Bundle of draft deeds and draft letting conditions, abstracts of title, Acts of Parliament,...

As follows:

Acts of Parliament:

Short title (if any) Date

1. Carlisle & Cummersdale Moor Inclosure Act 1767

2. Bassenthwaite Inclosure Act 1770

3. Cockermouth-Maryport-Wigton-via-Allonby Turnpike Repair Act, and for other Cumberland roads (i.e. Sandraw p. Bromfield to Aspatria, Westnewton-Aspatria-Arkleby-Moota (junction with the Carlisle-Cockermouth Turnpike)), and for dividing these roads into three Districts 1825

Original leases (1801) and draft deeds, letting particulars, abstracts of title, 1801-1836 as follows:

4. Lease for 11 years (Sir Wilfrid to Clark Harriman of Bassenthwaite Halls, yeo.) - Bassenthwaite Parks, a tenement (land only, no house) in Bassenthwaite, rent £26 p.a.; minerals and timber reserved; repairing and husbandry clauses; standard printed lease, many other clauses deleted, 30 Jan. 1801

5. Lease for 11 years (Sir Wilfrid to Joseph Bragg of Lingy Bank p Isel, yeo.) - Lingy Bank (house and its land), rent £48 p.a.; minerals and timber reserved; printed form, very few deleted clauses; detailed husbandry clauses, 16 Jan. 1801

Letting conditions and agreements 1819-36 as follows:

6. Premises: Aspatria Mill and its farm. Mill includes a kiln. The Mill's approval by Jos. Tinnion of Cockermouth, millwright, 1820, certified here.

Tenant: Twentyman Wilson of Crossrigg p. Bromfield

Annual Rent, term: £100; 9 years

Clauses, remarks: milling

Date of Agreement: 1819

7. Premises: Coalbeck, (Isel)

Tenant: John Armstrong there (renewal)

Annual Rent, term: £120; 10 years

Date of Agreement: 1819

8. Premises: Old Park West Farm (Isel)

Tenant: John Thompson, Isel Old Park (renewal)

Annual Rent, term: £190; 10 years

Clauses, remarks: Note of date of plantation affixed

Date of Agreement: 1819

9. Premises: Wellington Farm, (p. Aspatria)

Tenant: Hugh Saul of Stankend p. Holm Cultram

Annual Rent, term: £170; 9 years

Date of Agreement: 1819

10. Premises: Mirkholme Farm p. Uldale

Tenant: Joseph Thwaite of Mirkholme Holme (sic) p. Uldale (renewal)

Annual Rent, term: £180; 9 years

Clauses, remarks: Addendum at foot that J.T. has also taken Bassenthwaite Parks (occ. Clark Harriman) for 9 years at £45 p.a.

Date of Agreement: 1820

11. Premises: Broats Closes and Townfield, near Brayton

Tenant: Joseph Donal of Hayton p. Aspatria

Annual Rent, term: £140; 3 years

Clauses, remarks: Lime to be from the Highclose Limekilns

Date of Agreement: 1822

12. Premises: Isel Mill and farm

Tenant: John Chambers of Cockermouth and John Pearson of Ullock p. Dean

Annual Rent, term: £100; 9 years

Clauses, remarks: Not be sublet the Mill or destroy the game. Provision for quitting after 3 years "if the Mill and Land proves to be too high rented". Lessees to find millstones.

Date of Agreement: 1825

13. Premises: Beck Grange Close (grazing)

Tenant: John Robinson of Longclose, and Joseph Christopherson of Sunderland, both p. Isel

Annual Rent, term: £12; 1 year

Clauses, remarks: Endorsed memo "that Jos. Christopherson had 7 cows and 30 Sheep in Beckgrange field", he to pay £14 for it for 1828-9; memo dated 11 March 1828.

Date of agreement: 1827

14. Premises: Whiterynolds, Great Park, and Thackray, p. Isel

Tenant: John Skelton of Fosterfould (Forrester Fold) p. Wigton

Annual Rent, term: £290; 4 years

Clauses, remarks: Lists the walls repairable. Memo that lessee is to have 12 cattle grassed free of charge till 25 March 1830. Memo endorsed that the rent for 1832 shall be £250

Date of agreement: 1829

15. Premises: Grange Farm, p. Gilcrux

Tenant: Joseph Sibson there (renewal)

Annual Rent, term: £110; 7 years

Clauses, remarks: Not more than 4 acres potatoes to be grown in the final year of lease

Date of agreement: 1831

16. Premises: Salkeld Close (parish not stated)

Tenant: Joseph and Robert Langcake

Annual Rent, term: £52; 1 years

Date of agreement: 1832

17. Premises: Clints Park (Parish not stated)

Tenant: Fisher Wilkinson of Redmain, and John Clemitson of Sunderland, both p. Isel

Annual Rent, term: £90; 1 year

Clauses, remarks: Liberty to make and use lime there.

Date of agreement: 1833

18. Premises: Scalegill Close (Parish not stated)

Tenant: Mr Thomas Lamb of Wood Head p. Cross Canonby

Annual Rent, term: £21; from this day to 2 Feb. 1835

Clauses, remarks: -

Date of agreement: 1833 (26 Nov.)

19. Premises: Scalegill field (Parish not stated)

Tenant: William Shepherd of Waverton

Annual Rent, term: £21; 1 year

Date of agreement: 1835

20. Premises: Farm at Baggrow and 2 fields at Brayton

Tenant: Thomas Hannah of Baggrow (renewal)

Annual Rent, term: £180; 7 years

Clauses, remarks: No shooting.

Date of agreement: 1836

Draft deeds, also letters and abstract of title 1821-34 as follows:-

21. Draft release, appointment and surrender (The Trustees for Sale, to Wilfrid Lawson Esq.) - house and lands (named) at Grange p. Gilcrux, total 94 acres, customary of the Manor of Gilcrux, conveyed on 24 June 1823 by William Pearson of Great Broughton p. Bridekirk gent. to John Steel of Cockermouth gent. (parties hereto) in trust; and two closes there called Grange Guards and The Garth; the other fieldnames include West End Cross; to hold with "all estate right title .. customary or tenant right estate of Inheritance ..", 1831

22. Abstract of title of Mrs Betty Swinburne of Chapel Bank p. Workington, widow, to Barrows Quarter, a freehold house and land at Allerby p. Aspatria, in 1770 described as "late Robert Barrows", and in 1826 mortgaged by her to John Moordaff of Seaton p. Camerton gent. for £300; covers 1770-1826; owners: Robert Carlisle of Whitehaven, John Wilson of "Wasdale Hall", Joseph Pearson of Whitehaven, Joseph Jackson of Gilcrux, John Peile of Cockermouth (surgeon) (re Tordiffe family also, 1797), and Mrs Swinburne, watermark 1827

23. Sale particulars of 2 closes called Jackson's High Field and Jackson's Low Field (17a. 0r. 7p.) at Allerby; with list of the bids and memorandum of purchase by John Norman of Brayton, [gent., for the Lawson Estate] for £660 (Mrs Betty Swinburne, vendor; Thomas Graham and Wilton Wood, unsuccessful bidders), sold at Maryport, 19 Aug. 1831; and 4 letters and one sheet of notes on title concerning same, 1831-2; draft deed for covenant for production of deeds 1832, 1831 - 32

24. Draft conveyance of freehold piece of land (2r. 29p.) at Horsemoor Hills p. Uldale (Jonathan Craghill of (blank) to Wilfrid Lawson Esq., with John Norman his Steward as 3rd party) for £37. 10s. 0d., 1831; postcard-sized sketch-plan with valuation and note of abuttals, is enclosed loose (William Atkinson, surveyor; scale 2 chains to 1 inch; dated 30 Nov. 1830) 1830 - 1831

25. Draft conveyance (Wilfrid Carter of Blindcracke, gent., to Sir Wilfrid) for £1570 - customary house and land in Blindcrake; field names, including the Greens, House Croft, Midtown Croft (1 acre), Midtown Garth (3r.), High and Low Trinkeld, the Far Closes; abuttals; and all estate right title .. customary or tenant right ... (Manor of [Isel] Blindcrake), 1832

26. Draft conveyance (same to same) for £1500 - freehold closes and allotment at Redmain and Blindcrake; fields named, abuttals, 1832

27. Release (2) of customary and freehold lands respectively, at Blindcrake (Edward Richmond of Blindcrake yeoman deceased's Trustees to Sir Wilfrid) for £2000 and £400 - freehold house and orchard and fields (named), two only of these fields (called Green otherwise Low Green, 5a.2r.26p., and Gateland, 4a. 0r. 10p.) being customary of the "Manor of Isel Blindcrake", rent 2s. 1d. (including another field called Low Field in this rent) 1834

28 Notebook, being the heads of the Memorandum of understanding and agreement as to Executorship matters (Mr Lawson deceased), the future management of the estate, and Mr Lawson's allowances during his minority, he being now 17 years old, 1812

Resolved not to let Brayton House for so short a period as 4 years; as to its land; its servants to be kept on (names, jobs, wages); that Isel Hall be let (details); as to the pipe of Madeira and pipe of port now at Isel Hall, and as to the wines in the cellar at Brayton; as to what fine is due from the customary tenants; as to the gardeners, and their pay; the housekeeping; young Mr Lawson's allowance; that Wilfrid Lawson Cockburn, "now in most indigent Circumstances", be given £40 p.a.; that the Estate's rents be banked at Mr Hartley's bank, and as to standing orders re same; as to repayment of past Inclosure expenses, and that the enfranchisements shall continue "for the purpose of paying Mr Benson's Debt"

Further matters agreed between Mr Wybergh and Mr Howard (parties to the foregoing, Aug. 1812), Brayton, 1812

As to opinion on title and its effect on the enfranchisements now in hand, and other financial adjustments.

Calculation of the rents of the Cumberland Estates due to William Wybergh Esq. as Executor of his late brother Thomas Lawson Esq. for the 38 days between 25 March - 2 May 1812 (tenants' names, names of the farms or lands, period covered, sum due), plus details of payments into Hartley's Bank, rates paid, valuation of cattle and horses, 1812

Similar table of the servants' wages from 2 May 1812 till the day they are due to be paid (servants' names, total days, annual wage, date due, sum payable)

29 "Milstone Moor": Plans, sections, and elevations of new farm house and buildings (annotated; with scales; ink and colour), 22 Jan. 1812

Ground Plan (house, farmyard; uses of the buildings; measurements; scale 20 ft. to 1 inch)

Upstairs Plan (house and barn only; roof shown as from above in elevation; scale 20 ft. to 1 inch)

Elevation towards the South (i.e. front); Elevation towards the Yard (with section of farm-building); ink and colour; measurements; window-panes; no scale.

Elevation of House, Sheds, Stable, and Barn towards the East [back view of yard, range, side view of house and barn]; ink and colour; measurements; no scale.

Section of the Barn, Stable, and House, and Elevation of Sheds towards the Yard (ink and colour; stable is under the barn; shows the house's staircase balusters); no scale.