Browyeat, Brow Gate NY160023
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There's not much left of Browyeat! This picture is taken from the
left of the plan
Held by William Nicholson at the time of the General Fine of 1547?.
Probably the farm referred to below in the Percy Survey of 1578 - note the 1/3 share of the Crag Wood, the same as Sword House, whereas the two tenancies listed above under Miterdalehead have 2/9 and 1/9 respectively.
Nicholas Nicholson - tenement, garth + Goose Myre + Dry Myre + Silk Myre (3 parcels of meadow)
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(1a 1r), New Garth (close, 1a 1r), moiety of Brode Garth (parcel of ground, 2.5a), 1/3 share of the Tong Field (3a), Underside (parcel of waste & wood ground, 1r), the Rake (1r), 1/3 share of Crag Wood and Gill Side (2 parcels of ground, 1.5a): rent 9/-, old improvement adj. New Garth (3r): 3d, another improvement (3d), Eme Garth: 3d, moulture & walker: 6d. Total 10/3
The will of William Nicholson of Hollinghow in 1612 mentions Nicholas Nicholson of Browyeat as a debtor. The will of Henry Nicholson (the elder) of Bought in 1627 lists Nicholas Nicholson of Browyeat as one of the supervisors of the will.
In 1633 Browyeat was still tenanted by a Nicholas Nicholson.
In the year 1654, Robert, son of Nicholas Stephenson, took a tenement (Brow Yeat) surrendered by Nicholas Stephenson, (presumably his father) but in turn surrendered it to his brother, Nicholas, in 1656.
In 1675 and 1677 the property was mortgaged by Nicholas Stephenson in two halves to Robert & Abraham Stevenson and to John Thompson & his wife Maria. DLEC_314_1.
The tenement known as Browyeat or Brow Gate was bought by the tenant of Low Place (John Hudson - who had bought Low Place in 1656) between 1677 and 1688 1(?) (There is some inconsistency here between the three sources). By 1750 the tenancy (along with Low Place) had been acquired by Stephen Nicholson, the blacksmith at Randelhow. Stephen died in 1814 at the fine age of 101. 'Brow Gate' (along with Bakerstead and Low Place) was inherited by his son, Reverend Thomas Nicholson vicar of Muncaster and, on his death in 1825, by Thomas's son John Nicholson, gentleman, of Nether Stainton.
Brown's survey of 1758 implies that Browyeat (and Sword House) had ceased to be inhabited before 1758.1
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Notes
1 Deserted Farmstead Sites at Miterdale Head,
Eskdale, by Angus J.L. Winchester
(CWAAS 1979 pp150-155)