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Bridge Street, Stratford-upon-Avon

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Assignment from John Tasker, late of Stratford-upon-Avon, grocer, but now of Adelaide, gentleman, (one of three joint legatees under the will of John Gill, dated 4 July 1848, proved 23 February 1853), Rev. Charles Hobbes Rice, late of Armagh, Ireland, but now rector of Cheam, co. Surrey (to whom one third part of the premises hereinafter described had been assigned on 27 June 1865 by Bernard Rice the younger, executor of the will of David Rice of Stratford-upon-Avon, surgeon, one other of the three legatees under the will of John Gill), and Mary Davis late of Market Harborough, co. Leics., but now of Leicester, widow, (executrix of the will of George Davis, dated 4 October 1864, proved 15 March 1869, himself the executor of the will of Elizabeth Barwell Gill, dated 8 August 1856, proved 14 April 1863, wife and sole legatee under the will of Thomas Deacle Gill of Stratford-upon-Avon, wine-merchant, dated 12 July 1836, proved 24 February 1854, the half-brother and third legatee under the will of the said John Gill), with the consent of the Stratford-upon-Avon Corporation, to Thomas Baseley of Stratford-upon-Avon, butcher, for £746, of no. 14 Bridge Street, together with a slaughter-house and warehouse, in the tenure of Thomas Baseley (being one of the three messuages leased to John Gill on 5 April 1832) for the residue of a term 99 years at an annual rent of £7. 10s. Plan annexed showing the house to the east of the Corporation property to belong to Miss Nason and the house to the west to Thomas Hewins.