Somerset Record Office DD\X\WBB/266/1 Release of The Castle, Dated the 8th of January 1735.
Thomas Watts sold the following to John Anderdon, Doctor of Physick Also see this document of John Anderdon for the nearby house in Castle Steet.
INDENTURE made the eight day of January in the ninth year of the reign of our sovereign lord George the Second by the grace of God, [etc], and in the year of our lord [1735]
BETWEEN Thomas Watts of the City of London Esquire on the one part and John Anderdon of Bridgwater in the County of Somerset Doctor of Physick on the other
WHEREAS by indenture of lease and release bearing date respectively the twenty second and twenty third days of April [1734] and made between the most noble James Duke of Chandos on the one part and the said Thomas Watts on the other, the said Duke of Chandos for the consideration of herein mentioned did grant, sell [etc] to the said Thomas Watts
ALL that manor or lordship or reputed manor or lordship of Bridgwater Castrum cum Haygrove [etc]
NOW THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH that for [etc] the sum of three hundred and sixty pounds [etc – Watts sells to Anderdon]
1. ALL that Capital Messuage or Manor House called the Castle at the upper or west end of a street there called or known by the name Chandos [now Castle] Street in the posession of one John Harvey deceased, and now in the posession of Thomas Watts
2. ALL those two pieces and parcels of ground or gardens adjoining or belonging to the Castle House attached to the castle and situated on the east and north east parts thereof which are now in the possession of John Anderdon.
3. ALL that messuage or tenement dwelling house, stable and gardens thereunto belonging containing by estimation three acres (be it more or less) commonly called or known by the name of Hayes’s, bounded on the west with a plot of ground or garden now in the possession of Joel Gardiner, south by the garden now or late in the possession of Thomas Haysham, north with a way or lane commonly called or known buy the North Back Lane which leads from the West Gate to the Parish of Chilton, and on the east by the Castle Bailey now in the possession of the said John Hayes and William Sellway
4. ALL that Stable with appurtenantes situate at the west end of the Castle Bailey, now or late in the possession of Thomas Yates bounded on the north and west by with Haysham’s garden and to the south with a piece of ground or garden now or late in the possession of John Osborn.
5. ALL that Garden plot in or near the Castle Bailey heretofore in the possession of Elizabeth Kay since that of Nicholas Clouds and now or late of the said Thomas Haysham, bounded on the north with Hayes’s to the west with the said garden of Joel Gardener and south with the plot of ground or garden of the said John Osborn
6. ALL the waste pieces and parcels of waste ground lying near or adjoining the castle house and gardens herebefore mentioned bounded on the south with a way allotted and marked out leading from the upper or west end of the said Chandos Street to the passage leading towards the Cross in the market on the west with the [] of Haysham’s Garden and Osborn’s and Hayes’s on the north by the highway or lane leading from Bridgwater to the parish of Chilton and the lands of Sir Thomas Hales Bart, now in the possession of Doctor John Allen and on the east with a piece or parcel of waste ground at the upper end of North Back Street lately marked out and sold by the said Thomas Watts to one Benjamin Holloway and all trees saplings etc on there.
7. ALL that piece or parcel of waste ground and now partly built upon and all houses edifices and buildings thereon lying between the said Castle Garden and the house and garden lying at the upper end of the said Chandos Street on the north side thereof now in the possession of the said John Anderdon
