WB/B4/1/Lu/C4

Mortgage by Demise for 1,000 Years [slightly water damaged by enemy action at Lawrance Messer & Company, 16 Coleman Street, London, 29 Dec 1940]

2 Apr 1754

From: 1754 To: 1940

Parties: (i) Thomas Harryman of Luton, innholder; (ii) Philip Feild of Barton-le-Clay, yeoman Operative Part: - (i) borrowed 40 at 5% interest from (ii) secured on (a) Property: (a) two cottages, now divided into 4 tenements, adjoining together in South End of Luton formerly in occupation of John Knott and William Olney, now Thomas Harryman, Joseph Dover, William White and one empty; bounding: messuage of John Edwards on one side and messuage of Thomas Davis on other, fronting road from Luton to The Breach Witnesses: - William Reeve; - Edward Ewer Thomas Harryman signed by mark

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Lawrance, Messer & Company,
Harryman, Thomas,
Feild, Philip,
Knott, John,
Olney, William,
Dover, Joseph,
White, William,
Edwards, John,
Davis, Thomas,
Reeve, William,
Ewer, Edward

Messer & Company Lawrance, specific solicitors, air raids over UK, innholder, yeoman, literacy, Luton South End, LUTON, City of London Coleman Street, City of London