X758/13/7/3

Copy Absolute Surrender, Manor of Biggleswade Reciting: - surrender by indenture of 6 Mar 1854 (1) Robert Hodges and Sarah, his wife; (2) Thomas Samuel and Elizabeth, his wife; (3) Henry Phillips of Biggleswade, currier, John Jackson and William Barratt of Biggleswade, labourers, John Odell of Caldecote, gardener and William Wheatley, Charles Thompson, John Rawlings and George Woodward of Caldecote, labourers and Edward Powell of Baldock [Hertfordshire], minister in which premises including (a) were surrendered by (1) and (2) to use of (3) upon trust to erect a chapel or meeting house or school by Biggleswade Primitive Methodist Connexion and used according to a deed poll of 5 Feb 1830 by Hugh Bourne, James Bourne and William Clowes setting out running of chapel; - Primitive Methodist Society in Biggleswade had increased in number and needed larger accommodation and had contracted with Thomas William Tasker of Biggleswade, grocer for sale to him of (a) for 125 to enable them to raise money to build a larger chapel; Operative Part: - surrender by William Barratt of Biggleswade, labourer, John Odell late of Caldecote, now of Girtford, Sandy, gardener, William Wheatley of Caldecote, labourer, Charles Thompson, late of Caldecote, now of Kempston, labourer, John Rawlings of Caldecote, labourer and George Woodward of Caldecote, labourer in consideration of 125 paid by Thomas William Tasker Property: (a) parcel of land with cottage thereon in Biggleswade bounded: N by land retained by Primitive Methodist Society in Biggleswade; E and S by property of John Malden; W by Shortmead Street, with frontage of 24 feet and depth of 112 feet, formerly in occupation of John Wright, then John Carrington, baker, then John Carrington junior, then Robert Hodges and Thomas Samuel, then Robert Hodges and Daniel Leech, now John Steers and Primitive Methodists; to which land Primitive Methodists had been admitted on 28 Apr 1854; except common right previously sold to John Nathaniel Foster, subject to right of Primitive Methodists trustees to open windows in any building on S side of their land but undertook not to have the windows within 30 feet of the frontage line, Thomas William Tasker not being allowed to erect any building which would obstruct those windows on N side of (a) or open any windows within 30 feet of the frontage line overlooking property of Primitive Methodists Witnesses: - William Thomas Chapman; - Edward Twelvetrees - William ... Barratt - William Barratt, William Wheatley, Charles Thompson, John Rawlings and George Woodward all signed by a mark

19 Jan 1874

From: 1854 To: 1874

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Hodges, Robert,
Hodges, Sarah,
Samuel, Thomas,
Samuel, Elizabeth,
Phillips, Henry,
Jackson, John,
Barrett, William,
Odell, John,
Wheatley, William,
Thompson, Charles,
Rawlings, John,
Woodward, George,
Powell, Edward,
Bourne, Hugh,
Bourne, James,
Clowes, William,
Tasker, Thomas William,
Malden, John,
Wright, John,
Carrington, John,
Hodges, Robert,
Samuel, Thomas,
Leach, Daniel,
Foster, John Nathaniel,
Seers, John,
Twelvetrees, Edward

Biggleswade Manor, currier, Methodist individuals, Methodist buildings, baker, literacy, restrictive covenants, Baldock