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DOCUMENTS RELATING TO ESTATE OF ROBERT CHARNOCK
Mrs Grace Bould received rents for it in Mr Charnock's life time, and Mrs Bould told this deponent, that she had purchased the same with her owne moneyes , and had an absolute estate in the same to her and her heires.
4 & 8. To the fourth and eighth Interrogatories (226) hee saith, that Mrs Bould was esteemed by the neighbourhood to be rich and to have moneyes before hand, and hath heard it reported , that she was of ability to purchase Leyland hall and the lands thereto belonging or a better estate, and hath likewise heard it reported by Mr William Gradell of Barber's Moore and severall other credible persons , that Mr Robert Charnock was much indebted and owed some moneys to his sisters, and was tould by Mrs Grace Bould, that she at time (227) and times had furnished the said Mr Charnock with five hundred pounds to supply his occasions and necessityes. Thomas Hodgkinson Jo. Farnworth Robert Pigot John Roberts.