| Title | Copy of indenture between Dorothy Parkes of Birmingham, spinster, Charles Blackham and Isaac Spooner, both of Birmingham, ironmongers, Sir Charles Holte of Aston bart., Sir Henry Gough of Pury Perry Hall, knt., Charles Jennes of Gopsall, co. Leic., esq., Benjamin Grevis of Witton Hall, esq., George Birch of Harborne, esq., Henry Hinckley of Harborne, gent., John Hinckley, gent., his son, Edward Homer, of Sutton Coldfield, co. War., gent., Edward Hare of Birmingham, gent., and Randall Bradburne of Birmingham, ironmonger, being a release from the said Dorothy Parkes to the said Charles Blackham and Isaac Spooner of lands, tenements and hereditaments in Smethwick, co. Staff., Warley Wigorn, co. Worc., Titford in Worley Wigorn, Hales Owen co. Worc., and Rude End in Halesowen in trust for the payment of an annuity of £20 to Mary Halfpenny of Birmingham, spinster, servant of the said Dorothy Parkes; to build and furnish a Chapel at Smethwick; to distribute upon every Sunday in every year for ever twelve penny loaves of good bread amongst twelve poor inhabitants attending at Smethwick Chapel and twelve attending at Harborne parish church; to distribute six coats yearly to three honest poor women inhabitants of Smethwick and three of Harborne; to distribute Bibles among the poor inhabitants of Smethwick, and for other trusts recited. |