Reference
X147/1-2
Title
Conveyance (Lease and Release); £2,650
Date free text
10, 11 October 1797
Production date
From: 1797 To: 1797
Scope and Content
i) John Yates of Charterhouse Square, London, grocer, surviving devisee of William Yates late of Edmonton, gent.
ii) Thomas Yates of Hornsey, merchant,
Samuel Fish of Clerkenwell, merchant, administrator of late wife Elizabeth (daughter of William Yates), and assignee of Joseph Yates, bankrupt, now in North America.
William Yates of Clerkenwell, grocer
George Yates of Doctors Commons, gent.
Rebecca Yates of Clerkenwell, spinster. (Joseph, Thomas, Richard in West Indies, William George & Rebecca being surviving children of William Yates).
iii) John Field of Polhanger, Meppershall, farmer.
- a messuage and farm called Clifton Bury;
86 acres (by admeasurement) therewith occupied; late in occupation William Godfrey;
12 acres in Clifton fields, formerly the lands of John Simms and then William Daniel esquire, and late in occupation of Samuel Thorowgood;
all as described in Lot 1 of Particulars of Sale, and now let to William Green at £94 per annum; heretofore the inheritance of Richard Astley, being purchased by him of Rt Hon George Lord Viscount Torrington; devised by Richard Astley in his will to nephew William Yates; by William Yates in will of 1 November 1787 devised to John Yates and William Loveday of Charterhouse Square, cilman, in trust to support wife Elizabeth during ther life and then to be sold for benefit of daughters Sarah (since deceased) and Rebecca; then in accordance with will of William Yates put up to auction 20 June 1797 at Garraway’s coffee-house, Exchange Alley, London, in 3 Lots, of which above property is Lot 1.
Witnesses: Edw Cooch, Wm Cooch, Baldock; John Laxton, clerk, T Handley, Clerkenwell.
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