• Reference
    X870/4/5
  • Title
    Indenture by way of conveyance of equity of redemption (i) William Brown the elder of Dunton, husbandman, (ii) James Brown of Dunton, baker, Thomas Brown of Stotfold, gardener, Obadiah Brown of Dunton, farmer, William Brown the younger of 12 Grafton Road, Seven Sisters Road, Holloway, London, carpenter, Simeon Brown of Ashwell [Hertfordshire], farmer, Sarah Brown of Dunton, spinster and Amelia Brown of Dunton, spinster, (iii) James Brown of Dunton, baker Reciting - indenture of X 870/4/1 - Mortgage of 28 Jun 1844 from William Brown to Oswald Fordham of Ashwell [Hertfordshire], brewer, to secure £160 at 5% interest. - mortgage of 13 May 1846 from WB to Oswald Fordham to secure £100 at 4.5% interest in (b) - (d) - death of OF and appointment of Edward King Fordham and Herbert Fordham as representatives of OF deceased - will of Elisha Brown as in X 870/4/4 - agreement that (iii) will purchase for £95 the equity of redemption of (ii) in a moiety of (a) and (b)-(d) below (the moieties being £80 and £50 as half the mortgage on each, that is the half of the mortgage owing to Elisha Brown, deceased), divided as £20 for (a) and £75 for (b) to (d) Witnessing Purchase by (iii) from (i) of interest of (ii) in half: (a) allotment of land in Milhoe containing 1/3/16 formerly in occupation of John Holmes, since of (i), now of (iii), formerly the estate of Samuel Page deceased (b) newly erected tenement (built on the site of two cottages or tenements) with barn, yard, outbuildings and premises on The Green in Dunton formerly in occupation of (i) now of (iii) (c) thatched tenement with barns and outbuildings, lately in occupation of John Gale, late of David Masters the younger, now of William Chamberlain (d) clay bat built and slated tenement (recently erected by (i)) with barn now in occupation of Stephen Cartwright William Brown the elder signs with a mark Witnessed by W. Thomas Chapman, solicitor, of Biggleswade
  • Date free text
    2 Feb 1871
  • Production date
    From: 1844 To: 1871
  • Level of description
    item