| Description | Parties:
1) Mary Skinner, youngest daughter of Anne Skinner, Thorneton College, Lincolnshire, widow of Edward Skinner
2) Hugh Bethell, Rise, esquire
3) Christopher Hildyard, Beverley, gentleman, Robert Bethell, Beverley, gentleman
Prior to marriage of Hugh Bethell and Mary Skinner
Property: moiety of manor of Gowsill alias Gowxill [Goxhill] with 230 acres meadow in Dayle and two sheep walks for 700 sheep; closes in Thornton Curtess called the Newfeild (divided into four closes) and East Furrse alias Sheepecote Close; all other property of Edward Skinner, deceased, in Gowsill, except a parcel of meadow (12 acres) in tenure of Robert Gilliott; site of Thornton Colledge with the churchyard and a garden called the Farmery Yard; cottage and garden; cottage called the Launders House with the Bancks adjoining; a water mill; messuage or tenement called a Cowhouse with a great garden, barn and garner, dovehouse and kilnhouse; lands called the Otter Court and Cowhouse Garth, 240 acres late property of the college in the North and South Fields; lands called Northcroft, Sheepehouse Close, Coney Garth, Abbotts Course, Middle Close; messuage and pasture called the Little Parke; a gatehouse and ground on which it stands; water called the Canch with the Canch Garth; messuage within the site of the college with beastgates on Thornton Moor; parcel of wood land called Garton Shaw, toft, cottage and close called Plumer House; Lilbornes Lodgeing, Lathrops Lodging, Almes House, and Almes House Garth and garden; piece of wood ground called North Croft Shore; willows in parcel called Halton Lane from Thorneton Moor to Haltons Lands Ends, with the eatage of the lane; all in Thornton; parcels in Thornton and Halton called Barkers Garth, White House Garth, Barkers House and Barkers Shaw from the Farmery Garth to a place called the Wall End in Houghton lane; the Pingle at the Wall End in Thornton from Halton Lane to the East Hirse; closes called South Close and Martin Close and lands called Wellwicks Shawe in Thornton; two selions of furres in Ulceby Waist; with all tithes and other appurtenances of Thornton College; capital messuage called the Manor House (being the manor house of Ellekers Manor in East Halton) with two East Closes and a little close near the Crooked Mills; five oxgangs (70 acres) in East Halton in Killingholme, all Lincolnshire
Witnesses: Anne Skynner, W Broxolme, Theodore Walpoole, John Robinson, W Broxolme junior
Seal of Mary Skinner, armorial a lion rampant within an orle of crescents |