1787 06 07 : Letter about a tenement called Baneriggs

Update on Friday, July 1, 2011 at 9:06PM by Petra Mitchinson

07 Jun 1787. LETTER ABOUT A TENEMENT CALLED BANERIGGS. Bundle 60, Doc 29. 32 cm x 20 cm, folded in half to make four pages. Red seal with two holes where it was broken open. The calculations on the front appear to have nothing to do with the letter. Baneriggs is on the eastern shore of Grasmere. Mr. HARRISON 7. June 1787. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mr: DOBSON Edenhall ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5 : 10 : 2 2 . 2 . 0 5 . 18 . 0 33 . 3 . 0 25 . 0 . 0 8 . 16 . 0 4 . 9 . 2 —————— 5 . 15 . 6 14 . 14 1 . 4 . 11 1 . 7 18 . 2 . 6 ——————— 30 13 . 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kendal 7th. June 1787 ~ Dear Friend / The Copy of Case and Mr. TATHAM’s opinion respecting a Customary Tenement called Bainriggs is a matter that I know a great deal about myself and can give you further Information upon from the Court-Book of the manor. I well know William SCOTT mentioned in the Case as the owner of Bainriggs, not Bainbriggs, and he was on the 14th. June 1740. (as appears by an Entry in the Court-Book, of Mr. WHELPDALE’s writing I believe, for he appears to have been at that Time Steward of the Court) admitted Tenant of the Messuage and Tenemt. called Bain Riggs of ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ of the yearly Customary Rent of 10s. upon the Alienation of Robert HARRISON by Deed dated 18th. Decr. 1739. & on payment of £10. for an Alienation Fine & £2. called Income Money, and he continued Tenant till his Death, which happened about the year 1770. or 1771. and on the 28th. Septr. 1771. his Son William SCOTT was admitted Tenant as Heir to his Father on Payment of a like Fine of £10. no Income Fine being due on a Descent. The Elder SCOTT was a man very much disposed to Litigation and had, as well as Bainriggs, a Customary Estate in Grasmere of the Lands of the Crown and deviseable by will, and by his will he vested that Estate in Trustees (one of whom, a person in Millom, was as much disposed to Litigation as ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ as himself or any man I believe) and thereby authorised them to spend that Estate or what they thought proper in litigating his Right to the wood in Bainriggs, whereon there was a considerable Quantity of Timber Wood at that Time, and which he had claimed upon the Strength of ye. opinion you sent me a Copy of I presume. The Trustees however thought better of it, and the Heir sold Bainriggs [to] Sir Michael LE FLEMING his Lord for about £ 400. and he now enjoys the same, and the Year he bought it, or a Year or two afterwards, his Agent sold the wood upon Bainriggs for as much as Sir Michael gave the younger SCOTT for the Customary Inheritance within a few Pounds under or over. I am, very respectfully Your obliged Friend [signed] Thomas HARRISON