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WL1000/1/POTT/1/10
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Conveyance Parties: (i) William Cooper, late of Shefford, now of Winchfield [Hampshire], farmer; William Ingram Franklin of Mark Lane, City of London, wine merchant; James Home of Ely [Cambridgeshire], wine merchant; (ii) Alfred Richardson, late of Biggleswade, now of Potton, brewer Reciting: - WL1000/1/POTT/1/6; - WL1000/1/POTT/1/7; - WL1000/1/POTT/1/8; - mortgage of 28 Mar 1849 between (1) William Cooper; (2) Thomas Strickland; (3) Thomas Russell in which (3) paid 300 to (2) on security of (b) below; - assignment of mortgage of 29 Oct 1862 from Thomas Russell to Thomas Jepps and Thomas Pickering for 300 of (b) below; - death of Thomas Jepps on 24 Feb 1871; - death of Thomas Pickering on 1 May 1876 intestate, letters of administration being granted on 28 Jun 1876 to Thomas William Pickering, his eldest son; - conveyance of 8 Aug 1878 from Thomas William Pickering to (i) of (a)-(b) below; - will of Thomas Strickland of 15 Apr 1871 appointing (i) as his executors and trustees and devising all his real estate to them upon trust for sale; - death of Thomas Strickland on 29 Jul 1872 and proof of his will on 26 Feb 1873 in PPR; - bill of complaint of 28 Feb 1873 in Chancery between Thomas Strickland Cooper, Emma Cooper, spinster, Annie Elizabeth Cooper, spinster and Arthur Henry Cooper, John James Cooper and Ralph Munn Cooper, infants, by Thomas Strickland Cooper, their next friend, plaintiffs and William Cooper, William Ingram Franklin and Emma his wife, James Home and Ann his wife, Mary Strickland, spinster, Charles Strickland and Ann Strickland, widow, defendants for administration of real and personal estate of Thomas Strickland, deceased; - decree of 3 Jun 1874 (in suit of Cooper v. Cooper 1873-C-46) it was ordered that the real estate of Thomas Strickland, deceased, remaining unsold should be sold and the money arising be paid into the court; - the remaining real estate was sold by auction on 15 Sep 1876, (a) and (b) below being part of Lot 1; - Thomas William Pickering, as mortgagee of (a)-(b), gave consent for the sale; - it was required that highest bidder pay 10% of sale monies as a deposit to James Robarts, official receiver to pay to Bank of England to account of Cooper v. Cooper 1873-C-46; - (ii) was highest bidder at the auction for 7,400 and paid 740 deposit to James Robarts; - Clerk of Court certified sale on 22 Sep 1876 which was approved by the Judge on 28 Sep 1876; - Order of 2 Aug 1877 ordering (ii) to pay 6,660 (plus interest at 5% interest from 20 Nov 1876); - (ii) paid 6,660 plus 238/14/11 interest; - for Stamp Duty purposes value of (a)-(b) was declared to be 650 Operative Part: - (i) conveyed (a)-(b) to (ii) for 6,898/14/11 Property: (a) 2a 1r in Potton bounded: N by high road from Potton to Sandy; E by land of William Kitchen; S by land of William Henry Whitbread, esquire, now Samuel Charles Whitbread, esquire; W by land of London & North Western Railway and Thomas Decimus Franklyn; with site of Red Lion, now burnt down, and all buildings formerly in occupation of James Manning (a new Red Lion had been erected and was in occupation of Samuel Manning); (b) cottage called The Sun, Little Gransden [Cambridgeshire] with garden, yard and outbuildings formerly in occupation of William Jackson, then William Sutton, then Richard Wright, then Thomas Wright, then Charles Wale bounded: N by high road; S, E, W by properties of Theodore Vincent Webb, esquire and Rev.Alfred Newby Witnesses: - Thomas William Sumpster of Hartley Wintney, grocer and baker; - William Hoskin of Ely [Cambridgeshire], commercial traveller; - Dane & Sons of Southwark [Surrey], solicitors
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14 Jan 1879
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From: 1879 To: 1879
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