Assignment of Mortgages

Reference No:
U DDKE/8/42
Dates:
13 Mar 1739
Description:

(i) Mary Craig of par. St. George the Martyr, co. Mdx., widow

(ii) Sir Robert Smyth of Westminster and Henry Smyth of Lincoln's Inn, co. Mdx., gent.

(iii) Robert Legard of Grays Inn esq. (eldest son and heir of John Legard esq., and grandson and heir of Sir Robert Legard, a Master in Chancery in Ordinary, both of Anlaby deceased) to

(iv) James Moyser of Beverley and James Gee of Bishop Burton esqs. and

(v) Mark Kirkby of Beverley esq.

For £2,600 to Mary Craig and £7,467 to Sir Robert Smyth by Mark Kirkby: capital messuage with orchards, gardens, barn, stables, coach houses, kiln and chapel, adjoining closes called Lowgarths and Hopyard, and 44ac.; 8 messuages and farms; 2 little closes in Trippett Lane and South Holmes; 13 cottages with backsides and closes; 83ac. arable and 11 1/2ac. meadow, closes called Coulsons Pickle and Holme Close; 7ac. meadow in North Holms; 3ac. meadow in Acre Heads; 15 beastgates in the Firth, 8 in the Greens, 15 in South Holmes ("which are 15ac.") and 1 in Would Carr; closes called Davybeck and Stony Coatgarth; pieces meadow called Marr and Middle Calves; 2 Throughgates for horses in South Holmes and a little close called Coatgarth; all in Anlaby and having common of pasture in Anlaby Carr. Messuage and close; cottage, backside and close; Beacon Close, House Close Norward, East Close, Long Leas, and Tupp Close; 33ac. arable; parcels of meadow and arable; house called the Moot Hall; the Coop Rooms; the manor of Hessle and the royalty of the manor of Hessle for fishing and fowling, wreck, waif and stray; 9 1/2 beastgates in the Itlings, 10 1/2 beastgates in the Firth; meadow in the Salt Groves (mentions the Ings, Bank Leas, and Ings Dike), all in Hessle and Tranby and having common of pasture in Hessle and Anlaby Carr. Closes called Waterless Meer and Leagar Close; 2 closes at Ellagreen; part of the West Field; Millhill Close, Thompson Close, Porter Close, and Scarborough Close; part of Porter Acres; Lilford's Close, Moate and Coneygarth, Addison Close, Harrison's Close, Mountain Grove Close, Church Close, the Orchard, and Pinfold Close; parts of the South Field; 2 closes at Willerby Butts, William Bell's Close, Coates Close and Goose Garth; 84 beastgates in Willerby and Wolferton, in Wolferton, Anlaby, Tranby and Kirk Ella. Low Hall in Anlaby with Cow Close, Ing Close, Applegarth, Pickle and Moate; 4 beastgates in the Firth, 2 in the Greens, and 4 in the South Holmes; close meadow next the Green, all in Anlaby. Cottage, close, and Dale Land in Kirk Ella. Closes called the Moors, North Close, and Netherdales in Tranby: Recites that Mark Kirkby has agreed with Robert Legard for the absolute purchase of the great part of the premises for £10,255.15s. (of which the above sums paid to Mary Craig and Sir Robert Smyth, £10,067 in all, form part). Witnessed Ralph Featherston, Edwd. Clapham, Suckling Spendlove, Thos. Sutton.

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Repository:
Hull University Archives
Collection:
Kirk Ella Estate Papers (Property of Joseph Sykes)