ECR 16 W 005

ECR 16 W 005

Westminster, London: Tripartite indenture of mortgage of tenements

Item

19 June 1688

5 large membranes

Indenture tripartite, between Moses Pitt, of London, booksellter, of the first part, Adiel Mill, of London, stationer, of the second part, and George Brent, citizen and merchant tailor of London, and Philip Brent, of the parish of St Paul Covent Garden, woollen draper, of the third part. The following deeds are recited:
(1) 15 January 1684/5 lease by Thomas bishop of Rochester, dean of Westminster and the chapter of Westminster to the said Pitt of a messuage called the Bores Head Inne [Boars Head] with three tenements adjoining, on the west side of King Street Westminster, abutting on King Street on the east and on Shereditch against a tenement called Callis on the west and on the house called the Antelope on the north and the house called the George on the south. The premises were lately in the tenure of dame Katherine Baskerville. From Michaelmas last for 40 years. Rent £20.
(2) 9 March 1684/5 Assignment or mortgage by the said Pitt of the foregoing lease, for £3500, to Thomas Pelham, of Haland, co. Sussex, esquire, Rev John Tilloston, dean of Canterbury, and William Gore, of Great Tewing, co. Herts, esquire, executors of the will of Sir William Jones, late of Gray's Inn, knight, under proviso that if the said Pitt should pay back the said sum, together with 5% interest he should recover the lease.
(3) 7 December 1685 between the said Pelham, Tillotson and Gore of the first part, the said Pitt of the second part, dame Elizabeth Jones, widow, relict of the said Sir William, of the third part and Rev Edward Stillingfleete, dean of St Paul's, of the fourth part, assigning the foregoing lease and assignment to the third and fourth parties.
(4) 1 June 1685 Recognisance binding the said Pitt to the said Adiell Mill in £5000.
(5) 2 August 1686 Assignment by the said Pitt to the said Mill of the counterpart of the quadripartite indenture of 7 December 1685.
(6) 14 March 1686/7 Assignment by the said Pitt and Mill, for £1000 to the said John Tillotson of the foregoing (?) lease.
(7) 17 March 1686/7 Assignment by the said Pitt and Mill, for £2000 to Thomas Guy, citizen and stationer of London, of the foregoing lease.
(8) 3 July 1686 Lease by William Hastings, of Lincoln's Inn, esquire, Richard Milner, of Staple Inn, gentleman, Humphrey Bowyer, citizen and salter of London, and Elizabeth Hastings of London, widow, to the said Pitt, of a piece of ground whereon were standing several small tenements situated in Antelope yard near King Street in the parish of St Margaret's Westminster, for 60 years.
(9) 17 March 1686/7 Assignment by the said Pitt and Mill to the said Guy of the foregoing lease.
(10) 17 March 1686/7 Agreement between the said Guy, and the said Pitt and Mill for the payment by the latter of certain sums at certain times and places.
(11) 9 May 1687 Assignment by the said Pitt to the said Mill of the foregoing indentures.

The indentures originally contained five large membranes. Almost all of the fourth (from the bottom) membrane, which contained the principal operative clauses of the deed, has been torn away. The indenture appears to have been a further mortgage of the premises, to the said George and Philip Brent.
Signatures of the parties.
Four doubled tags for seals, only three of them with seals, the same in each case, applied to paper on the tag, red wax, oval, 15mm. A classical head, crowned with laurel.