| Description | Parties:
1) Matthew Peasecod, Ellington, yeoman, wife Tabitha (one of the sisters and co-heirs of William Ness)
2) Francis Armstrong, Scampston, gentleman, John Philipson, Scampston, yeoman (one of the nephews and devisees of William Ness, deceased, and also eldest son and heir apparent of Tabitha by Edward Philipson her late husband deceased)
Property: half share of two toftsteads and crofts adjoining, Hockcroft otherwise Cockcroft Close and all the lands arable meadow and pasture ground of Mathew and Tabitha Peasecod late the estate of William Ness in the townfields of Skelton containing 34 acres
Witnesses: Robert Teesdale, Richard Howard, William Newlove, Marmaduke Prickett |