| Title | Draft copy of judgement at Rolls Court on bill filed by executors of Thomas Jenkins (died 1832) against Edward Berkeley, 1st Viscount Portman, to gain possession of land in Lisson Green, explaining that under a building lease dated 14 Aug 1810, between Edward Berkeley Portman (1771-1823) and Thomas Jenkins it was agreed that houses should be erected in a square [Blandford Square] on part of land in Lisson Green, and the rent should be leased for a peppercorn rent to Thomas Jenkins for a botanic garden and nursery [Portman nursery]. Judgment given, that as houses to the value specfied in original lease, had been built the executors of Thomas Jenkins were entitled to the nursery land and were not obliged to take the building land with covenants to complete houses envisaged in 1810 scheme, nd [1835] |