| Description | These comprise: 1686 mortgage of house called Bults house or Westbombe in Taunton (rooms described), Jasper Batt late of Limington and now of Northoves, Somerset, yeoman and Robert Button of Taunton, linen draper to Thomas Whitehead of Brenton, Somerset, clothier; 1686 bond between Jasper Batt, Robert Button and Thomas Whitehead; 1689 lease of dwelling house and garden in Fore Street, Taunton (boundaries described), Robert Button of Taunton Magdalene, Somerset, grocer, Edith his wife and Jasper Batt, yeoman to John Scott of Sherboune, Dorset; 1689 bond between Robert Button, Jasper Batt and John Scott; 1716/7 copy of the marriage settlement of Robert Button and Mary Ellis concering moiety and half of property, burgage, court and garden in North Street, Taunton known by the name of The Glove, Robert Button of Taunton, St Mary Magdalene, Somerset, grocer, Mary Ellis of Ufculmbe, Devon spinster, daughter of Edward Ellis, clothier, Hugh Ellis of Ufculmbe, sargemaker, Joseph Ellis of Bradnidge, Devon, sargemaker and John Govett of Wellington, Somerset, maltster; 1718 two copies of the surrender of Edward Ellis to Hugh Ellis and Joseph Ellis in trust for Robert Button of messuage and bond land called Hook Place in Hook Place in the tything of Obridge, and after his death to his son Ellis Button; 1719 copy of lease and release of moiety and half of property, burgage, court and garden in North Street, Taunton called Glove and another property in How Street, Taunton (boundaries described), Hugh Ellis of Ufculmbe, Devon, sergemaker, Joseph Ellis of Bradnage, Devon, sergemaker, John Govett of Wellington, Somerset, maltster to Robert Button of Taunton, grocer; 1720 copy of the will of Edward Ellis bequeathing lands in Sowden in the parish of Burlscombe and an estate in the parish of Plymtree to his grandson Ellis Button; 1726 two copies of the will of Robert Button in which he makes monetary bequests to Henry Selleck and John Dinham in trust for his sister Sarah Galton, beqeaths gold and silver goods to his son Ellis Button, and leaves the house at High Cross, Taunton, where John Galton lives, together with property at Hunts Court and houses in East Street, Taunton to his son Robert; 1728 'opinion' and copy discussing the inheritance of the two sons of Robert Button by his two wives; 1728 copy of a bond between Robert Button and Ellis Button, his son by his first wife Mary Ellis, by which Robert Button agrees to transfer a sum of money to Ellis Button when he reaches the age of 21; 1728 copy of surrender by Edward Ellis to Robert Button of Hook Place in the tything of Obridge; 1754 copy of the will of Edward Watts of Taunton, linen draper in which he bequeaths property in Pauls Street, Taunton to his daughter-in-law Sarah Galton, together with a sum of money; 1755 document headed 'for the customary heir of Robert Button' relating to the surrender of Edward Ellis of land to be held in trust for Ellis Button at Hook Place in the hundred of Staplegrove; 1755 copy of the will of Ellis Button of Ufculmbe, Devon in which he bequeaths property at Hook in Taunton to his wife Mary Button, and after her death together with land at Southdown, Burlescombe, Devon and Mountestephen in Halberton, Devon to Ellis Button Medford, son of Joseph Medford. |