| Description | 1) Margaret Waugh of 138 Princes St., Edinburgh, widow of Thomas Waugh, plasterer.
2) Peter Robertson of 7 Torphichen St., Edinburgh, gent. (trustee of the estate of Alexander Allen).
3) Francis Kirk.
4) Joesph Bamforth of Rotherham, gent.
5) Charles Nightingale of Rotherham, gent.
6) Walter Davidson, cabinet maker, John Bryden, bellhanger and George Cowan, accountant, of Edinburgh, (commissioners under the sequestration of the estates of Alexander Allen).
7) Francis Colley of Rotherham, inn keeper.
8) William Fretwell Hoyle of Ferham House, Rotherham, gent. and John Clarke of Rotherham, land agent.
9) Fretwell William Hoyle of Rotherham, gent. (trustee for 8).
- reciting 213-C/70/4.
- and reciting promissory notes by James Allen to 3, to John Bamforth and to 5 (1851, 1853, 1854).
- and reciting the will of James Allen (d. 1854) bequeathing a legacy to 1 charged upon property in Westgate and making 1 and Alexander Allen (his sis. and bro.) his executors.
- and reciting 213-C/70/5.
- whereas £550 of the purchase price has been paid by 7, leaving £64.7.4d outstanding for the furniture.
- whereas 7 now owes £215.14.2d, interest on the purchase money, which with the £64.7.4d, and allowing £36.10s. paid in settlement of a debt of James Allen, leaves a total of £2064.16.10d. owing for the purchase of the property.
- whereas sums of £554.1.5d., £136.8.10d. and £570.2.5d. are owing on the said promissory notes, which it is agreed to discharge.
- and whereas 8 have agreed to lend £1500 to 7 and £1260.12.8d. has already been advanced to discharge the promissory notes.
- in consideration of £50 paid to 1, £554.1.5d. paid to 3, £136.8.10d. paid to 4, £570.2.5d. paid to 5 and a further £804.4.2d. paid to 1, by or on behalf of 7.
= of a messuage on the east side of Westgate, with yard and garden, now used as a public house known as the "Station Inn" with adjoining cottage.
- conveyed to 9 to the use of 8 as mortgagees. |