Catalogue description Lease and release

By Sprig Manesty of St Botolph's, Aldgate, Middx, esq, eldest son & heir of Samuel Manesty late of Gray's Inn, esq, and of Anna Manesty, widow, executrix of the last named, 1st, (and Samuel Manesty of St Botolph's, Aldgate, sailmaker, second son of Samuel Manesty, and Thomas Hill of Downham, Essex, clerk, and Jane his wife, daughter of Samuel Manesty, 2nd, parties to the release only) to Colby Aspley of London, esq., 3rd of a messuage called Gessings (now divided into two) in Welwyn, Great Ayots Crofts in Ayot St Peter and Woodground called Oldbury Croft in Little Hadham, in connexion with an action the Exchequer bought by Thomas Thornton and other creditors of Samuel Manesty.

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