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Assignment of Mortgages by Demise for 200 and 199 Years with Trust to Attend the Inheritance
PA288/1/1
28 Jun 1729
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Coventry Archives & Research Centre
Whereby, having recited: firstly, the 26 Jan 1711 (Old Style) marriage settlement (with Hilary Term, 11 Anne final concord acknowledged by Elizabeth Hyde (of Enfield, Middlesex, widow in 1729; in 1711 known as Elizabeth Skeffington of Skeffington, Leicestershire; widow of Thomas [I] Skeffington alias Brome, esq.; daughter of Sir John Dugdale (of Coventry, knight, deceased) and Dame Elizabeth his second wife) to Nicholas Brady (of Richmond, Surrey, Doctor of Divinity) and John Forster (of Snowhill, London, gentleman)) whereby, as she was going to marry William Hyde (of Langtoft,. Lincolnshire, esq.), Elizabeth Skeffington entrusted Nicholas Brady and John Forster with inter alia (a) two Cross Cheaping messuages, Holy Trinity parish, Coventry, on the southern side of the street, adjoining Broadgate on the east, land on the south then late belonging to Julius Billers, alderman, north on a messuage then late occupied by Abigail "Bonyou" [Benyon?] and Margaret Rotten, widows, with a house and garden at the lower end of the premises (all successively held by Joan Pidgeon and Thomas Featherstone, later by Septimus Bott); (b) the "Castle" inn, Cross Cheaping, adjoining on the south (a), and on the north a tenement then held by - Spence, being itself let to Abigail [Benyon] and Margaret Rotten; (c) "The Chauntry" croft (4a.) within the city wall near Angles [Saint Agnes'] Lane, Holy Trinity parish (then successively occupied by Nathaniel Shewell and Dame Elizabeth Dugdale); (d) "Haukes Grove" alias "Bird Grove" (5a.) beyond Harnall Field towards Jeffrey "Hoods" Cross [recte Jeffrey Woods Cross] (then tenanted by George Rotten and Thomas Lyndsey); (e) a close (4a.) with barn, etc. (then occupied by Robert Farmesworth) in Holy Trinity parish; (f) a messuage on the southern side of Bablake church (formerly occupied by William "Muncke" [Monk] and Samuel Muncke, then by - Moor, widow) in Saint Michael's and Styvechale parishes [sic]; (g) "Corner Close next Middlewood", being part of "Astell" [Asthill] Grove Farm (10a. 3r. 5p., successively let to Robert Smith, John Dadley and then Matthew Brandon); (h) "Middle Field Close", part of Astell Grove Farm (9a. 1r. 1p., successively tenanted by Robert Smith, Robert Burbery and then Matthew Brandon); (i) "close next the Stripe" (10a. 0r. 7p., successively held by Elizabeth Murdocke (widow), Thomas Rudierd with Vademon Heires, then by Dame Elizabeth Dugdale); (j) "The Stripe" close (10a. 3r. 37p. [no occupier given]); (k) "close next Briers" (11a. 1r. 19p., successively leased to Edmund Foster, William Webster and then Vademon Heires); (l) "Fishers Field" (7a. 0r. 3p., successively farmed by Richard Goss and Henry Smith, then by Henry Smith's son); (m) "Corner Close next Lodgefields" commonly called "Rawson's Close" (13a. 1r. 1p., sucessively cultivated by Francis Cooling, William Webster and then Vademon Heires); (n) "Causeway Close" (18a., formerly demised to Richard Moore but then to Ralph Ashburnham and Samuel Webster), part of Astell Grove; (o) "Over Broomfield" (7a. 2r. 31p. [no occupier given]); (p) "Nether Broomfield" (12a., lately divided into two closes); (q) "Elsden Meadow" (14a., successively occupied by Samuel Peasley and Sir Nicholas Strode, knight, and John Stripes and John Dudley; then by John Downes); (r) "Elsden Ground" alias "Crabtree Field" (18a., in two parts, then held by Matthew Brandon); (s) "Lodgefield" alias "Hodgefield" with barn (48a. formerly tenanted by Francis Norfolk and William Clark but then by John Snell); (t) "Astell Grove" grove (46a. formerly farmed by Sir Nicholas Strode but then by Dame Elizabeth Dugdale); and (u) "Middlewood" woods (20a., occupied as (t)), all in Saint Michael's or Styvechale parishes, Coventry county, for two hundred years from Dame Elizabeth's death: secondly, that William Hyde married Elizabeth Skeffington; thirdly, that (reciting how on 5 Jun 1713 W. and E. Hyde covenanted with Jane Bass (of London, widow) and John Forster to levy a final concord in Michaelmas Term on behalf of Michael Wilson (of London, gentleman) and John Stillingfleet (of London, gentleman) for the manors of Sutton, Langtoft and Baston, Lincolnshire and for lands there and in Bourne, Thurlby and "Deeping" [ Market, West, Saint James or Saint Nicholas is not shown], Lincolnshire from [25 Mar 1713] for one thousand years at a peppercorn rent and in trust for Jane Bass and J. Forster for payment by W. Hyde and 6 Dec [1713] of £1,300 plus interest to her, £4,100 plus interest to him, and £100 plus interest to Michael Wilson) on 5 Jun 1713, in consideration of 5/- apiece, W. Hyde, N. Brady and Forster transferred to John Stillingfleet the aforesaid Coventry premises from Dame E. Dugdale's death for 199 years at a peppercorn rent: fourthly, a 12 Jun 1714 endorsement on the last-mentioned indenture whereby W. Hyde further charged the premises with £730 for repayment to Forster on 7 Sep [1714]: fifthly, that J. Bass has died, appointing as executor Forster, who has proved her will: sixthly, that, reciting that on 7 Jun 1716 W. Hyde owed Forster £644/9/- plus interest but on 11 Apr 1718 £342/3/4 plus the 1716 account's interest carried on to 8 Dec [1717], on 30 Apr 1718 further charge was made by W. Hyde to Forster of all the Lincolnshire and Coventry lands for repayment on 12 Oct [1718] of £68/4/9 with interest from 8 Dec [1717] and £342/3/4 with interest from 11 Apr 17187, all the mortgagor's charged premises becoming security for the two sums: seventhly, that W. Hyde has died, by his 14 Apr 1717 will appointing as sole executrix his wife who, proving the document, is entitled to the remainder of the 1711 (Old Style) settlement's term: eighthly, that on 20 May 1730 Brady and Forster (on behalf of Thomas [II] Skeffington (late of Skeffington, esq.; only son of E. Hyde by T. [I] Skeffington alias Brome), E Hyde and Sir Richard Cust (then of Stamford, since of Lesingham, both Lincolnshire, baronet)) assigned to Savill Cust (of Stamford, esq.) Saint Michael's, Holy Trinity and Styvechale parishes premises and the marriage settlement deed for the residue of the 200-year term; that E. Hyde ratified her interest; and that J. Stillingfleet (on behalf of E. Hyde, Thomas [II] Skeffington, Forster with Mary Wilson, Right Honourable John, Viscount Tyrconnell of Ireland, Richard Cockayne (of Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire, esq.) and Sir Richard Cust) assigned to Savill Cust the premises and the 1713 further charge deed for the residue of the 199-year term in trust for Sir R. Cust until the baronet's loan of £3,000 plus interest should have been discharged, thereafter attending the inheritance as provided by a 19 May 1720 deed [cited in PA184/5/1] wherein E. Hyde with T. [II] Skeffington were of the first, Sir R. Cust of the second, Sir George Beaumont, baronet with Edmund Morris of the third, and William Flavell with his wife Elizabeth and Bridget Skeffington (in 1729 of Enfield, spinster) of the fourth parts: ninthly, the 31 Jan [1729 (New Style)] assignment whereby T. [II] Skeffington and E. Hyde, as empowered by the 19 May 1720 deed, annulled trusts raised by that deed (except for a 500-year term thereby vested in R. Cust), appointing the premises to T. [II] Skeffington; Matthew Smith (in the main deed of Coventry, gentleman), Penelope King (in the main deed of Coventry, widow), Thomas Viall (in the main deed of Coventry, glover), Elizabeth Welton (in the main deed of Coventry, widow), James Adcock (in the main deed of Coventry, wheelwright), Thomas Tilley (in the main deed of Coventry, carpenter), John Wallis (of Coventry, butcher), William Hewett [recte Hewitt] (of Coventry, draper), Richard Hall (of Coventry,chandler), John Webster (of Canley, Warwickshire, gentleman) and Richard Stain (of Coventry, silkman) also participated: tenthly that, since Sir J. Dugdale bought the Coventry premises they have been divided and renamed; eleventhly (i) that, T. [II] Skeffington having contracted with Richard Hall for sale of certain Saint Michael's and Styvechale parishes land for £1,500, whereof £1,000 has been paid by William Chauncey (formerly linen-draper, Cornhill, London; then citizen of London and mercer) and £500 by the buyer himself to R. Cust as part of the mortgage-money, a 11-12 Mar [1728 (New Style)] lease and release granted (on behalf of Richard Hall) to William Chauncey (therein described as of London, draper) (a) Rudyard's Close (now two; abutting on Earlsdon Lane at one end, Thistley Close (now two) at the other; "The Slang" on one side, "Farr Close", and "Great Close" (occupied by Charles Brandon and Thomas Sparkes) on the other), (b) "The Slang" (abutting on "Earlsdon" Lane at one end, "Thistle Close" at the other; on one side on "Rudyards Close", on the other on "Barn Close" and Coventry corporation lands), (c) a three-cornered "Thistley Close" (now two; abutting on Whor Lane [now Beechwood Avenue] and a close (now two) called "Little Middlewoods" on one side, "Great Broomfield" and "Barn Close" on the second side, and "The Slang" and "Rudyards Closes" on the third), (d) "Barn Close" (abutting on one side on Thistley Close and The Slang, on the other on "Pitt Close"; at one end on "Great Broomfields", at the other on Coventry corporation lands), (e) "Pitt Close" (abutting at one end on Great Broomfields, at the other on corporation lands), and (f) the two Great Broomfields (heretofore one; abutting on one side on "Thistley Closes", on another on Whor Lane and Holy Trinity lands, on the third on those lands, Pitt Close and Barn Close - (a)-(f) were lately occupied by John Remington, now by Richard Hall - also (g) two closes formerly called Little Middlewoods but now Astell Grove (abutting on one side on Whor Lane, on the other on Farr Close and Barn Close which Joseph Brandon formerly held but by then Charles Brandon and Thomas Sparkes; at one end upon "Stichell Heath", at the other on the Thistley Closes; successively occupied by Alderman John Snell, John Lander, Christopher Lander and then Richard Hall) - (a)-(g) were part of what was anciently called "Middle Woods" or "Little Middle Woods", "Middle Close" or "Middle Field Close", "Astell Grove Farm", "Corner Close next Lodgefield" or "Rawson's Close", "the close called The Stripe", "the close next The Stripe", and "the close next Briars or Bycres", having belonged to either Sir N. Strode or the Dugdales, later E. Hyde, and respecting which by another 12 Mar [1718 (New Style)] deed R. Cust (on behalf of E. Hyde, T. [II] Skeffington, W. Chauncey and Richard Hall) assigned to Richard Chauncey junior (of Cornhill, London, linen-draper) his interest for the residue of the 500-year term, whilst S. Cust simultaneously (on behalf of E. Hyde, T. [II] Skeffington, R. Cust, W. Chauncey and Richard Hall) transferred to Toby Chauncey (of Saint James' parish, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, brewer) his interest in Rudyards Close, The Slang, Thistley Close, Barn Close, "Pit" Close, Great Broomfields and Little Middle Woods for the 200- and 199-year terms' residue; and (ii) T. [II] Skeffington having also contracted with John Wallis for sale of other Saint Michael's and Styvechale parishes lands for £1,000, he and E. Hyde (in consideration of £1,000 paid by W. Chauncey on J. Wallis' behalf to R. Cust) by 11-12 Mar [1728 (New Style)] indentures conveyed to W. Chauncey (h) "Great Barn Close" (adjoining Whor Lane on one side, Ox Close on another and Rye Grass Meadow elsewhere), (i) "Ox Close" (adjoining Whor Lane at one end, "New Peice" close on one side, Great Barn Close on the other side and "Rye Grass Mead" at the other end), (j) "Rye Grass Mead" (adjoining Great Barn Close and Ox Close on one side, "Brickkiln Close" and "Fitch Close" on the other; New Piece at one end and - Gregory's grounds called "Heath Closes" at the other), (k) "Fitch Close" (adjoining Rye Grass Mead at one end, the former Astell Grove Meadow now called "Lower Wood Close" at the other; Brickkiln Close on one side, "Heath Close" or "Closes" on the other), (l) the three-cornered "Brickkiln Close" (adjoining New Piece and Rye Grass Mead on one side, Fitch Close on the second, and Astell Grove alias Lower Wood Close and "Hillfield" close on the third), (m) Astell Grove alias Lower Wood Close (adjoining on one side Fitch Close and Brickkiln Close, on the other "Stychall Heath"; at one end on Hillfield, on the other on - Fisher's and - Gregory's close), and (n) "Hillfield" or "Over" or "Upper Wood Close" (adjoining at one end Stychall Heath, at the other Brickkiln Close, New Piece and a place called the "Rick Yard"; Astell Grove alias Lower Wood Close on one side, and Barn Close on the other - (h)-(n) were formerly known as Astell Grove, Astell Grove Farm, Middlewoods or Great Middlewoods and successively occupied by Sir N. Strode, Sir J. Dugdale and E. Hyde, and respecting which by another 12 Mar [1728 (New Style)] deed R. Cust (on behalf of E. Hyde, T. [II] Skeffington and Wallis) assigned to Richard Chauncey junior his interest for the 500-year term's residue and S. Cust his to Toby Chauncey for the 200- and 199- year terms': twelfthly, that although T.[II] Skeffington agreed with Matthew Smith, Penelope King, James Birch (in the main deed of Coventry, gentleman), Elizabeth Welton, James Adcock, Thomas Tilley, Wallis, Arthur Huddesford (in the main deed of Coventry, silkman) and John Smith (in the main deed of Coventry, gentleman) for all of their several sales ut infra, he has died, by his 13 May [1729] will leaving all his Leicestershire, Warwickshire and Coventry property to his sister Bridget, his executrix: thirteenthly, that Bridget Skeffington has proved her brother's will: fourteenthly, that on 12 Jun [1729] S. Cust (on behalf of R. Cust and B. Skeffington, and in consideration of £710/12/6 paid by her to R. Cust for principal and interest) assigned to John Lambert (in the main deed described as of Cherry Orton, Huntingdonshire, gentleman) Coventry premises charged with the 200- and 199- year terms (but not transferred to T. Chauncey) for their terms' residues, E. Hyde and Stillingfleet (described as of Castle Yard, London, gentleman) also participating: fifteenthly, that by indentures of lease and release (27-28 Jun [1729]) a Cross Cheaping messuage in Holy Trinity parish, Coventry (occupied by Mary Leak) and a cottage there (inhabited by James Pollard), formerly one, and part of the 200-year term property, were conveyed to Thomas Viall (B. Skeffington, E. Hyde and Stillingfleet also participating): sixteenthly, that by indentures of lease and release (27-28 Jun [1729]) (a) six closes (3a. 3r. 13p., 2a. 3r. 14p., 2a. 2r. 18p., 5a. 1r. 39p., 1a. 3r. 4p. and 2a. 0r. 6p.), all lately held by Humphrey Foster and John Webster, in Saint Michael's and Styvechale parishes (abutting on B. Skeffington's other property called Footway Close and First Close, now to be sold to John Smith, gentleman on the north; the Warwick Road on the west and south), formerly one (18a.) called Causeway Close (once occupied by Ralph Ashburnham and Samuel Webster, part of Astell Grove Farm successively belonging to the Dugdales and E. Hyde) and (b) Chauntry Close (within the city walls near Angles Lane, Holy Trinity parish (4a.), successively held by N. Shewell, Dame E. Dugdale and by then Jonathan Fullalove; abutting east on the city wall, west on "Aigles" or "Angles" Lane, north on Cook Street, and south on the Mill River) - (a),(b) being part of the premises similarly charged - were conveyed to M. Smith (B. Skeffington, E. Hyde and Stillingfleet also participating): seventeenthly, the similar conveyance of Cherry Orchard (2a. 2r. 3p.) whereon formerly a barn, etc. stood, successively tended by Robert Farmsworth and P. King, Holy Trinity parish [bounds blank], being part of the premises thus charged, to King (B. Skeffington, E. Hyde, Stillingfleet and Dutton Seaman (of London, gentleman) also participating): eighteenthly, the similar conveyance of (a) a Cross Cheaping messuage (occupied by John Edwards with a cellar let to J. Pollard), (b) a cottage at the bottom of (a)'s yard (inhabited by John Hassard) with garden, (c) the "Castle" inn on the eastern side of Cross Cheaping (occupied by Robert Webb), [all?] fronting the Great Cross, and (d) a garden (2a. 2r. 0p.) near Saint Michael's Churchyard (occupied by William Hewett; abutting against the churchyard on the north) which E. Dugdale bought for E. Hyde from William Jesson, esq. (excepting a stable and hayloft over (a) which had been lately added to the inn, being part of the same term's premises, to J. Birch (B. Skeffington, E. Hyde, Stillingfleet and Abraham Owen (of Coventry, gentleman) also participating): nineteenthly, the similar conveyance of a Cross Cheaping messuage to the north of the inn, fronting the common Market Place (occupied by E. Welton), to Welton, being part of the same term's premises (B. Skeffington, E. Hyde, Stilingfleet and Abraham Owen also participating): twentiethly, the similar conveyance of a cottage against Bablake church near Spon Gate in Saint Michael's and Styvechale parishes (occupied by J. Adcock) to James and Catherine Adcock, being part of the same term's premises (B. Skeffington, E, Hyde, Stillingfleet and John Keeley (of Coventry, clothpresser) also participating): twenty-firstly, the similar conveyance of a messuage against Bablake church (occupied by Thomas Tilley) to T. Tilley, being part of the same term's premises (B. Skeffington, E. Hyde, Stillingfleet and William Tilley (of Branston, Leicestershire, farmer) also participating): twenty-secondly, the similar conveyance of Fishers Field (7a 2r. 15p.; successively occupied by Richard Goss, Henry Smith, Henry Smith's son and now Alderman [Joseph] Ebourne) in Saint Michael's or Styvechale parishes, to J. Wallis, being part of the same term's premises (B. Skeffington, E. Hyde, Stillingfleet and Samuel Wallis (of Coventry, butcher) also participating): twenty-thirdly, the similar conveyance of a farm (lately tenanted by William Bellison) comprising Upper Broomfield (8a. 1r. 15p.), Great Meadow (9a. 3r. 31p.), "Nether Broomfield" (6a. 1r. 35p.), a close now part of Great Meadow (1a. 0r. 30p.) and a close now part of "Nether Broomfield" (4a. 2r. 17p.) in Saint Michael's or Styvechale parishes (abutting north on "Sir Knightley Whitwick" [John Knightley was born a Wightwick]'s lands, south upon Earlsdon alias Elsden Lane, east on Penny Fields (occupied by Joseph Brandon) and west on corporation lands (held by Widow Millett), formerly known as Over Broomfield, "Neither Broomfield" and Elsden Meadow, and successively owned by Strode, J. Dugdale and E. Hyde, to John Smith, being part of both the 200- and 199-year terms' premises (B. Skeffington, E. Hyde, Stillingfleet and Richard Haywood (of Weston[-in-Arden], Bulkington parish, Warwickshire, gentleman) also participating): and twenty-fourthly, the similar conveyance of a close [name not given] (4.5a.) in Holy Trinity parish adjoining Mrs Muddiford's Arnolds Field (lately tenanted by Thomas Watts and William Bosworth) west and south, Sir Thomas White's Charity land occupied by John Shaw to the east, Arnolds Lane to the north (the close being successively occupied by Alderman [Matthew] Goodall, John Sprigg and now Ezekiel Kendrick), being according to the 1711 (Old Style) indenture called "Hauks" or Birds Close beyond Harnall Field towards Jeffrey Woods Cross, successively belonging to Strode, J. Dugdale and E. Hyde, to Arthur Huddesford, being part of both the 200- and 199-year terms' premises (B. Skeffington, E. Hyde, Stillingfleet and M. Smith also participating):- therefore, for 5/-, John Lambert (on behalf of B. Skeffington, E. Hyde, M. Smith, T. Viall, J. Birch, E. Welton, J. Adcock, P. King, T. Tilley, J. Wallis, A. Huddesford and J. Smith) assigns to William Hall (of Stoke, Coventry, grazier) and Robert Stean (of Stoke, grazier) premises conveyed under the prior mortgages (excepting (a) the "Castle" inn (occupied by King), (b) a farm inhabited by Cleophas Ratliffe (viz. The New Piece, The Great Ground, The Brick Yard, Barrowfeld alias Barn Close, Barn Meadow, Mott Close, Mott Meadow and Horse Close (47a. altogether; abutting on Holy Trinity church lands and "Whore" Lane on the north; upon Ox Close, Rye Grass Mead and Brickkiln Close on the east; and on Canley Water, Stichell Heath and Hillfield or Upper Wood Close on the west and south), forming part of Lodgefield alias Hodgefield, Astell Grove, Astell Grove Farm and Middlewoods) and (c) Joseph Brandon's farm (comprising The First Close, The Footway Close, Barne Close, Great Close, Topp Bitt, The Little Meadow, Corner Close, Barn Close, "the other Great Close" and Far Close [area blank], lying on both sides of Earlsdon Lane and formerly called Elsden Ground otherwise Crabtree Fields, Elsden Meadow, "Corner Close next Middlewoods" and "the Second Middle Close", once part of Astell Grove Farm); (b),(c) are in Saint Michael's and Styvechale parishes, (a)-(c) are the residue of the estate which passed from Strode via J. Dugdale to E. Hyde) for the terms' residue in trust to attend the respective inheritances of T. Viall, M. Smith, P. King, J. Birch, E. Welton, J. and C. Adcock, T. Tilley, J. Wallis, J. Smith and A. Huddesford.
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