This Indenture made the seventeenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty Between Thomas Burton Burton late of Oundle in the county of Northampton but now of Billingborough in the county of Lincoln gentleman (devisee in fee named in the last Will and Testament of Ann Burton late of Oundle aforesaid spinster deceased) of the one part and Benjamin Smith of Horbling in the said county of Lincoln gentleman of the other part Witnesseth that the said Thomas Burton Burton for and in consideration of the sum of five shillings of lawful money of Great Britain to him in hand well and truly paid by the said Benjamin Smith at or before the sealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged Hath bargained and sold and by these presents Doth bargain and sell unto the said Benjamin Smith his executors administrators and assigns All those six cottages or tenements with the wheelwrights shop and other buildings and the yards gardens and land lying under and adjoining to the same situate and being in Billingborough aforesaid and containing three roods or thereabouts abutting upon lands heretofore described as belonging to John Wright but which did formerly and do now belong to Earl Fortescue on or towards the East a Lane called the Back Lane land late of the said Thomas Burton Burton upon which a Methodists Chapel is now built and lands of the said Thomas Burton Burton on or towards the West the said Lane on or towards the North and lands also belonging to the said Thomas Burton Burton on or towards the South and now in the possession or occupation of Samuel Barnes William Leak Widow Sharman James Smith Welbourn Leak and William Wright or their respective undertenants Together with all houses outhouses edifices buildings barns stables yards gardens orchards ways paths passages waters watercourses hedges ditches fences trees rights members privileges and appurtenances whatsoever to the said cottages or tenements buildings yards gardens land hereditaments and premises belonging or appertaining And the reversion and reversions remainder and remainders rents issues and profits thereof To have and to hold the said cottages or tenements buildings yards gardens land hereditaments and premises hereby bargained and sold or expressed so to be with their appurtenances unto the said Benjamin Smith his executors administrators and assigns from the day next before the day of the date of these presents 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 at the expiration of the said term unto the said Thomas Burton Burton his heirs and assigns the rent of a pepper corn if the same shall be lawfully demanded To the intent and purpose that by virtue of these presents and by force of the statute made for transferring uses into possession the said Benjamin Smith may be in the actual possession of all and singular the said cottages or tenements buildings yards gardens land hereditaments and premises hereby bargained and sold or intended so to be with their appurtenances and may be thereby enabled to accept and take a Grant and Release of the Reversion Freehold and Inheritance thereof to him his heirs and assigns To such uses upon such trusts and to and for such ends intents and purposes as shall be mentioned expressed and declared in and by a certain Indenture of Release already prepared and intended to bear date the day next after the day of the date of these presents and made between the said Thomas Burton Burton of the one part and the said Benjamin Smith of the other part In witness whereof the said parties to these presents have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written

The document has one red seal

Signed                    Tho^s Burton Burton

Signed sealed and delivered by the within named Thomas Burton Burton being first duly stampt in the presence of

Signed                    Benj: Wilkinson