Street Piece, Ullenhall

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Conveyance from Reverend Thomas Jones, perpetual curate of Bearley, with the consent of his patron, the Rev. Edward Dominic Geoffrey Martin Kirwan, vicar of Wotton Wawen, also of his bishop and ordinary, Henry bishop of Worcester, and Charles Thomas archbishop of Canterbury, in whose province the curacy is situated, and of the Governonrs of Queen Anne's Bounty, to Mrs Mary Newton of Barrels Park, widow, Thomas Henry Goodwin Newton of the Middle Temple, London, barrister, and the Rev. William Newton of York, clerk in orders, for £246 10s 6d paid by the said Mary, Thomas and William Newton to the said Governors, of a piece of land called Street Piece, containing 2 acres 2 roods 22 perches in Ullenhall in the parish of Wootton Wawen, numbered 481 on the Tithe Commutation Map for the said hamlet. With the following recitals: i) 6 and 7 October 1780: Conveyance by lease and release from William James, gentleman and Mary his wife, with the consent of the said Governors, to Daniel Collins, clerk, then curate of Bearley (reciting that on 14 May 1771 the Governors had agreed to augment the curacy with £200, on 12 December 1771 they had agreed to a further £200, and in 1780 to a further augmentation of £200 in conjunction with Mary Countess Dowager Gower, who had given the like sum of 3200 from the estate of the late Thomas, earl Thanet; and reciting that it had been ordered by the Governors that the said £800 should be laid out in the purchase of lands) of certain lands containing the piece above-mentioned, for the perpetual augementation of the said curacy ii) 2 and 3 Victoria: Act of Parliament whereby in was enacted that in a case where a benefice had been augmented, with the consent of the Governors, with land outside the parish of such a benefice, it would be lawful for the incumbent thereof, with the consent of his patron, ordinary and archbishop, to sell the said land, the proceeds of which sale would go to the Governors. iii) 27 June 1862: Memorandum of Agreement whereby the said Thomas Jones had contracted to sell the land above-mentioned to William Newton, who had died 24 November 1862, having made a will with codicial dated 22 June 1861 and 22 November 1862 repsectively, whereby he devised his estate called Barrels in Ullenhall and the land which he intended to purchase from the said Thomas Jones, to his wife the said Mary Newton, his sons the said Thomas Henry Newton and William Newton, and trustees, directing that should the said purchase be not completed at the time of his death, the money for it should be paid out of his personal estate. iv) 30 March 1863: release from the said trustees of any trusts or powers under the said will. Plan annexed showing the said land to be bounded on the south by the road from Ullenhall to Henley, and by land of William Newton on every other side. Signed: Thomas Jones, Edward Dominic Geoffrey Martin Kirwan, H. [bishop of] Worcester, C.T. [archbishop of] Cantuar', T.H. Goodwin Newton Five red seals applied with the papered seals of the Governors, bishop and archbishop suspended on tags Witnesses: Geo. Aston, cashier and accountant at the Bounty Office, Dean's Yard, wEstminster; Chris. Hodgson, treasurer of the same; Edward Cooper, land-agent, Henley-in-Arden; C.J. Furlong, minister of Trinity Church, Boulogne, France; Alfred C. Hoper, solictor of Worcester and John Burden, solicitor and secretary to the Archbishop, 27 Parliament Street Westminster