LANCASHIRE AND CUMBERLAND

SETTLEMENT DATED 8 JUNE 1739

 

A substantial vellum Indenture being a Settlement dated 8 June 1739 made for the intended Marriage of Richard Dashwood with Ann Peyton of Fee Farm Rents in the counties of Lancashire and Cumberland and in consideration of the sum of £2,700, Richard Dashwood Esquire to Sir Thomas Peyton and Others.

The document mentions the following various places (the spellings from 1739 have been preserved) with the amounts of the Annual Rent or Fee Farm: Melling, Lancashire, Great and Little Poulton, Lancashire, Overborrowe and Neitherborrowe, Lancashire, the Scite of the late Monastery of Cockerland, Lancashire, Manor of Westhaughton, Lancashire, Manor of Whatton, Lancashire, Manor of Spotland, Thatborne and Kittworth, Lancashire, Manor of Alcar, Lancashire, lands in Michael Church, Lancashire called Vicars Hayes, Kilbridge thorpe, Lancashire, Mawton and Romesgrove, Lancashire, Manor and Grange of Steyneings and Manor of Croenton, Lancashire, Manor of Stead, Lancashire, Mills called Hart Mill, Sea Mill and New Mill, Lancashre, Manor of Cranford, Lancashire, Rectory of Croston, Lancashire, Church of Winwicke, Lancashire, Rectory of Tunstall, Lancashire, Manors of Aston and Scotford, Lancashire, Wappentage of Amondernes, Lancashire, Wappentage of Lonsdale, Lancashire, Rectory of Garstange, Lancashire, Hart Park, Lancashire, Scite of the Priory of Laverstocke otherwise Laverstock otherwise Lavercroft, Cumberland, Great and Little Broughton and Papcaster in the parish of Bridekirke, Cumberland, Rectory of Burgh near Sea Sands, Cumberland, Rectory of Brigham, Cumberland, City of Carliel. There is also a mention later in the document of the Manors of Great Ravely and Moines in Great Ravely in Huntingdonshire which were subject of an Indenture made in 1732 between Sir Thomas Peyton and Ann Peyton for securing the sum of £2,000.

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PARTIES TO DOCUMENT

Name	Other Information
Richard DASHWOOD	Esquire of the Inner Temple, London
Dame Ann PEYTON	Widow of the parish of St George Hanover Square in the county of Middlesex
Ann PEYTON	Spinster. Daughter of Dame Ann Peyton
Sir Thomas PEYTON	Baronet of Emneth in the county of Norfolk
Henry PEYTON	Esquire. Brother of Sir Thomas Peyton
George DASHWOOD	Esquire of Pickenham in the county of Norfolk
John PEYTON	Citizen and Distiller of London

 

OTHER NAMES MENTIONED IN DOCUMENT

Name	Other Information
Job GILLOTT	Had Letters Patent of the late King James granted to him issuing out of and for the Tyth in Great and Little Broughton and Papcaster in the parish of Bridekirke in Cumberland
William BLAKE	Had Letters Patent of the late King James granted to him issuing out of and for the Tyth in the Great and Little Broughton and Papcaster in the parish of Bridekirke in Cumberland

 

Document Signed and Sealed by

Richard Dashwood Ann Peyton Ann Peyton Thomas Peyton Henry Peyton George Dashwood John Peyton

 

Witnesses (with signature to document)

John Gent, of Ormond Street, Attorney at Law Thomas Milward, clerk to Mr Gent

 

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Document Reference LC61