Copies of Title deeds to property on Holy Island sold in 1873 by the devisees under the Will of Prideaux Selby. 1572-1876

Deeds of sale, settlement and mortgage, Wills, Inland Revenue duty accounts and Abstract of Title from Deed bundle Ref: NRO 683/2/1-20. Two tenements in the Pyott/Pyett Hill (area facing the west end of Marygate), and two parcels of infield land in the Townfields were the property of the Short family by the early 1700s. The estate was mortgaged then, when this was discharged, was sold to Neil MacVicar. He sold it to John Staward, who, in right of one of the houses, and in exchange for the infield land, was allotted just under 29 acres of the common, and a small area of ground behind his house, on the Enclosure Award of 1793. He sold the farmland, with a recently built farmhold on it, to Prideaux Selby, who devised it, along with 4 adjoining fields and two cottages near the market place to his heirs as detailed in his Will. His devisees sold the estate to Berwick solicitor Stephen Sanderson in 1873, who sold to Robert Crossman in 1876.