| Description | These comprise: 1697 lease of three closes of land and pasture and one grove of elms called Battens from John Earl Poulett, Baron of Henton St George, Somerset to John Galton of Yatton, Somerset, clothier for the lives of John Galton and John Buck of Kingston Seymour; 1709 lease of three closes of land and one grove of elms called Battens from John Earl Poulett to John Galton of Taunton, mercer; 1725 lease of several closes of meadow and pasture and one grove of elms called Battens from John Earl Poulett to John Galton of Taunton, mercer, for the life of his son Robert Galton; 1784 lease of closes of land and grove of elms called Battens from Right Hon Vere Earl Poulett, Viscount and Baron of Hinton St George, Somerset to Samuel Galton of Birmingham, merchant for the life of Lucy Galton, wife of Samuel Galton the younger, after the deaths of Samuel Galton and Elizabeth Galton. |