Copy settlement by lease and release [lease missing] of estates in Worcester, Warwick, Salop and Oxford including a messuage in the parish of Old Stratford, Stratford-upon-Avon [Hall's Croft]

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Copy settlement by lease and release (lease missing) from Edmund Meysey Wigley the elder of Shakenhurst in the county of Worcestershire, esq., and his son Edmund Meysey Wigley the younger of Christchurch College Oxford, esq., to Richard Stephens Taylor of Grays Inn in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, (reciting the will of Edmund Makepeace late of Pensham in the county of Worcestershire, esq., dated 8 April 1763 whereby he bequeathed all his manors, messuages and lands, etc. both freehold and leasehold to his nephew Henry Wigley with remainder to his grand-nephew the said Edmund Meysey Wigley the elder and his heirs; and reciting that the said Edmund Meysey Wigley the younger is in need of £7000, £2600 of which is to be repaid to his father for the purchase of a commission in the Army) of all their manors, messuages and lands, etc. in the counties of Worcester, Warwick, Salop and Oxford to the intent that a recovery of the said lands may be made against him by Caleb Lowdham of Leicester, gentleman, to the use of George Wigley Perrot of Craycombe in the county of Worcestershire, esq., and Rev. John Wigley Perrot of Queens College Oxford, clerk, in trust that by mortgage or other means they should raise the said sum of £7000, and thereafter to the use of Rev. Gerrard Thomas Andrewes, rector of All Hallows, Bread Street in the city of London, clerk and George Baker of the Inner Temple, London, esq., barrister-at-law, in trust for the said Edmund Meysey Wigley the elder for life with remainder to the said Edmund Meysey Wigley the younger and his heirs. Attached is a schedule of the lands so settled, including a messuage, coach house, two stables, offices, orchard and garden in the parish of Old Stratford in the tenure of Richard Wyatt, esq.