Indenture contract legal manuscript 1767

[4 aktes op perkament Engeland 1767]

Manuscripts [1767] | Large legal manuscript consisting of 4 handwritten pages on parchment (each 60 x 73 cm) signed by three persons with red seals: Indenture (contract) [1767], 3 pp.

Name: Manuscripts [1767] | Large legal manuscript consisting of 4 handwritten pages on parchment (each 60 x 73 cm) signed by three persons with red seals: Indenture (contract) [1767], 3 pp.
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Legal parchment document concerning William Driver, Thomas Burch and John Simmons. In the text: Their executoro Administratoro, rent, payment sum, parcels of ground, Thomas Mainwaring, administratoro, assuquo, statutos merchant, Thomas Webbe, indentures of lease, etc.

Leave 3: Stamford Hill, Thomas Webbe, William Driver, buildings to be erected and built and with piece of ground etc, third house southward from the road, and all ways, paths, passages, sites, waters, watercourses, commodities, from the feast day of the blessed Virgin Mary, rent of a pepper corn for the first year,

Leave 4: This indenture, second year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George the Third, 1767, Thomas Burch, John Simmons, William Driver, Carpenter, Stamford Hill, Thomas Mainwaring from Bartlett’s Buildings, Thomas Webb of Brook Green, parish of Fulham in the county of Middlesex, esquire, parish of Saint John at Hackney in the county of Middlesex and lying on the back part of near Clapton in the Parish of Saint John, James Edmonds, etc.

On the back in handwritten text: Sealed and delivered being firstly duly stamped in the presence of JW Brady and Jeremiah Ilsley (Jesley?). In pencil at the bottom the year 1767 is added.

With stamp of King George III (with the initials RR and the numer 87). Probably this stamp was to prevent reuse of the embossed stamp on the back of VI pence. This is a revenue stamp, introduced into the American colonies with the Stamp Act of 1765. This had to appear on every kind of publication, including legal and commercial papers and licenses. The Stamp Act of 1765 was a tax imposed by the British Parliament on the colonies of British America. It was deplored and resisted by the Americans, whose rallying cry of “No Taxation without Representation” helped foment the American Revolution.

Stamford Hill is the neighbourhood is a sub-district of Hackney, the major component of the London Borough of Hackney, and is known for its Hasidic community, historically part of the county of Middlesex.

Bartlett’s Buildings, once known as Bartlett’s Court, was the name of a street, off Holborn Circus in the City of London.

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