• Reference
    WB/Green4/1/HoR1/19
  • Title
    Mortgage by Appointment
  • Date free text
    30 Mar 1848
  • Production date
    From: 1848 To: 1850
  • Scope and Content
    Parties: (i) Benjamin Bennett of Dunstable, brewer; (ii) Mary Buckmaster of Edlesborough, spinster Operative Part: - (i) borrowed 150 at 5% interest from (ii) on security of (a)-(c) Property: (a) two newly erected cottages in Houghton Regis formerly in occupation of Charles Duncomb and John Fox, now Benjamin Tofield and Joseph Groom and party wall dividing them from other cottage some time in occupation of Richard Gosbell in ownership of John Duncomb; (b) four cottages lately erected by William Batchelor standing on (c); (c) piece of ground adjoining (a) measuring: SW-NE next to land of Joseph Toefield 25 ft; SE-NW 77 ft; bounded SW by remaining piece of garden ground staying in ownership of John Duncomb; NE partly by estate of George Mellor (now Benjamin Bennett), partly by land of Joseph Toefield; with right of way to and from well on remaining yard of John Duncomb paying two thirds of maintenance cost of rope and bucket Witness: - M.R.Southam Endorsed with memorandum of repayment of mortgage to Mary Buckmaster by Benjamin Bennett on 20 May 1850 with undertaking to reconvey (a)-(c)
  • Level of description
    item