Show I. I iA S TES IN LONDON WITH DIG BIG RENTALS t I TO DE BE SOLO SOLD Litigation Over Millions to End With Property Auction I seat 1 Cable to The Tho Telegram L LL omos L Ol Dec 23 Lord Lord h rat Trat Lon London lon estates which uco a n arat aroll rat ot roll of ot about a a. reversions In five years' years Inc ac arc are to be 1 put ut up for auction n next ring I works warla factories d wh tr e i on the th Regents Regent's canal eff ft ee the ell cn cli road and more than 2500 QUilt art are Included In the tho sale which lag been to lo Knight rank Yank k In conjunction with Will i I ers Co agents for tor the estate I The I sale hale al will end the thc prospect that 1 ho he millions may ever go to tony tony tl ny ny of or the rightful heirs who have lamed up 0 at t t intervals during the tho last eighty years year 1 After Aller the thi pa passing of ot the real ical prop- prop fly limitation act In 1874 there never Dever was as lYas an prospect of success In the pursuit pur pur- suit uit o of the Uttering glittering bubble but when ho he Alington estate has been Leen sold In market overt o the purchasers will be beI behe bethe I he the only persons persona who will ever enjoy the millions jjohn John was a bachmai achman who in 1757 married the S ti r of or I Ills Ilia s 01 old 1 master a rich i ondon distiller and thus became I of a 1 Urge large rSc agricultural estate in and Islington Building over lilts his land had long been restricted beUS be- be use US th the citizens of ot London possessed the ho ancient rights of ot free archery over them and there were stone arch ta x's marks marks' clotted dotted ov over r the fields when John ohn became their owner The estate which he purported to CU ath by his will ran from Old Direct beet to the Rosemary Branch tavern nd tea now gardens gardens now In Shepperton fond old Islington and and then to Frog farm farmand and nd nd Frog Frog lane The latter Is now rep- rep by bv the populous thoroughfares ailed Queens Queen's place Popham road terrace and Danbury street Th The were descended from a amily of ot London merchants one of whom Humphrey Sturt married in Miss alias Mary Iary Pitfield only daughter ind nd heiress s of ot Charles Pitfield of ot Hox- Hox I flon Ion Mr Ir C C. B B. Sturt his grandson t ihus hus became the owner of ot the land on ond d hick Pitfield street was built and 1 fills tics land adjoined the estate S J Building began on the southern part t of the meadows In 1823 and by it they were all covered with houses S except the Rosemary Branch tea f gardens R Tho The construction of ot the Regents Regent's canal hod had added to the value of ot Lump- Lump Ins ns ng Wills Will's field Spice Island field t Botany Bay nay field and the other grazing a ands which John owned and halves CR and coal coat yards ards and canal basins aline and timber yards have occupied hose acres r ever v I. I since I hs Slums grew e up p there too which the ate lite payers had to buy up at high 1 rites riceR In order to replace with more dwellings The Tho greater part of ot the tha fell tell Into the hands ot of the the head of whom is now Lord Lordt t lington and aid as London Increases in inthe nIne the value of the estates states goes goell up ailous arious descendants of ot John on law suits and seized empty ouse bu but t always failed Man Many of ot othe he original leases did not fall fail In until 70 and there was then a I enc ence o of hostilities Pugilists were ed to garrison the empty houses j ut Lord Alington won In the end and andt I the ho ha meadows are arc now to be dispersed dis t persed under the auctioneers auctioneer's hammer i I |