PAPERS OF LIONEL CRESSWELL RELATING TO BURLEY IN WHARFEDALE
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Type of record: Archive
Title: PAPERS OF LIONEL CRESSWELL RELATING TO BURLEY IN WHARFEDALE
Classmark: YAS/MD413
Date(s): 1260-1925
Size and medium: 1 box
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/458733
Collection group(s): Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society
Description
Including deeds 1311-1911, court rolls 1400-1555, 1637-1751, court book 1751-1825 and other manorial material. Papers relating to Burley chapel, notably an 18th century copy of a 1616 survey for tithe purposes
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Biography or history
Before the conquest Burley formed part of the Otley estate of the Archbishop of York, but it was subsequently subinfeudated and by 1286 Sir Hugh de Babington held the manors of Burley and Menston for half a knight's fee. Its tenurial history for the early 14th century is complex, but by about 1325 it seems to have been sold to John de Calverley, whose descendants continued as lords of the manor until 1601. In 14th century deeds it is described as including Menston, Burley, Stead and "Burnehall" [perhaps the modern Burley Woodhead], but in fact Menston formed a separate manor.
In 1601 the manor was purchased by Richard Middleton who sold it to Francis Pullein and Edward Armitstead in 1618. Armitstead's moity of the manor was apparently sold to a farmer steward, John Stanhope, in 1662, but in 1711 the Stanhope's were bought out by the Pulleyn family, who thus became sole lords of the manor. These included Thomas Pulleyn (1701-1759) the antiquarian, some of whose notes and papers are in the collection. Thomas Pulleyn Mosley, who died in 1813, sold the manor to Matthew Wilson, who in turn sold it to his relative, the Reverend Thomas Fourness Wilson. In 1846 it was purchased by William Horsfall of Bradford, and his descendant Mrs Sophie Crofton lived at Burley Hall until her death in 1901.
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