This indenture made 17th day October 1874 between Henry Fricker of Bradford on Avon in the County of Wiltshire, Plumber of the one part and Julius Augustus Fricker of Laverton in the County of Somerset farmer of the other part witness that in consideration of the Covenant hereinafter contained in the part of the said Julius Augustus Fricker his heirs executors and administrators for payment of the sum of £700 and interest to Anne Pickard the mortgagee of the hereditaments and premises intended to be hereby granted and in consideration of the sum of £100 paid to the said Henry Fricker by the said Julius Augustus Fricker on the execution hereof the receipt whereof the said Henry Fricker doth hereby acknowledge and at the same performance of the convenant are in full for the absolute purchase of the equity of redemption estate claim and demand of the said Henry Fricker in the said hereditaments and premises. He the said Henry Fricker doth hereby grant release and confirm unto the same Julius Augustus Fricker his heir and assigns all that messuage or Mansion House now or lately in the possession of the said Henry Fricker situate lying and being in St Margaret's Street in the town and Parish of Bradford in the County of Wiltshire with the offices gardens paddock stable coach house yard and garden to the same adjoining and belonging and which are marked on the Tythe Map of the said Parish with the numbers 457, 482 and 458 in the Book of Refence to the said map stated to contain together 5 roods and 1 perch (and also all those workshops with the land, outbuildings and erections and premises belonging thereto adjoining the last described hereditaments leading out into Nowhere Lane and numbered 488 and the said Tythe Map and in the said Book of Reference therefore said stated 8 perchases and which said workshops formally consisted of three cottages or tenements but have recently been converted into workshops by the said Henry Fricker and which are now in or lately was in his possession and part of the same in the occupation of Charles Long Builder. And also all those 2 messuages or tenements formally one messuage, also situate in St Margaret's Street aforesaid and adjoining the Mansion House first described with the yard and outhouses to the same belonging no 456 on the same Tythe Map and in the said Book of Reference stated to contain 14 perchase) and also in those 4 tenements or dwelling houses with their yard and garden passage and appurtancies to the same belonging and adjoining on the north side of the Mansion House first described also situated on the same street called St Margaret's Street and numbered 459 on the said Tythe Map and in the said Book of Reference thereto stated to contain 14 purchases more or less and now or lately in the several occupations of Thomas Jones, Frederick King, James Holton and one void. And also all those 2 tenements or dwelling houses with the stable yard, garden and appertenancies to the same belonging in situate lying and being on Morgan's Hill in the said town and Parish of Bradford aforesaid nos 481 and 483 on the said Tythe Map and in the said Book of Reference hereby stated to contain 8 perches more or less together with all or singular fixtures houses, outhouses, edifices, buildings, walls, fences, hedges, ditches, water, watercourses, sewers, gutters, drains, backsides, rights, lights, privileges, easements, advantages, members, and appurtenancies to the said hereditaments and premises belonging or appertaining and all the estate and interest and benefit of redemption, claim and demand both legal and acquittable of him the said Henry Fricker therein and thereto to have and to hold the said messuages Mansion House tenements shops gardens land yard paddock stables coach house cottages hereditaments and all and singular other the premises herein before expressed and intended to be hereby granted with their and every of their appertancies subject nevertheless to the aforesaid mortgage security and to the payment of the said principle sum of £700 all interest now or hereafter to become due for the same unto the said Julius Augustus Fricker and his heirs. To the use of the said Julius Augustus Fricker his heirs and assigns and the said Julius Augustus Fricker doth hereby declare that no woman who he may leave his widow shall be entitled to dower unto or out of the said land hereditaments…. in witness whereof the said parties to those present have set their hands and seals this day and year first above written
Mr Henry Fricker and Julius Augustus Fricker .