Monteagle House Enfranchisment, 1915

This is the document which converted the property from a copyholding of the Manor of Crondall to a Freehold property. It can be found in the Manorial Court books of Crondall Manor in Hampshire Record Office

Manor and Hundred of Crondall in the County of Southhampton

29th July 1915

Henrietta M. Ward - Enfranchisement

On the day and year abovesaid a Deed of Enfranchisement to Henrietta Mary Ward is enrolled as follow:--

This Indenture made the Twenty ninth day of July One thousand nine hundred and fifteen Between The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England Lords of the Manor and Hundred of Crondall in the County of Southampton (hereinafter called the Commissioners) of the one part and Henrietta Mary Ward of Deal House Marlow in the County of Buckingham Widow (hereinafter called the tenant) of the other part Whereas on the ninth day of February One thousand nine hundred and three the tenant was duly admitted by copy of Court Roll of the said Manor and Hundred (under the fines if 1/-, 1/- and 1/-) for the hereditaments hereinafter described and intended to be hereby enfranchised To hold to her and her heirs and assigns for ever according to the custom of the said Manor and Hundred And whereas by virtue of an Order of Her Late Majesty Queen Victoria in Council bearing date the Twenty first day of March One thousand eight hundred and sixty two duly published in the London Gazette of the Twenty fifth day of the same month the Commissioners are authorised (inter alia) to make the sale and enfranchisement hereinafter contained And whereas the Commissioners have contracted and agreed with the tenant for the sale and enfranchisement to her of the copyhold hereditament for the sum of One hundred ans sixty five pounds seventeen shillings and sixpence Now this Indenture witnesseth that in pursuance of the said Agreement and in consideration of the sum of One hundred and sixty five pounds seventeen shillings and sixpence Sterling paid by the tenant into the Bank of England to the account of the Commissioners the payment whereof in manner aforesaid is testified by the Memorandum whereof is endorsed hereon and signed by two of the Joint Commissioners Do by these presents grant release enfranchise and convey unto the tenant All those pieces or parcels of land containing together an area of Sixty nine acres two roods and thirty nine perches or thereabouts with the messuage buildings and two cottages thereon known as Mount Eagle Farm situate in the Parish of Yateley in the County of Southampton which premises are comprised in the Schedule hereunder written and are for the better indentification thereof delineated upon the plan hereunto annexed and thereon coloured pink Together with all mines minerals rights easements and appurtenances to the said hereditaments belonging or appertaining Excepting nevertheless and reserving to the Commissioners (the tenant also hereby granting and releasing to them) and their successors and assigns All mines minerals and mineral substrata lying and being under the said hereditatments hereinbefore expressed to be hereby conveyed or enfranchised and situate at a greater depth than Two hundred feet from the surface thereof Together with full power to win and work get and carry away the same by any methods of mining which shall for the time being be in ordinary use in the district or otherwise recognised as a proper method of working mines but without entering on the surface of the said hereditaments or causing any subsidence thereof or of the buildings for the time being thereon To hold the said hereditaments and premises (except as aforesaid) unto and and to the use of the tenant in fee simple as freehold henceforth and forever discharged by these presents from all fines quit rents heriots and other incidents of Copyhold or Customary tenure And the Commissioners hereby Covenant with the tenant That they the Commissioners have not at any time heretofore done or committed or knowingly suffered or been party or privy to any act deed matter or thing whatsoever whereby or by means whereof the hereditaments and premises hereby enfranchised or any part thereof are is can shall or may be encumbered or affected in any manner whatsoever And it is hereby declared and certified that the transaction hereby effected does not form part of a larger transaction or of a series of transactions between the parties hereto in respect of which the amount or value or the aggregate amount or value of the consideration exceeds Five hundred pounds In witness whereof the Commissioners have hereunto affixed their Common Seal and the tenant hath hereunto set her hand and seal the day and year first above written.

The Schedule above referred to

Seal of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England

H M Ward (signed)

Sealed with the Common Seal of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England in the presence of F. A. Manley Official Solicitor Ecclesiastical Commission, Millbank Westminster

Signed Sealed and Delivered by the within named Henrietta Mary Ward in the presence of W. H. King Midland Hotel Mansfield

We the undersigned being two of the Joint Treasurers of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England do hereby acknowledge that the sum of One hundred and sixty five pounds seventeen shillings and sixpence being the consideration money mentioned in the within written Indenture to be paid by the within named tenant has been paid into the Bank of England to the account of the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners

£165..17..6

Witness F. A. Manley

c. N. Nicholson

c. B Stuart Wortley

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Transcribed by P J Tipton, April 2008