Catalogue description Lease fr. Hum. Burton, Hen. Horne and others, feofees, to Hen. Wilkinson, of a tenement...

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Details of DR429/185
Reference: DR429/185
Description:

Lease fr. Hum. Burton, Hen. Horne and others, feofees, to Hen. Wilkinson, of a tenement in Bishop Street, called the "Crane" late in the occupation of Jon. Sweete, for 24 years, at 43s. 4d.; and one little croft in Dog Lane, saving free liberty of ingress for the making of the trench for the town ditch for the better defence of the city.

 

Mark of Hen. Wilkinson. (dorso) Witn. Edw. Browne (mark), Mic. Lucas, Rog. Ambrose.

 

Among these deeds No. DR429/188 points to some legal dispute concerning the title of the church lands. No. 191 shows some of the secular and parochial work which fell to the share of the churchwardens. It is, as far as these documents are concerned, unique, and forms a very interesting piece of evidence on the spread of button-making, which had been carried on in this country from Elizabethan times, though it was only in the eighteenth century after the decay of the trade in buckles, that it became one of the staple manufacturers of Birmingham. (See Victoria County History," II., 237). "Duble aparell" means two sets of garments.

Date: 16 Jan., 20 Ch.I.(1644-5)
Held by: Warwickshire County Record Office, not available at The National Archives
Language: English

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