• Reference
    WB/W4/1/Lo/CSB1
  • Title
    Bargain & Sale "this is of no particular use - only kept to shew how inconsiderable the Stock of a Brewer was at that time - viz 7,800" Parties: (i) Joseph Townsend of St.Giles, Cripplegate [Middlesex], brewer; (ii) Joseph Shewell of Friday Street, London, mercer Reciting: - covenant to conveyance of 4 May 1722 between (1) Joseph Townsend; (2) Edward Godfrey of St.Giles, Cripplegate, brewer; (3) Joseph Shewell (reciting (1) and (2) had been partners in the proportion of 3/4 to but had resolved to break the partnership, (3) taking the place of (1) as partner to (2)) in which (1) covenanted to convey his share in the brewing business, after deducting 7/10/- per week until Midsummer 1722, to (3) for 3,000 paid and 4,000 secured to be paid Operative Part - (i) bargained and sold his 3/4 share in the brewery business previously carried on by him and Edward Godfrey at Old Street, St.Giles, Cripplegate as set out in schedule to (ii) for 3,000 paid and 4,000 secured to be paid Schedule as of 1 Jan 1721 [1722] comprising 8,258/18/10 of which 458/18/10 was subtracted for potential bad debts: - debts in trade 4,847/9/11; - cask 1,057/12/1; - workmen's appraisements 979/15/1; - fourteen horses valued at 130; - 109 barrels of beer at 21/- per barrel 114/9/-; - 26 barrels of amber at 29/- each 27/14/-; - 76 barrels of stout at 29/- 110/4/-; - six blow at 12/- 3/18/-; - hogshead of strong beer 1/13/-; - hops 27/15/-; - hoops 1/18/9; - brooms 19/-; - malt 800; - coals 130; - 18 hoggs at 15/- 13/10/-; - hogshead stout from Protheroe 2 Debtors divided into two schedules, Islington Walk and London Walk with names including: Nicholas Lidgett, Burrell, Groves, Skegg, Roger Peirce, John Bull, Peter Williams, Thomas Fermey, John Exall, Charles Mawcott, Benjamin Turbett, John Wood, William Wright, Humphris, Fairbrother, Abraham Wade, Henry Benbridge, Mary Whitwood, Robert Elery, James Hawkins, William Stapleton, Robert Waters, Peter Nightingail, George King, Thomas Shippy, John Smith, David Higson, John Cook, James Deane, Elizabeth Judge, Edward Smith, Robert Handmore, Joseph Goteridge, R.Sax senior, Henry Bull, George Goodman, Speed, Edmund Kanes, Thomas Jones, Arthur Ginn, Taylor, Gravener, Elizabeth Child, Sanders, Henry Jones, Richard Jones, Richard Hartley, Edward Weston, Barker, William Turner, Henry Travers, Paul Oldhams, James Atkinson, Armsted, Elizabeth Pragnal, Walter Hyer, Richard Howard, John Shippy, Thomas Charlwood, Richard Smith, Nicholls, Nicholas Robinson, William Rowland, Gosling, William Horner, James Mow, Davis, Thomas Pratt, Driver, Stephen Durham, William Sax junior, Stanton, Clark, Edward Baker, Mokes, Drake, Thomas Brierton, William Beamont, Thomas Milksopp, Simpson, Thomas Ireland, Edward Kingstone, Richard Howard, John Chamberlain, Richard Edwards, William Gray, William Blincoe, John Wyans, William Parker, David Owen, Paul Griffith, James Prince, Edward Morris, Thomas Wooten, John Mills, Felix Marriott, Thomas Campion, Nathaniel Fountain, Protheroe, William Edwards, John Hollis, Francis Oldham, John Goss, William Fossett, Richard Chapman, Carter, Wood, John Parran, Daniel Bunn, Richard Glascock, Thomas Spencer and Edward Smith Workmen include: coppersmiths, millwrights, wheelwrights, plumbers, founders, backmakers, collarmakers, bricklayers, smiths, pump makers and coopers
  • Date free text
    1 Jun 1722
  • Production date
    From: 1722 To: 1722
  • Level of description
    item