• Reference
    X758/13/2/16
  • Title
    Covenant to surrender by way of conveyance Parties: (i) Albert Ernest King of Broom, Southill, farmer; Ebenezer Chew of Biggleswade, grocer; (ii) John Desborough and Daniel Desborough both of Biggleswade, grocers Reciting: - will of 8 Jun 1900 of John King of Devonshire House, Upper Maze Hill, St.Leonards-on-Sea [Sussex]: appointing his sons Herbert King and Albert Ernest King as executors and general trustees and Albert Ernest King and Charles William Payton as special trustees; devising real estate at Sandy to special trustees upon trust to allow occupation of one house by Sarah Odell and to pay an annuity out of a certain part to his daughter Ann Emma Whydale and her children; devising and bequeathing residue of real and personal estate to his general trustees in trust for sale; - three codicils to will of John King of 14 Mar 1901, 9 Sep 1904 and 26 Jan 1905 not affecting the abstracted premises; - codicil to will of John King of 24 Feb 1905 revoking appointment of Herbert King as executor and general trustee in favour of Ebenezer Chew of Biggleswade, grocer; - codicil to will of John King of 10 Mar 1905 not affecting abstracted premises; - death of John King on 30 Apr 1906; - admission of (i) as tenants on 1 Nov 1906 Operative Part: - (i) covenanted to surrender (a) to use of (ii) for 350 Property [shown on included plan]: (a) dwellinghouse and baker's shop with bakehouse, yard, harness room with loft over, timber built cart shed with onion loft over, pigsty, stable and garden in Shortmead Street, Biggleswade bounded: part N and E by property formerly of John West, now Albert Ernest King and Ebenezer Chew as trustees and contracted for sale to Elsie Emma Whydale; part N by property formerly of John Malden now Albert Ernest King and Ebenezer Chew as trustees contracted for sale to Elsie Emma Whydale, part E by property formerly of Henry Jackson, now Mrs.Bond; S by public passage to Cowfair Lands from Shortmead Street with frontage of 155 feet; W by frontage to Shortmead Street of 32 feet formerly in occupation of James Howard, now John Bowman; with right of way through gateway over yard of adjoining property formerly of John Malden and joint use of well and pump Witness: - J.W.Hull, clerk to E.T.Leeds Smith of Sandy, solicitor
  • Date free text
    26 Nov 1906
  • Production date
    From: 1900 To: 1906
  • Level of description
    item