Three freehold houses on the east side of New Street [the "Great Piece of Ground formerly call'd Tenter Ground"] purchased in November 1792 from Robert Wilks for £4,500. The Company purchased the unexpired term of a lease on one of the houses in January 1794 from Lewis Jouenne for £500, and the assignment of a lease on the other two houses in 1793 from Mr Wilson and Mr Chater for £63.
[1] Thomas Cornwallis of London, Esquire, and his wife Dame Katherine [2] Thomas Franks, Thomas Busby, Edmund Bird, and Richard Starre, coopers of London
[1] Richard Ward of Leighton Buzzard Bedfordshire, gentleman, administrator of William Davis of Woburn Bedfordshire, butcher [2] Thomas Norcliffe [3] East India Company [4] Nathaniel Cole Draft warrant of attorney &nb...
[1] Charles Clavey of Newgate Street London, linen draper, and Catherine Coppin of Ampthill Bedfordshire, widow, assignees of the estate of Benjamin Green deceased of Ampthill, draper [2] Thomas Richardson and Mary Howard [3] East India Company &...