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Document Number: | 0506040 | ||||||||||
Title: | Deed of Enfranchisement | ||||||||||
Date: | 31 December 1864 | ||||||||||
For Sale: | £60.00 | ||||||||||
Condition: | |||||||||||
Good consistent with age | |||||||||||
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Parchment : 1 sheet 70cm x 55cm with wax seal and embossed stamps. Signatures. Deed of Enfranchisement and Schedule. | |||||||||||
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John Abel SMITH of Chester Square, Middlesex - Esquire. Lord of the Manor of Forncett, Norfolk. William BETTS the younger of Bunwell, Norfolk - Farmer. SUBJECT We are told that William Betts was admitted to copyhold property in the manor of Furncett, Norfolk, in 1849. The property is now being "Enfranchised" - that is, converted into freehold tenure - on payment of £61/11/-d to the Lord of the Manor. The document has the seal of the Copyhold Commissioners. The property is described in the schedule, and consists of 4 parcels of land totalling about 6 acres. | |||||||||||
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