Title
Feoffment
i) John Hooper, Dunstable, gentleman
ii) William Cumberland, Hockliffe in Chalgrave, baker John Shelton, Dunstable, gentleman ( a person lately nominated in trust for William Cumberland)
iii) John Richardson, Tuddington [Toddington], victualler and dealer William Richardson, Beechhide, Sandridge, Hertfordshire, yeoman (a person nominated in trust for John Richardson)
reciting lease and release of 16 and 17 May 1788
a) William Cumberland
John Shelton
b) Richard Gutteridge, Dunstable
- hereinafter land
was conveyed from a) to b) in mortgage to secure 420 and interest
reciting also lease and release of 8 and 9 June 1790 [as above]
1) William Cumberland
2) John Hooper
- said premises and equity of redemption
were conveyed by 1) to 2) subject ot said mortgage, interest, and a proviso for redemption
reciting also lease and release of 16 and 17 February 1791 endorsed on above
A) Richard Gutteridge
B) John Hooper
by which A) in consideration of all principal and interest due to him, released to B)
- said land etc
reciting that John Richardson has agreed with William Cumberland for the purchase of part of said property for 76 10s which sum is to be paid to i) in part discharge of principal and interest due
now in consideration of 76 10s paid to i) by John Richardson
by direction of William Cumberland in part discharge of principal and interest owing to him i)
i) at request of William Cumberland enfeoffs and also ii) enfeoffs to iii)
- 2 acres 3 rod in common fields of Tebworth in Chalgrave
-- In Church Field
-- 1 acre in Redmore Furlong otherwise called Tebworth Paynes Leek
South once Thomas Olney and now Richard Gilpin, Esq
North once John Balls and now of said R Gilpin
-- acre in Paynes Leek furlong
South once Mr Fish and now of Richard Gilpin
North once Mrs Marsh, and now of Richard Gilpin
-- acre in Paynes Leek furlong
West once Henry Buckmaster and now John Collins
-- 3 rod residue being a through out lying in Church Bridge Mead furlong
South once Mrs Marsh, now Richard Gilpin
South once widow Jeffes and now of Thomas Read, senr
- 2 acres meadow called Smith's Mead
East once George Gurney, afterwards of Hon. Charles Leigh and now of Hon. Mary Leigh
South once the Lord and now of William Groom
which said pieces arable were late in occupation of Thomas Skikelthorpe, since of Sarah Skikelthorpe, his widow and now of Thomas Roberts said 2 acres meadow were also late in occupation of Thomas Skikelthorpe, then Sarah Skikelthorpe and now of William Cumberland
to hold to iii) in trust as to interest of William Richardson in said lands to use of John Richardson
William Cumberland or i) covenant with John Richardson to produce deed of 21 June 1720
I) John Olney, elder, of Tebworth in Chalgrave, yeoman
II) George Atterbury, Tebworth
Robert Ashwell, Leighton Buzzard, scrivener
III) William Smith, Tilsworth, yeoman
Sarah Olney, daughter of said John Olney
purporting to be a settlement on the marriage of III)
and relating to the arable land
also lease and release of 23 and 24 January 1788, the lease being between
ia) Sarah Skikelthorpe, before marriage Sarah Smith, one of daughters of William Smith of Hockliffe, and wife Sarah, daughter of John Olney, and after death of William Smith, was the wife of Thomas Crookey
William Cumberland, son and heir and administrator of estate of Joyce Green, widow, deceased, formerly Joyce Cumberland, wife of Thomas Cumberland, deceased, formerly Joyce Smith, other daughter and co-heir of William Smith
ib) Henry Toten, Chancery Lane, Middlesex, stationer
the release being of 7 parts
Ia) Sarah Skikelthorpe
Ib) William Cumberland
Ic) Henry Toten
Id) John Smith, Market Street, Hertfordshire, yeoman
Ie) John Shelton
If) George Atterbury, Streatley, gentleman
Ig) Joyce Forster, Hockliffe, widow
purporting to be deeds to make a tenant to the precipe for suffering a recovery by partition between Ia) and Ib) to use of Ib) of above pieces of land and deeds of:
Lease and release of 16 and 17 May 1788
also of 8 and 9 June and 16 and 17 February last uncancelled and undefaced for the support of John Richardson
to said pieces of land etc and will permit copies to be made lastly i) and ii) depute Thomas Gregory of Toddington, yeoman, to be their attorney to take seisin of said pieces of land and then deliver it to iii)
sigs of i) and ii)
endorsed receipt
livery of seisin
wits William Oliver
Edmund Chandless
Samuel Burbidge
William Hobbs, jnr