Memorandum of the Revd George M Cooper concerning his purchase of a copyhold field and buildings adjoining the vicarage

Description: recites GMC's purchase from the executors of his predecessor James Capper in 1835, enfranchisement and annexation to the living in 1855, the legal difficulty of ensuring that his family 'be leniently dealt in the matter of dilapidations' which was left to 'my successor's sense of propriety .... this was the opinion also of good bishop [Ashurst Turner] Gilbert'; includes note regarding the trust governing the Sunday school site

Date: 01/06/1870

Last import: September 11, 2017