Reference
WL85
Title
Abstract of Title of Joseph Allen Piggott to freehold messuage in Aspley Guise; No.29 in Lot 1; abstracted by Sharman & Smail of Bedford for purchaser and T.W.& J.Pearse for vendor
(I) Assignment of 13 Nov 1843
Parties:
(i) John Hutton of Aspley Guise, farmer and Elizabeth, his wife;
(ii) William Readman of Ridgmont, farmer;
(iii) Richard Gerrard Perryn of Trafford Hall [Cheshire]; John Thomas Brooks of Flitwick
Reciting:
- mortgage by demise for 1,000 years of 23 Mar 1832 in which (i) borrowed £450 from (ii);
- £450 remained outstanding but all interest had been paid;
- (i) had requested that (iii) lend him £1,000 allowing him to redeem the mortgage to (ii) amongst other things;
- Elizabeth Hutton had consented to release her dower rights
Operative Part:
- (iii) paid £450 to (ii) and £550 to (i) by mortgage at 4.5% interest secured on (a)-(b)
Property:
(a) farmhouse with yards, gardens, outhouses and buildings adjoining in Aspley Guise;
(b) orchard or pightle of pasture adjoining (a) containing 2 acres late in occupation of John Hutton, then Thomas Bennett; cottage adjoining the pightle in occupation of Kitty Bowler
(II) Certificate of Acknowledgement of 29 Aug 1844
(III) Further Advance of 21 Aug 1844 of £100 from Richard Gerrard Perryn and John Thomas Brooks to John Hutton
[pencil note at this point: "No mention of death of Perryn"]
(IV) Will of John Thomas Brooks of 8 Dec 1858 devising all mortgaged real estate to John Green of Woburn, gentleman and Samuel Swaffield of Ampthill, gentleman upon trusts and subject to equity of redemption
(V) Death of John Thomas Brooks on 22 Dec 1858 and proof of his will and codicil on 15 Mar 1859
(VI) Reconveyance of 2 Apr 1860 by John Green and Samuel Swaffield to John Hutton on redemption of mortgage
(VII) Release of 25 Sep 1866
Parties:
(i) Henry James Cooper Hutton of Moskill, Upper Umlaas County, Pietermaritzburg, Natal [South Africa], farmer;
(ii) Joseph Dickinson of Colney Heath [Hertfordshire], shoemaker and Mary Ann, his wife [formerly Mary Ann Hutton];
(iii) Joseph Allen Piggott of Bedford, brewer
Reciting:
- death of John Hutton intestate in Jan 1863 leaving Mary Ann Dickinson, his widow and Henry James Cooper Hutton, his eldest son, as his heirs at law
Operative Part:
- (iii) paid £90 to (ii) and £310 to (i);
- (i) granted and (ii) released, in order to extinguish dower rights, (a)-(c) to (iii)
Property: [as shown on included plan]
(a) messuage, lately a farmhouse but now a public house called Steamer in Aspley Guise;
(b) pightle of pasture of 2 acres adjoining (a);
(c) cottage adjoining (b)
(VIII) Agreement to produce deeds of 10 Dec 1866
Parties:
(i) William, Duke of Bedford;
(ii) Joseph Allen Piggott
Reciting:
-conveyance of 11 Oct 1866 from (1) Henry James Cooper Hutton and (2) Joseph Dickinson and Mary Ann, his wife to (3) William, Duke of Bedford with (4) Thomas Henry, Baron Foley; Charles Romilly; George Russell as trustees;
- (VII) above;
- deeds relating to (a)-(c) in (VII) had been delivered to Duke of Bedford
Operative Part:
- covenant by (i) to produce scheduled deeds on demand to (ii)
Schedule:
- probate of will of Joseph Hutton of 19 Nov 1814;
- (I) above
- (III) above
- (VI) above
- letter of attorney of 20 Jan 1866 from Henry James Cooper Hutton to John Thomas Green
Date free text
1875
Production date
From: 1814 To: 1875
Level of description
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