Deeds

Original Bundle labelled 'Kenn Deeds prior to 1776', cont:

Leases and Counterpart Leases for 99 years and lives of properties holden of the Manor of Kenn, 1686-99(3), 1702-72(17). (20 documents).

Original Bundle labelled 'Kenn', cont:

Leases and Counterpart Leases for 99 years and lives of properties holden of the Manor of Kenn, 1697, 1700, 1728-96(25), 1801-11(6), with surrender of lease, 1811, and Assignments, 1798, 1805. Leases for 14 years of Kenn Court, 1789, and a messuage called Kenn Pier, 1791. Conditions of Sale of premises in Kenn Moor, 1812, and an Agreement for Sale of Kenn Court, 1813. Reconveyance on trusts of properties in the manor of Kenn, 1816. (41 documents).

Original Bundle labelled 'Kingstone' (Note confusion of Kingstone with Kingston Seymour.) cont:

Leases and Counterpart Leases for 99 years and lives of properties holden of the manor of Kingston Seymour, 1775-88(4) with an Assignment, 1789, and Deed of Surcharge affecting the premises assigned, 1790. Counterpart Lease for 21 years of property in the parish of Kingston Seymour, 1788. Paper headed 'A Rate made by James Pittman for collecting 30 rates for the relief of the poor in the parish of Kingstone [nr. Ilminster], giving names of occupiers and amounts due, 1817 [copy]. (8 documents).

Original Bundle labelled 'Knowle St Giles Deeds prior to 1776', cont:

Articles of Agreement for the sale of the manors of Knoll and Chafcombe, and the manor house of Wood alias Woodhouse in Knoll, 1612. Counterpart Lease for 99 years and lives of the capital messuage called Wood alias Woodhouse, etc., in Knowle, 1732/3. Lease for 42 years of the fulling mill called Willmotts Mill at Knowle, 1741. Leases and Counterpart Leases for 99 years and lives of properties holden of the manor of Knowle Saint Giles, 1748-69(9), with Declaration of trust, 1758, extracts from the Will of Mary Vincent of Knowle St. Giles [?1764], and an Assignment, 1792. (15 documents).

Original Bundle labelled 'Knowle St Giles', cont:

Appointment and Reconveyance, 1811(2), and Bond of Indemnity, 1811, affecting the Manor of Knoll otherwise Knowle St Giles's. Abstract of title, circa 1819, inside which are an Inquisition of Escheat, 1784 [copy made circa 1819], and printed 'Specifications', 1819, of Knowle Farm in the parishes of Knowle St. Giles, West Dowlish and Dowlishwake; and also Contract for Sale by the Commissioners of H.M. Lands, Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, 1820, and Conveyance to uses of Earl Poulett's Settlement, 1820(2), of the site of a messuage, etc., called Knowle Farm. Leases and Counterpart Leases for 99 years and lives of properties holden of the manor of Knowle St. Giles, 1776-99(4), with a Surrender of such lease, 1777. Counterpart Leases, for 7 years, of Ilay Farm in Knowle St. Giles and property in Chaffcombe, 1786, and for 14 years of property in Knowle St. Giles, 1795. (16 documents).

Original Bundle labelled 'Lopen A', cont:

Leases and Counterpart Leases for 99 years and lives of properties holden of the manor of Lopen, 1769-1800(43), 1801-04(23), with Assignments, 1781, 1783, and Notices of intention to assign, 1856(6). Demise to the churchwardens and overseers of Lopen of a dwelling-house in Lopen, 1785. Abstract of title of William Greenham to a small property in Lopen, circa 1837. Paper document headed 'Account of all the Ground in the Manner of Lopen...', endorsed 'Tithes of Lopen 1803...', giving, in tabular form, names of fields grouped under occupiers, with acreage of 'somerleazs', 'Mowing', wheat, barley, beans, flax, potatoes, 'Feller' [?fallow], and 'Cloaver & Fatches [Vetches]'; together with paper endorsed 'Abstract of the Tithes of Lopen.1803'. (78 documents).