Please note that this is not a full word for word transcription. A lot of the legal "mumbo jumbo" has been left out, together with the repetition of all the possible names for a place in order to make understanding easier. With the exception of the the first part, all names of Lesses and local placenames have been shown in bold italic to allow you to see the important information quickly.
A MEMORIAL to be registered at the office at Wakefield in the West Riding
of the County of York pursuant to an Act of Parliament made in the second
year of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen Ann for the registering all
Deeds Conveyances and Wills that shall be made of any Honors, Manors, Lands,
Tenements or Hereditaments within the West Riding of the County of York
after the twenty ninth day od September One Thousand Seven Hundred and
Four.
OF
AN INDENTURE of Demise of Four parts bearing date the Thirty First Day
of August in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty
Nine made between:
Taylor White of Wallingwells in the Counties of Nottingham and York,
Esquire, of the first part.
The Reverend Stephen White of Lavington in the County of Lincoln, Doctor
of Laws, of the second part.
John Gally Knight of Langold in the said County of York, Esquire, of
the third part.
Thomas Woollaston White Esquire, Lieutenant in the fourth regiment of
Dragoons (Eldest son of the said Taylor White) of the fourth part.
WHEREBY for the considerations therein mentioned Taylor White did Grant,
Bargain, Sell and Demise unto Stephen White amongst other lands etc. ALL
THAT the Manor or Lordship (but not the Capital Messuage or Demesnes) of
Buerly otherwise called Bewerly in the said County of York and all Mines
of Lead and other Mines and Quarries of what nature and kind soever in
Buerly otherwise Bewerly, Riggs, Greenhagh, otherwise Greenhaugh, and Couldstones
otherwise Couldstone Foulds in the Township of Buerly... in the said County
of York.
The Mines of Lead and Lead Ore within and under part of the said Manor
and Premises in Bewerly… are under Lease to Several Mining Companies by
virtue of a certain Indenture of Lease dated the 1st Day of May 1782 between:
Taylor White and others of one part.
George Bradley, George Fletcher, George Morley, William Morley, William
Baines, Michael Houseman and John Maxfield of the other part.
Which said Lease comprises the Mines of Lead and Lead Ore in a piece
of Mining Ground in a certain place in Greenhaugh... called Black Riggs in
Galloways thereby demised for the term of 21 years from the 5th Day of
January last.
Also an Indenture of Lease dated 1st Day of November 1782 between:
Taylor White and others of one part.
Peter Wilson Overend, Stephen Hartley, George Hasleham, William Morley,
John Morley and David Swale of the other part.
which said lease comprizes the Mines of Lead and Lead Ore in a piece
of Mining Ground in a place called Greenhaugh... and thereby demised for
a term of 21 years from the 5th Day of January last.
Also an Indenture of Lease dated 1st Day of November 1782 between:
Taylor White and others of one part.
Edward Cleaver, William Hutchinson the Elder and William Hutchinson
the Younger of the other part.
which said lease comprizes the Mines of Lead and Lead Ore in a piece
of Mining Ground in a place called Greenhaugh... and thereby demised for
a term of 21 years from the 5th Day of January last.
Also an Indenture of Lease dated 1st Day of November 1782 between:
Taylor White and others of one part.
John Lupton and Thomas Barker of the other part.
which said lease comprizes the Mines of Lead and Lead Ore within and
under several inclosures, pieces or parcels of land and ground containing
by Estimation 50 Acres called by the name of Hardcastle... and thereby demised
for a term of 21 years from the 25th Day of December last.
Also an Indenture of Lease dated 1st Day of August 1784 between:
Taylor White and others of one part.
Anthony Hopper, William Brown, Edward Parker, William Parker, William
Morley, Hinnber Smith and Robert Priestly of the other part.
which said lease comprizes the Mines of Lead and Lead Ore in a piece
of Mining Ground in a place called Greenhaugh… called Galloways containing
by Estimation 25 Acres and thereby demised for a term of 21 years from
the 5th Day of February last.
Also an Indenture of Lease dated 1st Day of May 1785 between:
Taylor White and others of one part.
Sir John Ingleby Baronet of the other part.
which said lease comprizes the Mines of Lead and Lead Ore within and
under the Estate of Sir John Ingleby in the Township of Bewerly... called
Toft Riggs, Bail Bank and Moorhouses and thereby demised for a term of
21 years from the 25th Day of December last.
Also an Indenture of Lease dated 1st Day of August 1787 between:
Taylor White and others of one part.
Johnson Atkinson Busfield, Henry Wickham, Matthew Wilson, Peter Wilson
Overend, William Baynes, Henry Moorhouse, Robert Priestly, James Hebden,
William Alcock and William Moorhouse of the other part.
which said lease comprizes the Mines of Lead and Lead Ore in a piece
of Mining Ground in a place called Ravenstones in Greenhaugh... and thereby
demised for a term of 21 years from the 25th Day of December last.
AND in the said several Leases is reserved to the Lessor one full fifth
piece, pig, part or share of all such Lead and other mettals which shall
be gotten and smelted out of the Lead Ore by virtue of the said respective
Lesses, clear of all deductions within 21 Days after the said should be
smelted into Lead and also other parts of the said Mining Ground within
the Manor of Bewerley or the Lead and Lead Ore within and under the same
or under grant from the agents of Taylor White or those under whom he claimed
to Several Mining Adventurers in small jobs or portions called meers of
ground according to the Ancient Custom of the said Manor of Bewerley and
which are held… by respective Grantees subject to…
TO HOLD to the said Stephen White… from the 10th Day of October next,
for and until the full end if the term of 100 years from thence next ensuing
if Taylor White should live long upon the Several Trusts to and for the
Several Intents and purposes expressed in the said indenture of the 31st
Day of August 1789 which to the execution thereof by Taylor White and John
Gally Knight is witnessed by Dame Ann Fowke of Sowerby in the County of
Leicester, widow and Samuel Edwards of Stamford in the County of Lincoln,
Gentleman, and also the execution thereof by Stephen White and Thomas Woollaston
White is witnessed by the said Samuel Edwards and by Richard Stephen Taylor
of Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman,
and is to be registered by Stephen White as witness his hand and seal on
the 11th Day of November 1790.
Signed and Sealed in the presence of
Rich S Taylor
Saml Edwards.
Endorsed
I do hereby certify that the written within is a true copy of a Memorial which was registered at Wakefield on 25th Day of December 1790 at Ten in the Forenoon in the book marked or called DF, page 88, and number 104 as witness my hand.
[illegible signatutes]
Witness to the signing thereof
John Lee
Peter Hardcastle Clerks to Mr Topham
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