Letters patent

Gift by James I and VI for £104. 18s. 6½d to Sir Wilfrid Lawson of Isel, knight, and Matilda his wife, and to their heirs for ever - the Manor of Isel and Lordship of Blindcrake (Isel being herein "Isale alias Isell", also "Ishall"; and Blindcrake being herein "Blencrake"), as lately held by Sir William Leigh, knight, and Isabella his wife; reciting the descent from Edmund de Multon through Leigh; together with the following:

What, Where: 2 carucates of demesne land in Isel

Total Annual value: 40s. 0d.

What, Where: All demesne meadows in Isel

Total Annual value: 13s. 4d.

What, Where: The herbage of our park in Isel called "le Newparke"

Total Annual value: 6s. 8d.

What, Where: The 15 houses ("mansiones") with their dependent 15 small closes in the park called "Aldeparke" in Isel

Total Annual value: £5. 0s. 0d.

What, Where: "Our mill at Blencrake called Isale Milne"

Total Annual value: £3. 6s. 8d.

What, Where: The 12 houses ("messuagia"), 4 cottages, 60 acres land, 12 acres meadow, all in Sunderland [p. Isel]

Total Annual value: 35s. 8d.

What, Where: The 100 acres of wood in the Manor of Isel outside the said Parks, together with all free tenements' rents within the Manor

Total Annual value: 28s. 8½d.

What, Where: The 20 houses, 4 cottages, 300 acres land, 20 acres meadow, 600 acres moor, all in Blencrake

Total Annual value: £5. 17s. 8d.

What, Where: Half the weir [and pool behind it] ("Gurgitis") called "Usegarth" [Ouse Garth] in "Basten Water", north part [Bassenthwaite Lake] and in Bassenthwaite to the middle of the river as far as its outflow, and in the "Water of Darwent" [i.e. River Derwent], also the free separate fishery in the said half of "Basten Water", north part, and to the middle of the river there, and in the upper end of the said Weir as far as the said outflow and thence to the said middle of the Darwent, in Blencrake, Isel, and "Redmane", in the north part of the said River, to its middle, as far as the metes and bounds between the Demesne of Blencrake, Isel, and Redmane and the Demesne of Bridekirk

Total Annual value: 4s. 4d.

What, Where: All other Seignory rights in the Manor of Isel

Total Annual value: 6s. 8d.

Together with all ... dovecotes ... free warren, hunting, hawking, ... minerals ... turbary ... trees, rents, boons, ...; [no garths or tofts mentioned]

In Isel, Blindcrake, Redmaine, "Warthall", Plumbland, Bassenthwaite, Derwent [River], Derwent Water and Bridekirk;

Provision for failure of Sir Wilfrid's and Matilda's issue.