Bothel

Deeds of the Seignory (Lordship) of one third of the Manor of Bothel, and of the 10 houses and lands specified therein, sold to Sir Wilfrid Lawson for £40 in 1798, as follows

Lords of this third: * Copy (watermark 1801)

Outgoing: *Anthony Barras [Barwis] of Islekirk, Esq.

Incoming: *The Rev. John Towlson of Kirkland, Anthony Walker, and Robert Moore of Bothel

Consideration: *A certain sum

Date of sale: 26 Sept. 1611

Outgoing: Thomas Denton of Warnell Denton Esq. and Letitia his wife

Incoming: Anthony Wilkes of Papcastle, gent.

Consideration: £160

Date of sale: 14 Dec. 1668

Outgoing: Anthony Wilkes, as before

Incoming: Jane, widow of Thomas Pinnock of Skelton, gent.

Consideration: £115. 2d. 0d.

Date of sale: 16 Oct. 1679

Outgoing: Jane Pinnock

Incoming: The Trustees of her coming marriage with the said Anthony Wilkes

Consideration: -

Date of sale: 18 Oct. 1679

Outgoing: Bernard Pinnock of Cockermouth, gent.

Incoming: Robert Tubman of Cockermouth, mercer (mortgagee)

Consideration: £60 (mortgage)

Date of sale: 28 Apr. 1702

Outgoing: Pinnock's Mortgagees

Incoming: Robert Tubman of Cockermouth, mercer (mortgagee)

Consideration: £90

Date of sale: 2 Aug. 1706

Outgoing: Rev. Reginald Brathwaite of Bellmount p. Hawkshead (Lancs.) and Frances his wife (daughter of the said Robert Tubman)

Incoming: Sir Wilfrid Lawson

Consideration: £40

Date of sale: 24 Feb. 1798

This third of the manor comprised the seignory rights in the following 10 houses and lands, specified in each sale, but here listed as at 14 Dec. 1668:

Occupant: John Stamper of the Townhead in Bothel

Customary Rent: 18s. 0d.

Occupant: Thomas Tolson

Customary Rent: 9s. 6d.

Occupant: Robert Wallas

Customary Rent: 9s. 6d.

Occupant: Robert Gibson

Customary Rent: 13s. 6d.

Occupant: Richard Smithson

Customary Rent: 10s. 0d.

Occupant: Lancelot Stockdale

Customary Rent: 8s. 8d.

Occupant: "John Stamper of the Elme tree"

Customary Rent: 2s. 8d.

Occupant: John Moore

Customary Rent: 5s. 0d.

Occupant: John Smithson

Customary Rent: 11s. 0d.

Occupant: John Smithson (same man)

Customary Rent: 3s. 4d.

Also 1s.0d. free rent from the house and land occupied by Thomas Bushbye.

Includes:

Bargain and sale for £100 (Thomas Denton to Anthony Wiles) - 6 parcels of arable and meadow ground (field names, acreages) in Bothel, with all timber there, 1670

Bargain and sale for £52. 10s. 0d. (Anthony Wilkes to Jane Pinnock) - two of these closes (named), 1679

Quitclaim for "one broad Jacobus peice of Gold" (Thomas Denton father and son, to Jane the wife of Anthony Wilkes) - their rights in this one-third of the Manor and its 10 houses and lands, 1682

Note The Lease of 1668 was made on 12 Sept., but the release was not made until 23 December that year.

Note of admittances, their rents, fines, and boon days' works, in the Manor of Torpenhow in 1816, watermark 1836

Printed summary of rents and fines in the Manors of Torpenhow and Bothel (adds "boon days of little importance"), n.d.[c.1830s]