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No. 5. Margaret "q fuit uxor Thome K}Tke " grants "in 

 pura viduetate mea " to her son Thurstan all her estate in one 

 messuage and land called Netherlegh and Pedder Meadow which 

 the said Thurstan had of the gift and ffeofment of Thomas Kyrke 

 his father. T. Richo. Brown, lohe Stafforth Willo Bradshaw 

 et aliis " Dat apud Capella le ffrjtli in fest sci martini in yeme " 

 (hieme — in winter) 12 Hen. VI. (1434). 



No. 6. Is a grant in similar terms by Agnes " qudm uxor 

 Willi Hobson " of her interest in the same hereditaments to the 

 said Thurstan (which he had of the gift and ffeofment of the said 

 William Hobson) and is witnessed by the same persons and 

 bears the same date as No. 5. 



All these documents evidently relate, in part at least, to the 

 same property, but we have no clue to the devolution of the title 

 during the century or more inter\'ening between numbers 2 and 

 3. Whitehalgh, or Whitehough, was the home of the Kirke 

 family for many generations, but the names of the parties to 

 these charters do not appear in the published pedigree.* It has 

 been suggested that Margaret, Elena and Agnesf mentioned in 

 Nos. 3, 4, 5 and 6, were sisters, and married Kirke, Bradbury, 

 and Hobson respectively. 



Possibly Thomas Kirke was a younger son of one of the 

 owners of Whitehough. William Bradshaw, the witness to the 

 charters of Margaret Kyrke and Agnes Hobson, was no doubt 

 the William Bradshaw who was living in 1478, J and who is said 

 to have married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Kirke, of White- 

 hough. 



Of the other three documents, one, dated nth November, 



I and 2 Philip and Mary (1554), is a settlement of lands in the 

 County of Derby on the marriage of Richard, son and heir of 

 George Kyrke, of the Hamlete of Whytehalgh, husbandman. 

 One of the witnesses is " Dom Edw. Bagshawe Cappellanus," 

 who was perpetual curate of Chapel-en-le-Frith at that time. 



* See Reliquary, vol. viii. 



t The Christian tiame of Apies 'ivas ofttn used as synonymous with Alife. 

 [Editor.] 



+ Arch. Journ., vol. xxv., p. 22. 



