Deeds: Preston, Warton, Fishwick, Fulwood and Goosnargh

1. 1 Mar. 1676.

Deed to create tenants to the praecipe ofa common recovery.

1. Thomas Hodgkinson of Preston, gent.

2a) Thomas Winckley b) Chris. Greenfield, both of Preston, gents. Property of1 in Preston, Warton, Fishwick and Fulwood. 2 to be tenants of praecipe to uses to be declared.

2. 18 Apr. I676.

Deed to declare the uses ofa fine and recovery. la) Josias Gregson b) William Patten, both of Preston, gents.

2a) Thomas Winckley b) Chris. Greenfield, both of Preston, gents.

3. Thomas Hodgkinson. Fine and recovery of 20 burgages, 4Oa. of land, 20a. of meadow and

4a. of pasture etc. in Preston, Warton, Fishwick and Fulwood to the use of 3.

3. 17 Apr. 1682.

Release, polled.

1. Mary Hodgkinson of Preston, spinster.

2. Thomas Hodgkinson, executor of William Hodgkinson.

Release of claims to money from property in Preston, Fishwick and Warton under will of her father William Hodgkinson. Consideration: £500.

4. 1 Aug. 1700. .

Surrender prior to a common recovery.

1. Elizabeth Hodgkinson of Preston, widow

2. Henry Hodgkinson of Preston, gent.

Messuage in Preston and one third of the property of Thomas Hodgkinson,

deed.

Surrender void i f 2 does not pay1 £1,000 on 11 Nov.

5. 1 Aug. 1700.

Surrender prior to a common recovery.

la) George Higham b) Thomas Hornby c) Robert Crosse, all of Goosnargh,

yeoman d) Edward Barton of Goosnargh, yeoman, executor of Edmund Tasker of

Goosnargh e) Mich. Grecson of Claughton, yeoman f) Thomas Hoole of

Barton, yeoman,, executor of Robert Grecson, deed, g) Chris. Nowell of

Preston, grocer h) John Shakeshaft of Fulwood, husbandman i) Anne

Walmsley, widow of Thomas Walmsley, jun. of Preston, butcher.

2. Henry Hodgkinson.

Surrender void i f 2 does not pay1 £500 each on 11 Nov.

6. 8 and 9 Aug. 1700.

Deed to create tenants to the praecipe and lead the uses of a common

recovery,

1, Henry Hodgkinson. 2a) Nicholas Starkie b) Thomas Winckley, both of Preston. 3a) William Patten b) Josias Gregson.

2 to be tenants to a recovery on all property of1 in Preston, Warton,

Fishwick, Fulwood and Goosnargh to the use of 1.

7. 21 Aug. 1700 (Latin).

Transcript of a common recovery.

la) William Patten b) Josias Gregson, demandants.

2a) Nicholas Starkie b) Thomas Winckley, tenants.

Twenty six messuages, twenty burgages, 80a. of land, 40a. of meadow and 86a. of pasture etc. in Preston, Warton, Fishwick, Fulwood and Goosnargh.

8.

15 Aug. 1711 (Latin).

Final concord (2 parts).

la) Edward Parker b) William Ashton, complainants.

2a) John Mercer b) Mary, his wife.

Moiety of 26 messuages, 20 burgages, 80a. of land, 40a. of meadow, 80a. of pasture etc. in Preston, Warton, Fishwick, Fulwood and Gobsnargh.

Consideration: £686, 10.

9. 19 Jan. 1714.

Assignment of mortgage.

1. Edward Holt of Shevington, gent.

2a) Jonathan Blackburn of Orford, near Warrington b) John, his brother,

of Liverpool, merch.

3a) John Mercer, clerk, rector of Eccleston b) Mary, his wife, sister

and coheiress of Rich, Hodgkinson of Preston.

Moiety of the property of Richard Hodgkinson in Preston, Warton, Fishwick,

Fulwood and Goosnargh.

To 2 for residue of 600 years previously granted to 1, 4 June 1711.

Consideration: £700.

10.

Counterpart of 9 above.

11. 13 July 1719.

Deed of partition.

la) John Mercer of Eccleston iuxta Croston, clerk b) Mary, his

wife, sister and coheir of Richard Hodgkinson.

2a) Timothy Mauleverer of Arncliffe, Yorks., esq. b) Jane, his wife,

sister of lb).

3a) Edmund Assheton b) Charles Gibson, both of Preston, gents.

four messuages in Preston adjoining Church St. and St. John's

barn and land in Churchgate; messuages in Fishergate; messuage in

Churchgate; messuage in the Market Place; land in South Meadow

Lane; moiety of Broomfield on Preston Moor; land in Fishwick called

or Intack Moor End; part of Great Row Field and Green Croft, in Fishwick;

horse milne in Churchgate, Preston; land in Dockergate Lane

called Nether Rushy Heys and Moss Field; land called Further Raw

Moors; Grayston's House and land called Field on the Back of the

House, Hobbes Croft, Middle Croft and Farr Newhall Field; barn and

land called Barn Croft, Great Field Next to the Croft, Field Next to

Great Field, Close Against Newhall Barn and Longacre, all in Newhall

Lane, Preston; land on Mawdland Lane and Sandy Lane; land called Little Whittakers, Green Croft, Goldsmith Bank in Preston; Moss Field, Bracken Field, West Three Acres, Farr Three Acres, Nearer and Further Brookfield, all in Goosnargh; Fairhurst Hill, Goosnargh, all to 3 to the use of 1.

Messuage and barn on west of Fryergate and in Fryer Lane or Weend; messuage on east side of St. John's Lane or Weend, messuage on north side of Churchgate; Cheapside and messuage in Market Place, with Anchor Inn adjoining; land near the house of Correction; land in Fishergate Lane or Broadgate Lane and Green Lane; land in South Meadow Lane; land called Knoll Heys in Ribbleston Lane; land in field called Bankhead and land called Nearer Row Moors, all in Preston; messuage and land called Banks and Bottoms in Fulwood; land called Nearer and Further Dishes in Fishwick; Brook Meadow and land near New Hall Lane, Preston; land in Corner Capp Field and in Salter Lane; land in Between Town and Mawdlands Field; Closes Next Inglewhitefair

and Highfield in Goosnargh, Higher and Lower Croft, Higher and Lov/er Brookfield, Turner Field all in Goosnargh; Marsh Hey, Pottocks Meadow, House Field, Little Meadow, Stone Acre, Banklands, Eastmabank Lands, Highbramplace, Middlebramplace and Lowestbramplace in Warton, all to3 to the use of 2.

12. 24 May 1734.

Assignment of mortgage to attend the inheritance.

1. John Blackburn of Orford, esq., executor of John Blackburn of Liverpool, 2a) Tim. Mauleverer b) Edmund Assheton c) Henry Smith, executors of Rev. John Mercer d) Thomas Mercer, gent., son and heir of Rev. John Mercer. 3a) Nicholas Starkie, esq. b) William Atherton, gent, c) Thomas Astley, grocer d) Susan Ravald, widow e) Ellen Peddar, widow f) John Wilkinson, innkeeper g) George Pearson, barber h) Richard Shawe, joiner all of Preston; i) Alex. Butler of Kirkland, esq. j) James Gunson of Lancaster, yeoman k) Richard Charnock of Fulwood, butcher. 4a) John Winckley b) Thomas Foster, both of Preston, esqs.

3 have agreed to purchase certain property:- 3a) messuage on the south side of Churchgate, Preston; 3b) land called Little Whittakers and Greencrofts in Preston; 3c) land in Fishwick; 3d) messuage on the west of Market Place, Preston; 3e) land adjoining Mawdland Lane, Preston; 3f) Goldsmiths Bank, Preston; 3g) land north of Newhall Lane, Preston; 3h) messuages on the south side of Churchgate; 3i) messuages in Fishergate; 3j) four messuages in Churchgate and St.

John's Weend; 3k) land in Preston called Further Raw Moors.

Term of 600 years to 4 to the use of the purchasers.

Consideration: £781. 15. 0.

13. 24 May 1734.

Lease for 1,000 years.

la) Tim. Mauleverer of Arncliffe, Yorks., esq. b) Edmund Assheton

c) Henry Smith, both of Preston, gents, d) Thomas Mercer, son and heir

of John Mercer of Eccleston, clerk.

2a) Nicholas Starkie of Preston, esq. b) Alex. Butler of Kirkland, esq.

c) John Atherton of Liverpool, merch. d) William Atherton of Preston,

woollen draper e) George Pearson, barber f) Susan Ravald, widow g) John

Wilkinson, innkeeper h) John Birchall, gent, i) Richard Shaw, joiner

j) Richard Pedder, linen draper, all of Preston k) Richard Charnock, jun.

of Fulwood, butcher l) James Gunson of Lancaster, yeoman

Barn called New Hall Barn in New Hall Lane and land (6a.) called Bam Croft, Great Field Next To The Croft, and the field adjoining the latter,, if 1 fail to pay £3. 15* 0. chantry rents formerly due from lands purchased by 2 from the estate of John Mercer, deed.

14. 6 and 7 Mar. 1812.

Bargain and sale by lease and release.

1. Charles Gibson of Quernmore Park, neph. and heir of Robert Gibson of Myerscough, esq., devisee of Charles Gibson of Preston, gent., trustee of partition of 13 July 1719*

2a) Frances Mauleverer b) Mary Mauleverer, both of Arncliffe Hall, Yorks., spinsters.

Property assigned to Tim. Mauleverer, 13 July 1719, excluding what sold (see 11 and 12 above).