1939 Assent

January 2021

The document is typed and written on a single folded sheet of parchment 529 x 407mm.

It simply "assents" that the "Mansion House of Rudchester with its outbuildings, gardens and grounds and the several farms, plantations and closes of land containing together Two hundred and nine acress or thereabouts" as shown on the 1905 Conveyance map "colourded round with red" were vested in Christian Wilfrid James, "subject to a Mortgage dated the eleventh day of August One thousand nine hundred and five".

The assent is signed by Christian Wilfrid James and George Francis Bell, solicitor, and witnessed by M. J. Wild.

Signatures

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Signatures

CW James, GF Bell and MJ Wild
on 1st August 1939.

Memorandum

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Memorandum

There is an undated memorandum which states that "a piece of land forming part of Rudchester Farm ... measuring two acres or thereabouts, and a piece of Ordnance Field No. 23" (see the conveyance map from 1905) was conveyed to Victor Leslie Benson.

1939 Assent

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1939 Assent

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