Robert Cowper 1640

27^th December 15 Charles I (1640)

Alexander Rigby of Burgh esquire

Robert Cowper of Ormskirk blacksmith

£3 10s lease and 4d rent

“all that smithye with the appurtenances and one parcel of land thereunto belonging” in Coppull “sometime in the tenure of William Nighgall alis Cowper”

For the lives of Robert Cowper, Richard Cowper son of Thomas Cowper of Charnock and Ann daughter of Mr Hugh Cowper of Ormskirk