Chapels or chapels in ruins: We have no Chapel within our Parish.
George Baker, Vicar of Modbury, A.M., Inst: Feb. 2. 1714. Presb. Feb. 14. 1713. Ofsp. Exon.
[The following is bound into the volume following the return for Modbury.]
[p. 406]
7th July 1744
Whereas by an assigt. bearing Date herewith made between John King of Modbury in the County of Devon Gent of ye one part and me the hereto Subscribed Geo: Baker & Geo: Rhodes of Modbury in the said County Surgeon of the other part the said Jno King for the consideracion of ye Sum of £40 (said to be paid by us {to ye said John King} did grant bargain sell assign & setover unto ye said George Rhodes all that House formerly a Shippen lately converted into a pound house and Two fields or Closes of land containing in the whole by Estimacion Two acres or there abouts Scituate lying and being in or near a Village called Venn als East Venn in ye parish of Churstow for the remainder of a Term of fourscore & Nineteen years detainable on ye Death of one John Squire and Did also grant bargain Sell assign & setover unto me and the said Geo: Rhodes a Cider press and breaking trough for making Cider together with severall Keers Bucketts Barrells & utensills thereunto belonging Now Be it remembred that notwithstanding any thing therein said to ye contrary the said sum of £40 was not really paid the said Jno King but is included and gos to make up £318 15s and thirty seven pounds and Fifteen Shillings mencioned to be paid me and the said George to and for the said Jno King being the consideracion money mencioned in his Release and Conveyance of his Estate in Churstow called Venn bearing Date herewith {£161 19s 4½d part of the said Two: last mencioned Severall Sums was paid by the said Geo: Rhodes and no more} And that such assigt was only to Strengthen the purchase of the Estate so made to us And that in case either should happen to die before ye other of us no Survivorship is to take place but the Executors Administrators or assigns of him so first dieing shall enjoy a part of the said Estate and goods in proportion to ye Sum of Money so advanced towards ye said purchase. Witness my hand.
J.K. being indebted to J.H. £318 15s 0d on a morgage of his Estate at Venn, & sued to £5 3s 9d charges, & further indebted to GB on bond £32 15s 3d, agrees with GB & GR to convey ye fee of ye morgaged Estate {to ym} & to assign a Poundhouse &c on which he had one life, to them for £361 13s 9d. In the Conveyance this whole sum of £361 13s 9d is mentioned as ye consid[eration] money for ye Land, J.K. desiring it might be so, to keep up ye value of yt Estate, designed to be sold ye 1st property; & in ye Assignment of ye Least £40 is mentioned as ye consideracion, tho' nothing was really paid: J.K. is now afraid, that this £40 may be demanded of him, whenever ye Estates are sold, & would fence against it. How may this be done without [illegible word] to either Party?
N. The Purchasers expected ye Assignment of ye Lease, lest ye Land should not make ye money ye advanced merely for ye Service of J.K., Then under great Distress.