Description:On 24th September 1907 J. H. Menzies received a letter from Dawson Bennett & Co, solicitors from Lincoln’s Inn, London.
The letter concerned Great Chatwell Farm on the estates of Colonel Cotes in Eccleshall. Dawson Bennett & Co had ‘received instructions from Colonel Cotes and his Trustees’ to convey the part of Great Chatwell Farm which was owned by Colonel Cotes ‘absolutely to the Trustees of the Settled Estates subject to Mrs Spyers Mortgage for £6,000, and to then include the whole farm in the Mortgage’.
The solicitors required a plan ‘of the whole farm’ and wrote to Menzies requesting ‘a 25 inch Ordnance Map colouring the settled part of the Farm, say, in Pink and that belonging to Colonel Cotes in Blue’.
Colonel Cotes’s property is described as including ‘two cottages with gardens…situate at the Outwoods in the Parish of Gnosall adjoining the Road leading from Coley to Morston’.