| Title | Affidavit of John Fisher of Bodmyn, co. Cornwall, Clerk, John Wilmer of Stoney Stratford, co. Bucks., Apothecary and Hester Vere of Barnstaple, co. Devon, Widow that the title deeds to three closes in pa. Leckhampstead, co. Bucks. conveyed to Robert Porter by indentures of lease and release (dated April 6-7, 1767; nos. 76-77) have been lost, but that the lands were free of mortgages and incomrancess at the time of conveyance. John Wilmer further declares that the title deeds "were destroyed by a dreadful fire which happened at Stoney Stratford aforesaid many years since". |