26 Ely Street, Stratford-upon-Avon

Description

Copy bargain and sale from Richard Gresley, esquire, Kelynge Greenway and Francis Findon, gentleman, the major part of the commissioners named in a commission of bankruptcy awarded against Robert Hobbes of Stratford-upon-Avon, money-scrivener, dealer and chapman, to John Lord of Stratford-upon-Avon, gentleman, William Chattaway of Stratford-upon-Avon, draper, and William Hemings of Stratford-upon-Avon, surveyor, of all the freehold premises of the said Robert Hobbes (detailed in a schedule), to hold in trust for the benefit of the creditors of the said Robert Hobbes. The schedule lists: a messuage at the bottom and on the south of Chapel Lane in the tenure of Robert Hobbes, three adjoining cottages on Waterside (occupants), a messuage adjoining the cottages, a cottage belonging to this messuage in Chapel Lane, three cottages adjoining this in Chapel Lane, a messuage on the north of Chapel Lane fronting Waterside, a messuage and barn on Waterside, a messuage and new erected schoolhouse with sleeping rooms etc. in Ely Street, late in the occupation of John Holmes and now of Rt. Hon. Lord Middleton and Samuel Smith, a piece of meadow called Thistly Meadow on the east of the Stratford to Warwick road, with a small piece of land called the Sling, and the reversion (on the death of Elizabeth Goodwin Pestell, widow), of two messuages in Rother Market in the tenures of Elizabeth Pestell and Henry Roberts, esquire.