F. Holyoake to Messrs. Middlemore and Percy as above: bearer waits on them with power...

F. Holyoake to Messrs. Middlemore and Percy as above: bearer waits on them with power of attorney for Mr. Edge to execute, asks one of the partners to attest execution with the bearer but must be one of subscribing witnesses in order to prove execution personally in court on oath as by custom of the manor the steward will not admit it proved by affidavit or any other way except on oath of a subscribing witness in person. When Mr. Edge signed agreement words - all other copyhold tenements etc. - were struck out but they are recited in power of attorney, refers only to copyhold premises within manor of prebend of Featherstone but the brook course dividing that manor from that of Bushbury having been straightened small bits of land were given and taken by different parties so that perhaps an acre of land in the whole might be taken from the Featherstone copyhold by the land owners on the Bushbury side and vice versa.