1795 English Tripartite Mortgage Deed - Thomas Cotterell, Hopson Sisters, Andrew Spruce - Legal Manuscript
16.5" by 13" 6 pages.
25-0025
This is a true copy of an original 1795 tripartite indenture relating to a mortgage and legal land transaction involving Thomas Cotterell, Margaretta Hopson, and Sarah Hopson, daughters of Rev. Tanner Wager. The detailed manuscript outlines financial and property arrangements arising from an Act of Parliament for enclosure and division of common fields in Southwick and Moreton Pinkney, Northamptonshire. The document is certified as a true copy in April 1795 and contains extensive handwritten legal provisions and signatures of all involved parties.
A fascinating artifact of 18th-century English property law, enclosure acts, and financial instruments. It includes detailed legal language regarding mortgage redemption rights, inheritance, and obligations under the original 1762 indenture.
Thomas Cotterell – Primary party to the mortgage agreement.
Margaretta Hopson – One of the beneficiaries; daughter of Rev. Tanner Wager.
Sarah Hopson – Also a daughter of Rev. Tanner Wager; co-beneficiary.
Andrew Spruce – Signatory, possibly acting in a legal or witness capacity.
Rev. Tanner Wager (mentioned) – Deceased; previously a landholder and clergyman.
W. W. Bevan & R. H. Womack – Clerks to Mr. Bridges; certified the copy in 1795.
John Munday & Martha Austen – Witnesses to the execution of the deed by Margaretta Hopson.