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Copy, early 19th cent., of articles of agreement between the Rev. Jonathan Carpenter, rector of Sheldon, and John Edkins of Tanworth yeoman of a sale to the said John for £840 of a messuage with lands belonging to the same now in the tenure of the said John Edkins by lease from closes in the tenure of Mary Arnold widow in Tanworth, Beaudesert and Nuthurst in Hampton in Arden, inherited by the said Jonathan under the will of the said Ann. Signed: Jonathan Carpenter, John Edkins Dated, 20 George II Witnesses: William Shakespeare, Thomas Fisher English, paper, 153/4 x 13 in., 2 sheets