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D2538 - Wensley Title Deeds - Transcript from original dated 1705 - [20th cent]
1 - Transcript of assignment of mortgage dated 20 October 1705 made between 1. Anthony Alsoppe of Ridding 2. Benjamin Walford of Halton gardens [?Hatton Garden] in the parish of St Andrews Holborn, London, boot seller and Sisily his wife executrix of the testament of Edward Smith clerk her late husband and 3. Samuel Bradshaw of Holebrooke, co Derby, reciting that on 1 Nov 1697 Anthony Alsoppe mortgaged by demise for 1,000 years to Edward Smith clerk late Rector of St Bafisham (sic) London for £200, a messuage, farm or tenement in the possession of Thomas Clay and Anthony Gorton and close, inclosure, piece or parcel of land, meadow or pasture called the Ridding in Possession of Clay and Gorton, eastwardly part of Close heretofore called the Sutcliffe containing About a moiety thereof, eastwardly part of part of Close heretofore called the Coppice, all in Wensley, westward part of the over and sic, but See below) of a parcel of ground called the little Cow pasture being about 10 acres; that Smith is Dead and his wife Sicily proved his will and has since married Benjamin Wellford and witnessing that the Warlords for £205 paid by Bradshaw, and by the direction of Aslope, have assigned the premises to Bradshaw [note that the last piece(s) of property is described as the westward part of the over end of a parcel of ground called the little cow pasture about 10 acres]. - 20th cent
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