| Description | Parties:
1) William Ward, York, doctor of laws, Francis Goulton, Bessingby, gentleman (executors and devisees of Michael Staveley, Bessingby, gentleman deceased)
2) James Wallis, Etton, gentleman, wife Elizabeth, Robert Kirby, Heslewood, gentleman, wife Lucy, Thomas Staveley, Bessingby, gentleman, William Bower, Bridlington Key, gentleman, wife Sarah, Walter Staveley, Bessingby, gentleman, Francis Staveley, Bessingby, Michael Staveley, Bessingby, (Elizabeth Wallis, Lucy Kirby and Thomas Staveley are children of Michael Staveley deceased by his first wife, and Sarah Bower, Walter Staveley, Francis Staveley and Michael Staveley are children of Michael Staveley deceased by his second wife Elizabeth, sister of Francis Goulton)
3) Thomas Goulton, Bessingby, gentleman
Property: manor or lordship of Bessingby with rights and appurtenances, capital messuage at Bessingby, advowson of church or chapel of Bessingby, 17 oxgangs demesne land between two baulks in the open fields with two closes parcel thereof called Weston Towne Close and Rough Holme Close, and all rights belonging to the demesne in Carr Close; four closes called the Cow Close, the Ing Close, the Football Close and the New Close, two cottages called Haggits and Darley's cottage, the Great and Little Baulks, and a parcel of land called Consetts Head Land, all in Bessingby (315 acres), late of Michael Staveley deceased, and moiety of tithes in said manors, lands etc
Consideration: £l288 16s 8d principal and interest owed to Thomas Goulton; £150 to James Wallis and Elizabeth Wallis, £170 to Robert Kirby and Lucy Kirby, £250 to Thomas Staveley, £120 to [?], and £50 to Walter Staveley under will of Michael Staveley; £200 to Walter Staveley and £50 to William Bower and Sarah Bower chargeable under marriage settlement of Michael Staveley and Elizabeth; £200 and £50 to Francis Staveley under will and marriage settlement; £250 and £50 to Michael Staveley under the same; £50 apiece to four children of Richard Staveley under codicil; £36 3s 4d as remainder of purchase money to William Ward and Francis Goulton
Memorial registered at Beverley, Book I page 442 number 967 |