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Leek Wootton
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Conveyance by lease and release by Richard Court, late Ribbesford, Worcs. now Birmingham, gent. one of the Commissioners for the Enclosure of Leek Wootton, by the direction of Jane Birch, Leek Wootton, widow and William Birch, Warwick, yeoman, to James Henry Leigh, Stoneleigh, esq. and Frederick Charles Acton Colville, esq. Captain 3rd Regiment Foot Guards, for £200 of allotment in Great Hill Field, Leek Wootton (3r 30p) abutted East by turnpike from Warwick - Kenilworth, West by lands allotted Jane Birch; South by allotment also conveyed and North by lands allotted J. W. Clay, John Gratton, Joseph Wilson and Thomas George and allotment in same field (1ac 37p) abutted East by turnpike, West by lands Jane Birch, South by lands Earl of Clarendon, North by previous allotment. Reciting that lands sold at auction by Court to defray expenses of enclosure and purchased by Birch on behalf of Leigh.