Sale Of Stokesley Manor 1794

Advertisement from the Newcastle Courant 12th July, 1794

The manor was offered for sale in this year by James Bradshaw Peirson, but his trustees were still planning to sell the property in 1799, when an auction was proposed.

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Newcastle Courant – 12th July 1794  (p2)

Newcastle Courant – 12th July 1794 (p2)

FREEHOLD ESTATE IN THE NORTH RIDING
OF YORKSHIRE
To be sold by private Contract
The undermentioned capital and improveable
ESTATES, consisting of the ancient Barony, Manor
and Lordship of STOKESLEY, with the Courts Leet and
Baron Fines, Rights, Royalties, Tolls of Fairs, Stallage, and
Free Rents, with a handsome convenient Stone MANSION.
Gardens well planted, Offices, Plantations, and Fishery.
Also the Manors or reputed Manors of Newton, Basedale,
Upsall, Nunthorpe, and Faceby, and several rich Meadow
Lands, capital Farms, Water Corn Mills and other estates
mostly let to respectable Tenants, and a great part of which
is Tythe free.
The price of the Estates known, and particulars had, of
Mr Walton, Deputy Registrar, at Northallerton: and of
Mr Rorke, No, 7, Holborn Court, Grays Inn, London.
NB. Mr John Snowdon, of Stokesley, will shew the Estates,
on application to him.