Whereby, having recited: firstly, the 29 Apr 1748 mortgage by demise for five hundred years whereby Elizabeth Adkins (of Birmingham, Warwickshire; widow of Thomas Adkins of Birmingham, dyer) and William Adkins (of Birmingham, mercer; son and heir of Thomas and Elizabeth) charged to Joseph Lant (of Allesley, Warwickshire, yeoman) one day's math [mowing] of meadow in Cole Meadow, 1.5a. arable in South Field, seven short selions [a selion was a portion of land of indeterminate area, comprising a ridge or narrow strip lying between two furrows, formed upon dividing an open field] (equal to half a day's work) in South Field, one selion (equivalent to a quarter of a day's work) in Grimscott Field, another selion likewise and three selions equal to three-quarters of a day's work in Blythe Field (which, William Adkins' property, the dyer William Payne had bought from Ann Waves), also four dispersed pieces of arable in Blythe Field (covering 3a. equivalent to three days' work), two days' work in Park Field and seven selions covering 2a. in South Field (all which were the land of William, Lord Digby and that formerly Francis Bowers, esq.'s), Lord Digby's land called "the Fish Pool" and the highway leading towards Maxstoke which W. Payne had obtained from John Jones) - all in Coleshill, Warwickshire - together with a 7-a. close in two parts (occupied by Widow Rea) in Water Orton, Aston-juxta-Birmingham parish, Warwickshire - all by 1748 occupied by Jude Moore, John Craterne and Widow Rea, for redemption of £10 at £4/10/-% per annum interest on 29 Oct 1748; secondly, that (having rehearsed: first, the 1748 mortgage; second, that William Adkins had died; and third, that Joseph Lant had died intestate, so letters of administration were granted to his widow Elizabeth, in 1762 wife of John Barber of Allesley parish, husbandman), in consideration of £100 paid by John [I] Parker (of Birmingham, silkdyer, since deceased) to the Barbers, they and Elizabeth Adkins assigned the term to John [I] Parker for redemption of £100 on 21 Apr [1763]; thirdly, that on 10 Nov 1790 (having rehearsed: first, payment-default; second, that John [I] Palmer died on 6 Aug 1777, having appointed as executors his wife Margaret and John Fisher (of Wallingford, Berkshire, maltster), both since dead, along with his son John [II] (in 1790 of Birmingham, silkdyer); third, that E. Adkins had died; and fourth, that John [II] Palmer was owed £136/5/- for principal and interest) J. [II] Palmer assigned the lands to Thomas Eagle (in 1791 described as of Allesley, Warwickshire, gentleman); fourthly, that the £136/5/- belonged to John Murcott (of Baginton, Warwickshire, gentleman) and Timothy Sedgeley (of Monks Kirby, Warwickshire, gentleman) equally, for whom Andrew Murcott (late of Coventry [nothing about his having been an innholder], now of Warwick, appraiser and auctioneer) was trustee; fifthly, the 24 Aug 1764 mortgage by demise for one thousand years recited in PA1049/18/21 (here defining George Carless, since-deceased [no trade] and Mark Sanders (of Birmingham, trapmaker) as trustees for William Dawes and Thomas Dawes senior and Dorothy Wharton as of Camphill, Bordesley liberty, Aston parish); sixthly, that on 29 Nov 1765 E. Adkins, W. Dawes and T. Dawes senior further charged the premises to Dorothy Wharton for £100; seventhly that, having rehearsed the 24 Aug 1764 and 29 Nov 1765 deeds (in consideration of £30 paid to John Lowe (once of Deritend, Bordesley liberty but then of Ravenshurst Hall, Bordesley hamlet, Aston parish, butcher; a son and sole executor of D. Wharton) and £100 to E. Adkins, W. Dawes and T. Dawes senior), John Lowe, E. Adkins, W. Dawes, T. Dawes senior and Mark Sanders transferred the moiety to John Bryan (of Yardley, Worcestershire, yeoman); eighthly that, having rehearsed the 1764, 1765 and 1767 deeds, on 6 Apr 1776 (in consideration of £400 paid by John Villers (of Mancetter, Warwickshire gentleman) to John Bryan) J. Bryan, E. Adkins, W. Dawes and T. Dawes senior assigned to William Eborall (of Atherstone, Warwickshire, gentleman) the said moiety on John Villers' behalf; ninthly that, having rehearsed the 1764, 1765, 1767 and 1776 deeds, on 23 Oct 1777 (for £400 paid by Timothy Sedgeley (as of Monks Kirby, Warwickshire, gentleman) to John Villers) William Eborall (on behalf of J. Villers), E. Adkins, W. Dawes and T. Dawes senior assigned to Thomas Eagle the moiety for Timothy Sedgeley; tenthly that, having rehearsed the 1764, 1765, 1767, 1776 and 1777 deeds, on 10 Oct 1778 (for £400 paid by John Murcott to T. Sedgeley) Sedgeley, Thomas Eagle, W. Dawes and T. Dawes consigned to Andrew Murcott the moiety for J. Murcott; eleventhly, the 19 George III Coleshill Enclosure Act; twelfthly, that the enclosure commissioners have allocated T. Dawes senior two allotments in lieu of his common land and four messuages; thirteenthly, that J. Murcott and T. Sedgeley are owed £136/5/- equally between them upon the 1748 indenture as all interest has been discharged; fourteenthly, that the 1764 mortgage's thousand-year term is vested in Andrew Murcott for John Murcott and that its £400 principal is alone due; fifteenthly, that the terms and the Berkswell parish lands are vested in Thomas Dawes junior (late of Manchester, Lancashire; now of Yoxall Woodhouses, Yoxall parish, Staffordshire, linen and woollen draper) for sale under the terms of a 12 Jul [1791] indenture wherein Thomas Dawes senior is of the first part, Thomas Dawes junior of the second, Thomas Edkins (of Coleshill, tanner) and John James (of Little Packington, Warwickshire, husbandman) of the third, Stephen Simpson (of Lichfield [,Staffordshire], gentleman) of the fourth, John Willington (of the Inner Temple, London, gentleman [lawyer]) of the fifth, Joseph Rabone (of Birmingham, bucklemaker) of the sixth, William Shipton (of Yoxall Woodhouses, gentleman) of the seventh and Edward Palmer (of Coleshill, gentleman) of the eighth; sixteenthly, that Reverend John Davies (of Coleshill, clerk [in Holy Orders]) has bought from Thomas Dawes junior one of the Coleshill allotments, viz. that awarded in lieu of Long Furlong Field, containing 12a. 0r. 29p., which by a lease and release dated 28-29 Sep 1791 is being conveyed to him with John Dale as trustee; seventeenthly, that William Mayou (of Water Orton, Aston-juxta-Birmingham parish, farmer) has bought from T. Dawes junior a close (now two) called the Shaw (7a.) at Water Orton which William Payne bought from Walter Burton (successively occupied by Widow Ray [sic], Peter Ray, Joseph Bird and now Peter Ray again), to be conveyed by 28-29 Sep indentures to William Mayou with J Dale as trustee; eighteenthly, that John Murcott has bought from T. Dawes junior a moiety of Nailcote Farm as per PA1049/19/20-21; nineteenthly, that Thomas Mallie (of Coleshill, esq.) has bought from T. Dawes junior (a) a dwelling successively owned by William Payne and Mrs. Sadler (successively inhabited by Thomas Jacques, Thomas Dawes senior and now Robert Brown) at Coleshill, also (b) the western end (30 yards X 16 yards) of an orchard or croft belonging to John Railston's messuage in the same town, (c) Hill Croft which was formerly in Coleshill's Pit Field, (d) an allotment (23p.) called Paines Lane on the Coleshill-Castle Bromwich road (bounded east by the end of the said lane left open to the street but 70 yards from the street, on part of the south and the rest of the east by a homestead lately T. Dawes senior's, on another part of the south by John Harries' allotment, on part of the west and the rest of the south by ancient grounds which form the said Hill Croft, on the rest of the west by John Harries' said allotment, and on the north by Lord Digby's ancient enclosure (except 18 yards X 9 yards which form the eastern part of the upper garden)), all being conveyed to Thomas Mallie with Dale as trustee by a 28-29 Sep 1791 lease and release; twentiethly, that Richard Day (of Coleshill, yeoman) has bought from T. Dawes junior (a) a Coleshill house (successively occupied by James Dewick, Samuel Harris, James Overton, Thomas Ashmore and now John Railston, which Thomas Adkins bought with other property from the late Right Honourable William, Lord Digby), (b) a messuage in Coleshill where William Lowkes dwelt (lately in two tenements and formerly inhabited by Joseph Tyso with Emmanuel Hollingshed but now by John Crockett and Thomas Moss) and (c) 18 yards X 9 yards which forms the eastern end of the aforesaid upper garden to where William Payne once lived but now Robert Brown (of Coleshill, farmer) (excepting the western 36 yards X 16 yards as above), all being conveyed to Richard Day with Dale as trustee by a 28-29 Sep 1791 lease and release; twenty-firstly, that Richard Newbold (of Coleshill, staymaker and tallowchandler) has bought from T. Dawes junior a close in Gilson, Coleshill parish (occupied by R. Newbold), containing 2.5a. and called Gilson Close (formerly Deyos Ash's land but now Charles Wood's, surrounded by the Coleshill-Water Orton road and Long Furlong Field), being conveyed to Newbold with Dale as trustee by a 28-29 Sep 1791 lease and release; twenty-secondly, that Robert Brown aforesaid has bought from T. Dawes junior Dog Lane Close (2r. 12p.) adjoining Dog Lane [Coleshill parish], lately occupied by Joseph Butler but now by James Payton, being conveyed to R. Brown with Dale as trustee by a 28-29 Sep 1791 lease and release; twenty-thirdly, that the two £68/2/6 sums have been paid by T. Dawes junior to J. Murcott and Sedgeley; twenty-fourthly, that T. Dawes junior has paid J. Murcott the £400; and twenty-fifthly, that the terms are to be assigned to John Stretton (of Coleshill, currier): therefore (in consideration of 10/- paid by John Stretton to Thomas Eagle) T. Eagle (on behalf of J. Murcott, Sedgeley, T. Dawes junior, Reverend John Davies, W. Mayou and T. Mallie) assigns to J. Stretton the 1748 deed's Coleshill and Water Orton lands (except what was allotted at the time of enclosure to other than T. Dawes senior) and T. Dawes junior's allotments, viz. Pains Lane (22p.) bounded as above and 12a. 0r. 29p. in Long Furlong Field (now occupied by R. Brown; bounded east by land formerly D. Ash's but now C. Wood's, south by Brickkiln Lane which leads from Gilson into the Castle Bromwich-Coventry turnpike, west and north by the sixth allotment to Coleshill Boys' Free Grammar School trustees); to be held for the remainder of the five-hundred year term so that the ex-Long Furlong Field land will be on behalf of John Davies, Paines Lane for Mallie and the Shaw for Mayou, in each case with Dale as trustee, and for those respective purchasers' heirs; moreover, for 10/- A. Murcott (on behalf of just J. Murcott, T. Dawes junior and Sedgeley) assigns to Stretton the 1764 indenture's moiety (except what was allotted to others than T. Dawes senior) for the residue of the thousand-year term so that the 12a. 0r. 29p. might be for J Davies, Mallie's messuage for him and the Shaw for Mann, Berkswell parish premises for J. Murcott, and Day's premises for him, Gilson Close for Newbold and Dog Lane Close for Brown, in each case with Dale as trustee and for their respective heirs.
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