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Instructions to Mr. [R H] Harrison to prepare mortgage for £1200 from Mrs. Phoebe Court to Mrs. [Ann] Ashwin, wife of Samuel and administratrix of her late uncle Thomas Fisher
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Of her estate in Old Stratford upon which Mrs. Court has lately built 12 new houses [Victoria Cottages, Shipston Road]. Out of £1200 raised, £500 to be used to repay mortgage to Messrs. Crowther and Blick. Opinion of Mr. Harrison that mortgage cannot be made to Mrs. Ashwin as femme covert and administratrix `de bonis non'; suggests mortgage to trustees of which Mr. Ashwin could be one
