GEORGE III (1738-1820, King of Great Britain)

Exemplification of the Common Recovery with fine initial letter portrait of the King at the head, with double voucher, before Sir John Eardley WILMOT, 1709-1792, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 1766-1771, of 2 dwellings, 1 granary, 3 gardens and 100 acres in the parish of Titchfield, Hants, owned by tenant in tail John Paffard, fine engraved portrait 8" x 7¼" of George III, elaborately engraved border on three sides of the document, the vignettes include Neptune ruling the waves and Hercules slaying the Hydra, vellum, 27¼" x 35¾", Westminster, 14th June lacks seal, a little creased in some folds

On the verso the property is named as 'Paffard's Lee'. Before the trial John Paffard will have conveyed it to his friend John Webb, the defendant, for a nominal sum. Another friend, Henry Cutler, sues Webb for possession, alleging dispossession by a fictitious Hugh Hunt. Called to warrant Webb's title, Paffard in turn calls the court crier, Thomas Francis Martin, to say, untruthfully, that Martin had sold the lands to Paffard as a freehold. The process ends with judgment against Webb and Martin, and with Cutler in freehold possession. John Paffard has rid himself of all entails and encumbrances on the property, and will soon get it back from Cutler.
Wilmot, a fellow pupil with Dr. Johnson at Lichfield, took part in the cases arising from John Wilkes' libels.

Item Date:  1769

Stock No:  17632      £225

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