Catalogue description Deed to lead the uses of a fine (by lease and release)

William Spencer of Cannon Hall, Cawthorne, Yorks., esq., eldest son and heir, and executor of John Spencer, late of Cannon Hall, esq., of the first part; Thomas Fawley of Holm House, par. Kirkburton, Yorks., clothier and Esther, his wife, of the second part, and John Field of Rawroyd par. Cawthorne, yeoman of the third part.

Reciting mortgage of 6 and 7 Nov 1726, and that the principal was unpaid, and that, including interest, £54 is still due. Reciting also that Field and Fawley have agreed to the sale of the lands for £277 4/-.

All parties agree to levy a fine in: a messuage, part of the farm called Brookehouse, in Cawthorne, consisting of 4 bays of building viz. the rooms called the House, the Parlour, the Shop and the Old House, together with rooms over and above the same, all of which adjoin the close called the Narr Croft als Croft at the house: a buttery or milkhouse on the north side of the buildings, all of which are in the possession of Robert Fawley and Sarah Milner, widow: a barn or laith, used as a corn laith and called the New Laith, adjoining south and south east, on the above messuage: a hog sty standing in Narr Croft: a garden on the east of the above messuage: closes lying next to the messuage and called the Narr Croft als. Croft at the House, Laith Croft, Narr Hall Croft, the Intack, containing together, 8 acres 1 rood 17 poles.

For £277 4/- (viz. £54 paid to Spencer by Field, and £223 4/- paid to Fawley by Field).

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