Marriage settlement: John Mills of Billesley Hall and Mary Stanley of Tiddington

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Attested copy marriage settlement of John Mills, youngest son of John Mills of Billesley Hall, esq. and Mary Stanley, only child of Edward Stanley of Tiddington, gent.: ES has agreed to settle all his hereditaments in Alveston, Solihull and Darlingscott in Tredington on his daughter, and he also has a freehold for three lives in a messuage, half yardland and one furlong of arable or pasture at Darlingscott by two leases and a plot of land at Alveston for the residue of several terms of years; JM is seised of the manor of Billesley, advowson of the church, Billesley Hall, Lower Billesley Farm, and Upper Billesley Farm: he will settle one moiety of this on his son, but subject to half a mortgage debt of £4000 and interest. He will charge the other moiety with £6000 to be raised after the decease of himself and his wife. ES releases to James Grooby and Thomas Sheldon a messuage with the Home Close in Tiddington and closes of 43a 35p in Alveston and Tiddington fields (named), being allotted to ES on enclosure in lieu of one and three quarter yardlands, and a meadow called the Ham of four and a half acres; four cottages in Tiddington; an ozier bed in the Avon near Tiddington of a quarter acre; 8 leys of wood ground called Bushes Quarter or Alveston Pasture (described), all of which properties were allotted on enclosure to Mrs Joanna Godwyn deceased, who devised them to ES, father of the present ES. Two messuages and cottages heretofore one in Tiddington, now or late in the tenure of William York and Benjamin Ward and the barn, yard, etc.; and two newly enclosed plots in the former Townside Field and Lower Great Sand Field of 9 acres; Randalls Ham in Tiddington and three quarters of an acre of meadow at the Ham, a ley of wood ground at Alveston, all bought by ES from Thomas Band nephew of Ann Randall. Capital messuage or farmhouse and homestall in Darlingscott and three quarters of a yardland and two other messuages and a quarter of a yardland, both now in the tenure of George Clark, and bought by ES the father from John Claridge. Messuage formerly of John Harrison, now two tenements, the maltinghouse adjoining with barns, etc., and two other messuages and gardens adjoining the first messuage all in Solihull, and fronting the Birmingham-Warwick highway, which were bought by ES from William Povey. Property in Darlingscott leased from the bishop of Worcester: a messuage and half a yardland, one furlong of pasture (7 acres), and half a yardland in the fields. ES also assigned two cottages in Tiddington with the orchard and two closes and a toft whereon a cottage formerly stood and several closes of arable, of 17a 2r 7p in the fields of Alveston and Tiddington now called Cunnery Ground and Hill Ground allotted to ES on enclosure and heretofore the estate of Joanna Godwyn, 3rd March 1802. This copy was made 20th November 1827.