sur 8 1619 Manor of Newcastle under Lyme.

This 1671 documents lists tenants who have built cottages on the waste land of each area of the Manor – Wolstanton, Penkhull, Hanley, Seabridge, Whitmore, Knutton, Botteslow, Fenton Vivian – all under the authority of the Duchy of Lancaster and within his Manor of Newcastle under Lume.
These lists give name, and the rentals charged thereby giving an estimate of the larger and smaller plots. The waste is normally that land that is not suitable for cultivation normally at the sides of roads.

Three pages

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.

Lease of the Manor of Newcastle under Lyme to the Right Honourable Granville This survey of the Manor of Newcastle under Lyme has been transcribed into English and relates to King Henry V and the raising of funds to maintain the wars with France.
The document lists every copyholder tenant within the township of Penkhull, the status of their tenure, measurement and the amount of tax due to the King to support the war in France.
Great asset for those who study their family tree as the is the earliest survey of the Manor that has survived.

Henry de Lyme holds one land of socage formerly held by Robert de Weson and pays [etc] 1d

Nine x A4 pages