Indenture dated the 15th of August 1850, between Joseph Rawes, of Mason Hill, Bromley, Kent and Gerard Rawes the Younger of Swindale Head, Westmorland. Carlisle Record Office, D/Lons/L5/1/Shap/527-531. (Swindale Line)

[Sheet one:] This Indenture made the fifteenth / Day of August in / the year one thousand / eight hundred and fifty / Between Joseph Rawes of Mason Hill in / the Parish of Bromley in the County of Kent, farmer / the acting Executor under the Will of William Rawes / late of the said Parish of Bromley, Schoolmaster of / the one part and Gerard Rawes of Swindale / Head in the Parish of Shap in the County of / Westmorland yeoman of the other part Whereas / the said William Rawes duly made and executed / his last Will and Testament in writing bearing date / the sixth Day of February one thousand eight / hundred and thirty nine and thereby after / bequeathing several Legacies and one Annuity / his Freehold Estate at Swindale Head aforesaid he / gave and bequeathed to his brother the said / Gerard Rawes in consideration of his paying / four hundred pounds towards paying the Legacies / left by him And the said William Rawes appointed / his brother the said Joseph Rawes and his / Brother the said Gerard Rawes Executors of his / Will And on the thirtieth Day of October / one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine the / same was duly proved by the said Joseph / Rawes alone in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury / And whereas the said Gerard Rawes has / allowed to him the said Joseph Rawes as acting [Sheet two:] Executor as aforesaid the Sum of Four / Hundred Pounds towards the paying the / said Legacies left by the said Testator as he the / said Joseph Rawes as acting Executor as aforesaid / doth hereby admit and acknowledge and therefore / the said Joseph Rawes hath upon the request of the / said Gerard Rawes agreed to execute the Release / hereinafter contained Now this Indenture / witnesseth that in consideration of the Premises / and of the sum of Ten shillings by the said / Gerard Rawes to the said Joseph Rawes now in / hand paid the receipt whereof is hereby / acknowledged He the said Joseph Rawes in his / capacity of acting Executor as aforesaid Doth / hereby Remise and Release and for ever Quit Claim and / Discharge the said Gerard Rawes his heirs Executors / Administrators and Assigns and his and their / Lands and Tenements Goods and Chattels and / especially the said Freehold Estate late of the / said Testator situate at Swindale Head aforesaid / of and from the said sum of Four Hundred Pounds / so directed by the said Will of the said William / Rawes deceased to be paid by him the said / Gerard Rawes aforesaid and all Interest in / respect of the same and of and from all actions / and Suits Cause and Causes of Action and Suit / Debts Duties Accounts Reckonings Claims and / Demands whatsoever at Law or in Equity which the / said Joseph Rawes as Executor as foresaid hath or / had or otherwise could have claim or demand of [Sheet three:] From or against the said Gerard Rawes his Heirs / Executors Administrators and Assigns of / his or their Lands and Tenements Goods and / Chattels and especially the said Freehold Estate at / Swindale Head aforesaid for by reason or on account / of the said sum of Four Hundred Pounds or the / interest therof or for by reason or on account of / any other matter cause or thing relating thereto / In witness whereof the said parties to these / presents have hereunto set their hands and seals / the day and year above written. Joseph Rawes [signed] Signed Sealed and delivered by the above named Joseph Rawes in the presence of William Ilott, Surgeon, Bromley Kent Sarah Jane Ilott, Spinster Bromley Kent Notes:- The above records are to be found amongst the Lowther estate papers (Lons). William, Gerard and Joseph Rawes were brothers, sons of Gerard rawes, the Elder of Swindale. William Rawes was a teacher at the Rawes Acadmey in Bromley. The freehold property at Swindale Head is presumed to be 'Upper' Swindale Head, now a ruin. Transcribed from the original by Bryant Bayliffe of Brockworth, 2002