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Document Number:0508007
Title:Distraint
Date:01 September 1907
For Sale:£25.00
Condition:
Very good
Description:
Paper : 2 sheets 32cm x 20cm
Summary of contents:
PARTIES
John William THURSTON of Bawburgh, Norfolk.
John William SMITH of Leytonstone, Essex.

SUBJECT
This is a notice of distraint sent to John William Thurston who owes£17 in rent on a dwellinghouse and farm at Bawburgh, and which became due the previous April.

Accordingly, Ernest Henry BARNARD, acting as Bailiff for the Landlord, John William Smith, is taking possession of all "cattle goods and chattels" on the farm and also intends to sell off all growing crops when ripe.
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