Draft Inquisition Post Mortem: Godfrey Bossevyle of Gunthwaite, esq.

Reference No:
U DDBM/29/2
Dates:
5 Oct 1580
Description:
Manor of Gunthwaite with 3 messuages, 2 cottages, 1 watermill, 200 acres land, 100 acres meadow and 100 acres pasture and 30 acres wood (held of George, Earl of Shrewsbury, of his manor of Brearley). Manor of Oxspring with 1 1/2 watermills, 3 cottages, 200 acres land, 100 acres meadow, 200 acres pasture, 20 acres wood, and underwood, 100 acres heath and furze and £6 6 s. 8 d. rent in Oxspringe, Rughburcheworth, Thurlestone, Hunshelf and Ormethwaite (similarly held of Earl of Shrewsbury). Capital messuage, 40 acres land, 20 acres meadow and 60 acres pasture in Kerforth (held of Crown manor of Barnsley). 8 messuages, 2 cottages, 100 acres land, 80 acres meadow and 200 acres pasture in Cawthorne (held of Thomas Watson of Waulton, esq. of his manor of Callthorne). Manor or capital messuage, 3 messuages, 4 cottages, 60 acres land, 60 acres meadow, 100 acres pasture and 200 acres heath and furze in Pennystone (held of Crown manor of East Greenwich). 4 messuages, 4 crofts, 20 acres land, 10 acres meadow, 20 acres pasture and 100 acres moor in Barnesley (held of the Crown manor of Barnesley and sometime property of Pontefract Priory): Recites his Will, that he died 22 July 1580, and that his eldest son and heir Francis Bossevyle was then over 17 years 3 months in age
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Extent:
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Repository:
Hull University Archives
Collection:
Papers of the Bosville-Macdonald Family of Gunthwaite, Thorpe and Skye