Local Interest - Bulwell, Nottingham, two vellum manuscripts, View of Frankpledge for the manor of Bulwell, 1766, conducted by court steward Alan Johnson on behalf of the lord of the manor, Godfrey Wentworth. Mention is made of John Trueman of Bulwell Hall, yeoman, and succession to his holdings by his sons John and William and also the tenancy of the widow in dower of John Knight in respect of a fine (i.e. payment) of £100, 64cm x 50cm; and, Manor Court Baron of 3rd February 1804 admitting John Knight into the tenancy of a house, workshop, outbuildings, stables and land held previously by his mother in dower and bequeathed to him on her death as a condition of the will of his late father, also John in 1766, 32cm x 75cm, each mounted and framed en suite, [2] The manorial estate seems to have passed from the Byrons to the Stanhopes of Linley, Nottinghamshire, and from them to Sir Michael Wentworth of Woolley Hall, Yorkshire (5 miles south of Wakefield) via the Copleys of Sprotborough. Godfrey Wentworth MP (1705-1789) was lord in the 1766 document, and his grandson, Godfrey Wentworth Armytage (1772-1834) took the surname and arms of Wentworth in 1780 and was the lord in the 1805 document. Alan Johnson was the Woolley estate steward who would have travelled south to preside over the Court Baron.
Local Interest - Bulwell, Nottingham, two vellum manuscripts, View of Frankpledge for the manor of Bulwell, 1766, conducted by court steward Alan Johnson on behalf of the lord of the manor, Godfrey Wentworth. Mention is made of John Trueman of Bulwell Hall, yeoman, and succession to his holdings by his sons John and William and also the tenancy of the widow in dower of John Knight in respect of a fine (i.e. payment) of £100, 64cm x 50cm; and, Manor Court Baron of 3rd February 1804 admitting John Knight into the tenancy of a house, workshop, outbuildings, stables and land held previously by his mother in dower and bequeathed to him on her death as a condition of the will of his late father, also John in 1766, 32cm x 75cm, each mounted and framed en suite, [2] The manorial estate seems to have passed from the Byrons to the Stanhopes of Linley, Nottinghamshire, and from them to Sir Michael Wentworth of Woolley Hall, Yorkshire (5 miles south of Wakefield) via the Copleys of Sprotborough. Godfrey Wentworth MP (1705-1789) was lord in the 1766 document, and his grandson, Godfrey Wentworth Armytage (1772-1834) took the surname and arms of Wentworth in 1780 and was the lord in the 1805 document. Alan Johnson was the Woolley estate steward who would have travelled south to preside over the Court Baron.
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