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Introduction
It is not clear whether this agreement has a direct bearing on the village of Deopham. The loan which it records from Edmond Wodehouse to the Cattons is the subject of the Indenture of December 20th 1697 which in turn certainly relates to Deopham.
The load agreement is in two halves – the first half is in Latin, and the second is a translation into English.
Transcription of the agreement
The Condicon of this Obligacon is such that if the within bounden Alice Catton, Widow, of Lutcham1, and John Catton, Singleman, or either of them, their or either of their heirs, Executors, Administrators or Assigns, or any of them shall doe well and truly pay or cause to be paid unto the Above named Edmond Wodehouse, Esquire, his Executors, Administrators or Assigns. The full, whole and entire sum of One hundred pounds of Good and Lawfull money of England, on the 29th day of January next Ensewing the Date of these presents, at or in the now dwelling house of the said Edmond Wodehouse, Esquire, situate and being in East Lexham aforesaid without any fraud or deceit Then this Obligacon to be void or else to remain in full force, effect and virtue.
Dated January 29th 1684
Signed Alice Catton (her mark) & John Catton
In the presence of Thomas Gooch Junior & Thomas Buckenham (his mark)
Memorandum
A note written on the side of this agreements states:
October 6th 1693: Memorandum – one of the witnesses being dead, this was owned in the presence of us:
– Philip Wodehouse
– William Heard
Transcriptions © G. Sankey
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Footnotes
- The Indenture of December 20th 1697 refers to her as “Alice Catton of Ludham”; Ludham is a village near Potter Heigham on the Broads.
That Indenture also refers to Alice and John Catton as being mother and son. ↩︎
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