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Collapse 00204 - PARISH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, TANWORTH-IN-ARDEN - 1556-200000204 - PARISH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, TANWORTH-IN-ARDEN - 1556-2000
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1 - Volume entitled "Register of Parish Houses", containing printed forms for letting properties owned by the churchwardens and overseers acting as feoffees of the parish properties and charity lands - 1826-1888
2 - Account books. St. Thomas' Gift to the Poor of the Clay side of the parish of Tanworth - 1827-1881
3 - Account of the disposal of the Charity Monies belonging to the Parish of Tanworth, includes Digby's and Dolphin's charity issuing out of lands of the parish - 1738-1831
4 - Feoffment. John Wescote, son and heir of Thomas Wescote late of Tanworth deceased, to Richard Farre, John Waryinge churchwardens, Henry Grene, Oliver Hunt, Thomas Wheler, John Symons, William Atwood, son of Robert Atwood, and Thomas Waryng son of Thomas Warynge. A field with marl, a meadow, a croft and a parcel of land in Heyne field in Grete in the parish of Yardley - [1556]
5 - Lease for 42 years. John Waryng and Richard Farre, churchwardens, Henry Grene, Oliver Hunt, Thomas Wheler, John Symonds, William Atwood and Thomas Waryng of Tanworth, charity trustees, to William Hawkes of Grete in the parish of Yardley, Worcs. 2 closes lying together in Yardley - [1556]
6 - Lease for 21 years. Charity Trustees to Richard Floyd of Yardley, yeoman, 2 closes lying together in Yardley. Rent: 53s 4d. 10 April 39 Eliz. I [1597] - [1597]
7 - Lease for 21 years. Charity Trustees to Thomas Whately of Yardley, wheelwright, 2 closes lying together in Yardley. Rent: £5 p.a.2 June 17 Car. I [1641] - [1641]
8 - Lease and counterpart for 21 years. Trustees of parish lands to Thomas Hately of Yardley, wheelwright. Home, barn, 2 closes and Tanworth acre in Hennefield in Yardley. Rent: £5 p.a. 17 Jan. 27 Car. II [1675] - [1675]
9 - Lease for 21 years. Trustees of parish lands to Thomas Waren of Kings Norton, Worcs. packsaddle maker. Messuage with its lands in Yardley. Rent: £7. 12s. 6d p.a. - 5 Nov 1726
10 - Lease for 42 years. Trustees of parish lands to Joseph Piper of Birmingham, Innholder. Messuage with 7 pieces of land in Yardley. Rent: £15 p.a. - 25 Dec 1771
11 - Lease for 99 years. Andrew Archer of Tanworth and Symon Archer his heir, to Henry Hunt, Richard Wescott, Edward Benforde, Thomas Greene, Francis Anderton, Thomas Field, Richard Waringe, Richard Chambers, Edward Collett, Thomas Parsons, John Brockhurst, John Robbins, William Averell alias Taylor, and Edward Tottell, parishioners of Tanworth. House, garden, croft called the Parsonage house adjoining the churchyard on the south side. 2 Nov. 14 Jac. I [1616] - [1616]
12 - Dolphins Charity. Appointment of further trustees. 10 July 8 Car. I [1632] - [1632]
13 - Dolphin's Charity. Appointment of new Trustees. 16 Nov. 22 Car. II [1670] - [1670]
14 - Digby's Charity. Ratification by Dorothy Butler, widow of John Digby, of her husband's will conveying lands to charity trustees - 17 Dec. 1656
15 - Digby's Charity. Appointment of new Trustees. Recites the will of John Digby, 1623, devising Birchie croft and a cottage in Tanworth for the relief of the poor - 1 April 1680
16 - Dolphin's and Digby's Charities. Appointment of new Trustees - 3 April 1713
17 - Copy of the will of Robert Malines of Tanworth, leaving property in Tanworth to his nephew Henry Malines - 8 Feb. 1739
18 - Charity Trustees to George Copage of Tanworth, mason. Lease for 99 years of 2 pieces of land in Tanworth and a butchers shop. Rent: 20s. p.a. - 9 June 1739
19 - Appointment of new trustees - 13 Oct. 1724
20 - Appointment of new Trustees of the Parish Properties. - 2 Jan. 1765
21 - Feoffment with a covenant to levy a fine. William Morrell of Tanworth at the request of Thomas Woodcock to William Leigh of Hockley, Innholder of a messuage and garden, Tanworth - 21 May 1800
22 - Fine. John Packwood against Elles. Wood, William Hopkins and William Morrell of 5 messuages, ¼ of 3 messuages, 60 acres of land in Tanworth, Claverdon and Wootton Wawen - 1800
23 - Lease and release. Thomas Woodcock, late of Hockley, ostler, now of Oswestry to Charity Trustees. Messuage and garden in Hockley. Consideration: £25 - 30/31 July 1804
24 - Memorandum of Agreement, to leave for 2 years several plecks of meadow and pasture and a barn at Aspley Heath. Charity Trustees to Thomas Mills of Beoley, Worcs. - 9 June 1772
25 - Agreement to lease a cottage and garden at Kemps Green, Charity Trustees to Edward Perkins and his wife for their lives. Rent: 6s. p.a. - 1840
26 - Lease for 15 years. Charity Trustees to Thomas Edwards of Tanworth, dealer. Messuage with outbuildings lately erected with 2 closes of 2 acres at Aspley Heath. Rent: £5 p.a. - 14 May 1840
27 - Lease for a year. Christopher Musgrove of Beach Hill, Berks. and others to Lord Aston, vicar of Tanworth, and others. Messuage, malthouse, 2 closes called the Bear Garden and Rail close - 21 May 1830
28 - Letter about Joseph Osborne, tenant of a small farm near Moseley Wake Green belonging to the Charity Trustees about a reduction in his rent - 7 April 1817
29 - Copy of a sketch plan of the lands mentioned in the letter above - 16 May 1817
30 - Edward Bolton King of Chadshunt to Charity Trustees. Conveyance of the site of the School house at Hockley Heath for £100 - 11 May 1863
Collapse 31 - Bundle of Charity deeds each stamped by the Charity Commission as being received in 185631 - Bundle of Charity deeds each stamped by the Charity Commission as being received in 1856
1 - Lease and release. Richard Chambers of Tanworth, blacksmith, and Joseph Chambers of Stratford-on-Avon, barber, his brother, to Joseph Osbond of Tanworth, maltster. Messuage, malthouse and 6 closes called Sands crofts in Tanworth. Consideration: £540 - 27/28 Dec. 1727
2 - Copy of probate of the will of John Osbond bequeathing his real property to his son Henry - 1752
3 - Copy of probate of the will of Henry Osbond bequeathing all his estate to his three daughters - 1775
4 - Copy of a fine: Thomas Taylor against Francis Burdon and Elizabeth his wife, Thomas Chambers and Hannah, his wife, Catherine Osbond, and John Petty and Mary his wife, 7 messuages, 3 barns, 6 stables, 2 malthouses, 8 gardens and other property in Tanworth, Lapworth and Nuthurst. [Elizabeth, Hannah and Catherine are the daughters of Henry Osbond] - 1788
5 - Lease and release. Coheirs of Henry Osbond, deceased to Humphrey Fitter of Tanworth. Property as in the deed of 27/28 Dec. 1727 above. Consideration: £700 - 25/26 March 1789
6 - Mortgage for £300 of the property in the previous deed. Humphrey Fitter, cordwainer, to Hopkins Horsley of Henley-in-Arden, chandler and grocer - 20 Sep 1808
7 - Additional mortgage for £300 of the property in the previous deed and between the same parties - 20 March 1814
8 - Additional mortgage for £150 of the property in the previous deed and between the same parties - 20 Sep 1815
9 - Mortgage in fee to secure £350 with covenant to levy a fine and declare its uses. Humphrey Fitter to Rev. John Cartwright of Preston Bagot. - 31 Dec. 1818
10 - Final Concord. Thomas Chambers against Peter Manton and Mary, his wife, Charles Manton and Eleanor his wife, John Houghton and Hannah his wife, Humphrey Fitter and Elizabeth his wife. 4 messuages, 3 barns, 3 stables, 1 malthouse, 4 gardens, 140 acres of land in Tanworth and Aston Cantlow - 1819
11 - Additional mortgage for £48 of the property in the deed of 27/28 Dec. 1727. Humphrey Fitter to Thomas Chamberlain - 5 Feb 1820
12 - Lease and release. Humphrey Fitter to Rev. Thomas Cormouls of Tanworth and Thomas Fitter, of the property in the deed of 27/28 Dec. 1727 for the benefit of creditors - 22/23 Jan. 1821
13 - Lease. Rev. Thomas Cormouls, Humphrey and Thomas Fitter to Christopher Musgrave and others. Property as in the deed of 27/28 Dec. 1727. Rents to be applied to the relief of the poor as the trustees think fit - 27 Nov. 1821
14 - Assignment of mortgage. John Cartwright to John Bellamy - 23 Feb. 1828
15 - Appointment of new Charity Trustees. Christopher Musgrave and others to Lord Aston, vicar of Tanworth and others - 21/22 May 1830
16 - Conveyance. John Bellamy Page to Trustees of Tanworth Charity Estates - 26 Sep 1870
17 - Justices order to the Chief Constable of Kineton hundred and the petty constable of Tanworth to take possession of a cottage near the 3 May Poles in Tanworth - 1824
18 - Copy of a Justices order to William Lea to appear and answer a charge of failing to give up a tenement belonging to the parish - n.d.
32 - Dole book relating to various charities - 1882-1994
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