| Description | Deed of trust for the settlement of debt (Stephen Simperingham owes John Mortlock rent and tithes for farm in Pampisford amounting to £278 19s)
1st part: Stephen Simperingham of Pampisford, yeoman
2nd part: John Mortlock, esquire, and John Sennitt, gentleman, both of Cambridge
3rd part: creditors Thomas Case of Cambridge, salesman, Thomas Francis of Cambridge, merchant, Thomas Edwards, of Abington, butcher;Thomas Thackeray, Thomas Clarke, William Evans, Richard Wallis, Richard Gates, Foreman Biggs.
Signed by Stephen Simperingham, John Mortlock; witnessed by Peter Robinson, John Butcher [attorney at Cambridge]. [Note: there are spaces and seals for 16 other signatures, not completed. It is possible that the deed was not executed.]
Attached:
1st schedule, creditors of Stephen Simperingham;
2nd schedule, inventory of household furniture, stock, crops, implements of husbandry of Stephen Simperingham, including in Pampisford Middle Field 28a barley, 5a peas, 3a 2r oats, in Whittlesford Field 25 acres and 1½ r of wheat, 3a of rye, and in Sawston Orchard 4a tares.
Folded inside:
Inventory of household goods at the farm at Pampisford, total value £71 14s 6d, 4 September 1790;
Five bills from creditors including John Phipps for port, 1788, Thomas Edwards for meat, 1789-90, Samuel Clarke for rum, brandy and gin, 1789, Thomas Francis for grain, 1789, and Thomas Case, n.d. |