1757 Mortgage (General)

by shepway , Sunday, March 29, 2015, 17:28 (3527 days ago) @ ptrevor4

The following page from Victoria County History should prove a great help.
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol5/pp46-84
There is a paragraph commencing as follows:
"An estate, comprising land in the north of Aylburton tithing, in Bream tithing of Newland, and in St. Briavels, was based on a house at the parish boundary that was called at various times PRIOR'S MESNE LODGE, BREAM LODGE, and PRIOR'S LODGE."
and includes the following sentence:
"but later occupants of the estate, though not necessarily owners of all rights in it, were Mary's son Powlett Lawrence (d. by 1756), his brother Barrow Lawrence (d. 1770),"
This tells us that the property was occupied by Barrow Lawrence and I therefore assume that he was the mortgagor (Borrower) and Robert Raikes, the mortgagee (Lender).

Mike