Assignment of term for 99 years (and counterpart) by 1. Paul Jodrell of Chancery...

Assignment of term for 99 years (and counterpart) by 1. Paul Jodrell of Chancery Lane esquire, executor of the will of Ambrose Phillips, formerly of Grays Inn gentleman, to 2. Abraham Crompton of Derby gentleman, for £450, in capital messuage called Wilne Hall with buildings, gardens etc. in Little Wilne, messuage in Sawley called the Chantry House, 5 acres meadow or pasture in Sawley in inclosure called the Forty Acres, meadow or pasture grounds called Mytholme, Goose Greene, Westholme and Lowholme in Sawley and Wilne, Shardlow and Aston, fishing in Trent called Mytholme Draught adjoining Mytholme, reciting that Jodrell, as Phillips' executor (Phillips suriving Sir John Evelyn late of Godstone, Surrey, Richard Chaworth late of Richmond, Surrey, Doctor of Laws, and Robert Cole late of the Middle Temple esquire) is possessed for the remainder of term of 99 years beginning at death of Sir William Leeche who died June 1674, in the premises, which were demised to Evelyn, Phillips, Cole and Chaworth on 1 Feb. 1655/6 by Sir William Leeche, and that by decree of Chancery dated 22 Feb. 27 Charles II [1675] the said term is subservient to raising portions for Leeche's younger children and that £450 is needed to renew a lease of the prebend and rectories of Sawley and Wilne, which is also subject to raising the said portions, and that Crompton has agreed to lend the £450.

Dated 21 April