1. Claud Russell late chief of Vizagapatnam in the East Indies, now of London esq,...

1. Claud Russell late chief of Vizagapatnam in the East Indies, now of London esq, and John Haslewood of Bridgnorth grocer

2. Corbett Hale of The Hollies, Envil co Staffs esq and Gregory Watkins of Kidderminster esq, devisees in trust in will of Henry Kermyn Grove late of Pool Hall, esq deceased

3. Elizabeth Grove of Pool Hall widow, to whom an annuity is devised by the will

4. Grey Jermyn Grove of Pool, Hall esq, only son and heir

5. Harry Lancelot Lee of Coton Hall esq

6. Walter Henry Moseley of Leaton, Bobbington, co Staff, esq, trustee for Lee

Recital of indenture of 1 December 1769

(1) Henry Jermyn Grove and Elizabeth his wife

(2) John Smith gentleman

(3) Robert Pemberton gentleman

Bargain and sale to Pemberton of the Rectory and parsonage impropriate of Alveley with all glebe and tithes of corn, grain, hay, fruit, lamb, calves, oblations etc, with proviso for redemption of the mortgage on payment of £5000

Recital of indenture of 6 July 1773

Consideration £600

Grove covenanted with Pemberton that this should be charged on the same property

Recital of indenture of 17 December 1776

Consideration £1000. Further charge

Recital of Grove's will 3 October 1776 devising to Hale and Watkins all his property in Alveley in trust to pay Elizabeth his wife for her life an annuity of £50 and in trust for his son till age 21, after which he devised the estate to his son, his heirs and assigns

Recital of indenture of 16 January 1788

(1) Robert Pemberton

(2) Grey Jermyn Grove

(3) Claud Russell and John Haslewood

Grey Jermyn Grove had attained the age of 21.

Total due to Pemberton £5600 (£3000 paid by Russel and £3600 by Haslewood) Assignment of mortgages

Lee has contracted for purchase of great and small tithes upon his own property, and of the chancel of the parish church and the pew therein, with presentation to the church, also a barn and 2 pieces of land called Parsons Furlong and tithes of the land (the tithes, chancel, pew, presentation barn and land are comprised in a term of 1000 years) and also a parcel of land at Nordley in the parish of Alveley (½a) lately purchased by Henry Jermyn Grove deceased (not comprised in the term) for £6500

The rectory glebe etc are subject to payment of the stipend of £20 p.a. to the curate of Alveley, £10 to the curate of St Leonard's Bridgnorth, and £10 to the curate of St Mary Magdalen, Bridgnorth, and to repair of the chancel of Alveley church

The purchase money is to be paid, £3000 to Russell and £2500 to Haslewood as part of his principal. Elizabeth agrees to discharge the property from the £50 annuity

Copy conveyance of tithes on the capital messuage called Coton Hall, garden, Coton Demesne Farm (400a) (H.L. Lee) Nordley farm (283a) (William Clare), 2 messuages called Astley farm and Lane Green or Bagues farm (380a) (John Gill), Hardwicks and Newhouse Farms (242a) (Thomas Bache), Bowell's farm (315a) (Stephen Creswell), messuage and water-corn mill near Allem Bridge and land (28a) (Thomas Bache miller), Hands Farm (102a) (Thomas Hand), Butts Farm (80a) (Elizabeth Chidley widow), Dumballs and the High House Farms (140a) (Sarah Veale widow), the Chantery Farm (81a) (Hannah Wood widow), messuages and cottages lately purchased by Harry Lancelot Lee from Mr Joseph Austin (John Wood), the Hay farm (181a) (John Glaze), Deborall's Farm (91a) (William Evans), Dudhill's Farm (145a) (William Jowkes), Toyes Farm (30a) (John Reynolds), Perry House Farm (170a) (John Green), Owlatt Hall Farm (99a) (Edward Cox Davis's or Heath House farm (109a) (John Reynolds), messuag and water-corn-mill and paper mill (-Crow widow) all in Alveley; the chancel of the parish church and pew there for many years occupied by Gray Jermyn Grove and his ancestors; advowson; barn and 2 parcels land near the Green House (6a) called Parsons Furlong (Richard Law) land at King's Nordley (½a) (Thomas Jones) lately purchased by Grove from Henry Wilcox; discharged from the annuity and mortgage, subject to the stipends. Assignment of residue of term of 1000 years in trust

Witnesses:- Thomas Haslewood, Robert Pardoe, Robert Pigot George Pigot

Copy attested 17 July 1793 by Robert Pardoe, George Clarke