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Copy mortgage by John Payton of Stratford upon Avon, wine-merchant, to William Hunt of Stratford, gent., of a messuage and lands in Knowle alias Knole, three parcels of land `called Bryars Moores Malthouse Pingle and Betts Close, which were sometime since copyhold and were enfranchised and conveyed to Mr. William Shakespeare by Richard Smith Lord of the Manor of Knowle' and a close in Baddesley Clinton, all the premises being in Knowle, alias Knole, Lapworth, Hampton in Arden and Baddesley Clinton, and now or late in the tenure of Thomas Cheshire or his undertenants to secure the payment of £1400 and interest.