| Description | The deeds comprise: 1641 bargain and sale of premises containing one burgage at Fryern Street (adjoining premises to the east and south described) bordering a pond or pool called the Horse Pool on the west side, and Fryern Street on the north side, Jon Mallett of Enmer, Somerset to Hugh Bickham of Bridgwater, Somerset, merchant; 1652 conveyance of premises at Fryern Street, Bridgwater (adjoining premises described), William Bickham, son and heir of Hugh Bickham late of Bridgwater, Somerset, gent, deceased and Mary Bickham, daughter and executrix of the will of Hugh Bickham, to Walter Deyes of Bristol, merchant; 1652/3 release of premises at Fryern Street, Bridgwater (adjoining premises described), Walter Deyes of Bristol, merchant to Mary Bickham, daughter and executrix of Hugh Bickham of Bridgwater, Somerset, gent, deceased; 1658 release of premises at Fryern Street, Bridgwater (adjoining premises described), Aldred Bickham and Mary his wife, daughter and executrix of the will of Hugh Bickham, late of Bridgwater, Somerset, deceased to Jane Bicknell, daughter of Amias Bicknell of Gregory Stoke, Somerset, spinster;1660 lease of premises at Fryern Street, Bridgwater (adjoining premises described), Jane Bicknell, daughter of Amos Bicknell of Gregory Stoke, Somerset, spinster to Ames Bicknell, yeoman. Recites bargain and sale of 1658, Aldred Bickham and Mary his wife to Jane Bicknell; 1660 two copies of final agreement between Jane Bicknell and Aldred Bickham and Mary his wife, concerning premises in Bridgwater, quitclaim of Aldred and Mary to Jane Bicknell. This file also includes handwritten particulars of title of the property at Fryern Street, which includes a malthouse and the horse pool, a moiety of which was left to John Galton in his wife's will, and the other moiety of William Dickinson 1775, and also contains an abstract of John Galton's title to the premises at Fryern Street, which gives a summary of the deeds described above, and shows that the property passed from the Bicknell family to the Alloway family, and from Hannah Alloway, who married John Galton, to her husband. |