Description | Indenture of assignment by Hannah Batteson, of the borough of Warwick, widow, devisee of the premises assigned and sole executrix of the last will and testament of John Batteson late of the borough of Warwick, grocer, deceased, John Jones of the borough of Warwick, officer of excise, and his wife Elizabeth, the daughter of Hannah Batteson and also a devisee in remainder of the premises, to Fulke Weale of the borough of Warwick, painter and auctioneer, one of the surveyors of the public highways of the parish of St Mary, borough of Warwick, of the residue of a term of 500 years on a tenement or building called the Waterhouse or Roundabout House at the north end of Sheep Street in the borough of Warwick, late in the occupation of William Baylies and John Jones, in trust for the premises to be pulled down, and pails and palisades removed to make the land open to the street and become part of the highway, in consideration of £120, with recitals of indentures, will of John Williams made 24 June 1717 and wills of the Batteson family. Seals: three, for Hannah Batteson (who made her mark) and Elizabeth and John Jones, applied on bottom fold. 3 parchment membranes. |