The College and Rylands Close, Stratford-upon-Avon

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Conveyance by lease and release from the Revd. John Fullerton, late of the College, Old Stratford, to Edmund Battersbee of Old Stratford, esquire, reciting DR123/22 and 23 , for £2,800 of the capital messuage commonly called the College together with the gardens and orchard belonging thereto in Old Stratford, and formerly in the possession of Sir William Keyt, Baronet, afterwards of the Honorable Anne Somerville, widow, and since of the said James Kendall and John Fullerton, and that piece of land whereon a barn, belonging to the said College, formerly stood, and also those two closes known as Sheffield (now Dog Kennel) Close and Sandhill or Santhill Close (now commonly called Lady Meadow), formerly in the separate tenure of John Taylor and Mark Noble, and all that piece of land whereon a messuage or tenement formerly stood, situate in Old Stratford, adjoining or near to certain barns commonly called the Tithe or College Barns (which have been for many years taken down), also a parcel of land, formerly planted with cherry trees and known as the Bowling Alley which, with the last two mentioned pieces of land, have now been walled and made part of the gardens and orchard belonging to the said College. Also the residue of a lease, dated 15 July 1747, from Frances Lord Conway, Baron of Ragley, for 99 years at an annual rent of 2s.6d., of a parcel of land measuring 58 feet long from north-west to south-east and 30 feet wide from east to west, in Church Street adjoining the back of the College and which is now part of the gardens and orchard of the College and the residue of a lease dated 2 January 1769, from the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Stratford-upon-Avon to James Kendall for 99 years at an annual rent of 2 capons or 1s.6d. in lieu thereof, of a parcel of land on which formerly stood a large barn known as the Tithe Barn at the lower end of Church Street having the road leading to the Church on its north side and lands belonging to James Kendall and part of the messuages known as the College on its other sides, which is now walled and made part of the gardens of the said College. Signed: John Fullerton. One red seal applied. Witnesses: John Fullerton, junior.