Notes relating to 'The Mobbs Claim to the Wenlock Estates'

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A volume entitled 'The Mobbs' Claim to the Wenlock Estates', consisting of a number of documents bound inside a brown paper cover. These items relate to a will made by John Mobbs in 1790, concerning Wenlock Barn and related estates in and around Hoxton, Middlesex; with subsequent attempts by his descendants to prove entitlement to the estates. The items contained are:
/1 A printed pamphlet 'The Mobs Claim to the Wenlock Estates', published in London in 1866. This copy is annotated 'Richard Savage, 59 West St, Stratford on Avon'. The pamphlet outlines the background and perceived basis for a court case brought by Joshua Mobbs, relating t

o the will of his grandfather John Mobbs and ownership of Wenlock Barn and associated estates in Hoxton, Middlesex.
/2 A hand-written copy of a letter from William Mobbs to R.B. Wheler of the Birth Place Committee, offering £100 for entries of the baptism of his grandfather and great-uncles at Stratford, needed to support his claims to the estate [presumed to be the Wenlock Estates]. The copy letter has a note that the original was post marked 18/10/1847. (See also item /6 below and ER1/2/99 (for microfilm and digital copies of original letter, this now being closed due to fragility).
/3 A hand-written note dated 11/12/1915, listing dates of Baptism and Burials of various members of the Mobbs Family at Charlcote between 1786 and 1812. This list was compiled by Richard Savage from notes sent to him by Frederick Tobin, the late Vicar of Charlecote.
/4 'A London Land Romance', news cutting from Birmingham Daily Post (23/10/1886). This relates to a court case involving Samuel Victor Morley, alias Samuel Marks and providing details of the historic claim of the Mobb family on land in Hoxton. Detail of land and propoerty are provided.
/5 'The Hoxton Property Case. A Romance of Wenlock Barn', news cutting from The People (12/12/1886). Details of the claim of Joshua Mobbs and his treatment in life are included and mention is made of the adjacent Pitfield Estate.
/6 Interleaved with this volume is a (different) hand-written copy of the letter from William Mobbs to R.B. Wheler, which may have been copied at a later date than the copy at item /2 above.