Lucas's Charity

Description

Lease from John Halford of Stratford-upon-Avon, ironmonger, Richard Allen of the same, grocer, Samuel Winter of the same, schoolmaster, and William Baylis of the same, maltster, surviving feoffees of the Charity of Thomas Lucas, with the consent of the mayor, aldermen and burgesses of Stratford-upon-Avon, to William Taylor of Stratford-upon-Avon, druggist, of a messuage in Church Street late in the tenure of Ann Mathews, widow, and Thomas Parker, and now of William Taylor, bounded on the east by a messuage belonging to the Corporation of Stratford-upon-Avon, late in the tenure of Nathaniel Canning, gent., and now of William Taylor and on the west by a messuage late of Margaret Smith and now of William Taylor, to hold for forty-one years at an annual rent of 20 shillings. Plan annexed, describing the property on the west as `new houses belonging to Mr. William Taylor.'