• Reference
    SJ1988
  • Title
    Mortgage by William Rootham, Riseley, farmer, to Richard Wooding, Swineshead, farmer, to secure £120
  • Date free text
    20 Jan 1815
  • Production date
    From: 1813 To: 1815
  • Scope and Content
    ... close in Riseley called Dovehouse close containing by estimate 3 acres but by admeasurement 2 acres 1 rood 16 perches with messuage or tenement recently erected thereon by William Rootham now in his own occupation, bounded by Gold Street, by ancient enclosure late belonging to John Sharp Palmer and now Lord St John; by the next allotment; and by the land leading from Church Lane ... allotment on Lammas Leys 5 acres 3 roods 31 perches, which he had by virtue of a release 30 December 1813 between Benjamin Welstead and Thomas Blott, James Lugsdin and William Rootham and Thomas Gell ... messuage in East End of Riseley in the tenure of John Pickering and John Smart, formerly Lewis Dickins, mason and Elizabeth Dickins, which William Rootham had as only son and heir of Robert Rootham junior who had the reversion under the will of his father Robert Rootham senior
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  • Level of description
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