Reference
Z202/4
Title
Mortgage by demise for 99 years of nine acres dispersed in fields of Houghton Regis and Dunstable for consideration of £30
Date free text
9 Sept 1713
Production date
From: 1713 To: 1713
Scope and Content
i) Samuel Buckingham of Houghton Regis, yeoman and Sarah his wife.
ii) Nathaniel Groom of Dunstable, grocer.
- several parcels of arable land containing 9 acres by estimation, formerly the lands of William Fossey late of Dunsable, malster and purchased of him by the said Samuel Buckingham and Sarah his wife, being within the fields of Houghton Regis and Dunstable and now in the tenure or occupation of the said Samuel Buckingham.
Yearly payment of one peppercorn at the feast of the Annunciation of our Blessed Lady St Mary the Virgin.
If i) pays £39 16 shillings to ii) then mortgage is void.
Signed Samuel Buckingham, Sarah Buckingham.
Endorsed with receipt for £30. Witnesses: Ruth Newman, Thomas Strong.
Archival history
Purchased by Essex Record Office as part of a mixed lot of deeds sold as lot 146 by Lawrences Auctioneers Ltd, Bletchingly on the 28 October 2025. The purchase was made possible thanks to a grant from the Friends of the Nation's Libraries (FNL).
The documents were subsequently distributed to appropriate public repositories with the full backing of the FNL and Bedfordshire Archives was identified as the appropriate repository for this document.
Level of description
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