William Cotham's estate: authorizing building and mining leases Act 1853
WHEREAS William Penketh Cotham, late of Springfield near Prescot in the County of Lancaster, but afterwards of Macclesfield in the County of Chester, Esquire, deceased, duly made his Will, bearing Date the Second Day of January One thousand eight hundred and forty-six, whereby, after directing his Debts, Funeral and Testamentary Expenses, to be paid out of his Personal Estate, he gave and devised unto his affectionate Wife Anna Cotham, now Anna Laing, Thomas Walmesley of Hardshaw Hall in the ...