sur 7 1618 Rents due to the Duchy of Lancaster.

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.

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.

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.