This A Survey of the Manor of NewCastle under Lyne with the Rights Members and appurtenances thereof lyinge and being in the County of Stafford late parcell of the possessions of Charles Stewart late kinge of England .
This introduction says it all of the importance of this survey. The detail as one may expect of this document is incredible and a perfect document for students, groups of history studies to get to grips with and to analyse the huge amount of land owned by the Dule of Lancaster. Give full descriptions of individual estates and values. A wonderful document. Six pages.
Six pages long.
sur 4 1416 Manor of Newcastle as Honour of Tutbury.
£8.00A 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.
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