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Pickles Family Deed - Colne 1857
I have recently acquired the following Manuscript relating to the Pickles family interests:
Abridgement:
In the Halmot Court of the most noble Walter Francis Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry of the manor of Colne on the twenty-forth day of April 1857 before Dixon Robinson gent, Steward:
WHEREAS by a surrender of the thirteenth day of August 1845 in consideration of the sum of £120 paid by : WILLIAM SMITH of Colne, Cabinet Maker, RICHARD HARDACRE (then of Colne but now of Hellifield) gent, THOMAS WARD of Colne, Cotton Manufacturer now deceased, JOHN NORTON, Pawnbroker now deceased, ANN SUNDERLAND of Waterside near Colne, spinster but since married to WILLIAM PICKLES :- all the aforesaid being the Trustees for the time being of a certain association called The Colne Waterside Benefit Building Association-: to THOMAS SELLERS PRESTON of Colne, Grocer, out of the funds of the Association (he being one of the members) for ALL THAT messuage or dwelling house being at King Street in Colne, at or near Windy Bank, formerly in the occupation of RICHARD VEEVERS.
AND ALSO all that other messuage or dwelling house situate in Union Street, in or near Windy Bank, formerly in the occupation of JOSEPH POLLARD, together with the appurtenances thereto belonging were, inter alia, surrendered to WILLIAM SMITH forever, and he was admitted to the recited surrender on the tenth day of October 1845 following:
AND WHEREAS by another surrender dated the eighteenth day of April 1846, in consideration of the sum of £350 paid by JOHN WILKINSON of Lancashire Gill, in the parish of Thornton and in the county of York, yeoman, to the said THOMAS SELLERS PRESTON who, with his wife JANE PRESTON, surrendered, inter alia, the messuage, hereditaments, dwelling houses and premises described hereto before, to the use of the said JOHN WILKINSON forever, subject to the sum of £120, with interest, as in the recited surrender before mentioned: Redeemable nevertheless upon payment by the said THOMAS SELLERS PRESTON to the said JOHN WILKINSON of the said sum of £350 with interest thereon. AND the said JOHN WILKINSON was admitted in the month of October following.
AND WHEREAS by an indenture dated the twenty-ninth day of June 1849 between the said JOHN WILKINSON , RICHARD HARDACRE and WILLIAM JAMES CARR of Colne, gent, the messuages before described were granted and released by the said JOHN WILKINSON, in exercise of his powers of sale, unto the said RICHARD HARDACRE and WILLIAM JAMES CARR as tenants in common, subject to the recited mortgage of debt of £120 and interest due. AND THE said RICHARD HARDACRE and WILLIAM JAMES CARR thereupon became members of, and represented the shares of the said THOMAS SELLERS PRESTON, in the aforesaid Association.
AND WHEREAS WILLIAM JAMES CARR sometime also sold his shares in the said premises for the sum of £35 to RICHARD HARDACRE on the first day of August 1849.
AND WHEREAS the said RICHARD HARDACRE was now the sole representative of the shares of the said THOMAS SELLERS PRESTON in the association and has paid to the Trustees the sum of £120 together with all the interest and redemption money etc, as they the said WILLIAM SMITH, RICHARD HARDACRE, ANN PICKLES, WILLIAM PICKLES, HENRY PICKLES (Draper), HENRY AYRTON (of Waterside, Draper), JAMES MANLEY, (of Colne, Grocer), JOSEPH VEEVERS (of Colne, Carrier) and NATHAN COATES (of Little Marsden, Collier) all present Trustees agree to the surrender of the said hereditaments and premises to RICHARD HOLMES of Burnley, gent, in trust for the said RICHARD HARDACRE and his assigns.
AND SHE the said ANN PICKLES, having been solely, apart from her husband, been examined by WILLIAM SMITH deputy steward of DIXON ROBINSON, gent, chief steward, and confessed that she was not constrained thereto but of her own free will gave up (her rights to the hereditaments etc,).
AND the said WILLIAM JAMES CARR hath by a rod out of court given up, by the hands and acceptance of BENJAMIN WATSON, a customary tenant of the Manor, those two messuages etc, firstly herein described, now in the occupation of JOHN VEEVERS and RICHARD VEEVERS, at a yearly copyhold rent of one penny. AND HEREUPON comes RICHARD HOLMES by JOHN COLBERT his attorney and delivers admittance for a fine to the said RICHARD HARDACRE forever according to the customs of the Manor. The fine of one penny is paid by the pledge of HENRY DEAN , gent.
Examined by DIXON ROBINSON.
A---ck & Sellers Solicitors, Colne.
John A Clayton
Barrowford
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