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 gradually from various part-owners between 1848 and 1870; what has lately been known as Mr. West's property, from Mr. Bramah in 1876.

In the full Survey of the Township there is a note at the end: "This booke was written by Mathew Lindley for Mr. Greene of Bancks, in the year of our Lord 1663," being copied, we may suppose, from the Assessment Survey of 1648. There is an analysis of the principal estates at the end: "All Mr. Barnby lands with Hugset, &c., 351 acres; Sir Thos. Wentworth's 159, besides two lands and a park; Mr. Greene lands, 362; Mr. Bosvile's 415, besides woodland, 84 acres; Belonginge the Cannon Hall 211, with 8 acres of wood."

In another handwriting—Mr. Greene's own—"Cannon Hall in everie assessment per acre made be dubble to me and above halfe as much more as may appeare by this survaye. The number of plaine land in the whole is 2,589 acres, 1 rood, 16 perches."

Another assessment list gives the acreage, the rental per annum, the rent per acre, and a column with a rate at a halfpenny in the pound on the rental. On the back of the paper, which came from Bretton Hall not many years ago, is an entry, "Reseved of my cosen Wintworth ye 9 of Aprill 1550 ye sum of fifty shilling which I promest to pay a year upon a Counte. I say riseved by me Rd. Wheteley." This seems to be the Richard Wheatley of Woolley whose pedigree in Hunter makes his father Richard to have married a daughter of Richard Wentworth of Bretton in Henry VII.'s time. A Richard Whetley was fined viijd. at Barnsley in 27 Henry VIII. for obstructing the way leading from Woolley to Wakefield.

Among the entries in this Survey are the following: