Petyt family entries in the records of Bolton Priory Rentals
15th and 16th centuries
Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire
Rental of Bolton Priory 1473
Hesilwode
Richard Pety holds 1 messuage with 8 acres of land & meadow - 5 s.
The same Richard holds 12 acres of forland called Wilflat - 7 s.
Storthes
Thomas Pety holds 1 cottage with 2 acres of land & meadow with a certain intake - 3 s.
Baxstancliff
Robert Pety holds 1 messuage called Baxstancliff with land and closes in severalty - 30 s.
Halton -Tenants at Will
The widow of John Pety holds 1 messuage with intake, and other customary land & meadow of the same messuage - 7 s.
William Pety holds 1 parcel with one waste toft... - 8 d.
Agnes Pety holds 1 messuage and 1 toft with land & meadow and... - 14 s. 1 d.
Dissolution Inventory of Bolton Priory 1539
...And in money distributed and paid in similar manner to various servants of the late monastery...
Isabel Pettye - 3 s. 4 d.
Dissolution Rental of Bolton Priory 1538-39
Rents and Farms in Halton
13 s. 6 d. for the farm of 1 tenement with certain parcels of land & meadow lying in the common fields there...in the tenure of William Pettye
3 d. for the farm of 1 parcel of land lying in the common fields there, called Gilland...in the tenure of the said William Pettye
Rents and Farms in Storthez with Hesilwood
And of £6 18s. 3d. for the farm of 1 tenement with appurtenances called The Stedehowse with tithes of grain falling within the said tenement and with le browsyng from trees called holles, thus demised to Alice, widow, late the wife of John Pettye, by indenture under the common seal of the late priory dated 12th September in the 30th year of the present King Henry VIII, for the term of 41 years, rendering yearly therefrom 24 calves, £4; 50 stone of cheese, 29s. 2d.; 25 stone of butter, 18s. 9d.; for le browsynge 3s. 4d., and for the said tithes, 7s., altogether as above, to be paid yearly in equal portions at the terms of the Invention of the Holy Cross and St. Michael the Archangel, thus now in the tenure of Henry Earl of Cumberland
14s. for the farm of 1 tenement with arable land and 6 closes of meadow & pasture containing altogether 13 acres with their appurtenances,...in the tenure of Robert Pettie this year
Rents and Farms in Emsey & Estby
9 s. for the farm of 1 tenement and 2 bovates of land...in the tenure of Robert Pettie this year
11s. 3d. for the farm of 1 tenement with appurtenances there...in the tenure of John Pettie this year
Extracted from Bolton Priory Rentals and Ministers' Accounts 1473-1539, edited by Ian Kershaw
(Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series Vol. CXXXII, 1969)
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