sur 8 1619 Manor of Newcastle under Lyme.

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.

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.

This document has many uses and is extracted from the old Rate Book for Stoke 1914. This list contains all the streets that are applicable to Penkhull itself containing the following:
Name of Street; Head of family; description of property (house, beer houses etc; Rentable Value; Ratable value.
With all these variables as it is set in Excel cab be used in social sciences, school projects and social history all of which can be valuable in the study of social occupations, population interpretations and more.