• Reference
    WB/Green4/1/Lu/CS3/11
  • Title
    Release Parties: (i) Francis Peacock of Great Missenden [Buckinghamshire], grocer; (ii) John Crabb of Hitchin [Hertfordshire], brewer; Richard Stanton of Hitchin, carpenter, trustee for John Crabb Reciting: - John Crabb had agreed to purchase (a) for 280; - (a) was encumbered with a mortgage of 180 to Michael Cook [see WB/Green4/1/Lu/CS3/6] Operative Part: - John Crabb was to pay 180 to Michael Cook; - John Crabb paid 100 to (i); - Richard Stanton paid 10/- to (i); - (i) released (a) to (ii); - (i) covenanted to surrender (b) to (ii) Property: (a) cottage formerly in occupation of David Spencer, bellman, then Elizabeth Ruffhead, widow, now Thomas Hawkes, bricklayer in Castle Street, Luton bounded: S and E by workhouse orchard and garden; W by house formerly of Nathan Skikelthorpe; N by Castle Street; (b) messuage in Lilley [Hertfordshire], formerly divided into three, now two, tenements formerly in occupation of John Smith, James Halsey and Thomas Clark, now John Smith and Widow Clark; copyhold of Manor of Lilley alias Lindley (c) close of pasture or homestall of 2 acres in Lilley adjoining (b); copyhold of Manor of Lilley alias Lindley Habendum: - to use of (i), to use of heirs of John Crabb, to use of Richard Stanton in trust for John Crabb Witnesses: - William Hill; - Lawrence Times
  • Date free text
    3 Oct 1782
  • Production date
    From: 1774 To: 1782
  • Level of description
    item