Deed of Gift

Scope and Content

Parties: (1) Sir Hugh Calveley; Philip Egerton, son and heir of Sir John Egerton; John Haigh of Liteley; (2) Richard Chornal, Rector of a mediety of Lyme Church, and Nicholas Devias, chaplains.

Details: Grant, by (1) to (2), of the manors and lands in Warburton, Reddish, Lyme, Budworth, Aston, Appleton, Stockton, Hull, Sutton, Norley, Hapsford, and Chester which they had by the gift of Thomas Pulle of Pulle, John Dutton of Hatton, and Sir John Egerton.

Witnesses: Thomas, Lord Stanley, then Justice of Chester; William Stanley, knight, Chamberlain of Chester; William Stanley of Hoton, then Sheriff of Cheshire; and others; dated at Warburton.