Reference
DC/NB/E47/16A-B
Title
Abstract of Title of Reverend William Thomas Beckett to a freehold Estate situate at Bedford. (2 copies with minor differences towards the end)
- Lease appointment and release 1) Rt Hon George Earl of Ashburnham, 2) John Thomas Dawson, 3) William Beckett of Middlesex, 4) William Brown of Middlesex. At auction 2) became purchaser of lots 50 and 51 for 2550 and 3) became purchaser of lot 49 for 1750. 3) then purchased lots 50 and 51 from 2) and lots 47 and 48 from 1).
- All those parts of a field lately called Conduit Field being lots 47-48 (32a 3r 24p), lot 49 (25a 13p), lot 50-51 (38a 3r 8p) which sd pieces at the request of the sd Wm Beckett it was thereby agreed should in future be called Putneys. Details of tithe and act for enclosure. (see Z26/52 for sale particulars) 2/3 June 1813
- Schedule of deeds to be kept by George, Earl of Ashburnham 1695-1813
- Extract of will of Wm Beckett all his lands left to his son Thomas subject to annuities to Wm's sister Susannah Warwick and her daughter Susannah and to the widow of his late son Charles29 June 1831, Wm Beckett died 28 June 1835, will proved 15 July 1835
- Extract of will of Thomas Beckett, land left to son Wm Thos Beckett charged with annuity to Thomas's daughter Mary Catherine Beckett. Thos died 21 July 1856 will proved 20 Aug 1856
- Lease 1) Wm Thos Beckett, 2) Charles Howard of Biddenham, farmer. - demise of 89a 20p. 2) to have right to dig for clay for bricks and make and sell same on two pieces of land at north part of sd premises and lying on the south side of the Turnpike Road leading from Bedford to Higham Ferriers being part of ground ditch field and containing about 5 acres. 21 yrs at 3265 pa. 30 Dec 1876
- Charles Howard surrendered possession March 1882
Date free text
1695-1882
Production date
From: 1695 To: 1882
Exent
15, No. of pieces: 2
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Format
paper
Level of description
item