From dealer's description: "1. EYRE, Susannah., of Hazlehead Hall. A single page headed April 25th 1660, and signed ‘Susannah Eyre, her mark.” It declares that she has received of her tenant, Joshua Hirst, all rent due, and also acquits George Moorhouse of “all rents and debts due from him to her from the beginning of the world unto this day above written.” She also acquits Abraham Bury, Richard Bury & Caleb Bury. 190mm x 130mm. 1660. £60.00 + vat ~ Adam Eyre was born in 1614. As a member of the Rich family he was a strongly puritan, but his ancestors, who were Catholics, came from Crookhill in North Derbyshire. His father Thomas moved into Yorkshire and married Ellen Ramscar. They settled at Hazlehead, then in Thurlstone parish. It was a large moorland estate of over 22000 acres, and there with the aid of a few servants and labourers Thomas Eyre maintained a farm with, in January 1649, two horses, 27 cattle and 102 sheep. In 1640 Adam married Susannah daughter of Godfrey Mathewman of Eden-tree Head, another puritan family living in near-by Kirkburton. His diaries covering 1647-49 were published by the Surtees Society. “From this we learn about his difficult marriage and his daily action and travels. It also reveals he is a man of books, mainly spiritual. He buys books in London and lends them to friends. He is a literate and cultured man, typical of the yeoman class of his time. This diary is regarded as a significant document of daily life in the late 1640's in Northern England. Some times entries record days when he went no-where or when he went to get his horses shoed. Adam had bouts of heavy drinking and he records his wife locking him out of the house after 2 of these sessions, the marriage being somewhat strained by these events.” He died in 1661.- “This morn my wife began after her old manner to brawl and revile me for wishing her only to wear such apparel as was decent and comely and accused me of treading on her sore foot with curses and oaths; which to my knowledge I touched not, nevertheless she continued in that ecstasy till noon.” [1646]. The “Will of Mrs. Susannah Eyre [1668]” was published in Yorkshire Diaries and Autobiographies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Ed. Charles Jackson. Durham: The Surtees Society." Ordered from Ken Spelman, D9777, 2024-11-20, Cat, 127, item #1
