This Indenture made the twenty sixth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixteen Between Thomas Bannister of the parish of Cradley in the county of Hereford labourer of the one part and Robert Oldaker of the parish of Michaelchurch in the said county of Hereford Miller of the other part Witnesseth that for and in consideration of the sum of five shillings of lawful British money to the said Thomas Bannister in hand well and truly paid and satisfied by the said Robert Oldaker the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged He the said Thomas Bannister Hath granted bargained and sold and by these presents Doth grant bargain and sell unto the said Robert Oldaker his executors administrators and assigns All that dwellinghouse cottage or tenement wherein Ann Davis widow did heretofore dwell commonly called or known by the name of Coleman Slade And also all that garden and orchard to the same belonging and adjoining And also all those two orchards or crofts of land to the said dwellinghouse or cottage belonging or appertaining containing by estimation two acres more or less Together with all houses outhouses barns stables gardens orchards lands meadows pastures woods underwoods ways waters waste grounds commons profits and emoluments tenements and hereditaments to the said dwellinghouse cottage or tenement belonging or appertaining And the reversion and reversions remainder and remainders rents issues and profits of all and singular the said premises To have and to hold the said dwellinghouse cottage or tenement garden orchards lands hereditaments and premises hereby bargained and sold with the appurtenances and every part thereof unto the said Robert Oldaker his executors administrators and assigns from the day next before the day of the date hereof for and during and unto the full end and term of one whole year from thence next ensuing and fully to be complete and ended Yielding and paying therefore unto the said Thomas Bannister his heirs or assigns the rent of a pepper corn on the last day of the said term if demanded Which said bargain and sale hereby made is so made to this only intent and purpose that by virtue hereof and by force of the statute made for transferring uses into possession he the said Robert Oldaker may be in the actual possession of all and singular the said hereby granted bargained and sold premises and thereby be enabled to accept and take a Grant and Release thereof to him his heirs and assigns for ever In witness whereof the parties first above named have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written

The document has one red seal

Signed                    The mark of Thomas Bannister

Sealed and delivered (being first duly stamp’d) in the presence of

Signed                    William Powell

                             Philip Ballard?