Dated 30th November 1850
Messrs Henry Coxhead and Robert
Strong Cramp
---- to ----
Mr John Mercer
(copy)
Conveyance
Of coach houses Stables Land and
hereditaments on Clover Hill Ramsgate
John Mercer
Ramsgate
THIS INDENTURE made the thirtieth day of November in the year of our lord
one thousand eight hundred and fifty Between Henry Coxhead of the parish of Saint
Lawrence in the isle of Thanet in the county of Kent gentleman and Robert
Strong Cramp of Ramsgate in the said isle of Thanet and county of Kent brewer
of the one part and John Mercer of Ramsgate aforesaid gentleman of the other
part WHEREAS Sarah Fowler late
of Ramsgate aforesaid widow and relict of Joseph Fowler then late of the same
place coach master being seised and possessed of the hereditaments and premises
hereinafter described and intended to be hereby granted and release with their appurtenances
by her last will and testament in writing bearing date the fourteenth day of May
one thousand eight hundred and forty seven duly executed and attested After
devising certain parts of her real estate (not comprehending the hereditaments
and premises hereinafter particularly mentioned and described and intended to be hereby granted and
released) unto her son in law the said Henry Coxhead and her friend the said
Robert Strong Cramp and their heirs upon certain trusts therein mentioned and
bequeathed certain parts of her personal estate in manner therein mentioned As
to all the other her messuages lands tenements hereditaments parts or share of
hereditaments and all other her estate whatsoever and whatsoever as well real
as personal which she should be seized or possessed of or intitled unto or over
which she had any right or disposing power whatever at law or in equity The
said testator Gave devised and bequeathed the same and every part thereof with
appurtenances Unto her said son in law the said Henry Coxhead and Robert Strong
Cramp their heirs executors administrators and assigns according to the nature
of the estate respectively Upon trust that they her said trustees and the survivor
of them and the heirs executors administrators and assigns of such survivor
according to the nature of the estate should and did as soon as conveniently
might be after her decease sell and dispose of such part and parts of her said estate and effects as should be
freehold or leasehold or of the nature of freehold or leasehold either together
or in parcels for the best price or prices that could be reasonably obtained
for the same And upon payment of the purchase money for the same should and did
convey and assign the same to the purchaser or purchasers thereof and his her
or their heirs executors administrators or assigns according to the nature of
the estate were the same real or personal And for facilitating such sale and
disposition of her said freehold and leasehold estates The said Testatrix did
hereby declare that the receipt or receipts of here said trustees or of the
survivor of them or of the heirs executors administrators or assigns of the
survivor of them according to the nature of the estate should be a sufficient
discharge to any purchaser or purchasers of all or any part of her said
freehold or leasehold estates for his her or their respective purchase money or
so much thereof as in such receipt of receipts should be acknowledged or
expressed to be received and that such purchaser or purchasers his her or their
executors administrators or assigns should not afterwards be answerable or
accountable for any loss misapplication or nonapplication of such purchase
money or any part thereof AND WHEREAS the said Sarah Fowler departed
this life on the second day of January one thousand eight hundred and forty
nine without having revoked or altered her said in part recited will which was
on the twenty forth day of march one thousand eight hundred and forty nine duly
proved by the said Henry Coxhead and Robert Strong Cramp the executors thereof
in the prerogative court of the archbishop of canterbury AND WHEREAS
the said Henry Coxhead and Robert Strong Cramp in pursuance of the trusts
contained in the said hereinbefore recited will of the said Sarah Fowler
deceased have contracted and agreed with the said John Mercer for the absolute
sale to him of the hereditaments and premises hereinafter particularly
mentioned and described and intended to be hereby granted and released with
their appurtenances and the fee simple and inheritance thereof in possession
free from incumbrances at or for the price or sum of seven hundred and thirty
five pounds being the best price that could be obtained for the same NOW
THIS INDENTURE WITHNESSETH that in pursuance of the said recited contract
and in consideration of the sum of Seven hundred and thirty five pounds of
lawful money of Great Britain to the said Henry Coxhead and Robert Strong Cramp
(as such trustees as aforesaid) in hand paid by the said John Mercer at or
immediately before the execution of these presents the receipt whereof the said
Henry Coxhead and Robert Strong Cramp do hereby acknowledge and thereof do and
each of them doth release and discharge the said John Mercer his heirs
executors administrators and assigns for ever by these presents They the said Henry
Coxhead and Robert Strong Cramp in pursuance of the trusts reposed in them by
the said hereinbefore recited will of the said Sarah Fowler deceased Do and
each of the Doth by these presents grant release and convey unto the said John
Mercer his heirs and assigns ALL THAT piece or parcel of land or
ground with the coach houses stables and buildings now or lately standing and
being thereon situate lying or being on Clover hill in Ramsgate aforesaid in
the said isle of Thanet and county of Kent Abutting and adjoining to Clover
hill aforesaid in front towards the north east and containing by admeasurement
on that side thereof two hundred and fifty five feet and five inches of assize
little more or less to a three feet passage towards the south east and
containing by admeasurement on that side thereof eighty five feet and five
inches of assize little more or less to hereditaments and premises of the
devisees of the late Richard Thompson deceased in part and to hereditaments of
the said John Mercer in other part towards the South west and containing by
admeasurement on that side thereof on hundred and forty four feet five inches
of assize little more or less and to hereditaments and premises of messieurs
Robert and James Austen towards the west and north west and containing by
admeasurement on those sides thereof one hundred and six feet and thirty six
feet and four inches of assize little more of less which said piece or parcel
of land and hereditaments intended to be hereby granted and released were
formerly in the tenure or occupation of messieurs John and Joseph Fowler and
late of the said Sarah Fowler deceased or of her assigns or undertenants and
were purchased by the said John Fowler deceased with other hereditaments of and
from John Heritage of Watling street in the City of London silk manufacturer
and the same were by indenture of lease and release bearing date respectively
the third and forth days of October one thousand eight hundred and four
conveyed and assured to the said John Fowler as therein mentioned and the same hereditaments
and premises were particularly delineated and described in the maps or plan
thereof indorsed on these presents And all houses outhouses edifices buildings
ways paths passages easements liberties privileges
profits commodities advantages emoluments rights members and appurtenances
whatsoever to the said hereditaments and premises thereinbefore described
belonging or appertaining AND the reversion and reversions remainder and
remainders rents issues and profits thereof and of every part thereof AND all
the estate right title interest use trust inheritance property benefit claim
and demand whatsoever both at law and in equity or otherwise of them the said Henry
Coxhead and Robert Strong Cramp and each of them of in and out of the same
hereditaments and premises AND ALSO all deeds evidences and writings concerning
the title to the said hereditaments and premises only or any part thereof only
now in the custody of them the said Henry Coxhead and Robert Strong Cramp or
either of them or which they or either of them can procure without suit TO
HAVE AND TO HOLD the said piece or parcel of land coach houses stables
buildings and all and singular the hereditaments and premises hereby granted
and released or intended so to be with their appurtenances unto and to the use
of the said John Mercer his heirs and assigns for ever AND the said John Mercer doth hereby declare that any wife of
him the said John Mercer who should happen to survive him shall not be entitled
to dower out of or in the same hereditaments and premises or any part thereof AND
each of them the said Henry Coxhead and Robert Strong Cramp severally and apart
for the other of them and as and concerning his own acts and defaults only doth
hereby for himself his heirs executors and administrators covenant and declare
with and to the said John Mercer his heirs and assigns that they the said Henry Coxhead and Robert Strong Cramp respectively have not done or permitted any
act deed matter or thing by means whereof the said hereditaments and premises
hereby granted and released or intended so to be or any part thereof with their
appurtenances are is can shall or may be aliened incumbered or prejudicially
effected in title estate or otherwise howsoever AND ALSO that the said
Henry Coxhead and Robert Strong Cramp or one of them their or one of their
heirs executors of administrators shall and will at all times hereafter upon
every reasonable request and at the expense of the said John Mercer his heirs
or assigns (unless prevented by fire or other inevitable accident) produce or
procure to be produced to him or them or to his of their counsel solicitor or
agent in any court of law or equity or other judicature at or elsewhere in
England as occasion shall require a certain deed poll bearing date the twenty
second day of may one thousand eight hundred and forty three under the hand and
seal of the said Sarah Fowler deceased for the manifestation and defence of the
estate right and title of the said John Mercer his heirs or assigns in and to
the said hereditaments and premises hereby granted and released or any part
thereof AND ALSO shall and will at the like request and expense
furnish an abstract or abstracts or copy or copies of the same deed such copies
to attested if required IN WITNESS whereof the said parties to these
presents have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above
written.
Henry (LS) Coxhead Robert
Strong (LS) Cramp John
(LS) Mercer
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Received the day and year first above within written
of and from the within named John Mercer the sum of seven hundred and thirty five pounds being the consideration money within
mentioned to be paid by him to me |
£735 |
Henry
Coxhead
Robert Strong Cramp
Witness to the signing hereof by Henry Coxhead
Martin L
Daniel
H J E Parker
Witness to the signing hereof by Robert Strong Cramp
Chas Daniel
Signed sealed and delivered by the within named Henry Coxhead
in the presence of
Martin L
Daniel Ramsgate Solr
H J E Parker his Clerk
Signed sealed and delivered by the within named Robert Strong
Cramp in the presence of
Chas Daniel Ramsgate Solr
Signed sealed and delivered by the within named John Mercer
in the presence of
___ Hammond Clerk to the said John Mercer