Articles of agreement 1. The Rt.Hon. Lady Hester Malpas of the City of Bath, widow...

Articles of agreement

1. The Rt.Hon. Lady Hester Malpas of the City of Bath, widow

2. John Bather of Shrewsbury, gent.

Consideration: £50 and a further £12,150

Lady Hester before 29 September next to convey the Manor of Meole Brace, the house of farm called the Dayhouse Farm (Benjamin Juston at £125) containing 225a; messuage and several pieces of land (Wm Franks at £40), of 54a; several pieces of land (Mr John Appleton, currier, late - widow Bowen at £34 of 25a; pieces of land (Row Edwards, gent at £5) of 5a; 2 pieces (Sarah Parrock, widow at £8) of 6a; all in Meole Brace; seats in the church and tithes.

The colliery or coalworks (Rd Boothby, collier at £20); houses, cottages & c (Wm Williams, Thos Pugh, Sarah Parrock, Trustees of the Stretton Turnpike Rd., Wm Teece, Jno Mytton, Thos Jenks, Sarah Thorp, Mary Owen, Wm Franks, Letitia Austin, widow Parker, Geo Vaughan, Jno Edwards, Esq., Row Edwards, Fras Boothby, Eliz Hill, Wm Reynolds, Jno Reynolds, Wm Hulin, Fras Easthope, Wm Rogers, Griffith Davies, Jas Hartshorn, Rd Powell, Edw. Lealand, Jno Mansell, Rd Ferriday, Benj. Mansell, Mr Wm Hodges, Mich. Higgons, Edw. Langford, Rd Wild, Wm Wild, Wm Jones, Jno Milward, Row Bayley, Jos Diggory, Jno Gold, Edw. Gold, widow Preston, Thos Boothby, Thos Ramsell, Jane Ferriday, Wm Bayley, widow Ramsell, Wm Ferriday, Robert Ferriday, Geo Millward, Mr Adam Davies, Thos Taylor, Thos Layton, Margt Owen, Rd Bromley, Jeremiah Jones, Wm Griffiths, Wm Smith, Esq., Rd Reynolds, Jno Grafton, Jno Jones, David Jones, Eliz Edwards, Mary Gold, Mr Benjamin Juson, Mr John Bather, Wm Edge, Mary Dodd and Mr James Mason) all in Meole Brace, free of incumbrances except the chief rent of 4/8 to the Corporation of Shrewsbury, and leases.