Title
Lease for a year [release missing]
i) Daniel Chapman
Joseph Margetts Pierson
(both of Hitchin, Herts., late bankers and merchants, and
now bankers, who have survived George Hogg, elder, late of
Kings Lynn, Norfolk, merchant, and John Crabb, elder, late
of Hitchin, merchant, their late partners, deceased)
George Hogg, Kings Lynn, merchant (eldest son of said George Hogg)
Henry Crabb, Hitchin, brewer,(only brother of John Crabb, younger, who was eldest son of John Crabb, elder)
Richard Hatley Crabb, Great Baddow, Essex, brewer
William Burr, Luton, brewer
John Marshall, Hitchin, liquor merchant (executors of will of John Crabb, younger)
ii) William Hogg, Biggleswade, merchant
consideration - 5s paid by ii) to i)
i) bargain and sell to ii)
- moiety of
--- 1/3rd part of other moiety of
--- messuage or counting house, coal sheds, vaults, cellars etc in Shortmead ot Street,Biggleswade
now in occupation of ii)
including therein so much of said wharf and yards as was formerly part of Salthouse orchard
- other messuage in Shortmead End or Shortmead Street, Biggleswade
W merchants yard
E said street
now in occupation of Henry Locke
- small piece meadow lying behind messuage late in occupation of William Richardson, now deceased, and extending to the river term - 1 year
rent - 1 peppercorn to intent that ii) may in actual possession of the premises and be enabled to accept a release of them
signatures of i)
endorsed witnesses William Dunnage, Hitchin, Herts
Isaac Hindley, Baldock, Herts
Thos F Gepp,sol, Chelmsford,[Essex]