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Silk merchant and ribbon manufacturer, High Street and at Crown Court, Cheapside, London (1830). He had Whitefriars' Street messuages until he died in about 1838 - see PA55/53/2. Trustee for Mill Lane land, 1835 (PA1681/48/11). He bought land at Drapers' Fields, 1829 (PA56/64/2). Mortgagee for land near Whitefriars' Mill, 1827-28 (PA56/74/4,8,9) and Bayley Lane messuages, 1825-28 (PA56/74/8), he bought the former in 1828. He purchased Remington family interests in Spon Street and Much Park Street messuages, 1824-25 (PA56/75/5,6). Townsend was mortgage-assignee for Whitefriars' Lane Baptist chapel from 1834 - see PA2248/1/9,10. He was mortgagee for Little Butcher Row houses from 1835 (CCA/2/3/137/10,11). Townsend had property east of Bishop Street in 1821 - see CCA/2/3/203/30. Mortgagee for Windmill Lane land from 1834 until his death - see PA491/71/1.I. Townsend was mortgagee for a Burges house from 1828 until his death - see PA184/3/12,13. Henry Lea (q.v.) purchased the future 10, Much Park Street on Townsend's behalf in 1813, which the latter retained until he died in 1837 - see CCA/2/3/396/31.I-IV. CCA/2/3/13/13 shows that Townsend owned Earl's Mill Lane property in 1822. For his interest in Samuel Maude's Bayley Lane messuages, 1825-34, see CCA/2/3/200/24-30 passim,47. Cf. CCA/2/3/55/6.