Selling a cotton mile in the Regency period was complex business! What was included in the sale? What would a buyer wish for?
How easy was it to buy such a complex industrial site?
Often adverts tell the tale.
In IF I LOVED YOU, Viscount Bellamy considers it!
Here is one such advert, August 1, 1815. Note all the structures, where it is sold, when and how. By Auction!
It conveys with all kinds of amenities with plots of land, liberties privileges, advances and notices of the ground ent to be paid for a whopping 999 years!
Do enlarge to read better.
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