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37-39 High Street, Stratford-upon-Avon

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Release from and assignment in trust of three separate mortgages on the premises lately conveyed to James Keating, comprising: i) covenant by John Payton [Peyton], William Sims [Simms] and Elizabeth his wife, and John White and Mary his wife (as in no. 1) that a term of 500 years created by a mortgage dated 12 January 1651/52, from Richard Castle the elder and Richard Castle the younger to Sarah Baylie of a messuage in High Street in the tenure of Richard Castle the elder, between his dwelling house and the dwelling house of Robert Ingram (later in the tenure of Mary Mills, and bounded by a tenement of Henry Turbitt, mercer, deceased, and by a messuage of John Tissell, saddler) to secure £100; which term of years, after diverse assignments was lately vested in Abel Payton [Peyton] of Stratford-upon-Avon, ironmonger, deceased, in trust for the said John Payton [Peyton], William Sims [Simms] and Elizabeth his wife, and John White and Mary his wife, to attend the freehold and the inheritance; that this term of 500 years should now be held in trust for James Keating of Stratford-upon-Avon, bookseller, who had recently purchased the freehold from them. ii) assignment from William Parkes of Birmingham, buckle-maker, and Sarah his wife, only child of Thomas Halford, late of Birmingham, to William Cooper Keating (in trust for the said James Keating) of a term of 1000 years created by a mortgage, dated 1 March 1724, from Thomas Payton [Peyton] (father of the said John Payton [Peyton], Elizabeth Sims [Simms] and Mary White) to Thomas Badger, Nathaniel Eden and Thomas Halford, of the said messuage to secure £160; which sum had been repaid to Thomas Halford, the surviving mortgagee, on 8 August 1739, by Sarah Payton [Peyton], widow of the said John Payton [Peyton], but the term of years not extinguished; to hold the said term in trust for James Keating who had recently purchased the freehold. iii) assignment from Thomas Eden, (executor of Mary Eden, deceased, the executrix of Nathaniel Eden late of Milcote, yeoman, deceased) to Henry Keating (in trust for the said James Keating) of a term of 500 years created by a mortgage, dated 11 May 1726, from John Lord of Stratford-upon-Avon, flaxman, to the said Nathaniel Eden, of a messuage in High Street, then in the tenure of John Millward (but later in the tenure of Henry Turbitt, with a messuage of Henry Turbitt on the north and the said messuage in the tenure of Mary Mills on the south) to secure £40; the which was added a further loan of £36 on 1 August 1726; which sums had long since been paid off and the freehold purchased by John Payton [Peyton] but the term of years not extinguished; to hold the same in trust for James Keating who had recently purchased the freehold