Manuscript Signed Indenture Mortgage and Surrender of Leasehold premises 'Between Louis Schnabel of No.79 North End Croydon [...] Watchmaker [...] and Alfred Marden Nicoll of No. 8 Surrey View Villas Ross Road Wallington [...] Painter and Decorator'

Seven pages. On four skins of vellum, each roughly eleven inches by nine wide. Attached with green ribbon, and with various stamps and two wax seals. Good: lightly aged and creased. The premises are at 77 and 79 North End, Croydon. 'Whereas by an Indenture of Lease dated the first day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty seven and made between Thomas Briggs of the one part and Honest John Close of the other part All that piece a parcel of ground together with the two messuages or tenements thereon then lately erected and built situate on the West side of the North End of Croydon aforesaid fronting the road leading to London and which were then in the tenure or occupation of Charles Harris and Robert Lashman' etc. Mention of Henry Hart and Alfred Charles Ebbutt. Signed by Schnabel and Nicoll, with witnesses' signatures.