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PA529/4
24 Feb 1823
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At a Court Baron held by the governors of Lady Katherine Leveson's Hospital, Balsall manor whereby, having recited that on 10 Oct 1821 the court presented that William [III] Eborall had died seised of (a) a messuage at Balsall Street (successively occupied by Samuel [I] Eborall, William [I] Eborall (William [III] Eborall's grandfather), Charles Palmer and W. [III] Eborall), closes which W. [III] Eborall had occupied therewith, a Balsall Street messuage (successively occupied by Daniel King and W. [III] Eborall) with its closes, the site of a messuage at Eborall's End in Balsall manor with its lands (Pear Tree Field, Barley Feld, Great Meadow, Little Meadow, the south-eastern part of Well Field, and Gostye Fields), High House (at the upper end of Balsall Street) with its two Home Closes and three others called Two Gates (successively occupied by Henry Smith, William Hammond and W. [III] Eborall) and a messuage with three closes called Hues Land and a little meadow near Ravens Bridge at Fen End in Balsall manor (once occupied by John Edwards, in 1821 by Isaac Woodward) - altogether 230a. 2r. 10p.; and (b) Blind Lane in Balsall Street quarter in Balsall hamlet between old enclosures which severally belong to the hospital governors and W. [III] Eborall (bounded north by the Temple Balsall - Balsall Street road, south by Long Field which once belonged to William Cattell of Knowle Hall, land (3r. 25p.) on Wootton Green [,Temple Balsall] (bounded north and north-east by the Barston road, east by the Knowle-Coleshill turnpike, south and west by Samuel Averne's heirs' allotment) and a parcel (68a. 2r. 32p.) formerly part of Balsall Heath (bounded north-east by the turnpike, by the fifth allotment to W. [III] Eborall, by the second allotment to Joseph Brockhurst Sumner and by the late Elizabeth Worthington's devisees' allotment; north-west by Joseph B. Sumner's second allotment, William Reader's allotment, old enclosures, and Henry Couchman's sixth and twenty-sixth allotments; north by William Reader's allotment, south-east by W. [III] Eborall's fifth allotment, John Evett's, and one awarded to Richard Lillington and his successors as vicars of Hampton-in-Arden; and south-west by R. Lillington's allotment, the third one allotted to the governors of Lord Leycester's Hospital at Warwick, Joseph Russell's allotment and H. Couchman's sixth) - altogether 69[a.] 2[r.] 38[p.] and in 1821 lately held by W. [III] Eborall: therefore, considering PA529/2, the spinster-daughters' attorney (Henry Radford of Atherstone, Warwickshire, gentleman, appointed to their cause on 21 Feb [1823] as witnessed by Stafford Stratton Baxter of Atherstone, gentleman) came to the court, as did Louisa Simonds (wife of Edmund Simonds of Liverpool, Lancashire, general agent), lately Moor, come to crave admission to property known as (a) a messuage successively occupied by S. [I] Eborall, William King and W. [III] Eborall, the site of another messuage (successively held by Daniel King, W. King and W. [III] Eborall) and lands with those two houses (House and Homestead (1a. 2r. 35p.), the Paddock (lately the Croft; 1a. 2r. 2p.), the Croft (lately the Paddock; 1a. 0r. 24p.), House Close (lately Pit Field; 3a. 3r. 26p.), Foredrift (35p.), Moat Meadow (lately Home Meadow; 12a. 1r. 18p.), Spooners Meadow (5a. 0r. 34p.), Spooners Barn Close (7a. 0r. 22p.), Highway Close (7a. 3r. 24p.), Termple Field (7a. 2r. 5p.), Bloody Field South (lately Little Spooners Close; 4a. 0r. 4p.), Bloody Field North (lately Little Hadley's Close; 4a. 1r. 6p.), Ivy Close (lately Spooners Close; 5a. 3r. 30p.), Hadley's Barn Close (8a. 1r. 25p.), Far Billins (5a. 2r. 17p.), Near Billins (6a. 0r. 13p.), Round Meadow (5a. 3r. 17p.), Ashen Holt Meadow (4a. 1r. 1p.), Ashen Holt Close (7a. 2r. 18p.), part of Street Meadow (4a. 1r. 27p.), Harris's House Close (lately Home Close; 8a. 2r. 16p.), Broom Field (10a. 2r. 38p.), Six Acres (6a. 2r. 13p.), Barston Brook Close (6a. 2r. 8p.), Little Marl Pit Close (lately Marl Pit Close; 3a. 2r. 10p.), Windmill Hill (7a. 1r. 35p.), Little Marlpit Close [sic] (2a. 0r. 3p.), Far Temple Meadow (lately Great Marl Pit Meadow; 4a. 2r. 24p.)) - all occupied by Thomas Hood, farmer; (b) a messuage-site and lands occupied by Thomas Woodward which were formerly called Pear Tree Field, etc. as above but are now called Hovel Moor (lately Little "Wootten" Green Close (and including the parcel heretofore mentioned as in Wootton Green and containing 3r. 35p.); 2a. 1r. 26p.), Wootton Green Close (6a. 2r. 21p.), Marl Pit Close (5a. 0r. 4p.), Grove Meadow (latterly in two parts when called Far Meadopw and Near Meadow; 4a. 1r. 26p.), Grove Close (lately "Next Grove"; 3a. 1r. 27p.), Pear Tree Close (lately Wootton Green Close; 3a. 0r. 15p.), Great Gorsden (lately in three parts called the Sling, Three-Cornereed Close and Middle Field; 6a. 1r. 38p.), Gorsden Meadow (lately Bosten's Meadow; 2a. 1r. 9p.), Thistley Close (2a. 3r. 8p.) and Little Gorsden (lately Long Field; 2a. 0r. 15p.) - all now occupied by W. Litchfield, farmer; (c) 12p. at Wootton Green (occupied by W. Litchfield) along with High House's site, and lands therewith formerly occupied by William Cattell and then called Home Close and Two Gates but now known as Street Close (4a. 1r. 29p.), Lower Close (4a. 0r. 2p.), Little Field (lately Below Meadow; 1a. 3r. 21p.) and Bottom Close (5a. 1r. 35p.), all occupied by Thomas Hood; (d) a messuage with the former Hues Land which is now called House and Homestad (1r. 27p.), Home Close (5a. 0r. 12p.), Lodge Field (5a. 2r. 3p.), Middle Close (lately Broad Field; 5a. 3r. 22p.) and Park Field (lately Three-Cornered Close; 3a. 3r. 38p.), all in Fen End, successively occupied by John Edwards, William King, W. [III] Eborall and now Isaac Woodward; (e) Ravens Brook Meadow (lately Ravens Bridge Meadow; 2a. 1r. 19p.) at Fen End lately farmed by W. [III] Eborall, now by I. Woodward; and (f) Balsall Heath land comprising Barn and Yard (1r. 30p.), Lower Gothurst (14a. 3r. 34p.), Upper Gothurst (7a. 32r. 26p.), Slade Clopse (10a. 2r. 2p.), "Meadow East of the Brook" (12a. 3r. 30p.), "Meadow West of the Brook" (13a. 0r. 32p.), Marlpit Close (8a. 2r. 0p.) and the south-western end (2a. 0r. 36p.) of Lower Child Oak, all which (including the barn site) comprised the whole of the 68a. 2r. 31p. aforesaid and was occupied by T. Hood: subject to the Leveson Hospital's governors' claim upon Blind Lane, all were enfranchised for a penny fine.
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