The appearance of this deed (c.1630) on EBay1 prompted the discovery of a Mosborough soldier of the English Civil War. George Creswick of Moorhole, mentioned in the document had a brother or son, Joseph (d. 1656), whose will was found at the National Archives. Joseph described himself as a yeoman of Mosborough, and being “sicke in Bodie”, he nominated his brother, Nathanial Creswick, to be his executor and to whom he left his horse, together with his doublet and breeches “which I have at London”. He directed that “all that monie which is due unto me from the Troope to be paid to the hands of my Quartermaster Henry Lichfield for the discharge of my burial and other incident charges attending”. He died during Oliver Cromwell’s Protectorate (1653-1658) and its not entirely clear whether he was a soldier of the Parliamentary or Royalist forces.
- Receipt in £23 10s from George Creswick of the Morehole, Eckington, yeoman to Francis Stephen alias Glossopp of Mylne Lane End, fellmonger, for a cottage in Mosborough and 1 1/2 acres on Levonstorth Furlong in Lee Felde bought by Glossopp by indenture of 31 December 1629. – 25 March 1630. S.R.O., D7987. ↩︎
The Mosborough One-Place Study 