This Indenture made the seventh day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three Between William Bennett of Bruton in the county of Somerset collarmaker William Green of South Brewham in the county of Somerset aforesaid Yeoman and Charles White of Hardway in the said parish of South Brewham Yeoman of the first part William Penny of Kilmington in the same county shopkeeper of the other part Witnesseth that the said William Bennett William Green and Charles White for and in consideration of the sum of five shillings a piece of lawful money current in England to them in hand at or before the sealing and delivery of these presents well and truly paid by the said William Penny the receipts whereof are hereby respectively acknowledged They the said William Bennett William Green and Charles White Have and each and every of them Hath bargained and sold And by these presents Do and each and every of them Doth bargain and sell unto the said William Penny his executors administrators and assigns All that messuage tenement or dwellinghouse and Inn called the Bull Inn with the garden stables cellars outhouses and buildings thereto belonging Also all those two closes of Meadow or pasture ground called Cockhill Hays or Freaks Hill (formerly in three closes) but now and for some years past in two closes only containing together by estimation eight acres (be the same more or less) as the same Inn and lands are occupied by Mrs White as tenant to the said William Green and Charles White and situate and being at Hardway in South Brewham aforesaid Together with all houses outhouses edifices buildings trees woods underwoods hedges and hedgerows and the ground and soil of the same ways paths passages waters watercourses Commons and common of pasture easements profits privileges advantages hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever to the said messuage tenement or dwellinghouse Inn lands and premises belonging or in any wise appertaining And the reversion and reversions remainder and remainders rents issues and profits thereof and of every part and parcel thereof To have and to hold the said messuage tenement or dwellinghouse Inn lands hereditaments and premises hereinbefore mentioned and hereby bargained and sold or intended so to be with the appurtenances unto the said William Penny 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 unto the said William Bennett William Green and Charles White their heirs and assigns the rent of a pepper corn at the end of the said term if lawfully demanded To the intent and purpose that by virtue of these presents and of the statute made for transferring uses into possession the said William Penny may be in the actual possession of all and singular the said hereditaments and premises hereby bargained and sold or expressed and intended so to be and every part and parcel thereof and be thereby enabled to accept and take a Grant and Release of the Reversion and Inheritance thereof from them the said William Bennett William Green and Charles White unto him the said William Penny his heirs and assigns in such manner and form as in and by such Grant and Release shall be mentioned expressed and declared of and concerning the same hereditaments and premises 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 three red seals

Signed                    William Bennett

                             William Green

                             Charles White

Signed sealed and delivered by the within named William Bennett in the presence of

Signed                    G Messiter

                             A Hoskins

Signed sealed and delivered by the within named William Green and Charles White in the presence of

Signed                    G Messiter

                             A Hoskins