sur 7 1618 Rents due to the Duchy of Lancaster.

This document in the first instance lists the districts within the Manor of Newcastle under Lyme, eight in number with plans of the area of which encroachments are shown and further forms list of names of occupants. It’s a very important series. The Duchy of Lancaster, as Lord of the Manor, had a number of documents prepared 1777 -1781, for the renewal of the Lease of the Manor to the Right Honourable Granville Leveson Earl Gower, on the 2nd day of March 1781 for 31 years [to 1812]. Copies of these documents are in the City Museum & Art Gallery at Stoke on Trent. The documents are numbered and inclusive of plans of cottages that have been erected and lands enclosed from the manorial waste appear within this survey. The reasons for this were that buildings had been erected without prior agreement of the Lessee of the manor.
A very interesting series of plans and of huge benefit for historians who can ten identify buildings and occupiers.

Survey of the manor of Newcastle under Lyme Rentals due in the 17th year of James 1st (1619)

A list of copyholders in Penkhull along with a description of their land. No rentals are mentioned.

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The list of cottagers within the various townships of Newcastle under Lyme of 1777, list the names of the head of the family of each. By this time, Shelton which included much of what is now Hanley had 79 cottagers listed showing a quite substantial list of names compared to earlier records indicating the expansion of the pottery industry attracting workers to the township for employment, the next was Penkhull at 24. indicating that it still retained its rural character but the numbers had increased aliongside the developemnt of Stoke town itself.