Reference
X496/7
Title
Abstract of title of Jas. Adkins, jnr., husbandman to Postern Cross Close in Cranfield.Reciting: feoffment of 26 Mar. 1687 i) Chas. Dymoke, senr., Cranfield, gent. ii) Isaac Dix, Cranfield, husbm. Consid. £60 - Postern Cross Close (3 acs.) in Cranfield E. Marston Wroxhill Formerly of Jn. Vaux, Esq., and late in occ. Jn. Bandy : Mortgage of 16 Mar. 1712, by demise for years (1,000) i) Isaac Dix ii) Jas. Adkins, Cranfield, dairyman Amount £20 : Will of 24 Sept. 1738 of Jas. Adkins, senr., ... Postern Cross Close to s., Jas. Jas. to pay to s. (testator's grands.) £30 at 21 or forfeit same close to grands. : Lease and Release of 9 and 10 Jan. 1756 i) Jas. Adkins, senr., Cranfield, yeom. ii) Jas. Adkins, jnr., Cranfield, husbm. To satisfy above will and in consid. of £30 paid by ii) to i), i) conveys to ii) - sd. close, in occ. Jn. Keens, cork cutter E. Wm. Coleman, Esq., called Hunger hill N. Lane from Cranfield to Bedford S.E. Chas. Wheeler, Ampthill, grocer W. Wm. Travel, Haversham, Bucks., gardener : Mortgage of 19 Jan. 1756, by demise for years (1,000) i) Jas. Adkins, Jnr., Cranfield, husbm. ii) Thos. Bushby, Ampthill, tailor, and w. Eliz. consid. £30 - sd. close now in occ. Norman Hughes Note on the abstract '... Jas. Adkins, the elder ... in travelling to Ampthill some yrs agoe... casually lost the conveyance ... from Isaac Dix ... and has not been able to gett them again since..' '... But Isaac Dix [son] ... is ready to join in conveying this Close...' '... And were I myself the Purchasor ... I wod not take the conveyance without a Fine...' R. Ward
Date free text
1 April 1757
Production date
From: 1757 To: 1757
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