Manuscript indenture on parchment, with signatures and seals: 'Conveyance of Lands of Stapleton in the County of Leicester. Mr. Joseph Knight and Mr. John Edwards to The Baroness Noel Byron [Anne Isabella, Lady Noel Byron], and others'.

On two skins, with the usual seals and tax stamps, and further text and signatures on the reverse of the first skin, including a witnessed receipt for £450 from Knight; also a memorandum, 2 August 1853, 'Exparte The right Honorable Anne Isabella Baroness Noel Byron Widow', 'Before me | Wm. Cowdell. | A Master Extraordinary in Chancery'. The first skin carries a plan of the property (8 acres 3 rods 33 perches), to the west of the East Shilton road to Stapleton, and of Wigstones Farm, Stapleton and Kirkby Lordship, and with the road from Barwell to Kirby going through it, coloured in green. Three signatures at the foot of the document, flanking in the usual way three red wax seals on green ribbon: 'John | Edwards', 'Joseph | Knight | his mark' and 'Anne Isabella | Noel Byron'. A further two red wax seals, in the bottom left hand corner, are besides the pencilled names of 'Byron' and 'of | Lushington'. The document opens: 'This Indenture made the First day of August one thousand eight hundred and fifty three Between John Edwards of Market Bosworth in the County of Leicester Gentleman of the first part Joseph Knight of Hinckley in the said County Yeoman of the second part The Right Honorable Anne Isabella Baroness Noel Byron of the third part and The Right Honorable George Anson Lord Byron and The Right Honorable Stephen Lushington of Doctors Commons in the City of London &c &c &c of the fourth part'. With engraving of Lady Byron by W. H. Mote for W. J. Newton, in fair condition, on lightly-aged paper.