Rixton, Glassbrook, Martinscroft and Warrington, and of 6s. 8d. free rent in Glassbrook, and of free fishing the rivers Mercy and Glassbrook, and also view of Frankpledge in Rixton and Glassbrook.

WITNESSETH FURTHER that the said fine and every other fine, &c., levied, &c. of the said premises shall be and enure for the several uses, &c., herein-before limited.

Inrolled December 8, 1749.

Indenture June 8, 1749, Ann Clementina Meynell, 1.

Richard Clayton of Adlington, Esq., John Chadwick of Birk Acre in the said county, gent"., 2.

Lease for one year to found a grant and release of a third part of the manors, lands, &c., in Lancaster, and the manor of West Dalton and lands at West Dalton and Aldbrough mentioned in the last deed.

Indenture June 8, 1749, Simon Scroop, 1.

Richard Clayton, John Chadwick, 2.

Lease for one year to found a grant and release of the manors of Danby-upon-Yore, Staynton and Spennithorn and the messges., lands, &c., in the parishes of Danby-upon-Yore, Staynton, Spennithorn, Langton, Thornton Stuart, East Witton, Wensley, Ulshaw, Studdoe, and Fingill mentioned above.

Inrolled December 8, 1749.

The last three Indentures are given twice.

INDENTURES.-BOOK L.

Indenture October 12, 1749, Thomas Danby of Yarm, joiner, executor of the last will of William Grayson, late of Yarm, woollendraper, I.

Richard Hunton of Yarm, grocer, 2.

John Garbutt of Mount Grace, yeom"., 3.

RECITAL of a grant made by William Fielding, Esq., June 18, 1692, to Thomas Allan, of Yarm, master and marriner, of a close called Black Hill, ten acres, in the lordship of Kirklevington, for nine hundred and ninety-nine years, at the yearly rent of Id. to the Chief Lord of the Fee; and that the said Tho. Allan did convey and assign (with other lands) his title, term and

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interest in the said close to Rich. Thompson, late of Yarm, gent"., which said Rich. Thompson did afterwards for a valuable considerable assign over his term, &c., in the said close unto James Cooke, sen"., late of Stockton-upon-Tease in the county of Durham, merchant, and that the said James Cooke is since dead, having first made his last will and appointed John Cooke of Stockton aforesaid, merchant, his younger son, and Lucy Cooke his daughter, who afterwards. married to John Dalston of Milrigg in the county of Cumberland, Esq., joint executors; and of a grant made Jan". 17, 1706-7, by the said John Dalston and Lucy his wife and John Cooke to John Johnson of Linthorp, yeom"., of the said close for the rest of the said term; and of an Indenture of Jan. 18, 1706-7, between the said John Johnson and John Grayson of Yarm, draper, reciting the last above recited Indenture of assignment, and further that the same was made and taken in the name of the said John Johnson in trust for the said John Grayson, but that £100, part of the said £110, being the proper money of the said John Johnson, the said assignment was to be and remain to the said John Johnson as security for the said £100, with a covenant for reassignment thereof by the said John Johnson on payment by the said John Grayson of the said £100; and that the said John Johnson afterwards departed this life, having first made his will, dated April 7, 1717, and appointed his wife Barbara executrix thereof, who afterwards proved the same and took upon herself the execution thereof, and shortly afterwards died, having first made her will and thereof appointed Peter Moor, of Acklam, yeom”., executor; and of a grant made by the said Peter Moor, Feb. 25, 1719-20, to the said John Grayson of the said close and premises for the residue of the said term, and the said John Grayson afterwards died, having first made his will and thereby devised the said close and premises (amongst other things) to his only son William Grayson, whom he appointed sole executor, who is since dead, having first made his will, dated March 6, 1747-8, whereby he devised the said close (amongst other things) unto the said Tho. Danby and to James Hartley and John Close, gentlemen, in trust to dispose of the same for payment of his debts and legacies, and of his said will appointed them executors, but the said James. Hartley and John Close declining to act in the said executorship, the said Tho. Danby alone proved the said will and

took &c.; and that the said Rich. Hunton hath agreed to purchase the said close and premises, as the same is now divided into two closes with a cowhouse erected thereon, of the said Tho. Danby for £290, which was the best price that was offered for the same, and the said John Garbutt hath agreed to advance and lend unto the said Rich. Hunton £200, part of the said purchase-money, which, with interest for the same, was and is agreed to be secured to the said John Garbutt by way of mortgage of the said purchased premises.

WITNESSETH in pursuance of the said agreements and in consideration of £200 paid by the said John Garbutt and of

£90 paid by the said Rich. Hunton.

Grant by the said Tho. Danby to the said John Garbutt of the said close for the remainder of the said term.

Covenants against incumbrances.

Inrolled December 28, 1749.

Indenture November 2, 1749, Thomas Danby, James Hartley of the Freerage, near Yarm, gent"., devisees in the last will of Will. Grayson, I.

Thomas Hicks of Yarm, merchant, 2.

Daniel Dale of the same, wheelwright, 3.

RECITAL that the said Will. Grayson was in his lifetime and at the time of his death seized in fee simple of the messge., burgage, or tenement, backbuildings, garth and premises herein-after mentioned to be conveyed, and being so seized, did by his last will give the same unto the said Tho. Danby, James Hartley and John Close in trust to sell the same for the purposes in the said will mentioned; and that the said Daniel Dale hath agreed with the said Tho. Danby and James Hartley for the absolute purchase of the freehold and inheritance of the premises for £155; and in order to enable him to pay the said purchase-money the said Tho. Hicks hath agreed to lend him £100, which is agreed to be secured to the said Tho. Hicks by way of mortgage of the said purchased premises.

WITNESSETH in pursuance of the said agreement, and in consideration of £100 by the said Tho. Hicks and of £55 by the said Daniel Dale paid to the said Tho. Danby and James Hartley.

Grant by the said Tho. Danby and James Hartley to the said Tho. Hicks of a messuage dwelling-house burgage situate in the west row or

side of the said town of Yarm, and the several backbuildings erected and standing behind the said dwelling-house along the north side of the paved court or yard there, now converted into three dwellinghouses; the stable or building with a chamber over the same erected and standing across the west end of the said paved court which lies behind the said house, extending from the back wall of the said house to the said building or stable across the west end of the said yard as the same is now staked out and intended to be divided by a wall agreed to be built by the said Tho. Danby and James Hartley; another yard or garth; an orchard or garth now used with the said house, together with all outhouses, &c., except full and free liberty and licence to the occupiers of the house and shop now occupied by Ann Baxter, John Watson and Mary Smelt at all times for ever hereafter to pass and repass along the common entry leading from the town-street and up and down along the said paved court and the other yard or garth hereby conveyed to and from their said houses and shop and the garden thereto belonging, to hold to the said Tho. Hicks for one thousand years.

Covenants against incumbrances; covenant for further assurance; covenant that the gable wall which divides the messge, or fronthouse hereby conveyed from the said other house and shop shall at all times hereafter remain and be for the mutual benefit of the owners for the time being of the said two fronthouses to build or rest their timber upon as they shall think proper, so always that all breaches to be made in the said wall shall be repaired and made good by the party making the same, and that the said wall intended to be built by the said Tho. Danby and James Hartley along the south side of the said paved yard shall for ever remain and be the property of the said Tho. Danby and James Hartley, their heirs, &c., and be repaired by them, and that the east and west walls of the said garden shall be the property of the said Daniel Dale and be repaired by him.

Inrolled December 28, 1749.

Indenture November 1, 1749, Thomas Danby, James Hartley, Daniel Dale, 1.

Thomas Hicks, 2.

Lease for one year to found a grant of the premises comprised in the last Indenture.

Inrolled December 28, 1749.

Indenture November 15, 1749, George Robinson, late of Bedale, but now of Leeming Street, gent"., 1.

Thomas Askquith of Aiskew, malster, 2.

Mathew Pearson of Pattrick Brompton, yeom"., 3.

RECITAL of a grant made by Ann Cooke, widow, Joseph Birtell

and Ann his wife, Richard Dickinson and Isabell his wife, all of Aiskew, John Dooby and Jane his wife of Snape, March 9, 1701-2, to Geo. Robinson of Bedale, blacksmith, father to the said Geo. Robinson, of two closes called Sand-fields, in Aiskew, five acres, for two thousand eight hundred and eighty years at the yearly rent of Is., payable to Richard Pearse, Esq; and that the said Geo. Robinson, sen., is since dead without having made or published any will, since whose death letters of administration of his goods, &c., were granted by the Ecclesiastical Court of the Archdeaconry of Richmond in the diocese of Chester unto the said Geo. Robinson, jun'., by force and virtue of which said Indenture and letters of administration the said Geo. Robinson is become intitled to the said closes; and of the assignment made by the said Geo. Robinson, May 7, 1736, to the said Tho. Askquith of the said closes for the remainder of the said term, subject to the payment of the said rent, redeemable by the payment of £30 by the said Geo. Robinson May 6 then next; and that there is now due to the said Tho. Askquith for principal and interest upon the said mortgaged premises £34. 16. 6; and that the said Geo. Robinson hath requested the said Math. Pearson to advance the said sum to pay off the said Tho. Askquith, and also to advance to him, the said Geo. Robinson, the further sum of £25. 3. 6.

WITNESSETH in consideration of the said sums.

Grant by the said Tho. Askquith and Geo. Robinson of the said closes to the said Math. Pearson for the remainder of the said term, redeemable by the payment of £60 by Geo. Robinson, May 15 next.

Covenant against incumbrances; covenant for further assurance.
Inrolled March 3, 1749–50.

Indenture March 26, 1750, John Dinmore of Thirsk, bridle cutter, administrator of all the goods, &c., of Will. Dinmore, his late father, Thomas Dinmore of the parish of St. Ann's, Westminster, in the county of Middlesex, upholsterer, the other son of the said Will. Dinmore, Sarah Dinmore of the parish of St. George, in the said county, spinster, his only daughter, 1.

Thomas Eeles of Sowerby, gent"., 2.

RECITAL that the said Will. Dinmore was in his lifetime possessed

of, interested in, or intitled unto a certain long term of years,