Catalogue description Copy (paper)   Conveyance from Tho. Sargenson to Ant. Hunt, musician, and Anne, his...

Copy (paper)

Conveyance from Tho. Sargenson to Ant. Hunt, musician, and Anne, his wife, for £44 of a messuage, stable, etc., in Wall Street, late in occupation of Jos. Murdock, for over.

Witn. as DR429/261.

There is little to note about the following deeds except the occurrence of unusual words, such as "doddells" or "daddells" (DR429/264), the local word for pollard trees, selion (DR429/263), French, "sillon", a furrow, and the splendid "aired", or eared (DR429/264), ploughed, which is found in various forms in so many languages akin to ours. I wonder what the "plaister chamber" (DR429/270) signifies; possibly a room with a splendid plaster ceiling, such as there is in Palace Yard. We may also note the payment of a sum in guineas and the marking of leaden cisterns belonging to the church with an initial letter (DR429/267).

Francis Charnock, of Sedgnock, who was concerned with the Brinklow property (DR429/257), transactions referred to in an earlier article, lies buried in St. Mary's, Warwick, where his epitaph notes that he was sprung from an old family in Bedfordshire and his arms were "a bend, in the sinister chief a mullet, ling 2 bars between 3 crescents (Bloxham, Churches of Warwickshire, 49).