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ABSTRACT OF TITLE of George Bower of St Neots, Huntingdonshire to land in Bedford St Cuthbert 1881
Recites mortgage 7 Aug 1835 between
1) William Hugh Wade-Gery esq of Bushmead Priory, Eaton Socon [borrower]
2) Revd Henry Palliser Costobadie of Leyburn, Wensley, Yorks, Thomas Hunt Grubbe esq late of Eastwell, Potterne, Wilts then of Bath, Thomas Henry Sutton Bucknall Estcourt esq of New Nack, Wilts [trustees of (1)]
3) Joseph Rix, surgeon of St Neots, Revd John Tomlinson Day, Rector of Bletsoe, and Nevile Day, gent and John Brown, butcher, both of St Neots [trustees]
4) Hester Gery of Colmworth, widow of Revd Hugh Wade-Gery late of Bushmead Priory
5) Sir Charles Morgan, Baronet of Tredegar, Monmouth, Robert Ray esq of Edmonton, Middx, Miles Stringer esq of Effingham Place, Surrey, Newman Knollys esq of James St, Buckingham Gate, Middx, and Richard Twining, banker of the Strand, Middx [The Equitable Assurance Society]
6) Ralph Price esq of William St, Blackfriars, City of London
(5) loans to (1) 7,000 for 1000 years with (a) as security, and 7,400 with (b) as security, the total 14,400 being the primary charge and unredeemable until full payment has been made, on
- a) one undivided third created by indenture of 8/9 Aug 1831 [inherited by (4) from her parents for life and remaindered to (1)]
- b) two undivided third parts created by indenture of 13/14 Feb 1831[inherited for life by Eleanor and Mary Selina Gery, sisters of (4)]
(a) and (b) are plots in Bedford St Peter, St Paul and St Cuthbert allotted to the late Hugh Wade-Gery and his co-proprietors, divided into several farms occupied by Charles Higgins, Croft and Pennyfather, and all other lands in Bolnhurst, Keysoe, Pertenhall, Eaton Socon, Little & Great Staughton, Bushmead, Blackburn, Thurleigh, Colmworth, Ravensden, Milton Ernest, Goldington and Clapham or elsewhere.
(4) leases to (6) for 50 years.
Declaration by (2) and (3) that they have not incumbered.
Endorsed 18 May 1847 that the residue of 50 years was transferred to Henry E Ray.
Endorsed 19 May 1847 transferring mortgage of 1,400 to A Morgan who assigned it to Sir Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan, Richard Twining, Ralph Price, Henry Kendal and William Samuel Jones.
Endorsed 3 August 1863 assigning the 14,400 and 3,000 to Baron Tredegar [i.e.Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan], W F Pollock, J Spicer, John Alldin Moore and John Charles Templer.
- Recites Marriage Settlement 29 Jun 1829 between
1) William Hugh Wade-Gery
2) Ann Beckingham Milnes, spinster
3) Revd Hugh Wade-Gery and Revd Robert Wade-Gery, sons of Hugh Wade-Gery decd [trustees]
4) William Day the elder and William Day the younger
(1) is to marry (2) [first cousins]
(1) releases to (3) the reversion and remainder of the land (a) which (1) will inherit on death of both parents - his father Hugh Wade-Gery already decd, mother Hester still living - with the proviso that (1) could purchase the remaining two thirds for not exceeding 26,000, or 13,000 each.
- Recites lease and release [sale] 11 & 12 Feb 1831 between
1) John Milnes
2) Charles Gery Milnes
3) William Day the elder and William Day the younger
4) Dorothy Beckingham Milnes
5) Thomas Raynes and Catherine Beckingham Raynes his wife
6) Charles Gery Milnes and Thomas Hercules Milnes
7) Thomas Hercules Milnes
8) Mary Charlotte Chauner
9) Charles Gery Milnes and Philip Richard Faulkner
10) Henry Handley esq
11) William Hugh Wade-Gery
12) Hugh Wade-Gery the son and Robert Wade-Gery [trustees of (11)'s estate]
from (1) to (11) for 12,600 released by (12)
- c) one undivided third which had been the inheritance of Mary Selina Gery now the wife of (1)
-Recites mortgage 13 Feb 1831 between
1) William Hugh Wade-Gery [borrower]
2) Joseph Rix and John Tomlinson Day [lender]
loan from (2) to (1) of 9,100 on land in (a) and (c)
- Recites transfer of mortgage 14 Feb 1831 between
1) Joseph Rix and John Tomlinson Day [existing lender]
2) William Hugh Wade-Gery
3) Jonathan Adams, surgeon, Nevile Day and John Brown [new lender]
7000 transferred from (3) to (1) at the request of (2), for two third parts freehold comprised in the indenture of 13 Feb
- Recites that Jonathan Adams died 20 Nov 1831
- Recites marriage settlement 19 & 20 Sept 1796 between
1) William Gery
2) Eleanor Gery
3) Revd Thomas Milnes
4) Francis Rix and Jacob Costobadie [trustees]
(3) to marry (2), with the final third share [being one undivided third share which was the portion of Eleanor from her parents] to go from (2) to (3) but entrusted to (4), with the proviso that (4) could sell it to Hugh Wade-Gery [the father] at any time and the money should be paid to the Trustees of the Settlement
- Recites that Eleanor wife of Thomas Milnes died within his lifetime and before the next indenture was drawn up
- Recites lease and appointment 5 & 6 Aug 1831 between
1) Henry Palliser Costobadie [trustee]
2) Ann Costobadie, widow, executrix [trustee]
3) Thomas Milnes
4) William Hugh Wade-Gery
5) Hugh Wade-Gery the son and Robert Wade-Gery [trustees]
Hugh Wade-Gery the father did not become the purchaser of the third part mentioned in the marriage settlement of Milnes/Gery of 1796 Francis Rix died 1813; and Jacob Costobadie died 1828 intestate as to the trusteeship, leaving it to descend to son (1): but JC's widow (2), executrix of his will pro 29 Dec 1828, agrees a contract with (1) and (3) to sell to (4) the lease of the one third share [formerly the inheritance of Eleanor, decd wife of (3)] for 12,600, to be kept in trust by (5)
- Recites Hugh Wade-Gery the father died Dec 1832
- Recites appointment and demise [lease] 8 Aug 1831 between
1) William Hugh Wade-Gery [borrower]
2) Joseph Rix and John Tomlinson Day [lenders]
12,600 mortgage on the undivided third with the proviso that (1) can borrow further sums of 12,600 against either of the other two thirds, or borrow an amount not exceeding in total 26,000 against all three thirds
- Recites transfer [of mortgage] 9 Aug 1831 between
(1) Joseph Rix and John Tomlinson Day [existing lender]
(2) William Hugh Wade-Gery [borrower]
(3) Thomas Milnes
(4) Henry Palliser Costobadie [trustee, new lender]
12,600 paid to (1) from the estate by (4) at the request of (2) and (3)
- Recites that the 12,600 was in fact money for the purchase of the undivided third part
- Recites that Thomas Milnes died 1833 having had 2 children by his wife Eleanor, one of whom died an unmarried infant, the other, Charlotte Eleanor Milnes, married Revd James Andrew Hunt Grubbe and died 1826 intestate, leaving an only child Eleanor Julia Hunt Grubb as her infant heiress
- Recites Act of Parliament 4 & 5 William IV (1833-35) "An Act for vesting estates belonging to Eleanor Julia Hunt Grubb spinster an infant in trustees for sale and for laying out the money arising from such sale under the direction of the High Court of Chancery in the purchase of other estates and for granting leases of the estates to be purchased and for other the purposes".
- Recites Order of High Court of Chancery 15 Feb 1834 in which Thomas Hunt Grubbe, uncle and next friend of EJHG, is plaintiff and James Andrew Hunt Grubb and Henry Palliser Costobadie are defendants upon the Petition of EJHG. The Order is referred to the Master, and his report of 7 Mar 1834 (confirmed 11 Mar) certifies that EJHG is entitled to the 12,600 and the security on which it was invested [the land] and that it would benefit EJHG to apply to Parliament to bring in a Bill to enable the sale of the estates. It was enacted that all estates mentioned in the schedule (see below), freehold or copyhold, possessed by EJHG as heir of Thomas Milnes and Charlotte Eleanor Grubbe, and the 12,600 should be invested in THG, her next friend, and Thomas Henry Sutton Bucknall Estcourt on trust to sell, the money raised to be paid into the Bank of England in the name of the Accountant-General of the High Court of Chancery without fee or reward
- Recites that in pursuance of the above Order, Henry Palliser Costobadie paid 5,600 - part of the 12,600 - into the Bank of England on 2 June 1834
- Recites that 7,000 was still due to Nevile Day and John Brown from a loan taken out on 14 Feb 1831 on two of the thirds
- Recites that William Hugh Wade-Gery has applied to Sir Charles Morgan, Robert Ray, Miles Stringer, Newman Knollys and Richard Twining [the Equitable Asurance Society] to lend 14,400 to pay off the 7,000 residue and also the 7,000 due to Nevile Day and Brown; and the residue of 9,100 borrowed against the 1/3 he received in his marriage settlement should be postponed into the 14,400; with the agreement of Hester Gery, widow of Hugh Wade-Gery, to lease the one third part of the Settlement of 1829 to a trustee for 50 years
- Recites that 7,000, which is the residue of 12,600, had been paid to EJHG [by Equitable Ass Soc on behalf of William Hugh Wade-Gery]
Recites further charge 10 April 1850 between
1) William Hugh Wade-Gery [borrower]
2) Sir Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan, Baronet of Tredegar, Monmouth, Richard Twining, banker of the Strand, Middlesex, Ralph Price esq of William St, Blackfriars, City of London, Henry Kemble esq of Grove Hill, Camberwell, Surrey and William Samuel Jones esq of the Crown Office, Temple, City of London [lender - Equitable Assurance Society]
from (2) to (1), 3,000 on (a) and (b)
- Recites that Jonathan Adams died 20 Nov 1830; Newman Knollys died 7 Jan 1836; Robert Ray died 24 Dec 1837; Miles Stringer died 31 Dec 1839, Sir Charles Morgan died 5 Dec 1846; Hester Gery died 28 Mar 1849
- Recites that 14,400 was still owed by William Hugh Wade-Gery to Sir Charles Morgan etc
Recites further charge 1 Mar 1864 between
1) William Hugh Wade-Gery esq of Bushmead Priory
2) Rt Hon Charles Morgan Robinson, Baron Tredegar, William Frederick Pollock, Barrister-at-law of the Inner Temple, London, James Spicer esq of New Bridge St, Blackfriars, City of London, John Alldin Moore esq of Cannon St west, City of London, and John Charles Templer esq of Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex
Loan of a further 3,000 from (2) to (1) secured on (a) and (b) now occupied by George Higgins, James Henry Bedford, Felix Crofts and William Pennyfeather
Recites Henry Kemble died 18 May 1857; Richard Twining died 14 Oct 1857; Ralph Price died 3 Apr 1860; William Samuel Jones died 16 Feb 1862; Sir Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan was created Baron Tredegar in 1859
Recites indenture 3 Aug 1863 indorsed on indenture 7 Aug 1835
Recites indenture 10 Apr 1850 in which Baron Tredegar assigns the 14,400 and 3,000 to himself and William Frederick Pollock, James Spicer, John Alldin Moore and John Charles Templer
Recites that 14,400 and 3,000 remained due
Recites mortgage 1 August 1865 between
1) William Hugh Wade-Gery (borrower)
2) George Bowyer, gent of Diddington, Hunts (lender)
2,000 on (a) and (b)
Recites various documents described above
Recites mortgage 11 Oct 1866 between
1) William Hugh Wade-Gery (borrower)
2) George Bowyer (lender)
1,500 on (a) and (b)
Recites mortgage 24 June 1869 between
1) William Hugh Wade-Gery (borrower)
2) Mary Bowyer and Frances Bowyer, spinsters of Diddington, Hunts (lenders)
2,000 on (a) and (b)
(1) holds as tenant for life, not as of fee, with remainder to sons
Recites will dated 20 July 1865 of William Hugh Wade-Gery esq of Bushmead Priory, Eaton Socon
- after ratifying the 2 settlements made at his marriage to the late Ann Beckingham Wade-Gery nee Milnes 29 June 1829, he directs that his second and youngest son Hugh Wade-Gery should be given 3,000 as his portion; and by virtue of the sale of some real estate of his late wife's, 2,100 was raised which has been invested for his eldest son William Hugh Wade-Gery.
Appoints his brothers Hugh Wade-Gery and Robert Wade-Gery, and George Day, as trustees and executors of the will
Recites codicil to will of William Hugh Wade-Gery 23 Dec 1867 revoking appointment of Robert Wade-Gery as trustee and replacing him with George Hurst esq of Bedford
Recites William Hugh Wade-Gery died 1 September 1870
Recites that the will and codicil were proved 14 November 1870
Recites Receipt for Succession Duty 10 January 1872 payable by William Hugh Wade-Gery of Norman Cross, Hunts on the death of his father, with schedule of land in Bedford Sts Peter, Paul and Cuthbert, farmed by George Higgins, Mrs Crofts, Mr Pennyfeather, Mark Kilsby and a lease to George Day
Recites Disentailing Assurance 16 December 1871 between
1) William Hugh Wade-Gery (the son) esq, of Norman Cross, Yaxley, Hunts
2) Charles Robert Wade-Gery, gent of St Neot's, Hunts
(1) desired to cut off the estate tail and acquire a fee simple interest and to that end granted his inherited property to (2) with all reversion and estate
Attested in Chancery 22 December 1871
- (d) freehold manors conveyed 11 Feb and 6 Aug 1831
- (e) other manors to which (1) was entitled as tenant in tail male in possession
Recites transfer of mortgages 10 January 1872 between
1) Rt Hon Charles Morgan Robinson, Baron Tredegar, William Frederick Pollock, Barrister-at-law of the Inner Temple, City of London, James Spicer esq of New Bridge St, Blackfriars, City of London, John Alldin Moore esq late of Cannon St West but now of Hare Court Temple, City of London, John Charles Templer esq of Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middx
2) The Equitable Insurance Company
3) William Hugh Wade-Gery
4) The Hon. Peter John Locke King MP of Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey
- Recites deaths of Newman Knollys 7 January 1836; Robert Ray 24 December 1837; Miles Stringer 31 December 1839; Sir Charles Morgan 5 December 1846
- Recites deaths of Henry Kemble 18 May 1857; Richard Twining 14 October 1857; Ralph Price 3 April 1860; William Samuel Jones 16 February 1862
- Recites that 14,400, 3,000 and 3,000 were still owing to (1)
- Recites that William Hugh Wade-Gery is seised in fee simple in possession
- Recites that (4) has agreed to take over the mortgages and pay 14,400, 3,000 and 3,000 to (1) with a) and b) as security
Recites transfer of mortgages 10 January 1872 between
1) George Bowyer, gent of Diddington, Hunts [existing lender]
2) Mary Bowyer and Frances Bowyer, spinsters, of Diddington [existing lenders]
3) William Hugh Wade-Gery [borrower]
4) Peter John Locke King [new lender]
- Recites that 2,000 and 1,500 were still owing to (1)
- Recites that 2,000 was still owing to (2)
- Recites that William Hugh Wade-Gery the father had not been seised as of fee but had been tenant for life with the power of charging the hereditaments with any sum "not exceeding a certain amount", and with power to limit for any term of years for the purpose of securing the sums charged on it
- Recites that (3) became entitled to the fee simple in possession subject to the incumbrances
Recites that (4) had agreed to take over the mortgages
Recites transfer of mortgage 10 January 1872 between
1) William Hugh Wade-Gery [borrower]
2) Peter John Locke King [lender]
- Recites that (1) had become entitled to the property (a) subject to mortgages of 14,400, 3,000, 3,000, 2,000, 1,500 and 2,000 - total 25,900 - plus another 3,000 in favour of Hugh Wade-Gery; and of other land (b) subject to incumbrances of 1,500 and 1,500 - total 3000
- Recites The 25,900 mortgage was now transferred to (2), who had agreed to lend to (1) the further sum of 16,100 - total mortgage now 42,000, with the 3,000 in favour of HWG separate because (1) could not immediately free the land from the mortgages or incumbrances - the interest was to be regulated with a proviso not to call in the mortgage before 10 Jan 1877
Recites transfer of loan 23 February 1872 between
1) Sarah Carroll, widow of Stamford [former lender]
2) Hugh Wade-Gery esq of Braunston Lodge, Rutland
3) William Hugh Wade-Gery
4) Peter John Locke King [new lender]
loan transferred from (1) to (4)
Recites that (2) was entitled to 3,000 as his portion under the terms of his father's will, to be raised by (3) from inherited lands (3) borrowed the sum from (1)
Recites indenture 5 Sept 1872 between
1) William Hugh Wade-Gery
2) Peter John Locke King
- Recites that (1), not (2) as stated, paid the 3,000 to Hugh Wade-Gery out of the 16,100 lent to him by (2)
- Confirms that all other mortgages had been transferred to (2)
- Recites that in 1872 (1) repaid a mortgage of 1,500 on land not part of this abstract
[see also X 832]
Recites indenture 29 May 1873 between
1) Peter John Locke King, MP
2) William Hugh Wade-Gery
- Recites 24 previous deeds [included in above descriptions]
- Recites that at the time of the 1865, 1866 & 1869 indentures, William Hugh Wade-Gery (the father) was not in fact seised in his demesne as of fee but was tenant for life with remainder to his first and other sons in tail male, with power to raise the aggregate sum of 26,000
- Recites that (2) [the son] became tenant in tail in possession and then became entitled to the fee simple in possession of land in Bedford St Cuthbert and St Peter, and Goldington as a result of the Disentailing Assurance enrolled in Chancery in 1871, with a 3,000 charge by way of portions for younger children
Plan of land attached; land is itemised, tenants given, enclosure award quoted
[a duplicate of this document is held at ref: WG 1350]
Recites appointment of trustees 30 May 1873 between
1) William Hugh Wade-Gery esq, of Norman Cross, Yaxley, Hunts
2) Charles Robert Wade-Gery, gent of St Neot's, Hunts and Peter Purves, land agent of Brampton, Hunts [trustees]
(1) appoints (2) as trustees of his property in St Cuthbert, Bedford, if necessary to sell it and grant building leases
(a) & (b) tenants named as: George Higgins, land cottage and buildings, William Croft, a garden, William Pennyfeather, garden at St Cuthbert's, Mark Kilsby, cottage, and George Day's executors, buildings
Recites that Peter Purves died on 17 October 1877 and was buried at Brampton, Hunts
Recites sale 16 February 1882 between
1) Charles Robert Wade-Gery
2) William Hugh Wade-Gery
3) George Bower, gas engineer of St Neot's, Hunts
from (1) and (2) to (3) for 23,300, of
- (a) & (b) the closes of land in St Cuthbert, Bedford containing 62a 0r 11p late occ by George Higgins and his undertenants and others
Recites covenant to produce documents 16 February 1882 between
1) Charles Robert Wade-Gery [vendor]
2) Peter John Locke King [lender]
3) George Bower [purchaser]
- Recites condition that the vendor shall retain the deeds because they relate also to other property not included in this sale, with covenant to produce on request.
- Recites deeds scheduled to be produced:
- Lease & release 1734 between 1) Samuel Horsman MD, 2) Richard Bell esq, 3) William Farrer esq and John Cater esq.
- Lease & release 1735 between 1) Richard Bell esq and Mary Bell, widow, 2) Mary Carter, spinster, 3) Dennis Farrer esq and John Pepiatt, gent, and 4) Thomas Skevington, gent and Thomas Wase, gent
- Lease & release 1763 between 1) William Gery esq, 2) Charles Gery esq, 3) Eleanor Gery, widow, 4) Mary Bell the elder, widow, and Mary Bell the younger, spinster, 5) Thomas Birt, clerk and 6) William Welby esq [see WG 640 for full version]
- Royal Licence to Hugh Wade and his wife to assume name and arms of Gery [see WG 1354 for full deed]
- Indenture between 1) William Gery esq, Revd Hugh Wade-Gery and wife Hester, Mary Selina Gery and Eleanor Gery, spinsters and 2) Francis Rix, merchant
- Fine in Hilary Term 36 Geo III [spring 1796] between Francis Rix, plaintiff and William Gery esq, Hugh Wade-Gery, clerk and wife Hester, Selina Gery and Eleanor Gery, spinsters, Deforciants
- Lease and release 19/20 September 1796 between 1) William Gery, 2) Eleanor Gery, 3) Revd Thomas Milnes and 4) Francis Rix and Jacob Costobadie
- Lease & release and settlement 9/10 September 1828 between 1) John Milnes
2) Thomas Raynes, Lt in 42nd Regiment of Royal Highlanders
3) Catherine Beckingham Milnes, spinster
4) Charles Gery Milnes esq and Thomas Hercules Milnes esq
- Indenture 18 April 1829 between
1) Mary Charlotte Milnes
2) Darwin Chawner, MD and 3) Charles Gery Milnes and Philip Richard Falkner, gent
- Deed poll 27 June 1829 under seal of Revd Hugh Wade-Gery, previously Hugh Wade, and wife Hester