GK106/6

Lease & Release & Bond to indemnify against dower of Sar Read 1) Chas Read late of Fore Street, Cripplegate City of London, now of Silsoe gent (vendor) 2) Jn Slinn of St. Mary's Parish, Bedford victualler (purchaser) Messuage or Inn commonly called Kings Arms, Parish of St. Mary, Bedford with Brewho or wash ho. belonging stable & straw barn adj 3 other stables & a storehouse (formerly 4 stables) on S. side of yard belonging to Kings Arms & abutting on the Church Yard on S. (all purchased from Mary Franklin) now occ of Jn Slinn AND 5 cottages (lately erected on piece of gnd exchanged by Chas Read from Han Dennis) and gardens abutts S. Potters St W. Church Yard N. garden gnd occ of Jn Slinn E. Back Lane now occ by Wid Barker, Wm Huckle, Thos Hall, Benj Clifton & Jn Attack reserved:- right of way to cellar, Candlehouse, stable & garden belonging to Hannah Dennis through the yards of Inn free use off pump & well of the Inn Consideration 1100 [N.B. the 5 cottages are rep on Reynolds Map of Bedford 1841 by the 4 houses between St. Mary's Churchyard & Bedesman's Lane] - Block of Housing appears on the site on E.W. Bayley's map Bedford 1807

16-17 Oct 1804

From: 1804 To: 1841

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Read, Sarah,
Read, Charles,
Slinn, John,
Franklin, Mary,
Dennis, Hannah,
Barker (d),
Huckle, William,
Hall, Thomas,
Clifton, Benjamin,
Attack, John,
Reynolds,
Bayley, E.W.

dower, victualler, wash houses, churchyards, rights of way, WELLS, candle making, Bedford Back Lane, Bedford Potter Street