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Attested Copy of Appointment with Power of Sale
1) Sarah Needham, wife of Loftus Hatley Needham,
late and now of St Neots, Hunts
(formerly Sarah Stephenson, widow; nee Sarah
Smith, dau of Thos Smith, late of St Neots, Gent)
2) John Maule, late of the Temple, London, but now of
City of Bath, Gent (Trustee for sale)
3) Wm Alex Peppercorn of St Neots, Gent
Recites Lease and Release (agreement) with Covenant
to levy a fine
1) Loftus Hatley Needham and Sarah, his wife
2) Geo Maule, Gent (since deceased)
Jn Maule
3A of arable land lying in fields of Great Staughton,
Hunts, awarded under Gt Staughton Enclosure Act.
3 half acres of arable land lying dispersedly in open
fields of Gt Paxton, Hunts (formerly Masons)
Messuage, cottage or tenement, Sheep Market or High St,
St Neots, in occ of - - , with close of pasture
Messuage or tenement in Gt Paxton
AND close of pasture adj 4A (formerly in occ of Jn Blows)
AND 4A of arable land lying dispersed in the common
fields and Parish of Gt Paxton (formerly in occ of
Thos Moore)
(All above properties formerly estate of Thos Smith,
deceased)
AND all other lands and hereditaments whatsoever of
Loftus Hatley Needham and Sarah his wife in
Great Paxton
5 & 6 Nov 1810
Recites Fine Michaelmas 51 Geo III [1811]
Recites Out of Court Surrender, Manor of Gt Paxton by
Loftus Hatley to use of Geo and Jn Maule
Messuage or tenement with the little close of pasture
adjoining
1 close of pasture called two closes 11.1/2 A of land
3R of pasture (formerly Browns)
1 close of pasture (formerly Wm Marshalls and Ann, his
wife, and Thos Dalby's)
3R of meadow, Gt Paxton, formerly Jn Dann's the younger
3A of land in fields of Gt Paxton (formerly Slaters)
with the commons, rights, profits, etc
(Thos Smith admitted on surrender of Francis Bridges
and Elizabeth, his wife
20 Nov 1756)
3A of arable land, (formerly Swepsons)
(Thos Smith admitted on surrender of Mary Brooke, widow
(formerly Mary Smith)
On trust to ensure rents and profits go to Sarah
Needham in her own right, as if she were single.
Trustees to convey estate to whosoever Sarah leaves
it to in her will but in default to right heirs of
Loftus Hatley Needham
18 March 1811
Death of Geo Maule, 18 - -
recites Great Paxton and Toseland Enclosure Award
to Sarah Needham (above ): plot of freehold land
in South Field, Gt Paxton [1A 3R 24P]
abs N Toseland Road
E Allotment to Trustees of Sandy Poor
S & W Copyhold allotment (awarded to Sarah Needham)
above allotment and allotment awarded to Trustees for
Sandy Poor (in consideration of their having paid
127 6s 9d, pt of Sarah Needham's expenses for obtaining
said Act) adjudged by Commissioners to be just Compensation
for all FREEHOLD rights and interests in common fields
AND in lieu of an ancient enclosure (3P) which was
awarded in exchange to Trustee of Sir Geo Wm Leeds
Commissioners also awarded to Sarah Needham 2 plots of
COPYHOLD land, held of the Dean and Chapter of
Lincoln's Manor of Great Paxton
a) plot of copyhold land in South Field
(6A OR 2))
abs pt of N and pt of E by above allotment
rest of E allotments awarded to Trustees of
Sandy Poor
S & W allotments to Ann Chawns or her trustees
rest of N Toseland Road
b) plot of land in Backside Furlong and in the Great
Meadow (containing exclusive of Haling Way
over same of width of 10 feet by River Ouse;
6A 1R 39P
abs pt E ancient inclosures in Great Paxton
pt S and rest of E allotment to Mary, wife
of Jn Topham
rest of S allotment to devizees of Peter Snell
pt of W River Ouse
N & rest of W allotment to Thos Hedding
a) & b) Commissioners reckon to be just compensation
for all COPYHOLD rights of Sarah Needham in above
Manor AND in lieu of and exhange of old inclosure
called Backside Close [1A 1R 14P] awarded to heir and
mortgagee of Joseph Goodjohn
award dated 23 Sept 1818
Recites Enclosure Award for Great Staughton, Hunts,
award to Thos Smith of plot of land in Conduit Field
[2A 0R 11P]
abs E allotment oto Jn Hewitt
S Turnpike Road
W allotment to Wm Murfin
N allotment to King and lessee
Recites Sarah Needham wishes to sell above property
Property in St Neots, Gt Paxton and Gt Staughton,
all in Hunts
Maule to sell above property, then to pay off principal
due to executors of Hen Sweeting, late of Huntingdon,
Gent, on mortgage of copyhold premises
AND principal sum of 100 due to Catherine Stephenson
of Hartford, Hunts, widow on deposit of deeds of
freehold premises, surplus money to be paid into
Peppercorn's hands
Witnesses Wm Day of St Neots and his clerk
Nevile Day (for Needham & Peppercorn)
Witnesses Hen Maule and Geo Bush, both of Bath
(for Jn Maule)
23 Sept 1820
Attested by Wm Day junior and Wm Mattock, clerks
to Mr Day of St Neots, Solicitor
11 Oct 1820