Content Description | First Party: Robert Lacy, yeoman of Hemington, Leicestershire.
Second Party: Thomas Fox the elder, yeoman of Castle Donington, Leicestershire and John Vincent, yeoman of Kegworth, Leicestershire.
Third Party: Isabell Knowles of Hemington, spinster and daughter of Thomas Knowles of Hemington, yeoman.
For a certain sum of money paid by (3) to (1); a messuage in Beeston in the tenure of Bartholomew Pearson, a cottage in Beeston in the tenure of Francis Stonesby and 5 and a a half oxgangs of land in Beeston with all appurtenances; to be held by (3) to the use of (1) for life, and after his death to the use of (3), and then to the use of the heirs of (1) and (3).
Signatures: Robert Lacy, Thomas Fox, John Vincent
Witnesses: Richard Draper, William Draper senior (his mark), William Draper junior, Thomas Smith (his mark).
Endorsement: Memorandum that possession and seisin of the messuage, cottage and 5 and a half oxgangs of land was given by Robert Lacy to Thomas Fox and John Vincent, to be held by them to the uses specified in indenture.
Witnesses: Richard Lacy (his mark), William Smalley, William Rawlinson (his mark), John Vincent junior.
Document dated 2 February, 21 Charles I 1645 [1646 new style]. |