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Indenture made the 14thNovember 1823 between Zachariah Shrapnell Warren of Oakham
in the County of Rutland Clerk… Gentleman of the second part and John Lukin
of Grays Inn Square in… that for ..Estates of and in the … and all reversions
and remainders thereupon expectant and expecting and…Shrapnell Warren in
hand paid by the said John Lukin at or before the sealing and delivery of those
present .. whereas is hereby acknowledged by the said Zachariah Shrapnell Warren
hath granted bargained sold ..released conveyed and confirmed and by those present
Doth grant bargain sell allow release convey and confirm unto the said John Lukin
and his heirs ( in the actual possessions of the said John Lukin now being by
virtue of a bargain .. sale to him thereof made by the said Zachariah Shrapnell
Warren in consideration of 5 shillings by Indenture bearing date the day before
the date of those present for one whole year remaining from the day next before
the day of the same Indenture or Bargain and sale and by force of the statute
made by transferring .. into possession All those messuages or tenements situate
and being in St. Margaret's Street, Morgan's Hill and Nowhere`s Lane in Bradford
in the said County of Wiltshire and which are now better known and distinguished
as All that piece or parcel of void ground being the .. three messuages or tenements
and gardens formerly in the occupation of Thomas Brown, Widow Baily and Isaac
Gibbs and afterwards of William Holbrook and William Hanny. But now untenanted
the tenements formerly standing thereon that having sometime fallen down and also
all that messuage or tenement yard garden and appurtenants in said Saint Margaret's
Street aforesaid formerly occupied by Ebenezer Brown, Apothecary and now by Joseph
Mundy and also that Messuage or tenement situate in Nowhere Lane aforesaid formerly
occupied by James Mead and now or late by Malachi Mead and also all that Messuage
or Tenement in Morgans Hill aforesaid formerly in the occupation of … William
Gerrish .. afterwards and late of same by Jane Abrahams ….. also all that
messuage .. aforesaid formerly in the occupation of Thomas Paul afterwards of
James Mead and now of …… mall.. and all those 3 messuages or tenements
near adjoining each other on Morgans Hill aforesaid formerly in the occupation
of Jane Sarah Orchard, John Holbrook and Widow Dicks and now of John Gibbs, James
Green and Joanna Piles. and all the new outhouses, edifices, buildings, stables,
yards, gardens, cartilages, lands ..and other rights, paths, passages, water,
waterworks, rights, liberties, easements, profits, privileges, commodities, advantages,
hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever to the said messuages or tenements
and hereditaments and promises hereby granted and released or intended so to be
any of them respectively belonging or in any way appertaining or accepted, reputed
.. to be known that .. used.. or enjoyed as part parcel or member of same or any
part thereof respectively and the reversion and reversions remainders yearly and
other rents issues, profits and .. of the said several Messuages or tenements
land hereditaments and premises hereby granted and released and every part and
parcel of the same with their and every of their rights, rights and appurtenances….. |
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Lands in St. Margarets Street owned by the Manor of Monkton Farleigh (from Jones`s
History of Bradford on Avon) Besides
the mesne Lords of Manors in the Hundred of Bradford, there were others who, though
not exercising any jurisdiction within the Hundred demanded fealty, and perhaps
rather more substantial acknowledgements, from some of the tenants within the
domain of our Abbess, The Manor of Cumberwell, for example, was held under the
Barony of Castle Coqlbe, and Humphrey de Lisle (Hunfredus de Insula) the Lord
of that Manor claimed from the tenant at Cumberwell-(in early times one named
Pagen)-suit and service for the same The Prior of Monkton Farleigh, moreover,
who held the Lordship of that Manor, claimed payment for lands in this parish
:1 -there is in existence a deed (of the time of Edward I.) by which Walter Fayrchild
of Wroxale grants to Alice la Loche, amongst other lands and tenements, some called
II Clifcroft and Bradcroft, and a croft above Hanecleye paying 1Bd. per annum
to the Lord Prior and Court of Farlege, viz., at Hockeday 12d. and at Michaelmas
1d."1 To this day certain property in the town of Bradford is held under
the Manor of Monkton Farleigh. A field called I the Conigre,'(one of several pieces
of ground bearing that name in the parish) just behind the house occupied by Mr.
Adye, in Woolley street, and some houses in St. Margaret street, nearly opposite
the present Railway Station, are still held under leases granted by the lessee
of "the Manor of Monkton Farleigh and Cumberwell," as it is termed.
[The Cumbrewell of Domesday, as has been already stated, was mare probably
Compton Cumberwell, near Calne. Brictric (Brictric Algarson 1) held Farleigh in
the Conqueror's time, and the addition of Cumberwell to that manor probably took
place at a later date.]
1 As early as 1397, we find Sir Thomas Hungerford
giving to Monkton Farleigh Priory , a house and two plough lands at Bradefold.'
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