WB/M/4/1/VP2

Mortgage of property of Morris brewery

16 Jun 1882

From: 1831 To: 1882

Parties: (i) John Thomas Green of Woburn, gentleman; (ii) Susanna Morris, Mary Jane Morris and Sophia Morris, all of Ampthill, spinsters Reciting: - 4/5ths of (z)-(cs) were subject to mortgage debt of 10,000 (balance of sum of 30,000 - see WB/M/4/1/1) with interest at 4.5% payable to John Thomas Green and Richard Orlebar secured by indentures of 27-28 Dec 1831; - (h)-(s), (u)-(v) and (z)-(cs) were subject to mortgage debt of 3,000 (balance of two mortgage debts of 5,000 and 7,000) with interest at 4.5% payable to John Green secured by lien of 1 Jul 1853 and indenture of 1 Apr 1857; - (a)-(cs) were subject to mortgage debt 3,000 (balance of debts of 10,000 and 6,500) with interest at 5% payable to Maria Dale Smith and John Green secured by indentures of 1 May 1857 and 15 Jan 1858; Operative Part: - (i) borrowed 32,000 at 5% interest from (ii) secured by release with proviso for redemption to (ii) of (a)-(da) subject to mortgages on (a)-(cs) as recited above; - covenant by (i) to surrender copyhold premises with proviso for redemption Property: (a) messuage in Bedford Street, Ampthill with adjoining yard, barns etc. purchased from Lawrence Esmondi White conveyed to John Morris senior on 9 Sep 1854; in occupation of George Ansell; (b) site on which cottage formerly stood near Shoulder of Mutton, Bletchley [Buckinghamshire] with small piece of adjoining ground purchased from Bletchley parish officers and conveyed to John Morris senior on 9 Jun 1847; (c) small piece of ground at Lidlington, part of toft on which cottage formerly stood and orchard or backside belonging of 16ft width N-S and 28ft 6in length E-W purchased from John Cook and conveyed to John Morris senior on 13 Apr 1843; (d) small piece of land at Shelton End, Marston Moretaine containing 20 poles adjoining Chequers purchased from William Smith and conveyed to John Morris senior on 18 Aug 1848; (e) piece of land or garden ground in Pulloxhill, part of orchard or garden formerly occupied by Manor House and containing 45 poles purchased from Trustees of John Abbott, deceased and conveyed to John Morris senior on 14 Dec 1848; (f) site on which 3 cottages stood in Salford near Swan (formerly White Horse) purchased from Benjamin Agutta and conveyed to John Morris senior on 5 Jul 1841; (g) cottage at Keeley End, Wootton with adjoining carpenter's shop, pigstyes and cart shed and small plot of land at back on 69ft length and 38ft breadth purchased from William Higgs and conveyed to John Morris senior on 19 May 1849; (h) Black Bull, Barton-le-Clay purchased from messrs Pierson and others and conveyed to John Morris senior on 29 Sep 1842; (i) George, Maulden, with yard, garden, outbuildings etc. adjoining which, altogether, measured 1a 0r 39p which was purchased from messrs Pierson and others and conveyed to John Morris senior on 29 Sep 1842; (j) Queens Head, St.Neots [Huntingdonshire] with corn shops, stabling etc. purchased from John Hill Day and conveyed to John Morris senior on 23 Oct 1840 (k) copyhold inn called Plough, Hexton [Hertfordshire] with barns, stables, outhouses, yards, orchards, gardens, half cow common, paths, passages, waters, watercourses, fences, rights, liberties, privileges, easements, profits, advantages etc. within Manor of Hexton late in occupation of Thomas Barber, now Richard Vass bounded: N and W by premises of Packs; S by premises of Hitchin Charity; E by public way; to which Sophia Morris was admitted tenant; (l) plot of land in Well Street, alias Midland Road, Bedford being part of Dovehouse Close alias Friars Walk Close measuring 56ft E, 50ft W, 90ft N with 4 cottages (3 converted into a beerhouse known as Engine & Tender) with right of way over Priory Street at E end of premises leading out of Well Street and purchased from Thomas Smith, conveyed to John Morris senior on 29 Sep 1853; (m) allotment of 1a 1r 26p in Clophill bounded NE by copyhold allotment to James Horn, SE by allotment to James Chapman, SW by River, NE by allotment to Rector of Clophill purchased from James Horn and conveyed to John Morris senior on 12 Nov 1846; (n) Sun, Felmersham, with stable, barn and orchard adjoining purchased from William Fisher Palmer and conveyed to John Morris senior on 20 Jun 1839; (o) site of messuage in two tenements, three cottages and three other cottages and workshop in Husborne Crawley with yards and gardens formerly belonging with that part now known as White Horse and two cottages, stables and outbuildings adjoining purchased from Ebenezer Clarke and conveyed to John Morris senior on 3 Apr 1840; (p) Moretaine Arms, Marston Moretaine with stables, outbuildings etc. some time since erected on piece of land of 0a 2r 14p adjoining railway line from Bedford to Bletchley, purchased from John Alington and conveyed to John Morris senior on 23 Jun 1847; (q) piece of land, part of close of arable called The Breach, Maulden containing 0a 3r 10p purchased from Trustees of John Abbott, deceased and conveyed to John Morris on 10 Feb 1854; (r) two messuages now occupied as one tenement and used as beerhouse, in Maulden with gardens belonging containing 0a 1r 35p purchased from Joshua Croxford and conveyed to John Morris senior on 28 Feb 1850; (s) messuage at Tebworth, Chalgrave called Shoulder of Mutton with sites of two former tenements and garden ground purchased from James Whinnett and conveyed to John Morris senior on 16 Oct 1849 (t) Saracen's Head, Bedford, St.John with buildings, yards, gardens etc. held by lease for lives of James Barnes, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred Ernest Albert at rent of 10/- per annum; (u) copyhold messuage and garden, brewhouse, wood barn etc. in Blunham abutting W on Black Lane with frontage of 87ft; used as retail beershop and known as Wheatsheaf formerly in occupation of Henry Clarke; with piece of land forming gateway and N side of yard; (v) copyhold messuage called New Inn, Clophill with barn, stables, buildings, yards, orchard and piece of meadow adjoining formerly in occupation of John Day, then Elizabeth Hindell, then James Horn, then John Sharpe, now George Sharp, cottage used as workhouse E and highway from Ampthill to Shefford N, river S; with adjoining allotment of meadow on E containing 2 acres with property of Earl de Grey, then Countess Cowper E, premises late of John Chapman and William Titmarsh S, river W and freehold garden ground late of James Horn W; (w) Red Lion, Church End, Lidlington converted from a barn or granary on NE part of hereditaments of John Cook with yard and garden adjoining and such part of barn that belonged to John Cook and partitioned off from it being 30ft broad next to the street with new erected buildings on part of premises all which were purchased from Robert Hardwick and conveyed to John Morris senior on 27 Feb 1834; (x) third part of French Horn, Steppingley and part of close or pightle or ocrhard adjoining formerly containing 3 roods, formerly railed and fenced off, afterwards laid down and made part of (y); (y) close of pasture called Haynes the Parsonage Land in Steppingley with ground formerly of Matthew Dutton, then Elizabeth Greene W and abutting on street SE and common field NW; (z) two messuages in Bedford Street, Ampthill in Crown & Sceptre yard now converted and used as one tenement; (aa) two beerhouses and three barley and malthouses with storehouses, stables, coachhouses etc. with offices, yards, premises etc. on 1a 3r 0p in Bedford Street, Ampthill with scullery and coachhouse belonging to adjoining dwellinghouse; (ab) small piece of land planted with firs on Church Hill, alias Saw P it Hill, Ampthill fronting W on Bedford Road abutting SE on garden of house occupied with Brewery on which was erected Hop Room; (ac) piece of ground where several cottages stood opposite dwellinghouse formerly of Joseph Morris, late John Morris junior in Bedford Street, Ampthill containing 20 perches with buildings, trees and shrubs inclosed by iron pallisade; (ad) messuage in front of Market Place, Ampthill adjoining Kings Arms formerly in occupation of George Rushbrooke; (ae) messuage adjoining (ad) with buildings, malting, yard, pew rights, privileges etc.; (af) Kings Arms, Ampthill, with coachhouse, stables, granary, yards and gardens, small pightle, buildings etc.; (ag) White Hart, Ampthill, with stables, buildings, yards and close and garden of 2a 1r 24p; (ah) close of land in Ampthill of 3a 1r 9p reserving right of way not exceeding 6ft wide from bottom to top for use of Joseph Morris; (ai) Crown & Sceptre, Ampthill with stables, buildings, yard, garden etc. subject to right of way over yard; (aj) small piece of pasture formerly belonging to (ai) separated therefrom by land late of John Morris senior; (ak) Three Compasses, Ampthill, with yards, stables etc.; (al) messuage adjoining (ak) with washhouse detached; (am) cottage in Dunstable Street, Ampthill with buildings, yards, gardens and close of ground; (an) cottage adjoining (am) and, forming with it Old Sun; (ao) malthouse, with cottage, formerly two cottages, in Dunstable Street, Ampthill with outhouses and small piece of ground and hovel; (ap) four cottages with outbuildings, yards, garden ground etc. in Bedford Street, Ampthill in respective occupations of Richard Fielder, George Read, John Whitbread and Joseph Hartopp; (aq) dwellinghouse in Bedford Street, Ampthill with adjoining brewery, garden, greenhouse and offices adjoining (except scullery and coal house) bounded part W by Bedford Street part W by cottage in Bedford Street; NE and S by brewery; containing 0a 3r 32p; (ar) small piece of ground, formerly uninclosed now inclosed of 8 perches on W side of Bedford Street nearly opposite brewery gates and opposite Crown & Sceptre; (as) Bell, Marston Moretaine with yards, gardens, outbuildings and pightle or home close of 3a 2r 2p; (at) site of Bell, Marston Moretaine with yard, garden etc. and close of 3a 1r 19p opposite (as); (au) cottages and 2 closes of meadow or pasture formerly said to cvontain 3a 2r 16p and 8a 0r 29p now stated to contain together 9a3r 0p; (av) Chequers, Marston Moretaine with barns, stables, garden and pightle of grass of 1 acre; (aw) pightle of pasture, formerly two pightles, of 2 acres in Marston Moretaine; (ax) Three Horse Shoes, Marston Moretaine with stable, wood barn, garden etc.; (ay) cottage in Flitwick with stables, wood barn, garden etc. called Three Blackbirds in denel End; (az) Crown, Flitwick, in East End with yard, garden, orchard, barn, buildings etc. and close of pasture reputed to contain 4 acres actually containing 2a 0r 9p; (ba) plot of land in Flitwick of 2a 2r 11p; (bb) White Horse, Husborne Crawley with small part of close (formerly of 12 acres) the greater part of which (10a 2r 34p) was sold some years ago by John Morris senior; also 2 cottages; (bc) Old Bull, Husborne Crawley with outhouses, yard, garden, orchard or close; (bd) Red Lion, Heath & Reach with stables, buildings, garden and close, orchard or pightle with right of common; (be) close of arable called Third Sheepcote Close, Heath & Reach, of 2a 3r 13p with common rights; (bf) Red Lion, Bidwell, Houghton Regis with barns, stables, closes of pasture and premises; (bg) Dog & Badger, Maulden, with barns, stables etc. and close of arable and garden of 8 acres belonging wit hsite of barn and yard; (bh) White Hart, Maulden with stable, wood barn, frontage, garden, orchard and small piece of land adjoining; (bi) 40 Acres Close, Maulden actually containing 1 acre; (bj)Flying House, Clophill with yard, garden, barn, stable, outbuildings, pightle and adjoining homestead with piece of low meadow of 1a 2r 0p; (bk) Compasses, Clophill with coachhouse, stable, garden and orchard; (bl) close of meadow of 5a or 23p in Clophill; (bm) Chequers, Hazlewood Lane, Houghton Conquest with buildings, yard, stable, garden, orchard and pightle of 1a 2r 14p; (bn) close of land in Innings, Houghton Conquest, of 3a 1r 34p and cottage (formerly 3 cottages) with barn, stable, garden etc. and part of a pightle of 30 poles and part of another close; (bo) Butchers Arms, Houghton Conquest, with brewhouse, stables and buildings, homestead and pightle formerly stated to contain 2a 2r 3p actually containing 2a 2r 26p; (bp) White Hart, Ridgmont with washhouse, stable and garden and close or pightle of pasture with another small piece of pasture of 1 rood; (bq) Falcon, Rads End, Eversholt, with garden, barn, building, small piece of ground etc.; (br) Six Bells, Church End, Eversholt, with barn and stable; (bs) Rose & Crown, Wootton with orchard, wood barn, buildings etc. with cottages and premises adjoining; (bt) Chequers, Pulloxhill with outhouses, buildings, yard, garden, stables etc.; (bu) messuage in Pulloxhill near (bt) used as bakehouse and wood barn; (bv) Bell, Greenfieldield, Pulloxhill with stable, wood barn, yard, garden etc. and close or pightle adjoining of 2 acres and great tithes; (bw) Swan, Salford, formerly called White Horse, with stable, dovecote, dairy buildings etc. with yard, garden and orchard or pightle of 1 acre; (bx) Queens Head, Toddington with outhouses, buildings, yards, gardens and orchard; (by) piece of ground adjoining (bx) being site of former messuage; (bz) Angel, Toddington, with outhouses etc.; (ca) sward ground of 5 acres in Chalgrave, occupied with White Hart, Hockliffe; (cb) Plough, Wingfield, Chalgrave with yard, garden, barn, buildings and premises adjoining and 1.5acres of land; (cc) White Hart, Hockliffe with site of land, shop, yard, stables, gardens, outbuildings etc.; (cd) Black Hat, Wilshamstead with outhouses, yards, barns, orchard, pightle of sward, garden etc. of 1a 0r 11p; (ce) piece of land at end of Chapel Lane, Wilshamstead, of 1a 1r 37p; (cf) close of land of 3a 1r 35p in Wavendon [Buckinghamshire]; (cg) Kings Head, Fenny Stratford [Buckinghamshire] with stables, buildings etc. of half acre fronting High Road; (ch) freehold parts of two cottages with shop, wood barn and stable, yards, garden, commons etc. called Shoulder of Mutton, Bletchley [Buckinghamshire]; (ci) Chequers (formerly Griffin), Westoning with barns, stables, brewhouse, yard and garden and adjoining site on which two cottages formerly stood; (cj) two cottages in Woburn Street, Ampthill called George Inn with yard, buildings etc.; (ck) Sun, Harlington (leasehold) with ground, yard, garden, orchard, outhouses etc. held for remainder of term of 750 years; (cl) land (leasehold) called Burgoyes Garden, Toddington, with two bay barn, cottage, buildings, yard, garden etc.held for remainder of term of 1,000 years and 500 years; (cm) Royal George (leasehold), Church End, Stagsden, with close or pightle of pasture of 2 acres; with adjoining cottages (formerly 4 tenements) with 8 acres of arable called Cole Croft held for remainder of term 1,000 years; (cn) Red Lion, Great Brickhill [Buckinghamshire] (leasehold) with outhouses, barns, stables, garden, orchard etc held for remainder of term of 1,000 years; (co) leasehold parts of Shoulder of Mutton, Bletchley [Buckinghamshire]; (cp) Cross Keys, Town End, Cranfield (Manor of Cranfield) with yard, garden and orchard formerly in occupation of John Brinklow, now James Hewlatt; (cq) Black Horse, Woburn (Manor of Woburn Abbotts) formerly of William Clarke, deceased, with stable, yard, slaughterhouse, garden, buildings etc. formerly in occupation of Thomas Pheasant, then John Reddall, then Burton, then George Archer; (cr) Kings Arms, North End, Leighton Buzzard (Manor of Leighton Buzzard), formerly in occupation of Edward Pratt, then Joseph Eavestaff and Mary, his wife, then Joseph Hopkins, fronting street E and messuage in North End, Leighton Buzzard, formerly in occupation of Richard Samwell and Edward Pratt, fronting street E and housed ground late of John Morris senior N; all of which were some time since converted into Kings Arms, Leighton Buzzard; (cs) George, Pavenham (Manor of Steventon) with barns, stables, washhouse, hovel, buildings, yard, garden etc. formerly in occupation of Thomas Harrison, then Samuel Partridge; (ct) right of redemption of Susanna Morris, Mary Jane Morris and Sophia Morris in Royal George, Stagsden with four cottages belonging and piece of land at back; 10 acres altogether; (cu) Soho Close, Ampthill, of 3 acres (actually 2a 3r 2p) now called Paulins Close adjoining lane from Houghton Park; (cv) land in Ampthill 34ft wide by 54ft long bounded: NE by new road from Bedford Street towards Ampthill Park; NW by plot of ground purchased by Levi Croson; SE by plot of land purchased by Joseph Sharp; SW by land formerly of John Morris senior; (cw) land 85ft wide by 46ft long in Ampthill bounded: NE by land formerly of John Morris senior; SW by land formerly of Edward Coleman; NW by new road leading from Bedford Street towards Ampthill Park; SE by Engine House and other hereditaments late of John Morris senior; (cx) cottage in Bedford Street, Ampthill, formerly of George Deverell, deceased in occupation of John Line, then Charles Sharp, then Robert Cartwright, then Presland, being Nmost of 3 tenements purchased by GeorgeDeverell from Trustees of George Exton, deceased, with shared use of pump and well; (cy) former beerhouse in Bedford Street, Ampthill, in occupation of Thomas Page, bounded one side by cottage formerly of John Morris senior in occupation of George Ansell, the other by cottage formerly of John Morris senior in occupation of H.Presland; (cz) 0a 2r 1p in Maulden now stumped out and bounded: N by Ampthill to Shefford road; E and S by land of Elizabeth Brightman; W by land of John Woodham; formerly part of plot of arable of 3 acres with cottage thereon purchased by Elizabeth Brightman from Earl de Grey; (da) garden, part of America Garden, Shenley Hill, Leighton Buzzard (Manor of Leighton Buzzard) of 1 acre bounded: N by garden formerly of John Newman, then Matthew Ridgway, then Rook; E by garden formerly of John Newman, then John Dell; S by public road; W by garden of Gregory Flemons Odell, Charlotte Willis, William Collins and Nathaniel Stonhill, then others Memoranda: - 1 Jun 1882 acknowledgement of part repayment of 3,000; - 19 Jan 1884 acknowledgement of part repayment of 800; - 1 Oct 1885 acknowledgement of part repayment of 1,000; - 1 Apr 1886 acknowledgement of reduction of interest from 5% to 4%; - 1 Oct 1894 acknowledgement of part repayment of 3,000; - acknowledgement of part repayments of 3,000 on 1 Jan 1896, 2,000 on 1 Jul 1899 and 2,200 on 1 Jul 1900 Witnesses: - John Ashby of Staines, banker

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Green, John Thomas,
Morris, Susanna,
Morris, Mary Jane,
Morris, Sophia,
Orlebar, Richard,
Green, John,
Smith, Maria Dale,
White, Lawrence Esmondi,
Morris, John,
Cook, John,
Smith, William,
Abbott, John,
Agutta, Benjamin,
Higgs, William,
Pierson,
Barber, Thomas,
Vass, Richard,
Packs,
Smith, Thomas,
Horn, James,
Chapman, James,
Palmer, William Fisher,
Clarke, Ebenezer,
Alington, John,
Croxford, Joshua,
Whinnett, James,
Barnes, James,
Wales, Albert Edward, Prince of,
Alfred Ernest Albert, Prince,
Clarke, Henry,
Day, John,
Hindell, Elizabeth,
Sharpe, John,
Sharp, George,
Cowper, Countess,
de Grey, Earl,
Titmarsh, William,
Cook, John,
Hardwick, Robert,
Dutton, Matthew,
Greene, Elizabeth,
Morris, Joseph,
Rushbrooke, George,
Fielder, Richard,
Read, George,
Whitbread, John,
Hartopp, Joseph,
Hewlatt, James,
Pheasant, Thomas,
Reddall, John,
Archer, George,
Pratt, Edward,
Eavestaff, Joseph,
Eavestaff, Mary,
Hopkins, Joseph,
Samwell, Richard,
Harrison, Thomas,
Partridge, Samuel,
Croson, Levi,
Coleman, Edward,
Deverell, George,
Line, John,
Sharp, Charles,
Cartwright, Robert,
Presland,
Exton, George,
Page, Thomas,
Ansell, George,
Presland, H.,
Brightman, Elizabeth,
Woodham, John,
Newman, John,
Ridgway, Matthew,
Dell, John,
Odell, Gregory Flemons,
Willis, Charlotte,
Collins, William,
Stonhill, Nathaniel,
Ashby, John

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