Reference
X932/1
Title
Mortgage by conveyance, with transfer and reconveyance endorsed
Date free text
30 August 1872
Production date
From: 1872 To: 1893
Scope and Content
(i) Henry Adkin of Bedford, gunsmith
(ii) George Higgins of Bedford, Esq.
(ii) lent £2,500 to (i) at £4 10s percent per annum interest on security of (a), (b) and (c).
Parcels:
(a) tenement and premises on E side of High Street, Bedford, together with the yard in the occupation of (i), the premises bounded on S by Red Lion Inn, on E by property now belonging to the Trustees of the Baptist Chapel and on N by property late in occupation of E. Page and Company, Ironfounders;
(b) parcel (formerly part of Kirkpatrick Estate) in parish of St. Paul, Bedford, measuring 52 feet in width, E to W, at front and back; depth 100 feet 4 inches, N to S, on E side, and 105 feet 4 inches on W side; bounded on N by Trumpington Road, on S by land and premises of George Slater, on E by premises late of Charles Read and then Isaac Cass, and on W by land and premises belonging to John Elger;
(c) 2 dwelling-houses and outbuildings, built by John Hull on the same parcel of land, known as Maitland Villas.
Signed and sealed by Henry Adkin, witness W.G. Carter Mitchell, solicitor, Bedford.
Endorsements:
- Receipt for the £2500, signed by Henry Adkin and witness W. G. Carter Mitchell (solicitor).
- Transfer of mortgage, 1 November 1884
1. Thomas Barnard of Cople House [Cople], Esq., and Turner Arthur Macan of Elstow, Esq.
2. Henry Adkin
3. George Colburne Higgins of Bedford, Lieutenant, Royal Navy
Agreement of (2) and (1), the executors of George Higgins (d. 3 August 1883; recitation of will and codicils) to assign mortgage to (3).
Signed and sealed by Henry Adkin, witness Mark Sharman (solicitor); and Thomas Barnard and Turner Arthur Macan, witness Henry Smith, Clerk to Messrs. Sharman and Smail, solicitors.
- Reconveyance, 28 January 1893
Signed and sealed by George Colburne Higgins (with left hand, ‘owing to physical injury to his right arm’), witness William F. Brabant, Savile Place, London, solicitor.
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