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Feet of Fines 1576

Richard Smythe, fishmonger: Francis Leeke, esq., son and heir apparent of Francis Leeke.The manor of Wickersley and 20 messuages and 2 watermills with lands in Wickersley, and the advowson of Wickersley Church. Source: Yorkshire Fines: 1576

Feet of Fines 1582

Richard Smyth: Francis Leeke, esq., and Frances his wife. Manor of Wickersley and 20 messuages and 2 watermills with lands in Wickersley and the advowson of Wickersley church. Source: Yorkshire Fines 1582

Bargain and sale

  1. Sir Godfrey Foljambe of Walton, son and heir Godfrey Foljambe
  2. Chris. Rockley of Wyckersley, yeoman

For £93 6s 8d Sir Godfrey Foljambe to Christopher Rockley a farm, etc., in Wickersley. 25 July,1582 Source; Notts Archives DD/FJ/1/292/2

Feet of Fines 1588

Francis Leake, esq.John Herdson, esq., and Richard Smythe and Margaret his wife Manor of Wickersley and 20 messuages and 2 watermills with lands there, and the advowson of Wickersley church. Source: Yorkshire Fines.

Feet of Fines 1594

Thomas Halle, Robert Hubbald, and John Hubbald: Thomas Nell 2 messuages with lands in Wickersley. Source: Yorkshire Fines

Release and discharge from an annuity 1637

Edmund Hastings, of Plumtree, co. Notts., esq., and his wife, Mary, to John Levett, of York. Discharge from an annuity of £120 issuing from the manor of Bentley, and other lands to be specified in a fine to be levied as 20 messuages, 20 cottages, 20 tofts, 2 water mills, 3 dovecotes, 30 gardens, 20 orchards, 500a. arable, 140a. meadow, 400a. pasture, 100a. wood, 1000a. moor, 1000a. marsh, and £20 rent in Bentley, Arksey, Cusworth, Almholme, Shaftholme, Tilts, Stock Bridge, Langwaithe, Doncaster, Adwick, Barnby, Houghton, Swinton, Bolton, Wickersley, Marr, Melton, Wildthorpe, Scawsby and Tickhill. The annuity had been granted by Levett to Hastings by a deed of 22 Feb. 1635/6, when Levett bought the manor of Bentley from Hastings for £1500; but by a deed of even date with these presents, Levett had granted the annuity to be paid from the manor of Melton on the Hill and lands in Cadeby and Wildthorpe, which he had bought from his brother, Thomas Levett, Emanuel Mote of Melton, gent., and Thomas Lewis, of Marr, esq., and his son, Thomas Lewis. The annuity to be paid at the manor house at Plumtree. Source: Sheffield Archives CWM/154 29 May 1637

Exemplification of a fine 4 Jul 1655

Brian Cooke, esq., plaintiff, v. Arthur Ingram, Kt., his wife, Katherine, Thomas Ingram, Kt., his wife, Frances, John Levitt, his wife, Mary, deforciants. Manor of Bentley, 10 messuages, 6 cottages, 2 mills, 3 dovecotes, 300a. arable, 140a. meadow, 400a. pasture, 1000a. moor, 600a. marsh, £16 rent, common of pasture for all manner of cattle, in Bentley, Cusworth, Haughthwaite, Doncaster, Adwick le Street, Barnby, Houghton, Swinton, Bolton, Wickersley, Marr, Melton, Wildthorpe, Scawsby, and Tickhill. For £900, deforciants recognise plaintiff's right. Source:Sheffield Archives CWM/155

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