| Reference Number | DSCAM/4/4/5 |
| Title | Material relating to Caponfield on the borders of Sedgley and Bilston, mortgaged to the Dudley Annuity Society |
| Description | DSCAM/4/4/5/1: Notice to the Revd Joseph Cartwright and others (acting trustees of the Dudley Annuity Society) as mortgagees of a moiety of the Capon alias Capton Field ironworks and estate from John Read of the Valley, parish of Bromsgrove of an annuity of £400 charged on the property, 1 Aug. 1811. |
| DSCAM/4/4/5/2: Notice from the trustees of the Dudley Annuity Society to the tenants at Capon Field (Thomas Smith et al.) to pay rents only to the Society, 4 June 1812. |
| DSCAM/4/4/5/3-4: Notices from the Annuity Society to Thomas Price and others (assignees of John Read, a bankrupt) to pay off the mortgage, 15 June 1813. |
| DSCAM/4/4/5/5: Copy agreement (29 Jan. 1820) between Thomas Smith of Capponfield, parish of Sedgley, iron master and Thomas Harrison Smith his son to lease him collieries and works called the Meadows Colliery, parish of Sedgley, for a term of 12 years at tonnage royalties (specified) varying from seam to seam. |
| DSCAM/4/4/5/6:Draft notice to the sheriff from the trustees by the Dudley Annuity Society that they are the owners of the plant, castings, chattels etc. of Thomas Smith, distrained at Caponfield Works and of similar items secretly removed from the site., 30 Nov. 1820. |
DSCAM/4/4/5/7-10: Copy authority (18 Mar. 1822) from Bourne as trustee of the Dudley Annuity Society to Richard Brinton and Thomas Lester to let Caponfield; authority (July 1822) from Brinton and Lester, assignees of Thomas Smith a bankrupt, to the trustees of the Dudley Annuity Society to grant a lease of Caponfield furnaces, whose possession they abandon to the trustees (in case it should turn out that any part of the freehold belongs to the bankrupt).
Agreement (1822) for a lease of Caponfield Furnaces etc. by the trustees of the Annuity Society and the assignees of Smith to George Bishton, John Underhill and William Pickin of the Cockshutts Colliery, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, coalmasters and copartners, for a term of 7 years at a rent of £320 p.a. rising to £370 p.a. after three and a half years; tenants to put plant into good working order; either party may determine lease at half way; arrangements to compensate lessees for half outlay on putting plant into order to a maximum of £400; further provisions for compensation if lease determined early in consequence of legal proceedings involving the lessors.
Agreement (1 July 1822) for a lease of a foundry and 3 small tenements on the Capon Field estate by the trustees of the Annuity Society to Thomas Otway and Richard Banks of Caponfield Iron Works, Staffordshire, ironmasters, for a term of 7 years at a rent of £50 p.a.; provisions for compensation if lease determined early in consequence of legal proceedings. Attached correspondence of Feb. 1824 to Bourne complaining that the lease has yet to be executed and detailing their outlay on repairs and improvements. |
| DSCAM/4/4/5/11: Agreement (28 Aug. 1823) allowing lessors to remove all patterns left by them at Caponfield. |
| DSCAM/4/4/5/12: Draft notice to the sheriff by the trustees that they are owners of a moiety of the plant and machinery at Caponfield lately in the occupation of William Aston, 10 Mar. 1826. |
| DSCAM/4/4/5/13-15: Agreements for lettings at Caponfield by the trustees of ther Dudley Annuity Society - stables to Adam Pots and Francis Pots of Caponfield, from week to week at 1s 3d a week (1826); a dwellinghouse there to Thomas Burnish of Bilston, bricklayer, from quarter to quarter at £3 5/- a quarter (9 Dec. 1826); a warehouse to John Bradbury of Highfields, township of Bilston, corn dealer, from quarter to quarter at £1 a quarter (4 June 1827). |
| DSCAM/4/4/5/16-28: Notice to quit from the trustees of the Dudley Annuity Society to William Grayer, 24 Dec. 1829; authorities to distrain Grayer's stock etc., 23 Apr. 1830, 15 Feb. 1831 and 30 May 1831. Inventories, valuations, advertisements and correspondence concerning the stone quarry at Bilston and distraint on the plant of William Grayer there on the authority of the trustees of the Dudley Annuity Society, 1828-31. |
| DSCAM/4/4/5/29-40: Miscellaneous plans, valuations and surveys, conditions of sale, printed particulars etc., 1820-33; #35 is a detailed report by Joseph C. Brettell to James Bourne (1 Jan. 1830) on the lands, mines and quarries at Capon Field; #34 a file of sale particulars of boats, colliery equpiment, engines and minerals (23 Jan.-1 Feb. 1821) at Caponfield etc.. |
| DSCAM/4/4/5/41: Memorandum (25 June 1834) between the trustees of the Dudley Annuity Society and Thomas Eyre Lee of Birmingham, Warwickshire, gentleman (on behalf of the Company of Proprietors of the Birmingham Canal Navigation) for the sale of the Society's interest in the Caponfield estate; consideration of £537 12s 4d. |
| DSCAM/4/4/5/42: Draft deposition of John Shale as to incrochments at Caponfield, n.d. |
| DSCAM/4/4/5/43-80: Miscellaneous accounts, vouchers, correspondence and notices re Caponfield, including letter and accounts relating to Thomas Smith letter and account of 1828 from William Grayer (#59), expression of interest by George Bishton in Aug. 1833 (#65); 1820-33. |
| Date | 1811-1836 |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Extent | 80 items |
| Level | Item |