Research Notes:
A Wortley pedigree, by Hunter, reports that Sir Nicholas de Wortley, son of Alanus de Wortley, was the father of Sir Nicholas de Wortley, husband of Dionysia. [1]
1190-1210 Simon de Hunshelf granted to Nicholas son of Alan and his heirs of licence to attach the pool of his mill of Wortley to the grantor's land of Hunshelf, raise it and take the grantor's land near by for that purpose; rendering yearly a pound of pepper on the morrow of St. Oswald at the said pool. [2] There follows a quitclaim by William son of Simon de Huneself to Nicholas son of Nicholas de Wrtleie and his heirs of the pound of pepper for 1d. yearly instead and a payment of 10s. of silver in gersumam; witnesses, Sir Henry de Nofmarche, and others named. [3]
1170-1190 Nicholas Wortley, son of Alan de Wortley (Wirtleia), was among the witnesses to Reiner le Fleming's charter to Kirklees priory, late twelfth century. [Mon. Aug., v, 739. For an account of the Wortley family see Hunter, South Yorkshire, ii, 308]
1185-1215 Nicholas Wortley was a witness to a Restoration by Godard de Pilley to Peter de Birthwaite, his lord, of 2 bovates of land in Pilley: "Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego Godardus de Pillei reddidi et concessi et presenti carta mea confirmavi Petro de Birketwait, domino meo, duas bovatas terre in Pillei ... Hiis testibus, Johanne de Birkine, ... Nicholas Wrtley, ..." [4]
[1] Joseph Hunter, South Yorkshire, the History and Topography of the Deanery of Doncaster, Vol. 2 (London: 1831), 324.
[2] Charles Travis Clay, William Farrer, eds., Early Yorkshire charters, Vol. 7, The Honour of Skipton (1947), 211, [GoogleBooks].
[3] Charles Travis Clay, William Farrer, eds., Early Yorkshire charters, Vol. 8, The Honour of Warenne (1949), 203, [GoogleBooks].
[4] Charles Travis Clay, William Farrer, eds., Early Yorkshire charters, Vol. 6, The Paynel fee (Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1939), 261, [GoogleBooks].