Deeds of a customary tenantright estate (by 1776 comprising 2 houses and lands) at...

Also includes one deed of Chapel House, Setmurthy (see below)

Customary bargain and sale for "Threscoe and one pounde" [£61] (Lancelot Wharton of Old Park, yeo., to John Peirson and his son Henry, both of Mosser, yeomen) - "his customary estate commonly called Tennant-right had used and allowed within the manner or lordship of old Parke afforesaid" "(William Lawson Esq., lord), "to hold by the ancient and laudable customarye estate commonly called Tennantright" comprising a house and land (no tofts mentioned), rent 13s. 10½d., 1645

Customary bargain and sale for natural affection and £8 (Robert Hodgson of the Chapel House in Setmurthy, yeo., and Elizabeth his wife, to their son John of do., yeo.) - customary cottage house and garth called "the Chappell-house in Seckmurthey", rent "Fower Pence" [4d], manor not stated, 1664

Surrender by Lancelot Fisher to use of Joseph Fisher of "Seckmourthy" [father of the vendor's mother in the 1776 sale below] - tenement (Manor of Isel Old Park), rent 13s.10½d and 8d. greenhew; signed by Wilfrid Lawson, lord, 1690/1

[Contemporary copy of] Sir Wilfrid's agreement with his customary tenants of Isel Old Park, "Parcell of the Mannor of Isell", to sell them, for £62. 13s. 1d., all the oak and ash wood now or in the future growing in their customary tenements' hedges as is declared by a jury to be empanelled to be ancient hedges "and to have been soe for at least Fifty five years Last past"; the said wood not to be felled till due notice given to the manor's bailiff, who is to view it first; 24 hours to elapse between notice and felling; power to the tenants to use it for any purpose they wish; clauses as to "rudding" the wood prior to tillage; covenant by Sir Wilfrid that if the tenants make new hedges for their gardens or orchards within 200 yards of "their Mansion Houses" with oaks or ash, he shall not cause them to be felled; clause as to costs of this and of "their Late Suit against the said Sir Wilfrid for the wood in their said Hedges or hedge Rows or Elsewhere"; June 1698

The tenants were: Matthew Cape of Bassenthwaite, gent., Lancelot Penny of Colbeck [p. Isel], yeo., and Ann his wife, William Willson of "Aspatricke", yeo., John Scott of "Usebridgend" [Ouse Bridge End], yeo., Hugh Simpson of do., yeo., and Barbara his wife, John Udall of Isel Old Park, yeo., and "Doraty" his wife, Thomas Fell of do., yeo., Henry Pearson of do., yeo., and Joseph Fisher of do., yeo.

Two lists of hedges, the one being those 26 hedges in Henry Pearson's Tenement (sent as letter to John Scott, by hand), the other being the Old Park hedges, listed by Joseph Fisher, Hedge Reive"; both name the fields, their whereabouts, and their hedges' lengths, both [1698]

Customary bargain and sale for natural affection, for advancing his son in life, and for £100 (Henry Peirson of Bank in Isel Old Park, yeo., to Joseph Pearson [sic] his son) - house and land at Bank there, rent 13s.7½d. and 8d. greenhew, together with all .. garths gardens .. to hold after Henry be dead, except for a moiety (half) of the "Middle Quarters", and son Joseph to pay his mother Ann Peirson 30s.0d. half-yearly; to hold "according to the Custom of Tenantright had used and allow'd within Isell Old Parke aforesaid", 1 Oct. 1698

Small scrap of paper headed "A Survey on a Plot of Ground Called the Middell Quarters Belonging to John Scott", 500 yds. by 120 yds., being 12a. 1r. 23p. 14 yds. "and Upwards" (no plan or sketch; found in Item 6 preceding); endorsed "The Measure of the midle quarters", [Oct. 1698]

Mortgage for £36. 8s. 5d. (Henry Peirson of Isel Old Park, yeo., and Joseph Peirson [sic] [his son] of Bewaldeth, yeo., to Sir Wilfrid Lawson of Isel, Bt.) - the same premises, [but no mention of tenantright here!]; signed "Wilfrid Lawson", 1 Oct. 1698

Admittance - Lancelot Pearson of Old Park, to house and land in the Manor of Isel, rent 13s.10½d. and 8d. greenhew, 1706

Receipt for fine (not stated for what) - Martha Fisher, 1716

Dimission (Manor of Isel, Old Park [lordship]) - to Martha Fisher, house and land, rent 13s. 4d., 8d. greenhew, and 6½d. cow farm, 1717, and receipts for her fine 1718, 1717-18

Surrender by Lancelot Pearson and admittance (same item) of John Scott - house and land (Manor of Isel, Old Park [lordship]), rent 13s. 4d., 8d. greenhew, and 6½d cow farm, 1718

Lease for 8 years for £1. 10s. 0d. p.a. rent (Anne Fishar and Martha Fishar (sic) of Lingy Bank to John Blaicklin acting for Sir Wilfrid Lawson) - "The Ground called .. high Bank in Isell old Parke, which Ground a[d]joynes at the one end of Mr Highmoors Burthwhat and on the other Side to Mr Tiffins Mire"; lessee to repair one hedge (specified) and to leave the hedge between Burthwaite and Mr Tiffin's Mire; endorsed "Lease of Bank Wood for eight years ..", 1727/8

Agreement by Martha Fisher of Isel Old Park to lease the ground called Low Wood to Sir Wilfrid for as long as he wishes, for £1. 10s. 0d. p.a. rent, 1734/5

Admittance of Martha Fisher, wife of Henry Fisher, on death of her uncle John Scot[t] - house and land in Isel Old Park (Manor of Isel, Old Park [lordship]), rent 13s. 4d., 8d. greenhew, and 6½d cow farm, 1745, and receipts (2) for fine 1745, 1747, 1745-47

Contemporary copy agreement by Henry Fisher of Oldscale in Wythop and Martha his wife, to John Walker of Wythop Hall, their lessee this day of houses and land at Isel Old Park - J.W. to have wood for husbandry year if growing there, and (to encourage him to dress the ground) leave to fell the fruit trees and "to sell all wood as by the Custom of the Mannor of Isell belongs to the Tennant (Oak, ash, all sorts of Fruit Trees, Wallnut, Ewe [Yew] Tree, and all Sorts of Common Hedgeboot in the Hedges excepted bared [barred] and fore prised)" [i.e. Oak, ash, etc., belonged to the lord]; J.W. to dig up all tree-roots in the four parcels specified, and to make the ground "fit to plow or mow"; J.W. not to remove "any ancient Hedges", nor cut or lay "any Hedges against grassing" without lessor's leave; endorsed "A Coppy of Lingybank wood Article"; text of the agreement is signed by John Walker at foot, 1749

Dimission - Martha Fisher, to two houses and lands, each of 13s. 4d. rent, 8d. greenhew, 6½d cow farm (Manor of Isel: Old Park), signed John Walker, Steward", 1750

Lease for 7 years by Henry and Martha Fisher (as above) to John Smith sen. and jun. both of Torpenhow village, yeomen - their customary houses and tenements at Lingybank p. "Isell", for £25 p.a. rent; lessees to preserve the orchards "all the Term .. from harm by Chattle" [cattle], to repair all buildings ("principle wall and Timber" only excepted), to do 5 days' work a year digging up the roots of whins and underwood there; lessees are not to fell any oaks or ashes in the hedgerows, nor "any wood that's fit for Household goods, Husbandry gear or clog[g]ing wood"; lessors to allow for lessees' payments of local rates in the second half-years' rent, 1752

Lease by the Fishers (as above) to John and Joseph Hine (brothers) of Old Park - the same property, for 1 year at £36 rent; husbandry clauses (more thoughts), homely wording, small sheet of paper, 1773

Bond in £86. 10s. 0d. (John Messenger of Colbeck p. Isel yeo. to John Pearson of Isel Gate, blacksmith) - to repay £43. 5s. 0d. at 5%, 1774

Contemporary copy of Henry Fisher's conditions for letting his Old Park land for 14 years - husbandry clauses include re allowance for local rates' payment; repairs; timber; rent; lime ("the Landlord to pay 40s. 0d. for Lime at the Kiln"); ploughing; liming and manuring; flitting; signed Henry Fisher [lessor], John Grave and Robert Grave [lessees], 1774

Run-up to the purchase by Sir Gilfrid of Lingy Bank from the Fishers for £850, 1775-76: correspondence, calculations by Sir Gilfrid's agent, memoranda (re timber, present lease, manorial matters, etc.), timber valuations (the birch and elder wood "in the long wood at Old Park"; and of wood and bark of trees to be sold at Old Park), outlay for repairs to the buildings at Lingy Bank (includes workmen's names, and payment "for Rudding") (endorsed "Expenses of repairing at Bank", "1776"), drafts of the conveyance, 1775 - 76

The bargain and sale deed for same (Henry Fisher jun. of Oldscale in Wythop p. Lorton yeo., only son and heir of Martha Fisher deceased, to Sir Gilfrid Lawson of Brayton, Bt.) for £850 - two customary houses and lands called Lingy Bank "in the township of Isell Old Park within the said Manor of Isell Old Park", each of rent 13s. 4d., 8d. greenhew, 6½d cow farm, late of Joseph Fisher (Martha's father) and John Scott (her uncle), thence the late Martha, who with her husband Henry had agreed to sell, and had surrendered them to Sir Wilfrid in the manor court on 26 March 1776; Martha died on 3 May 1776