Deeds and receipts, mostly relating to Baggrow ("Baggra" 1693) (Drewry to Lawson)...

The Drewry deeds relate to a customary house and its land at Baggrow (Sir Francis Salkeld, lord), rent 18s. 8d., sold to John Drewry of Baggrow jun., dyer, by John his father, yeo., for £8 on 29 May 1693; mortgaged by John jun., "Dyester", to Jane Lawson of Brayton spinster for £100, two days later; and sold by Jane (now Mrs Frecheville Dykes of "Wartholl") and her husband, to Wilfrid Lawson of Brayton Esq. for sum unspecified on 12 Sept. 1698. The property was described in 1693 as above, together with all "...Orchards Gardens Tofts Crofts ..."; by 1698, the tofts and crofts are omitted. In the 1693 mortgage, the two uprights of the letter y in "Dyester" are each dotted. These deeds include agreement signed by Sir Francis Salkeld as to a heriot that might be due from Wilfrid Lawson - consents to payment of £4 instead (17 May 1698). The property was in the Salkelds' Manor of Baggrow and Upmanby. Lastly, a receipt for fine on admittance of Gilfrid on death of Wilfrid Esq., 1710 for "a tenement in Baggara commonly called Drury's tenement" (signed Thomas Salkeld; witnesses, "Ch. Usher, Rob. William"; dated 22 May 1710).

Agreement (Wilfrid Lawson of Brayton p. "Aspatrick" Esq. to John Scott" of Hesket p. Caldbeck" [Hesket New Market] yeo.) following John Scott's sale to Wilfrid today of his two closes, High Close (4 acres) and a 3-acre close at Sykehead "in Caldbeck Underfell", rent 2d. - that John Scott his heirs and assigns shall have possession until 9 April 1684, for £20. 13s. 4d. payable before that date, 1677

Draft agreement for lease of St Herbert's Island "in Keswick Lake or Derwent Water" (Sir Wilfrid's Devisees in Trust to (blank) White of Keswick Esq.) for 3 years for £12. 2s. 0d. p.a. rent; reserving the right to enter, cut down, remove, or replant any wood or trees there; lessee to pay all taxes, and on leaving "yield up the said Island with the Hermitage and other Buildings thereon" in as good repair as now, 1806

Upper half of draft surrender in the [Manor of Woodside and] Curthwaite - Commissioners in the bankruptcy of John Tickell late of Brighouse p. Curthwaite and formerly of the City of London, broker, and the devisees (all named) of the late John Noran of Braidness [p. Bassenthwaite] yeo., by bargain and sale 22 Aug. 1820 [breaks off here], [c. 1820]