• Reference
    R6/63/23/18
  • Title
    Conveyance Parties: (i) John Circuitt Shaw of Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, builder; Sarah Shaw of Bedford, spinster; Joseph Shaw of 47 Mortimer Street [Middlesex], upholsterer; Henry Shaw of Coventry [Warwickshire], linen draper and Henry Lucas of Woburn and Mary Ann his wife (late Mary Ann Shaw); (ii) Francis, Duke of Bedford; (iii) Thomas Wing of Grays Inn [Middlesex], gentleman. Operative: - in consideration of £400 [£80 each] (i) conveys (a) unto (ii). Property: (a) Five messuages or tenements in Woburn: - three being on the E side of Bedford Street, numbered 22,23 & 24 and adjoining the Great Yard heretofore in the occupations of Alice Goodman, George Sealey and William Sear and now of John Stiff, John Rickett and Joseph Burnage; - the other two adjoining at the back and numbered 25 & 26 in the Great Yard, late in the occupations of John Rickett and Joseph Turney and now of John Farr and James Turner. Habendum: - unto (ii) to the use of whoever (ii) directs or appoints; - in default of such appointment, to the use of (ii) for his natural life; - after, to the use of (iii) in trust for (ii) or his assigns; - after, to the only use of (ii) his heirs and assigns forever. Covenants: - no wife of (ii) to dower out of (a). - signed by (i) [Samuel Foulger for John Circuitt Shaw]; - witnessed and signed by Charles Foulger; John Green of Woburn, solicitor; Henry Sinfield, clerk to Mr. Green and George Rock of Eversholt, Beds, farmer.
  • Date free text
    11 Oct 1844
  • Production date
    From: 1844 To: 1844
  • Exent
    No. of pieces: 1
  • Format
    parchment
  • Level of description
    item