswold nor above 20 sheep for every 20 acres or arable, ley and meadow, and also all their lambs without dames which shall be brought into commonable places of the fields of Wymeswold shall go into account for old sheep after St James' Day in every year. (b) they shall not keep above six horses for every 60 acres of arable, ley and meadow. (c) that the occupant of every ancient cottage within the said liberties shall keep two beasts or five beasts in ancient commonable places. (d) for every 60 acres of arable there shall be 3 acres thereof. (e) that if any of them shall keep any beasts in tether upon their known grounds in the common fields, then he shall abate of their beasts upon the common pasture and that he shall not keep above two beasts for 60 like acres or three beasts for 80 like acres, and that none of them shall tether any beasts within Wymeswold after 1 August (f) that they shall not tether at large before the harvest be all "inned", nor shall they break any field or common psture withou the consent of the commoners. (g) that all of the parties shall proportionately contribute towards the sufficientditching and scouring of the common cow pasture from Willoughby at or before the 26th March 13 May - 1653

614 - Lease by Joan Streete of Halloughton, Leicestershire, spinster, undertenant of the Masters, Fallows and of Trinity College, Cambridge, to William Leeke of Wymeswold for the residue of a 16 year term granted to her in 1652: annual rent of £4 10s 6¼d and 10 quarts 7 bushels 3 quarts of good merchantable wheat and 14 quarts 4 bushels 1 peck of good merchantable malt of barley. 8 Jul - 1654

615 - Lease by William Leeke of Wymeswold esq., to Nicholas Chamberlaine of Wymeswold of a cottage and close adjoining in Wymeswold with common pasture for two kine [heifers] or other neat beasts and six sheep on the commons of Wymeswold: annual rent of 50s, and an additional rent of 12d (?chief rent) 8 Jul - 1654

616 - Lease by William Leeke to [name illegible], mercer, and Rebecca his wife of a messuage or tenement in Wymeswold with land bedlonging: for 80 years at an annual rent of 50s. Date missing - 1654

617 - Lease by William Leeke of Wymeswold to Thomas Hall of Normanton iuxta [near] Plumtree Nottinghamshire, of a messuage or tenement in Wymeswold lately purchased from Edward Blunt with the great barn standing in the Parsonage Yard, Blunts Close, Horsleys Close and 160 acres of arable, meadow and pasture land in Wymeswold: the great barn to be held from year to year, the remainder for 10 years at an annual rent of £57: not to convert into tillage either if the closes or any hades or grass ground: schedule of land attached. 10 Apr - 1655

618 - Lease by William Leeke of Wymeswld, gent, to William Staveley of Cossington, Leicestershire, clerk, in consideration of £150, of a messuage or tenement in Wymeswold Blunts and Horsleys Closes and 160 acres of arable meadow and pasture in Wymeswold in the occupation of Thomas hall: for 21 years at a peppercorn rent. - 28 Jan [1657]

619 - Wymeswold: lease by William Staveley of Cossington, Leicestershire, clerk, to William Leeke of Wymeswold, gent, of a messuage or tenement in Wymeswold with the great barn standing in the Parsonage Yard, Blunts Close, Horsleys Close and 160 acres of arable, meadow and pasture land in Wymeswold, for 20 years 11 months at an annual rent of £30 - 30 Jan [1657]

620 - Wymeswold: lease by William Sims of Leicester, gent, to William Leeke the elder of Wymeswold gent of all that capital messuage reputed to be a moiety of the site of the manor of Crackhole, Wymeswold late in the tenure of William Leeke, 120 acres of arable, meadow, pasture and grass ground, closes called Hall Close, Bennett Close, three lammas closes, Mussal Close, Arnold Leys and Bennett Grange, moiety of the march Close, a cottage or tenement and 3 acres of arable land in Wymeswold in the occupation of Dorothy Draper, three other cottages, and a moiety of the manor of Cracklehole: to hold for 13 years 11 months at an annual rent of £50 3 May - 1658

621 - Licence by the Masters, Fellows and Scholars of Trinity College, Cambridge, to William Leeke, to underlet the rectory of Wymeswold 10 Apr - 1665

622 - Wymeswold: Lease by William Leeke of Wymeswold to Edward Blunt, Edward Belton and John Borrowes of Wymeswold yeoman of a farm in Wymeswold called the Hall Farm and 120 acres of land, lea and meadow, late in the tenure of William Fox, Richard Leake and Robert Langley: for 9 years at an annual rent of £34: £3 per acre additional rent for ploughing any meadow or pasture land 13 Oct - 1669

623 - Wymeswold: Lease by William Leake of Wymeswold gent., to William Baxter of Wymeswold of a cottage or tenement with little close in Wymeswold now in the occupation of William Baxter: for 99 years at 15s per annum 20 Sep - 1673

624 - Wymeswold: Licence by the Masters, Fellows and Scholars of Trinity College, Cambridge, to William Leeke of Wymeswold sergeant at low, to underlet the rectory of Wymeswold 18 Mar - 1684/1685

625 - Wymeswold: Further licence by the Masters, Fellows and Scholars of Trinity College, Cambridge, to Rowland Okeover, to underlet the rectory of Wymeswold 13 Oct - 1720

626 - Wymeswold: Lease by Leeke Okeover of Wymeswold gent., to Edward Fox of Wymeswold in consideration of £10 of a cottage or tenement in Wymeswold: for 31 years at an annual rent of £3 11 Feb - 1724

627 - Wymeswold: Memoranda of an agreement between Leeke Okeover of Wymeswold esq., and Henry Lacer of Wymeswold husbandman, by which Okeover has let to Lacer several parcels of arable, meadow and pasture ground in Wymeswold 16½ acres, now in the tenure of William Hickling, also a parcel of meadow called New Close, 15 acres, in Wymeswold: for 12 years at an annual rent of £12: permitted to plough 4 acres of leys in the New Close, spreading 4 loads of horse dung per acre 20 Jan - 1728/1729

628 - Wymeswold: Bond by William Barrett of Wymeswold yeoman, to Edward Ballard in £20: that Ballard may occupy a moiety of a cottage and croft in Wymeswold sold to Ballard in a deed of the same date 29 Sep - 1602

629 - Wymeswold: Bond by Edward Blunt of Wymeswold yeoman, to William Blunt, junior, of Wymeswold, yeoman, in £20, to observe the covenants etc., in a deed of the same date 8 Oct - 1612

630 - Wymeswold: Bond by Thomas Hickling of Wymeswold yeoman, to William Blunt, in £20, to observe the covenants in a deed of exchange of the same date 16 Feb - 1612/1613

631 - Wymeswold: Bond by William Leeke of Wymeswold to William Pywell in £50: Leeke as occupier of Willoughby Manor, Wymeswold to appear before the Court of Wards and Liveries at Westminster at Easter 1633 to pay the arrears for the land (Willoughby, a royal manor) 6 Apr - 1633

632 - Wymeswold: Defeasance of a bond between Thomas Fox of Wyneswold and William Barrett of Wymeswold reciting the statute by which William Barrett was bound to Thomas Fox in £240, by which, if Barrett pays to Fox £129 12s 0d by 18 Apr next ensuing then the previous statute shall be void 18 Apr - 1648

633 - Wymeswold: Bond by John Pole of Nottingham esq., to William Leeke of Wymeswold in £120: Leeke and Pole jointly bound in £180 to Marie Greaves of Nottingham 2 Jul - 1653

634 - Wymeswold: Assignment by William Blunt of Wapping, Middlesex, shipwright, executor of the will of Thomas Franke late of Wymeswold to Thomas Barber of London, gent., in consideration of £50, of judgement relating to debts made in the Court of Common Please: Barber also appointed as Blunt's legal attorney - 1671/1672

635 - Wymeswold: Discharge by William Franke the elder, administrator of the goods, chattels and hereditaments of John Frank late of Wymeswold his father, yeoman, to John Blunt of Wymeswold yeoman, in consideration of £13 15s 0d., of a judgement awarded in the Court of Common Pleas to John Franke against William Barrett the younger of Wymeswold for an £80 debt and £7 10s 0d damages and cost of suit, together with bargain and sale of the said judgement 16 Oct - 1673

636 - Wymeswold: Receipt by Samuel Tryst for £390 from William Leeke, being the purchase money for the Over Mussels Close, Thorpe in the Glebe, Nottinghamshire 21 Aug - 1677

637 - Wymeswold: Bond by William Charles of Wymeswold, miller, to William Johnson of Wymeswold, wheelwright, and Robert Wardle of Thurkinson, framework knitter, in £182, to observe the covenants and agreements in a release of the same date 29 Sep - 1713

638 - Wymeswold: Bond by William Henton, senior, of Burton on the Wolds to Leake Okeover of Wymeswold in £10: not to enter the manor of Wymeswold with guns, dogs or nets 26 Nov - 1729

639 - Wymeswold: Bill of complaint in the Court of Chancery by the Master, Fellows, and Scholars of Trinity College, Cambridge, William Pagett, William Blunt and Thomas Hicklinge (on behalf of the other freeholders) against Edward Ballard, gent., for the illegal enclosure by Ballard of lands on which the College and the freeholders customarily had rights of common, namely 4 acres in Horse Leys, Cottage Close 4 acres, Shottle Close 11 acres, Smallings Ley Close 8 acres, Close in Beasts Pasture 3 acres, Garleinge Close 15 acres and Upper Wyllie Croft 7 acres: Ballard ordered to lay the lands open by making 2 gaps each 20 feet wide in each enclosure before 25 Mar 28 Jun - 1613

640 - Wymeswold: Judgement at Wymeswold Manor Court in a dispute between William Crosse and Elias Sores - 1659

641 - Wymeswold: Constitutions, orders and bye laws consented unto and agree upon by the inhabitants of Wymeswold relating to the regulation of the stocking of the open fields and common pastures, including the appointment of overseers of the fields 20 Apr - 1683

642 - Wymeswold: Note by the field reeves regarding the number of beasts and sheep on Wymeswold Commons - circa 1670

643 - Wymeswold: An account of all the buildings that were burnt down to the ground [?in Wymeswold] 6 May - 1655

644 - Wymeswold: William Okeover's account of what is gained by the growing interest and his shaw in the "college lease" (Wymeswold tithes) - 1714-1719

645 - Wymeswold: Detailed inventory (undated) of household goods and furniture in "Madame Margaret and Madame Katherine's rooms" - ?Wymeswold Hall - [18th cent]

646 - Wymeswold: - [18th cent]

647 - Wymeswold: Receipt by John Blunt for £230 from William Leeke, sergeant at law, being the consideration money in an indenture of feoffment 31 Oct - 1681

648 - Wymeswold: Receipt by Daniel Dun for £477 from William Leeke, being part of the £990 consideration in a release of 2 Apr 1673 - 1673

649 - Misterton, Leicestershire: Covenant between William de Venables and Amicia[Amy] his wife and Philip Lovell rector of the church of Hamslape, [Buckinghamshire,] by which de Venables has leased to Philip all his land of Menstreton [Misterton, Leicestershire], with all appurtenances and 10s annual rent for Beruhanger for 12 years at an annual rent of 10 marks: further the said Philip shall not take more than two marks of silver by way of aid at the feast of St Michael from the men of the said William holding virgates of land in Menstreton nor extort any money from them unjustly, and the said Philip shall return the fallow land and the house and gardens at Easter preceding the end of the term Witnesses: Sir Peter le Poter, Lord John de Chetwind, knights, Robert, priest, vicar of Geldesburg, Richard Chamberlain, parson of Luffenhum, William de Haselbech, parson of Wycham, Walter de St. Paul, parson of Misendon, Nicholas de St. Edmund, and others - 1257

650 - Misterton, Leicestershire: Lease by Hugh de Acove(re) [Okeover] to William, clerk, of Munsterdon [Misterton], of a virgate of land with appurtenances in the territory of Munsterdon, which virgate of land Robert Curteys once held: from Michaelmas 1261 for 20 years at an annual rent of 10s Witnesses: William Purfrai of Munsterdon, Robert son of Adam of the same place, Thomas le Frede of the same place, John Caretarius de Ord and Richard Parent of the same place - 1261

651 - Misterton, Leicestershire: Lease by Hugh de Acove(re) [Okeover] to John de Whatham, rector of the church of Lutterworthe, of all his demesne of Menstreton, of which one field lies fallow that year and a messuage of his there with buildings, gardens, curtilages, pastures, waters, fisheries and turbaries and an annual rent of 30 acres which the said John shall pay to Hawys de Sutton, and a moiety of all the profits of his courts in the same town, and the said John is permitted to take what turves he likes for his own farm for burning: to be held for 12 years at an annual rent of 10 marks (to be paid at Okeover) for all customary dues and services except forinsec Witnesses: Richard de Walecote, John Lutterworth, William Purfrei, de Mestreton, Robert de Luceles, William Tysun de Pulteneye, Hugh of the same place, and others - 1263

652 - Misterton, Leicestershire: Lease by Hugh de Okeover to Hawise de Grendon of all his demesne land in Misterton along with a rent of 10s for Buruhanger and seven virgates of land which the customary tenants of Misterton held at an annual rent of 10s.; to be held for 20 years at an annual rent of £7 19s 3d: further the said Hawise has leased to Hugh for 20 years, all lands, rents, villeins and other things she has by right of dower in Snelston, if she can recover the same against William Montgomery; if not she will pay to Hugh 40s additional rent during the 20 year term Witnesses: William Purefrei, Robert Chernel, John Smith, Thomas Hay and others - 1265

653 - Prestwold and other small Leicestershire estates: Lease by Sir Henry Skipworth of Coats, Leicestershire, to William Leeke of Wymeswold gent., of a close of pasture in Prestwold commonly called the Dale Meadow: for 20 years at an annual rent of £25: not to plough any part of the close: not to depasture any sheep or cattle in the common pasture or fields of Burton on the Wolds, Hoton or Prestwold during the term of 20 years - 1631

654 - Prestwold and other small Leicestershire estates: Lease by William Leeke of Wymeswold gent., to Thomas Twinynge of Wymeswold labourer, of the close called Dale Meadow in Prestwold to be held for 18 years at an annual rent of £26 6s 8d 10 Oct - 1632

655-656 - Prestwold and other small Leicestershire estates: Lease and counterpart by Rowland Farmer Okeovwe of Oldbury to Henry and James Garner of a messuage, tenement or farm in Higham, Leicestershire., with all closes belonging for 21 years at an annual rent of £120: additional rent of £10 per acre for every acre in excess of 35 acres ploughed, every acre of meadow or pasture ploughed and every acre sown with woad, rape, hemp or flax: tenants to pay all taxes including the land tax and to erect all such new buildings as may be necessary: 10 qrs. [quarts] of well burnt lime and 8 waggon loads of good rotten dung to be laid on every acre of land broken up in the second year of ploughing: to be laid down again with every third crop using 14 lbs of clover seed and one strike of rye grass per acre: not to have any part of the premises in tillage more than 4 years together and not more than three years together without a summer fallow. - 1779

657 - Prestwold and other small Leicestershire estates: Declaration by Rowland Okeover of Okeover, Staffordshire, gent William Cooke of Wymeswold gent., Thomas Okeover of Wymesmold son and heir of Rowland Okeover and William Busby of Loughborough, stating their interest in a mortgage dated 30 November 1701 for £1000 by William Taylor the elder and younger of Southwell, at the direction of Charles Byerley of Belgrave, Leicestershire, and John Smith of London, merchant, to Rowland Okeover and William Cooke of several closes, lands and tenements in Belgrave, Leicestershire, £600 of the £1000 so lent was part of the money raised by the sale of certain lands, woods and ground mentioned in articles of agreement of 2 February 1698/9 between Rowland Okeover, Dame Katherine Yorke, Katherine wife of Thomas Okeover, John Thornhagh and William Cooke, £150 was part of the proper money of Thomas Okeover and £250 residue was the proper money of William Cooke. 22 Jul - 1702

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