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Bargain and sale from Anthony Skynner of Rowington esquire to Andrew Archer of Tanworth esquire for £186 of a messuage in Tanworth with an adjoining orchard, a meadow called Wood meadowes, now divided into several closes with a cottage lately built in part of the same, all this property lying in length between the highway leading from Warwicke to Kinges Norton and 'beneath' ground called the olde parte and in breadth between the commons called Earles woodes, then in the tenure of Henry Shuter; to hold for ever, excepting a lease , 4 August 42 Elizabeth [1600] [ see no.1614] Signed: Anthony Skynner. Dated 10 December 5 James I. Witnesses, endorsed: Simon Archer, Edward Knighte, George Green, Thomas Greene. Fragments of red wax on tag. English, parchment, 22 x 11 ins., indented.