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Whereby, having recited: firstly, an 11-12 Jun 1767 lease and deed to lead to a common recovery whereby, having rehearsed that Thomas Dawes (senior in 1791 terms; then known as Thomas Dawes of Lichfield [,Staffordshire], currier; eldest son and heir of William Dawes (of Birmingham, Warwickshire, dyer, since deceased, by his then-deceased wife Catherine (a daughter of Elizabeth Adkins, then of Birmingham, since-dead widow of Thomas Adkins of the same place, dyer)) was to marry Anna Heart (of High Hall Hill, Yoxall parish, Staffordshire; a daughter of the since-deceased Allen Heart of High Hall Hill, gentleman), therefore Elizabeth Adkins, Mark Sanders (of Birmingham, trapmaker), William Dawes and Thomas Dawes entrusted George Green (of Crane Court, Fleet Street, Middlesex, gentleman) with a moiety of inter alia property described hereinafter in order that Stephen Simpson (of Lichfield, gentleman) might be demandant, George Green tenant and E. Adkins and T. Dawes vouchees so that messuages occupied by Ann Ridding and Martha Tyso might be to T. Dawes' use for E. Adkins' life but the rest successively for her, then Joseph Rabone (of Birmingham, bucklemaker) and George Heart (of High Hall Hill, gentleman, since dead) to support contingent remainders, but after E. Adkins' death all to those two for 99 years in order to secure for W. Dawes a £20 annuity, Anna Heart for life, Joseph Rabone and George Heart for five hundred years for the couple's eldest son and issue but so as to lease, sell or mortgage whatever might be necessary to raise £300 per portion for one younger child or £400 between more than one at 21 or earlier marriage, such sums bearing £4% per annum interest; secondly, the consequent 7 George III recovery; thirdly, the 19-20 Jan 1776 lease and deed to lead to a common recovery whereby Elizabeth Adkins (widow), Thomas Dawes senior (as Thomas Dawes of Coleshill; eldest aon and heir of Catherine the late wife of William Dawes of Coleshill, dyer; also heir at law of Thomas Adkins Dawes, a soldier in the sixth Regiment of Foot who was the only son of Hannah the late wife of Samuel Dawes of Coleshill, toymaker, deceased - Catherine and Hannah were Thomas Adkins' only daughters by Elizabeth) and his wife Ann consigned the other moiety to John Kinderley (of Chancery Lane, London, gentleman) to the use successively of Thomas Dawes, his trustee Thomas Barber (of Coleshill, mercer, since deceased) and T. Dawes' heirs, which recovery was suffered during Hilary term, 16 George III, John Dale (of Coleshill, mercer) also participating in the reciting deeds; fourthly, that by a lease and release dated 20-21 Oct 1778, in consideration of £650 paid to Thomas Dawes senior and 5/- to Thomas Barber, those men sold the 1776 deeds' annuity to John Murcott (in 1791 described as of Baginton, Warwickshire, gentleman); fifthly, a 28-29 Feb 1780 lease and release whereby (having rehearsed: first, that Thomas Dawes senior owed Thomas "Edkins" (of Coleshill, tanner), John James (of Little Packington, Warwickshire, husbandman), Samuel Thompson (of Little Sutton, Sutton Coldfield parish, Warwickshire, tanner), Edward Hawkesford (of Coleshill, butcher), Francis Highway (of Birmingham, tanner) and Henry Docker (of Birmingham, mercer), with other of his creditors, scheduled sums; and second, that he possessed the property, subject to mortgages) for 10/- from each of them Thomas Dawes assigned to Thomas Edkins and John James all the 1791 deed's lands so that he might receive the rents for four years, whereafter those trustees should sell them, discharging his debts with the interest, paying legal costs and reimbursing his creditors within one month; sixthly, a 21-22 Jun 1791 lease and release to lead to a common recovery whereby (having rehearsed: first, the aforesaid 11-12 Feb 1767 settlement; second, the consequent common recovery; third, that Thomas Dawes senior married Anna Heart; fourth, that their children were Thomas Dawes junior (in the main deed described as late of Manchester, Lancashire; now of Yoxall Woodhouse, Yoxall parish, linen and woollen draper; now of age) and Matthew Cove Dawes and Elizabeth (both minors); fifth, that William Dawson and Elizabeth Adkins were dead; sixth, the aforesaid 27-28 Feb 1780 lease and release; seventh, that the trust estates thereby vested in Thomas Edkins and John James could not be sold profitably unless Anna and Thomas Dawes junior joined in a common recovery for her moiety, which they were prepared to do so long as T. Dawes junior enjoyed power of sale, to which the trustees had agreed provided that the first £400 sale-moneys go to William Shipton (in the main deed described as of Yoxall Woodhouse, gentleman) and A. Dawes might receive the interest for life, after which it would be shared between her younger children or by default as the 1767 marriage settlement provided for, but the trustees discharging the mortgages out of the remaining sale-moneys and paying £132/10/- from the residue to Thomas Dawes senior's creditors, then paying off the 1780 deeds' conveyancing-costs or associated expenses, with any surplus passing to T. Dawes junior; eighth, that all the creditors had agreed to accept their shares of the £132/10/-; and ninth, that people were ready to buy the property) Edkins, James, and the Daweses (Thomas senior, A. and Thomas junior) confirmed to John Willington (of the Inner Temple, London, gentleman) the moiety so that Stephen Simpson might in the subsequent recovery be demandant, himself tenant and the Daweses vouchees, whilst the same parties confirmed to John Willington the other moiety which John Murcott might hold so that T. Dawes junior could sell that and devote the moneys likewise, besides which (having rehearsed: tenth, that George Heart (a trustee for raising the £400 under the 1767 settlement) had died, so his term was vested in John Rabone; eleventh, that that sum would be raised instead under the 1791 indenture; and twelfth, that the 1767 settlement's five-hundred year term would therefore have to be assigned to trustees to attend the inheritance) J. Rabone (on behalf of Edkins, James and the three Daweses) transferred to Edward Palmer (in the main deed described as of Coleshill, gentleman) the 1767 deeds' security in trust for the respective purchasers of parts of the estate; seventhly, PA1049/18/19; eighthly, that T. Dawes junior is entitled to a moiety; ninthly, that the £400 has been paid to William Shipton; tenthly, the 24 Aug 1764 mortgage by demise for one thousand years (wherein Elizabeth Adkins was of the first part, William Dawes, Thomas Dawes senior and George Carless with Mark Sanders of the second and Dorothy Wharton of the third) charged upon the first-mentioned moiety (which by a deed dated 10 Oct 1778 (wherein Timothy Sedgeley (of Monks Kirby, Warwickshire, gentleman) was of the first part, William Dawes and Thomas Dawes senior of the second, Thomas Eagle (of Allesley, Warwickshire, gentleman) of the third, J. Murcott of the fourth and Andrew Murcott (then of Coventry, innholder, but in 1791 of Warwick, appraiser and auctioneer) of the fifth) vested in Andrew Murcott in trust for J. Murcott in order to pay £400 with interest at £5% per annum); eleventhly, that that money has been this day discharged by T. Dawes junior to J. Murcott; twelfthly, that A. Murcott wants to assign the thousand-year term to John Stretton (of Coleshill, currier) in trust for the other moiety as per PA1049/18/22; and thirteenthly, that T. Dawes junior has agreed to sell the moiety to J. Murcott for £800: therefore, in consideration of £800 paid to T. Dawes junior and 10/- to T. Dawes senior, they consign to J. Murcott a moiety of Nailcote Farm, with Barn Field, "the Croft adjoining to the Beech Wood", Long Field, Coney Burrow Field, Barn Meadow, Long Meadow, Great Whitefield, Little Whitefield, "the croft adjoining Western Heath" and Little Wood, Berkswell parish (successively occupied by John Ellis, William Tranter and now William Liggins); Edward Palmer covenants for the residue of the five-hundred year term to stand seised in trust for J. Murcott; and W. Shipton covenants to pay the £400 to whomsoever should receive it.