1796 Trust Lords dues from sale of land
The following is a transcript of a copy of a document held by David Joy, titled "1796 Hebden". The headings of the columns have been transcribed as given. The bottom section of the document on the copy transcribed appears to be incomplete. The last column was not in the original document, but was calculated by the transcriber as the percentage of the figure in Column 2 compared with the figure in Column 3. The totals have also been added by the transcriber.
Of the list of numbers, almost invariably the value in the second column is about 7.5% of the value of the third column.
The document is almost certainly a record of the monies due to the Trust Lords according to their share of the manorial rights, after about 34 acres of unenclosed land was sold to the Duke of Devonshire. The land was bounded by Longholme to the south (past of the Duke's Hole Bottom property), Hebden Beck to the east, and Tinker's Lane to the west and north. The Duke required this land to construct an adit, the Duke's Level, to drain the mines of Yarnbury and Grassington Moor.
It is not known what the list of names in the fourth column represents.
One noteworthy point about the document is that it refers to "J Birch Innkeeper". It is known that Joseph Birch owned the New Inn, and that the rental sum for it is 1s 6d in the document, and also in the land tax returns. It is one of the first references to what we now know as the Clarendon Inn.
| Proprietors named | Rental | Proportion of Purchase |
% of col 2 to col 3 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Young | £5 1s 4d | £67 19s 8d | £1 Ann Constantine Brown, Stockdale James Rodel | 7.5% |
| J Constantine Bounty | £0 4s 9d | £3 3s 7d | R Constantine | 7.5% |
| Thomas Barker | £1 4s 3d | £16 5s 3d | John Lupton | 7.5% |
| Thomas Brown Esq | £0 8s 6d | £5 14s 0d | Henry Brown Histers | 7.5% |
| Mr. Peter Brown | £1 4s 3d | £16 5s 3d | Mrs Brown, London | 7.5% |
| Mr. Swaile | £2 2s 9d | £28 14s 0d | Mr. Swaile | 7.4% |
| George Grange | £0 10s 3d | £6 17s 6d | Mr. Stockdale | 7.5% |
| Mr. Chamberlain | £2 6s 6d | £30 19s 6d | Mrs. Chamberlain | 7.5% |
| Wm Naylor, Leeds | £0 14s 1d | £9 1s 10d | Rev. H. J. Bailey | 7.7% |
| Francis Bedford | £0 5s 8d | £3 15s 11d | Mr. Malorie | 7.5% |
| Francis Tennant | £1 6s 3d | £18 1s 2d | Garnshaw Mr. Wilson | 7.3% |
| Thomas Topham | £0 4s 0d | £4 0s 6d | John Constantine, Late | 5.0% |
| Allinson Scaife | £0 7s 8d | £5 2s 10d | Mr. Hebden | 7.5% |
| William Skelton | £1 12s 6d | £21 16s 0d | Mr. Proctor & others | 7.5% |
| Edmund Fletcher | £0 10s 0d | £7 12s 6d | Mrs. Brown, Otley | 6.6% |
| John Brown | £0 5s 6d | £3 13s 7d | Ellen Brown, Hebden | 7.5% |
| John Minikin | £0 7s 7d | £4 19s 8d | Wm. Dawson, Esq. Duke of Devonshire | 7.6% |
| John Birch | £0 1s 6d | £1 0s 0d | J Birch, Innkeeper | 7.5% |
| Wm. Dawson Esq | £0 5s 0 | £3 7s 1d | Wm. Dawson, Esq. Duke of Devonshire | 7.5 |
| Henry(?) Hawkridge | £0 12s 0d | £8 0s 11d | Mrs. Brown, Otley | 7.5% |
| Wm. Hardisty | £0 11s 6d | £7 12s 2d | Ann Constantine | 7.5% |
| Trustees Hospital | £1 0s 0d | £13 8s 4d | Trustees | 7.5% |
| Joseph Lowes | £0 1s 0d | £0 13s 4d | M Wilson, Esq | 7.5% |
| Thos. Stephenson | £0 10s 3d | £6 17 6d | Mr Stockdale (Supposed) | 7.5% |
| Anthony Joy | £0 5s 0d | £3 7s 8d | George Joy | 7.4% |
| Benjamin Shires | £0 4s 9d | £3 3s 7d | John Petty | 7.5% |
| Christopher Brown | £0 0s 7d | £0 7s 9d | 7.5% | |
| John Blackoe | £0 2s 0d | £1 6s 10d | John Calveryt | 7.5% |
| Rev R Heber | £0 2s 0d | £1 6s 10d | Mr. Brown (Supposed) | 7.5% |
| John Bland | £0 3s 10d | £2 11s 1d | Wm Dawson Esq (Supposed) | 7.5% |
| Robert Bownas | £0 12s 4d | £8 1s 2d | Mrs. Geldard | 7.7% |
| Richd Sheepshanks | £1 4s 8d | £16 10s 10d | Whalley J Lupton ? | 7.5% |
| John Whiteley | £0 2s 6d | £1 13s 6d | M Wilson Esq | 7.5% |
| John Tomlin | £0 7s 3d | £4 17s 0d | George Joy, Wm Dawson | 7.5% |
| Robert Brown | £0 11s 1d | £7 8s 10d | Mrs Brown, Otley | 7.4% |
| Duke of Devonshire | £1 0s 6d | £13 15s 0d | Duke of Devonshire | 7.5% |
| Henry Young | £0 7s 0d | |||
| Total | £27 0s 17d | £359 13s 11d | 7.5% |