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order book for 1643-4 (SHC 1956) recorded:
“It
is ordered that Mr Gabriel Keeling of Biddle shall hold from the
Annunciation next for and during one whole yeare one Messuage or
Tenement in Burslam called and knowne by the name of Rushton grange
and the Colemines there beihg the land of Francis Biddulph Esq. a
delinquent now sequestered with liberty to get and burne limestone to
be spent upon the lands and 40 Tunne of limestone to dispose otherways
as he shall please yielding and paying to our Treasurer the summe of
£70 at foure payments viz. our lady day, Midsomer, Michaelmas, and
Christmas:
And
likewise paying and discharging the weekly pay during the said due for
the premises, and allowing to the widow Bagnold house room in the said
grange and keeping of as many cowes in the said grounds as she had
last yeare, she not misdemeaning her selfe against the said Gabriel
Keeling.”
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