LEASE for a year by Lt. Col. John Charles Beckwith and Edward Foss of a seventh part of a messuage formerly called ‘Water Riggs’ and now called ‘the Bear’ in Hanford Rivers, co. Essex; 4 October 1836. Signed by Beckwith and Foss, with their red wax signet seals. Major-General John Charles Beck...
DECLARATION OF TRUST for the benefit of the children of Lt. Col. William George Philip Henry Beckwith, with trustees Edward Smith Foss, William Graves and John Dickinson; 22 May 1812. Endorsed with the appointment of two replacement trustees on 15 Dec. 1831. Signed by Beckwith and the three tru...
CONVEYANCE by Mary Beckwith, of Southampton, widow of John Beckwith of Nova Scotia, to Col. John Charles Beckwith of several undivided shares or other interests in several freehold properties in co. Essex and co. Midd., and covenant to surrender similar interests in copyhold properties in co. Es...
MEDIEVAL SURVEYING. Letter from Jean le Genevoys, clerk, and Etienne du Tertre, ‘mesureur’ and commissioner in these parts of Regnant de Giry, chevalier and ‘enquesteur des Eaues & des foreez’ for the King and Duke of Normandy, to the Baillie of Rouen; Orbec, 16 March 1343 [1344]. French. The letters relate to the remeasurement of woodland in the Forest of ‘Lonc lunel’ (?) by the ‘mesureur’ Jean Docque, in connection with the sale of wood. Purchased from J. L. M. Gulley, April 2000.
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Woods and Forests: Jean Le Genevoys, clerk: Etienne Du Tertre, 'mesureur': Letter rel. to measurement of French woodland, from Jean Le Genevoys and Etienne Du Tertre: 1344: Fr.
DECLARATION OF TRUST, relating to an endorsement dated 16 March 1689 on a mortgage deed of 25 January 1689, stating that the sum of £4026 13s 4d, said to have been paid by George Juyce of London to Sir William Turner and Thomas Frankland, did not belong to Juyce, but to John Foche of London, and that the names of George Juyce, George Howe of London and Thomas Wotton of London are used in the endorsement in trust for the benefit of John Foche; 16 March 1688 [1689]. Cicelia [Celia] Fiennes, tr...
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Celia Fiennes, traveller and author: George Juyce, of London: George Howe, Doctor of Physic: Thomas Wotton, of London: John Foche, of London: Declaration of trust to John Foche by George Juyce, George Howe and Thomas Wotton, rel. to an earlier deed involving Celia Fiennes: 1689: Signed. Seals.
Post-nuptial settlement of Sir Richard John Strachan and Louisa, Lady Strachan, with Lady Strachan’s trustees, Sir Francis John Hartwell, Rev. Houlton Hartwell, and Coutts Trotter and Edward Marjoribanks, bankers; 25 Oct. 1813. Alexander Murray, solicitor, of Symond's Inn: William Woodhouse, cl...
Draft of 77052 A; 1813. Louisa Strachan, afterwards Picalillo; wife of Admiral Sir R J Strachan; afterwards Marchesa di Salza: Admiral Sir Richard John Strachan, soi-disant Baronet: Sir Francis John Hartwell, 1st Baronet: Reverend Houlton Hartwell, Chaplain to the Prince Regent: Edward Marjorib...
Epitome of 77052 A; 1813. Louisa Strachan, afterwards Picalillo; wife of Admiral Sir R J Strachan; afterwards Marchesa di Salza: Admiral Sir Richard John Strachan, soi-disant Baronet: Sir Francis John Hartwell, 1st Baronet: Reverend Houlton Hartwell, Chaplain to the Prince Regent: Edward Marjor...
Duplicate of 77052 A; 25 Oct. 1813. Alexander Murray, solicitor, of Symond's Inn: William Woodhouse, clerk to A Murray, solicitor, of Symond's Inn: Edward?] Chaloner, or Edmund; at the Middle Temple: Witnessed: 1813: Signed. Louisa Strachan, afterwards Picalillo; wife of Admiral Sir R J Strach...