• Reference
    X758/13/4/26
  • Title
    Covenant to surrender by way of conveyance Parties: (i) Albert Ernest King of Broom, Southill, farmer; Ebenezer Chew of Biggleswade, grocer; (ii) Elsie Emma Whydale of Lyminge [Kent], spinster Reciting: - will of 8 Jun 1900 of John King of Devonshire House, Upper Maze Hill, St.Leonards-on-Sea [Sussex]: appointing his sons Herbert King and Albert Ernest King as executors and general trustees and Albert Ernest King and Charles William Payton as special trustees; devising real estate at Sandy to special trustees upon trust to allow occupation of one house by Sarah Odell and to pay an annuity out of a certain part to his daughter Ann Emma Whydale and her children; devising and bequeathing residue of real and personal estate to his general trustees in trust for sale; - three codicils to will of John King of 14 Mar 1901, 9 Sep 1904 and 26 Jan 1905 not affecting the abstracted premises; - codicil to will of John King of 24 Feb 1905 revoking appointment of Herbert King as executor and general trustee in favour of Ebenezer Chew of Biggleswade, grocer; - codicil to will of John King of 10 Mar 1905 not affecting abstracted premises; - death of John King on 30 Apr 1906; - admission of (i) as tenants on 1 Nov 1906 Operative Part: - (i) covenanted to surrender (a)-(c) to use of (ii) for 700 Property [shown on included plan]: (a) two dwellinghouses (one used as a shop), yard, barns and garden in Shortmead Street, Biggleswade containing on W 25 feet 3 inches bounded: N by (b); E by property of Sophia Bond; S by property of Albert Ernest King and Ebenezer Chew contracted to be sold to John Desborough and Daniel Desborough; W by Shortmead Street; formerly in occupation of John West and John Forargue, then John West and John Frederick Cooper, now J.G.Tebbs and W.Marsh; (b) dwellinghouse and shop in Shortmead Street, Biggleswade with covered gateway entrance leading from street to yard and buildings at rear and paved yard, timber built shed, stables with loft over, outbuildings etc. formerly in occupation of Albert Percival Taylor now Joseph Thomason bounded: N by (c); E and part S by (b); part S by property of Albert Ernest King and Ebenezer Chew as trustees contracted to be sold to John Desborough and Daniel Desborough with right of joint user with owners/occupiers of property to S of well and pump and right of way for them through gateway and across yard; (c) piece of ground in Biggleswade bounded: N by property of trustees of Primitive Methodist Chapel; E by property of William Warner; S by (b); W by Shortmead Street with frontage of 24 feet and depth E-W of 112 feet with messuage and shop erected thereon formerly in occupation of Lydia Tasker, now F.Smith Witness: - J.W.Hull, clerk to E.T.Leeds Smith of Sandy, solicitor
  • Date free text
    26 Nov 1906
  • Production date
    From: 1900 To: 1906
  • Level of description
    item