Middlesex

At the General Quarter Session of
the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King
holden for the County of Middlesex (by
adjournment) at Hicks Hall in St John's
Street on Thursday the twentieth day of
October in the fourteenth Year of the reign of our Sovereign
Lord George the third King of Great Britain
Etc Before Sir John Hawkins< no role > Kns Benjamin
Cowley< no role > , Saunders Welch< no role > John Sherwood< no role > Esqr
and other their Fellows Justices of our said
Lord the King assigned to keep the peace in
the County aforesaid and also to hear and
determine divers Felonies Trespasses and
other misdemeanours committed in the
same County,

Whereas Joseph Bird< no role > did at this present Session exhibit his
petition and Appeal Setting forth That by Indenture of Lease bearing
date the Seventh day of May one thousand seven hundred and forty
made between Frances Greenwood< no role > of the parish of Saint James
Westminster Widow and Theodosia Newman< no role > of Queen Street
Lincolns Inn Fields Singlewoman of the one part and Richard
Moys< no role > of Saint Paul Shadwell plumber of the other part the said
Frances Greenwood< no role > and Theodesia newman< no role > Did demise lease
and to farm let unto the said Richard Moys all those two new built
Brick Messuages or Tenements then lately erected and built situate
Standing and being at or near Cockhill in the Hamlet of Ratcliffe
in the parish of Stepney in the County of Middlesex and the Yards
and Ground thereto belonging which said two Messuages or Tenements
Yards and Ground contain by Estimation in Front from East to
West next the Street there and so along throughout the Wharfe next
the river Thomas Thirty foot nine Inches little more or less and in
depth from North to South on the West side thereof one Hundred
and sixty eightfeet four Inches little more or less and in depth
from North to south on the east side one hundred and seventy
seven feet six Inches little more or less and also all that other
piece or parcel of Vord or Vacant Ground with the Wharfe thereunto
belonging containing by estimation in front from east to Wes
next the Street there thirty six Feet nine Inches little more or less
and in depth from North to South on the East side thereof one
Hundred and eighty six Feet six Inches littlemore or less and
on breadth on the Wharfe next the River Thomas fifty feet three
Inches little more or less which said Piece or parcel of Void or