Public Hall, Rother Street, Stratford-upon-Avon

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Conveyance by lease and release (lease missing) from Thomas Peyton of Stratford-upon-Avon, mercer to Edward Smith of London, merchant, Thomas Phillipps the elder of Langley, yeoman, and Thomas Phillipps his son, John Souch, alias Zouch of Milcote, gentleman, Abel Peyton of Stratford-upon-Avon, ironmonger, Mark Noble of Stratford-upon-Avon, maltster, John Lord the younger of the same, baker, Robert Cooper of the same, flaxdresser, Samuel Cooper the younger of the same, maltster, John Wake of the same, joiner, William Ryland of the same, baker, Joseph Leatherland of the same, gentleman, John Leatherland of the same, gentleman, Joseph Hemmings of the same, mason, Mathew Collett of the same, baker, John Lord of the same, flaxman, Anthony Wake of the same ........, Joseph Smith of Birmingham, ironmonger, Thomas Barnett of Warwick, yeoman and Samuel Barnett of Hampton Lucy, yeoman, for ........, of a new erected building and yard, measuring sixty feet by sixty feet, in Rother Street, bounded on the south by the messuage late of Mark Noble and now of Jonathan Sowtham, on the north by a messuage of Elizabeth Roberts the elder, Mary Roberts, Martha Roberts and Elizabeth Roberts the younger in the tenure of Thomas Maides, on the east by the said street, and on the west by a little barn belonging to Elizabeth Roberts, etc.; with a passage, five feet wide and 109 feet long, from the said building to the common fields of Stratford; which piece of land had been conveyed to Thomas Peyton and William Smith, deceased, by Elizabeth Roberts etc. by indentures of lease and release, .... January 1713/14; to hold the same in trust to allow the 'Congregation of Dissenters' to use the building for worship. Signed and sealed by the trustees. Endorsed: 'This conveyance of the meeting house in the Rother Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, was lost For many years and restored to one of the Trustees by a broker who found it in his Shop among some old writings bought at a Sale'. Illustrated in A. Barber, Church of the Ejectment, 1912, facing p. 17.