Transcription needed! (Property in Penge, 1800)

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Falkor
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Transcription needed! (Property in Penge, 1800)

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Is anyone able to read the writing and get a transcription started from this old document? I'm terrible at deciphering old handwriting and could certainly do with your help, guys! :) This fragile document has been photographed in 5 parts:
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I think we need some teamwork on this one! What is the name or address of the property being described anyway?
will greenwood
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..its '... Roystons, being at or near Penge Green withinin the parish of Battersea' again...
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Royston Villa is marked on this map..(dated 1862 -71)
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Falkor
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Yeah, that Stanford map is quite useful for matching names to locations.
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Re: Transcription needed! (Property in Penge, 1800)

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Falkor wrote:Is anyone able to read the writing and get a transcription started from this old document?
The right hand edge of the page is missing. Still, I made a start and then lost interest; these documents invariably contain gems of information, but it is hidden amongst an awful lot of tedious legal stuff:

"This indenture was made the tenth day of October in the first year of the reign of our sovereign lord George…
anno domini 1727. Between William Lethieullier of the parish of Beckenham in the County of Kent Esquire of the…
gentleman of the other part Witnesseth that the said William Lethieullier for and in consideration of the yearly rents, covenants…
good causes and considerations him thereunto moving hath demised, leased XXX and to XXX and by these presentiments…
or tenement commonly called or known by the name of Roystons sett lying and being at or near Penge Green within the…
or assigns together with all those two closes or parcells of arable land commonly called or known by the name of Westfield…
Perches and the other containing four acres and fifteen perches (or the same more or less) and also all those two closes or parcells of arable land..."

The Lethieulliers owned a number of estates in Lewisham including Lewisham House, near St Mary's church, and land at Bell Green.
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