Catalogue description Marriage Settlement leases and releases

1. William Prosser of Snowdle, gent, and Alice his wife, John Prosser his s. & h. Esay Prosser of Peterchurch, tanner, and Thomas Prosser of St. Margarets, tanner.

2. Thomas Carpenter of Chilston and Thomas Jennings of Newhouse, Clodocke, tanner.

3. Phillipp Carpenter, spinster, sister of Thomas Carpenter.

Consideration: The marriage to be had between John Prosser and Phillipp Carpenter and of £400, as her marriage portion and for providing Phillipp's marriage portion and making provision for Alice Prosser.

The first party grant to the second party, the manor of Snowdle, the Castle of Snowdle and messuages, viz. one in which Henry Phillpott gent, formerly dwelt, messuage in which William Prosser now dwells, messuage and tenement now in occupation of William Jenkins, messuage called Birds tenement, messuage formerly copyhold in which Nicholas Dargent sometimes dwelt and several other messuages in Snowdle now or late in the occupation of Roger David, Michaell Thomas Mabell James, John James and Margaret Miles, and several parcels of land called Cayreden in Peterchurch.

To the use of William Prosser until the marriage, and then as follows:-

The Manor, the Castle Henry Philpotts messuage and lands belonging together with the closes in orchards lying "fromwards" the house to the Castle, William Jenkins' messuage and the ground therto belonging to therewith purchased of William Jenkins by William Prosser and the lands lying between these so purchased having a stream running from West Lawne to Dorstons field, a brook or stream running from Dorstons Park to Dorstons Field, a parcel of meadow called the New Meadow, and a parcel of ground 1 acre lying open with a ground sometime called Gobbeet Gwyn on all sides thereof, the meadow called the New Meadow, the pasture called Gobbett Gwyn adjoining the lands of inheritance of Roger Vaughan, esq., on the west, together with the acre of ground lying open therewith: land and ground now divided into three parts called the Stonyfield and Stonyfield meadow, pasture ground called Gattymore Leasowe pasture ground lying between Gattymore Leasow and Stonyfield a pasture called Hancoks Close, three several parcels of pasture at a place called Forthlace on the north of the highway from Dorston to Peterchurch the one half as it is now set out being the east part of a parcel of meadow ground 10 acres in Peterchurch Great Meadow, the messuage in which Nicholas Dargent lived and thethree several closes of land lying below the Foolway in Snowdles Field leading from Snowdle to Peterchurch. All those parcels of land lying in Westlawne Field between the husbandry way leading through the same field and Dorstons Field: certain parcels of wood ground and arable land called the Old Hill and Little Beddowe Pyers and Great Beddow Pyers: one parcel of old land 8 acres in Snowdles Field and belonging to the said house formerly in the occupation of William Meredith: the houses or cottages now in the possession of Mabell James, Roger David, Michaell Thomas, and Margaret Miles. To the use of John Prosser and Phillipp Carpenter and the heir of the body of Phillipp by John, with remainder to the use of William Prosser. The residue of the lands and premises not so limited are to the use of William Prosser and Alice his wife for the term of their lives remainder to the heirs of the body of John Prosser or the body of Phillipp and in default of such, to the use of Phillipp for her life and then to the use of William Prosser and his heirs.

And Counterparts etc.