Ffeil 1661. - Assignment from 1 to 3 of a tmt. situated at the corner of Gretton Place North and Gretton Place East ...,

1 John Scott of Saint Mildred's Court, London, esq. 2 John Scott aforesaid, Thomas Henry Newbant of Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, co. Mddx., and James Cox of Shaftesbury, co. Dorset, esq. (then carrying on the trade or business of coal merchants or colliers in partnership together at Swansea, co. Glam., under the firm of the Old Church Pitt Colliery Company). 3 John Jones and Philip Jones of Llanarth Court, co. Mon., esqs. (then carrying on business as bankers at Monmouth and Abergavenny). Assignment from 1 to 3 of a tmt. situated at the corner of Gretton Place North and Gretton Place East, lately licensed for a public house known by the sign of the Greyhound, leased to 1 for 62 years in 1814 at an annual rent of £15, and subsequently sub-let for 21 years at a rent of £40 p.a., six tmts. in Gretton Place North which were leased to 1 in 1816 for 68 years at £38 p.a. and then sub-let in the same year for £192 p.a. and eight tmts. in Gretton Place East (boundaries described), which were leased to 1 in 1816 for 60 years at £47 p.a. and subsequently sub-let for £282 p.a., all of which are in p. St Mathew Bethnall Green, co. Mddx., and of certain insurance policies to secure the balance of the Old Church Pitt Colliery Co., and also the balance of the private account of 1 not exceeding £1,500. Recites that 2 as partners and 1 as an individual opened an account with 3 but inasmuch that 1 and 2 might have occasion from time to time to draw cheques exceeding the money paid into the account, that 1 and 2 previous to opening the account agreed to give some security for any balance not exceeding £1,500, that in pursuance of the agreement 1 agreed to assign the leasehold premises and insurance policies, that 3 had also agreed to accept the securities proposed and had lent 1 and 2 several sums on credit. See also no. 1723.