sur 7 1618 Rents due to the Duchy of Lancaster.

Compiled by Fenton Lawyer, Newcastle under Lyme. The lists include the years 1633,1654 and 1655 the last year being a combination of two lists six months apart.

They are standard format of names of copyholders, land occupied and rentals due to the King.

Two x A4 pages.

A dispute between King Henry III of England and his powerful barons led in 1262 to an uprising known as the Barons’ War. The King emerged victorious. He seized the possessions of two of the rebel leaders: Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester and Robert Ferrers, Earl of Derby, granting their estates to his son, Edmund Crouchback, in 1266. The following year, 1247, Edmund was given the manor of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire known as the Honour of Tutbury. From his father. In 1416 a survey of the Manor was executed which included Shelton and Hanley, Clayton, Penkhull, Shepruge, Wolstanton, plus farms. Therefore, this list of copyholders which includes a description of their and an rents is a formidable resource to any historian.

Fourteen Pages.

Survery of Penkhull and Boothen for Lady Day and Michaelmass 1654 and 1655. Starts with the largest land owner John Lovatt of Shelton with lands in both Shelton and Penkhull and Boothen. This follows with lists of all cottagers paying the Kings tax for both years.

If used with other documents this survey helps to complete the picture of local cottagers and their status and land holding.