Indentures
The Marriage agreement ... made & agreed upon now .... performed on the Marriage of John Davison of Blaikstone in ye County of Durham Esqr. With Mary Musgrave only daughter of Sir Richard Musgrave of Edenhall in ye County of Cumberland ... agreed upon ye Eightteenth day of May, 1681.
Three page manuscript on paper, page 30cm x 19cm, docket verso, folds with a little wear;
Staffordshire - Uttoxeter, Indenture of Sale of a house and land, made between Katherine Thompson, spinster of Melborne, in the County of Derby and Richard Minors, John Yates and William Lathropp of Uttoxeter in the County of Stafford, 7th July, 1681. Apparently the first stage of an elaborate legal charade known as 'a Common Recovery' which existed from the late fifteenth century until 1833 and was designed to defeat an 'estate tail'.
Manuscript on vellum, approx 26cm x 60cm, seal tag without seal, multiple folds, several dockets verso;
Yorkshire - Northallerton, Indenture providing a jointure for Mary Wilson, widow of Brafferton and intended wife of John Hopton of Armeley Hall, whereby it is recorded that her father and brother, Ralph Rymere the elder and younger of Brafferton have granted lands at Northallerton and elsewhere John Hopton and his intended wife for the sum of £1700 paid by John Hopton.
29th August 1662, manuscript on vellum, approx 37cm x 60cm, attractive initials, signed by John Hopton and Mary Wilson with Mary's seal present, dockets and signatures verso, folded, several small holes. (3)