Catalogue description Family Settlement, [12 August 1443]   (1) Lady Christiana, late wife of Robert de...

Family Settlement, [12 August 1443]

(1) Lady Christiana, late wife of Robert de Haryngton, kt.

(2) Lady Margaret, late wife of Mathew Whitfeld, kt.

(3) Elizabeth, late wife of Robert Cracanthorp, esq.

(4) Thomas Flemyng, esq., and Isabella his wife, all the above being daughters and co-heiresses of John de Lancaster, kt.

Recital: Indenture of 20 June 1438, whereby John de Gressyngham, parson of Claughton, William Longton, parson of Merton, John Ivegyll, parson of Whitfeld and Richard Cok, chaplain, lately by acknowledgment of an action of novel disseisin in the presence of James Strangways, justice, and his colleagues at Kendal, have recovered the manors of Rydal, Deepdale, Glencoyne, Howgill and "Knoksalcok", with appurtenances, and will surrender the same to John de Lancaster, Lady Katherine his wife, William Thornburgh and others, and an indenture of 1 April 1443, whereby William Longton remised the above premises to (1), (2), (3) and (4), then in their tenure.

Terms: (1), (2), (3) and (4) agree to divide the premises as follows; (1) and (3) to have the manors of Deepdale, Glencoyne, Howgill and Knoksalcok, (2) and (4) to have the manor of Rydal and Loughrigg.