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D1798/HM46/1 Turnpike Trust Act.
Stone - Wordsley Green Gate; Wolverhampton -Dudley; Dudley - Birmingham; Wolverhampton - Cannock. No Date [missing]
D1798/HM46/2
Deeds to salt workings in Lawton, Cheshire [Lawton] to Sparrow to Loundes 1725
D1798/HM46/3
Papers re case of Castley v. Birch, Stafordshire, 1818
D1798/HM46/4
Miscellaneous depositions, mostly in Chancery cases
Metcalfe & Fellow (re will of John Maklin, fishmonger of London) v. Stonier Parrott late of "Bignell Hill" (Co. Staffs) and Coventry (co. Warwicks); or Wyndham. depositions, petitions etc.; c. 1736-1740
Lease of lands and mineral rights in Foleshill, Bedworth and Hawkesbury.
ld v. Palmer, Smallwood & Wood re tithes in Seighford; c. 1747-1748
? Herefordshire or Monmouthshire Langley v. Earl of Oxford; 1745
Case re Ferrers marriage settlement of 1741; 1787
D1798/HM46/5
Opinion of Counsel, Lincoln's Inn, concerning bonds relating to insolvent postmaster, 20th May [19th cent.]
Second version, supplied by Dr King, to be confirmed
D1798/HM46/1 Turnpike Trust Act, n. d. [possibly 1760 (1 Geo. III c.38) or 1782 (22 Geo. III c.96)]
Stone - Wordsley Green Gate; Wolverhampton - Dudley; Dudley - Birmingham; Wolverhampton - Cannock
[Missing]
D1798/HM46/2 Partnership deed for salt works in Lawton, Cheshire (leased by John Lawton of Lawton, Cheshire to George Sparrow) 23 nov 1725
Also refers to saltworks at New Thurlwood and Betchton (leased from Randle Wilbraham), and Odd Rode, all Cheshire and coalwork belonging to messuage called Trubshaw in Wolstanton (leased from John Lawton)
1. George Sparrow of Redstreet, Staffs., gent.
2. Richard Lownds of Little Walsall, Cheshire, gent.
3. Richard Parrott of Bignold End, Staffs., gent.
4. William Darwall of Alsager, Cheshire, gent.
annotated with notes for a later deed of 4 April 1732
D1798/HM46/3 Bill of Sale in execution of debt in case of Castley v. Birch relating to Broadfield Colliery, Stoke upon Trent and Stonetrough Colliery, Wolstanton, 4 May 1818
1. Edward Trafford Nicolls, Sheriff of Staffordshire
2. Thomas Birch of Armitage, gent.
3. William Handley of Milton, coal merchant
D1798/HM46/4 Chancery proceedings (incomplete bills, answers and depositions in at least four cases) mainly relating to the mortgaged colliery and other estates of Stonier Parrott of Bignall Hill, namely messuages and lands in Bignall Hill/End and Talke, Audley, Staffordshire and lands and mineral rights in Exhall, Foleshill, Bedworth and Hawkesbury in Warwickshire
1734-1740
/1 Case of Charles Coker and Elizabeth his wife, late Elizabeth Wynne, widow, v. Wadham Wyndham and Frances his wife, Stonier Parrott and John Bourne, gents.
/2 Case of John Metcalfe, gent., and Robert Fellow, ironmonger, executors of John Micklem, dec., of London, fishmonger, and Palmer Grice of London, peruke maker v. Stonier Parrott and others
/3 Case of Wadham Wyndham and Frances, his wife, v. John Metcalfe and others
/4 Part only, pages 8-37, of case of unidentified defendant who bought a manor (Cole Orton, Leicestershire?) jointly with Stonier Parrott from William Sheldon in 1729
/5 Opinion of Counsel, Lincoln's Inn, concerning bonds relating to insolvent postmaster, 20th May n.d. (19th cent.) (?should be 46/5, not 46/4/5?)
D1798/HM46/5 (?should be 46/4/5) Depositions in Chancery case Eld v. Palmer, Smallwood and Wood relating to tithes in Seighford 1746-1748
D1798/HM46/6 (?should be 46/4/6) Depositions in Chancery case John and Thomas Langley v. Edward, Earl of Oxford, and Earl Mortimer relating to property in Herefordshire, Monmouthshire and Brecknock
p.25 - refers to sheep droving to Essex 1745
D1798/HM46/7 (?should be 46/4/7) Bill in Chancery case by Robert Earl Ferrers, administrator of Washington Earl Ferrers, seeking relief against the debts of the latter, who had died insolvent 1 Oct. 1778. Refers to marriage settlement of 1741 and family estates in Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Staffordshire 19 Jan 1787,
amended by order 15 Feb 1787 |