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Lot No.

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401

1889

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PARCHMENT INDENTURE Walsall Staffs SMITH > SANDERS 1889 guaranteed original - from the REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA - 116 YEARS OLD BETWEEN ALFRED THACKER OF WALSALL IN THE COUNTY OF STAFFORD HERALD CHASER OF THE FIRST PART WILLIAM JOSEPH SMITH OF WALSALL AFORESAID GENTLEMAN OF THE SECOND PART EDWARD JOSEPH FEW OF WALSALL AFORESAID WOOLLEN BUYER OF THE FOURTH PART. WITH SIX WAX SEALS BEING THE CONVEYANCE OF TWO FREEHOLD MESSUAGES HEREDITAMENTS AND PREMISES IN THE WEDNESBURY ROAD WALSALL IN THE COUNTY OF STAFFORDSHIRE SIZES 16 INS X 11 INS IN VERY FINE CONDITION - WITH EXCUTCHEONED REVENUE STAMP ON TWO SHEETS OF PARCHMENT WAX SEALS

Thacker

Chaser

Smith

Few

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

402

1886

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PARCHMENT INDENTURE Queen's Hotel Walsall LOSEBY JEFFRIES 1886 guaranteed original - from the REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA - 119 YEARS OLD BETWEEN JAMES SLATER OF DARLASTON IN THE COUNTY OF STAFFORD SOLICITOR AND WILLIAM HENRY BRIANT OF THE SAME PLACE BANK MANGER OF THE FIRST PART WILLIAM LOSEBY OF STAMFORD IN THE COUNTY OF LEICESTER FARMER OF THE SECOND PART AND JOSEPH HENRY JEFFRIES OF WALSALL IN THE COUNTY OF STAFFORD SADDLER OF THE THIRD PART. WITH WAX SEALS BEING THE CONVEYANCE OF THE QUEEN'S HOTEL, STATION STREET, WALSALL IN THE COUNTY OF STAFFORDSHIRE WITH STABLING AND BREWHOUSE SIZES 16 INS X 11 INS IN VERY FINE CONDITION - WITH EXCUTCHEONED REVENUE STAMP ON TWO SHEETS OF PARCHMENT WAX SEALS

Slater

Briant

Loseby

Jeffries

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

403

1880

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PARCHMENT INDENTURE Walsall Staffs PERRINS WOLVERHAMPTON 1880 guaranteed original - from the REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA - 125 YEARS OLD BETWEEN THOMAS PERRINS OF WALSALL IN THE COUNTY OF STAFFORD COAL MERCHANT A MEMBER OF THE WOLVERHAMPTON FREEHOLDERS PERMANENT BENEFIT BUILDING SOCIETY OF THE ONE PART AND THE WOLVERHAMPTON FREEHOLDERS PERMANENT BENEFIT BUILDING SOCIETY OF THE OTHER PART . WITH BUILDING SOCIETY COMMON WAX SEAL BEING THE FURTHER CHARGE ON ALL THAT PIECE OF GROUND SITUATED AT WALSALL BOUNDED BY THE LAND OF THE EARL OF BRADFORD  AND A ROAD CALLED PLECK ROAD AT WALSALL IN THE COUNTY OF STAFFORDSHIRE SIZES 26 INS X 29 INS IN VERY FINE CONDITION - WITH EXCUTCHEONED REVENUE STAMP ON ONE SHEET OF PARCHMENT WAX SEALS

Perrins

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

404

1758

Dominic Winter 9 Nov 2005

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Attractive Exemplification of recovery, dated Hillary Term [24th January-12th February] 1758 , recording the demands of William Crawley against Sir Edward Littleton and Edward Whitby for for seventeen messuages, seventeen gardens, some five hundred and sixty acres of land in Penn, as his right and inheritance, fine large portrait of George II in initial letter and decorative engraved border, incorporating Royal coat of arms

Crawley

Littleton

Whitby

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

405

1874

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This is a 5 page Victorian land conveyance document dated 13th April 1874. The document is for a conveyance of a mortgage and freehold land in Caldmore Walsall in Staffordshire. Edward Stanley, a slater, Samuel Wilkinson, a solicitor and Jabez Rees, a stock taker, all from Walsall are involved in this deal. There are five handwritten pages of intricate detail and Stanley and Wilkinson have signed and red wax sealed. A cashier named William Mills has witness signed. The Walsall solicitor firm overseeing the conveyance is Wilkinson & Gillespie. The parchment document is in good presentable condition complete with duty stamps.

Stanley

Wilkinson

Rees

Mills

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

406

1899

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This is a four page (39cmx24.5cm) document from the inland revenue. The printed form type document with handwritten entries is for the succession duty on the estate of a Cannock Staffs woman named Maria Mellor who had died earlier. Three men, Jesse Williams, a bricklayer and Elijah Williams a miner both from Cannock together with William Williams, a plumber from Langley Worcester have inherited and have to pay the duty. All three men have signed on 2oth September 1899. The document has a 2 inch split on one of the fold marks but other than this the Victorian item is in good presentable condition.

Mellor

Williams

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

407

1889

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This is a handwritten agreement by a man named Elyah Cresswell to sell two houses in Occupation Road Walsall Wood in Staffordshire to a Samuel Rogers for 260 pounds. The document, though handwritten, is of an official nature and has two Victorian duty stamps. The statement is dated 11th July 1889. The 2 page document (13x8") has been signed by Cresswell and Rogers. The document has aged but is in good condition with no damage. The writing is large, clear and totally understandable.

Cresswell

Rogers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

408

1795

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1795 robert peel of drayton manor stafford. 3 page indenture 750x550 folded to a4 this antique deed was signed and witnesed by robert peel and charged 43 pounds to richard farmer of tamworth.document is signed and sealed by william yates.robert peel. j.harding and farmerers mark..x.. all the 3 sheets are sealed together with the mentioned 4 seals. also all 3 sheets have individual crown blue GR3 seals county duty of 1 pound seal  and thirty shilling seal.robert peel esq. is mentioned throughout these land leases /morgages.but not refered to as sir. I recently sold a single one of these back in sept.with this one being retained ;as the house clearance has now all completed and finalised to my knowledge there are no more .

Peel

Farmer

Yates

Harding

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

409

1877

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VELLUM INDENTURE ANTIQUE DEED Willenhall Staffs ROBERTS > BROADBENT 1877 guaranteed original - from the reign of QUEEN VICTORIA - 128 YEARS OLD BETWEEN GEORGE FERRIDAY ROBERTS OF DALBURY LEES IN THE COUNTY OF DERBY OF THE ONE PART AND JOB BROADBENT OF WILLENHALL IN THE COUNTY OF STAFFORD BEERSELLER OF THE OTHER PART. WITH SITE SURVEY PLAN BEING THE CONVEYANCE OF A PLOT OF LAND SITUATE IN DILLOWAYS LANE PORTOBELLO AT WILLENHALL IN THE COUNTY OF STAFFORD SIZES 9 INS X 11 INS IN FINE TO VERY FINE CONDITION - ESCUTCHEONED REVENUE STAMP ON TWO SHEETS OF PARCHMENT WAX SEALS

Roberts

Broadbent

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

410

1894

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VELLUM INDENTURE ANTIQUE DEED Rushall Staffordshire PRATT > TAYLOR 1894 guaranteed original - from the reign of QUEEN VICTORIA - 111 YEARS OLD BETWEEN ANN PRATT AND SELINA PRATT OF OAKS CRESCENT IN THE PARISH OF WOLVERHAMPTON IN THE COUNTY OF STAFFORD OF THE ONE PART AND JOSEPH TAYLOR OF ALDRIDGE IN THE COUNTY OF STAFFORD OF THE OTHER PART. WITH VICTORIA REVENUE BEING THE TRANSFER OF MORTGAGE OF PREMISES SITUATE IN THE BUTTS ROAD RUSHALL IN THE COUNTY OF STAFFORD SIZES 10.5 INS X 16 INS IN FINE TO VERY FINE CONDITION - ESCUTCHEONED REVENUE STAMP ON TWO SHEETS OF PARCHMENT WAX SEALS

Pratt

Taylor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

411

1895

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This is a two page (22cmx28cm) printed paper Victorian Indenture for a mortgage on a property in Walsall dated 31st December 1895. The Provident Association of London Limited is providing a mortgage to a clothiers foreman named William Stammers on a property at 79 Bath road Walsall in Staffordshire. Two representatives of the Association a Richard Whitelaw Esq. LRCP and a Donald McCall Esq. have undersigned and red wax sealed the document. A junior clerk named J Burlin has also witness signed. The antique document ,though aged, is in good presentable order with all text unaffected together with the Victorian duty stamp.

Stammers

Whitelaw

McCall

Burlin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

412

1882

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INDENTURE manuscript DOCUMENT Rushall Staffordshire THORPE > KNIGHT 1882 guaranteed original - from the reign of QUEEN VICTORIA - 123 YEARS OLD BETWEEN HELEN THORPE OF WALSALL IN THE COUNTY OF STAFFORD OF THE ONE PART AND HENRY KNIGHT OF DUDLEY IN THE COUNTY OF WORCESTER BUILDER OF THE OTHER PART. SMALL SITE SURVEY PLAN. BEING THE COUNTERPART LEASE OF A PIECE OF GROUND WITH ONE MESSUAGE THEREON SITUATE IN BUTTS LANE RUSHALL IN THE COUNTY OF STAFFORD. SIZES 27 INS X 25 INS IN VERY FINE CONDITION - ESCUTCHEONED REVENUE STAMP ON 1 SHEETS OF FOLDED PARCHMENT WAX SEALS

Thorpe

Knight

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

413

1883

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INDENTURE manuscript DOCUMENT Walsall Wood Staffs WIGLEY > WIGLEY 1883 guaranteed original - from the reign of QUEEN VICTORIA - 122 YEARS OLD BETWEEN FREDERICK GRAEME LITTLECOT OF RUSHALL IN THE COUNTY OF STAFFORD CLERK IN HOLY ORDERS WILLIAM HENRY DUIGNAN OF RUSHALL AFORESAID GENTLEMAN JOB WILKES OF RUSHALL IN THE COUNTY OF STAFFORD GENTLEMAN AND WILLIAM HENRY BROOKES OF RUSHALL GENTLEMAN THE TRUSTEES OF THE RUSHALL PROVIDENT SOCIETY OF THE FIRST PART JOHN WIGLEY OF WALSALL WOOD IN THE SAID COUNTY OF STAFFORD BRICKLAYER OF THE SECOND PART AND JOSEPH WIGLEY OF WALSALL WOOD ALSO A BRICKLAYES OF THE THIRD PART. BOUNDED BY LAND OF THE EARL OF BRADFORD. BEING THE CONVEYANCE OF A PIECE OF FREEHOLD LAND SITUAUTE AT WALSALL WOOD IN THE COUNTY OF STAFFORD. SIZES 27 INS X 25 INS IN VERY FINE CONDITION - ESCUTCHEONED REVENUE STAMP ON 1 SHEETS OF FOLDED PARCHMENT WAX SEALS

Littlecot

Duignan

Wilkes

Brookes

Wigley

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

414

1887

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INDENTURE manuscript DOCUMENT Lichfield Staffs WRIGHT > BENNION 1887 guaranteed original - from the reign of QUEEN VICTORIA - 118 YEARS OLD BETWEEN JOSEPH WRIGHT AND HENRY SMITH BOTH OF THE CITY OF LICHFIELD BUILDERS AND COPARTNERS OF THE PART AND HERBERT BENNION OF WEEFORD NEAR LICHFIELD IN THE COUNTY OF STAFFORD FARMER OF THE OTHER PART. BEING THE MORTGAGE OF FREEHOLD MESSUAGES AND PREMISES SITUATE IN GEORGE LANE AND STOWE STREET IN THE CITY OF LICHFIELD FOR SECURING £1000. SIZES 27 INS X 25 INS IN VERY FINE CONDITION - ESCUTCHEONED REVENUE STAMP ON 1 SHEETS OF FOLDED PARCHMENT WAX SEALS

Wright

Smith

Bennion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

415

1911

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Here is a vellum Indenture dated 10th April 1911, being a Conveyance of property situate Cobden Street, Palfrey, Walsall. The contract is between Enoch Evans (Solicitor), Samuel John Adams (Currier), and William Philip Lees (Builder). This document measures approx 17" x 12", has four pages, and bears two wax seals and one revenue stamp. Folded and with some minor storage markings, but otherwise in very good condition.

Evans

Adams

Lees

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

416

1905

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Here is a parchment Indenture dated 7th February 1905, being a Conveyance of property (land and six houses) situate Dora Street, Pleck, Walsall. The contract is between Mary Anne Lynex (Builder), and John Farrington Crump (Solicitor).This document has eight pages, measures approx 11" x 9", and bears one wax seal and one revenue stamp. In very good condition.

Lynex

Crump

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

417

1915

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Here is a parchment Indenture dated 7th April 1915, being an Assignment in respect of property situate Lichfield Road, Rushall, Staffs. The contract is between John Webb Lazenby (Excursion Agent); Esther Ann Griffin (Spinster); Martha Trist Griffin (Spinster); and John Addison Wincer (Solicitors Clerk). This document has fourteen pages plus a plan of the property, measures approx 10" x 8", and bears four wax seals and four revenue stamps. In very good condition.

Lazenby

Griffin

Wincer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

418

c1580

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The Rent Roll for Swithamley, near Leek, Staffordshire, c. 1580, written in English on leaves of paper stitched together to form a continuous roll with endorsement in a later hand (probably 18th c.) 'An ould Rentrole' to verso. An historically important document, listing everyone who lived in the Leek area of Swithamley in the latter half of the reign of Elizabeth I. Although this document has no title the provenence is that it came from a body of papers bearing the legend 'All the papers in this Drawer belong to the Swithamley Estate as looked over Mr Wright January 20 1787'. Medium: Handwritten in English on paper. Condition: Stitching loose on some sections. One edge frayed. Damage and fraying to bottom of last section. Water staining to one edge. All text readable. Images available. Names include John Percivall, John Hollynworthe, Thomas Prestwiche and Hamlet Harewood.

Percivall

Hollynworthe

Prestwiche

Harewood

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

419

1818

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A vellum indenture relating to lands in Northwich, Cheshire, between Thomas Wakefield formerly of Witton near Northwich now of Burton within Kendal, Westmorland, and Ann his wife, John Moses late of Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire, Supervisor of Excise now of Combergarth, Cheshire, James Vearey of Chirk, Salop, victualler, and John Barnes of Northwich. Dated the 29th day of September in the 58th year of the reign of King George III [1818] Property: Land whereupon a bakehouse once stood in Flag Lane, Northwich. Medium: Handwritten in English on vellum. Condition: Good. Characteristics: Signatures and seals. Document size (approx.): 75 by 65 cm.

Wakefield

Moses

Vearey

Barnes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

420

1928

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An original death certificate for Henry Edward Whittles of Leek (silk manufacturer) dated 7th December 1928.  Has been folded, otherwise very good condition.

Whittles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

421

1591

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16TH CENTURY ELIZABETHAN  1591 LAND CONVEYANCING DOCUMENT WRITTEN IN INK AND SIGNED WITH WITNESSES TO DEAL WITH  A THOMAS  RATHBONE AND THOMAS BRADLEY IN WOLVERHAMPTON THE BOTTOM OF THE DOCUMENT IS FOLDED AND THE SIGNITURES ARE TWISTED COMING THROUGH THE MIDDLE FOLD ,THIS IS WEAR THE SEAL WOULD HAVE GONE. ENCLOSED ALSO IS A TRANSLATION IT HAS BEEN TRANSLATED AS THE WRITTING IS SMALL,AND THE TRANSLATION IS ONLY ROUGH,IT READS AS FOLLOWS "OMNIBUS CHRISTI FIDELIUS AD QUOS HOC PRESENS SCRIPTURE PER.WERENT THOMAS RATHEBONE DE OVERPEW IN COMITATEE STAFFORD YOUR SALUTEM IN DOMAIN SEMPITERNAM ". I THE SAID THOMAS,IN CONSIDERATION OF A CERTAIN SUM OF MONEY PAID ME BY THOMAS BRADLEY OF WOLVERHAMPTON BAKER,OF OR CERTAIN OTHER CAUSES,HAVE GRANTED(CONFIRM BY THIS DEED) TO THE SAID THOMAS BRADLEY AND TO ELIZABETH HIS WIFE TWO PARCELS OF MEADOW IN ALBLOWERFILDE IN WOLVERHAMPTON. ONE PARCEL HIS BETWEEN LANDS, I JOHN LANE ESQ. AND THOMAS HOLMER O E, MAW Y WALTER  LIVERSOC BUT ON W.LAND OF THOMAS LEVERSOR ESQ AND PATE OF WILLIAM LATHOME GENT. ON N.LAND THE SAID THOMAS LEVERSOC CALLED RUSSELSMORE ON S. THE OTHER PARCEL LIES BETWEEN THE LAND OF THE SAID WALTER LEVERSOC ON N. AND E.AND THE LAND CALLED RUSSELMORE ON S. ,AND LAND OF JOHN LANE BUTCHER ON N. TO HAVE TO HOLD TO THE SAID THOMAS BRADLEY AND ELIZ  AND TO THE HEIRS OF THOMAS FOREVER BY THE USUAL SERVICES. WARRANT AGAINST ALL MEN. IN WRITTEN WHERE OF I HAVE PUT MY SEAL TO THIS WRIGHTING AND HAVE THIS DAY DELIVERED THE SAID PARCELS. DATED 1 FEB.33 ELIZABETH 1591 THERE IS NO SEAL TO MARK T RATHBONE ON THE STRIP. THERE IS ALSO WRITING ON THE OTHER SIDE BUT I GUESS YOU GET THE ROUGH IDEA OF THE CONTENT. ON THICK PARCHMENT AND OVERALL IN FANTASTIC CONDITION FOR AN ITEM 414 YEARS OLD MEASURES 23 X 19 CMS

Rathebone

Bradley

Lane

Holmer

Liversoc

Lathome

 

 

 

 

 

 

422

1888

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This is a one page (21x34cm) legacy receipt dated 13th June 1888 issued by the Inland Revenue. The legacy is of a Walsall woman named Ann Woollaston of Walsall Wood. Her inheritor was an Eli Jackson and her executors were a James Woollaston and a Abraham Harrison. The overseeing solicitor was a curiously named William Skakespeare of Birmingham. A small split in the foldmark otherwise the antique document is in good condition together with antique duty stamps.

Woollaston

Jackson

Harrison

Skakespeare

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

423

1819

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A large one page document headed "To Mr. William Trueman and to Mr. Henry Dance who are under and by virtue of the Act or Act of Parliament made for the Relief pf Omsp;vemt Dentprs..." It relates to lots of properties in Thorncliffe, Leek.  An earlier indenture is cited with the following names mentioned: 1817 Hugo Worthington, James Hall, William Bestwick and Matthew Corbott of Pendleton, Lancashire (joiner & builder).  It has one signature and a witness signature.

Trueman

Dance

Worthington

Hall

Bestwick