Alveston

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Conveyance by lease and release from William Chattaway, late of Stratford-upon-Avon, but now of Arrow, gentleman, to William Judd Harding of Calcutta, esquire, for £4850, of a messuage in Alveston on the south side of the turnpike road leading from Stratford to Wellesbourne, with closes of land adjoining, containing 46a 0r 12p, in Middle Great Sand Field, Hill Great Sand Field and Broadway Field (being the larger of two allotments awarded to Thomas Townsend at the Inclosure) in the several tenures of Samuel Richards, John Bruce and Edmund Darby Ford; also an assignment from Arthur Annesley of Clifford Chambers, clerk, with the consent of the said William Chattaway, to the said William Judd Harding, of other closes of land also adjoining the said messuage, containing 17a 1r 2p, in Townside Field, Lower Great Sand Field and Middle Great Sand Field (being another allotment awarded to Thomas Townsend at the Inclosure) to hold for a residue of a term of 1000 years created by a lease of 26 June 17 Charles I [1641]; with the following recitals: i) 7 and 8 March 1817: conveyance from John Robert Nason, esquire, and Mary his wife, to William Chattaway, of the freehold premises described above ii) 26 June 1641: lease from William Challenor, gentleman, Richard Aynge the elder and Richard Aynge the younger, to Jane Aynge, spinster, of a close in Alveston called Hurst Close and half a yardland in Alveston and Tiddington in the tenure of Richard Aynge the elder for 1000 years at a nominal rent iii) 12 May 1760: assignment from Thomas Townsend, gentleman, to John Nixon, clerk, and Edward Townsend, gentleman, (in trust for Frances Preston, daughter of John Preston, clerk, for life) of the said lease iv) 21 October 1772: inclosure award for the parish of Alveston whereby the leasehold property described above was allotted to Thomas Townsend v) 17 April 1790: assignment from John Robert Nason and Mary his wife (only child of Thomas Townsend) to Lyster Dighton of Clifford Chambers, esquire, of the said lease, to hold in trust for them vi) 16 May 1793: assignment of the said lease by way of mortgage from John Robert Nason and Mary his wife, and their trustee, to Robert Garner, gentleman vii) 8 August 1801: reassignment of the said lease from Robert Garner to John Robert Nason and Mary his wife, and their trustee viii) 20 June 1807: will of Lyster Dighton proved at Canterbury by his executor, the said Arthur Annesley ix) 9 August 1814: assignment of the said lease by way of mortgage from John Robert Nason and Mary his wife, to John Lythall and William Whitehead, gentlemen x) 8 March 1817: assignment of the said lease from John Robert Nason and his mortgagees, to the said William Chattaway xi) June 1794: death of Edward Townsend xii) 10 January 1820: letters of administration of the estate of Edward Townsend (limited to the term of 1000 years) granted to John Matthews, gentleman xiii) 11 January 1820: assignment from John Matthews to William Chattaway of his interest in the term of 1000 years