Catalogue description Abstract of the Title of Miss Jane Hitchins to a small piece of land in Fleet St.

The document recites:- firstly, a deed (25th Oct., 1847) whereby, having rehearsed (i) a lease and release of 25th.-26th. Sept., 1828 whereby the relevant hereditaments were limited by Thomas Banbury and Henry Lea, and by Thomas Dalton, to the use of John [I] Hammerton [dead by 1847] (ii) a mortgage by demise for 1,000 years (29th. Sept., 1828) whereby J. [I] Hammerton pledged the premises to Charles Harris sen., Banbury and Charles Harris jun. in consideration of £300 plus interest, (iii) J. [I] Hammerton's will (29th. Aug., 1827) but his intestacy as regards the property under review, leaving his eldest son (John [II] Hammerton) his heir at law, (iv) a deed (16th. Sept., 1847) whereby, in consideration of £48, J. [II] Hammerton conveyed the premises (with other estate) to William Rotherham (in the main reciting deed described as of Coventry, printer) upon trust for sale, (v) Rotherham's auctioneering of the premises to W.C. Howell for £400 on 7th. Oct., 1847, (vi) Banbury's outliving both the Harrises and his being their executor, (vii) the £300 principal's alone being due on the 1828 mortgage - therefore, in consideration of £400 paid by Howell at J. [II] Hammerton's appointment (whereof £300 was due to Banbury and £100 to Rotherham) and of 5/- paid by Howell to J. [II] Hammerton, the 1,000-year term was merged in the freehold; consequently Banbury (described as in PA 353/1/23), with the approval of Rotherham and J. [II] Hammerton, assigned to Howell three messuages (one whereof had been built by J. [I] Hammerton and in 1847 had been formerly occupied by John Elliott and Joseph Green) on the south-west side of Fleet St. (abutting on Conduit Yard, Spon St.) then lately occupied by J. [I] Hammerton, Samuel Hunt Pearson and James Holt, subsequently by Benjamin West, William Kimberley, Thomas Hammerton, Thomas Sparkes, William Johnson and Ralph Langshaw, with right of road (as in PA 353/1/31) over J. [I] Stowe's premises and also across another road from Spon St. across Conduit Yard, to the successive uses of Howell, Joseph Webb (of Coventry, builder) and Howell and his heirs: secondly, Howell's will (26th. Sept., 1857) wherein he is described as a coal-agent, devising his realty to his wife and executrix Mary Ann: thirdly, W.C. Howell's will's proof on 29th. Apr., 1863: fourthly, the 29th. Mar., 1885 will of Thomas Mills (of Fleet St., Coventry, cordwainer) appointing Thomas Edward Brown (of Coventry, machinist) and William Yates (of Coventry, ribbon-weaver) his trustees for the sale of his estate: fifthly, T. Mills' death on 6th. June, 1885: sixthly, T. Mills' will's proof at Birmingham on 16th. July, 1885: seventhly, a deed (24th. July, 1885) whereby, having rehearsed Mills' will, death and probate, in consideration of £240, T.E. Brown and W. Yates conveyed to Jane Hitchins (of Coventry, spinster) numbers 1, 2 and 3, Court No. 5, Fleet St., and 10, Conduit Yard (a blacksmith's shop) with the lean-to called "the cabin", the stable, privy and piggeries, and the right of passage over (a) hereditaments formerly J. [I] Stowe's (successively Harriot Tomlinson's and Thomas Beech's) and (b) the Spon St. road as before detailed; eighthly, the statutory declaration (made on 28th. Aug., 1889 by Thomas Beech (of 137, Spon St., Coventry) with his wife Mary Ann (née Mills) and [his brother-in-law] Thomas Mills, all since deceased) whose second to tenth clauses were respectively the 25th. Oct., 1847 deed, W.C. Howell's will, that will's proof, M.A. Howell's death on 6th. June, 1883 with her brother T. Mills as heir at law because of her intestacy, T. Mills' entry into the messuages, his will, his death and probate, the 1885 deed, and Hitchins' receipt of rents for the land.