Catalogue description Family settlement by which Charles Mather of Mapleton, yeoman, has enfeoffed to Richard...

Family settlement by which Charles Mather of Mapleton, yeoman, has enfeoffed to Richard Goodwin of Chelmorton, yeoman, and William Alcocke of Mapleton, yeoman, all that cottage, house or tenement with the Nether House, the cowhouse and the backside, and all that other cottage called Pateman's House, one parcel of ground commonly called the Rickstead lying to the West of Pateman's House, with all appurtenances and all the goods and chattels of Charles Mather of whatsoever nature: to hold to uses: to the use of Charles Mather and his assigns for his natural life, then after the decease of Charles Mather the cottage house where Mather lives, the cowhouse, Nether House and backside to the use of Dorothy Mather his wife for her natural life, then after the decease of Dorothy Mather, together with a moiety of all the goods and chattels of Charles Mather, to the use and behoof of Ellen Mather, only daughter of Charles Mather, her heirs and assigns; the Pateman's House, garden and the Rickstead to the use of Ellen Mather for life and then after her decease, together with the other moiety of Mather's goods and chattels, to the use of Dorothy Mathers her heirs and assigns

18 Aug