"Windsor of Salop"; Abstract of title to a piece of land in Rushbury called Lacons...

23 March 1635/6

Feoffment

1. Edw. Jones of Shrewsbury, Esq.

2. Thos Baldwyn of All Stretton, yeo

Consideration: £360 to 1.

3 meadows, leasows and pasture in Rushbury in occ. of Joan Weeks, widow, decd., of which then called & c and 2 others called Mr Lacons Meadows alias Weeks's Meadow.

Attornies: Wm Ness and Rd Thynne to give possession.

3 January 1722/3

Release

1. Thos Baldwyn

2. Benj. Baldwyn

3. Thos Lee,gent.

Consideration: £375 to 1.

Lacons alias Weeks' Meadow (10a) in Rushbury. 1. to levy a fine to 3.

Hilary 9 Geo I [1722/3]

Fine

Thos Lee, plt,

Thos Baldwyn, defor.

12a meadow, 50a pasture and common of pasture for cattle in Wall under Eywood or Haywood, Rushbury.

20 Dec. 1756

Thos Lee by will devised to his wife, My, for her life, an annuity of £20 from his freehold estates. Reciting his sister, Mgt Lee by will charged her estate at Wall under Haywood with payment of £6 to clothe 6 poor widows of the parish where she died, which has since been paid to the parish of St Alkmund.

Thos Lee by his will confirmed the yearly payment and charged the premises in Wall u. H. with payment of 52s to be paid by his devisees to the minister of the parish church of Wroxeter, to be distributed by his executrix and executor amongst the poor not under the common relief of alms and he intreated the devisees of his estate at Wall u. H. to pay the annuity left by his sister and by his will.

He left the messuage and lands in Wall under Heywood to his daughter, My Lee and his son-in-law Edw. Blakeway and their heirs forever as tenants in common, not joint tenants. He appointed them executrix and executor.

1 & 2 Nov. 1758

Lease and release

1. Edw. Blakeway

2. Robt Pemberton, gent.

Consideration: £2,000

1. conveyed, inter alia, half the messuage and lands at Wall under Heywood in the occ. of - Wilkes, late of Thos Lee, left by his will to 1., subject to a proviso for redemption on payment of £2,000 and interest @ 4% p.a. on 2 May 1759.

1 Aug. 1759

Memo endorsed on the release - there was then due to 2. £750

10 Sept. 1759

Indenture enrolled in Chancery

1. Jn Edwards, Esq.,

Edw. Jeffreys,

Hen. Bowdler

Jn Muckleston, gent.

2. Hen. Blakeway, Esq.

Chas Bolas, gent.

Reciting a commission was issued against Edw. Blakeway of Shrewsbury, draper, dealer and chapman, on 1 Aug. last to 1. together with Sam. Benyon, Esq., giving power to 4 or 3 of them to execute the same.

They found that Edw. Blakeway for several years then last past traded as a draper, dealer and chapman in buying and selling cloths and other goods, and during such trade he became indebted to Chas Bolas in £300 and over, and became a bankrupt; and they found he was seised of the said property. In pursuance of the Act 5 Geo II [1731-2] to prevent frauds by bankrupts the commissioners caused a notice to be published in the London Gazette for the creditors of Edw. B. to come in. The creditors at meetings to prove the debts chose Hen. Blakeway and Chas Bolas as assignees and the commissioners assigned to them the said property subject to the mortgage, on trust to sell the same and use the money to pay the debts.

4 June 1760

By an order of the Court of Exchquer, reciting that by an inquest of 26 July 1759 by the Commission of the Exchequer, on the oath of Jon: Shaxbury, etc. that Edw. Blakeway was indebted to H.M. in divers sums amounting to £4,832 6s 3¼d which he had received to H.M.'s use from Ben.Shaw, Collector of H.M.'s Excise and other duties under the management of the Commissioners of Excise for the Salop Collection, which sum had not been paid to H.M. but remained due.

By an inquest at the dwelling house of Edw. Blakeway in Shrewsbury on 31 July before Sam. Griffiths, Sheriff of Salop, by writ of extent against Edw. B., on the oath of Sam. Heath, etc., it appeared Edw. B. on 26 July was possessed of several moieties and remainders of terms of years in several houses, etc., in the said order, subject to payment of £750 to Robt Pemberton, gent., which the Sheriff seized. On the motion of Mr Newnham of the Commissioners on H.M.'s behalf, informing the court in Hilary term last a writ of vend' exponas was issued to the Sheriff of Salop to sell the moieties and remainders of terms in the premises for the best price, and Thos Jones, Esq., the present Sheriff sold the moiety of several messuages for the remainder of the several terms for £929 7s 11d. Newnham and the court ordered to Sheriff to pay first out of the sum to Robt P. £780 due on the mortgage of the freehold property, and of the assignment of the moieties of Edw. B. to several premises made by Edw. B. to Robt P. by the deed, and of another messuage for 500 years by Edw. B. to Robt P. as a collateral security of other premises and on payment the mortgage in fee was to be cancelled.

2 August 1760 Received of Mr Jn Windsor, under-sheriff, £780 principal and interest due to him on a mortgage by Edw. B. of 1 & 2 Nov. 1758 to secure £2,000 and int. and for £600 and int., part of which was a collateral security made by Edw. B. to Robt P. on 2 Nov. 1758, paid by the Sheriff pursuant to the order of the Court of Exchequer. Robt Pemberton promises to assign over the mortgage, collateral security and mortgaged premises.

Signed: Robert Pemberton

29 & 30 Sept. 1760

Lease and release

1. Hen. Blakeway and Chas Bolas, assignees of the estate of Edw. Blakeway

2. Jn Windsor, gent.

3. Wm Lutwyche, esq.

Reciting the abstracted indenture of 10 Sept. 1759 and that the moiety of the messuage in Wall was sold for £380 to Jn Windsor, the best bidder.

In consideration of £380 to 1. from 2. to the use of H.M. and other creditors of Edw. B., 1. by the direction of 2., release to 3. the moiety of the meadow or pasture called Lacons alias Weeks's Meadow (10a) then or late in the occ. of Jos Hotchkis.

To 3. in trust for 2.

1 Nov. 1760

Indenture

1. My Lee, widow of Thos Lee decd.

2. Jn Windsor, Wm Lutwyche, Roger Mall & My Lee jnr, spin.

Reciting the will of Thos Lee; reciting Jn Windsor had bought Edw. Blakeway's moiety of the premises which had been conveyed by the assignees to Wm L. on trust for Jn W. My Lee had bought the other moiety of her father's estate at Chatwall devised to her and Edw. B. subject to the annuity of £20 which My Lee had agreed to pay during her mother's life and to indemnify the premises bought by Rog. Mall and Jn Windsor from the annuity, so she executed a bond to Wm L. and Rog. M. My Lee snr executed a bond to 2. to release not only the property in the possession of Dd Davies but the moiety of the premises in Wall under Heywood and the premises late of Thos Lee, decd., from the annuity left to My Lee snr, and to accept the bond of My Lee jnr. for payment of it for life. So My Lee by the indenture discharged the property bought by Rog. Mall and the moiety bought by Jn Windsor and the messuage in Chatwall, etc. from the annuity.

26 Nov. 1760

Order of the Court of Exchequer on behalf of Hen. Blakeway and Chas Bolas, assignees under the bankruptcy commission against Edw. Blakeway. The Court being informed Edw. B. was a remitter of part of H.M.'s money arising by duties of excise in the Salop Collection, and that Edw. B. with Fras Turner Blythe, esq., and Mr Rd Blakeway became bound to the late H.M. by bond in a large penalty conditioned for the defendant's remitting to the Commissioners of Excise monies to be received of Benj. Shaw, the collector of duties for the collection upon such account. The deft became indebted to the late H.M. in £4,832 6s 3 ¼ for so much of the monies received by Edw. B. from Benj. Shaw and that an extent was issued out against Edw B. on 26 July 1759 for the recovery of such sum, by virtue of which extent Sam. Griffiths, esq., Sheriff of Salop, took into H.M.'s hands all the real and personal estate of Edw. B. to a large value, part of which had been sold and £3,467 10s 3 ½d part of the debt paid to H.M.'s use.

Since the issuing of the extent a Commission of Bankruptcy had been taken out against Edw. B., and Hen. B.and Chas Bolas had been chosen assignees who had paid the £1,364 7s 11 ¾d, remainder of the debt to H.M.'s use and £540 4s 10d to Dudley Baxter, esq., solr, for the revenue of excise for the costs of prosecution.

It was therefore prayed that Hen. B. and Chas Bolas might stand in place of the Crown under the extent and have the aid of the Crown process to reimburse themselves out of the deft's estate the £1,364 7s 11 3/4d and £540 4s 10d and that Robt Pemberton, mortgagee, by deed of mortgage and by further deed by way of collateral security of part of Edw. B.'s estate seized under the extent, (he having been paid off the principal and interest due on the mortgage, etc. out of the monies from the sale of part of Edw. B.'s effects) might convey over such part of the premises in the mortgage as had or should be bought, to a trustee or trustees for the benefit of the persons who became purchasers, or the part unsold that Robt P. might convey the same to trustee(s) for the benefit of the assignees and other creditors of Edw. B. and that the late and present Sheriffs of Salop might deliver to the assignees the several deeds, papers and other securities in their hands and seized under the extent.

Upon reading the affidavit of Geo Davy and the receipt of Mr Benj. Stow, gent., clerk to the Receiver General of H.M.'s Revenue of Excise annexed thereto of 21 Nov. 1760 [sic] to Hen. B. and Chas Bolas for £1364 7s 11 3/4d, part of the £4832 6s 3¼d for which the extent was issued, by which receipt it appeared the whole of the debt was paid, and on hearing Mr Lee of Counsel for his late King, and Robt Pemberton consenting thereto, it was by the court ordered as prayed.

1 & 2 Dec. 1760

Lease and release

1. Edw. Blakeway

2. Robt Pemberton

3. Hen. Blakeway & Chas Bolas

4. Wm Lutwyche & Jn Maddock, silversmith

5. Sam. Johnson, Rog.Mall, Jn Windsor and My Lee

Reciting the lease and release of 1 & 2 Nov. 1758 and memo on the dorse of 1 Aug. 1759; reciting the inquisition of 26 July 1759 and inquisition of 31 July and that Edw. B. was found a bankrupt, etc.; reciting the order of 4 July then last; payment of £780 to Robt P. and his receipt of 2 Aug. when he promised to assign the mortgage &c; reciting Hen. B. and Chas Bolas being entitled to the freehold premises by assignment to them by the acting commissioners in bankruptcy, subject to the extent, having obtained leave to sell the freehold premises, in consideration of their applying so much money from the sale towards discharging the debt to H.M., so Hen. B. and Chas Bolas offered the messuages, moiety of the messuages, land etc. to be sold to the best bidder. Jn Windsor, inter alia, bid £380 for the moiety of the messuage & c in the parish of Rushbury and was the best bidder for it;

That Hen. B. and Chas Bolas had by lease and release of 29 & 30 Sept. last sold and assigned the messuages, moiety of the messuages and lands so bought, inter alia, by Jn Windsor or his trustee; reciting order of 26 Nov. last.

The indentures witnesses that in consideration of 2. having been paid £780 on the mortgage and 20s for 5., 2 at the request of 1., with the consent of 3., and of 5., granted to 4. inter alia the undivided moiety of the messuage and lands belonging in Wall under Eywood alias Haywood, Rushbury, then or late in the occ. of -- Wilkes, then of Joseph Hodgkis, formerly the estate of Thos Lee and by his will devised to Edw. B. and his heirs, to 4. on trust as for the moiety of the house and lands in Wall under Haywood on trust for Jn Windsor and his heirs etc. forever

28 & 29 Sept. 1761.

Lease and release

1. My Lee

2. Jn Windsor

3. Wm Lutwyche

2. has agreed to give 1. £400 for the absolute purchase of the fee simple and inheritance of the undivided half of the messuages and lands which with the other moiety was by the will of Thos Lee devised to My Lee and Edw. Blakeway and their heirs forever, which other moiety had been conveyed by the assignees of Edw. B.'s effects to Wm Lutwyche and his heirs in trust for Jn Windsor and his heirs. Jn Windsor had directed that My Lee's half should be conveyed to Wm Lutwyche and his heirs in trust for Jn W. and his heirs. So in consideration of £400 to 1. from 2, 1. granted to 3. the undivided half, being her half, of the property, to 3. and his heirs in trust for 2. and his heirs forever.

27 March 1770

Acknowledgement by Jn Windsor that he has in his custody the deeds and writings of which the above is an abstract.

Witnesses: John Stanier, John Langley

Abstract prepared by Windsor of Salop.