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X758/13/3/14
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Mortgage & Covenant to Surrender Parties: (i) Samuel Woodall of Biggleswade, blacksmith; (ii) William Henry Baylis of 131 Prince of Wales Road, Haverstock Hill [Middlesex], sculptor Operative Part: - (ii) lent 700 to (i) at 5% interest secured on (a)-(c) - (i) assigned (a)-(c) to (ii) as security; - (i) covenanted to surrender (d) as security to use of (ii) Property: (a) parcel of land in Beeston, Sandy, formerly part of a larger piece of land belonging to Richard Dean, the boundary line starting in NE corner ran W for 381 feet along boundary of land belonging to Brasier, then S for next to land formerly of Stephen Weyman, then to Mrs.Wagstaff now to Coles for 33 feet then E for 381 feet next to land formerly to Stephen Weyman, then of Mrs.Wagstaff, now of Ebenezer Marshall then N for 32 feet along Great North Road; with two cottages erected on it by Samuel Woodall in occupation of Charles Harper and John Francis; (b) two thatched cottages, with garden, in Shortmead Street, Biggleswade, formerly in occupation of Mary Coll and [blank], now empty and bounded: N by (d); S partly by property of Mrs.Edwards, partly by property of Richard Walker; E by (c); W by Shortmead Street; (c) cottage with garden, yard and outbuildings in Cowfair Lands, Biggleswade, bounded: E by public thoroughfare; S by property formerly of William Alexander Edwards, now Richard Walker; W by (b); N by property of Wormsley in occupation of David Barcock (d) cottage afterwards divided into three, recently pulled down by Samuel Woodall and replaced by dwelling house, blacksmith's shop and premises in his occupation and adjoining messuage in occupation of William Rycroft [noted on plan as fish shop] on E side of Shortmead Street, Biggleswade to which Samuel Woodall was admitted tenant on 21 Dec 1872 on surrender of John Malden (b)-(d) shown on included plan Witness: - Arthur J.Hills, solicitor, of Hooper & Company of Biggleswade Endorsements: (I) transfer of mortgage of 20 Apr 1910 Parties: (1) Elizabeth Woodall of Biggleswade, widow and James Matthews of Caldecote, market gardener; (2) John Parker Anderson of 184 Stapleton Hall Road, Stroud Green [Middlesex], retired civil servant and Leonard Henry Harris of 128 King Henry's Road, Hampstead [Middlesex], secretary to Polytechnic Institute; (3) Alice Bourns of 27 Denmark Villas, Hove [Sussex], wife of Newcome Whitelaw Bourns Reciting: - surrender of (d) above by Samuel Woodall on 21 Apr 1880 but no admission taken; - will of Samuel Woodall of 23 Mar 1904 appointing (1) executors and trustees, devising his blacksmith's shop at Beeston and land on which it stood [probably (a) above] to Elizabeth, his wife and all other real estate to (1) upon trust for sale; - death of Samuel Woodall on 7 Apr 1904 and proof of his will at Northampton DPR on 27 Jun 1904; - admission of (1) to (d) above on 28 Apr 1905; - (1) had not yet assented to devise of Beeston land to Elizabeth Woodall; - death of William Henry Baylis on 23 Jun 1909 having, in his will of 22 Aug 1904 appointed (2) as his executors and trustees; proof of the will on 15 Jul 1909 in PPR; - 600 remained outstanding on mortgage, all interest having been paid [part payment, unrecited of 100, must be assumed] Operative Part: - (ii), with agreement of (i) transferred mortgage to (iii), receiving 600 from (iii) Witnesses: - William Frederick Ashby Fletcher of Biggleswade, solicitor; - W.Falkus of The Polytechnic, 309 Regent Street, London; - R.W.A.Anderson of 184 Stapleton Hill Road, Stroud Green, clerk to London County Council (II) acknowledgement of 29 Sep 1926 of satisfaction of 600 mortgage from Arthur William Watkin of Shortmead Street, Biggleswade, motor engineer by Newcome Whitelaw Bourns of Suddon Farm, Wincanton [Somerset], physician and surgeon as personal representative of Alice Bourns who died on 11 Apr 1922; witnessed by Michael Gore Gambier of Suddon Farm, gentleman
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21 Apr 1880
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From: 1872 To: 1926
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