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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D779/B/2/6/2
Former ReferenceD779/B/31
TitleAnswer of Mundy Musters esquire, one of the executors of Francis Mundy esquire deceased, a defendant to bill of complaint of William Brown esquire
Date1730
DescriptionRefers to Hugh Adcock who asked Brown to lend him £600, secured by mortgage; Adcock died; refers to deed of ?10 April 1699 made between 1. Hugh Adcocke the elder of Market Bosworth ironmonger and Hugh Adcocke the younger 2. Francis Mundy of Mark [?ea] ton esquire and Charles Cooke of Radbourne gentleman 3. Elizabeth Palmer and Catherine Cuerton of Osbaston [county Leicester] spinsters in which for £50 paid to Hugh Adcocke junior by Palmer and £70 by Cuerton, the Adcockes mortgaged to Mundy and Cooke, Sutton Close containing 15 acres, the Crow Close 12 acres, Lownt Meadow 5 acres, and messuage all in occupation of Anne Toone, and Nether Close 12 acres, messuage then late in occupation of Gilbert Toone and after of John Cooke, Meadow Close thereto belonging, 4 other closes called Cow Closes, all in Cadeby or Cateby, county Leicester for a term of 1,000 years, Mundy and Cooke acting in trust for Palmer and Cuerton; recites that on 11 May 1708 Hugh Adcocke the younger further charged the premises with £280, making £410 to Mundy and Cooke; that on 10 December 1708, Cuerton Staples (or Stables) of Burley, county Leicester, husbandman and Henry Flintham of Charley county , cordwainer executors of Catherine Cuerton assigned their estate in lands above to Mundy for £70; that on 8 February 1708/9, Hugh Adcock junior further charged the premises with £200, making £600 in all; that on 9 February 1708/9 Hugh Adcocke the younger son and heir of Hugh the elder and brother and heir of Francis deceased mortgaged to Mundy for £600 (the same sum as in deed above) the premises below in 1694 settlement, reciting that on 11 April 1694 Hugh Adcocke the elder, Elizabeth his wife, Margaret Spooner spinster directed the conveyance to trustees of messuage and inclosed grounds belonging called the Backside, Butt Close, Short Harnells, Long Harnells, Ballards Close, Kirby Highway Close, Middlefield, Rawnelefield alias Reynold field in Cadeby or Cateby, county Leicester, in tenure of Samuel Mather, containing about 100 acres and usually called Mathers Farm, and ¼ capital messuage called Henwood Hall, closes called Fream Birchfield, Stocking Leys, and of coppice wood called Hawks Yard, enclosed meadow called Kitchen Meadow, of meadow ground between the Yatches, pool Taile Meadow in Henton lordship in the parishes of Solihull and Knoll, county Warwick, to uses, as to those in Warwickshire, of Margaret Spooner and her heirs and, as to those in Leicestershire, of Hugh Adcocke the elder and heirs until the marriage of Francis Adcocke and Margaret Spooner, and then successively of Francis for life, Margaret for life for jointure, heirs of Francis and Margaret, heirs of body of Francis and right heirs of Francis; reciting that Francis was dead without issue and Margaret seised as tenant for life of Cadeby property the reversion belonging to Hugh Adcocke the younger as brother and heir of Francis;
and that on same date Hugh Adcocke the younger for the same £600 mortgaged to Mundy the reversion on the death of his father, Hugh the elder, of messuage in Sutton Cheney in tenure of Thomas Bennett, meadow ground called Bennetts, 3 yard lands in tenure of Thomas Bennett, which by deed of 11 April 1694 Hugh the elder was seised of for life with remainder to Hugh the younger in tail general and reversion to Hugh the younger on death of father; that on 19 December 1709 the said Hugh Adcocke [the younger] demised messuage and lands in Cadeby (as in deed of 11 April 1694) lately demised to Samuel Mather at rent of £40, to Mundy for 6 months; that on 20 December 1709, Hugh Adcocke [the younger], in consideration that Mundy had in indenture of 14 December granted to Adcocke 1/4 Henwood Hall, for better securing £600 to Mundy and in consideration of £40, mortgaged all the premises aforesaid to Mundy for payment of £600 and interest in February next; believes that Mundy on 24 March 1713/14 entered upon mortgaged premises in Cadeby in the tenure then of Thomas Potcher, Anne Cooke and John Toone until his death in 1720 or 1721, that Musters Mundy took possession of them except those in possession of Thomas Potcher, which from Nov 1715 were received by William Bron, as an executor of Francis Mundy; believes that rents of premises mortgaged were £80 per annum at Francis Mundy's decease. Contains schedules (1) account of annual sums received by Francis Mundy out of rents and profits of premises in his lifetime, 1714-1717 and (2) rents and profits of premises received by Musters Mundy since death of Francis Mundy 1721.

Endorsed in Chancery Thorpe Sol October
Extent1 item
Levelfile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorHolden Family of Aston Hall, Aston-upon-Trent
Related MaterialSee D779/B/2/6/3 for covering letter sent with this item.
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