| Description | Parties:
1) James Sprot, Sprot near Dunbar, Scotland, esquire; James Robinson Pease, Beverley, banker; and Henry Edward Silvester, Beverley, gentleman
2) William Jessop, Sheffield, esquire
Property: Manor or Lordship of Foston; farmhouse with butcher's shop, outbuildings and a paddock, containing 1 acre 2 roods 34 perches; several closes called Cow Pasture containing 7 acres 2 roods 30 perches, Sheep Pasture containing 10 acres 30 perches, First Tillage Field containing 9 acres 4 perches, Second Tillage Field containing 9 acres 3 roods 29 perches, Short Bruffhill Dale containing 9 acres 3 roods 29 perches, Long Bruffhill Dale containing 11 acres 1 rood 18 perches, Old Howe Bank containing 3 roods 12 perches, Old Garth containing 2 roods 20 perches, Moor Close containing 4 acres 2 roods 10 perches, the whole being 65 acres 3 roods 16 perches at Foston
Consideration: £5025
Witnesses: Harold A Silvester, Beverley, solicitor; Frederick J Fretson and William Fretson, Sheffield, solicitors, and William M Harrison, their clerk
Note: Includes plan of land
Memorial registered at Beverley, Book MP, Page 116, Number 156
Endorsed with details of transactions where William Jessop has acknowledged that the parties have a right to the production of deeds:
Deed dated 10 Oct 1904 with Thomas Williams of Scarborough, North Riding, retired provision merchant, relating to Moor Close containing 4 acres 2 roods 10 perches at Foston on the Wolds
Deed dated 14 Oct 1904 with Marmaduke Sellers of Foston on the Wolds, farmer, relating to Town Farm containing 240 acres 1 rood 17 perches; Carr House Farm containing 214 acres 9 perches, and other land at Foston on the Wolds |