| Content Description | First Party: Thomas Sharpe, gentleman of Newark, Nottinghamshire, and Mary his wife.
Second Party: Thomas Levis of Beeston, Nottinghamshire, and Samuel Smalley, clerk of Blore, Staffordshire.
Lease and release from (1) to (2) of a moiety of a cottage in Beeston with appurtenances in the tenure of Thomas Austin; 1 beastgate in the possession of John Barker; and a moiety of Peirson's Farm in Beeston with 5 and a half oxgangs of land belonging to it, in the separate tenures of John Barker, Edward Attenborough and Thomas Frith; also any other lands and tenements in Beeston in which (1) has any estate of inheritance under the Will of Richard Levis of Beeston (deceased), being the grandfather of Mary Sharpe, except for 1 messuage, 1 croft, 2 beastgates and oxgang in the tenure of John Barker.
Consideration: £265.
Signature: Thomas Sharpe, Mary Sharpe.
Witnesses: William Smalley, William [Barkwill], Joseph Hayne.
Documents are dated 30 and 31 March, 10 William III 1698. |