| Description | Conveyance by James Spencer of Southam gentleman and William Spencer of Inson Farm, Warwickshire, farmer of the one part to John Montgomery, doctor, Martin Humphrey King, shoemaker, William Torby, labourer, Matthew Goldsby, labourer, all of Southam, John Stiff, temperance hotel keeper, George Allwood, civil merchant both of Leamington Priors, William Mountford of Harbury, builder and John Bull, miller and James Moore, labourer both of Napton on the Hill of the other part, of land in Southam bequeathed to James and William Spencer in the will of their father John Spencer. The land is conveyed to the second parties for £250 and consists of a messuage with blacksmith's shop, garden and appurtenances situated in Southam in a street or place called Penndyke, formerly in the tenure of George Wright afterwards of the said John Spencer, deceased, and now of the said James Spencer and Thomas Shirley. The £250 is money raised by the Primitive Methodist Connexion of Southam. The second parties are to hold the land in trust that a chapel or meetinghouse shall be built thereon by members of the Primitive Methodist Connexion resident in Southam and upon trust to allow such building to be used at all times as a meeting house or chapel by members of the Connexion, such use to be in accordance with the provisions of a deed of 5th February 1830 in which the doctrines, rules and constitution of the Connexion are set forth. The major part of the trustees shall annually choose a steward who will be a member of the Connexion and he shall receive the monies, seat rents and subscriptions belonging to the chapel and premises and from them pay for the upkeep of the chapel. If at any time the Society at Southam shall be so reduced that the Chapel cannot be supported or so increased that a larger Chapel is needed, the major part of the trustees shall have the power to sell the property.
Marked 'Cancelled' on the front. |