Deeds mainly relating to Parkfoot (house and land) in Barton; also to Brackinhowes...

As follows:

Letting agreement for Parkfoot, p. Barton, for 3 years, rent £11 a year (Jonathan Sisson of Darlington, Co. Durham, gent., to Joseph Hodgson of Brow p. Barton, yeo.) - house, outhouses, [no land as such mentioned]; husbandry, taxes, and repairing clauses; cartloads of wood to be allowed Thomas Bewsher for hedging (as specified), 1731[/2]

Enfranchisement for £15 (Eleanor Doughty, Catherine Dobson, and Dorothy Walker all now of Appleby in Wd., widows, nieces, and co-heirs of the late "William Davis Esq., Lord of the Manor of Winder [p. Barton], to the Rev. William Sisson of Coggeshall, Essex) - Parkfoot Tenement (house and land), rent 6s. 0d.; with all woods and trees, 1742

Conveyed by lease and release; lease missing.

Lease and release for £315

(The Rev. William Sisson of Monkshall, Essex, to John Mounsey of Barton Park [p. Barton] in Cumberland [sic for Westmorland] yeo.) - The Parkfoot (house and land); fields named; now farmed by William Lancaster; with all ... garths ... common of pasture and turbary; "ancient quit Rents" payable but not here specified, 1743

Mortgage for £200 (The Rev. William Mouncey, spelled sic, of "Linethwaite in the Parish of Applethwaite in the County of Westmorland" yeo.) - "the Freehold" house and land called Park Foot "Holden under the Dean & Chapter of Carlisle" for 1s.6d. a year; occupied by William Bird; with all woods, hedges, common of pasture and turbary; signed "William Mounsey", 1785

Interest receipts endorsed for 1786-1803 ("18003") (sic)

Two contemporary copies of the Will of William Mounsey of Swarthmoor Hall p. Ulverston, Lancs., 31 May 1797, copies c. 1797

The other is certified a true copy by Mary Mounsey, testator's daughter; signed by her, after his death.

Sale particulars for Parkfoot (The Rev. John Allenby of Cartmell Fell, William Hall of Witherslack yeo., and George Mounsey of Crosby, farmer, Devisees in Trust of the late William Mounsey of Swarthmoor Hall p. Ulverston, vendors) - Parkfoot, freehold ("small free Rent of eighteen Pence yearly"); also pays "Tithe Corn and Wool"; entry dates specified respectively for tillage, eatage, and house, "according to the Custom of the Country" (Tillage: Candlemas; Eatage: mid April; House; Mayday); sold subject to the mortgage; purchaser to pay the Crown's "Auction Duty"; with attested copy contract of sale to William Sisson of "Elderbeck" [hitherto Ellerbeck] for "957 over and above the £200 Mortgage", 1807

On page 3 is Certificate by [the Rev.] John Allonby that the Will of the late William Mounsey of Swarthmoor Hall p. Ulverston "was legally proved", n.d. [c. 1807].

Lease (release missing) of Parkfoot (George Thompson of Penruddock yeo., George Mounsey of Crosby in Cumberland, yeo., the Rev. John Allonby of Cartmel Fell, William Hall of Witherslack yeo., and Allonby Mounsey of Etonhall, Ches., joiner, to William Sisson of Ellerbeck, gent.) - Parkfoot (house and land; fieldnames), late the estate of William Mounsey of Barton parish; with all ... garths, orchards, common of pasture and turbary; field-names include Hog House Close, Hog House Hill, Bracken Close, Limekiln Close, 1808

Conveyance for natural affection (John Sisson the elder of Elderbeck p. Barton gent., to John Sisson the younger of Keswick, woollen manufacturer, his son) - Brackinhowes (customary house and land) p. Barton, rent 6s. 8d.; also Sharrow (customary house and land), rent 10s. 0d., all in the Barony of Barton (Hasell Esq., lord); with all ... common of pasture and turbary, hedges, walls [no tofts or garths mentioned; excepted from the conveyance are the two closes called Sharrow Low Closes, total 5 acres, part of Sharrow Tenement aforesaid; to hold "according to the Custom of the said Barony of Barton time out of Mind ... observed", 1813

Schedule of deeds of William Sisson of Ellerbeck Esq's Parkfoot and Ellerbeck Estate, mortgaged this day to William Hayton of Hackthorpe gent. for £800, 1837

Receipted (for schedule) by mortgagee. Brief particulars of deeds dated 1747, 1753, 1781, 1808, 1837 (the mortgage).