| Description | Memorandum (unsigned) referring to a copy lease ('given me by the parish clerk of Whitechapel') of 2 gardens and a shed, and to a dispute over title.
Scope and Content
Refers to 'Isaac Cotton the purchaser, or his widow, or David or George their sons; George married Mrs. Ann Pawlett and settled a rent charge of £50 a year for life upon that estate; Isaac Cotton their son proves very extravagant, runs in arrear of his mother's annuity and mortgages the estate for 1000 years'.
[Note - the marriage referred to, between George Cotton and Ann Paulet (sic), took place at St.Benet's, Paul's Wharf, on 24 Sep. 1650] |