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Document Number:0509039
Title:Deed of Enfranchisement
Date:12 August 1856
For Sale:£58.00
Condition:
Very good
Description:
Parchment : 1 sheet 40cm x 69cm with 2 wax seals, 1 signature and revenue stamp.
Summary of contents:
PARTIES
Digby Latimer of Headington, Oxfordshire. Esquire.
James Morrell of the City of Oxford and of Headington Hill, Oxfordshire. Esquire.

SUBJECT
The Indenture relates to 5 messuages on Copyhold land of the Manor of Headington, to which James Morrell was admitted in 1855. For the fee of £10 this property is now being Enfranchised (ie converted into Freehold property).

This presumably implies that Digby Latimer is Lord of the Manor of Headington.
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