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Burnside, Shottery, Stratford-upon-Avon

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Conveyance by lease and release from Thomas Townsend of Todenham, co. Glos., gent., and Mary Townsend of Alveston, spinster, his sister (children and legatees of Thomas Townsend, late of Alveston, gent.) to Goodwin Zouch of Shottery in the parish of Old Stratford, tanner, for £390 of a messuage or tanhouse in Shottery, with dovecote, tanyard etc., now in the tenure of the said Goodwin Zouch, and which John Bury, late of Shottery, tanner, by his will dated 27 November 1723, gave to his cousin, Richard Townsend of Shottery, tanner, and which, on the latter's death, passed to his brother, the said Thomas Townsend the elder, since deceased, who bequeathed the same to his children, the said Thomas Townsend the younger and Mary Townsend, by will dated 17 July 1756.