Catalogue description Deed to lead the uses of a Common Recovery (by lease and release)

William Green of Berners St. Oxford Road, par. St. Marylebone, Middlesex, esq., only son and heir of Mary Radcliffe, by Samuel Green her first husband, and daughter of John Clarkson, late of Silkstone, of the first part: Luck Anningson, late of Wakefield, and now of Firby, Yorks., esq., and Sarah his wife, daughter of Mary Radcliffe and Samuel Green, of the second part: William Walker late of Penistone, Yorks., but now of Wembley, Middlesex, surgeon and apothecary, and Catherine his wife, another daughter of Mary Radcliffe and Samuel Green, of the third part: Thomas Sutcliffe of Dodworth Green, Dodworth, Silkstone, gent., son and heir of Jane Sutcliffe, daughter of John Clarkson, of the fourth part: Thomas Watson, late of Doncaster, Yorks., now of Winkhouse in Clayton with Frickley, Yorks., gent., and Ann his wife, only daughter of Jane Sutcliffe, of the fifth part: Joseph Allen of Furnivalls Inn, London, gent. of the sixth part and Jonathan West junior, of Barnsley, Yorks., gent., of the seventh part.

Reciting.

(1) the will of John Clarkson, 24 Aug 1753, and his death, 7 Apr 1758.

(2) death of daughter Mary Radcliffe, 5 Mar 1765.

(3) deed of 3 Oct 1766 by which Clarkson's lands were sold, and realised £4,621 2/78.

(4) death of Hannah, wife of Jonathan West, 7 Mar 1667.

(5) Lease and release of 28 and 29 Sep 1770, by which in return for £850 paid to William and Everilda Stainforth, James and Sarah Hamer and Betty Wordsworth by Sarah Clarkson and George Purslove, out of the residuum of John Clarkson's estates, the following lands were conveyed: a messuage in Thurgoland, called lopster; closes belonging called Long Field, the Ing, the Far Brow, the Near Brow, the House Field, the Well Field, the Little Field, containing 14 acres 1 rood 3 poles: messuage in Langset called Swinden or Swinden Walls, and closes belonging, called the Piece, the Middle Croft, the Whiteley Field, the Upper Croft, the Little Croft, the Rabbit Croft, the Green, the Nether Croft, the Shilling Intack, containing together, 32 acres 3 poles; messuage in Langset, called Brookhouse, and closes belonging, called the Long Hagg, the Pingle, the Crow Holme, the Whiteley Field, the Calf Croft, the Hadley Field, the High Field, the Kitchen Field, the Little Hagg, the Yew Croft, the Park, the Tam Croft, the Dry Slack, the Wet Slack, the Brookhouse Field, the Bank, the River, the New Piece, the Brookhouse Field Lane, the Lane going into the bank off the Common, the Wood, in Langset and Midhop, 66 acres 1 rood 28 poles: closes in Holmfirth, par Kirkburton, called Savile.

Field, Caul Croft, Kiln Croft; freehold parts of 3 closes called Hey Banks, containing together, 17 acres 22 poles, all parcel of Sandygate Farm: moity of Spring Wood called Newland Wood, in Nether Thong, par Almondbury, 2 acres 16 poles; annuity of 45/- payable out of lands in Nether Thong. Lands were to be to the use of the 5 daughters of John Clarkson.

(6) Lease and release of 3 and 4 Jan 1774, by which, for £720 paid to John Balguy by Sarah Clarkson and George Purslove, out of the residuum of John Clarkson's personal estate, the following lands were conveyed:- messuage in Hoylandswain and closes of land belonging, namely the two Heaths als the Farr Heath and the Narr Heath als the Great Heath and the Little Heath, 2 acres 3 roods 39 poles; the Wheat Croft, 1 acre 3 roods 9 poles, Little Ing, 1 acre 16 poles; Lower Ing als Low Ing als Great Ing, 2 acres 36 poles; the Croft on the Backside of the Smithy als the Smithy Croft als the Crab Hill, 1 acre 27 poles; one other messuage in Hoylandswain, together with the following closes:- Little Heath, 1 acre 20 poles; Great Heath als Narr Heath, 3 acres 1 rood 3 poles, Tenter Croft als Laith Croft, 2 acres 8 poles, Ings als the Ing, 2 acres 3 roods 12 poles, two How Brooms als Great How Broom and Little How Broom, 3 acres 14 poles, Lip yard als Tip yard als Hip yard, 1 acre 23 poles.

(7) Lease and release of 29, 30 May 1776 by which in return for £1,067 paid by Sarah Clarkson and George Porslove, to William Walker, the following lands were conveyed:- 3 messuages at Hepshaw, in Hepworth; closes called the Coat als Goat Close, 4 acres 3 roods 32 poles, Intack, 9 acres 2 roods 8 poles, Lower Intack, 4 acres 7 poles, New Close, 1 acre 1 rood 8 poles, Rough Intack, 6 acres 2 roods 29 poles, Well Ing, 2 acres 1 rood 27 poles, Ing, 4 acres 1 rood 15 poles, Lane Head, 3 acres 3 roods 39 poles, Croft, 1 acre 27 poles, Kiln Hill, 2 acres 20 poles, Lower Brow, 2 acres 2 roods 38 poles, Lower Field, 3 acres 1 rood 20 poles, Upper Field, 3 acres 1 rood 25 poles, Upper Brow, 3 acres 2 roods 16 poles, Moor House als Burrs Ing, 4 acres 2 roods 25 poles, Rough Butt, 1 acre 3 roods 9 poles, Hob Acre, 1 acre 3 roods 4 poles, Great Ing, 6 acres 3 roods 14 poles, the Leys, 3 acres 3 roods 39 poles, the Croft, 1 acre 16 poles.

(8) That Jane Sutcliffe, Elizabeth Bingley and Sarah Clarkson have recently died.

(9) That Luck Anningson and Sarah his wife, are now seized of 1/5 part of the above recited lands.

(10) That Thomas Sutcliffe and Thomas Watson, and Ann his wife are seized of the 1/5 part of the above lands.

(11) That William Green, together with Luck Anningson and Sarah his wife, are also entitled to 1/5 share of the above.

The parties now agree to suffer a common recovery in all the above premises, to Joseph Allen, to be to the use of Joseph Allen, and thereafter, to specified uses.

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