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PA101/1/285
14 Jan 1776 - 15 Jan 1776
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To make a Tenant to the Precipe whereby George Birch (of Mortimer St., St. Marylebone parish, Mdx., esq.; son and devisee of the late James [II] Birch of Coventry, esq.) conveys to Samuel Denison (of Fetherstone Buildings, St. Andrew's parish, Holborn, Midx., gent.) (a) "Fulfen House", Burntwood, Staffs. with a close (formerly owned by the late Elizabeth Ball, spinster), the back building and the following lands - "Coney Barrow", "Horse Close", "Leelake Meadow", "Fitch Meadow", "Smiths Leasow", "Three-Cornered Piece", "Stone Pit Hill", "Far Stone Pit Hill", "Far Hill Meadow" or moor, two pieces called Black Meadow, two called Broad Meadows, two closes called Coal Banks, "Cole Meadow", "Mote Piece" and "Mote Inclosure", "Upper Well Meadow", "Lower Well Meadow" and "Butlers Piece", totalling 95a.0r.20p., all in Fulfen or Burntwood in St. Michael's parish, Lichfield, now occupied by Walter Caswell or Thomas Derry; (b) a messuage near Burntwood plus "Upper Croft", "Lower Croft", "Upper Slang", "Lower Slang", "Coat Bank", "Stony Leasow", "Brook Field", "New Grosey Leasow", "Further Gorsey Leasow", "Briery Close", "Brook Close", "Near Rushy Leasow" and "Further Rushy Leasow", totalling 42a.1r.4p. and tenanted by Joseph Sanders; (c) further Burntwood lands - "Great Leasow", "Stone Pit Leasow" and "Little Meadow" - 5a.0r.27p., occupied by Edward Hodgson; (d) other Burntwood lands - "Long Leasow" and "Three Corner Piece" - 5a.3r.23p., held by John Derry; (e) more Burntwood lands - "Upper Lee Piece" and "Lower Lee Piece" - 3a.0r.11p., tenanted by Thomas Lane; (f) a messuage at Bilston [Billesden] near Congerstone, Leics. plus "Otteys Close", "The Crofts", "Allens Leys", "the Hills" and "the Dutch Meadow", totalling 58a. and occupied by Edward Hollis; (g) land in Congerstone open field but in Bosworth parish as well as Congerstone ("Lincefield", "North Meadow", "Middlefield", "Moorfield" and "Horsepool Meadow"), 28a.2r.2p. farmed by Richard Baxter; (h) a messuage plus garden, barn, stable and two sheds at Castle Bromwich in the parish of Aston near Birmingham, Warws., together with "the Wellcroft", "the Wallcroft", "the Hedge Close", "the Heath Closes", "the Middle Close", "the Near Foot Close", "the Farther Foot Close", "the Hither Brockhall", "the Further Brockhall", "the Meadow", three lands in Hern Field, six lands in Great Bucknall Field, and three lands in Further Bucknall Field, totalling 32a. and occupied by Samuel Wiggarn; (i) a messuage with coach-house and chamber at Castle Bromwich (held by Henry Green), plus outbuildings (including a granary), "Lady Croft", "the Cob Croft", "Cob Croft Meadow", "the Kitehall Croft", "the Moor", "The Haunch", "the Upper Hay Field", "The Lower Hay Field", two "Hodge Hill Leasows" or "Long Closes", "Bush Close", "Hither Warston Closes", "Upper Warston Close", two "Timbersitch Closes", "Timbersitch Meadow", five lands in "Hernfield", nine lands in "Bucknall Field" and common rights (totalling 60a.0r.33p., and occupied and enjoyed by James Knight); (j) a Castle Bromwich cottage inhabited by William Goldingay; (k) a farm at Allesley, Warws. with "the Hemins", "the Meadow", "the Little Wood", "the Rough Leys", "the Barley Close" and two "Whobarley Closes", totalling 20a.3r.22p. and tenanted by Edward Cheslyn; (1) an Allesley messuage plus "the Croft", "the Great Wood", "the Little Close" and "the Brook Meadow", totalling 8a.1r.19p., held by Widow Large; (m) a messuage with appurtenances and croft (occupied successively by Thomas Hodgkins, Widow Bissell and, now, Thomas Camwell) at Stoke, Coventry, near the Binley turnpike-road; (n) two closes near Stoke church called "Dob Ridings" or "Church End Closes" (covering 16a.3r.2p. and farmed successively by T. Hodgkins, Joseph Hansom and, now, T. Camwell); (o) a messuage on the southern side of the Coventry London Rd. near New Gate, known as the "Salutation Inn", with its former garden, a cherry orchard and appurtenances (leased successively by Samuel Bartlem, John Farells and, now, Matthew Gibbs); (p) five Much Park St. messuages inhabited by James Barton, Elizabeth Ball (widow), Edward Brooks, William Edwards and Christopher Claridge; (q) two Earl St. houses (occupied by Hatton Atkins and Widow Jones) together with a brewhouse and stable belonging to one of them, also two tenements and a ruinous malthouse behind them (the tenements inhabited by Richard Pearson and Thomas Glaves); (r) three Vicar Lane messuages held by Thomas Langdale, Samuel Smith and William Hobley; (s) a house on the southern side of Smithford St. with appurtenances including coach-, bake- and wood-houses (formerly inhabited by James Birch (esq.) but now by Edward Freeman); (t) the muckhill at George Birch's "King's Head" Inn; (u) Thomas Sharpe's Smithford St. tenement; (v) the "King's Head " on the southern side of Smithford St. (lately occupied by Richard Richards, now by Thomas Soden); (w) three closes in Stoke parish called the "Flag Pit" (one adjoining the Binley Rd.) occupied like (v); (x) John Winterton's Greyfriars Lane stable; (y) two pieces of Stoke marshland covering 6a.2r.0p. and held by J. Winterton; (z) the Greyfriars Lane messuage and yard tenanted by Benjamin Newland and E. Freeman respectively; (aa) a Cross Cheaping messuage (adjoining on the west a tenement held by John Shepherd, barber; and on the east one occupied by Edward Villers, cutler and toyman) plus tenements to its west (i.e. a tenement lately leased to John Orton, two rooms which used to be Mrs. Hill's warehouse, a brewhouse, two rooms formerly Mr. Bemington's warehouses and a bleachyard at the bottom of the entry; all held by Thomas Luckman and John [I] Whitwell); (ab) a Cross Cheaping messuage near the Cross' site (successively occupied by Martha Stokes (widow), Christopher Hooke and, now, Edward Villers) which forms the corner-house between two owned by G. Birch (one tenanted by William Pollard, the other by T. Luckman and J. [I] Whitwell); (ac) John Shepherd's Cross Cheaping messuage with brewhouse; (ad) William Pollard's Broadgate house; (ae) a large messuage with rooms above and a cellar in the Women's Market Place, leased by Luckman and Whitwell; (af) a tenement at the bottom of the Women's Market Place formerly held by John Stanton, gent.; (ag) a messuage on the souther side of West Orchard to the east of and adjoining (af), lately occupied by John Cooper but now by German and Edward Buxton; and (ah) Thomas Brewer's messuage at the bottom of Great Butcher Row: covenant to suffer a common recovery made with Daniel Fox (of Chancery Lane, Mdx., esq.) as demandant. Copies made, 15th. Dec., 1794.
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