| Description | That Thomas Michelborne, Carlton, esquire, died 1632, leaving widow Dorothy and children Thomas, Dorothy, Thomasin and Marie; that widow Dorothy purchased a house in Hoggsden, parish of Shoreditch, and remarried with Mathew Wentworth, esquire; that just before her death in 1641 she gave the house by deed to daughter Thomasin before five witnesses (Mathew Wentworth; William Burnsell, minister of Aldbrough; John Burnsell; Thomas Wright, wife Dorothy); that William Burnsell had custody of the deed and passed it, on his death, to John Burnsell; that only John Burnsell and Dorothy Wright of the witnesses are still alive; that John Burnsell living at Preston buried the deed 'with other things of value' for safety during the siege of Hull in 1643; and that all the writings so buried were destroyed by damp
Witnesses: Jonathan Fenwicke, Christopher Wright |