Includes documents related to trusts and settlements with the Beaufort and Stafford families.

Letters and grants related to Stanley property in Moldesdale, Flintshire

Grant: Thomas, Lord Stanley, to Lady Margaret, of the Castle of Hawarden, Cheshire, and the manors of Bidston, Chesire, Alston, Lancashire, Flintham and Hoveringham, Nottinghamshire; and lands in the Wirral, Prescot and Anlesargh, Lancashire, for term of her life.

Includes: grants and a letter of attorney related to Stanley lands in Lancashire and Cheshire.

Grant, Thomas lord Stanley to Lady Margaret, of lands in Moldesdale, Flintshire, and Beaumaris, Anglesey.

Grant by Lady Margaret under licence of 22 May 1472 by the king [Edward IV] to Thomas [Bourchier], Cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert [Stillington], Bishop of Bath and Wells, William [Waynflete], Bishop of Winchester, John [Booth], Bishop of Exeter, John [Stafford], Earl of Wiltshire, the King's kinsman, Sir Walter Blound, Lord Mountjoy, Master Owin Lloyd, clerk, John Catesby, serjeant at law, Richard Page, William Hody and Reginald Bray, gentlemen, to hold at her will as to the profits of the lands following, viz Martok, Cory Revell, Kingsbury Regis, Camel Reginae with apputer[enances] in Somerset, hundreds of Bulston, Abdyke and Horethorn with appurt[enances] in [the] same, towns [burgi, burghs] of Langport Estover and Langport Westover with appurt[enances] in the same, manors of Sampford Peverell and Aller Peverell with appurt[enances] in Devon, town of Sampford Peverell and hundred of Alberton also in Devon, with knights' fees, advowsons liberties etc, as of the King in chief; grant to her attorneys John Gilbert, gentleman, Peter WilliamsonJohnson [sic], Thomas Larder, John Jenyn, John Burgeys to deliver seisin to the grantees; witnessed by Sir William Stourton, Lord Stourton, Sir John Dynham, Lord Dynham, Reginald Stourton, William Poulet, Sir John [N]enton, Philip Beaumont, William Carant, Thomas Malet, Robert Stowell, etc.

Endorsed: enrolled dorse of close roll. Jan 19 Henry VII

Grant by Sir William Stanley of Hoton, James Skaresbyhe [Scaresby], Thomas Pole, William Nedeham, Thomas Wolton, Hugh Gartesside, Ranulph Billyngton, Robert Shakerley, Richard Huxley, John Carlile, clerk, Henry Ban, and Henry Kirkham to Sir Thomas Stanley, Lord Stanley, Henry Pole and Robert Southworth, of the castlem manors and lands which they held by feoffment of the aforesaid Lord Stanley or his father, Sir Thomas Stanley, Lord Stanley, in Lancashire, Cheshire, Wales or the Isle of Man.
With appointment of John Crosse, Wiliam Core and Oliver Bykerstath as their attorneys.

Grant by Sir John Mainwaring, Sir John Bromley and Sir Thomas Manley to Thomas Lord Stanley of the manor of Moldesdale [Flintshire] held by themselves and the collegiate church of St John Chester.

Grant by Robert [Stillington], Bishop of Bath and Wells, Sir Reginald Bray, Sir William Hody, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and Richard Page, by licence of the King [Henry VII] given by letters patent of 10 November 1490, to Richard [Hill], Bishop of London, and Richard Skypton, clerk, of [lands in Devon and Somerset] with letters of attorney to Hugh Oldeham, clerk, John Jakson and Nicholas Compton.

Grant, Ranulph Pygot of Donington to William his son, parcels of land and salt pans in Donington and Quadring, Lincolnshire.

Indenture dated 26 May 1507, of a grant by the Princess Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derbie [sic], mother of the King, to Humphry Conyngsby, sejeant [sic] at law, of closes called Great Medbourne, Oxlea, Asshmore and Coletts, and of 7 acres of meadow, in the parish of Aldenham, Hertfordshire, for a yearly rent of 51s.
Per me Humfridum Conyngesby.

Grant by Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham [and] Earl of Hertford, Stafford and Northampton, by royal licence to Thomas [Bourchier], Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas [Rotherham], Archbishop of York, John [Morton], Bishop of Ely, William [Dudley], Bishop of Durham, John [Hales], Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, John [Russell], Bishop of Lincoln, Henry [Bourchier], Earl of Essex, William, Lord Hastyngs, John, Lord Howard, Walter, Lord Ferres, Sir William Knyvet, Sir Richard Chok, Sir Guy Fayrfax, Richard Pygot and John Catesby, serjeant at law, John Jeffery,clerk, William Catesby, William Paston, John Denton, William Harpour, Richard Harpour, John Broun, Richard Isham and Andrew Dymmok, of the manors of Hatfeld Regis, Writtel and Boyton, in the hundreds of Ongre and Harlow in the county of Essex, and the manors of Thornbury, Gloucestershire, Rothwell, Northamptonshire, held in chief of the King [Edward IV].
26 February 1480/1

Indenture of grant by Sir Thomas Stanley, Lord Stanley, Henry Pole and Robert Southworth to John [Russell], Bishop of Lincoln, John [Morton], Bishop of Ely, Sir John Denham, Lord Denham, Sir William Huse, Sir Thomas Borough, John Cheyny [Chesne], Richard Pygot, serjeant at law, William Catesby, John Brown, Reginald Bray, Thomas Roggers, and John Denton, of the Castle of Hawarden, Cheshire, the manors of Mahuntesdale in the Marches of Wales, and the manors of Bydston, Neston, Donham, Maxey, Kynghey, Bosley and Dorfold, Cheshire, and of Hoveryngham and Flyntham, Nottinghamshire, for the life of Margaret [Beaufort], Countess of Richmond.
With appointment of Hugh Gartesside, Robert Shakerley and Gilbert Gilpyn as attorneys to give seisin.

Includes: letters patent and a grant for land held in the Honour of Richmond.