sur 17 -18th century list of cottagers in Newcastle Manor

Gregory King’s Notebook 1680
Gregory King was a surveyor, mapmaker and herald of Lancaster. King’s 1695 survey of taxes and their geographical and demographic distribution in Great Britain include some of the first proper estimates of population in Great Britain. By 1695 King was started on a second official career in the business branch of the state. He was a commissioner in charge of a new tax on marriages, births and burials and later Secretary to the Commission of Public Accounts and Secretary to the Controllers of Army Accounts; in 1708 he was one of the three commissioners appointed to state the debts of the late King William. King could well have been promoted as the coordinator for the 1701 Parish Listing for Stoke-upon-Trent. (see surveys)

The 1680 listing comprises of the number of houses in Penkhull (in Stoke); Clayton; Seabridge; Handley Green; Bucknall and Little Fenton.

This is a Survey of the Manor of Newcastle dated 8 Henry VIII 1516-17 taken by Richard Lovatt and held in the British Library Harley Roll K.9
Sadly, unable to trace why except that was the rental of the Manor charged to each copyholder listing also the lands held by each in the assessment of rent doe to the crown.
This document can be of great importance to those studying their family tree but also to the academic who can calculate land holdings and thereby identify the main landowners.
Five pages
Note that a copy of this rental was delivered to the King’s tenant at
Penkhull by the hands of John Kendall in the month of September in the
year 26 Henry VIII (1534) why it is not known put perhaps the original could not be found.