Title:
Release
Level: Category
Parish Records
Level: Fonds
STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET, St Mary the Virgin and St John the Evangelist
Level: Sub-Fonds
SURVEYORS
Level: Series
Miscellaneous
Level: Sub-Series
Deeds to Stansted Chapel
Scope and Content:
Conveyance (release) for £111.

(i) William Barber of Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, butcher, and his wife Mary (formerly Mary Bocock, spinster), Ann Bocock of Bishop's Stortford, spinster, Thomas Sparling of Bishop's Stortford, schoolmaster, and his wife Joanna (formerly Joanna Bocock, spinster), Thomas Bocock of Stepney, Middlesex, yeoman, and his wife Sarah, Laetitia Leader of Latton, widow (formerly Laetitia Bocock, spinster), and Joseph Bocock of Bishop's Stortford, labourer, the main parties being all children of Mary Bocock of Bishop's Stortford, widow, deceased, and devisees under the will (proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1798) of Arthur Clarke of Quendon Street, victualler (father of the said Mary Bocock widow), to (ii) William Brett of Stansted Mountfitchet, blacksmith, and to (iii) John Miller of Stansted Mountfitchet, victualler, in trust for said William Brett.

Messuage or tenement called the Chapel House with yard and garden 'in the Street called the Chapel' in Stansted Mountfitchet, occupied by said William Brett.

Covenant by (i) to levy a fine to George Welch of Stansted Mountfitchet surgeon and apothecary in trust for (ii).

Covenant by Welch, purchaser of the greater part of the premises by value, to produce indenture made between said Arthur Clarke and his wife Joanna (formerly Joanna Brett spinster) and William Patmore of Bishop's Stortford, fellmonger, 1779 [no details, but see D/P 109/28/3. Presumably Welch's purchase was the property recorded in D/P 109/28/5].

Signed and sealed by each of (i), with the exception of Sarah Bocock who marks her mark. All use the seal of a bearded head in left profile with the exception of Thomas Bocock and Sarah Bocock who use a seal of a wheel: endorsements show that they sealed the release separately from the others.

Dates of Creation:
5 June 1810
Extent:
1
System Arrangement:
Forms an original bundle with D/P 109/22/6, 8-10.
Physical Characteristics:
Folded parchment (two membranes).
Related Unit of Description:
For the corresponding lease see D/P 109/22/6.

Key terms

TypeKey termsDescription
Subjects Chapels Release of 'the Chapel House', Stansted Mountfitchet, 1810
Personal Names Ann
Bocock 		spinster, Bishop's Stortford, 1810
Personal Names Arthur
Clarke 		victualler, Quendon, 1798
Personal Names George
Welch 		surgeon and apothecary, Stansted Mountfitchet, 1810
Personal Names Joanna
Clarke 		formerly Brett; 1779
Personal Names Joanna
Sparling 		formerly Bocock; Bishop's Stortford, 1810
Personal Names John
Miller 		victualler, Stansted Mountfitchet, 1810
Personal Names Joseph
Bocock 		labourer, Bishop's Stortford, 1810
Personal Names Laetitia
Leader 		formerly Bocock; widow, Latton, 1810
Personal Names Mary
Barber 		formerly Bocock; Bishop's Stortford, 1810
Personal Names Mary
Bocock 		widow, Bishop's Stortford (deceased), 1810
Personal Names Sarah
Bocock 		Stepney, 1810
Personal Names Thomas
Bocock 		yeoman, Stepney, 1810
Personal Names Thomas
Sparling 		schoolmaster, Bishop's Stortford, 1810
Personal Names William
Barber 		butcher, Bishop's Stortford, 1810
Personal Names William
Brett 		blacksmith, Stansted Mountfitchet, 1810
Personal Names William
Patmore 		fellmonger, Bishop's Stortford, 1779
Place Names Chapel Hill
Chapel House
Stansted Mountfitchet 		Release, 1810
Document Types Deed Chapel House, Stansted Mountfitchet, 1810