| Reference Number | DSCAM/2/2/4 |
| Title | KINGSWINFORD DEEDS: MATTHEWS TO THE EARL OF DUDLEY |
| Description | DSCAM/2/2/4/1: Lease and release (8-9 Mar. 1790) by Eliza Maria Foley Hodgetts of Prestwood, Staffs., spinster (only daughter and heiress at law of John Hodgetts), to Thomas Gibbons of Wolverhampton, Staffs., banker, William Gibbons of the City of Bristol, merchant and Benjamin Gibbons of the parish of Kingswinford, Staffs., ironmaster, of 48a. 2r. 6p. of newly inclosed land at Pensnett Chace, parish of Kingswinford, adjoining the Dudley-Kingswinford turnpike, in undivided third parts; consideration of £1000; covenant for the production of title deeds. |
| DSCAM/2/2/4/2: Mortgage by demise of 1000 years (12 Apr. 1811) by Benjamin Gibbons of Shut End, parish of Kingswinford, Staffs., ironmaster, to James Pratt of Bollington, parish of Chaddesley Corbett, Worcs., Esq., of the entirety of the premises, to secure £2000 and interest. |
| DSCAM/2/2/4/3: Assignment of the mortgage (14 Oct. 1830) by William Oldnall Russell of Gower Street, Middlesex, Esq., Serjeant at Law, to Edward Cotton of Birmingham, Warwickshire, drysalter, Thomas Osler of the same, glass manufacturer and Brooke Smith of the same, scale beam maker. |
| DSCAM/2/2/4/4: Copy probate of the will of Benjamin Gibbons; 1831-32. |
| DSCAM/2/2/4/5: Lease and release and appointment of the premises (9-10 Nov. 1835) by John Gibbons and Benjamin Gibbons of Shut End, parish of Kingswinford, Staffs., ironmasters, to William Mathews of Corbyns Hall, parish of Kingswinford, ironmaster and Jeremiah Mathews of Stourbridge, Worcs., land surveyor (his trustee to uses), of the premises (reduced to 48a. 1r. 20p. by a sale), to the use of W. Mathews, with power of appointments, as specified; assignment by Cotton, Osler and Smith to Edward Rogers of Stourbridge, gentleman, of a term of 1000 years in the premises, upon trust for Matthews and otherwise upon trust to attend the freehold; surrender by William Gibbons the elder of Shut End, gentleman and William Gibbons the younger of the City of Bristol, Doctor of Medicine, of a term of 600 years in the premises to W. Mathews to merge in the freehold; consideration of £2000 to Cotton et al. in repayment of their mortgage, and £902 10/- to John and Benjamin Gibbons; plan endorsed; recites previous deeds. |
| DSCAM/2/2/4/6: Deed of covenant (10 Nov. 1835) of Messrs Gibbons with Mathews for the production of title deeds. |
| DSCAM/2/2/4/7: Mortgage by appointment (11 Nov. 1835) of part of the premises (26a. 2r. 15p.) by William Mathews to John Latty Bickley of Ettingshall Lodge, Staffs., Esq. and George James Gibbons of Corbyns Lodge, Staffs., Esq., to secure £1250 and interest; with plan. |
| DSCAM/2/2/4/8: Lease for possession [release wanting] (9 July 1838) by Mathews and Bickley to George, Earl of Aberdeen and the Rt Hon. James Abercromby of Stubbing, Derbyshire, PC (trustees under the will of the late Earl of Dudley) of the premises (35a. 1r. 4p.) |
| DSCAM/2/2/4/9: Assignment (10 July 1838) of a term of 1000 years by Edward Rogers, with the consent of Bickley and Mathews, at the direction of the Earl of Aberdeen and James Abercromby (as trustees) and of the Rt Revd Henry, Lord Bishop of Exeter, Edward John, Baron Hatherton of Teddesley Park, Staffs., Francis Downing of Dudley, Worcs., Esq. and John Benbow of Mecklenburgh Square, Middlesex, Esq. (other trustees under the will of the late Earl of Dudley), to William Yeats Alban of Lincolns Inn, Middlesex, gentleman, in relation to the 35a. 1r. 4p. of land conveyed by release of even date upon trust for the person entitled to the premises under that release, and otherwise upon trust to attend the freehold; recites previous deeds inc. trusts of will of the late Earl |
| DSCAM/2/2/4/10: Deed of covenant (10 July 1838) for the production of title deeds, by John and Benjamin Gibbons to the Bishop of Exeter, Baron Hatherton, Francis Downing and John Benbow (trustees). |
| Date | 1790-1838 |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Extent | 13 items |
| Level | Sub-series |