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Please note: This record contains a stereotyped depiction of a Black person.

Assignment from the Hon. Lieut. General Thomas Wentworth, late of St. James' Westminster, then of Kensington, Middlesex, esquire, by the direction of Jonathan Carpenter of Sheldon clerk, executor of the will of Ann Sheppard of Olton End in Solihull widow deceased, to William Greenwood D.D., rector of Solihull, of mortgage No. 1997; in trust for the said Jonathan Carpenter.

Signed: Thomas Wentworth, Jonathan Carpenter
Dated, 20 George II 1746

Witnesses, endorsed: for Thomas Wentworth, M. Spatemany, William Moore; for Jonathan Carpenter, John Grove, Humphrey Lyttelton

1. Circular seal of red wax applied to parchment, 1/2 in., a lion rampant.
2. Circular seal of red wax applied to parchment, 1/2 in., the head of a Black person.

English, parchment, 29 x 24 in., indented