Conveyances
and Leases of Great Appleby Moat House
23rd
January 1599 Exemplification
of a fine, 2 messuages, 2 cottages, 2
tofts, 2 mills, 1 dovecote, 2 gardens, 2
orchards, 200 acres of land, 60 acres of
meadow, 100 acres of pasture, 100 acres of
furze and heath, 3s rent, common of pasture
for all kinds of cattle, view of frankpledge
&c. at Appleby Magna, Measham, Oakthorpe,
by Edward Gryffyn Esq. and Lucy his wife, to
Wolstan Dixie, gent. And Francis his
wife.
DE
43/51
27th
June 1599 Recovery
[of above] Thomas Beaumont Esq. and Francis
Beaumont Esq. Grantee Wolstan Dixie &c.
DE
43/52
23rd
November, 1598 A Capital messuage, 6
yardlands of arable, a water mill, 4 holmes
and 5 closes of pasture, messuages, 2 crofts
and 2½ yardlands, ley and meadow, half a
yardland, ley and meadow at Appleby Magna.
Grantor Edward Griffyn of Dingley, Northants
and Lucy his wife, to Wolstan Dixie of
London Esq. and Francis his wife.
DE
43/55
19th
December, 1598 Letter
of Attorney for possession of lands
above. Grantee Robert Pilkington of
Leicester, Gent. Grantor Wolstan Dixie.
DE
43/56
9th
October, 1600 Covenant
to levy a fine on lands (above) Grantee
Augustine Esq., Nichols of London, John
Ashburnham Esq. of Sussex, John Adye of
London, gent. Grantor Wolstan Dixie.
DE
43/57-58
12th
November, 1600 Fine
for 2 messuages, 2 cottages, 2 tofts, 2
mills, a dovecote, 2 gardens, 2 orchards,
200 acres of land, 60 acres meadow &c at
Appleby Magna, Measham, Oakthorpe. Grantor
Nichols, Ashburnham, Adye. Grantee Wolstan
Dixie.
DE
43/59-62
1st
November, 1601
Bargain and Sale for lands {above]
Grantee Governors of Market Bosworth Grammar
School including William Pelsant, parson of
Market Bosworth, churchwardens Dixie,
Beaumont, William Farmer, yeoman.
DE
43/63
1st
November, 1601 Lease
and sale [as above]. DE 43/64
23rd
March, 1619 Lease
for three years of Mansion House and 6
yardlands appertaining, watermill in Measham,
4 holmes and 5 closes of pasture, 1 messuage,
2 crofts and 2½ yardlands &c Grantor
Governors of Bosworth School to Humphrey
Francys, yeoman of Barwell.
DE
43/104
5th
May, 1619 Lease
for three years [as above]. DE 43/105
10th
October, 1621 Lease
for three lives of Appleby lands [above]
including watermilne …newly erected and
built in or neere unto the place where the
Anncient water milne lately stoode …in
parish of Measham (called Meyse Milne)…lands,
dovecotes, edifices &c lately in
occupation of Thomas Roper, rent £50…to
mark bounds and permit yearly courts &c.
to Richard Dixie of Appleby Magna.
DE
43/106
1st
April 1628 Lease
of Manor Place or capitall messuage of
Appulbie the greate..that they [Hartills]
from time to time, as feofees of the Grammar
School shall appoynt, shall and will permit upon summons or
warninges to the said courts or any of them
into the house to come there and do … make
and brand all the lease and ground lying
within the common fields..with a greate
Roman S…that they shall maintain the said
tillage ground, that is to say baulkes in
the ridges at each end and premises so
marked and kept in the end of the said terme
shall leave and yield upon and that … Nor
lopp, topp, shred or gerdlefell, nor putt
down any trees of oke, ash, elm or fruyte
now growing … or hereafterto belonging …
to maintain true bounds every seven years
after a Terra
&c.witnesses Henrie Baker, Nicholas
Pratt [mark], Joseph Rouse, John Mould,
Humphrey Seale, Jonathan Roster…yearly
rent £50…&c.
DE
43/107
18th
December, 1628 Lease
of Manor house and gardens, 4 closes, a
piece of meadow in Oakthorpe, lands in
common fields &c Grantor Wolstan Dixie,
Grantee Thomas Hartill and William Hartill
of Stretton-en-le-field. [Allowing felling
of] 2 trees only per annum of oke or ash or
elm … the said Sir Wolstan Dixie at his
and their charge plasteringe the outside of
the dwelling house before the feast of St
Michael the archangell.. and the premises so
repaired in the end of the said
term…&c
DE
43/108
18th
October, 1649 Lease
for 80 years &c. to Wolstan Dixie, the
younger of Market Bosworth and Richard
Saunders of Market Bosworth. [Similar
safeguards to trees etc. allowing that]
shall be lawful for Dixie, Farmer and
Saunders … digging and getting cole
stones, plaster and mettell … or for the
delveing, digging and mining or searching
for to gett or find the same…to have,
take, digge and gett … and to their own
use to convert so much stone as they …
have occasion to use or ymploy in, upon or
about the said devised premises… excepting
all leet courts &c … also one pool or
dam called Banett Milne dame or pool … in
parish of Netherseal… rent £120 p.a.
DE
43/109
9th
October, 1656 Lease
for 80 years of Manor House and 6 yardlands
of arable, meadow and pasture belonging,
water mill, 4 holmes and 5 closes, messuage
and 2½ yardlands appertaining, 1½
yardlands of arable meadow and
pasture,windmill at Appleby Magna, Measham.
Grantor Governors of the Grammar School, to
Wolstan Dixie the younger, gent. and Richard
Saunders of Market Bosworth…rent £46 p.a….it
appears that Dixie had many years since
disbursed £200 towards the
schoolmistresses’ house and for lands in
Mortmain…
DE
43/110
1st
December, 1711 Agreement
over rights and interests which Richard
Saunders, a lunatic, possessed as a result
of a lease made to him in his infancy of the
school lands etc. in Appleby. Grantor
Richard Thompson of Market Bosworth and
Richard Smith, head of the Grammar School,
to Governors.
DE
43/111
[attached] Tripartite Indenture…Complaint was
made in Chancery concerning the illegality
of the lease…
in consideration of £100 p.a.
support…Thompson did relinquish natural
right and title
to the custody and guardianship of
Saunders and £300 so expended in his
maintenance…
6th
June, 1715 Lease
for 21 years of Manor and Manor House with
all lands appertaining, 3 water grist mills,
perquisites of court, fishing rights &c
in Appleby Magna from Governors to Mathew
White of Great Appleby, yeoman
DE
43/77
10th
April 1753 Memorandum
of lease Land and mills in Appleby Magna
and Measham from Governors to William Cooper
of Appleby.
DE
43/85
28th
January, 1756 Lease
for three years of messuage with mills and
lands at Appleby. Granter Wolstan Dixie,
grantee Joseph Wilkes of Overseal.
DE
43/89
1799
draft
lease of yearly tenancy from
Governors to Joseph Wilkes
1st
July 1829 yearly
tenancy of close of pasture 5 acres 2
roods 2 perches to Bateman, Saddlington;
closes to Thomas Heafield, messuages etc. in
Appleby Magna to Thomas Taverner.
Sources:
Leicester Record Office: Market Bosworth
Grammar School Records: DE 43/51-111
© Transcribed by Alan
Roberts, 1986
