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Deed of Disposition
PA1681/50/8
16 Dec 1859 -
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Coventry Archives & Research Centre
Having recited: firstly, PA1681/50/3; secondly, Abraham Awson's death and probate; thirdly, that Stephen Freeman died unmarried on 30 Oct 1856 without having barred entail; fourthly, that William Freeman "jun." died on 26 Mar 1849, leaving his three daughters Mary and Martha Freeman (of Ryton-upon-Dunsmore, Warwickshire, spinsters) and Catharine Twamley (wife of Charles Twamley of 6, Queen's Road, Gloucester Gate, St. Pancras' parish, Middlesex, esq.); and fifthly, that the women wish to bar entail and that Charles Twamley is agreeable: therefore the spinster-daughters and the Twamleys dispose to Reginald Amphlett Parker (of 41, Bedford Row, Middlesex, gentleman.) of (a) Ryton lands, viz. (i) two messuages (formerly one occupied by John Boddington) which are tenanted by William Clarke and Keening Baylis (with a cottage inhabited by Susannah Seeney), (ii) a barn and homestead (where the spinster-daughters live), (iii) a meadow formerly called Colebourne's Close (once cultivated by John Boddington, now by Mrs. - Askew, widow), (iv) a dwelling with appurtenances which Stephen Freeman built, (v) (iv)'s plot (14a. 3r. 15p.) in Wolford Field (bounded north-east by the London Road, south-east by Warwick Road, north by land which once belonged to Richard Warwick and his wife Martha but now to - Perkins and - his wife, north-west by (ii)) and (vi) two pieces of land with gardens (formerly one; 13a. 3r. 3p.) in Hall Field and Wolford Field (bounded north-west by Warwick Road, east by the rector of Ryton's land, south and west by land once belonging to Edward Bracey with his wife Elizabeth and to Richard Bartlett but now to Charles Featherstone Dilke, esq.; enclosed under a 1 George III Act and allotted to Abraham Awson in lieu of one yardland and eight half-acres in Town Meadow and of the Lammas meadows called Megham and Deham); (b) five closes near Bedworth Heath, Warwickshire of which (i) Home Close (1a. 3r. 23p.) fronts the Heath and has borne a messuage which was latterly four small cottages which have since been demolished, (ii) Highway Close (2a. 2r. 16p.) adjoins (i) and fronts the Heath, (iii) Bottom Close (1a. 3r. 34p.) adjoins (i) and (ii), (iv) Little Meadow (1a. 2r. 28p.) adjoins (i) and (v) is an unnamed close (4a. 1r. 13p.) adjoining (iv) and (iii) - (iv), (v) are parted from the Town Meadow of Bedworth by a brook - and also (vi) "Wood Leys" close (3a. 1r. 8p.) near Bedworth Lane and (vii) "The Pingle" close (1r. 25p.) near Bedworth Lane and against (vi), all successively occupied by John Harvey, John Kelsey and now [John] Pickering; (c) (i) a messuage with appurtenances (3r.) with Mossy Field (formerly divided into Mossy Field, Little Wood and the Slang; 5a. 2r. 26p.) and Home Meadow (formerly divided into Home Meadow and the Croft; 5a. 2r. 33p.), Ansley, Warwickshire, lying on the western side of the Ansley-Arley road called Hood Lane and on the northern side of a road leading from Hood Lane to Ansley Mill, (ii) Upper Hawcott (6a. 0r. 17p.) and Lower Hawcott (7a. 3r. 35p.) on the southern side of the Ansley Mill road and the western side of Hood Lane, (iii) land on the eastern side of Hood Lane (known as Broadhurst Croft (formerly divided into Broadhurst Croft and Barn Croft, with a waggon-house; 6a. 2r. 5p.), Upper Hood Lane Close (4a. 2r. 20p.), Broom Field or Clover Close (5a. 2r. 29p.), the two Brook Closes with Little Parlour (altogether 6a. 0r. 1p.), Lower Hood Lane Close (5a. 3r. 6p.) and Barn Close and Rough Close (now undivided and covering 10a. 2r. 6p.) with a plantation (1r. 27p.) on the east side), (iv) an enclosure (43a. 0r. 12p.) at Nuthurst Heath in Ansley parish on the eastern side of the Ansley-Astley road - (ii)-(iv) were latterly held by John, now by Joseph, Kelsey - (v) four closes on the northern side of the road from Wood Lane by Ansley Mill to Coleshill (formerly known as Marle Field (6a. 2r. 33p.), Wheat Field (6a. 1r. 6a.), Croft Field (8a. 0r. 24p.) and Pease Field (6a. 1r. 5p.) but now as the Lakins) and (vi) Mill Field (5a. 2r. 11p.) adjoining (v) with a 12-p. plantation in front - (v), (vi) were lately tenanted by Daniel Wilkinson but are now by John Palmer; and (d) a £4/5/- p.a., fee-farm rent payable by Charles Spencer Ricketh, esq. from lands in - parish, Pansall hamlet [sic], Buckinghamshire, formerly described as issuing out of the demesne of Pansole and Leatherslade in the forest of Barnwood, Buckinghamshire: to be held so that one-third each might go to the spinster-sisters and as Catharine Twamley might appoint or by default her husband.
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