NEVILE, Francis (1591/2-1666), of Chevet, Royston, Yorks.

in 1625, acquired lease of manor of Chevet at a rent of £200 p.a.WYAS (Wakefield), C1358/387. In early 1630s, fined £25 for distraint of knighthood.‘Compositions for not taking knighthood at the coronation of Charles I’ ed. W. P. Baildon, in Misc. 1 (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. lxi), 92. In 1633, acquired lease of ‘water corn mills’ of Wakefield, paying rent of £250 p.a.C3/455/16. In 1636, estate inc. manors of Chevet and Church Fenton; messuages and lands in Chevet, Church Fenton, Pledwick, Sandal, Wakefield and Walton; and corn and fulling mills in Sandal and Wakefield, Yorks.WYAS (Wakefield), C1358/8-9; E112/344/33; E112/348/290, 332; E112/349/374, 385. In 1636, sold manor of Thorpe Salvin for £6,200.C54/3160/31; C54/3265/37; WYAS (Wakefield), C1358/8-9. In 1645, estate was reckoned to be worth betw. £1,200 and £1,500 p.a., although he himself valued it as no more than £500 p.a.SP23/2, pp. 55, 62; SP23/107, p. 863; Yorks. Royalist Composition Pprs. ed. J.W. Clay (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. xviii), 4. By 1648, owned corn mills in Leeds.SC6/CHAS1/1190, p. 35. In 1652, assigned to Lionel Copley* his interest in ironworks known as Chapel Furnace and Kimberworth Forge (in the parishes of Rotherham and Ecclesfield), which he had leased at a rent of £100 p.a.Doncaster Archives, SY570/Z/5/1. In 1653, he entered into a statute staple for £2,000, defeasanced for £1,000 plus interest.C33/272, f. 247. By 1654, estate inc. messuages and lands in Chevet, Crofton, Horbury, Painthorpe, Royston, Sandal, Wakefield, Walton and Wragby, Yorks., and manors of Beltingham, Henshaw, Ridley, Thorngrafton and Willimoteswick and capital messuage of Willimoteswick, Northumb.C33/272, ff. 246v-247; C54/3265/37; WYAS (Wakefield), C1358/16, 799. In 1665, he valued his estate at about £1,400 p.a.Coll. of Arms, Yorks., Dur., Northumb. Vis. Pprs. 1672.