DRO 53/6 Box 38/20 (transcribed from copy)
This Indenture made the Second Day of September in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Eight Between Samuel Bass of Lympston in the County of Devon Shipwright of the one part and Thomas Bass of Teignmouth in the said County Shipwright of the other part
Witnesseth That the said Samuel Bass for & in consideration of the sum of five shillings of lawfull Money of Great Britain to him in hand paid by the said Thomas Bass at the Execution hereof The Receipt whereof is hereby Acknowledged hath Bargained and Sold by these presents doth Bargain and Sell unto the said Thomas Bass his Exors Admors and Assigns
All that the Undivided Moiety or Halfendeal of All that one Messuage or Dwellinghouse containing three Dwellings under one Roof and also a Working Collar Situation on Lympstone Strand in Lympston aforesaid now or late in the several possession of the said Samuel Bass William Davis and Joseph Nutt with a Moiety of the two little Gardens thereto belonging
Together also with the undivided Moiety of so mutch[?] of the two plotts of Ground thereunto adjoining commonly called the Green the Beaton Plott as were heretofore in the Possession of Dorothy Bass Deceased since of John Bass deced Father of the said Samuel Bass and Thomas Bass and now of the said Samuel Bass & Thomas Bass or of their Undertenants
And also all that the undivided Moiety of the Reversion Inheritance in Fee of All those four Dwellings Orchard and Garden and four acres of Land thereunto belonging Situate in Lympston aforesaid and now in the Possession of the said Thomas Hare & of his Undertenants And the Reversion and Reversions Remainder Rents Issues Profits Suits and Services thereof & of every part and parcel thereof with their and every of their Appurtenances
To Have and to Hold the said undivided Lands & Premises hereby Bargained and Sold or intended so to be and every part & parcel thereof with the Apputenances unto the said Thomas Bass his Exors Admors & Assigns from the Day of the date hereof for and during and until the full end & Term of one whole Year from thenceforth next ensuing and fully to be compleat and ended Yielding and Paying therefore unto the said Samuel Bass his Heirs and Assigns one Pepper Corn at the end of the said Term if the same shall be lawfully Demanded To the Intent that by Virtue of these Presents and by force of the Statute made for Transferring of Uses into Possession he the said Thomas Bass may be in the actual Possession of all & Singular the said Promises above Bargained and Sold with their & every of their Appurts and be thereby enabled to take & Accept of a Grant and Release of the Reversion Inheritance thereof to him and his heirs To the only proper Use and behoof of the said Thomas Bass his heirs & Assigns forever
In Witness whereof the said partys to these Presents their Hands & Seals Interchangeably have Set the Day and Year first above Written
Samuel BassThomas Bass