Bradfer-Lawrence - a rather different kind of collection

Deeds relating to the manor of Gisburn

Aug 1799: Mortgage for securing £4,000 by way of lease and release: Thomas Lister, 1st Baron Ribblesdale, and Rebecca Lady Ribblesdale his wife of Gisburn Park to Joseph Smith of London, banker; property: manor of Gisburn, capital messuage called Gisburn Park otherwise Lower Hall with stables, orchards, water corn mill, deer park and demesne land containing together around 175a., with Painley and Park Hill.
Aug 1799: Covenant for production of title deeds relating to same [Box 47].
Apr 1817: Reconveyance and release of same: executors of Joseph Smith to Thomas Lister, 1st Baron Ribblesdale, upon repayment of the mortgage sum.
1817: Plan of Gisburn Park belonging to the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Ribblesdale: shows mansion house with gardens, lawns and hothouses, plantations, island between the River Ribble and the mill race with dog kennel and mill, deer park with deer houses also drying kiln and smithy, house in corner of park and small site severed from the Park 'by the recent diversion of the road from Bolton', containing 175a. 1r.; size: 38 cm x 48 cm.
Apr 1817: Mortgage for securing £6,000 by means of lease and release of same: Thomas Lister, 1st Baron Ribblesdale, to executors of William Goodman of Leeds, merchants; with schedule of deeds relating, 1716-1778.
Sep 1829: Reconveyance of same to the Rev John Fleming Parker of Waddington, in trust for Thomas Lister, second Baron Ribblesdale, upon repayment of the mortgage sum.
1858: Schedule of title deeds relating to the manor of Gisburn, 1799-1829.
[Former ref: Box 52]

MD335/1/1/12/1/192:	Plan of Gisburn Park, 1817