Item 103 from Eskdale and District Local History Society archive

A handwritten manuscript - Randal How

   

Dec 1. 1759 Enfranchised from Charles Earl of Egremont to John Nicholson of Randel how in Eskdale of all that customary tenement within the Manor aforesaid and in the Parish of  St Bees in the county aforesaid called Randelhow consisting of a messuage with the Barn, Stables and appurtenances thereunto belonging and several closes or parcels of land containing in the whole twenty two acres more or less.
Reserving quit rent of 2/4½ and door toll1 and greenhow2.
1766 John Nicholson
1788 John Nicholson from his father
18193 Joseph Hartley by purchase from John Nicholson of Randelhow for a parcel of ground called Moorhead of the yearly value of 3d
18193 William Braithwaite by purchase from the estate of John Nicholson of Randlehow for a parcel of ground called Gatehouse Green.
1820 John Nicholson heir at law to one tenement at Randlehow.
1830 John Russell purchaser of a freehold tenement called Moorhead
1830 Frances Rigg purchaser of a freehold tenement called Spring House
1833 Joseph Hartley for a tenement at Orchard Nook and one tenement at Bank by purchase
18334 Benjamin Bibby, John Russell and Porter Tyson for a tenement at Randlehow, trustees under the will of the late John Nicholson.
1845 Wm. Russell purchaser of cottage and garden situated at Green in Eskdale of the yearly Lords rent of 6d. called Browfoot.
18525 James Russell, tenant of a house and garden called Far Close by the will of his uncle John Russell.
1864 Isaac Nicholson by purchase from Elizabeth Jenkinson free of a tenement at Eskdale Green
1867 James Russell by will free of three cottage houses and gardens
1867 James Russell by will free of cottage houses and Smith's shop with garden
1874 James Russell on death of his father to tenements at Bank, Moorhead, Green and Randlehow
1877 James Russell dead
1879 Ann Pattinson and Elizabeth Pattinson tenants by desent of certain freehold tenements late the Property of James Russell who died intestate leaving the said Ann Pattinson and Elizabeth Pattinson his only sisters and co-heiresses at law
1880 Richardson Sharpe tenant by purchase of the remainder of the freehold tenement at Randlehow late Benjamin Bibby
1880 Ann Nichol tenant by purchase of a cottage late part of the freehold tenement at Randlehow late Benjamin Bibby
1882 Hannah Sharp tenant by purchse of Ann Nichol
1882 William Riley tenant by purchase of Richardson Sharp
1885 Henry Troughton tenant by purchase from Richardson Sharpe of a parcel of building land, part of Randlehow called Fairfield
1889 John Hird tenant by purchase from Richardson Sharpe
1889 Robert Relph tenant by purchase from Richardson Sharpe
1889 Joseph Sharpe tenant by purchase from Robert Relph
1890 Henry Troughton tenant by purchase of part of Randlehow from Richardson Sharp
1890 John Porter tenant by purchase of part of Randlehow from Richardson Sharp
1891 Thomas Black, tenant by purchase from Robert Relph of a dwelling place called [h]owrie, part of Randlehow
1891 Thomas Black tenant by purchase from Richardson Sharp of a parcel of land at Randlehow
1891 Thomas Hall Rea tenant by purchase from Richardson Sharp of part of Randlehow being a close called Bank
1891 Thomas Hall Rea tenant by purchase from Richardson Sharp of part of Randlehow
1892 William John Tyson tenant by purchase from Richardson Sharp of part of Randlehow
1892 Jane, wife of Robert Relph, tenant by purchase from Richardson Sharp of part of Randlehow
1893 James Hall Rea tenant by purchase from the trustees of Isaac Nicholson
1893 William Grant Yates tenant by purchase from Jane the wife of Robert Relph, part of Randlehow and of Hollinhow
1894 Arthur Huddart tenant by purchase from Richardson Sharp of a parcel of land upon which shop and premises are built (part of O.S. no 444) part of Randlehow Estate
1896 Minister and Church wardens of Eskdale for the time being of part of Randlehow by purchase from John.............
Randlehow
Owners in 1894 Richardson Sharp
James Hall Rea
William John Tyson
Joseph Huddart
William Grant Yates
                        Houlgate
Eleanor Troughton
Thomas Johnston Black
Thomas Hird
Joseph Pattinson
Minister & Churchwardens of Eskdale
John Porter
William Riley
Hannah Sharp
Arthur Huddart

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notes

1    Door toll - a fee paid to the lord of the Manor in lieu of market tolls

Kinniside is separated from Ennerdale by the river Ehen, and consists mostly of fell land, dotted here and there with scattered farmsteads. Lord Leconfield is lord of the manor, but the land is owned chiefly by the resident yeomen. In an inquisition taken in 1778, Kinniside is returned as within the forest of Copeland, and it is stated that the tenants there paid yearly to the lord, for "the freelage of their tolls through all the markets and fairs in Copeland, a certain custom called Door-toll, viz., for every tenements' door, 2d," which then amounted to 6s. 10d. The sum total of the rents in Kinniside reached £6 18s. 5d.

 2    Greenhew - payment for the privilege of gathering wood, otherwise known as woodsilver.

The lands within Eskdale and Mitredale manors, save only two tenements, have lately been enfranchised, and are now discharged of fines, heriots, and customary services, except the payments of door-toll, and greenhew, doing suit and service at the leet and court baron, and riding Ravenglass fair on St. James's day, the 5th of August, when the tenants of the manor are bound to join in the procession. William Hutchinson's "History of the County of Cumberland", Vol. I  published in 1794

3    John Nicholson was buried on the 15th of October 1819 at Eskdale, Cumberland aged 75

4    John Nicholson was  buried on the 1st of February 1833 at Eskdale, Cumberland

5    John Russell lived at Randlehow Cottage in 1838and died there in 1851.