Leases and Papers

Original Bundle [reconstructed] labelled 'Hinton St George C' cont:

Leases and Counterpart Leases, 1786(1), 1805-66(20), Surrenders, 1804-50(4), Notices of Assignment, 1812-23(7), Assignments, 1805-47(22), and Deed of Partition, 1807, affecting properties holden for 99 years and lives, of the manor of Hinton St. George. (55 documents).

Internal original bundle containing Mortgage, 1765, Assignments, 1766-1803(4), and Surrender, 1805, affecting properties holden by the Tett family for 99 years and lives, of the manor of Hinton St. George. (6 documents).

Merger, 1811, with Lease, 1770, and Letter, 1812, concerning the residue of a term of 99 years in premises held by Thomas Dando in the manor of Hinton St. George. (3 documents).

Copies of Licences to Demise properties holden for 99 years and lives of the manor of Hinton St. George, 1847(2). Leases for small terms of properties in Hinton St. George, 1825, 1827. Assignment, 1839, and Abstract of title, 1840 [reciting 1812-39], affecting property of George Beard in Hinton St. George. Lease for 21 years by the Governors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital to John, Earl Poulett, of land called 'the Fryerng of George Hinton', 1841. (7 documents).

Valuation of the delapidations at Poulett's Farm House, Hinton St. George, 1824.

Bill for Earl Poulett's expenses (removing trees, fetching stone, etc.) 'about the New School Room, Hinton St George', 1832.

Duplicates of Property Tax Assessments on Hinton St. George, 1814-15, 1815-16. Notices of Assessment under the Property and Income Tax Acts affecting properties owned by Earl Poulett in various parishes, 1848-53(19). Return of Assessed Taxes (inhabited house, male servants, horses, etc.) for the year 1854-55(2).

Printed copy of resolutions passed at a public meeting, sent by order of the Swansea Committee for the repeal of the duties on coal and culm, 1830.

Catalogue of pictures, prints, drawings, etc., at Earl Poulett's seat at Hinton St. George, 1811 [very incomplete].

[Altogether 98 documents].

Miscellaneous Documents found loose:

Deed concerning Woolminstone (Wolmeston) in Crewkerne, 1657. Common Recoveries concerning John, Lord Poulett, and the Somerset manors, 1666, 1670.

Declaration of uses of Leases for 99 years and lives by the Trustees of the marriage settlement of John, Lord Poulett and the Hon. Bridgett Bertie of St. Martin in the Fields, spinster, affecting properties holden of the manors of Hewish and Rolstone, Halberton Boyse, Sampford Peverell, and in the parishes of Knowl and Chaffcombe, 1702. Deeds concerning the High House or Holbrookes Place in South Petherton, 1665/6, Buckland Farm, and the manor of Cogload in Durston, etc., 1725, a capital messuage, etc., in Crewkerne and in Broadwinsor (co. Dorset), 1752, a capital messuage called Naish, etc., in Whitechurch Canonicorum and Marshwood (co. Dorset), 1760(2), and Hewish Mill in the Tithing of Combe in Crewkerne, 1766. Will for Richard Coombe of Holethorne in the parish of Crewkerne, gent., 1740 (proved P.C.C., 1743; probate copy). Large paper endorsed '.... Plan for a Water Roasting Jack', 1829.

[Altogether 12 documents].