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Agreement to Settle Property: Church Street, Stratford-upon-Avon

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Agreement between Richard Bartlett of Old Stratford, dyer, and John Bartlett his son and heir apparent of one part and Thomas Townsend of Alveston, gent. (reciting that Richard Bartlett or John Bartlett was entitled in fee simple of a certain copyhold messuage with appurtenances in Church Street, in the tenure of William Morris and that it had been agreed that the said Richard and John should settle the said premises on Thomas Townsend as Trustee of Mary Handy, spinster, in contemplation of a marriage to be solemnised between John Bartlett and Mary Handy) that the said Richard and John Bartlett convey to Thomas Townsend the said premises to the use of the heirs of the bodies of the said John and Mary and in default of such issue to the use of the right heirs of John Bartlett. Witnesses: William Gibson, Joseph Round and Henry Izod.